How many of the 1001 books have you read? Showing 1,501-1,550 of 1,912

[Hectaizani]

I've read 77, I stopped trying for a while but now I'm back at it. Knocked off 4 so far this year.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Not enough, but more than I thought...

1. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
2. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
10. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
13. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
14. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
15. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
16. Howards End by E.M. Forster
17. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
18. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
21. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
22. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
23. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
25. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
26. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
27. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
28. Animal Farm by George Orwell
29. 1984 by George Orwell
30. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
31. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
32. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
33. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
34. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (seems like this should count as three...)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
37. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
38. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
39. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
40. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
41. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
42. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
43. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
44. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
45. Neuromancer by William Gibson
46. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
47. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
48. Watchmen by Alan Moore
49. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
50. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
52. Atonement by Ian McEwan
53. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (I am reading this one now and should finish in a couple weeks)
54. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
55. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
56. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
57. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
58. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
59. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

In June I will be reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov with another group which will bring me to 60.

[George P.]

I'm now at 251. I always liked reading classics so had read about 90 before I learned of the Boxall 1001. I've read 15 so far this year and working on 3 more now- the last few I've read are:
God's Bits of Wood, Good Morning Midnight (novella),
Ballad for Georg Henig, Midaq Alley,
In the Heart of the Country, Pastoralia,
Possession, and Wise Blood.
Several of those were added to later editions of the book.

[Sabrina]

I have read 50 of them, I’m not sure I’ll manage reading them all 🤔. I think I’ve even only read the shorter ones.

[Tim]

Just reached the 100 read mark

[Diane]

Tim wrote: "Just reached the 100 read mark"

Awesome achievement!

[Damien]

I just hit 78 recently, and I'm making a conscious effort to read more books from the list. Was thrilled at the 75 mark and I'm looking forward to hitting 100.

[George P.]

Sabrina wrote: "I have read 50 of them, I’m not sure I’ll manage reading them all 🤔. I think I’ve even only read the shorter ones."

Hardly anyone reads even half in their lifetime, but you might set a goal of getting to 100 (?)

[Tim]

Diane wrote: "Tim wrote: "Just reached the 100 read mark"

Awesome achievement!"

Thank you Diane. Took me long enough almost three years.

[Tim]

Dan wrote: "I knocked off 21 in 2017, bringing my total to 437:
- "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters: 3 Stars
- "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell: 4 Stars
- "Home" by Marilynne Robinson: 5 Stars
- "The Gatheri..."

Incredible!

[Bob]

I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go.

[Diane]

Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Awesome!

[Bob]

Diane wrote: "Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Awesome!"

Thanks. Onward and upward, I have quite a few list books queued up to read.

[Rory]

Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Nice!

I just finished Ethon Frome, 265 read now.

[Diane]

Rory wrote: "Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Nice!

I just finished Ethon Frome, 265 read now."

Great! You are more than a 1/4 of the way through.

[Bob]

Diane wrote: "Rory wrote: "Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Nice!

I just finished Ethon Frome, 265 read now."

Great! You are mo..."

Awesome.

[Karen]

Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Congratulations!!

[Karen]

Rory wrote: "Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Nice!

I just finished Ethon Frome, 265 read now."

Congratulations!!

[Bob]

Karen wrote: "Bob wrote: "I just made 300 when I finished Great Expectations by Charles Dickens today. Still a long way to go."

Congratulations!!"

Thanks.

[Rory]

Big milestone, just finished number 300 :)

[George P.]

Rory wrote: "Big milestone, just finished number 300 :)"

You read 35 in three months! Very impressive pace.

[George P.]

I've read 19 more in the past five months to bring me up to 270. It looks like Ed will reach 300 next year and I'd like to also reach 300 by the end of next year; just need 2 or 3 a month for that.

[Jess]

1. 1984
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. Americanah
4. Birdsong
5. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
7. Don Quixote
8.Far From the Madding Crowd
9. Fingersmith
10. Frankenstein
11. The Goldfinch
12. The Great Gatsby
13. Half of a Yellow Sun
14. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
15. Jane Eyre
16. Les Misérables
17.Memoirs of a Geisha
18. Middlesex
19. Of Mice and Men
20. Oliver Twist
21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
22. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
23. Orlando
24. Platform
25. Pride and Prejudice
26. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
27. To Kill a Mockingbird
28. A Visit from the Goon Squad
29. Wuthering Heights

Plus I'm currently reading Dracula so that will be added to my list soon

I have lots more on my TBR so would love to get to 50 by the end of next year.

[sminismoni]

I'm on 93. I try to read three or four every year but I also like to read a lot of nonfiction, and it's a shame there isn't an equivalent sort of list for nonfiction. Or is there?

[Sam]

As far as I know a non-fiction list doesn't exist. I think we should have one.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Guardian, The Modern Library and Time put out some '100 Best' non-fiction lists. There are others, like the Pulitzers and Nat'l Book Awards for non-fiction.

Here's some links to a couple non-fiction lists from the List Challenge site:

https://www.listchallenges.com/the-10... (Guardian)

https://www.listchallenges.com/time-m... (Time)

https://www.listchallenges.com/the-10... (another Guardian list--not sure what the difference between them is)

https://www.listchallenges.com/nation... (Nat'l Book Award for non-fiction)

https://www.listchallenges.com/modern... (Modern Library)

https://www.listchallenges.com/pulitz... (Pulitzer non-fiction)

Now all you have to do is compile 1001 separate titles on all these lists, find a publisher, and you'll make millions as the author of The 1001 Non-Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

[Karen]

Rory wrote: "Big milestone, just finished number 300 :)"

Congratulations!!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "I say we go into that project as a team, and share the wealth Bryan! ..."

:)

[Rory]

George wrote: "Rory wrote: "Big milestone, just finished number 300 :)"

You read 35 in three months! Very impressive pace."

Well, 4 months and a bunch of short ones. Less than 200 page average.

[Karen]

George wrote: "I've read 19 more in the past five months to bring me up to 270. It looks like Ed will reach 300 next year and I'd like to also reach 300 by the end of next year; just need 2 or 3 a month for that."

Congratulations!

[Karen]

Luís wrote: "Just hit the 179th book recently. AWW!!"

Congratulations!

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I've finished #176 today. Not book #176 on the list, but mine, on my personal, very ecclectic list of list books read. Will pick a new one now :-)

[Diane]

Hit the 750 mark this weekend.

[Rory]

Diane wrote: "Hit the 750 mark this weekend."

Congrats! That's big!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Updating:

1. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
2. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
10. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
13. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
14. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
15. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
16. Howards End by E.M. Forster
17. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
18. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
21. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
22. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
23. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
25. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
26. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
27. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
28. Animal Farm by George Orwell
29. 1984 by George Orwell
30. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
31. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
32. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
33. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
34. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (seems like this should count as three...)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
37. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
38. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
39. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
40. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
41. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
42. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
43. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
44. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
45. Neuromancer by William Gibson
46. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
47. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
48. Watchmen by Alan Moore
49. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
50. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
52. Atonement by Ian McEwan
53. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
54. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
55. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
56. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
57. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
58. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
59. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
60. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
61. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
62. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
63. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
64. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
65. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

[Ian]

Diane wrote: "Hit the 750 mark this weekend."

Great work, Diane. I hope you celebrated in fine style!

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Hit the 750 mark this weekend."

You're amazing.
I'm not happy about the Georgia football team beating Florida Saturday but I don't blame you for that :-)

[Diane]

Thanks!

[Diane]

George wrote: "Diane wrote: "Hit the 750 mark this weekend."

You're amazing.
I'm not happy about the Georgia football team beating Florida Saturday but I don't blame you for that :-)"

:) Go Dawgs!

[Karen]

Diane wrote: "Hit the 750 mark this weekend."

WOW!! Diane, you are my idol!

[Tim]

Have read 120

[Tim]

125

[Rory]

Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Next 10 Read)

301. Sometimes a Great Notion
302. Nervous Conditions
303. Gone with the Wind
304. Growth of the Soil
305. The Old Man and the Sea
306. The Light of Day
307. Slaughterhouse-Five
308. Deep River
309. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
310. The Education of Henry Adams

[George P.]

Rory wrote: "Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Next 10 Read)

301. Sometimes a Great Notion
302. Nervous Conditions
303. Gone with the Wind
304. [book:Gr..."

Nice going. I'm hoping to reach 300 by the end of 2019.

[Rory]

Rory wrote: "Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Next 10 Read)

301. Sometimes a Great Notion
302. Nervous Conditions
303. Gone with the Wind
304. [book:Gr..."

Oops! I had a duplicate, I'm only at 309 :(

[laila]

54 :)

[Liander (The Towering Pile)]

I just checked and I've read 30.

I haven't yet made an effort to read books off the list, though. There are a couple dozen more on my shelves that I just haven't gotten to yet. But given how many other books I want to read, I think this'll be a slow, life long process. :)

[Tyler]

Finishing the year at 205!

[Marian]

137...

[Lotte_ladybird]

I just finished book number 500 from the combined list. According to the app, that means I have read 38 % of the books.