How many of the 1001 books have you read? Showing 1,551-1,600 of 1,912

[Rory]

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

Nice! Any favorites?

[Lotte_ladybird]

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

Nice! Any favorites?"

Of those read this recently, I liked Alias Grace by Atwood and If this is a Man by Primo Levi.

[Dan]

I knocked off 33 of these in 2018, including all of Dickens (not a fan). This brings my total to 469 (36% ).

1.) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte: 4 stars
2.) "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by E. M. Forster: 3 stars
3.) "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton: 3 stars
4.) "The Glimpses Of The Moon" by Edith Wharton: 3 stars
5.) "Summer" by Edith Wharton: 3 stars
6.) "The Ambassadors" by Henry James: 3 stars
7.) "Billy Budd, Sailor" by Herman Melville: 4 stars
8.) "Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad: 4 stars
9.) "Legends Of The Fall" by Jim Harrison: 4 stars
10.) "Billy Bathgate" by E. L. Doctorow: 3 stars
11.) "The Rainbow" by D. H. Lawrence: 3 stars
12.) "City of God" by E. L. Doctorow: 2 stars
13.) "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin: 5 stars
14.) "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson: 3 stars
15.) "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne: 3 stars
16.) "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne: 2 stars
17.) "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot: 4 stars
18.) "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott: 4 stars
19.) "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
20.) "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
21.) "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens: 2 stars
22.) "Martin Chuzzlewit" by Charles Dickens: 2 stars
23.) "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
24.) "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
25.) "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
26.) "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens: 3 stars
27.) "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte: 4 stars
28.) "Austerlitz" by W. G. Sebald: 3 stars
29.) "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy: 3 stars
30.) "Emma" by Jane Austen: 4 stars
31.) "Cloudsplitter" by Russell Banks: 5 stars
32.) "Adam Bede" by George Eliot: 4 stars
33.) "Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell: 3 stars

[Aileen]

I managed to cross 19 off the list in 2018, bringing my total to 144.

Hope I can do more than that this year!

[Gemma]

Wow everyone's doing so well, need to up my game this year!

[Grada (BoekenTrol)]

I crossed off 28 in 2018, which brings my total to 188. I gave good hopes to reach (and pass) 200 this year :-)

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

66. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
67. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
68. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I read far more Boxall titles than I thought last year--36. That was almost a third of my overall total, though I didn't really plan it that way. I don't expect that to increase--it would probably be more likely to go down a little, because even though I like discovering things from the list, I don't make it my priority.

[Debbie]

Dan wrote: "I knocked off 33 of these in 2018, including all of Dickens (not a fan). This brings my total to 469 (36% ).

What an accomplishment!!

[Karl]

I'm slowly (very slowly) making my way through the combined list. I read 11 in 2018 (see, sloowwwly) to bring my total to 140.

[Tim]

Dan wrote: "I knocked off 33 of these in 2018, including all of Dickens (not a fan). This brings my total to 469 (36% ).

1.) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte: 4 stars
2.) "Where Angels Fear to Tr..."

Incredible, Dan! You must have read close to 4000 pages of Dickens alone! Incredible!

[Marlise]

1! Haha

[Tim]

Marlise wrote: "1! Haha"

Welcome. Enjoy the journey.

[Nurni]

2 I think... and I'm reading a 3rd one at the moment.

[Sean]

Sitting at 74. Been working on this list for 10 years. Getting serious now.... Hoping to add 50 this year.

[Rory]

Stayed focused on this list the last couple of months and just finished #325.

[Tim]

127 read.

[Birthe]

Just finished my 94th

[Radiantflux]

52 at 52!

I guess I've still got a way to go and better speed things up. :)

[Kristine]

482 and it just seems to get harder and harder to find the time when I want to read the list and still read other books outside it. Time to really deep dive into the TBR piles.

[Nastaran]

read 67 , and want to start 68 : The red and the black

[Rory]

Radiantflux wrote: "52 at 52!

I guess I've still got a way to go and better speed things up. :)"

Or you could just live to 1305 :)

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

69. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
70. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[Michael]

Up to 187 on the combined list (1306). Last one was
Gravity's Rainbow

[Amanda]

353. I'm 23 and according to our trusty 1001 book app, I am going to live to be 81 (it's nice to have this assurance). So I think I should be okay.

[Annina]

I have read 140. I would like to hit to the 150 before this year ends. Should be easy project, but I'm having some kind of "not interested" attitude these days.

[Alice]

I'm at 191 right now. My goal is to get to 200 by the end of the year.

[Pamela]

I've just started this project, as I was given a copy of the 2018 edition as a present earlier this year.

I've read 139 so far, aiming to hit 150 by the end of the year.

[Karen]

Pamela wrote: "I've just started this project, as I was given a copy of the 2018 edition as a present earlier this year.

I've read 139 so far, aiming to hit 150 by the end of the year."

Welcome to the group! Great start.

[George P.]

Amanda wrote: "353. I'm 23 and according to our trusty 1001 book app, I am going to live to be 81 (it's nice to have this assurance). So I think I should be okay."

You're amazingly well-read for your age! Or for any age!

[George]

I've read 471, (2006 edition), but I am 62 years old. Averaging about 4 a month for the last year and expect to continue to continue reading around 4 a month for the next year or two. I have a stock pile of over 100 books on the list on my bookshelves that are still to be read. (Nearly all of these books were bought at 'Thrift' shops over the last few years).

[George P.]

The other George here-
1Q84 and Day of the Triffids just finished puts me at 288. 260 of those are from the original 2006 edition of the list. I look forward to passing 300 by end of summer.

[Lotte_ladybird]

George wrote: "The other George here-
1Q84 and Day of the Triffids just finished puts me at 288. 260 of those are from the original 2006 edition of the list. I look forward to passing 300 by end of summer."

Well done!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

71. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
72. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

[BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...)]

I did a quick count: At the moment roughly about 240 books (some are part of an omnibus into which more than one book on the list is incorporated and sometimes it is just one title on the list which is split into different books in Dutch).

[Diane]

Up to 801 from the combined list. Would love to make it to 900 by the end of 2019.

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Up to 801 from the combined list. Would love to make it to 900 by the end of 2019."

That's incredible Diane!

[Lotte_ladybird]

Diane wrote: "Up to 801 from the combined list. Would love to make it to 900 by the end of 2019."

Amazing work Diane. Well done!

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Up to 801 from the combined list. Would love to make it to 900 by the end of 2019."

What a great example you are to us!

[Karen]

Diane wrote: "Up to 801 from the combined list. Would love to make it to 900 by the end of 2019."

WOW!! Congratulations!

[Tim]

Have read 130.

[Diane]

Thank you. I am just starting to see a small light at the end of the tunnel.

[Ian]

"Call of the Wild" takes me to 600 from the combined list. Feeling quite chuffed this morning.

[Lotte_ladybird]

Ian wrote: ""Call of the Wild" takes me to 600 from the combined list. Feeling quite chuffed this morning."

Well done Ian! I also hope to make it to 600 this year :)

[Nocturnalux]

146, I think, from the combined list. The last one was The Kreutzer Sonata and I could have done without it, to be honest.

Have you ever found yourself on a long journey, forced to sit next to some creepy fellow who insists on being chatty with you? It's almost precisely like that except the fellow has actually killed his wife and what he is so eager to chat about is deeply ingrained misogyny (with occasional 'it's not the women's fault' but who are we kidding, it is very obviously the women's fault), sex shaming to the point of absurdity and the mantra that 'perfect chastity' is the ideal we should all follow, bonus points for the fact that the second best is to keep women always pregnant and/or nursing. It reads as a rant from a madman and, as such, it is actually weirdly interesting. Unfortunately it comes with an essay that explains that Tolstoy finds the points raised are actually absolutely valid and great ways of living one's life.

No thanks.

[Tim]

135. Timbuktu by Paul Auster

[Diane]

Ian wrote: ""Call of the Wild" takes me to 600 from the combined list. Feeling quite chuffed this morning."

Great accomplishment, Ian!

[S.L.]

36 so far.

[Alastair]

I'm at 579. Been at this gig for about 14 years now (I probably read 50 odd books per year, half of which are List books)! Weird to think that I'm not even halfway for the combined lists.

Just finished 'The Making of Americans' by Gertrude Stein, which is undoubtedly the toughest book on the list I've read so far (In Search of Lost Time was a breeze by comparison).

Aluta continua...

[Karen]

Alastair wrote: "I'm at 579. Been at this gig for about 14 years now (I probably read 50 odd books per year, half of which are List books)! Weird to think that I'm not even halfway for the combined lists.

Just fi..."

Congratulations!!