How many of the 1001 books have you read? Showing 1,851-1,900 of 1,912

[George P.]

I've read 31 so far this year, so met my goal of 30. I should have about 6 more by year's end.
I've been trying to read more by women writers- 13 of the 31 this year, 42% of them (and almost all the non-1001 books I've read this year were written by women).
My life total now is 389. Hope to reach 400 in Jan or Feb of 2022.

[Rory]

465 - running into more books that are difficult to find.

[Luke]

I may be undercounting a tad, but it seems that I'm currently at 311. The carefully selected section of works that I'm devoting myself to the rest of the year contains another four that I could get to before 2021 is through, but I'm not pushing it.

[laila]

I'm on my 70th book now :)

[MaryAnn (EmilyD1037)]

I have read 12 so far, as of today.

What comes before a tadpole? An egg? LOL

[Sean]

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "I have read 12 so far, as of today.

What comes before a tadpole? An egg? LOL"

haha!

We all started somewhere. I'm jealous of some of the books you still get to read for the first time.

[Karen]

I just finished my 220th book.

[Diane]

Karen wrote: "I just finished my 220th book."

Fantastic progress, Karen!

[Karen]

Karen wrote: "I just finished my 220th book."

Congratulations, Karen!

[Jayme]

Just joined the group. I have read 89 books so far.

[Angela]

I’ve finished 73.

[Karen]

Jayme wrote: "Just joined the group. I have read 89 books so far."

Good start Jayme! And welcome to the group.

[Karen]

Angela wrote: "I’ve finished 73."

Congratulations, Angela! You're close to that first big milestone -- 100.

[Jamie]

On the combined listchallenges list I am now at 386, though that list doesn't include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which I finished this season. So I am at 387, and midway through 2 other List books. I may not hit 400 before 2022, which was my loftier goal this year, but I'll be pretty close.

[Taylor]

75 so far. Maybe I'll hit 100 this year?

[Bob]

I finished my last list book of the year yesterday (12/30), and that brought me to 441 total list books.

[Karen]

Bob wrote: "I finished my last list book of the year yesterday (12/30), and that brought me to 441 total list books."

Impressive!

[George]

I have read 807 books on the original list plus 143 books on the updated lists. I expect to read at least 100 books on the lists in 2022. My favourites over the last year include ‘Embers’, ‘Concrete’, ‘Lost Illusions’, ‘The Knot of Vipers’, and ‘Hangover Square’.

[Dan]

2021 was another good year for knocking off some books from the list. 32 completed which brings my total to 570/1305 (43.7%).

1.) "The Devil's Pool" by George Sand: 3 stars
2.) "Chocky" by John Wyndham: 4 stars
3.) "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard: 3 stars
4.) "The Woodlanders" by Thomas Hardy: 3 stars
5.) "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel Garcia Ma¡rquez: 4 stars
6.) "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun: 3 stars
7.) "The Female Quixote" by Charlotte Lennox: 4 stars
8.) "Locus Solus" by Raymond Roussel: 3 stars
9.) "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole: 3 stars
10.) "Therese Raquin" by Emile Zola: 4 stars
11.) "The Water Babies" by Charles Kingsley: 3 stars
12.) "The Mysteries of Udolfo" by Ann Radcliffe: 3 stars
13.) "Sentimental Education" by Gustave Flaubert: 3 stars
14.) "The Radetzky March" by Joseph Roth: 4 stars
15.) "Of Love and Shadows" by Isabel Allende: 5 stars
16.) "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith: 3 stars
17.) "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson: 3 stars
18.) "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West: 4 stars
19.) "The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead: 4 stars
20.) "Fruits of the Earth" by Andre Gide: 3 stars
21.) "Monkey: The Journey to the West" by Wu Cheng'en: 3 stars
22.) "The Hour of the Star" by Clarice Lispector: 3 stars
23.) "The Passion According to G.H." by Clarice Lispector: 4 stars
24.) "The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan: 3 stars
25.) "Rob Roy" by Walter Scott: 3 stars
26.) "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster: 3 stars
27.) "La Brava" by Elmore Leonard: 3 stars
28.) "The Underdogs" by Mariano Azuela: 3 stars
29.) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)" by Lewis Carroll: 4 stars
30.) "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)" by Lewis Carroll: 4 stars
31.) "Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works" by Aphra Behn: 4 stars
32.) "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace: 5 stars

[Linda_G]

Thanks for your list with reviews

[Sean]

Dan wrote: "2021 was another good year for knocking off some books from the list. 32 completed which brings my total to 570/1305 (43.7%).

1.) "The Devil's Pool" by George Sand: 3 stars
2.) "Chocky" by John W..."

That's fantastic Dan. And impressive.

You might consider copy and pasting this into the personal list discusstion thread so that you can keep track from year to year.

[Cphe]

Have now read 390 books from the list

[Tim]

Have read 211 books from the list.

[Jenny Baker]

Only 108

[Tim]

Jenny Baker wrote: "Only 108"

You're doing fantastic!

[Vikki]

I finally got over the 100 mark. I'm at 14.

[Rose]

I just hit the 300 mark!

[Cphe]

Just read my 400th

[Ellinor]

Congratulations, Vikki, Rose and Cphe!

[Tim]

212 read so far.

[Karen]

Tim wrote: "212 read so far."

Congratulations, Tim!

[George P.]

Good job Vikki, Rose and Cphe and Tim!

[Nancy]

92 and feeling it should be more!

[Jamie]

I'm starting the year at 424, I think. I really need to double-check my completed list this year though, so I know exactly how many I've finished.

[Ebru]

84 so far. This year I want to reach 100.

[Alexandra]

Paul wrote: "The last couple of list book that I’ve read have been quite dark… First I read American rust, which deals with the depression in small town America and an accidental murder. Next up was The Gatheri..."


I really loved a book not on the list- "reincarnation Blues" by Michael Poore

[Beth]

355 from full list

[Becky]

How are you all keeping track of how many you've read?? I used to have an excel list that showed me how many I had completed but managed to lose it when I transferred everything over to my laptop. 🤦

[Becky]

Sorry! Nevermind! Just found the thread regarding all the different lists. 😬

[Michael]

I counted 321 that I have read. Not 100% ok with the list though. It missed some excellent books and promoted some bad ones, but still a nice place to start…

[Nocturnalux]

Michael wrote: "I counted 321 that I have read. Not 100% ok with the list though. It missed some excellent books and promoted some bad ones, but still a nice place to start…"

Absolutely. For example, the list has zero books from Portuguese speaking African countries. Not a single one.

Yet it carries the borderline complete bibliographies of quite a few authors, almost all being British or American.

[Michael]

181 from the 2006 edition
167 from the 2008 edition
197 Combined editions

[Nocturnalux]

Gerald wrote: "from this list ...Im not sure...some 220-230 books...
Is there anybody who read more than that? Im new here so I dont know"

Quite a few. I'm at 339 myself and am not even top 100 here.

But it doesn't much matter, this isn't a competition. Just enjoy sampling your way across the list.

[Cphe]

I'm at 412 when I last checked - admit I've slowed right down as there aren't a great amount left that I want to read from the list.
I've mainly used it as a guide of sorts over the years.

I'll never finish the list but that's okay because it was not the primary reason that I started reading from there.

[Ian]

Well said, Nocturnalux - it isn't a competition or a race.
It is a personal journey through some of the greatest literature of the planet. How far and how fast you want to travel is entirely up to you.
Like Cphe, I have slowed down a bit recently - down to one or two from the list a month, but that's because I am catching up with some of the trashy comfort reads I've been neglecting. We all need a varied diet of literature.
Incidentally, I'm at 753 read from the combined list, and it is still throwing great authors in my path whom I would never have otherwise encountered.

[Jamie]

I slowed down quite a lot, just barely reading if it was not for readily available audiobooks of murder mystery series. But I have finally gotten back in the mood for more 'serious' books, still mostly audiobooks. I am working my way through the rest of Charles Dickens novels, listed or not, and I finished Richardson's Clarissa this month. I think I have 7 more Dickens novels to finish out of 15 total. From the combined Boxall lists I am now at 431, and #431 for me was Bleak House, by Dickens. #430 was Martin Chuzzlewit, by Dickens, and #429 was Clarissa. Only 3 books checked of, but representing lots of pages. :)

[Sandra]

I read a lot of books but apparently not that many from that list 😜

1. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
2. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Atonement - Ian McEwan
4. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
6. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison
8. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. Animal Farm - George Orwell
10. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
11. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
12. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
13. Spring Tortents - Ivan Turgenev
14. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
15. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
16. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
17. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
19. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
20. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
21. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
22. Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
23. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
24. Persuasion - Jane Austen
25. Emma - Jane Austen
26. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
27. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
28. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
29. Gulliver‘s Travel - Jonathan Swift
30. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe


But where is Shakespeare on that list? Is he really not on it?

[Karen]

Sandra wrote: "I read a lot of books but apparently not that many from that list 😜

1. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
2. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Atonement - Ian McEwan
4. Perfume - Patrick Süskind..."

Unfortunately, there is no Shakespeare on the list. Supposedly, the list focuses on the development of the novel and Shakespeare is drama. However, Eugene Onegin by Pushkin is on the list as well as La Celestina which was meant to be performed. And considering that so much classic literature refers to quotes from his plays, I think the complete works of Shakespeare should be on the list.

[Christy]

I've just discovered this list a few months ago and have already read a few off of it to add to the ones I'd previously read so I'm at 64, which given that I've been an avid life-long reader surprises me a bit, but it just goes to show how much good literature is out there whether on this list or not. Still, I'm intrigued so am working on finishing off a few more before the end of the year and will focus on this list next year.

[JenniferAustin]

Christy wrote: "I've just discovered this list a few months ago and have already read a few off of it to add to the ones I'd previously read so I'm at 64, which given that I've been an avid life-long reader surpri..."

Christy, as an avid life-long reader, I to was surprised when I came across this list. On the plus side, it has had me try a lot of new things!