I keep track of my progress on two lists. The first is the complete list of 1,001 books, where I bold the ones I've read. Then I have a second list just of what I have read.
What I have read to date (not necessarily in order):
Atonement – Ian McEwan
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Sula – Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Dead Souls – Googol
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
Castle- Franz Kafka
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
Emma – Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Once and Future King
Song of Solomon
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Dr. Zhivago
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
· The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Candide – Voltaire
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolfe
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