Monday, August 2, 2010

A Nice, Easy Post

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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