We've Been Busy

So, I recently got a bit of feedback on my blog. This is rare for me, since generally I like to pretend that no one reads this, and my readership goes along with this belief by not providing any reaction. Works pretty well for me, since it actually sort of freaks me out to think that people read this at all.

That said, I love feedback generally, and I do try to be responsive. Word is that I don't provide enough statistical information about my project. I thought I'd remedy that a bit with some quick information.

I have read 374 books on the list. I've been working through the list in earnest for almost exactly three years now. I read about two books per week or 104 books a year. The goal is always to do at least 100 a year. If I do keep up this rate, I'll finish in the fall of 2018 when I am 31 years old, almost 32 (if you want to know how old I am, I encourage you to do your own math).

This year, I have read 50 so far:


1.      Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
2.      The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
3.      The End of the Story – Lydia Davi
4.      Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
5.      Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
6.      Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
7.      The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
8.      Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
9.      A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
10.  Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
11.  Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
12.  The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
13.  The Double – José Saramago
14.  Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
15.  The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
16.  Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
17.  The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
18.  The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
19.  The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
20.  Mao II – Don DeLillo
21.  The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
22.  Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
23.  Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
24.  The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
25.  Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
26.  The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
27.  Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
28.  The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
29.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
30.  The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
31.  The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
32.  How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
33.  Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
34.  On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
35.  Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
36.  The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
37.  The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
38.  Germinal – Émile Zola
39.  The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
40.  Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
41.  Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
42.  Typical – Padgett Powell
43.  On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
44.  The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
45.  Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
46.  Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
47.  July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
48.  The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
49.  The Hours – Michael Cunningham
50.  Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust