http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books
what do you think is missing (cortazar,carcer,broch...) and what can be dropped?
I’ve seen the most of the 1,001 movies, read the fewest of the 1,001 books. Albums are somewhere in the middle.
Most of those books is shit. But possibly appealing to people who think that lists of books is a good idea. Have we moved yet?
I started a list about this on Ye Olde ILX. I seem to recall I’d read about 73 of the books.
putting Tolstoy and Paul Auster in one list is an insult to one of them.but i think in general, it’s a good list.some of it is shit,not most.
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Mao II – Don DeLillo
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Names – Don DeLillo
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Junkie – William Burroughs
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Ulysses – James Joyce
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
there you go. winter’s tale by mark helprin should be on the list, fury by salman rushdie should not. as far as i know it’s not necessary to read any of them before you die, although pastoralia is pretty funny and might lighten the mood a little when on yr death bed.
i’m 30 and i’ve red about 80 of those books.
starting 16, it’s an average of more or less 5 books per year.
let’s say i’ll live 50 years more (good genes in my family),that means i’ll read more or less 250 more—330 all together.i’ll never make it!
plus till than there will be 200 or more new books to the list...
the project is impossible.
There’s at least a couple dozen I don’t think I’d have read if I hadn’t been an English major.
I just don’t want to read through a list of 1001 books. (I did, however, search for my favorites. They’re all there except for “The Sot-Weed Factor.”)
There’s at least a couple dozen I don’t think I’d have read if I hadn’t been an English major.
— jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 28th, 2006.
but, was it worth it?
125–150
It’s amazing how many books I’d forgotten having read until I saw them on the list
but, was it worth it?
Some of them were enjoyable, yeah. And in all cases I’m glad to be able to say that I’ve read [X].
dudes post lists plz—it’s the only way this is gonna work.
and if we are talking books—take a look at this:
“Ian McEwan accused of stealing ideas from romance novelist”:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=418598&in_page_id=1879
Excerpt from Atonement, by Ian McEwan...
“In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise. But mostly she was a maid.”
Excerpt from No Time For Romance by Lucilla Andrews...
“Our ‘nursing’ seldom involved more than dabbing gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on cuts and scratches, lead lotion on bruises and sprains.”
dudes post lists plz—it’s the only way this is gonna work.
On Beauty—Zadie Smith
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time—Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Underworld – Don DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Libra – Don DeLillo
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
The End of the Road – John Barth
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Howards End – E.M. Forster
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
246. Queer – William Burroughs
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
970. Candide – Voltaire
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
And most of this shit in high school. Where’s the Bible in here? Or any classical works?
First I’d heard of this book/ list; it strikes me at first glance as very British.
And while Brits would know to put Flann O’Brien on this list and ‘Mericans might not, I find it a tad dull, and kind of weird (gotta love consensus).
I never expect my own tastes to be reflected, but a list that DOES have light-weights such as Donna Tarrt and Houellebecq, but nothing at all from Celine, Charles Portis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Chester Himes(!), Alfred Jarry, Robert Walser, Denis Johnson, G. G. Marquez, Octavia Butler, Gert Hofman, David Mitchell, Charles Willeford, Dennis Cooper, Jean Genet, Amos Tutuola, Eileen Myles or Alexander Trocchi—not to mention any number of Surrealist/ Symbolist works—bums me out a bit.
I mean, fuck, at *least* “Cotton Goes to Harlem,” “Thief’s Journal,” “Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Dog of the South” should be on there...
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
In Cold Blood—Truman Capote
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner – George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Candide – Voltaire
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
i’m quite glad to see ‘nowhere man’ on this list. it’s not perfect but it’s oft-transcendent.
don’t remember my number but it was embarrassingly low even counting things I read part of and adolescent- and reading-list-heavy
though apparently there are no nonfiction books to read before you die
The Sea – John Banville
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
The Untouchable – John Banville
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Shining – Stephen King
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The End of the Road – John Barth
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Floating Opera – John Barth
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Plague – Albert Camus
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Outsider – Albert Camus
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Martin Eden – Jack London
The Immoralist – André Gide
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“I mean, fuck, at *least* “Cotton Goes to Harlem,” “Thief’s Journal,” “Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Dog of the South” should be on there...”
Hundred years is there.
“but nothing at all from Celine”—also is there
There is no nonfiction, no plays, and no poetry.
I GUESS THAT MEANS I DONT HAVE TO READ THEM BEFORE I DIE PHEW
no essays, amirite? not even montaigne.
Almost 200. Not having Shakespeare and an Icelandic saga or two, or I, Claudius is bugging me, but also why should I read these before I die? Is there a quiz, afterwards?
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Underworld – Don DeLillo
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Neuromancer – William Gibson
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel García Márquez
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Howards End – E.M. Forster
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Candide – Voltaire
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
so there is some nonfiction. in a way that makes it worse.
x-p: don’t know how i missed celine/ marquez, thanks for pointing those out. doh.
...but i still don’t like that list!
ps: i think a lot of people consider ‘acid test’ “lit” as it’s a “non-fiction novel”? whateverthefuck.
About 60. It was nice to see The Summer Book on the list. I wish The Circus of Dr. Lao got more love, though.
ps: i think a lot of people consider ‘acid test’ “lit” as it’s a “non-fiction novel”? whateverthefuck.
right, but if they’re going to go down that road, they left out a hell of a lot of literary not-strictly-fiction. but what do i know, i don’t care much about ‘literary’.
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Shining – Stephen King
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Crash – J.G. Ballard
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel García Márquez
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Plague – Albert Camus
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
I am roffling at the grammar atrocities near the top of this thread.
1. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
3. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
4. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
5. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
6. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
7. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
8. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
9. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
10. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
11. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
12. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
13. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
14. White Noise – Don DeLillo
15. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
16. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
17. The World According to Garp – John Irving
18. The Shining – Stephen King
19. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
21. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
22. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
23. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
24. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
25. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
26. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
27. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
28. The Magus – John Fowles
29. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
30. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
31. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
32. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
33. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
34. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
35. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
36. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
37. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
38. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
39. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
40. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
41. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
42. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
43. Animal Farm – George Orwell
44. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
45. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
46. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
47. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
48. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
49. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
50. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
51. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
52. The Trial – Franz Kafka
53. Ulysses – James Joyce
54. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
55. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
56. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
57. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
58. Dracula – Bram Stoker
59. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
60. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
61. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
62. She – H. Rider Haggard
63. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
64. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
65. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
66. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
67. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
68. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
69. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
70. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
71. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
72. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
73. Persuasion – Jane Austen
74. Emma – Jane Austen
75. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
76. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
77. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
78. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
79. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
80. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
81. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
82. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
83. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
84. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
85. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
86. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
87. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
88. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
89. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
90. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
better than i thought i’d do. i’ve read half of ulysses twice, thus getting full points.
Lists are making this thread unreadable, stop it.
44 read.
I am roffling at the grammar atrocities near the top of this thread.
I shouldn’t, as my grammar is crap, but I did as well.
The list is completely ridiculous: why did he include so many books by the same author? I actually went ahead and printed it out just for fun. My friend and I went go over the list one night.
“I’ve seen the most of the 1,001 movies” adapted from those books
112 read, shamefully haven’t read a single one of the 2000’s choices. Sadly lacking in crime fiction, nothing by Runyon or Carver is appalling. No non fiction, history, politics, poetry, graphic novels, arts etc
Major ommissions The Bible, The Koran, Origin of the Species, Double Helix, Mrs Beeton’s Cookbook. List is too in thrall to the western literary canon
55 read, 15 started but not read—not a great result, but at least (a) is larger than (b)
Another long list post:
13. Cloud Atlas—David Mitchell
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Books on that list I have started but not finished:
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
jesus christ
“man writes list: film @ 11”
Tracer, it’s from a book of the same title
4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
A useful reminder, 23 April 2006
Reviewer: D. Morton “JayCee” (Wales)—See all my reviews
A useful reminder of titles you meant to read once and might now get around to.
The text is marred by the intrusion of the political views of many of the reviewers, each trying to outdo the other in the tired cliches of the loony left.
But it’s beautifully illustrated and produced.
billy i am not sure how being printed on paper, bound, and marketed improves the idea!
A useful reminder of titles you meant to read once and might now get around to. Also The Alchemist.
Fixed.
Has anyone on this thread actually read anyone else’s lists? I see them as a ‘page down prompt’.
A rough count says I’ve read ~100 of them.
There are lots there that I think I should have read by now but somehow never got round to, and one or two I started reading and abandoned because they were shit (I’m looking at you Bram Stoker!) and the odd one or two I’m amazed I got through such as Gormenghast.
I’ve hardly scratched the surface of the 2000s list.
I wouldn’t bother, them books are shoite.
Akshully that’s partially not fair. But fuck a Zadie Smith.
multi xpost, maybe not, but it sets itself up as something a little more important than one man and his blog and is worthy of discussion on those terms. i.e has it fulfilled it’s own criteria, what are it’s biases etc
I’d much prefer to read one person’s idea of what they find important though rather than a bland consensus. e.g t.s Chuck Eddy’s stairway to hell vs Times all time top 100
I’ve read 78 of them, although the 18th and 19th Century are spectacularly unrepresented for a list that contains two Will Self novels and BOTH DIRK GENTLY BOOKS.
Will Self is easy the best writer in the 2000s section you fule.
Also what exactly is the pre-1700 section supposed to prove?
has there ever been a more almost desperately canon-centric time as this within living memory? (yes i am including “100 sluttiest music video moments” etc, in this category of canon-consolidating)
“635 things you never knew about GEORGE ELIOT”
(#1: that five of her novels are required reading???)
The publisher of this book is next doing 1000 Key Moments in [Twentieth Century] Literature, for which, I’m contributing some entries.
I’ve read 152 of them, more or less. (I’m not entirely sure—I may be counting some that I started but haven’t finished, and also may be forgetting some I read back in the mists of time high school.)
I’m surprised that my 1900s reading was greater than my 1800s, but I suppose the list was slanted towards more modern.
The 1700 and previous lists were a joke, though. No Shakespeare is clearly trying to make a point, but no Mallory, no Chaucer? No Cicero or Suetonius? (did they even have Plato? Can’t remember.)
My personal “why on earth did you omit this?” was I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith.
No Shakespeare is clearly trying to make a point
That Shakespeare didn’t write books?
And also, considering some of the trash that *is* on there, the omission of Bridget Jones seems surprising to me.
x-post there are short stories on the list. A play is as much a book as a short story.
I’m also fairly sure I saw another play on the list, but I’m not trawling through 1001 books again to find out.
is this actually an official list by a publication somewhere?
and where are the film/music equivalents?
Yep. Cassell Illustrated.
yeh yeh read everything ever published before the year 2000
I think it’s a list compiled from this:
http://www.amazon.com/1001-Books-Must-Read-Before/dp/0789313707
xp
I wonder how many of the paintings I’ve seen...
The full album list is here: http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm
1001 Albums By White People You Must Hear Before You Die
haha, this is the same series as the 1001 records one that we were looking at, at the weekend
“you are about to die—first you must listen to the hives”
“never mind who killed the zutons—you killed yourself by not listening to who killed the zutons?”
haha superb
I’M DYING? Quick, put Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water on!
lol Kings of Leon
LOL The Thrills
Is “Get me away from here I’m dying” on that list somewhere?
there’s an album called that??
WHAT NO BEETHOVEN?!?!?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!
hahhahaa onimo i thought you were kidding about choco starfish being on the list!!!!
xpost BEETHOVEN HAS AN ALBUM?!?!??!?!?????
I stopped counting at ten books. Fuck counting how many books I’ve read. Can’t be othered to discover that I can’t finish books. I’ve stopped readings tons of books mentioned in the list.
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Double barf with yuk on top. I hated that book. Funny? You’ve got to be (ahum) joking.
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
40. Platform – Michel Houellebecq
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector – John Fowles
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
559. The Plague – Albert Camus*
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid**
1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus**
*have not so much read as tried to read in orig french with not a great deal of success :(
**does anyone outside of classics departments really READ these? i know most of the stories, and i studied ovid in school, but i haven’t read them cover to cover
a lot of the books i haven’t read look more interesting to me than some of the ones i have read
for albums i’m doing heard AND like, so no beatles even though i’ve heard revolver etc
o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
o Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
o Velvet Underground—& Nico
o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
o Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
o Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
o King, Carole – Tapestry
o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
o Mitchell, Joni – Blue
o Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information
o Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
o Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns
o Smith, Patti – Horses
o Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
o Blondie – Parallel Lines
o Clash – London Calling
o Gang of Four – Entertainment!
o Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
o X – Wild Gift
o Human League – Dare
o Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
o Jackson, Michael – Thriller
o Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones
o Sade – Diamond Life
o Prince – Purple Rain
o Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
o Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
o Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
o Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
o New Order – Technique
o Madonna – Like a Prayer
o Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
o Bush, Kate – Sensual World
o Pixies – Doolittle
o Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
o Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
o KLF – White Room
o Massive Attack – Blue Lines
o lang, k.d. – Ingénue
o Dr Dre – Chronic, the
o REM – Automatic for the People
o Sonic Youth – Dirty
o Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
o Harvey, P.J. – Dry
o Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
o Mann, Aimee – Whatever
o Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
o Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
o Björk – Debut
o Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
o Portishead – Dummy
o Nas – Illmatic
o TLC – CrazySexyCool
o Hole – Live Through This
o Massive Attack – Protection
o Buckley, Jeff – Grace
o Orbital – Snivilisation
o Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
o Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
o Tricky – Maxinquaye
o Pulp – Different Class
o Leftfield – Leftism
o Goldie – Timeless
o Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
o Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
o DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
o Apple, Fiona – Tidal
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
o Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
o Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
o Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike
o Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly
o Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
o Prodigy – Fat of the Land
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Boatman’s Call
o Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
o Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
o Madonna – Ray of Light
o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
o Hole – Celebrity Skin
o Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
o Air – Moon Safari
o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
o Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
o Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
o Basement Jaxx – Remedy
o Cole, MJ – Sincere
o Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
o Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
o Madonna – Music
o OutKast – Stankonia
o Björk – Vespertine
o Destiny’s Child – Survivor
o Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)
o White Stripes – White Blood Cells
o Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
o Elliott, Missy – Under Construction
o Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
o Timberlake, Justin – Justified
o Winehouse, Amy – Frank
o Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
o Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
o OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
o 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
o Björk – Medúlla
o Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
o Arcade Fire – Funeral
o West, kanYe – College Dropout
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
o MIA (UK) – Arular
Do any of these people posting massive lists of all the books they’ve read really believe that any of us care?
“Ooh, you’ve read The Scarlet Letter, have a pat on the back”
it was more for my own interest, and it’s better than the banalities of dom & paul venting their complexes yet again on the record of the day thread
“Ooh, you’ve read The English Patient, that’s 3 hours of your life you’ll never get back.”
Christ, that list is way too long to actually go through.
i used to read hawthorne’s introduction to the scarlet letter, a short bore-ella called “the custom house”, whenever i couldn’t sleep—it worked like a charm.
Hehehe I’ve read “The Custom House” too. I kinda like it tho.
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Double barf with yuk on top. I hated that book. Funny? You’ve got to be (ahum) joking.
haha nath! That’s one of my favorite books! I’ve read it several times.
Not even looking at this list, as someone mentioned above I can’t be bothered reading through a long list of books.
Pretty depressing (my favourites notated with an F):
F Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
F The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
• The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
• The Secret History – Donna Tartt
• Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
F The Cider House Rules – John Irving
• Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
• Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
• On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
F The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
F The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
• The World According to Garp – John Irving
• Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
F Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
• Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
• The Godfather – Mario Puzo
F Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
F The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
F The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
• Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
• Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
• Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
F Orlando – Virginia Woolf
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
F Dracula – Bram Stoker
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
• Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
• Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
F Bleak House – Charles Dickens
F Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
F Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
F The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
F Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
• Persuasion – Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
• Fanny Hill – John Cleland
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
xpost: I know I’m missing out on something but, well, I can’t be bothered to start all over again and discover I still have no sense of (that particular kind of) humour. :-)
Do any of these people posting massive lists of all the books they’ve read really believe that any of us care?
i kinda thought it would be fun to see what people had read, but yr right, it’s not.
about 60 for me. Shockingly, I have read about 90% of the Sci-fi listed.
Watchmen made the list, but Dark Knight Returns didn’t.
I’ve read 83 which is much more than I expected.
I can claim 350, though I’m only one book into both Proust and ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’. Having said that, it’s a frequently daft list. What collection of essential literature contains NO Chekhov and multip Coelhos? Madness.
WTF @ ‘books,’ like the only books worth reading are novels. Esp. when “The Fall of the House of Usher” is considered a “book.” ALso I think reading both “Clarissa” AND “Pamela” by Samuel Richardson would probably make a person die.
Here’s MINE, then:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Kind of ripped off that Ullillillia website.
-Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Is this the Old One cyropjwbncn? OR am I going to be disappointed when this book doesn’t even COME with the false promise of going insane?
-American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
This sat on the back of my toilet, where I read it in spurts of 2 1/2 years. Dove Bar endorsement WTF.
-Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
I had to read this for a class. The prof. spent 3 weeks talking about Nazi doctors & their evil experiments while I was in the throes of one of my worst depressions ever. Didn’t help.
-A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Read in 8th grade, all I remember is: he had a giant dong.
-Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Has an Owlman, so I’m down.
-Neuromancer – William Gibson
Successfully predicted tricking out cars w/neon lights. Made me feel really fucking badass in junior high.
-Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
I have worked way too many jobs like Paradise Hot Dogs to not relate to this asshole.
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The omnibus, or the first books? I had the omnibus out once when missionaries were at my house. One saw it and said, “!!! Hitchhiker’s guide! That it the best book EVER! You have to read it. (pause) After you read the Book of Mormon, of course.”
-The World According to Garp – John Irving
Dick gets bit off.
-Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
I srsly wonder how many cassette tapes that kid had. I mean, this book is fairly long.
-Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Too many drawings.
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
She never actually tells you why it sings.
-Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This is my fave of his famouser books.
-The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Lotta big dicks in this one, too. Read it for English 102!
-In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
I remember this book being both incomprensible and wholly depressing.
-Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
I loaned it to a friend, who said he’d come up with the idea for Ice-9 years ago. :(
-The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The book that convinced me to try & kill myself!
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
-A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
-Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
-To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
-Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
This is making me realize I did most of my reading in Jr. high.
-The Once and Future King – T.H. White
FUCK YEAH!!! Also an awesome song by Maddy Prior
-The Floating Opera – John Barth
Was this one about suicide, too? I have his first two novels in one book & I can’t remember which is which.
-The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
-Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
-The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
-I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
1, 49, 54 but shit. 102, 116, 134, 166, 180, 190, 242, 245, 246, 258, 301, 331, 335, 340, 345, 358, 375, 389, 390, 417, 427, 436, 437, 439, 449, 451, 456, 462, 494 but shit. 508, 521, 526, 527, 529, 530, 547, 559, 564, 574, 602, 608, 610, 649, 699, 736, 743 on tape, 767, 780, 781, 790, 796, 797, 809 on tape. 825, 848, 853 on tape. 866, 896, 902, 1001
58 for me, with a few on my shelf that I’m gonna read soon, including three books on tape (Would it be a good idea to listen to them in the car on the way to work, or should I do it when going to sleep?). Must have read at least half a dozen of them at school too. There’s a couple I’ve started and stopped because they were shit, and subsequently never wanted to read anything by that author again. I’m looking at you Zadie Smith.
On the whole though, if you had nothing to do for the rest of your life but read, you’d find more hits than misses in this list, wouldn’t you?
As for the albums, I read the last entries first and they were:
o Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
o Killers – Hot Fuss
o Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
o MIA (UK) – Arular
o Beck – Guero
o White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
So fuck that.
Oops. didn’t mean to include the numbers.
Also what’s with the order? Is that the way you should read them? Four Jane Austen books in a row?
Order is backwards chronological.
I looked at the albums list and was about to do my tally until I noticed a) it skews British pretty heavily and b) it contains a Limp Bizkit album.
approx. 102 (god, i’m at that age when i can’t remember everything i’ve read)this list is truly shit tho, how many 2nd rate edith wharton novels can you fit on one list, jeez (and i like wharton)
ALso I think reading both “Clarissa” AND “Pamela” by Samuel Richardson would probably make a person die.
but those are GREAT books, for realz!!
I thought the order *looked* chronological at first, but there are definitely a few entries which feel like they’re in slightly the wrong place.