Current Reading Challenge – 1001

I’ve heard, from several people, about the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall, but, surprisingly enough for a self-professed bibliophile, I do not own a copy myself. However, I came across a very handy list of the books mentioned within and since I can never resist a challenge, I have decided to add this one to my others (the list is ever growing!

I had already read 38 books from the list as I started in May 2007 (some of them many years ago), and had more on Mount To-Be-Read, so I got off to a decent start.

To see the spreadsheet (and download it for yourself if you fancy joining me and countless others in this challenge) click HERE.

BOOKS READ:

1. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (1)
   
2. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (19)
   
3. Yann Martel – Life of Pi (49)
4. Arthur Golden – Memoirs of a Geisha (93)
5. Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting (134)
6. Lewis Grassic Gibbon – Sunset Song (A Scots Quair) – UNFINISHED (647)
   
7. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island – UNFINISHED (831)
8. Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho (166)
9. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (242)
10. Patrick Suskind – Perfume (243)
11. Alice Walker – The Color Purple (272)
12. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (301)
13. Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire (320)
    
14. John Wyndham – Chocky (396)
15. Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar (433)
16. Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (436)
17. John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos (481)
18. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (496)
19. John Wyndham – Day of the Triffids (526)
20. George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (547)
21. George Orwell – Animal Farm (564)
22. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men (608 )
23. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (649)
24. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (699)
25. H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds (790)
26. H. G. Wells – The Invisible Man (791)
27. Bram Stoker – Dracula (794)
28. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (809)
29. H. Rider Haggard – She (819)
30. H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines (823)
31. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (825)
32. Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass (854)
33. Louisa May Alcott – Little Women (863)
34. Lewis Carroll – Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland (868 )
    
35. Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers (908 )
36. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (931)
37. Jane Austen – Emma (936)
    
38. Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey (932)
39. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (938 )
40. John Cleland – Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (974)
41. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (904)
42. J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (529)
43. J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace (77)
44. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles (781)
45. Margaret Atwood – The Robber Bride (145)
46. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince (574)
47. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (820)
    
48. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient – UNFINISHED (156)
    
49. Voltaire – Candide – UNFINISHED (970)
    
50. James Ellroy – The Black Dahlia (213)
51. D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (676)
52. Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (450)
53. Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose (293)
54. Jane Austen – Mansfield Park (937)
55. H. G. Wells – The Time Machine (797)
56. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (456)
57. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (902)
58. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (983 )
59. Anne Brontë – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (901)
60. Charles Webb – The Gradute (428 )
    
61. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper (801)
    
62. E. M. Forster – Howards End (754)
63. Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr. Ripley (495)
64. E. M. Forster – A Room with a View (761)
65. Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca (603)
66. Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White (880)
67. Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan of the Apes (747)
68. Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol (913)
69. Virginia Woolf – Orlando – UNFINISHED (675)
70. Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd (846)
71. Charles Kingsley – The Waterbabies (872)
72. H. G. Wells – The Island of Dr. Moreau (796)
73. Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness (780)
74. Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth (866)
75. Choderlos De Laclos – Les Liaisons Dangereuses (956)
76. Charlotte Bronte – Villette – UNFINISHED (891)
77. Karen Blixen – Out of Africa – UNFINISHED (614)
    
78. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man – UNFINISHED (520)
79. Mario Puzo – The Godfather (379)
80. Margaret Atwood – Surfacing – UNFINISHED (354)
81. Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia (184)
82. Sarah Waters – Fingersmith (24)
83. Louis de Bernieres – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (129)

ON THE SHELF:

1. Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace (109)
   
2. Jane Austen – Persuasion (933)
3. Jane Austen – Sense & Sensibility (940)
   
4. Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey (903)
   
5. Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (785)
   
6. Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities (883)
   
7. Charles Dickens – Bleak House (890)
   
8. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist (918 )
   
9. Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo (906)
   
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night (638 )
11. Romain Gary – The Roots of Heaven (491)
    
12. Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure (799)
    
13. Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge (821)
    
14. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (808 )
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter (897)
16. Barry Hines – A Kestral for a Knave / Kes (394)
17. Victor Hugo – The Hunchabckof Notre-Dame (922)
    
18. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (Vol. 1 and 2) (873)
    
19. Barbara Kingslover – The Poisonwood Bible (86)
    
20. Rudyard Kipling – Kim (783)
21. D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love (728 )
22. Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook (440)
23. Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer (636)
24. Philip Roth – The Human Stain (62)
25. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (840)
    
26. Lew Wallace – Ben Hur (835)
27. Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities (218 )