I'll Read Anything Once

It's Monday! What are You Reading? (20 Jan)

2014-01-20T03:00:00.000+00:00

I tend to read a hundred books at once (only a slight exaggeration), so I believe this meme will be quite fun to participate in. Yay!

On the blog:

Aside from the plethora of lists and this year's challenges, I only managed to post about Dickens's a Christmas Carol. Don't think I'll be joining any more challenges, but there'll be more lists popping up here and there as I format them all -- or encounter new ones. Sorry, I just love lists. I've lists of lists, and also a general index of all lists referencing other lists, and really, it never ends.

Anyway. Apart from posting lists, I added several pages to this place. They're all linked in the tabs above.

Read:

101 Best Jokes (nope);
a Dog of Flanders (yep, more or less); I have the anime on a DVD, so I wanted to read the story before watching the film. And now I need a break, because I just know I'm going to weep when I watch the movie. (Didn't cry during the book though.)

Reading:

Finally started Catcher in the Rye, as per recommendation of one person I'm rather fond of. Currently about halfway through. At a loss of what to say about it once I'm done reading it, though.

I was also in the mood for Jane Austen, so I picked up Northanger Abbey. Currently about 10 chapters in, and loving it, though do want to smack John Thorpe over the head with something heavy every time he mentions another horse or carriage.

Les Miserables I've been reading for about a year now. I started reading it last January or February, as part of my Oscar watching prep, but obviously I haven't finished it in time. I'm still not even half done with the book. At this pace I'll finish it in 2016. Don't know why it's being such a slow read, because I like it.

I sees, I wants:

The following books have all caught my attention in one way or another, and have consequently been added to my ever growing 'to read' list.

Lolly Willowes; as I understand, it's public domain, so I'll be downloading it shortly.
the Machine; via a review at Curiosity Killed the Bookworm. The plot seems to hit many of my buttons, so it's on my wish list.
Kokoro; I have another book by Soseki Natsume on my TBR (that'd be I am a Cat), so this one might take a while to get to.
Cat Out of Hell; due to be released at the end of next month. I'm wary of purchasing any more books, because my Kindle overfloweth, and my paper books are triple shelved at times. But how can I ignore such a lovely title?

Lists: Joseph Brodsky's Reading List

2014-01-19T17:54:00.000+00:00

... for having an intelligent conversation. At this point, I can barely converse, it seems. So barely, I almost want to say 'conversate'.

Secretly I enjoy the lack of Tolstoy in this list.

I've read some of these before, like Homer, Gilgamesh, New and Old Testament, Quixote, Montaigne, Kant, etc., etc. But it was either long ago, or very cursory, for my uni reading. Plus I'm not going to pretend that I understood WTF Kant was talking about when I read it at 15. So I'm not marking them until I read them in earnest.

Start: officially January 2014

Updated: 19.01.2014

End:

1. Bhagavatgita
2. Mahabharata
3. Gilgamesh
4. The Old Testament
5. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
6. Herodotus: Histories
7. Sophocles: Plays
8. Aeschyles: Plays
9. Euripedes: Plays (Hippolytus, Bachants, Electra, The Phornician Women)
10. Thucydides: The Peloponesian War
11. Plato: Dialogues
12. Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Ethics, De Anima
13. Alexandrian Poetry: The Greek Anthology
14. Lucretius: The Nature of Things
15. Plutarch: Lives
16. Virgil: Aenid, Bucolics, Georgics
17. Tacitus: Annals
18. Ovid: Metamorphoses, Heroides, Ars Amatoria
19. The New Testament
20. Svetonius: Lives of 12 Caesars
21. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
22. Catullus: Poems
23. Horace: Poems
24. Epictetus: Discourses
25. Aristophanes: Plays
26. Aelian: Historical Miscellanies, Characters of Animals
27. Appololarces (Appololorces?): Argonautica
28. Psellus: Lives of Byzantine Rulers
29. Gibbon: Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
30. Plotinus: The Enneads
31. Eusebius: The Ecclesiastical History
32. Boethius: Constelationes of Philosophy
33. Pliny the Younger: Letters
34. Byzantine Verse Romances
35. Heraclytus: Fragments
36. Augustine: Confessions
37. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
38. St. Francis: The Little Flowers
39. Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince
40. Dante: Divine Comedy (Tr. By John Ciardi)
41. Franko Sachetti: Novellas
42. Icelandic Sagas
43. Shakespeare (Anthony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry 5)
44. Rabelais
45. Bacon
46. Martin Luther: Selected Works
47. Calvin: Institutes
48. Montaigne: Essays
49. Cervantes: Don Quixote
50. Descartes: Discourses
51. Song of Roland
52. Beowulf
53. Belvenuto (?) Cellini
54. Henry Adams: Education of Henry Adams
55. Hobbes: Leviathan
56. Pascal: Pensees
57. Milton: Paradise Lost
58. Jone Donne
59. Andrew Marvell
60. George Herbert
61. Richard Crashaw
62. Spinoza: Treatises
63. Stendhal: Charterhouse of Parma, Red and Black, The Life of Andre Ballard
64. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
65. Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
66. Choderlos de Laclois: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
67. Montesqui: The Persian Letters
68. Locke: Second Treatise on Government
69. Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
70. Leibmitz (?) Leibvitz?: Discourses (J's note: Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics, I think, but I can be terribly wrong)
71. Hume: Everything
72. The Federalist Papers
73. Kant: Critis of Pure Reason
74. Soren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, Philosophical Fragments
75. Dostoevsky: Notes From the Underground, The Possessed
76. Tocqueville: Democracy in America
77. Goethe: Faust, Italian Journey
78. De Cuistine: Journey for our Time (Empire of the Czar)
79. Eric Auerbach: Mimesis
80. Prescott: Conquest of Mexico
81. Octavio Paz: Labyrinths of Solitude
82. Sir Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Open Society and Its Enemies
83. Eliac Canetti: Crowds Are Power

References:

Lists: 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Guardian version

2014-01-19T17:12:00.000+00:00

Published in 2009, original here.

Start: no idea.
Updated: 19.01.2014
End:

Comedy

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Money by Martin Amis
The Information by Martin Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Queen Lucia by EF Benson
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
A Season in Sinji by JL Carr
The Harpole Report by JL Carr
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
Just William by Richmal Crompton
The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Caprice by Ronald Firbank
Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
The Polygots by William Gerhardie
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson
Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage
Changing Places by David Lodge
Nice Work by David Lodge
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
England, Their England by AG Macdonell
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen
Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Charade by John Mortimer
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
La Disparition by Georges Perec
Les Revenentes by Georges Perec
La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec
My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
The Westminster Alice by Saki
The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle
Great Apes by Will Self
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons
Moo by Jane Smiley
Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
Handley Cross by RS Surtees
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
Tono Bungay by HG Wells
Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse
Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse
The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse

Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Greenmantle by John Buchan
The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
Double Indemnity by James M Cain
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin
Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin
A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
LA Confidential by James Ellroy
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
The Third Man by Graham Greene
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The King of Torts by John Grisham
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indridason
Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes
Cover Her Face by PD James
A Taste for Death by PD James
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Misery by Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky
Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
V by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers
The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Native Son by Richard Wright
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Family and self

The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Epileptic by David B
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
G by John Berger
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Wise Children by Angela Carter
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau
The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Howards End by EM Forster
Spies by Michael Frayn
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Unfortunates by BS Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Martin Eden by Jack London
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Chateau by William Maxwell
The Rector's Daughter by FM Mayor
The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Good Companions by JB Priestley
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Unless by Carol Shields
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno
The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Love

Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani
Love for Lydia by HE Bates
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vilette by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Look At Me by Anita Brookner
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Possession by AS Byatt
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
My Antonia by Willa Cather
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View by EM Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Living by Henry Green
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH Hudson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata
The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
Women in Love by DH Lawrence
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Zami by Audre Lorde
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Egoist by George Meredith
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov
The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
Light Years by James Salter
A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter
The Reader by Benhardq Schlink
The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale
Love Story by Eric Segal
Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Waterland by Graham Swift
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
East Lynne by Ellen Wood
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Science fiction and fantasy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
Crash by JG Ballard
Millennium People by JG Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Vathek by William Beckford
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Magus by John Fowles
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Light by M John Harrison
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Dune by Frank L Herbert
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Children of Men by PD James
After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Shining by Stephen King
The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
The Scar by China Mieville
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Mother London by Michael Moorcock
News from Nowhere by William Morris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Air by Geoff Ryman
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Blindness by Jose Saramago
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The Sword in the Stone by TH White
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

State of the nation

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
London Fields by Martin Amis
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac
They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Room at the Top by John Braine
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Underworld by Don DeLillo
White Noise by Don DeLillo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
USA by John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane
Independence Day by Richard Ford
A Passage to India by EM Forster
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Odd Women by George Gissing
New Grub Street by George Gissing
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Lanark by Alastair Gray
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Amongst Women by John McGahern
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
McTeague by Frank Norris
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
GB84 by David Peace
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Shame by Salman Rushdie
To Each his Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Staying On by Paul Scott
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
God's Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Richshaw Boy by Lao She
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
This Sporting Life by David Storey
The Red Room by August Stringberg
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Couples by John Updike
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Germinal by Emile Zola
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola

War and travel

Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Bomber by Len Deighton
Deliverance by James Dickey
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
South Wind by Norman Douglas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The Bamboo Bed by William Eastlake
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
The African Queen by CS Forester
The Ship by CS Forester
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Beach by Alex Garland
To The Ends of the Earth trilogy by William Golding
Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard
She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Covenant with Death by John Harris
Enigma by Robert Harris
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
Day by AL Kennedy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
La Condition Humaine by Andre Malraux
Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
History by Elsa Morante
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich Raspe
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi Herge
Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi Herge
The Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi Herge
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Sacaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
The Hunters by James Salter
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Williwaw by Gore Vidal
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
Voss by Patrick White
The Virginian by Owen Wister
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Debacle by Emile Zola

Lists: NPR's Top Sci-Fi and Fantasy

2014-01-16T04:43:00.000+00:00

Back in 2011 NPR posted a Top 100 list of science fiction and fantasy books. It was, of course, duly copied and saved by me. I'm posting it here today, with items that I've already read in bold.

I believe these were ranked, so #1 is a #1.

1. the Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game, y Orson Scott Card
4. the Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. a Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. the Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. the Princess Bride, by William Goldman
12. the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
18. the Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
22. the Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. the Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: a Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
25. the Stand, by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
27. the Martian Chronices, by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
29. the Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
30. a Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
34. the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein
35. a Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
36. the Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
39. the War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. the Amber Chronicles, by Roger Zelazny
41. the Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. the Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Mistborn Trilogy, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, y Larry Niven
45. the Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
46. the Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. the Once and Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. the Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. the Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. the Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods (of Discworld), by Terry Pratchett
58. the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. the Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal (Discworld), by Terry Pratchett
61. the Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
62. the Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. the Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. the Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist
67. the Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
68. Conan the Barbarian, by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. the Farseer, by Robin Hobb
70. the Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. the Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
73. the Legend of Drizzt, by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
75. the Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
76. Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. the Kushuel's Legacy, by Jacqueline Carey
78. the Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson
82. the Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. the Culture Series, by Iain Banks
84. the Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. the Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
87. the Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. the Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. the Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon
90. the Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. the Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
93. a Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. the Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. the Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. the Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony
100. the Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

Lists: Gothic Books

2014-01-16T04:35:00.000+00:00

There used to be a blog by the name of Gothic Reading Challenge and, well, the challenge itself. Unfortunately, it seems to be defunct or misappropriated as of now, but back when it was online, I copied the list of fiction suggested on that site and kept it for easier reference.

I never joined the challenge back then, but now it's become one of those Perpetual Challenges for me. I identify as Goth, and I've loved Gothic themes in fiction since as long as I can remember, so eventually I want to read as many books that have these themes and elements as possible.

Start: (officially) April 2011

Last updated: 16.01.2014

End:

A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Beast by Peter Benchley
Belefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
The Black Tower by P.D. James
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Girl in the Swing by Richard Adams
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest by Ludwig Flammenberg
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
The Shining by Stephen King
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
One Thousand and One Ghosts, by Alexandre Dumas-father

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Challenges 2014: Vintage Mystery Bingo (Silver and Golden)

2014-01-14T19:33:00.000+00:00

Oh dear. Obviously I am insane to be joining so many challenges this year, and I am bound to fail at least one of them if I plan to do anything other than reading and maintaining homeostasis, but I just couldn't pass this one up. Never mind the fact that this is technically a double challenge, so I'm twice likely to fail this one. Too good!

(hosted by My Reader's Block)

From the challenge's page:

All books must be from the mystery category (crime fiction, detective fiction, espionage, etc.). The mystery/crime must be the primary feature of the book--ghost stories, paranormal, romance, humor, etc are all welcome as ingredients, but must not be the primary category under which these books would be labeled at the library or bookstore.

Challengers may play either the Silver Age or Golden Age Card—or both. For the purposes of this challenge, the Golden Age Vintage Mysteries must have been first published before 1960. [..] Silver Age Vintage Mysteries may be first published any time from 1960 to 1989 (inclusive). [..]

I decided to try to complete at least one line from each card. I have a lot of mysteries around the house, so even at a cursory glance finding suitable books shouldn't be a problem, but you never know.

Challenges 2014: TBR Pile

2014-01-14T18:15:00.000+00:00

(hosted by the Bookish)
From the challenge's page:

We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us.. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up..
Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you've been telling yourself you'll read next time you'll get a chance.. This is your chance! And we've got PRIZES!!! :D

I'm aiming for the second level, a Friendly Hug, which means I should read 11-20 books from my TBR.
For this challenge I'm going to use only the books that I've personally bought myself or the ones that were gifted for me. That is, no books from family library, although technically I own them all and at least 30% of those are in my TBR ~~mountain~~ pile, and no Gutenberg downloads (although if bought a translation of the book, and then found the original on Gutenberg, then I can read the original in electronic form, and it'll count).
This still leaves me with a wide selection of hundreds of books, though.

Challenges 2014: What's in a Name

2014-01-14T18:04:00.002+00:00

(hosted by the Worm Hole)

From the challenge's page:

The challenge runs from January to December. During this time you choose a book to read from each of the following categories (examples of books you could choose are in brackets):

A reference to time (Eleven Minutes, Before Ever After)
A position of royalty (The People’s Queen, The Last Empress, The Curse Of The Pharaoh)
A number written in letters (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, A Tale Of Two Cities)
A forename or names (Rebecca, Eleanor & Park, The Unfinished Work Of Elizabeth D.)
A type or element of weather (Gone With The Wind, Red Earth Pouring Rain)

Possibilities:

Time: the Year of Living Biblically; One Hundred Years of Solitude; the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time;
Royalty: the King's Speech; King Solomon's Mines; King Lear;
Number in Letters: the Fifth Sacred Thing;
Forename(s): the Picture of Dorian Gray; Veronika Decides to Die; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Weather: Gone with the Wind; Cold Rain;

Lists: Business Insider's Reading through the US (by book)

2014-01-13T14:01:00.000+00:00

Another BI list: Most famous books set in particular US states — counting the D.C. Visit the original article for more details. Some of these overlap with the other BI list.

Start: January 2014
Updated:
End:

Alabama // to Kill a Mockingbird // Harper Lee
Alaska // into the Wild // Jon Krakauer
Arizona // the Bean Trees // Barbara Kingsolver
Arkansas // a Painted House // John Grisham
California // East of Eden // John Steinbeck
Colorado // the Shining // Stephen King
Connecticut // Revolutionary Road // Richard Yates
Delaware // the Saint of Lost Things // Christopher Castellani
Florida // to Have and Have Not // Ernest Hemingway
Georgia // Gone with the Wind // Margaret Mitchell
Hawaii // Hawaii // James Michener
Idaho // Housekeeping // Marilynne Robinson
Illinois // the Jungle // Upton Sinclair
Indiana // the Magnificent Ambersons // Booth Tarkington
Iowa // a Thousand Acres // Jane Smiley
Kansas // the Wonderful Wizard of Oz // L. Frank Baum
Kentucky // Uncle Tom’s Cabin // Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisiana // Interview with the Vampire // Anne Rice
Maine // Carrie // Stephen King
Maryland // Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant // Anne Tyler
Massachusetts // Walden // Henry David Thoreau
Michigan // the Virgin Suicides // Jeffrey Eugenides
Minnesota // Main Street // Sinclair Lewis
Mississippi // the Sound and the Fury // William Faulkner
Missouri // the Adventures of Tom Sawyer // Mark Twain
Montana // a River Runs Through It // Norman Maclean
Nebraska // My Antonia // Willa Cather
Nevada // Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas // Hunter S. Thompson
New Hampshire // the Hotel New Hampshire // John Irving
New Jersey // Drown // Junot Diaz
New Mexico // Red Sky at Morning // Richard Bradford
New York // the Great Gatsby // F. Scott Fitzgerald
North Carolina // a Walk to Remember // Nicholas Sparks
North Dakota // the Round House // Louise Erdrich
Ohio // the Broom of the System // David Foster Wallace
Oklahoma // Paradise // Toni Morrison
Oregon // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest // Ken Kesey
Pennsylvania // the Lovely Bones // Alice Sebold
Rhode Island // My Sister’s Keeper // Jodi Picoult
South Carolina // the Secret Life of Bees // Sue Monk Kidd
South Dakota // a Long Way from Home // Tom Brokaw
Tennessee // the Client // John Grisham
Texas // No Country for Old Men // Cormac McCarthy
Utah // the 19th Wife // David Ebershoff
Vermont // Pollyanna // Eleanor H. Porter
Virginia // Bridge to Terabithia // Katherine Patterson
Washington // Twilight // Stephenie Meyer
Washington, D.C. // Lost Symbol // Dan Brown
West Virginia // Shiloh // Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wisconsin // Little House in the Big Woods // Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wyoming // the Laramie Project // Moises Kaufman

Lists: Business Insider's Reading through the US (by author)

2014-01-13T13:57:00.000+00:00

Business Insider published a list of the States' most famous authors, one from each state (plus DC). You can see the original feature here. I typed this in a simplified list form, and will proceed reading at least one book from each author accordingly.

This list also includes the suggested books from the original article, i.e. the book that the author is most known for. I may or may not deviate from these suggestions.

Started: January 2014
Last updated:
Completed:

Alabama // Harper Lee // to Kill a Mockingbird
Alaska // Marty Beckerman // The Heming Way
Arizona // Jeannette Walls // the Glass Castle
Arkansas // John Grisham // a Time to Kill
California // John Steinbeck // the Grapes of Wrath
Colorado // Ken Kesey // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Connecticut // Harriet Beecher Stowe // Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Delaware // Christopher Castellani // a Kiss from Maddalena
Florida // Carl Hiaasen // Hoot
Georgia // Flannery O’Connor // a Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories
Hawaii // Armine Von Tempski // Born in Paradise
Idaho // Vardis Fisher // Children of God
Illinois // Ernest Hemingway // the Old Man and the Sea
Indiana // Kurt Vonnegut // Slaughterhouse-Five
Iowa // Bill Bryson // a Short History of Nearly Everything
Kansas // William Inge // Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Kentucky // Hunter S. Thompson // Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Louisiana // Anne Rice // Interview with the Vampire
Maine // Stephen King // the Shining
Maryland // Nora Roberts // The Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
Massachusetts // Nathaniel Hawthorne // the Scarlet Letter
Michigan // Jeffrey Eugenides // the Virgin Suicides
Minnesota // F. Scott Fitszgerald // the Great Gatsby
Mississippi // William Faulkner // the Sound and the Fury
Missouri // Mark Twain // the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Montana // Maile Meloy // Liars and Saints
Nebraska // Nicholas Sparks // a Walk to Remember
Nevada // Charles Bock // Beautiful Children
New Hampshire // Dan Brown // the Da Vinci Code
New Jersey // Philip Roth // Portnoy’s Complaint
New Mexico // Rudolfo Anaya // Bless Me, Ultima
New York // Herman Melville // Moby Dick
North Carolina // Thomas Wolfe // Look Homeward, Angel
North Dakota // Louis L’Amour // the Walking Drum
Ohio // Sherwood Anderson// Winesburg, Ohio
Oklahoma // Ralph Ellison // Invisible Man
Oregon // Beverly Cleary // Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Pennsylvania // James Mishener // Tales of the South Pacific
Rhode Island // Cormac McCarthy // No Country for Old Men
South Carolina // Peggy Parish // Amelia Bedelia
South Dakota // Adam Johnson // Parasites like Us
Tennessee // Peter Taylor // a Summons to Memphis
Texas // Katherine Anne Porter // Flowering Judas and Other Stories
Utah // Thomas Savage // the Corner of Rife and Pacific
Vermont // Ralph Nading Hill // Contrary Country: a Chronicle of Vermont
Virginia // David Baldacci // the Camel Club
Washington // Rick Steves // Rick Steves’s Europe Through the Back Door
Washington, D.C. // Michael Chabon // the Yiddish Policemen’s Union
West Virginia // Pearl S. Buck // the Good Earth
Wisconsin // Laura Ingalls Wilder // Little House in the Big Woods
Wyoming // Patricia MacLachlan // Sarah, Plain and Tall

Lists: Telegraph's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read

2014-01-13T13:53:00.000+00:00

Link to the original.

Start: couldn't say
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End:

100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
97 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon
95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
94 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
91 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
86 Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
83 Germinal by Emile Zola
82 The Stranger by Albert Camus
81 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
78 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
76 The Trial by Franz Kafka
75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
69 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
68 Crash by JG Ballard
67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
65 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
62 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
59 London Fields by Martin Amis
58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
56 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald
54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
51 Underworld by Don DeLillo
50 Beloved by Toni Morrison
49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
47 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
43 The Rabbit books by John Updike
42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
36 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
31 Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
30 Atonement by Ian McEwan
29 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
24 Ulysses by James Joyce
23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
22 A Passage to India by EM Forster
21 1984 by George Orwell
20 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
17 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee
7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
1 Middlemarch by George Eliot

Lists: Jezebel's 75 Books Every Woman Should Read

2014-01-13T13:46:00.002+00:00

I think this list was community-voted, but I am not sure. There’s also an Esquire one, for men, which I think was an inspiration for Jezebel’s? Maybe the other way round. Anyway, I regard gender separation, especially in matters like these, a nuisance.

Another thing I regard as nuisance is Esquire’s website, so that list will have to wait.

Start: April 2013
Updated: 13.01.2014
Finish:

The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Like Life, Lorrie Moore
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin (DNF)
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
Earthly Paradise, Colette
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Property, Valerie Martin
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Runaway, Alice Munro
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley
The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
The Group, Mary McCarthy
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Three Junes, Julia Glass
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West
Spending, Mary Gordon
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Possession, A.S. Byatt

Lists: Agatha Christie's Works

2014-01-13T13:40:00.000+00:00

If you see any mistakes or missing works in this list, please tell me.

Start: 2008
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End:

Novels: Poirot

1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1923 The Murder on the Links
1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927 The Big Four
1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train
1932 Peril at End House
1933 Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen at Dinner)
1934 Murder on the Orient Express (Murder in the Calais Coach)
1935 Three Act Tragedy (Murder in Three Acts)
1935 Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air)
1936 The ABC Murders (the Alphabet Murders)
1936 Murder in Mesopotamia
1936 Cards on the Table
1937 Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client; Mystery at Littlegreen House)
1937 Death on the Nile
1938 Appointment with Death
1938 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Murder for Christmas; a Holiday for Murder)
1940 Sad Cypress
1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (an Overdose of Death; the Patriotic Murders)
1941 Evil under the Sun
1942 Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect)
1946 The Hollow
1948 Taken at the Flood (There is a Tide…)
1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories
1952 Mrs.McGinty’s Dead (Blood Will Tell)
1953 After the Funeral (Funerals are Fatal)
1955 Hickory Dickory Dock (Hickory Dickory Death)
1956 Dead Man’s Folly
1959 Cat among the Pigeons
1963 The Clocks
1966 Third Girl
1969 Hallowe’en Party
1972 Elephants Can Remember
1975 Curtain

Novels: Miss Marple

1930 The Murder at the Vicarage
1942 The Body in the Library
1942 The Moving Finger (the Case of the Moving Finger)
1950 A Murder Is Announced
1952 They Do It with Mirrors (Murder with Mirrors)
1953 A Pocket Full of Rye
1957 4:50 from Paddington (What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!; Murder She Said)
1962 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (the Mirror Crack’d)
1964 A Caribbean Mystery
1965 At Bertram’s Hotel
1971 Nemesis
1976 Sleeping Murder

Novels: Tommy & Tuppence

1922 The Secret Adversary
1941 N or M ?
1968 By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1973 Postern of Fate

Novels: Other

1924 The Man in the Brown Suit
1925 the Secret of Chimneys
1929 The Seven Dials Mystery
1931 The Sittaford Mystery (Murder at Hazelmoor)
1934 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (the Boomerang Clue)
1939 Murder is Easy (Easy to Kill)
1939 Ten Little Niggers (and Then There Were None; Ten Little Indians)
1944 Towards Zero (Come and Be Hanged)
1944 Death Comes as the End
1945 Sparkling Cyanide (Remembered Death)
1949 Crooked House
1951 They Came to Baghdad
1954 Destination Unknown (So Many Steps to Death)
1958 Ordeal by Innocence
1961 the Pale Horse
1967 Endless Night
1970 Passenger to Frankfurt

Novels: written under the name of Mary Westmacott

1930 Giant’s Bread
1934 Unfinished Portrait
1944 Absent in the Spring
1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
1952 A Daughter’s a Daughter
1956 The Burden

Nonfiction

1946 Come, Tell Me How You Live
1977 Agatha Christie: an Autobiography

(Plays and other works will be added later.)

Short Stories: by Collection

1924 Poirot Investigates (UK version)

The Adventure of “The Western Star”
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Case of the Missing Will

1929 Partners in Crime

A Fairy in the Flat / A Pot of Tea
The Affair of the Pink Pearl
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
Finessing the King / The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
The Case of the Missing Lady
Blindman’s Buff
The Man in the Mist
The Crackler
The Sunningdale Mystery
The House of Lurking Death
The Unbreakable Alibi
The Clergyman’s Daughter / The Red House
The Ambassador’s Boots
The Man Who Was No. 16

1930 The Mysterious Mr.Quin

The Coming of Mr. Quin
The Shadow on the Glass
At the “Bells and Motley”
The Sign in the Sky
The Soul of the Croupier
The Man from the Sea
The Voice in the Dark
The Face of Helen
The Dead Harlequin
The Bird with the Broken Wing
The World’s End
Harlequin’s Lane

1932 The Thirteen Problems (US: Tuesday Club Murders)

The Tuesday Night Club
The Idol House of Astarte
Ingots of Gold
The Blood-Stained Pavement
Motive v. Opportunity
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
The Blue Geranium
The Companion
The Four Suspects
A Christmas Tragedy
The Herb of Death
The Affair at the Bungalow
Death by Drowning

1933 The Hound of Death (UK)

The Hound of Death
The Red Signal
The Fourth Man
The Gypsy
The Lamp
Wireless
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
The Call of Wings
The Last Seance
SOS

1934 The Listerdale Mystery (UK)

The Listerdale Mystery
Philomel Cottage
The Girl in the Train
Sing a Song of Sixpence
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Accident
Jane in Search of a Job
A Fruitful Sunday
Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure
The Golden Ball
The Rajah’s Emerald
Swan Song

1934 Parker Pyne Investigates

The Case of the Middle-aged Wife
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
The Case of the Distressed Lady
The Case of the Discontented Husband
The Case of the City Clerk
The Case of the Rich Woman
Have You Got Everything You Want?
The Gate of Baghdad
The House at Shiraz
The Pearl of Price
Death on the Nile
The Oracle at Delphi

1937 Murder in the Mews (novella-length)

Murder in the Mews
The Incredible Theft
Dead Man’s Mirror
Triangle at Rhodes

1939 The Regatta Mystery (US)

The Regatta Mystery
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Problem at Pollensa Bay
Yellow Iris
Miss Marple Tells a Story
The Dream
In a Glass Darkly
Problem at Sea

1947 The Labours of Hercules

Foreword
The Nemean Lion
The Lernaean Hydra
The Arcadian Deer
The Erymanthian Boar
The Augean Stables
The Stymphalean Birds
The Cretan Bull
The Horses of Diomedes
The Girdle of Hyppolita
The Flock of Geryon
The Apples of Hesperides
The Capture of Cerberus

1948 Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US)

Accident
The Fourth Man
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (a.k.a. Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure)
Philomel Cottage
The Red Signal
The Second Gong
Sing a Song of Sixpence
S.O.S.
Where There’s a Will (a.k.a. Wireless)
The Witness for the Prosecution

1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (US)

Three Blind Mice
Strange Jest
The Tape-Measure Murder
The Case of the Perfect Maid
The Case of the Caretaker
The Third Floor Flat
The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
The Love Detectives

1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (US)

The Under Dog
The Plymouth Express
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Market Basing Mystery
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Cornish Mystery
The King of Clubs
The Submarine Plans
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (UK)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
The Under Dog
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Dream
Greenshaw’s Folly

1961 Double Sin and Other Stories (US)

Double Sin
Wasp’s Nest
The Theft of the Royal Ruby (also known as The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding)
The Dressmaker’s Doll
Greenshaw’s Folly
The Double Clue
The Last Seance
Sanctuary

1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US)

The Listerdale Mystery
The Girl in the Train
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Jane in Search of a Job
A Fruitful Sunday
The Golden Ball
The Rajah’s Emerald
Swan Song
The Hound of Death
The Gypsy
The Lamp
The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
The Call of Wings
Magnolia Blossom
Next to a Dog

1974 Poirot’s Early Cases

The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Submarine Plans
The Third Floor Flat
Double Sin
The Market Basing Mystery
Wasp’s Nest
The Veiled Lady
Problem at Sea
How Does Your Garden Grow?

1979 Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Others Stories

Sanctuary
Strange Jest
Tape-Measure Murder
The Case of the Caretaker
The Case of the Perfect Maid
Miss Marple Tells a Story
The Dressmaker’s Doll
In a Glass Darkly

1984 Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (a compilation of all previously published Poirot short stories and novellas, from what I gathered)

1992 Problem at Pollensa Bay

Problem at Pollensa Bay
The Second Gong
Yellow Iris
The Harlequin Tea Set
The Regatta Mystery
The Love Detectives
Next To A Dog
Magnolia Blossom

1997 the Harlequin Tea Set

The Edge
The Actress
While the Light Lasts
The House of Dreams
The Lonely God
Manx Gold
Within a Wall
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
The Harlequin Tea Set

1997 While the Light Lasts

The House of Dreams
The Actress
The Edge
Christmas Adventure
The Lonely God
Manx Gold
Within a Wall
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
While the Light Lasts

Short Stories: alphabetic index

(Note: Some of the titles are, I think, renames for republishing or the US market. I’ll go through the list eventually and weed out all doubles, leaving the original titles.)

The £10 Adventure
Accident
The Actress
The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Adventure of the King of Clubs
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
The Adventure of the Western Star
The Affair at the Bungalow
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Affair of the Forged Notes
The Affair of the Pink Pearl
The Ambassador’s Boots
The Apples of the Hesperides
The Arcadian Deer
At the Bells and Motley
At the Crossroads
The Augean Stables
Before It Is Too Late
Behind Closed Doors
The Benevolent Butler
The Bird with the Broken Wing
Birds of Ill Omen
Blindman’s Bluff
The Bloodstained Pavement
The Blue Geranium
By Road or Rail
The Call of Wings
The Caputure of Cerberus
A Case of Buried Treasure
Case of the Capture of Cerberus
The Case of the Caretaker
The Case of the City Clerk
The Case of the Discontented Husband
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
The Case of the Distressed Lady
The Case of the Drug Peddler
The Case of the Erymanthian Boar
The Case of the Family Taint
The Case of the Gossipers
The Case of the Kidnaped Pekinese
The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
The Case of the Missing Lady
The Case of the Missing Schoolgirl
The Case of the Missing Will
The Case of the Nemean Lion
The Case of the Perfect Maid
The Case of the Rich Woman
The Case of the Sinister Stranger
The Case of the Veiled Lady
The Case of The Vulture Women
The Chinese Puzzle Box
The Chocolate Box
Christmas Adventure
A Christmas Tragedy
The Clergyman’s Daughter
The Clue of the Chocolate Box
The Clue of the Veiled Lady
The Coming of Mr. Quin
The Companion
Companions
The Cornish Mystery
The Crackler
The Cretan Bull
The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls
The Day of His Dreams
The Dead Harlequin
Dead Man’s Mirror
Death by Drowning
Death on the Nile
The Disappearance of Captain Harwell
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
The Disappearance of Winnie King
The Double Clue
Double Sin
The Dream
The Dressmaker’s Doll
Drip! Drip!
The Edge
The Egyptian Adventure
The Egyptian Tomb
The Erymanthian Boar
The Face of Helen
A Fairy in the Flat
Finessing the King
The First Wish
The Flock of Geryon
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Four Suspects
The Fourth Man
A Fruitful Sunday
The Gate of Baghdad
The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
The Gipsy
The Girdle of Hippolyta
The Girl in Electric Blue
The Girl in the Train
Gold, Frankincense and Myth
The Golden Ball
The Great Bond Robbery
Greenshaw’s Folly
A Greeting
The Harlequin Tea Set
Harlequin’s Lane
The Hat and the Alibi
Have You Got Everything You Want?
The Herb of Death
Hercule Poirot in Hell
Hercule Poirot, Armchair Detective
His Lady’s Affair
The Horses of Diomedes
The Hound of Death
The House at Shiraz
The House of Dreams
The House of Lurking Death
How Does Your Garden Grow?
The Hunters Lodge Case
The Husband Who Wanted to Keep His Wife
The Hydra of Lernea
The Idol House of Astarte
In a Glass Darkly
In the Cool of the Evening
In the Third Floor Flat
The Incredible Theft
Ingots of Gold
The Invisible Enemy
The Island
The Italian Nobleman
Jain in Search of a Job
Jenny by the Sky
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Kidnaped Pekinese
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly
The King of Clubs
The Knidnaped Premier
The Lamp
The Last Seance
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lernean Hydra
The Listerdale Mystery
The Lonely God
The Lost Mine
The Love Detectives
Magnolia Blossom
The Maid Who Disappeared
The Man from the Sea
The Man in the Mist
A Man of Magic
The Man Who was Number 16
The Manhood of Edward Robinson
Manx Gold
The Market Basing Mystery
The Marsdon Manor Tragedy
The Matter of the Ambassador’s Boots
Meet Me in Hell
Midnight Madness
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Miss Marple and the Wicked World
Miss Marple Tells a Story
The Missing Will
Motive versus Opportunity
Mr Eastwood’s Adventure
Mr. Davenby Disappears
Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure
Mr. Quinn Passes By
Mrs Opalsen’s Pearls
Murder at the Vicarage
Murder in the Mews
Murder Mountain
The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Mystery of the Dressing Case
The Mystery of the Plymouth Express
The Mystery of the Second Cucumber
The Mystery of The Spanish Chest
The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
The Naughty Donkey
The Nemean Lion
Next to a Dog
On the Orient Express
The Oracle at Delphi
The Passing of Mr. Quin
The Pearl of Price
The Perfect Maid
Philomel Cottage
Playing the Innocent
The Plymouth Express
The Plymouth Express Affair
Poirot And The Crime In Cabin 66
Poirot and the Regular Customer
The Poison Cup
A Pot of Tea
Problem at Pollensa Bay
Problem at Sea
Promotion in the Highest
The Rajah’s Emerald
The Red House
The Red Signal
The Regatta Mystery
The Resurrection of Amy Durrant
The Rich Woman Who Wanted Only To Be Happy
S.O.S.
The Saints of God
Sanctuary
The Second Gong
The Shadow on the Glass
A Sign in the Sky
The Sign in the Sky
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Siren Business
The Six China Figures
The Solving Six
The Solving Six and the Evil Hour
The Solving Six and the Golden Grave
The Soul of the Croupier
Sporting Challenge
Star Over Bethlehem
The Starange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
The Stolen Ghost
Strange Jest
The Stymphalean Birds
The Submarine Plans
The Sunningdale Mystery
The Sunninghall Mystery
Swan Song
Tape-Measure Murder
The Third Floor Flat
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
Traitor’s Hands
Triangle at Rhodes
The Tuesday Night Club
The Unbreakable Alibi
The Uncrossed Path
The Under Dog
Vanishing Lady
The Veiled Lady
The Voice in the Dark
The Vulture Women
Wasp’s Nest
The Water Bus
Weird Monster
The Western Star
Where There’s a Will
Where’s the Catch?
While the Light Lasts
Wireless
Within a Wall
The Witness for the Prosecution
World’s End
The Woman Who Stole a Ghost
The World’s End
A Wreath for Christmas
Yellow Iris

Credits: To compile this list, I used information from the following:

Lists: Murakami Haruki

2014-01-13T13:28:00.000+00:00

This is a personal challenge I’ve decided to take on long ago, but I see that lots of people are doing it here. Incidentally, I also copied the list from that blog.

I’m able to read books in several languages (not Japanese, though; not yet), so if there’s a book published in a language other than English that has not appeared in English translation, I’ll add it to the list. As far as I know, this is not the case for now, so I’m using the English list, but will possibly read some books in other translations. They’ll be marked accordingly, because I’m anal retentive like that.

Start: 2001 (when I first read Kaze no uta wo kike)

Last updated: 13.01.2014

End: possibly n/a

Novels/Novellas

Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け Kaze no uta o kike)
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール 1973-nen no pinbōru)
A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険 Hitsuji o meguru bōken)
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando)
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori)
Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス Dansu dansu dansu)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru)
Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人 Supūtoniku no koibito)
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka)
After Dark (アフターダーク Afutā Dāku)
1Q84 (1Q84 Ichi-kyū-hachi-yon)

Short story collections

after the quake
The Elephant Vanishes
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Non-fiction

Underground (アンダーグラウンド Andāguraundo)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto)

Lists: Jane Austen's Works and Derivations

2014-01-13T13:21:00.002+00:00

Right now this list only houses Jane Austen's original works, but eventually I plan to add novels that are based on the worlds she created. I will not be aiming for a definitive list as new versions and continuations of P&P etc. just keep popping up.

Started: I have no idea
Last updated: 13.01.2014
Completed: ?

Novels

Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, posthumous)

Short fiction

Lady Susan (1794, 1805)

Unfinished fiction

The Watsons (1804)
Sanditon (1817)

Other works

Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)
Plan of a Novel (1815)
Poems (1796-1817)
Prayers (1796-1817)
Letters (1796-1817)

Juvenilia — Volume the First (1787-1793)

Frederic & Elfrida
Jack & Alice
Edgar & Emma
Henry and Eliza
The Adventures of Mr. Harley
Sir William Mountague
Memoirs of Mr. Clifford
The Beautifull Cassandra
Amelia Webster
The Visit
The Mystery
The Three Sisters
A beautiful description
The generous Curate
Ode to Pity

Juvenilia — Volume the Second (1787-1793)

Love and Freindship
Lesley Castle
The History of England
A Collection of Letters
The female philosopher
The first Act of a Comedy
A Letter from a Young Lady
A Tour through Wales
A Tale

Juvenilia — Volume the Third (1787-1793)

Evelyn Catharine, or the Bower

Lists: BBC's Top 200 (the Big Read)

2014-01-13T13:15:00.000+00:00

Copied from BBC’s website.

Started: officially in November 2011, unofficially -- can't really say.
Last updated: 13.01.2014
End: ?

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

things I need to look into for my reading.

2014-01-12T17:55:00.002+00:00

Before I muster the courage to post an actual review of something, I thought I'd copy some of my general book notes to this place. This blog is an infant, but if you have somehow stumbled upon this page and have any recommendations for me in any of these categories, I'd be very happy. Thank you!

Authors of colour. I don't think I've ever read a book written by a black person, and I've only read Murakami and Mishima out of the Asian authors category. This is a sad oversight indeed.
Jewish lit. Unfamiliar territory for me. Two stories by Sholem Aleichem do not a well-read woman make. My ancestors are not impressed.
Established classics of various genres. Mostly I am looking into sci-fi, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, fantasy. I've read some, of course, but I figure I still can't call myself a fan of dystopia or science-fiction until I read 1984 or Frankenstein or Asimov.
German literature. Completely unfamiliar. I think I can really only name Thomas Mann and Goethe off the top of my head. I can name more French guys.
Contemporary Russian writers. I can't find a single book by contemporary Russian authors, aside from occasional mystery book here and there, that I would actually enjoy. I will continue my search. Perhaps the recent programme presented by Stephen Fry will be of help.
Scholarly works on Paganism. The modern part of it.
Feminism. All I learnt about feminism, I learnt either via a very personal experience of being a woman in a country which has a proverb that compares an unbeaten wife to a house that needs cleaning, or via tumblr and the likes.

Challenges 2014: Kelley's Bingo

2014-01-12T17:46:00.000+00:00

(head on to bingo page for rules and things)

The Goals for this Challenge

(listed in brackets are my possible reads)

B1: Book I bought but haven’t read yet

B2: Book recommended by a friend (the Secret (oh dear lord) or a Song of Ice and Fire volume)

B3: Book outside my comfort zone (the Host or something horror)

B4: Book that teaches me something

B5: Finish/reread a series

I1: Nonfiction book I already own

I2: Book I got for free

I3: Ebook I already own (TTSS)

I4: Book I’m excited for (Whispers Under Ground)

I5: Book about food

N1: Classic on my TBR list

N2: 2013 debut I missed last year (I'm bad with new releases, so something from here, or here -- or feel free to recommend me something!)

N3: FREE SQUARE!

N4: Verse novel (Paradise Lost, Eugene Onegin, the Satanic Verses)

N5: Book I got signed but haven’t read

G1: Finish a series ending in 2014 (Under the Never Sky)

G2: Adult book on my TBR list

G3: Book by an author I haven’t read before

G4: Book that uses experimental prose

G5: Finish a series that ended before 2014 (Smiley)

O1: Standalone book on my TBR list

O2: Indie book

O3: Book I started years ago and forgot about

O4: Visual novel

O5: Chunkster

Challenges 2014: Anne and Kristilyn Book Bingo

2014-01-12T17:37:00.000+00:00

(head on to challenge page for rules and things)

So~ Some maths tells me that if I were to read all the books in the card, then I'd have to read 55 books, which is 10 more than the number of books I've challenged myself to read this year. We'll see about that. But I'll definitely try. The new releases column will be the most difficult one. I'm always late to the party. Pretty sure for this one I'll be entirely dependent on Kindle's free books section.

TBR Pile
(For the purpose of this challenge, I'm defining TBR as all the books I've been meaning to read but haven't for some reason, whether they will be borrowed from the library, downloaded for free, freshly bought, or will indeed come from my overflowing shelves. Any book that inspires the thought of "oh yeah, yeah, I remember you, been meaning to read you..." counts.)

one book
two books
three books
four books
five books

Mix it up

non-fiction
classic
re-read
free square
contemporary

Series

one book (Save Me)
two books (a Song of Ice and Fire OR 50 Shades)
three books (Robert Langdon)
four books (Hitchhiker's Guide)
five books (George Smiley)

Genres

fantasy
free square
historical fiction
mystery
romance

New Releases

one book
two books
three books
four books
five books

Challenges 2014: Books in Translation

2014-01-12T17:25:00.000+00:00

(photo credit for button)

(hosted by the Introverted Reader)

From the challenge page:

The goal is obviously to read translations of books, from any language into the language(s) you're comfortable reading in; they don't have to be in English.
You can read any genre and any age range.

I'm aiming for the fourth level, Linguist, that is: 10-12 books. Although I'm a translator by trade and certainly respect the profession, I usually shun translated books for whatever reason, especially if the originals happen to be in languages I've the fortune of understanding. So this challenge will be a true challenge for me.

Challenges 2014: Eclectic Reader

2014-01-12T17:14:00.001+00:00

(hosted by Book'd Out)

From the challenge page:

The aim of The Eclectic Reader 2014 Challenge is to push you outside your comfort zone by reading up to 12 books during the year from 12 different categories.

And one more challenge to make me explore more genres this year. No fixed months for categories. List of genres to explore below. The last one's going to be the hardest one for me. Guess I'm gonna have to pay more attention to goodreads newsletter, or ARC reviews.

Award Winning (Atonement)
True Crime (Non Fiction)
Romantic Comedy (Shopaholic series? is this romantic comedy?)
Alternate History Fiction
Graphic Novel
Cosy Mystery Fiction
Gothic Fiction
War/Military Fiction (Hemingway? All Quiet on the Western Front?)
Anthology
Medical Thriller Fiction
Travel (Non Fiction) (Wild by Cheryl Strayed, or something by Bill Bryson, or a Moveable Feast)
Published in 2014

Challenges 2014: Banned Books

2014-01-12T16:59:00.001+00:00

(hosted by Buckling Bookshelves)

From the challenge page:

RULES: Any book that has been banned or challenged counts for this challenge. Books can be read in any format and overlap with other challenges is allowed (encouraged!)

I always want to read more banned books, but never end up doing it for whatever odd reason. I hope this challenge will serve as a reminder throughout the year. Aiming for third level, Rebel, which means I'll read 6-9 challenged books.

Goodreads banned books 'genre' page. Whatever I'll end up reading, it'll either be public domain, or on my shelves already.

Challenges 2014: Jumble Your Genres

2014-01-12T16:50:00.001+00:00

(hosted by Readers Live a Thousand Lives, Lovin Los Libros, Corrie the Book Crazed Girl)

From the challenge page:

For this challenge, the goal is to mix up the genres/categories we read. We have all had those times when we have gotten stuck in the genre/category we are currently reading and read nothing else for a while. The goal here is to mix that up! Each month we will feature a different genre/category and the goal is to read and review one book or more in that genre/category during that month.

Lately I tend to stick to my comfort zone whilst reading, so I hope this challenge will kick me out of my urban fantasy/ mystery/ classic/ memoir/ ad infinitum rut. This should be fun. I have no idea what High Fantasy or New Adult even mean. To the search engine!

List of genres (and possible reads):

January: Young Adult (the Book Thief)

February: Contemporary

March: Urban Fantasy (Mercy Thompson or Peter Grant)

April: Middle Grade (Anne Frank, Matilda, Anne of Green Gables, to Kill a Mockingbird)

May: Dystopian (1984)

June: High Fantasy (George R.R. Martin or J. R.R. Tolkien)

July: Adult (probably a classic)

August: Paranormal (Mortal Instruments or Sookie Stackhouse)

September: Romance

October: Sci-fi

November: Historical

December: New Adult

Challenges 2014: Witches and Witchcraft

2014-01-12T16:28:00.000+00:00

(hosted by Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf)

From the challenge page:

Any full length book that includes a witch as a main character or includes major witchcraft elements counts. They may be fiction or non-fiction. However, they should not be reference books which are not read cover to cover-I will leave this to your discretion.

I'm signing up for the second level, Maiden, which means I should read 06-10 witchy books.

Possible reads:

the Mayhem Sisters, by Lauren Quick

Challenges 2014: Nonfiction

2014-01-12T16:21:00.000+00:00

(hosted by the Introverted Reader)

From the official challenge page:

The Challenge: Read any non-fiction book(s), adult or young adult. That's it. You can choose anything. Memoirs? Yes. History? Yes. Travel? Yes. You get the idea? Absolutely anything that is classified as non-fiction counts for this challenge.

There are four levels, and I'm gonna go for the second one, Explorer, which means I should read 06-10 non-fiction books.

Possible reads:

Competability, by Amy Shojai
the Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals