I have set myself the goal of reading 80 books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
The titles are listed below, and I'll be adding my reviews once I've read each one.
Challenge Started: January 2015
Challenge Finished:
- The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
- A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Heart of redness - Zakes Mda
- Under the Skin - Michel Faber (Read January 2015)
- The Human Stain - Philip Roth
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
- The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
- Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
- Regeneration - Pat Barker
- American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
- The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (read February 2015)
- Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
- Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
- The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
- Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
- The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
- The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Justine - Lawrence Durrell
- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- A Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
- At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
- Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
- The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- Pharaoh - Boleslaw Prus
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
- Nana - Emile Zola
- In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe
- The Monk - M.G. Lewis
- The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
- The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
Progress:
2015:
January 2015: 1/80 completed
February 2015: 2/80 completed
February 2015: 2/80 completed
cool project! I should have a close look at the book. Good luck
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