Project 1001 Books


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:
  1. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
  2. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
  3. A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
  4. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
  5. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  6. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  7. Snow - Orhan Pamuk
  8. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  9. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
  10. The Heart of redness - Zakes Mda
  11. Under the Skin - Michel Faber (Read January 2015)
  12. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
  13. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  14. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  15. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
  16. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  17. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
  18. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
  19. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  20. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  21. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
  22. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
  23. Regeneration - Pat Barker
  24. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  25. The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
  26. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  27. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  28. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
  29. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (read February 2015)
  30. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
  31. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  32. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
  33. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
  34. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  35. So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
  36. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
  37. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
  38. The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
  39. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  40. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  41. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  42. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  43. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  44. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  45. The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  46. Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
  47. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  48. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  49. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
  50. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
  51. A Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
  52. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
  53. Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
  54. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
  55. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  56. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
  57. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
  58. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
  59. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  60. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
  61. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  62. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
  63. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
  64. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
  65. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
  66. Pharaoh - Boleslaw Prus
  67. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  68. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
  69. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  70. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
  71. Nana - Emile Zola
  72. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
  73. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  74. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
  75. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
  76. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  77. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe
  78. The Monk - M.G. Lewis
  79. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
  80. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
Progress:

2015:

January 2015: 1/80 completed
February 2015: 2/80 completed

1 comment:

  1. cool project! I should have a close look at the book. Good luck

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