So two years ago I wrote a post about this list of 1001 "must read" books and how many of them I had read. I had intended to come back a year later and see how many I could add to my "read" list. Well...It's been two years now. Yesterday was my 32nd birthday. So let's see how I did, even if it is a whole year late. From my original post two years ago:
Yesterday was my 30th birthday and I wanted to see how generally well read I am, so after some web surfing I came across a list of 1001 "must read" books on listology. Here's the link to the list. It's from a British book that I will leave the information for at the bottom of the post. It's not a definitive list by any means, so it is obviously subjective, but this is just for fun so no worries.
Let's see how I did in two years:
Books I've read in the past two years are in bold.
From before 1700 - 3 (was 2) total
1000. Aesop's Fables - Aesupus
1001. Metamorphosis - Ovid
991. The Pilgrim's Progress
1700s: - 3 (Was 0)
985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
983. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
984. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
1800s: - 36 (Was 29)
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austin
931. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
915. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
903. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
899. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
898. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
897. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorn
896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
891. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
886. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
883. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
881. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
880. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
873. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
868. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
867. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
848. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
846. Far From the Madding Crows - Thomas Hardy
843. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
840. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
839. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
837. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
835. Ben-Hur Lew Wallace
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
808. Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
799. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
790. The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
789. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
1900s: - 43 (was 31)
785. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
784. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
780. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
761. A Room With a View - E. M. Forster
752. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
726. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses - James Joyce
722. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
717. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
704. Billy Bud, Fortetopman - Herman Melville
699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
667. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
663. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
610. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
608. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
592. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
565 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
559. The Plague - Albert Camus
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
529. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
508. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
494. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
484. One the Road - Jack Kerouac
456. To Kills a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
375. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
347. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
335. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
320. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
312. The Shining - Stephen King
291. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
227. Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
92. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
2000s: - 2
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
8. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Two years ago I had read 64 books from the list. I've now read 87. That means I read 23 books from the list in two years. I think that's pretty decent progress.
Question: How many books on this list have you read?
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel
Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
ISBN 1-84403-417-8
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