lindapanzo's attempt at the 1,001 books list
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1lindapanzo
Hello. In recent years, I find I rarely stray out of my usual comfort reading zone, mainly reading mysteries, sports books, and history.
I'm here to hope to change that, at least somewhat.
If a book is on any of the 1,000 books to read before you die, I'll consider it.
Total Books Read--75--as of December 31, 2023
I'm here to hope to change that, at least somewhat.
If a book is on any of the 1,000 books to read before you die, I'll consider it.
Total Books Read--75--as of December 31, 2023
2lindapanzo
The following lists are books I've completed from the 1,001 lists. Not very many at this point, sadly.
Pre-1800 Books--0 books (as of 4/28/22)
Pre-1800 Books--0 books (as of 4/28/22)
3lindapanzo
Books from the 1800's--20 books (as of 4/28/22)
* Jane Austen--Persuasion (read in 2017)
* Jane Austen--Pride and Prejudice (read in 1986)
* Honore de Balzac--Pere Goriot (read in 1980)
* Charles Dickens--Bleak House (read in 2014)
* Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol (read in 2010)
* Charles Dickens--David Copperfield (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Great Expectations (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Hard Times (read in 1980)
* Charles Dickens--A Tale of Two Cities (read in 1977)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment (read in 1978)
* Gustave Flaubert--Madame Bovary
* Gustave Flaubert--Sentimental Education
* Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
* Nikolai Gogol--Dead Souls
* Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Scarlett Letter
* Victor Hugo--Les Miserables
* Harriett Beecher Stowe--Uncle Tom's Cabin
* Henry David Thoreau--Walden (read in 2000)
* Leo Tolstoy--Anna Karenina
* H.G. Wells--The War of the Worlds
* Jane Austen--Persuasion (read in 2017)
* Jane Austen--Pride and Prejudice (read in 1986)
* Honore de Balzac--Pere Goriot (read in 1980)
* Charles Dickens--Bleak House (read in 2014)
* Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol (read in 2010)
* Charles Dickens--David Copperfield (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Great Expectations (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Hard Times (read in 1980)
* Charles Dickens--A Tale of Two Cities (read in 1977)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment (read in 1978)
* Gustave Flaubert--Madame Bovary
* Gustave Flaubert--Sentimental Education
* Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
* Nikolai Gogol--Dead Souls
* Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Scarlett Letter
* Victor Hugo--Les Miserables
* Harriett Beecher Stowe--Uncle Tom's Cabin
* Henry David Thoreau--Walden (read in 2000)
* Leo Tolstoy--Anna Karenina
* H.G. Wells--The War of the Worlds
4lindapanzo
Books from 1900 to 1949--24 books read (as of Feb 2023)
* Saul Bellow--Dangling Man
* Albert Camus--The Plague
* Agatha Christie--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (read in 2002)
* Theodore Dreiser--Sister Carrie
* William Faulkner--The Sound and the Fury
* F. Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby
* Andre Gide--The Immoralist
* Dashiell Hammett--The Maltese Falcon (read in 2000)
* Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man (read in February 2023)
* Ernest Hemmingway--The Sun Also Rises
* Aldous Huxley--Brave New World
* Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
* Margaret Mitchell--Gone With the Wind
* George Orwell--Animal Farm
* George Orwell--Nineteen Eighty-Four
* Erich Maria Remarque--All Quiet on the Western Front
* Dorothy L. Sayers--Murder Must Advertise
* Dorothy L. Sayers--The Nine Tailors
* Upton Sinclair--The Jungle (read in 1977)
* John Steinbeck--Cannery Row
* John Steinbeck--The Grapes of Wrath
* J.R.R. Tolkein--The Hobbit (read in 1982)
* Nathanael West--Miss Lonelyhearts (read in 1983)
* Richard Wright--Native Son (read in 1976)
* Saul Bellow--Dangling Man
* Albert Camus--The Plague
* Agatha Christie--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (read in 2002)
* Theodore Dreiser--Sister Carrie
* William Faulkner--The Sound and the Fury
* F. Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby
* Andre Gide--The Immoralist
* Dashiell Hammett--The Maltese Falcon (read in 2000)
* Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man (read in February 2023)
* Ernest Hemmingway--The Sun Also Rises
* Aldous Huxley--Brave New World
* Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
* Margaret Mitchell--Gone With the Wind
* George Orwell--Animal Farm
* George Orwell--Nineteen Eighty-Four
* Erich Maria Remarque--All Quiet on the Western Front
* Dorothy L. Sayers--Murder Must Advertise
* Dorothy L. Sayers--The Nine Tailors
* Upton Sinclair--The Jungle (read in 1977)
* John Steinbeck--Cannery Row
* John Steinbeck--The Grapes of Wrath
* J.R.R. Tolkein--The Hobbit (read in 1982)
* Nathanael West--Miss Lonelyhearts (read in 1983)
* Richard Wright--Native Son (read in 1976)
5lindapanzo
Books from 1950 to 1999--25 books read (as of 4/28/22)
* Margaret Atwood--The Handmaid's Tale
* Saul Bellow--Herzog
* Saul Bellow--Seize the Day
* Heinrich Boll--Billiards at Half Past Nine
* Breakfast at Tiffany's--Truman Capote
* E.L. Doctorow--Billy Bathgate
* E.L. Doctorow--Ragtime
* Ralph Ellison--Invisible Man
* Laura Esquivel--Like Water for Chocolate
* Gunter Grass--The Tin Drum
* Ernest Hemingway--The Old Man and the Sea
* Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
* Milan Kundera--The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
* Milan Kundera--The Joke
* Harper Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird
* Cormac McCarthy--All the Pretty Horses (read in 2014)
* Joyce Carol Oates--Them
* J.D. Salinger--The Catcher in the Rye
* The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--The First Circle
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
* Donna Tartt--The Secret History
* John Updike--Rabbit, Run
* Kurt Vonnegut--God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
* Tom Wolfe--The Bonfire of the Vanities
* Margaret Atwood--The Handmaid's Tale
* Saul Bellow--Herzog
* Saul Bellow--Seize the Day
* Heinrich Boll--Billiards at Half Past Nine
* Breakfast at Tiffany's--Truman Capote
* E.L. Doctorow--Billy Bathgate
* E.L. Doctorow--Ragtime
* Ralph Ellison--Invisible Man
* Laura Esquivel--Like Water for Chocolate
* Gunter Grass--The Tin Drum
* Ernest Hemingway--The Old Man and the Sea
* Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
* Milan Kundera--The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
* Milan Kundera--The Joke
* Harper Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird
* Cormac McCarthy--All the Pretty Horses (read in 2014)
* Joyce Carol Oates--Them
* J.D. Salinger--The Catcher in the Rye
* The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--The First Circle
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
* Donna Tartt--The Secret History
* John Updike--Rabbit, Run
* Kurt Vonnegut--God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
* Tom Wolfe--The Bonfire of the Vanities
6lindapanzo
Books from the 2000's--6 books read (as of 4/29/22)
* Drop City by T.C. Boyle
* Junot Diaz--The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (read in 2017)
* Mark Haddon--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (read in 2010)
* Chad Harbach--The Art of Fielding (read in 2012)
* Phillip Roth--The Plot Against America (read in 2005)
* Ali Smith--Winter (read in 2021)
* Drop City by T.C. Boyle
* Junot Diaz--The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (read in 2017)
* Mark Haddon--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (read in 2010)
* Chad Harbach--The Art of Fielding (read in 2012)
* Phillip Roth--The Plot Against America (read in 2005)
* Ali Smith--Winter (read in 2021)
7lindapanzo
Only 74 books read, so far. I think this is now a pretty complete list for me, as of now.
Books I'll add, hopefully in the near future, include:
--Summer by Edith Wharton
--The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
--The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
--The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Books I'll add, hopefully in the near future, include:
--Summer by Edith Wharton
--The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
--The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
--The Red and the Black by Stendhal
8annamorphic
Welcome to the group! 63 seems like a good start. Including a LOT of Dickens.
9puckers
Welcome. Nice selection of books so far. Hope you enjoy the trip outside your comfort zone!
10lindapanzo
>8 annamorphic: >9 puckers: Thanks for the welcome!!
I've been keeping track of my reading since 1976. It started as a high school class project so I can see what I've read. No doubt I've missed a few (Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine springs to mind).
I'm sure I won't go full tilt on the 1,001 books but if I can read one a month or 3 per quarter, I can make a good start.
I've been keeping track of my reading since 1976. It started as a high school class project so I can see what I've read. No doubt I've missed a few (Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine springs to mind).
I'm sure I won't go full tilt on the 1,001 books but if I can read one a month or 3 per quarter, I can make a good start.
11DeltaQueen50
Good luck on your reading goals, Linda. Of your immediate list to read I have read 4. I loved The Postman Always Rings Twice, it's one of my favorite books. I also enjoyed The Thin Man but not as much as the movie. I usually find that Edith Wharton is highly readable and I enjoyed Summer.
I read Robinson Crusoe many years ago and credit it as one of the books that gave me a love for survival stories.
I read Robinson Crusoe many years ago and credit it as one of the books that gave me a love for survival stories.
12lindapanzo
>11 DeltaQueen50: Judy, I know that, for TIOLI, I usually look at your choices for a share, usually the mysteries. I think I've got a western and a mystery for May to share. Now I'll have to look at your 1,001 choices for a share.
13japaul22
Welcome! I recognize you from the Category Challenge and glad to see you here as well! My reading from the list has slowed in the past couple years, but I still have many books from the list that I intend to get to and this is a really fun group to be a part of!
14Helenliz
Welcome in! 65 is a pretty good start.
Of your upcoming list, I've rad 2. Robinson Crusoe wasn't what I expected from what I thought I knew of it. And I adored Remains of the day.
Of your upcoming list, I've rad 2. Robinson Crusoe wasn't what I expected from what I thought I knew of it. And I adored Remains of the day.
15DeltaQueen50
>12 lindapanzo: I'm happy to have the company. I couldn't believe it when I checked and saw that two people are going to join in with my Louis L'Amour read!
16FAMeulstee
Welcome, Linda.
65 books read from the various lists is a nice start. I hope this group helps to read some more.
65 books read from the various lists is a nice start. I hope this group helps to read some more.
17lindapanzo
It's been quite some time since I read one of the books on the list but I just started The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. Hoping to start a new trend for myself.
