You may have noticed* I borrowed 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die from Surry Hills Library. Now I have been reading for the best part of sixty years, so I don’t have much time left. How am I going? How many of the 1001 have I managed?
Here is a list of the ones I have read, as distinct from read about.
Author
|
Title
|
Aesop |
Aesop’s Fables (some) |
Ovid |
Metamorphoses (some, and in Latin!) |
Apuleius |
The Golden Ass |
|
The Arabian Nights (some) |
Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
Bunyan |
The Pilgrim’s Progress |
Swift |
The Tale of a Tub |
Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe |
Moll Flanders |
Swift |
Gulliver’s Travels |
Swift |
A Modest Proposal |
Fielding |
Joseph Andrews |
Richardson |
Pamela |
Richardson |
Clarissa (one volume out of four!) |
Smollett |
Roderick Random |
Fielding |
Tom Jones |
Smollett |
Peregrine Pickle |
Fielding |
Amelia |
Voltaire |
Candide |
Rousseau |
Emile |
Sterne |
Tristram Shandy |
Sterne |
A Sentimental Journey |
Smollett |
Humphrey Clinker |
Austen |
Sense and Sensibility |
Austen |
Pride and Prejudice |
Austen |
Mansfield Park |
Austen |
Emma |
Scott |
Rob Roy |
Austen |
Persuasion |
Austen |
Northanger Abbey |
Shelley |
Frankenstein |
Scott |
Ivanhoe |
Hogg |
The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner |
Cooper |
The Last of the Mohicans |
Hugo |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Dickens |
Oliver Twist |
Dickens |
Nicholas Nickleby |
Poe |
The Fall of the House of Usher |
Dickens |
A Christmas Carol |
Poe |
The Pit and the Pendulum |
Poe |
The Purloined Letter |
Dumas |
The Three Musketeers |
Dumas |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
C Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
E Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
Dickens |
David Copperfield |
Hawthorne |
The Scarlet Letter (as did The Rabbit 🙂 ) |
Melville |
Moby Dick |
Dickens |
Bleak House |
Dickens |
Hard Times |
Gaskell |
North and South |
Dickens |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Eliot |
The Mill on the Floss |
Dickens |
Great Expectations |
Eliot |
Silas Marner |
Carroll |
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass |
Trollope |
The Last Chronicles of Barset |
Collins |
The Moonstone |
Tolstoy |
War and Peace |
Eliot |
Middlemarch |
Le Fanu |
In a Glass Darkly |
Verne |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
Eliot |
Daniel Deronda |
Hardy |
The Return of the Native |
James |
The Portrait of a Lady |
Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
Tolstoy |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Twain |
Huckleberry Finn |
Haggard |
King Solomon’s Mines |
Stevenson |
Kidnapped |
Stevenson |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
Haggard |
She |
Stevenson |
The Master of Ballantrae |
Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Hardy |
Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
Doyle |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Wells |
The Time Machine |
Stoker |
Dracula |
James |
The Turn of the Screw |
Conrad |
Lord Jim |
Kipling |
Kim |
Doyle |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
Childers |
The Riddle of the Sands |
Conrad |
Nostromo |
That’s enough for now. I’ll explore the rest of the 20th (and even the 21st) century in another post!
Observant people will note some surprising gaps there…
* 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ed by Peter Boxall with an Australian preface by Jennifer Byrne (ABC 2006). You can see the list on that link. I am enjoying it.
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Hello, you have nice blog here.
I think as long as you have passion to read, it’s been great. 🙂
sakuralady
July 15, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I’d find that list a lot less irritating if it would only be honest and call itself “1001 works of fiction mostly from 1700 onwards with a few token items that aren’t fiction”.
By my count I’ve read, or attempted to read 118 of those titles and have another 15 waiting on my shelves to be read. Once upon a time I’d have found that more troubling than I do now.
James Russell
July 16, 2007 at 5:21 pm
if you are interested, Arukiyomi has prepared a spreadsheet for you to chart your progress…
http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books
enjoy!
Arukiyomi
June 17, 2008 at 6:37 pm