create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.

It’s been awhile since I took a look at my list, but I’ve just gone through and italicised all the books I’ve read since I started it.

And now for some more:

• 031. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• 032. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows – JK Rowling
• 033. Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
• 034. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
• 035. Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh
• 036. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
• 037. The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
• 038. Man Walks into a Room – Nicole Krauss
• 039. Sarum – Edward Rutherfurd
• 040. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

Ones I’ve read in italics.

• 021. A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
• 022. My Century – Günter Grass
• 023. The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
• 024. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
• 025. Firebird : A Memoir – Mark Doty
• 026. Liar’s Club – Mary Karr
• 027. Cherry – Mary Karr
• 028. The Boys of My Youth – Jo Ann Beard
• 029. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
• 030. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Ones I’ve read are in italics.

• 011. The Unknown Errors of Our Lives – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• 012. Mistress of Spices – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• 013. Sister of My Heart – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• 014. Arranged Marriage – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• 015. Truth & Beauty : A Friendship – Ann Patchett
• 016. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
• 017. Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
• 018. Libra – Don DeLillo
• 019. Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
• 020. 26a – Diana Evans

I’ll edit these entries as I go along. The ones I’ve read are now in italics.

• 001. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• 002. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
• 003. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• 004. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
• 005. You Shall Know Our Velocity – Dave Eggers
• 006. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
• 007. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
• 008. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
• 009. Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
• 010. Night Letters – Robert Dessaix