Read the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

So I’ve been slacking on updating my progress. I’ve been keeping up with my list though. Here’s what I’ve completed since my last entry on 12-8-09. I’ve read another 49 books, brining the grand total to 103. I sure am getting my tax dollars’ worth from my local library!

-The Collector – John Fowles
-Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
-The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
-Silk – Alessandro Baricco
-Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
-The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
-Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
-Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
-I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
-The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
-The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
-The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
-All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
-The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
-To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
-Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
-Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
-The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
-Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
-Kim – Rudyard Kipling
-Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
-Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
-The Shining – Stephen King
-The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
-The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
-The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
-Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
-King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
-Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
-The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
-The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
-The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
-Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
-Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
-Justine – Marquis de Sade
-Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
-Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
-Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
-Atonement – Ian McEwan
-The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
-Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

Finished last night. Easily read, and quite enjoyable. A story of drunkeness, life, and love.

Finished four days ago. Very cleverly written. This is actually six stories that are told in a sort of stair-step fashion. Each era in which the story exists has its own unique style and verbiage. Complete with a twist.

Done mid-last week. This book was incredibly creepy. The main role was a filthy pervert, but the story was beautifully written. Nabokov is a very talented writer, but I think he’s got a few screws loose.

Done last night. Very enjoyable throughout. It was one jam-packed day!

Great read. I’m a big fan of the flick, so checking out the book was fun. The perspective from which the story is told adds a whole new depth.

Finished 5 days ago. It took a few pages to become accustomed to the lingo. The story was dark, but great. I’ll have to check out the movie to see how it compares.

Finished 9 days ago. Intensely strange. Rushdie sure jumps around in this one. It was wacky, and a little long, but okay nonetheless.

Completed a few days ago. Pretty good. The story jumped around a bit, but it was all within context.

Finished last night. Definitely a different one. Very topical for when it was written.