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

The list has been updated! There have been about 250 change-outs, carrying with it a third on my accomplishments on this list! Including Adjunct. Have you read Adjunct? It’s a PAIN! And so much Rushdie and Lawrence has been taken out. I don’t know what is new on the list as I am having trouble getting the spreadsheet to download. I should have that figured out soon, though, as my awesome sweetums in on the case.

The good news is that a third of the books I’ve already read i=on the list is still a pretty small number, sooooo…..Back to the book mines!

And I’ve read 3 more in the past 4 months, bringing my total to 57. Not exactly on the 20-a-year plan, am I? Strangely enough, the rate I need to read them is holding at 20 a year!

Most recently, I’ve read:

The Passion by Winterson (truly wonderful)
The Virgin Suicides by Eugenides (AWESOME!)
A Severed Head by Murdoch (strange but enjoyable)

Currently, I’m reading:

Rabbit is Rich by Updike
The Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft

And then I will be getting to Midnight’s Children by Rushdie

It seems, as a western woman of my particular age, I need to read 20 a year to achieve this goal. Although I have already read 36 books this year, very few were on this list. But I did get a few down!

you can go to my lists. I’ts better than typing a bunch out and there’s pictures!

21. The Story of O – Paulone Reage
22. Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice
23. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
24. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
25. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
26. The Great Gatsby – F. Scitt Fitzgerald
27. The Trial – Franz Kafka
28. The Magus – John Fowles
29. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
30. Howard’s End – E.M. Forster
31. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
32. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
33. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
34. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
35. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
36. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
37. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
38. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
39. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
40. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

I will post it in bunches of 20 per entry, so there will not be alot of entries as yet :)

1. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
2. Unless – Carol Shields
3. Fury – Salman Rushdie
4. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
5. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
6. The bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
7. 1984 – George Orwell
8. Animal Farm – George Orwell
9. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
11. Perfume – Partick Suskind
12. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
14. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
16. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
17. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
18. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
19. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
20. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

I have a count at home. I’ll bring it in and post what I’ve read to far.