I hope nobody minds, but I'm going to keep track of the books I've read that appear in the 1001 list here. I did something very similar when I entered this year's "50 books" challenge, and I found it a great motivational tool - everytime I read a book I'd add another entry to the post.

Also, some of the books (okay, two) on the list, I've read but as a single volume entered here on LT. For instance, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass both make it into the 1001 list, but I've entered them as a single volume on LT, so it seems that I've read fewer than I really have.

So apologies to anyone who came to this post hoping for something profound :)

First of all, the books I've read up until now (in no particular order):

1. Money by Martin Amis
2. London Fields by Martin Amis
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
6. Regeneration by Pat Barker
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. The 39 Steps by John Buchan
9. The Outsider by Albert Camus
10. The Plague by Albert Camus
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
12. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
14. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
15. 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
16. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
17. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
18. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
19. Mao II by Don DeLillo
20. White Noise by Don DeLillo
21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
22. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
23. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
24. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
26. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
27. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
30. The Collector by John Fowles
31. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
33. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
34. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
35. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
36. Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
37. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
38. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
39. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
40. Fiesta: the sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
41. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44. Dispatches by Michael Herr
45. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
46. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
47. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
48. A Portrait of the Artistas a Young Man by James Joyce
49. The Castle by Franz Kafka
50. Amerika by Franz Kafka

51. The Trial by Franz Kafka
52. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
53. The Shining by Stephen King
54. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
55. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
56. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
57. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
58. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
59. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
60. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
61. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
62. Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
63. Animal Farm by George Orwell
64. 1984 by George Orwell
65. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
66. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
67. Don Quixote by Cervantes
68. Contact by Carl Sagan
69. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
70. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
71. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
72. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
73. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
74. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
75. Dracula by Bram Stoker
76. The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
77. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
79. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
80. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
81. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
82. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
83. Candide by Voltaire
84. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
85. The Graduate by Charles Webb
86. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
87. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
88. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
89. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
90. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
91. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
92. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
93. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
94. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
95. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm doing this too, so of course I don't mind, go ahead and just one question:

have you managed to find/read Taebeck Mountains?

96. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

Nope, haven't seen Taebeck Mountains anywhere, sadly :(

97. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

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98. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

99. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

100. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Congratulations on reaching 100. I've read 99 so far.

Thanks bookmark123!

101. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

100. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This was so enjoyable.

Hi, soylentgreen23,
I was looking over your list of books (I am only at about 45, myself), and I noticed that you have read The Quiet American. I recently saw the movie and was wondering what you thought of the book. Did you like it? Thanks for any info you have on this book!
--BJ

102. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

103. Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg
104. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

105. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

I've just read Miss Smilla's as well, what did you make of it?

106. The Immoralist by Andre Gide

107. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

108. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

109. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

110. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

111. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

112. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

113. Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide

114. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

115. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

116. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene

Okay, only 'The Third Man' is on the list, but the volume is a combined edition, since both stories became films by Carol Reed.

117. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

118. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A good book - but is it really *that* good? Or is it just on the 1001 list because of its popularity?

119. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

120. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - a justified classic, though yet another book in the 1001 collection that's arguably more famous as a film.

I'm now 120 books in. I'm not reading '1001' titles exclusively, though I should imagine I'm getting through them at roughly 20 a year; at this rate, I should be finished by the time I'm 74... assuming I'm still alive then, and that there hasn't been a new edition of '1001', and also assuming that we don't by then live in a kind of 'Matrix'-esque world where you can download things straight into your brain, thus removing any sense of challenge.

Some books from the 2008 edition:

121. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
122. A Hero of Our Time by Michail Lermontov
123. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
124. Silence by Shusako Endo
125. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
126. Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It's great that the more recent edition has such an international flavour about it - they're really my kind of books.

127. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

128. Embers by Sandor Marai

129. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Congrats on 129!

130. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

late_rose - Have you read 2666? It's an amazing book - and despite its length it only took me about ten days to read. I'm now on the lookout for others by Bolano.

no thanks on 2666. i'm reading Christy and Anna Karenina right now. also it seems to me you're just reading these old profound novels and not really digesting them.

38- wow, was that meant to be as snarky as it sounded? ;)

It certainly sounded very negative! I love reading, and spend a lot of my time engaged in my passion, so I don't think it's at all surprising that I'm moving swiftly through the classics on the 1001 list. What else am I supposed to do? Read a classic and then some trash so that I appreciate the classic all the more? It seems a bit counterproductive.

If I wanted to digest them would I first need to eat them?

131. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

I missed the signs of Soylent not digesting the books. Can you steer me to that info? It sounds juicy and oh so interesting! ;-)

132. Silas Marner by George Eliot

How was Hideous Kinky? I was thinking about buying it.

-> Sarasamsara: Hideous Kinky was great - one of the best books I've read this year. I've seen some of the other reviews here on LT, where it is suggested that the narrator is a little bit unbelievable, but if you can get past the idea that a young child can discern so much about the world (and what kind of a book would it be if she couldn't?) then you are sure to love it.

133. Junky by William S. Burroughs

134. Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
135. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

136. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

137. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

138. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker