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Kristel (kristelh) | 5190 comments Mod
Books read up to 2012. Not in order read.
1. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
8. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
10. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
11. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Murial Barbery
17. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2010 edition)
21. The Blindness of the Heart Julia Franck
22. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2010)
25. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
33. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008)
34. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
39. The Accidental by Ali Smith
33) The Sea by John Banville
34. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
35) The Plot Against America by Roth
36. The Master by Colm Toibin
37. Suite Francaise (08 edition)
42. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
45) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
49. The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
57. Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
63. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
65. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
66. In the Forest by Edna O'Brien (removed, 2008)
68. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
74. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
76) The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
79. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
80) Life of Pi by Martell
85. Atonement by Ian McEwan
87) I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
111. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothom
128. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
135) Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
136. The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
137. The Heretic by Miguel Delibes
138. The Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
147. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
155) Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
160) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
168. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
180. The Wind-Up bird Chronicle by Murakami
184. Captain Corelli's mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
188. The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
190. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
201. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
208. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
216. Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker
218. The English Patient
222. The Dumas Club (or The Club Dumas) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
223. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
225) Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
232) Wild Swans by Chang
242. Arcadia by Jim Crace
247. Regeneration, Pat Barker
247) Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
248) Amongst Women by John McGahern
250. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
251) The Things They Carried by T. O'Brien
269. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
269) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
285. The Book of Evidence by John Banville
296) Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
301. Beloved by Morrison
302. Of Love and Shadows (2008), Isabel Allende
316. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
318) The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
325. Cider House Rules by John Irving
333) Hawksmoor by P. Ackroyd
334) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
335. Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
338. White Noise by Don DeLillo
339. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
342. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
347) Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
353. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
358) The Lover by Marguerite Duras
361. Neuromancer by William Gibson
365) Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
367. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
373. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
392) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
396. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
397) The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
400. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
407) A Bend in The River by VS Naipaul
408. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
412) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
417) The World According to Garp
429. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
450. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
453. Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
458. Ragtime by E.L.Doctorow
462) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
464. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
465. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre'
466. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
467. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
477. The Optimist Daughter by Eudora Welty
478. The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi
482) Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
485. The Lives of Girls and Women
502. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
508. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
513. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
514) The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowle
518) The Godfather by Mario Puzo
528. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
541) One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez
548. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
553. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
560. The Master and margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
565. The Magus by John Fowles
577) Herzog by Saul Bellow
582) The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by leCarre
585. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
588) One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
590) The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
592) One Flew Over the Cuckoo , by Kesey
593) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
602. The Collector by John Fowles
605) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
607. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Murial Spark
610) Catch-22
620) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
621) Rabbit, Run by John Updike
627) Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
633. Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
635. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
637. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
638) Things Fall Apart
645) The Once & Future Kind by T.H. White
650. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
652. Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
654) On The Road by Jack Kerouac
658) The Wonderful O by James Thurber
667) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
668. The Devil To Pay In the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa
673. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
677. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
684) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
691. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
693. Watt by Samuel Beckett
695. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
696) Lucky Jim by Amis
697. Junky by William S. Burroughs
698. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
699. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
700. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
701) Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
702. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
704. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
705) The Old Man and the Sea
708)The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, first edition, removed
712. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
714. The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
718. Barabbas by par Lagerkvist
721. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
723) The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
728) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
735) 1984 by George Orwell
740. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
748. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
759. The Plague by Albert Camus
767. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
768) Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
773. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
777) Animal Farm by George Orwell
778. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
781. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
784. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
786. The Little Prince by Anoine de Saint-Exupery
802. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
816) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
817) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
819. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
821. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
830) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
834. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
835. At the Mountain of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
850. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
851. The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
853. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
854. Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
858. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
866. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
873. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
887. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
901. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
913. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
924.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
929. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
936. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
938. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
946. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
960. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
970. The Growth of Soil b Knut Hamsun
980. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
986. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
989. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
991. The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
992. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1000. A Room with a View by E. M. forster
1001. Tono-Bungay by H.G.Wells
1003. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1004. The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
1008. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1019. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
1025. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1037. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1033. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. by Somerville and Ross
1036. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
1038. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1039. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
1044. The Invisible man by H. G. Wells
1046. Dracula by Bram Stoker
1048. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
1049. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
1051. Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1054. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1063. The Picture of Dorian Gray
1064. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
1068. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
1073. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1085. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
1090. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
1098. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
1103. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1113. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
1118. Middlemarch by George Eliot
1121. The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
1122. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1127. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1131. Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky
1132. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
1133. The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1137. Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
1138. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1139. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
1140. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
1149. Les Misérables by Victor Hugom
1151. Silas Marner by George Eliot
1152. Great Expectations by charles Dickens
1158. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
1163. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1153. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
1156. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1159. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1163. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1164. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1166. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
1169. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
1171. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
1176. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1178. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
1180. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1183. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1189. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe
1191. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
1192. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
1193. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1197. the Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
1205. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
1206. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1209. The Last of the Mohicans by Fennimore Cooper
1211. Emma, Jane Austen
1212. Mansfield Park by Jane austen
1213. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1214. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1246. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
1250. Candide by Voltaire
1254. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
1255. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
1261. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
1262. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
1268. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
1269. The Princess de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
1270. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1274. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1277. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1277. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
1290. The Thousand and one Nights anonymous
1294. Aesop's Fables by Aesopus


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Kristel (kristelh) | 5190 comments Mod
Books read, 2014
283. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys, ★★★, 1/1/14
284. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, ★★★, 1/10/14
285. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ★★★★, 1/12/14
286. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis ★★★, 1/21/14
287. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro ★★★★, 2/5/14
288. By the Open Sea by August Strindberg ★★★★, 2/8/14
289 Alamut by Vlaimir Bartol ★★★★★, 2/14/14
290. Max Havelaar by Multatuli ★★★★, 2/21/14
291. Ignorance - Milan Kundera ★★★☆, 2/22/14
292. Timbuktu by Paul Auster ★★★, 2/22/14
293. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3/8/14
294. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3/9/14
295. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch ★★★★☆ 4/1/14
296. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna ★★ ★ ★ 4/5/14
297. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek ★★★ 4/9/14
298. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens ★★★★ 4/19/14
299. Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin ★★★★, 4/30/14
300. Snow by Orhan Pamuk ★★★ 5/15/14
301. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers ★★★★, 5/22/14
302. Grimus by Salmon Rushdie ★★★ 5/26/14
303. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti, ★★★ 5/31/14
304. The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll 5/10/14 ★★★★
305. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez 6/16/14
306. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 6/17/14 ★★★★
307. Cain by José Saramago 6/18/14 ★★★
308. The Lion of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience 6/22/14, ★★★★
309. American Pastoral - Philip Roth 7/5/14 ★★★★
310. To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia 7/7/14 ★★★☆
311. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 7/9/14 ★★★☆
312. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 7/17/14 ★★★★
313. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 7/26/14, ★★★★★
314. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 7/27/14 ★★★
315. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 8/2/14, ★★★★
316. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 8/23/14 ★★★★★
317. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski completed 9/6/14 ★★★★★
318. Waterland by Graham Swift completed 9/19/14, ★★★★
319. Remembrance of Time Past by Marcel Proust, completed 9/27/14, ★★★
320. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, ★★★★★
321. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
322. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
323. The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
324. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas
325. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
326. Late-Night News by Petros Markaris
327. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
328. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson 11/4/14, ★★★★
329. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, completed 11/15/14, ★★★★
330. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, completed 11/20/14, ★★★☆
331. The Graduate by Charles Webb, completed 11/24/14, ★★☆
332. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, 11/29/14, ★★★★☆
333. Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee, 12/6/14. ★★★★
334. Chocky by John Wyndham, 12/9/14, ★★★☆
335. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 12/16/14, ★★★★
336. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, 12/18/14, ★★★☆
337. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 12/19/14, ★★★★
338. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, 12/24/14, ★★★★
339. Dead Babies by Martin Amis, 12/24/14, ★★★☆


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Kristel (kristelh) | 5190 comments Mod
2015
340. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 1/5/15, ★★★★★
341. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand, 1/10/15, ★★★
342. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1/15/15,
343. Ulysses by James Joyce, 1/28/15, ★★★★
344. Rites of Passage by William Golding, 1/31/15, ★★★★
345. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes, 1/31/15, ★★★★
346. Blindness by Henry Green, 1/5/15, ★★★☆
347. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1/6/15, ★★★
348. Crash by J. G. Ballard, 1/6/15, ★
349. The Cathedral by Oles Honchar, COMPLETED 2/15/15, ★★★★
350. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz COMPLETED 2/26/15, ★★★★
351. Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane. COMPLETED 3/5/15 ★★★★
352. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, ★★★★
353. Living by Henry Green, ★★★★
354. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope, ★★★★
355. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, completed 4/6/15 (3.5) ★★★☆
356. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 10/19/15, ★★★
357. Howards End by E. M. Forster, 4/27/15, ★★★★
358. August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien, 5/2/15, ★★★☆
359. MurphyMurphy by Samuel Beckett, 5/4/15, ★★★
360. Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn, 5/10/15, ★★★★
361. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, 5/12/15, ★★★
362. How it Is by Samuel Beckett, 5/14/15, ★★
362. Nemesis by Philip Roth, 5/15/15, ★★★★
363. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Fantastic StoriesThe Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, 5/15/15, ★★★
364. On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin, 5/19/15, ★★★★★
365. A Voidby Georgas Perec, 5/25/15, ★★★★
366. Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camillo José Cela, 5/29/15, ★★★
367. The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd, 6/12/15 ★★★
368. Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover, 6/19/15, ★★
369. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, 6/25/15, ★★★★
370. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 6/26/15, ★★★★
371. Falling Man by Don DeLillo, 7/1/15, ★★★★
372. The Floating Opera by John Barth, 7/27/15, ★★★☆
373. Silence by Shusaku Endo, 8/1/15, ★★★☆
374. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 8/11/15, ★★★★
375. Schindler's List by Thomas Kineally, 8/13/15, ★★★★★
376. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides, 8/19/15, ★★★★★
377. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 8/22/15, ★★★★
378. The End of the Road by John Barth, 8/24/15, ★★★.
379. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter s. Thompson, ★★★
380. The Human Stain by Philip Roth, 9/4/15, ★★★★
381. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 9/7/15, ★★★★★
382. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9/7/15, ★★★
383. Persuasion by Jane Austen, 9/10/15
384. The Nose by Nikoli Gogol, 9/20/15, ★★★★
385. Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons, 9/25/15, ★★★★
386. The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjörg Wassmo, 10/10/15, ★★★★
387. The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat, 10/16/15,
388. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, 10/17/15
389. Silk by Alessandro Baricco,
390. The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck
391. The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson 11/2/15
392. 2666 by Roberto Bolano 11/2/15
393. Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
394. Couples, Passersby by Botho Strauß
395. Bel-Ami, by Maupassant, 12/12/15
396. The Dark Child by Laya, 12/16/15
397. The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Wolfe, 12/18/15
398. Bouvard and Pecuchet by Flaubert, 12/23/15, 3 stars
399. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, 12/29/15
400. On Beauty by Zadie Smith 12/30/15


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Kristel (kristelh) | 5190 comments Mod
Books read 2016
401. Freedom, 1/8/16, ★★★★
402. Complicity, 1/11/16, ★★★★
403. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. R. Tolkien
February
404. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
405. Midaq Alley, 2/08/16, ★★★★
March
406. The Radetzky March, 3/12/16 ★★★☆
407. Cloudsplitter ★★★☆
408. Faceless Killers, 3/30/16, ★★★☆
April
409. Death in Venice Thomas Mann, 4/1/16, ★★★★
410. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison, 4/6/16, ★★★★
411. Broken April Ismail Kadare, 4/23/16, ★★★★★
412 Love in a Cold Climate Nancy, Mitford 4. 24.16
413. The Player of Games, Ian Banks, 5/20/16
414. That They May Face The Rising Sun John McGahern, 5/27/16
415. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 6/7/16
416. Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, 7/2/16
417. July's People, Nadine Gordimer, 7/5/16
418. Annie John, Jamica Kincaid, 7/7/16
419. There But for the, Ali smith 8/18/16
420. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal, 9/1/16
421. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson, 9/11/16
422. The Last September, Elizabeth Bown, 9/22/16
423. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry, 9/24/16
424. The Last Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood, 10/23/16
425. The Midwich Cuckoo, John Wyndham, 10/21/16
426. Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood, 10/23/16
427. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 10/28/16
428. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 10/31/16
429. The Stranger (The Outsider), Camus, 11/5/16
430. The Colour, Rose Tremain, 11/11/16.
431. Embers, Sandor Marai, 11/17/16
432. Remembering Babylon, David Malouf, 12/10/16
433. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson, 12/17/16
434. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, 12/29/16


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Kristel (kristelh) | 5190 comments Mod
Books read in 2017
435. If On a Winter's Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino, 1/13/17
436. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2/1/17
437. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2), Douglas Adams, 2/4/17
438. Amerika Franz Kafka, 4/21/17
439. 2001 Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, 5/7/17
440. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 5/17/17
441. Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee, 5/22/17
442. Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offense, Amis Martin, 6/18/17
443. Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker, 7/4/17'
444. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 7/10/17
445. American Rust, Philipp Meyer, 7/15/17
446. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 7/28/17
447. City of God, Doctorow, 7/29/17
448. Notes from Underground. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 7/20/17
449. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 8/2/17
450. Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut, 8/12/17
451. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky, 8/18/17
452. Legend (Drenai Saga, #1), David Gemmell, 9/18/17
453. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary, 9/22/17
454. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, 10/27/17
455. World's End, T. C. Boyle, 11/27/17
456. Bleak House, Dickens, 11/30/17
457. Aesop's Fables, Aesop, 12/2/17
458. What I loved, Siri Hustvedt, 12/17/17
459. Man's Fate, Andre Malraux, 12/29/17


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Read in 2018
460. The Monk - Matthew Lewis, 1/5/2018 3.83
461. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1/9/17 3.33
462. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, 3.66
463. Passing - Nella Larsen, 4.17
464. The Third Man by Graham Greene
465. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
469. Jazz by Toni Morrison
470. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
471. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
472. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
473. Out of Africa Izak Dinesen
474. A Ballad for Georg Henig by Victor Paskow
475. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernieres
476. Giovanni's Room by james Balwin
478. Survival in Auschwitz also known as If This is a Man by Primo Levi
479. Pastoralia by George Saunders
480. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandra Dumas
481. Justine by Lawrence Durrell
482. The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
483. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
484. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
485. Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
486. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
487. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
488. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
489. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Shelby Jr
490. Unless by Carol Shields
491. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
492. Libra by Don DeLillo
493. Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
494. The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings
495. Hunger by Knut Hamsum
496. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
497. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
498. Sula by Toni Morrison
499. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
500. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
501. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
502. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
503. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
504. The Iron Heel - Jack London
506. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
507. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
508. The Light of Day by Graham Swift
509. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Walters
509. Pierre and Jean by Guy deMaupassant It really is 509. removed rereads.


MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) This is such a great accomplishment !
You really inspire me.


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MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "This is such a great accomplishment !
You really inspire me."

Thanks, happy to be an inspiration! It would be nice to make it to 500 books off the list.


MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) And I am betting you will make it to 500!


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MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "And I am betting you will make it to 500!"

LOL, I should have qualified 500 this year. That will be a harder goal. I think I can make 500 before I die.


MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) Kristel wrote: "MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "And I am betting you will make it to 500!"

LOL, I should have qualified 500 this year. That will be a harder goal. I think I can make 500 before I die."


;-)


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464. Cat’s Cradle, 3.5 stars
465. Kitchen, 4.17 stars
466. Jazz 4.3 stars
467. The Third Man 4.2 stars

Rank order
Jazz 4.3 stars
The Third Man 4.2
Kitchen 4.17
Passing 4.17
The Monk 3.83
Women in Love, 3.66
The House of The Seven Gables, 3.33


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March books read/rating.
468. The Crying of Lot 49, 3.83
469. City Primeval, 3.92
470. Blonde, 3.67
471. Out of Africa 3.83
472. The Ballad of Georg Henig 4.5
473. Giovanni's Room, 4.3

Rank:
The Ballad of Georg Henig, 4.5
Giovanni's Room 4.3
City Primeval, 3.92
The Crying of Lot 49, 3.83
Out of Africa 3.83
Blonde 3.67


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April's Books
474. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, 3.5


message 15: by Kristel (last edited Dec 07, 2020 06:15AM) (new)

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Books Read in 2019
510. Americanah - Adichie
511. A Severed Head - Murdoch
512. after the quake by Murakami
513. London Fields by Martin Amis
514. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
515. Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
516. A Dry White Season by Brink
517. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
518. Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
519. Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey
520. Drop City
525. The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst
526. The Portrait of a Lady
527. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
528. Cider House Rules by John Irving
529. Pale Fire by Nabokov
530. Trawl by B. s. Johnson
531. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
532. Born in Exile George Gissing
533. Summer by Edith Wharton
534. Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
535. Loving by Henry Green
536. Another World by Pat Barker
537. They Shoot Horses, Don't They by Horace McCoy
538. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
539 Deep River by Shusaku Endo
540. The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark
541. Emma by Jane Austen
542. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot


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Books Read in 2020
Read
543. Century of Wind volume 3 of Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano completed, started in 2019
544. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
545. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Jan TBR takedown)
546. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (Jan BOTM)
545. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
546. Germinal by Zola
547. Vathek by William Beckford
548. Amok by Stefan Zweig
549. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
560. Midnight Examiner by Kotzwinkle
561. Invisible by Paul Auster
562. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
563. The Go-Between by Hartley
564. The Great Indian Novel
565. The Glimpses of the Moon by
566. The Razor's Edge by Maugham
567. Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol Oates
568. A Heart So White by Javiar Marias
569. Austerlitz by Sebald
570. Where Angels Fear to Tread by Forster
571. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
572. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
573. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
574. She: a history of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
475. Gulliver's Travels
576. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
577. High Rise by Ballard
578. Contact by Carl Sagan
579. The Breast by Phillip Roth
580. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimeer McBride
581. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
582. Adam Bede by George Eliot
583. Melmoth the Wanderer by
584. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
585. The Sea, the Sea
586. Our Mutual Friend
Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Journey to the West
587. Martin Fiero


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1001 Books Read in 2021.
588. In a Free State Naipaul
589. Brighton Rock Greene
590. The Power and the Glory Greene
591. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
592. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
593. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
594. The Sound and the Fury by Wm Faulkner
595. Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
596. The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
597. Eugenia Grandet by Honore de Balzac
598. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
599. Une Vie by de Maupassant
600. Monkey
601. Orlando by Woolf
602. Old Masters: A Comedy
603. Group Portrait with Lady by Boll
604. The Shining by King
605. The Enigma of Arrival by Naipaul


MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) Proud of you! Almost to 600! Keep up the great work !


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MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "Proud of you! Almost to 600! Keep up the great work !"
Thank you but this is just to end of 2020.


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