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Books #200 through 400:214. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy ADDED 2/2/2014
215. A Heart So White Javier Marias ADDED 6/5/2015
218. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ADDED 9/15/2021
223. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg ADDED 2/21/21
224. The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe ADDED 4/29/2017
238. Faceless Killers Henning Mankell ADDED 9/29/2013
251. The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien ADDED 6/4/2014
261. London Fields by Martin Amis ADDED 1/16/2019
292. Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto ADDED 9/13/2012
301. Beloved by Toni Morrison
304. World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle ADDED 11/26/2019
325. The Cider House Rules John Irving ADDED 9/28/2012
329. Contact Carl Sagan ADDED 5/26/2012
334. The Handmaid's Tale ADDED 2/12/2018
336. Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang ADDED 12/20/2022
349. The Wasp Factory Iain Banks ADDED 8/8/17
350. Neuromancer William Gibson ADDED 8/3/2013
364. Waterland Graham Swift ADDED 1/12/2015
373. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
376. Schindler's List Thomas Keneally ADDED 11/28/2013 (AKA Schindler's Ark)
379. On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin ADDED 5/24/2015
381. July's People Nadine Gordimer ADDED 7/27/2016
391. Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee ADDED 1/26/2015
394. Broken April Ismail Kadare ADDED 4/30/2016
397. A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole ADDED 1/1/2014
Books #400 through 600:405. A Dry White Season by Andre Brink ADDED 4/14/2019
407. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul ADDED 10/28/2019
411. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino ADDED 1/21/2016
412. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ADDED 11/27/2012
417. The World According to Garp by John Irving
425. The Shining by Stephen King
427. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ADDED 6/24/2016
429. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison ADDED 11/24/2012
435. Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig ADDED 6/6/2014
456. The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna ADDED 5/08/14
458. Ragtime E. L. Doctorow ADDED 9/1/2017
462. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll ADDED 4/5/2015
464. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. La Guin ADDED 2/15/2019
474. The Black Prince Iris Murdoch ADDED 7/6/2014
476. Invisible Cities Italo Calvino ADDED 12/23/2013
481. G. John Berger ADDED 1/23/2022
490. The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs ADDED 2/3/23
495. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison ADDED 10/10/2016
514. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles ADDED 12/3/2019
518. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
524. Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ADDED 2/17/2015
527. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
528. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) Philip K. Dick ADDED 8/3/2015
541. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez ADDED 8/6/2012
553. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
563. August is a Wicked Month Edna O'Brien ADDED 8/21/2016
565. Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor ADDED 3/19/2013
575. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe ADDED 7/22/2017
588. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ADDED 9/19/2015
592. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey ADDED 7/28/2015
593. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess ADDED 5/28/2015
Book #600 through 800:601. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein ADDED 10/6/2013
610. Catch-22 Joseph Heller ADDED 2/23/2015
617. The Country Girls Edna O'Brien ADDED 5/10/2014
620. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee ADDED 12/21/2013
629. Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow ADDED 3/5/2013
635. The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ADDED 1/28/2017
636. The Guide R. K. Narayan ADDED 8/28/2013
638. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe ADDED 12/11/2012
640. Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada ADDED 8/3/2022
660. Giovanni's Room James Baldwin ADDED 1/23/2022
665. The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
666. The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith ADDED 2/26/2018
680. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima ADDED 1/16/2013
682. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan ADDED 2/22/2018
684. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
686. Story of O Pauline Reage ADDED 5/22/2017
687. A Ghost At Noon Alberto Moravia ADDED 11/2/2012
689. The Dark Child Camara Laye ADDED 2/11/2016
699. The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow ADDED 5/21/2012
704. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ADDED 4/14/2022
705. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway ADDED 2/16/2018
710. The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham ADDED 10/20/2012
714. Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger ADDED 6/21/2013
720. The Abbot C Georges Bataille ADDED 2/23/2023
723. The 13 Clocks James Thurber ADDED 5/4/2012
726. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute ADDED 2/14/2018
731. Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford ADDED 12/31/2012
732. The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton ADDED 6/8/2012
735. 1984 by George Orwell REREAD 1/5 2018
746. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz ADDED 6/12/2016
755. Back by Henry Green ADDED9/27/2021
756. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis ADDED 4/19/2013
766. Animal Farm by George Orwell
767. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck ADDED 7/20/2012
768. The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford ADDED 1/7/2013
775. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery ADDED 3/29/2013
780. Embers Sandor Marai ADDED 11/28/16
796. Native Son Richard Wright ADDED 4/22/2015
Book #800 through #1000802. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck REREAD 10/27/2012
805. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ADDED 04/11/2013
810. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier reread ADDED 10/25/2016
816. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ADDED 3/10/2023
817. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
819. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
830. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
833. Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson ADDED 11/21/2017
840. They Shoot Horses, Don't They Horace McCoy ADDED 12/12/2017
850. The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain ADDED 4/9/2013
851. Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller ADDED 9/14/2012
856. Call It Sleep Henry Roth ADDED 9/23/2013
866. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
869. The Radetzky March Joseph Roth ADDED 3/28/2016
873. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett ADDED 12/19/2012
886. Passing Nella Larsen ADDED 10/1/2014
889. Red Harvest Dashiell Hemmett ADDED 10/16/2018
892. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque ADDED 9/12/2016
894. The Last September Elizabeth Bowen ADDED 9/29/2016
907. Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh ADDED 12/28/2016
910. Steppenwolf Herman Hesse ADDED 10/31/2013
916. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway ADDED 9/19/2014
922. The Plumed Serpent D. H. Lawrence ADDED 2/25/2017
928. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf ADDED 12/9/2012
929. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ADDED 7/29/2012
931. The Trial Franz Kafka ADDED 11/22/2013
933. The Professor's House Willa Cather ADDED 5/29/2018
943. Antic Hay Aldous Huxley ADDED 10/18/2013
946. The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield ADDED 1/3/2014 (The Garden Party and Other Stories)
973. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela ADDED 5/27/2013
975. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ADDED 4/8/2012
982. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan ADDED 4/10/2015
990. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann ADDED 6/30/2016
991. The Charwoman's Daughter James Stephens ADDED 8/17/2012
992. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton ADDED 9/14/2012
Book #1000 and above:1008. The Jungle Upton Sinclair ADDED 3/20/2014 REREAD 6/29/2016
1019. The Call of the Wild Jack London ADDED 5/17/2017
1026. The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ADDED 8/6/2013
1036. The Awakening Kate Chopin ADDED 8/20/2014
1040. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells ADDED 10/28/2018
1044. The Invisible Man H. G. Wells ADDED 9/23/2012
1046. Dracula by Bram Stoker ADDED 3/15/21
1048. The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells ADDED 10/31/2016
1054. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman ADDED 5/28/2012
1061. Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy ADDED 6/29/2015
1063. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde ADDED 2/12/2022
1079. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Lewis Stevenson ADDED 10/14/2016
1084. Germinal Emile Zola ADDED 2/18/2014
1085. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ADDED 1/22/2024
1097. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
1103. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy ADDED 9/25/2016
1110. The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert ADDED 2/17/2013
1111. Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1118. Middlemarch George Eliot ADDED 1/17/2014
1119. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll ADDED 3/13/1021
1127. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins ADDED 2/27/2017
1128. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ADDED 9/17/2020
1131. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne REREAD 8/3/2012
1133. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ADDED 3/13/2021
1136. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky ADDED 6/26/2013
1138. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ADDED 8/10/2019
1139. Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev ADDED 6/27/2012
1140. Silas Marner George Eliot ADDED 12/25/2016
1147. The Woman in White Wilke Collins ADDED 3/28/2016
1148. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ADDED 10/31/23
1152. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ADDED 7/26/23
1158. Villette Charlotte Bronte ADDED 2/7/2019
1160. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (ADDED 2/5/22)
1161. The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne ADDED 7/30/2013
1164. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne ADDED 10/16/2015
1169. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1171. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1172. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray ADDED 6/24/2014
1173. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas ADDED 8/23/2017
1177. The Three Muskateers Alexandre Dumas ADDED 7/23/2022
1180. The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe ADDED 7/2/2013
1182. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens ADDED 2/20/2016
1183. Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol ADDED 2/19/2016
1187. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe ADDED 7/2/2013
1192 Pere Goriot Honore de Ba;zac ADDED 6/23/2024
1206. Frankenstein Mary Shelley ADDED 6/21/2012
1207. Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 12/28/2019
1211. Emma Jane Austen ADDED 5/16/2014
1213. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen ADDED 3/19/2015
1246. The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole ADDED 9/15/2012
1275. The Golden Ass Apuleius ADDED 3/23/2017
1294. Aesop's Fables Aesop ADDED 11/16/2015
1316. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
1317 Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
1318. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
From the 10 books added in 2018:
1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ADDED 12/29/14
2. The Circle by Dave Eggers ADDED 5/24/2019
3. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ADDED 5/22/15
4. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner ADDED 3/6/2020
5. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride ADDED 7/23/20
6. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald ADDED 2/18/16
7. 10:04 by Ben Lerner ADDED 10/5/20
8. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
9. Winter by Ali Smith
10. H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
From the 11 new books that were added in 2012:
1. The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes ADDED 3/2/2013
2. A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan ADDED 3/26/2015
3. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides ADDED 4/30/2015
4. Freedom Jonathan Frazen ADDED 3/29/2020
5. The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach ADDED 4/18/2013
6. The History of Love Nicole Krauss ADDED 11/24/2013
7. Lorrie Moore: A Gate at the Stairs ADDED 4/29/2020
8. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami ADDED 8/21/2019
9. Philip Roth: Nemesis ADDED 3/1/2021
10. José Saramago: Cain ADDED 5/10/21
11. Ali Smith: There but for the
Books #1 through 200:
1. Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery ADDED 12/28/2012
11. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz ADDED 8/25/2015
14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid ADDED 9/15/2013
15. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamando Ngozi Adichie ADDED 4/13/2021
17. The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai ADDED 7/17/2015
19. Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland ADDED 11/5/2013
23. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro ADDED 6/18/2012
24. Saturday Ian McEwan ADDED 2/10/2016
29. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst ADDED 1/7/2020
38. The Swarm by Frank Schatzing ADDED 1224/2022
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
46. Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle ADDED 7/21/2012
47. The Colour Rose Tremain ADDED 1/17/2016
54. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri ADDED 10/22/2013
63. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safron Foer ADDED 11/22/2018
65. That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern ADDED 3/28/2013 REREAD 5/28/2016
68. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ADDED 4/3/2019
74. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ADDED 9/20/21
79. Choke Chuck Palahniuk ADDED 5/17/2016
80. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
81. The Book of Illusions Paul Auster ADDED 8/30/2012
85. Atonement Ian McEwan
86. Soldiers of Salamis Javier Cercas ADDED 10/7/2012
91. The Devil and Miss Prym ADDED 9/28/19
99. The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood ADDED 3/15/2013
102. Ignorance Milan Kundera ADDED 2/23/2014
107. House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski ADDED 6/24/2016
109. Pastoralia George Saunders ADDED 6/11/2013
118. As If I am Not There or S.: A Novel About the Balkans Slavenka Drakulic ADDED 9/23/2019
134. The Hours by Michael Cunningham ADDED 9/10/2021
136. Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
137. Crossfire Miyuki Miyabe ADDED 12/4/2012
138. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
139. Great Apes Will Self ADDED 2/6/2013
140. Enduring Love Ian McEwen ADDED 9/27/2016
144. The Life of Insects Victor Pelevin ADDED 2/19/2014
147. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy ADDED 11/21/2016
148. American Pastoral Phillip Roth ADDED 8/3/2014
155. Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels ADDED 3/27/2014
168. The Reader Bernhard Schlink ADDED 8/17/2016
184. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres ADDED 10/29/19
188. The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm ADDED 8/19/2012
189. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima ADDED 3/9/2015
190. The Shipping News Annie Proulx
191. Trainspotting Irvine Welsh ADDED 3/31/2015
192. Birdsong Sebastian Faulks ADDED 6/30/17
Original Note from April 2012: Not too bad--I've read 28 and there are a handful of others that I think I've read but would have to read again to be sure I wasn't thinking I read them but only saw the movie!! A long way to go and I'm already old. I'd better get to reading!