Reading 1001 discussion

Read before joining Goodreads and need to re-read.

1. Samuel Richardson – Clarissa.
2. John Cleland – Fanny Hill.
3. Charlotte Lennox – The Female Quixote.
4. Frances Burney – Evelina.
5. Choderlos de Laclos – Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
6. Frances Burney – Cecilia.
7. Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho.
8. Matthew Lewis – The Monk.
9. Victor Hugo – Notre Dame de Paris.
10. Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers.
11. Alexandre Dumas – La Reine Margot.
12. Charlotte Brontë – Villette.
13. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables.
14. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina.
15. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
16. Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure.
17. Bram Stoker – Dracula.
18. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby.
19. Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse.
20. Virginia Woolf – Orlando.
21. Graham Greene – Brighton Rock.
22. George Orwell – 1984.
23. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings.
24. Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar.
25. John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
26. Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire.
27. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
28. Graham Swift – Waterland.
29. Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory.
30. Jeanette Winterson – Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.
31. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera.
32. Toni Morrison – Beloved.
33. Ian McEwan – The Child in Time.
34. Salman Rushdie – The Satantic Verses.
35. Umberto Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum.
36. A.S. Byatt – Possession.
37. Jung Chang – Wild Swans.
38. Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient.
39. Margaret Atwood – The Robber Bride.
40. Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things.
41. J.G. Ballard – Super Cannes.
42. Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin.
43. Paulo Coelho – The Devil and Miss Prym.
44. Yann Martel – Life of Pi.
45. Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses.
46. A.S. Byatt – The Children’s Book

1001 books read in no particular order since I joined Goodreads up to 31/12/2019. (Re-read means that I first read it before joining Goodreads and have since re-read it):
1. Ovid – Metamorphoses. 5 stars.
2. Apuleius – The Golden Ass. 5 stars.
3. John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress. 4 stars.
4. Madame de La Fayette - La Princesse De Clèves. 4 stars.
5. Eliza Haywood – Love in Excess. 4 stars.
6. Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels. 3 stars.
7. Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal. 3 stars. (Re-read)
8. Alexander Pope et al – Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. 3 stars.
9. Samuel Richardson – Pamela. 5 stars.
10. Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto. 3 stars. (Re-read).
11. Laurence Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. 3 stars.
12. The Marquis de Sade – Justine. 3 stars.
13. Frances Burney – Camilla. 4 stars.
14. Denis Diderot – The Nun. 4 stars.
15. Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility. 5 stars. (Re-read).
16. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice. 5 stars. (Re-read).
17. Jane Austen – Mansfield Park. 4 stars. (Re-read).
18. Jane Austen – Emma. 5 stars. (Re-read).
19. Jane Austen – Persuasion. 5 stars. (Re-read).
20. Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey. 5 stars. (Re-read).
21. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein. 4 stars.
22. Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe. 5 stars. (Re-read).
23. James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans. 1 star. (Re-read).
24. Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist. 5 stars. (Re-read).
25. Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol. 3 stars.
26. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre. 5 stars. (Re-read).
27. Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey. 5 stars. (Re-read).
28. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights. 5 stars. (Re-read).
29. Anne Brontë – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 5 stars. (Re-read).
30. Charlotte Brontë – Shirley. 5 stars. (Re-read).
31. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter. 4 stars. (Re-read).
32. Elizabeth Gaskell – Cranford. 4 stars.
33. Charles Dickens – Bleak House. 4 stars.
34. Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South. 5 stars. (Re-read).
35. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary. 4 stars. (Re-read).
36. Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White. 4 stars.
37. George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss. 3 stars. (Re-read).
38. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 3 stars. (Re-read).
39. Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth. 3 stars.
40. Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin. 3 stars.
41. Louisa May Alcott – Little Women. 5 stars. (Re-read).
42. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone. 5 stars.
43. Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass. 3 stars. (Re-read).
44. Thomas Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd. 4 stars. (Re-read).
45. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island. 3 stars.
46. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 3 stars.
47. Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped. 2 stars.
48. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 4 stars.
49. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper. 5 stars. (Re-read).
50. H.G. Wells – The Time Machine. 2 stars.
51. Henryk Sienkiewicz – Quo Vadis? 3 stars.
52. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles. 4 stars.
53. Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth. 4 stars.
54. Arnold Bennett – The Old Wives’ Tale. 4 stars.
55. E.M. Forster – A Room with a View. 4 stars.
56. E.M. Forster – Howards End. 5 stars.
57. Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome. 5 stars. (Re-read).
58. Edith Wharton – Bunner Sisters. 4 stars.
59. Rebecca West – The Return of the Soldier. 5 stars.
60. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence. 5 stars. (Re-read).
61. Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 5 stars.
62. Ford Madox Ford – Parade’s End. 4 stars.
63. Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon. 4 stars. (Re-read).
64. W. Somerset Maugham – Cakes and Ale. 3 stars.
65. Joseph Roth – The Radetzky March. 3 stars.
66. Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm. 5 stars. (Re-read).
67. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World. 4 stars.
68. Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth. 5 stars.
69. George Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying. 3 stars.
70. Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind. 5 stars. (Re-read).
71. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit. 3 stars.
72. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men. 3 stars.
73. Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca. 5 stars. (Re-read).
74. Winifred Watson – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. 3 stars.
75. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep. 4 stars.
76. John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath. 4 stars.
77. Antoine de Saint-Expury – The Little Prince. 3 stars.
78. Henry Green – Loving. 3 stars.
79. George Orwell – Animal Farm. 5 stars.
80. Mervyn Peake – Titus Groan. 3 stars.
81. J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye. 3 stars.
82. Marguerite Yourcenar – Memoirs of Hadrian. 5 stars.
83. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea. 4 stars.
84. Ian Fleming – Casino Royale. 3 stars.
85. L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between. 4 stars.
86. William Golding – Lord of the Flies. 4 stars. (Re-read).
87. Françoise Sagan – Bonjour Tristesse. 4 stars.
88. Nikos Kazantzakis – The Last Temptation of Christ. 3 stars.
89. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita. 2 stars.
90. Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago. 4 stars.
91. Jack Kerouac – On the Road. 2 stars.
92. Iris Murdoch – The Bell. 5 stars.
93. Paul Gallico – Flowers for Mrs Harris. 4 stars.
94. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard. 3 stars.
95. Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tifany’s. 4 stars.
96. Laurie Lee – Cider with Rosie. 4 stars.
97. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird. 5 stars.
98. Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. 4 stars.
99. J.D. Salinger – Franny and Zooey. 2 stars.
100. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 5 stars.
101. Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means. 5 stars.
102. John le Carré – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. 4 stars.
103. Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea. 5 stars.
104. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood. 4 stars.
105. Elizabeth Bowen – Eva Trout. 3 stars.
106. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five. 4 stars.
107. Italo Calvino – The Castle of Crossed Destinies. 3 stars.
108. Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum. 4 stars.
109. Stephen King – The Shining. 4 stars. (Re-read).
110. A.S. Byatt – The Virgin in the Garden. 4 stars.
111. Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose. 5 stars. (Re-read).
112. Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits. 4 stars.
113. Alice Walker – The Color Purple. 4 stars. (Re-read).
114. Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot. 4 stars.
115. Marguerite Duras – The Lover. 4 stars.
116. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaids Tale. 5 stars. (Re-read).
117. Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye. 4 stars.
118. Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate. 4 stars.
119. José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon. 4 stars.
120. Esther Freud – Hideous Kinky. 3 stars.
121. Donna Tartt – The Secret History. 5 stars. (Re-read).
122. Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides. 3 stars.
123. Louis de Bernières – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. 5 stars. (Re-read).
124. Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace. 5 stars.
125. Graham Swift – The Light of Day. 4 stars.
126. Peter Ackroyd – The Lambs of London. 3 stars.
127. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go. 5 stars.
128. Luis de Camões – The Lusiads. 4 stars.
129. Eça de Queirós – The Crime of Father Amaro. 4 stars.
130. Emilia Pardo Bazán – The House of Ulloa. 4 stars.
131. Juan Ramón Jiménez – Platero and I. 5 stars.
132. Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter. 5 stars.
133. Carmen Laforet – Nada. 5 stars.
134. Hermann Broch – The Death of Virgil. 2 stars.
135. Barbara Pym – Excellent Women. 5 stars.
136. Jorge Amado – Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon. 4 stars.
137. Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero. 3 stars.
138. Barbara Pym – Quartet in Autumn. 5 stars.
139. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine. 4 stars.
140. Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen. 5 stars.
141. Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 3 stars. (Re-read).
142. Don DeLillo – Falling Man. 3 stars.
143. Indra Sinha – Animal’s People. 3 stars.
144. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad. 4 stars.
145. Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot. 4 stars.
146. Elena Ferrante – The Story of the Lost Child. 5 stars.

List books read in 2020:

147. François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel. 3 stars.
148. Elizabeth Bowen – The Heat of the Day. 3 stars.
149. Nella Larsen – Passing. 4 stars.
150. Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers. 5 stars.
151. Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet. 5 stars.
152. Mervyn Peake – Gormenghast. 3 stars.
153. Mario Puzo – The Godfather. 5 stars.
154. Ian McEwan – Atonement. 2 stars.
155. Willa Cather – The Professor’s House. 3 stars.
156. Sadegh Hedayat – The Blind Owl – 2 stars.
157. Joanot Martorell – Tirant Lo Blanc. 4 stars.
158. Nancy Mitford – The Pursuit of Love. 5 stars. (Re-read).
159. Nancy Mitford – Love in a Cold Climate. 5 stars. (Re-read).
160. Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho. 5 stars. (Re-read).
- I re-read The Handmaid's Tale (see 116).
161. Margaret Drabble - The Red Queen. 3 stars.
162. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby. 2 stars. (Re-read).

List books read in 2021:

163. Aphra Behn - Oroonoko. 4 stars.
164. Henry Fielding - Tom Jones. 3 stars.
165. Alexandre Dumas - La Reine Margot. 4 stars. (Re-read).
166. Joyce Carol Oates - Black Water. 3 stars.
167. José Saramago - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. 4 stars.
168. Guy de Maupassant - A Life. 4 stars.
169. Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield. 3 stars.
170. Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 4 stars.
171. Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September. 4 stars.
172. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 4 stars. (Re-read).
173. Alessandro Baricco - Silk. 3 stars.
174. Eudora Welty - The Optimist's Daughter. 4 stars.
175. J.G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur. 3 stars.
176. Edith Wharton - Summer. 4 stars.
177. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited. 5 stars.
178. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 3 stars.
179. Virginia Woolf - Orlando. 5 stars. (Re-read).
180. Fernando de Rojas - Celestina. 4 stars.
181. Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 3 stars.
182. Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things. 5 stars. (Re-read).
183. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray. 4 stars.
184. Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton. 4 stars.
185. Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet. 3 stars.
186. Frances Burney - Evelina. 4 stars.

List books read in 2022:

187. Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls. 4 stars.
188. Graham Swift - Waterland. 5 stars. (Re-read).
189. Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God. 5 stars.
190. Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas. 3 stars.
191. Giovanni Verga - The House by the Medlar Tree. 4 stars.
192. Sándor Márai - Embers. 4 stars.
193. Edna O'Brien - Girl with Green Eyes. 4 stars.
194. Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera. 2 stars. (Re-read).
195. Jaan Kross - Professor Martens' Departure. 3 stars.
196. Aesop - The Complete Fables. 5 stars.
197. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations. 4 stars.
198. Émile Zola - L'Assommoir. 5 stars.
- I re-read Persuasion (see 19). 5 stars.
199. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar. 5 stars. (Re-read).
200. Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking. 4 stars.
201. Elena Ferrante - Troubling Love. 4 stars.
202. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock. 4 stars. (Re-read).
203. Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient. 3 stars. (Re-read).
204. Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway. 4 stars.
205. Arto Paasilinna - The Year of the Hare. 3 stars.
206. Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote. 4 stars. (Re-read).
207. Andrea Levy - Small Island. 5 stars.
208. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness. 3 stars.
209. W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn. 4 stars.
210. Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs. 3 stars.
211. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin. 4 stars.
212. Marcel Pagnol - Manon des Sources. 5 stars.
213. George Eliot - Silas Marner. 3 stars.
214. Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin. 4 stars.

List books read in 2023:

215. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow. 3 stars.
216. Nicola Barker - H(A)PPY. 4 stars.
217. Antonio Tabuchi - Pereira Maintains. 4 stars.
218. Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms. 4 stars.
219. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure. 4 stars. (Re-read).
220. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse. 5 stars. (Re-read).
221. Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami. 4 stars.
222. Alain de Botton - On Love. 4 stars.
- I re-read Agnes Grey (see 27). 5 stars.
223. Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood. 3 stars.
224. Albert Camus - The Stranger. 4 stars.
225. William Morris - News from Nowhere. 4 stars.
226. Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor. 3 stars.
227. André Gide - The Immoralist. 4 stars.
228. DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little. 4 stars.
229. Muriel Spark - Memento Mori. 3 stars.
230. Elizabeth Bowen - To the North. 4 stars.
231. H.G. Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau. 3 stars.
232. Michael Arlen - The Green Hat. 3 stars.
233. Edna O'Brien - August is a Wicked Month. 4 stars.
234. Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 5 stars. (Re-read).
235. Bram Stoker - Dracula. 4 stars. (Re-read).
236. Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee. 3 stars.
237. Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman. 4 stars.
238. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire. 3 stars. (Re-read).
239. Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry. 4 stars.
- I re-read Wuthering Heights (see 28). 5 stars.
240. Rebecca West - The Birds Fall Down. 5 stars.

List books read in 2024:

241. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four. 4 stars. (Re-read).
242. Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. 4 stars.
243. Pauline Réage - Story of O. 2 stars.
244. Ali Smith - The Accidental. 3 stars.
245. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. 4 stars. (Re-read).
246. Erica Jong - Fear of Flying. 3 stars.
247. Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris. 4 stars.
248. Emilio Salgari - Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem. 2 stars.
249. Iris Murdoch - Under the Net. 5 stars.
250. Daniel Defoe - Roxana. 4 stars.
251. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 4 stars. (Re-read).
252. Marilynne Robinson - Home. 5 stars.
253. Albert Camus - The Plague. 3 stars.
- I re-read Sense and Sensibility (see 15). 5 stars.
254. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. 5 stars.
255. The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. 4 stars.
256. Indigo by Marina Warner. 3 stars.

List Books read in 2025:

257. H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds. 3 stars.
258. A.S. Byatt - Possession. 5 stars. (Re-read).
259. James Thurber - The 13 Clocks. 4 stars.
260. James Thurber - The Wonderful O. 4 stars.
261. Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party. 4 stars.