Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

What's your latest list milestone?

I just finished my 200th list book!

None yet. Working towards 100 this year. Just now I am not moving so fast as I am reading War and Peace

Maartje (Tizzalicious) wrote: "What's your latest list milestone?

I just finished my 200th list book!"

Congrats!

I haven't hit any yet-I'd love to hit 100 this year, I'm at 58 right now :)

I'm reading my 50th right now. I'm a student so it is hard for me to get reading done outside of school work. I try to get at least an hour in every night but sometimes it's hard. Hoping to hit 100 by next December, but that may be a lofty goal.

20 today:) started the list for real this year in febryary, so quite happy with that:)

Book #1 Aaron's Rod by D.H. Lawrence
Book #50 At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Book #100 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Currently reading #125 Camilla by Fanny Burney

I like the way you broke that down, Nathan! It's nice to revisit which ones pushed you over the milestone marks. Here's mine:

Book #50 The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Book #100 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Book #150 Vathek by William Beckford
...working on 160 right now...

Katherine wrote: "I like the way you broke that down, Nathan! It's nice to revisit which ones pushed you over the milestone marks."

I was going to say the same thing, I like it too Nathan! I didn't think to mark which book was which, but now maybe I will start doing that. When I started the list I had only read around 39 books, so I can't really put those ones in order. And I haven't hit the 50 mark yet.

Katherine wrote: "I like the way you broke that down, Nathan! It's nice to revisit which ones pushed you over the milestone marks. Here's mine:

Book #50 The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Book #100 [book..."

I am saving Vathek for Haloween I think together with Dracula and possibly J. and Hyde. Did you like Vathek?

My breakdown, short since all is read this year, I am re-reading every one I had completed,started totally over:

Book 1: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Book 10: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Book 20: The Shining by Stephen King
Book 25: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Hey Winter, Vathek wasn't my favorite list book I've read this year, but I found it more enjoyable than other similar books from the same time period.

It's interesting that you are saving it for the Halloween season. On paper it does sound like a spooky tale, but I actually found it to be more of a story about morality and deference, with some pretty graphic imagery along the way. Jeckyll and Hyde, however, was much scarier than I expected, especially since I thought I knew the story. That would be a great Halloween read!

Katherine wrote: "Hey Winter, Vathek wasn't my favorite list book I've read this year, but I found it more enjoyable than other similar books from the same time period.

It's interesting that you are saving it for ..."

Didn't think it was so scary from the little I know, it was more the theme that made me put it then.
Definetely saving Jeckyll and Hyde then!

Everything That Rises Must Converge:Stories is my 130th book.

Linda wrote: "Katherine wrote: "I like the way you broke that down, Nathan! It's nice to revisit which ones pushed you over the milestone marks."

I was going to say the same thing, I like it too Nathan! I didn..."

Because I'm reading the books alphabetically, it makes for easy tracking :)

Reached a new milestone; 25! Yay ^^ Only started this year, so I'm quite happy with that :)

Well I hit quite the milestone this evening. Just reached number 400!.

1. Lord of the Flies
50. The Comfort of Strangers
100. The Trial
150. The Invisible Man
200. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
250. A Question of Power
300. The Virgin Suicides
350. The Nine Tailors
400. Dirk Gently`s Holistic Detective Agency

Hope to hit 450 by the end of the year. Wish me luck!

Good luck on meeting your goal, Chris.

Hit the 350 mark today!


1. Aesop's Fables
10. The Pit and the Pendulum
25. The Hound of the Baskervilles
50. The God of Small Things
75. Things Fall Apart
100. Ethan Frome
150. The Garden Party and Other Stories
200. Sula
250. Cheese
300. The Jungle
350. On the Road

Hope to make it to at least 400 by the end of the year.

Chris wrote: "Well I hit quite the milestone this evening. Just reached number 400!."

Diane wrote: "Hit the 350 mark today!"

All I have to say to that is...damn! And here I am at 125

Chris wrote: "Well I hit quite the milestone this evening. Just reached number 400!.

1. Lord of the Flies
50. The Comfort of Strangers
100. The Trial
150. The Invisible Man
200. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
25..."

I'm hoping to hit 450-475 by the end of the summer. Great job!

I'm hoping to hit 100 this year. 16 to go..

1. I can't remember which one was the first one
25. American Psycho
50. Rebecca
75. Empire of the sun

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100. To Kill a Mockingbird

I just finished my 275th book.

My milestones were:
# 1: Pippi Longstocking
# 100: House of Leaves
# 150: The Once and Future King
# 200: The Body Artist
# 250: The Shining
# 275: Robinson Crusoe

I'm hoping to complete my 300th book by the end of this year.

Book 1: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Book 10: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Book 20: The Shining by Stephen King
Book 25: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Book 30: Summer, Edith Wharton

Reached 30!! :-D (started this year)

I read my 200th list book a couple of days ago - Silence. I thought it a suitably interesting book to mark this small milestone.

Next stop 250!

Nicola wrote: "I read my 200th list book a couple of days ago - Silence. I thought it a suitably interesting book to mark this small milestone.

Next stop 250!"

That's not small, congrats!

Ginny wrote: "Chris wrote: "Well I hit quite the milestone this evening. Just reached number 400!.

1. Lord of the Flies
50. The Comfort of Strangers
100. The Trial
150. The Invisible Man
200. The Prime of Miss ..."

I set out to get to number 475 ; I finished number 481 last night. :)

I just crossed the 200 mark. Onward and upward.

I just hit 175, and have read 32 this year. Since focusing on list books I haven't read more than 16 in a single year, so doubling that feels pretty good to me. I can now listen to audiobooks while at work, so I hope to put an even bigger dent in that number by the end of the year.

That's a great number Katherine, grats! Best book this year?

My best so far is Never Let Me Go

33 so far, my first real year, decided to read the ones I have read before too.

I just read my 50th list book, one from my home country.

1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
50. Rituals by Cees Nooteboom

I wanted to read 20 list books this year and thereby reach number 54, but I think I will reach at least number 60.

Robin wrote: "I just read my 50th list book, one from my home country.

1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. [book:Moby-Dick; or, The Whale|1..."

Wow that's quite the increase!!

Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "I just read my 50th list book, one from my home country.

1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. [book:Moby-Dick; o..."

I just started a few months ago with the list ;)

Robin wrote: "Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "I just read my 50th list book, one from my home country.

1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. [bo..."

Me too. 35 read now, I have read a lot of other books also this year. Finished Bleak House, really pleased with that, it required a lot, so felt like an achievement ^^

Woohoo! I just read my 200th book from the combined list: The Castle by Franz Kafka.

Man, I've been waiting a looooong time to get to post this ;)

I hope to knock out two more list books by the end of the year. The Turn of the Screw and Embers.

Wendy wrote: "Woohoo! I just read my 200th book from the combined list: The Castle by Franz Kafka.

Man, I've been waiting a looooong time to get to post this ;)

I hope to knock out..."

Well done Wendy. Next step 250?

I recently hit my 300th book. Currently at 306. Next goal, obviously, 350.

Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "I just read my 50th list book, one from my home country.

1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
10. Anna Karenina by Leo T..."
Gratz on Bleak House that book is huge.

Nicola wrote: "Well done Wendy. Next step 250? "

Thanks! Yes, that's the plan :)

Genia wrote: "I recently hit my 300th book. Currently at 306. Next goal, obviously, 350."

Way to go, Genia!

Just hit my 100th book and made my self-imposed deadline few days shy of the end of the year

Just hit my 100th book and made my self-imposed deadline few days shy of the end of the year

Luís wrote: "Is A Moveable Feast in the book-list?"

No. Not according to my spreadsheet anyway.

Finished 400th book!

Diane wrote: "Finished 400th book!"

Congrats! That's a quite impressive number!

Diane wrote: "Finished 400th book!"

Very, very impressive!

Ellinor wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished 400th book!"

Congrats! That's a quite impressive number!"

You're not too far behind me, Ellinor!

Wendy wrote: "Woohoo! I just read my 200th book from the combined list: The Castle by Franz Kafka.
Man, I've been waiting a looooong time to get to post this ;) ..."

Congratulations. I hope to hit the 200 mark myself about the end of this yr or early next. I'm enjoying the journey. When I finish the 2 I'm over half through, I'll be at 182.

George wrote: "Congratulations. I hope to hit the 200 mark myself about the end of this yr or early next. I'm enjoying the journey. When I finish the 2 I'm over half through, I'll be at 182."

Nice! I'm tackling some of the longer reads this year so my pace is quite slow, but yes, it's an enjoyable journey for sure!

After pecking away at the list for the past few years, I recently finished #200 - The Name of the Rose.

A book about books as a major milestone in reading a list derived from a book about books. It wasn't planned, but it's certainly fitting!

Started in summer 2014 and just reached #400 with Les Miserables! I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks while I study/in the lab (science student) , and admittedly have been reading a lot of shorter ones, but 400 none the less :)

Congratulations to you both! Two memorable milestones.