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

Documentation of the books I've read:

It looks like this is a good place to track the I've read so far. Most of the first 100 (69) were read in past years and I remember reading them, but didn't document it anywhere. So, if I ever finish reading the rest of the list (a tall order since I'm 63 years old), I'll go back & re-read those 69 books that I read long ago. (As I re-read the first 69, I'll move them down into current status.)

books read in past years, dates not documented:
1 A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, Ernest
2 Cry, the Beloved Country by Paton, Alan
3 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, Ernest
4 In Cold Blood by Capote, Truman
6 The Godfather by Puzo, Mario
7 The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood, Margaret
8 The Shining by King, Stephen
9 The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Ernest
10 The World According to Garp by Irving, John
11 Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
12 Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte
13 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Verne, Jules
14 Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles
15 Persuasion by Austen, Jane
16 Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
17 Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane
18 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan
19 The House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
20 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Hugo, Victor
21 The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan
22 The Purloined Letter by Poe, Edgar Allan
23 War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
24 Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily
26 Pippi Longstocking by Lindgren, Astrid
27 The Little Prince by de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
28 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis
29 2001: A Space Odyssey by Clarke, Arthur C
30 A Clockwork Orange by Burgess, Anthony
31 Animal Farm by Orwell, George
32 Catch-22 by Heller, Joseph
34 Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak, Boris
35 Fear of Flying by Jong, Erica
36 Lord of the Flies by Golding, William
37 Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell, George
39 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
40 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey, Ken
41 Rebecca by Du Maurier, Daphne
43 The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John
44 The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F Scott
46 The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton
47 The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, J R R
48 The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Ernest
49 To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper
50 A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles
51 Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
52 David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
53 Emma by Austen, Jane
55 Silas Marner by Eliot, George
56 Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Hardy, Thomas
57 The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
58 The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre
59 The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, Leo
60 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
61 The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
62 The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
63 The War of the Worlds by Wells, H G
64 Uncle Silas by Le Fanu, Sheridan
65 The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
66 A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
67 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark
68 Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis

books read since 2017 (#70-72 not on Goodreads):
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - re-read 4/17/21
25. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan - re-read 10/11/20
33. The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle - re-read 4/11/23
38. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - re-read 8/23/21
39. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac - re-read 6/14/22
42. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - re-read 10/17/22
45. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - re-read 5/30/23
69. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - re-read 10/20/22
70. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - re-read 2017
71. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville - re-read 2017
72. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - re-read 2017
73. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - re-read 2/7/19
74. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - re-read 3/7/19
75. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - re-read 6/7/19
76. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - re-read 1/22/20
77. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - finished 5/3/20
78. Metamorphoses by Ovid (Golding translation) - finished 5/9/20
79. Dracula by Bram Stoker - finished 5/29/20
80. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - finished 6/1/20
81. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley - finished 6/26/20
82. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote - finished 7/7/20
83. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade - finished 7/28/20
84. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - finished 7/30/20
85. 10:04 by Ben Lerner - finished 8/11/20
86. A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin - finished 8/15/20
87. Aesop's Fables (edited by Thomas Bewick) by Aesop - finished 9/8/20
88. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride - finished 9/15/20
89. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard - finished 11/8/20
90. Aithiopika by Heliodorus of Emesa - finished 1/19/21
91. Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell - finished 4/2/21
92. Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly - finished 4/4/21
93. Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels by unkown - finished 4/5/21
94. The Golden Ass by Apuleius - finished 4/9/21
95. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe - finished 4/10/21
96. The History of Thomas of Reading; Or, the Six Worthy Yeomen of the West by Thomas Deloney - finished 4/16/21
97. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette - finished 4/18/21
98. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - finished 5/10/21
99. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - finished 5/24/21
100. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous - finished 9/1/21
101. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn - finished 9/13/21
102. The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - finished 9/23/21
103. La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas - finished 9/29/21
104. Callirhoe (AKA Chaireas and Kallirhoe) by Chariton - finished 10/3/21
105. The Lusiads by Luís de Camões - finished 10/5/21
106. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - finished 10/16/21
107. The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen - finished 10/18/21
108. Amadis of Gaul: Books I and II (all volumes) by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo - finished 10/19/21
109. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(with footnotes and maps) by Luo Guanzhong - finished 11/18/21
110. Monkey: The Journey to the West (I don't think this is the link to the edition I read, but I can't find mine, so this will have to do!) by Wu Cheng'en - finished 11/24/21
111. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - finished 11/30/21
112. The Water Margin AKA Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an - finished 12/9/21
113. The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo - finished 12/15/21
114. The Arabian Nights; Volume 1 - 16, Complete by Anonymous - finished 12/20/21 - I wanted to like this -- I really did. But I'm not a fantasy fan and this was an overload of fantasy for me. I gave it 2.5 stars rounded down to 2.
115. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope - finished 1/1/22
116. City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol - finished 1/9/22
117. Vathek by William Beckford - finished 1/10/22
118. Evalina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World by Frances Burney - finished 1/19/22
119. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - finished 1/24/22
120. Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland - finished 2/15/22
121. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot - finished 2/24/22
122. Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood - finished 3/9/22
123. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne - finished 4/11/22
124. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift - finished 4/20/22
125. Cecilia by Frances Burney - finished 4/28/22
126. Amelia by Henry Fielding - finished 5/7/22
127. Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz - finished 5/8/22
128. The Nun by Denis Diderot - finished 5/9/22
129. Candide by Voltaire - finished 5/16/22
130. Camilla: By Frances Burney - Illustrated by Frances Burney - finished 5/25/22
131. The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade - finished 5/26/22
132. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - finished 6/6/22
133. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - finished 6/29/22
134. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole - finished 9/21/22
135. The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon - finished 10/10/22
136. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson - finished 10/14/22
137. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis - finished 10/31/22
138. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - finished 11/05/22
139. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill - finished 11/09/22
140. Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift - finished 11/13/22




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141. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - finished 11/15/22
142. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith - finished 11/17/22
143. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett - finished 11/25/22
144. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - finished 12/1/22
145. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - finished 12/11/22
146. Hunger by Knut Hamsun - finished 1/2/23
147. Hyperion / Empedokles by Friedrich Hölderlin - finished 1/3/23
148. The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie - finished 1/11/23
149. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez - finished 1/16/23
150. The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - finished 1/23/23
151. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - finished 1/27/23
152. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes - finished 1/28/23
153. Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien - finished 2/12/23
154. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - finished 2/22/23
155. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - finished 3/23/23
156. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford - finished 4/15/23
157. The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai - finished 5/13/23
158. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - finished 5/30/23
159. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf - finished 6/16/23
160. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - finished 6/24/23
161. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - finished 7/3/23
162. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis - finished 7/28/23
163. August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien - finished 8/18/23
164. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson - finished 9/28/23
165. Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson - finished 9/30/23
166. Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist - finished 10/2/23
167. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien - finished 10/9/23
168. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami - finished 10/17/23
169. Foe by J.M. Coetzee - finished 10/18/23
170. Chocky by John Wyndham - finished 10/21/23
171. Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass - finished 10/22/23
172. The Quiet American by Graham Greene - finished 10/31/23
173. The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck - finished 11/1/23
174. The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo - finished 11/3/23
175. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - finished 11/4/23
176. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino - finished 11/6/23
177. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker - finished 11/11/23
178. Clear Light Of Day by Anita Desai - finished 11/16/23
179. A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen - finished 11/19/23
180. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe - finished 12/03/23
181. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson - finished 12/25/23
182. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - finished 12/25/23