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Oh Fun! I've also found some of the selected books lately kind of dull (which I've voted for them so that's self inflicted lol). There's 147 books on the combined list I haven't read and can't vouch for, but here are my top 100 out of what I've read:
1. Les Miserables
2. The Tin Flute
3. The Colour Purple
4. Love Medicine
5. Fall on your Knees
6. The Passion of New Eve
7. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
8. Regeneration
9. Rebecca
10. The Summer Book
11. House Mother Normal
12. Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon
13. Here's to You, Jesusa!
14. The Sea of Fertility
15. Memory of Fire
16. A Town Like Alice
17. The Shipping News
18. Testament of Youth
19. Fifth Business
20. Kestrel for a Knave
21. H is for Hawk
22. Time’s Arrow
23. The book of Daniel
24. Kiss of the Spider woman
25. Giovanni's Room
26. Vile Bodies
27. Mrs. Dalloway
28. The Confusions of Young Törless
29. A Fine Balance
30. The Master and Margarita
31. On Beauty
32. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
33. The Line of Beauty
34. Blind Man with a Pistol
35. Platero and I
36. Germinal
37. Jude the Obscure
38. In Search of Lost Time
39. Americanah
40. The Marriage Plot
41. Nemesis
42. Kafka on the Shore
43. The Children's Book
44. Frankenstein
45. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
47. Northanger Abbey
48. The Cider House Rules
49. The Lord of the Rings
50. The Talk of the Town
51. A Home at the End of the World
52. Possessing the secret of Joy
53. Lives of Girls and Women
54. A Boy's Own Story
55. Hallucinating Foucault
56. The Bell Jar
57. Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
58. The Drowned and the Saved
59. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
60. If not now, when?
61. War with the Newts
62. Never let me go
63. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
64. Kitchen
65. The Hobbit
66. I, Robot
67. Silence
68. Sputnik Sweetheart
69. Jane Eyre
70. Cloud Atlas
71. The Stone Diaries
72. In Cold Blood
73. Reasons to Live
74. Hyperion
75. The Bluest Eye
76. The Little Prince
77. American Psycho
78. For Whom the Bell Tolls
79. Atonement
80. Women in Love
81. The Rainbow
82. The Dispossessed
83. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
84. Billy Budd, Sailor
85. Corelli's Mandolin
86. A Modest Proposal
87. Brideshead Revisited
88. Wild Swans
89. Fingersmith
90. Tipping the Velvet
91. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
92. The English Patient
93. Empire of the Sun
94. The Third Policeman
95. Little women
96. The world according to Garp
97. The Handmaid’s Tale
98. Memoirs of Hadrian
99. The Well of Loneliness
100. Like Water for chocolate
I've also noticed more Us and UK books (but they are over represented in the list, so that's kind of expected- but I definitely put in a lot of the Canadian books, so there's def some personal bias there lol. Also wildly different tones and genres in the list, so that's fun).
Mod
There's 147 books on the combined list I haven't read and can't vo..."
I've read 72 on your list and enjoyed many of them. Do you tend to like authors from a particular area more than others and which our your least favorite?
Kristel wrote: "I've read 72 on your list and enjoyed many of them. Do you tend to like authors from a particular area more than others and which our your least favorite?..."Yeah I found other than the US and UK, some of my favorite books were from Canada, Japan, and Mexico. In general, I tend to like a lot of the Eastern European books on the list as well.
I think a lot of my US/UK books are written by women or are older, so honestly I think my least favorite is (even though I put some by this description in this list) list books from US and UK men in the last 30-50 years overall. I'm guessing it might be that "edgy=deep" assumption many of them seem to have. They're also often neither relatable enough to me, or distinctive enough from the norms of current literature/who is already represented to be compelling I think.
I noticed we have a nice amount of overlap as well: I wonder if there's many 'common favorite' books in the group?
Mod
Yeah I found other th..."
good points!
I don't have 100 5* 1001 books (yet). My 5* list so far:1 The Black Dahlia
2 Cry, the Beloved Country
3 The Old Man and the Sea
4 A Woman's Life
5 Moon Palace
6 Day of the Triffids
7 A Town Like Alice
8 L'Assommoir
9 Things Fall Apart
10 A Fine Balance
11 The Master and Margarita
12 Amsterdam
13 A Confederacy of Dunces
14 The Maltese Falcon
15 Dirk Gently's Holistic Dective Agency
16 The Moonstone
17 The Siege of Krishnapur
18 The Judge and his Hangman
19 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
20 The Leopard
21 Pnin
22 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
23 The Big Sleep
24 The Return of the Soldier
25 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
26 Under the Volcano
26 Independent People
28 Life of Pi
29 War with the Newts
30 The Hobbit
31 Kitchen
32 Their Eyes Were Watching God
33 Half of a Yellow Sun
34 A Pale View of Hills
35 Disgrace
36 The Razor's Edge
37 The 13 Clocks
38 The Little Prince
39 Red Harvest
40 American Psycho
41 High Rise
42 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
43 The 39 Steps
44 The Sword in the Stone
45 Anna Karenina
46 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
47 Lord of the Flies
48 Corelli's Mandolin
49 Candide
50 Our Mutual Friend
51 Alice in Wonderland
52 Home
53 The Lord of the Rings
54 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
55 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
56 A Handful of Dust
57 The Blind Assassin
58 The Third Policeman
59 Around the World in Eighty Days
60 Kafka on the Shore
61 The Goldfinch
I'm quite far from having 100 haha, but here's my list, in the order that I've added them on Goodreads:1. Anna Karenina
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (I wonder if I still agree, not loving Murakami lately)
3. Jane Eyre
4. Emma
5. The Godfather
6. Memoirs of a Geisha
7. Lord of the Rings
8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
9. Lolita
10. Hobbit
11. Atonement
12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
13. The Handmaid’s Tale
14. The Namesake
15. Never Let Me Go
16. Pride and Prejudice
17. The Remains of the Day
18. The Hound of the Baskervilles
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
20. The Reader
21. Mrs. Dalloway
22. Lord of the Flies
23. Pippi Longstocking
24. Bonjour tristesse
25. The Sorrows of Young Werther
26. The Cement Garden
27. In Watermelon Sugar
28. Animal Farm
29. Of Mice and Men
Quite UK heavy, with some USA, France, Germany, Russia, Canada and Japan sprinkled in.
Otherwise, not sure what they have in common. Seems pretty balanced between men and women, although there are more men on the list, which is probably why there are a few more on my list too.
I guess many of these are well-known classics, instead of a more obscure classic if you know what I mean.
Mod
I've read 27 of Mette's List.
Kristel wrote: "I've read 52 from Valerie's list; ? The Sword and in the Stone, I am guessing you mean The Once and Future King. I've read 27 of Mette's List."
Yes.
I have counted some books I read before I joined Goodreads. In their order on the List Challenges site complete 1001 list I gave 5 stars to:1. Aesop's Fables
2. Metamorphoses (Ovid)
3. The Golden Ass
4. Pamela
5. Clarissa
6. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
7. Cecilia
8. The Mysteries of Udolpho
9. Sense and Sensibility
10. Pride and Prejudice
11. Emma
12. Persuasion
13. Northanger Abbey
14. Ivanhoe
15. Oliver Twist
16. Jane Eyre
17. Agnes Grey
18. Wuthering Heights
19. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
20. Shirley
21. North and South
22. Les Miserables
23. Little Women
24. The Moonstone
25. L'Assommoir
26. The Yellow Wallpaper
27. Howard's End
28. Ethan Frome
29. The Return of the Soldier
30. The Age of Innocence
31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
32. To the Lighthouse
33. Orlando
34. Cold Comfort Farm
35. Testament of Youth
36. Gone With the Wind
37. Their Eyes were Watching God
38. Rebecca
39. The Pursuit of Love
40. Animal Farm
41. Brideshead Revisited
42. Love in a Cold Climate
43. Memoir of Hadrian
44. The Bell
45. To Kill a Mockingbird
46. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
47. The Bell Jar
48. The Girls of Slender Means
49. Manon des Sources
50. Wide Sargasso Sea
51. The Godfather
52. The Name of the Rose
53. Waterland
54. The Handmaid's Tale
55. Possession
56. Wild Swans
57. The Secret History
58. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
59. Alias Grace
60. The God of Small Things
61. Blind Assassin
62. Never Let Me Go
63. Platero and I
64. Kristin Lavransdatter
65. Nada
66. Excellent Women
67. Quartet in Autumn
68. The Book of Disquiet
69. Kitchen
70. Small Island
71. The Children's Book
72. The Flame Throwers
73. The Story of the Lost Child
With special mention to the following 4 stars which are probably 5 stars:
-The Female Quixote
- The Three Musketeers
- Girl with Green Eyes
- Beloved
- Pereira Maintains
- The House of Ulloa
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
I have read 40 of Kristel's list and we have alot of overlap which is less so with Amanda (35). I have 24 in common with Valerie and 19 with Mette.
I have only read approx 256 of the list and many of my favourites are authors I discovered in my teens - Brontes, Austen, Atwood, Gaskell, Plath. I also largely read books by women written before 1950 (unless romance which is hardly represented on the list). I am in for a nasty shock a few years down the line when I have to read some more of these mid-twentieth century male authors...)
Lots of UK/USA authors and a fair amount of French authors. I like the Japanese authors I have read.
Mod
1. Alias Grace Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
2. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Godfather Mario Puzo
4. Atonement Ian McEwan (UK)
5. The Grass Is Singing Doris Lessing (UK)
6. The Color Purple Alice Walker
7. IQ84 Haruki Murakami (Japan)
8. A Dry White Season Andre Brink (South Africa)
9. Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton (South Africa)
10. The Reader Bernhard Schlink (German)
11. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang (Chinese)
12. Cider House Rules John Irving
13. The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
15. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace McCoy
16. Dispatches Michael Herr
17. The Birds Fall Down Rebecca West (UK)
18. The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe (Ireland)
19. Oranges Are to the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson (UK)
20. Testament of Youth Vera Britain (UK)
21. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
22. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy (India)
23. Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
24. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
25. A Tale Of Love and Darkness Amos Oz (Israel)
26. The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
27. Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi (Italian)
28. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll (UK)
29. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute (UK)
30. Out of Africa Karen Blixen (Denmark)
31. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
32. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
33. Animal Farm George Orwell
34. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami (Japan)
35. The Colour Rose Tremain (UK)
36. Life of Pi Yann Martel (Spain)
37. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth (India)
38. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
39. Suite Franchise Irene Nemirovsky (Ukraine)
40. Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel (Mexico)
41. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
42. The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes (UK)
43. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry (India)
44. Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun (Norway)
45. Americanah Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie (Nigeria)
46. The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende (Peru)
47. The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi (Italian)
48. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski (Poland/Ukraine)
49. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
50. Fatelessness Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
51. The Quiet American Graham Green (UK)
52. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri (UK)
53. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
54. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
55. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier (UK)
As others have mentioned, my rating system changed when I started 1001 so this is a bit of a mash up but here is how GR sorts my 5 stars (in other words in no order that I can discern):1. Wild Swans
2. The Ghost Road
3. Blind Assassin
4. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
5. Half of a Yellow Sun
6. Cloud Atlas
7. Tender is the Night
8. The Color Purple
9. Light in August
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Beloved
12. Infinite Jest
13. Absalom, Absalom
14. In Cold Blood
15. The Little Prince
16. The Name of the Rose
17. Invisible Man
18. Under the Volcano
19. All the Pretty Horses
20. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Who
21. Home
22. The Great Gatsby
23. Slaughterhouse Five
24. Treasure Island
25. Sputnick Sweetheart
26. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
27. A Confederacy of Dunces
28. Deep River
29. Jazz
30. Of Mice and Men
31. Go Tell it on the Mountain
32. A Ballad for Georg Henig
33. Death in Venice
34. Buddenbrooks
35. Survival in Aushwitz
36. Their Eyes were Watching God
37. Thousand Cranes
38. The Count of Monte Cristo
39. Fathers and Sons
40. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
41. Women at Point Zero
42. Dom Casmurro
43. Cry the Beloved Country
44. Don Quixote
45. Testament of Youth
46. The Kingdom of this World
47. The Hour of the Star
48. Season of Migration to the North
49. Independent People
50. The Feast of the Goat
51. Memory of Fire
52. The Summer Book
53. Anna Karenina
54. The Manor
55. Giovanni's Room
56. The Women in White
57. Middlesex
58. Moby-Dick
59. A Fine Balance
60. The Poisonwood Bible
61. Ragtime
I find it so interesting which books rate 5* for you all.
I couldn't wait to get home to my computer to do my own list. I think I have read 81 of Kristel's list, but I didn't give them all 5 stars. Here is my list:1. Testament of Youth
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Suite Francaise
4. Dangerous Liaisons
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. Eugene Onegin
7. The Three Musketeers
8. The Count of Monte Cristo
9. Wuthering Heights
10. Moby Dick
11. Madame Bovary
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Great Expectations
14. Les Miserables
15. War and Peace
16. Anna Karenina
17. Heart of Darkness
18. The Forsyte Saga
19. The Jungle
20. A Room with a View
21. Howards End
22. Sons and Lovers
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
24. Women in Love
25. Main Street
26.Ulysses
27. The Garden Party
28. The Magic Mountain
29. The Great Gatsby
30. Remembrance of Things Past
31. Parade's End
32. All Quiet on the Western Front
33. Brave New World
34. Their Eyes Were Watching God
35. Rebecca
36. The Grapes of Wrath
37. Under the Volcano
38. If This Is A Man
39. The Plague
40. This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
41. Nineteen Eighty-Four
42. The Catcher in the Rye
43. Memoirs of Hadrian
44. Lucky Jim
45. The Roots of Heaven
46. Giovanni's Room
47. Justine
48. Things Fall Apart
49. Franny and Zooey
50. Pilgrimage
51. Jahrestage
52. Troubles
53. Group Portrair with Lady
54. Lives of Girls and Women
55. Sula
56.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
57. Fateless
58. A Dance to the Music of Time
59. Requiem for a Dream
60. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller..
61. The Safety Net
62. A Dry White Season
63. Professor Marten's Departure
64. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
64. The Handmaid's Tale
65. The Drowned and the Saved
66. Memory of Fire
67. Nervous Conditions
68. Wittgenstein's Mistress
69. Possession
70. Wise Children
71. A Heart So White
72. A Suitable Boy
73. Deep River
74. The Rings of Saturn
75. Infinite Jest
76. The God of Small Things
77. Jack Maggs
78. Enduring Love
79. As If I Am Not There
80. White Teeth
81. Austerlitz
82. 2666
83. The Line of Beauty
84. The Kindly Ones
85. Half a Yellow Sun
86. Elegance of the Hedgehog
87. The Children's Book
88. 1Q84
89. Freedom
90. The Story of the Lost Child
Only 90 out of 664!
It's interesting how my list of completed books from this challenge includes so many absolutely excellent books and so many of the absolute worst books I have ever made myself finish. Here are my current top 100 favorites.1. Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2010)
4. Ali Smith: There but for the
5. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010)
*6. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (2006, 2008, 2010)
7. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
*8. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
9. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010)
*10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)
11. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (2006, 2008, 2010)
12. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark (2006) [UK, English]
13. Inland by Gerald Murnane (2008, 2010)
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
15. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
16. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (2006, 2008, 2010)
17. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008)
18. Jazz – Toni Morrison (2006)
19. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
20. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
21. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)
22. Dispatches – Michael Herr (2006, 2008, 2010)
23. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (2006, 2008, 2010)
24. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (2006, 2008, 2010)
*25. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
26. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford (2006)
*27. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010)
28. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute (2006, 2008, 2010)
29. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010)
30. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
*31. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)
*32. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)
33. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks (2006)
34. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh (2006)
35. I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson (2008, 2010)
36. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin (2006, 2008, 2010)
37. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008, 2010)
38. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard (2006)
39. Foundation – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
40. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
*41. The Circle by Dave Eggers
42. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)
43. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (2006)
44. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (2006, 2008, 2010)
45. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg (2006, 2008, 2010)
46. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (2008, 2010)
47. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (2006, 2008, 2010)
48. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010)
49. Beloved – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
50. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski (2008, 2010)
51. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt (2006, 2008, 2010)
52. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
53. Grimus – Salman Rushdie (2006)
54. High Rise – J.G. Ballard (2006)
55. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
56. The Godfather – Mario Puzo (2006, 2008, 2010)
57. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010)
58. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010)
59. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke (2006, 2008, 2010)
60. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
61. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
62. The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010)
63. Silence by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
64. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut (2006) [USA, English]
65. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
66. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006, 2008, 2010)
67. The Once and Future King – T.H. White (2006, 2008, 2010)
68. The Sound of Waves by Mishima (2008, 2010)
69. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010)
71. Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis (2008, 2010)
72. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
73. Animal Farm – George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010)
74. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)
75. Embers – Sandor Marai (2006, 2008, 2010)
76. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010)
77. Alberta and Jacob by Sandel (2008, 2010)
78. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy (2006, 2008, 2010)
79. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
80. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (2006, 2008, 2010)
81. Germinal – Émile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010)
82. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
*83. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
84. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
*85. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
86. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (2006)
87. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
88. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
89. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
90. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (2006)
91. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
92. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
93. Winter by Ali Smith
94. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
95. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic
96. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)
97. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
98. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
99. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
100. The Red Queen, by Margaret Drabble
These are not in a particular order, and some are just on my list to make up the 100, and were good but not really favorites. The ones with * are my top 10 at the moment.
I always forget which novels by certain authors are actually on the list. I always think East of Eden and one of Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy is on the list (they are not) and there are several authors I discovered through the Boxall list but where my favorites by those authors are all not on the list.
Mod
I liked East of Eden more than Grapes of Wrath and wish it was on the list.
Here's a list of my top (5 Star) 1001 books.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (USA)
2. Les Miserables (France)
3. The Poisonwood Bible (USA)
4. Jane Eyre (UK)
5. Gone with the Wind (USA)
5. The Handmaid's Tale (Canada)
6. The Sea (Ireland)
7. Never Let Me Go (Japanese/England)
8. Of Human Bondage (UK)
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA)
10. The Reader (German)
11. Lolita (Russian/USA)
12. The Leopard (Italian)
13. Amongst Women (Irish)
14. The God of Small Things (India)
15. Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
16. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (France)
17. Wild Swans (China)
18. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (UK)
19. Silas Marner (UK)
20. Atonement (UK)
21. The Things They Carried (USA)
22. Anna Karenina (Russia)
23. Midnight's Children (India)
24. The Twilight Years (Japan)
25. Thousand Cranes (Japan)
26. The Secret History (USA)
27. Vanity Fair (UK)
28. Of Love and Shadows (Chili)
29. Growth of Soil (Norway)
30. Alias Grace (Canada)
31. Old Wives' Tale (UK)
32. The Plague (Algeria/French)
33. Cryptonomicon (USA)
34. Half a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)
35. Absalom, Absalom! (USA)
36. The Roots of Heaven (French)
37. Invisible Man (USA)
38. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Denmark)
39. Ragtime (USA)
40. Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa)
41. Middlemarch (UK)
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Scottish)
43. Candide (French)
44. The Color Purple (USA)
45. The Blind Assassin (Canada)
46. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (USA)
47. A Fine Balance (Indian/Canada)
48. The Stone Diaries (American/Canada)
49. Amsterdam (UK)
50. The Day of the Triffids (UK)
51. The House of Mirth (USA)
52. Catch-22 (USA)
53. Rebecca (UK)
54. The Three Musketeers (French)
55. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (UK)
56. The Fellowship of the Ring (UK)
57. The House of the Spirit (Chile)
58. On Beauty (UK)
59. The History of Love (USA)
60. The Marriage Plot (USA)
61. The Moonstone (UK)
62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia)
63. The Godfather (USA)
64. The Heretic (Spanish)
65. A Visit from the Goon Squad (USA)
66. The Mill on the Floss (UK)
67. A Modest Proposal (Irish)
68. The Bell (Irish /British)
69. Regeneration (British)
70. Alamut ( Slovene/Italian)
71. Krisin Lavransdatter (Nordic)
72. Cancer Ward (Russian)
73. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman (Polish)
74. The Idiot (Russian)
75. On the Black Hill (UK)
76. Pale Fire (Russian/USA)
77. Schindler's List (Australian)
78. The Dark Child (Guinea)
79. Paradise of the Blind (Vietnamese)
80. First Circle (Russian)
81. Bonfire of the Vanities (USA)
82. The Old Man and the Sea (USA)
83. The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)
84. Cat's Eye (Canada)
85. The Return of the soldier (UK)
86. Broken April (Albania)
87. That They May Face the Rising Sun, (Irish)
88. The Player of Games (Irish)
89. In a Free State (Trinidad/British)
90. Survival in Aushwitz (Jew/Italy)
91. Remembering Babylon (Australian)
92. The Mayor of Casterbridge (UK)
93. Buddenbrooks (German)
94. Empire of the Sun (UK)
95. Woman at Point Zero (Egypt)
96. The Siege of Krishnapur (UK)
97. Sula (US)
98. Moll Flanders (UK)
99. Born in Exile (UK)
100. Brave New World (UK)
So only 2 German books made my top 100. Definately heavy for USA and UK authors. My ratings have changed over time. I probably rate differently now than I did when I first started the 1001 list.
What are your top 100, 1001 books?