1001 Books

This is an ongoing project, and I don’t intend to read all of the books on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list (there are several titles on here that I consider abject torture). If I ever reach 500, I’ll consider myself a success.

Books I’ve read so far:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
2. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
6. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. Atonement – Ian McEwan
8. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
9. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
10. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
11. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
13. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
14. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
15. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
16. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
17. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
18. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
19. Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
20. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
21. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
22. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
23. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
24. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
25. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
26. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
27. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
28. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
29. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
30. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
31. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
32. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
35. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
36. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
37. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
38. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
39. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
40. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
41. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
42. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
43. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
44. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
45. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
46. The Shining – Stephen King
47. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
48. Sula – Toni Morrison
49. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
50. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
51. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
52. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
53. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
54. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
55. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
56. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman