Book-movie group (through May 2008)
1. The Third Man – Graham Greene (#1)
2. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (#2)
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (#3)
2008
4. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (#4)
5. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (#5)
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (#6)
7. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (#7)
8. A Bend in the River – V. S. Naipaul (#8)
9. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (#9)
10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (#10)
11. The Book of Daniel – E. L. Doctorow (#11)
12. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant (#12)
13. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev (#13)
2009
14. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (#14)
15. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkein (#15)
16. Silas Marner – George Eliot (#16)
17. News from Nowhere – William Morris (#17)
18. The Lazarus Project – Aleksandar Hemon *
19. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronté (#18)
20. Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee (#19)
21. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (#20)
22. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene (#21)
23. Sanctuary – William Faulkner
24. On Beauty – Zadie Smith (#22)
25. Murphy – Samuel Beckett (#23)
26. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (#24)
27. Wieland – Charles Brockden Brown *
28. The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano *
29. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (#25)
30. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (#26)
31. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (#27)
32. The Hours – Michael Cunningham (#28)
33. Middlemarch – George Eliot (#29)
34. My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk *
35. Nana – Emilé Zola (#30)
36. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (#31)
37. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks (#32)
38. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells (#33)
39. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (#34)
40. The Masterpiece – Emilé Zola *
41. The Life & Times of Michael K – J. M. Coetzee (#35)
42. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (#36)
43. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (#37)
44. The Memoirs of a Survivor – Doris Lessing *
45. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (#38)
2010
46. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (#39)
47. The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway (#40)
48. Howards End – E. M. Forster (#41)
49. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons (#42)
50. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (#43)
51. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (#44)
52. Persuasion – Jane Austen (#45)
53. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (#46)
54. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (#47) and Through the Looking Glass
and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll (#48)
55. 1984 – George Orwell (#49)
56. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (#50)
57. White Noise – Don DeLillo (#51)
58. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (#52)
59. Germinal – Emile Zola (#53)
60. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (#54)
61. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (#55)
62. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (#56)
63. Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 1 (Swann’s way) – Marcel
Proust (#57)
64. The Awakening – Kate Chopin (#58)
65. Molloy – Samuel Beckett (#59)
66. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett (#60)
67. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett (#61)
68. Waiting for the Barbarians – J. M. Coetzee (#62)
69. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (#63)
70. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (#64)
71. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (#65)
72. Foe – J. M. Coetzee (#66)
2011
73. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy *
74. The Sea – John Banville (#67)
75. Who was Changed and Who was Dead – Barbara Comyns *
76. The Sportswriter – Richard Ford *
77. Contempt [A Ghost at Noon] – Alberto Moravia (#68)
78. The Names – Don DeLillo (#69)
79. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronté (#70)
80. The Devils/The Possessed – Fyodor Dostoevsky (#71)
81. The Trial – Franz Kafka (#72)
82. Ivanhoe – Walter Scott (#73)
83. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (#74)
84. Foundation – Isaac Asimov (#75)
85. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (#76)
86. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (#77)
87. Like Life – Lorrie Moore (#78)
88. La Bete Humaine – Emile Zola (#79)
89. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (#80)
90. Jazz – Toni Morrison (#81)
91. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (#82)
92. Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 2 (Within a Budding Grove)
– Marcel Proust (#57)
93. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (#83)
94. Moby Dick – Herman Melville (#84)
95. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (#85)
96. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (#86)
97. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne (#87)
98. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe (#88)
99. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (#89)
100. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol (#90)
2012
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The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (#91)
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (#92)
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (#93)
Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (#94)
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox (#95)
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (#96)
The Ambassadors – Henry James (#97)
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (#98)
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (#99)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (#100)
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker (#101)
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner (#102)
The Red and the Black – Stendhal (#103)
The Waves – Virginia Woolf (#104)
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (#105)
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac (#106)
Mao II – Don Delillo (#107)
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen (#108)
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (#109)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (#110)
Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 3 (The Guermantes Way) –
Marcel Proust (#57)
122. Elizabeth Costello – J M Coetzee (#111)
123. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (#112) & The Death of Ivan Illyich
– Leo Tolstoy (#113)
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118.
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121.
2013
125.
126.
127.
128.
129.
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131.
132.
133.
134.
135.
136.
137.
138.
139.
140.
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148.
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (#114)
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard (#115)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo (#116)
Jesus’s Son – Denis Johnnson *
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert (#117)
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing (#118)
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (#119)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (#120)
A Room with a View – E M Forster (#121)
Ulysses – James Joyce (#122)
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway (#123)
Woodcutters – Thomas Bernhard *
Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi (#124)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe (#125)
Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse (#126)
Junkie – William Burroughs (#127) & Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter
Thompson (#128)
The Ravishing of Lol Stein – Marguerite Duras (#129)
Here’s to You, Jesusa! – Elena Poniatowska (#130)
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (#131)
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (#132)
Libra – Don DeLillo (#133)
Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse *
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector (#134)
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy (#135) & The Nose – Nikolai Gogol (#136)
2014
149. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker (#137)
150. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (#138)
151. Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, and The Pit and the Pendulum –
Edgar Allan Poe (#139, 140 and 141)
152. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak (#142)
153. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis (#143)
154. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (#144)
155. Emma – Jane Austen (#145)
156. Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (#146)
157. The River Between – Ngugiwa Thiongo (#147)
158. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (#148)
159. The Quiet American – Graham Greene (#149)
160. Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue – The Marquis de Sade (#150)
161. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow (#151)
162. Things: A Story of the Sixties – George Perec (#152)
163. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (#153) and Play It as It Lays – Joan Didion (#154)
164. Rabbit Run – John Updike (#155)
165. Adam Bede – George Eliot (#156)
166. Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai (#157)
167. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald (#158)
168. The Shining – Stephen King (#159)
169. Snow – Orhan Pamuk (#160)
170. The History of the Seige of Lisbon – Jose Saramago (#161)
171. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (re-read)
2015
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre (#162)
The Fortune of the Rougons – Emile Zola *
Kafka on the Shore – Murakami (#163)
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev (#164)
The Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (#165)
Written on the Body – Jeanette Wintersom (#166)
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (#167)
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson *
Summer – Edith Wharton (#168)
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon (#169)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (#170)
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass (#171)
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande (#172)
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (#173)
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner (#174)
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell (#175)
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy (#176)
The Secret History – Donna Tartt (#177)
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (#178)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte (#179)
192. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (#180); Benito Cereno – Herman Melville *; The
Lottery – Shirley Jackson *
193. Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence (#181);
Announced:
194. Middlemarch – George Eliot (re-read) ~ November 22, 2015
195. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (#182) ~ December 6, 2015
196. Hard Times – Charles Dickens (#183) ~ December 20, 2015
2016
197. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (#184) ~ January 10, 2016
198. Ragtime – E L Doctorow (#185) ~ January 24, 2016
199. Beloved – Toni Morrison (#186) ~ February 7, 2016
* Not from the 1001 Books list. (12 off-list so far.)
* Figures in parentheses indicate dents made into 1001 list (any edition).