Thursday, January 3, 2013

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die



Well. This challenge is clearly going to take me more than a year. And there are more than 1001 books, using the list in the challenge, which was compiled from all editions of the book.

The books I've read (including ones read before this blog and without reviews):

23. The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1632)
117. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (1844)
118. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
119. Facundo - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1845)
126. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
162. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)
258. The Awakening - Kate Chopin (1899)
276. Call Of The Wild - Jack London (1903)
328. The Return Of The Soldier - Rebecca West (1918)
521. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
561. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)
614. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (1954)
664. Gabriela, Clove And Cinnamon - Jorge Amado (1958)
680. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
787. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
853. Kiss Of The Spiderwoman - Manuel Puig (1976)
967. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985)
1128. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink (1995)
1155. Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden (1997)
1178. Disgrace - J M Coetzee (1999)
1216. Atonement - Ian McEwan (2001)
1227. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
1265. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky (2004)

(23/1305)

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