How many books have you read in "1001 books you must read before you die"?

I guess I need to get busy, I have only read 4 of them. In my defense though several of them are Sci Fi/Fantasy and I am not really in to that genre. I don't think I saw anything from my favortie authors: Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, and James Patterson.

I'm probably going to have to post these 2 lists seperately. One is the list of books I've read from the list and the other is of movies made from the list of books (at least the ones I haven't read.) Now, except for some books I have had to read for school, I recommend most of the books on my read list, espcially Chocky by John Wyndham and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. 9 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams 10 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams 238 The Cider House Rules – John Irving 242 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 301 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 320 Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice 389 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. D. I. C. K. (won't let me put his name in normally) (the movie was called Blade Runner) 396 Chocky – John Wyndham 444 Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein* 481 The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham 487 The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber 494 The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 508 Lord of the Flies – William Golding* 521 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway* 526 Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham 529 The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger* 536 The 13 Clocks – James Thurber 539 I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 564 Animal Farm – George Orwell* 574 The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 610 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 747 Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs 781 The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 790 The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 821 The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy* 848 Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne 854 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 863 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 866 Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 906 The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas 908 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 911 The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe (not actually sure I read it or just read so much about it...) 913 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 983 Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 987 Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 996 The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 1001 Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus * these are the ones I had to read for classes tho Stranger in a Strange Land was okay.

Wow this is a nice discussion Leixa003! I've just finished reading all of the titles and I can't believe that I only read 5 books out of the 1001 listed. These are: 1. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 3. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 4. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 5. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Although there are also some titles that I've watched the movie version like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Shipping News, well I guess all the novels I haven't read that has a movie, I've watched it. I can't believe The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare is not included and The Little Prince by Antoine Saint Exupery also. Anyway, I've been looking for Jane Austen's Persuasion, The Catcher in the Rye, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Plague.

LO I passed 1001 great books YEARS ago! In fact, I've gone through TRIPLE that number. Stated in grade school with Shakespeare, Moby D*ck, Count of Monte Cristo, Arabian Nights, & on & on. By the time I hit 5th grade, my town had no more "great" books to offer me--& that included the high school AND town libraries. My Mom bought me a nice set, & I gobbled THOSE whole. Then I had to move to Houston, where the libraries could accommodate my addiction. Currently I'm TRYING to plow through War & Peace (for about the 4th time), but you know, frankly, despite the many rave reviews, I'm finding it tedious. Maggiepie

After going through the list these are the only one's ive read and finished. 223. Beloved - toni morrison. 456. To kill a mockingbird- harper lee 608. Of mice and Men- John Steinbeck 699. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald 780. Heart of Drakness- Joseph Conrad 893. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Stowe 913. A Christmas Carol - Dickens 931. Frankenstein - Shelley There were a couple that were on the list that i started but couldnt finish like lord of the rings. They just werent interesting to me .oO but for those wanting to read the list id suggest beloved or heart of darkness. Just beware with heart of darkness, it is a very VERY dense book but extremely amazing. and Beloved, is just, well, interesting.

I got part way through the list, found six I had read, only 2 of which I would consider deserve to be anywhere near such a list. There were several very ordinary spy tales/thrillers I have probably read, who remembers the titles of train-trip books, all by a particularly ordinary thriller writer, and some very ordinary sci-fi. I suspect I could come up with 100 in an hour which deserve to be there and aren't. Lord alone knows how they compiled the list, but I would suggest it was on a populist poll of probably little validity. If it had been compiled from the suggestions of a panel of serious authors, poets, professors, historians etc. I would be far more impressed. Much as I'd like to get with your program Leixa, the list is so suspect I would see it as a waste of time. Lash

hello.. i read nearly 300 books till. I preffer to read a book called all chemist written by paul cohelo a mexican writter. i would like to read harry potter series which is amazing book which takes the book us into another world.i will try to reach my goal in book reading.

I read "The Spy who came in from the cold" Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Town Like Alice, Lord of the Flies, The Old Man and the Sea, Rebecca, but most of these were when we got the Readers Digest Condensed books. and lots of the 1800 books. I am a Jane Austin and Charles Dickens fan. So I love that they are on the list. I will have to see what books I have read and see if they are on the list, I hope so. 1001 takes a long time to finish.

I did not have that list.thanks for the list anyway...... Now I shall check that how many books of them I have already read..

Thanks for introducing me to the list, but I can't help wondering why each was chosen. I've read more than 100 of them, but I feel like I've missed out on a lot. If I knew what makes each a candidate for the list, I'd choose my reading more carefully. Or maybe not. It would depend on the individual book's attributes.

Hi Leixa, I must thank you for providing this list. It sure brings back memories of books that I've read during my younger days in school, or those that my dad bought for me. I've gone through the list, and could only come up with about 40 books that I've read. Anyway, it has provided me with names of some books or authors whom I shall explore! Some of the books are a surprise too - like Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice, and the Body Artist by Don DeLillo. Thanks and have a great weekend!

Hi Leixa, I agree it is a HUGE list and I check the list and I don't think I've read one of them! To be honest I just start reading recently and I'm too slow when it come to reading. I know reading is good because it will help me expand my knowledge. But since I join mylot I only have the time to read magazine,lol. But thank you very much for sharing the info. Happy mylotting.

Hello Leixa. It has been awhile since i was really enjoyed reading a book from my favourite author. Although i wanted to read some new ones from different author. Those books title would be of help. I have been reading john grisham novels, as most of his books are played in movies. So with Harry Potter. JK Rowling is one of my favourite. I haven't read the book 4 of HP. Anyways, the link you provided are awesome. i need to check these books in the bookstore. Hopefully, i could get to read a book once inawhile. Have a great weekend! :)

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams,The Shining-Stephen King,The Hobbit-J.R.R Tolkien,Dracula-Bram Stoker,Treasure Island-Robert Luis Stevenson,A Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens,Frankenstein-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly and,Aesop,s Fables- Aesopus are the only ones on the list i have read. which is kinda weird since i read all the time but OK what ever. I guess i should start reading other types of books.

wow thank you for sharing this list to me. i love to read books and i think i would go and look up this list and will see what i can read first. hehe thanks again

I think the last thing I would want to read is "1001 books you must read before you die". It might be someone's idea of a joke or just a stunt just to be noticed.

Well I have looked at the list and there are a few books here that I have read and many I would never even consider. However, as I read the list I started to notice that many of them are also movies. In fact I have often seen the movie but never read the book and am not particularly interested in doing so. I am wondering if they have only chosen books that have also become movies. For instance "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip D*ck was made into a Harrison Ford movie called Blade Runner. Cannot put his name down as the word is against the rules. Why include the only novel by this man that ever became a movie. Several of his books were just as good. This also applies to 2001 a space odyssey, Don Quixote, The War of the Worlds, The English Patient, Out of Africa. All became movies and the more I look at the titles the more movies I see. So it seems to me that this is the criteria for adding the book to the list. Books that became movies that they consider good.

I was just looking over the list and i really hope it doesnt place them in order. I foudn the catcher in the rye at about 500 uner so many books i probably wouldnt hvae placed on the list to begin with. However of all those books ive probably read about 30 of them.

I thought I had done pretty good until I read some of the other lists. Here's mine and I know there were a few more that I didn't list that I read in school but that's been so many years ago. #456 To Kill A Mockingbird #825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #831 Treasure island #863 Little Women #868 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #875 Silas Marner #876 Great Expectations #883 A Tale of Two Cities #902 Wuthering Heights #903 The Pit and the Pendulum #904 Jane Eyre #913 A Christmas Carol #918 Oliver Twist #925 Last of the Mohicans #938 Pride and Prejudice I have read lots of books; they just don't happen to be on that list. I love fiction/Christian books. I real lots of newer writers now

The only books that I seem to have read on this list are books that I had read at school as a child, and a rare few I have come across on my own. These include: 1) Animal Farm - George Orwell 2) Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 3) The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham 4) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 5) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 6) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 7) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 8) Aesop's Fables - Aesopus 9) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 10) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 11) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tokien