December 7, 2012

Team 1001 Introductory Post


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Great news! Rachel at Resistance is futile is gathering a team for a long-lasting project of reading books from  the 1001 list! She plans to link all the members' reviews to the list and make quarterly update memes. You can read the rules and join here.

Now, I've been interested in the list for quite some time, and I'm keeping my own list here. So I think that to create a group for this is a great idea!

I'll use this post as a master and link my reviews (or something) here, bit I'll still keep the list at Google Drive, as it is very convenient.

The books I've read so far:
  1. Aesop's Fables - Aesop (c.4th BC)
  2. The Golden Ass - Apuleius (c.260)
  3. The Thousand And One Nights - Anonymous (c.850)
  4. The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous (c.900)
  5. The Tale Of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (c.1000)
  6. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)
  7. Candide - Voltaire (1759)
  8. The Castle Of Otranto - Horace Walpole (1765)
  9. The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1774)
  10. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (1782)
  11. The Mysteries Of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe (1794)
  12. Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811)
  13. Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)
  14. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (1814)
  15. Persuasion - Jane Austen (1818)
  16. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1818)
  17. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
  18. The Life And Opinions Of The Tomcat Murr - E T A Hoffmann (1820)
  19. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1820)
  20. The Red And The Black - Stendhal (1831)
  21. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)
  22. Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin (1833)
  23. Eugenie Grandet - Honore De Balzac (1834)
  24. Le Pere Goriot - Honore De Balzac (1834-5)
  25. The Nose - Nikolay Gogol (1836)
  26. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (1838)
  27. The Fall Of The House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
  28. The Charterhouse Of Parma - Stendhal (1839)
  29. A Hero Of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
  30. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol (1842)
  31. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)
  32. The Pit And The Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
  33. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (1844)
  34. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  35. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1845-6)
  36. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)
  37. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847)
  38. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
  39. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
  40. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  41. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857)
  42. Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov (1859)
  43. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (1859)
  44. The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins (1860)
  45. On The Eve - Ivan Turgenev (1860)
  46. Fathers And Sons - Ivan Turgenev (1862)
  47. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)
  48. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)
  49. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868)
  50. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868-9)
  51. War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)
  52. Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (1871)
  53. Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev (1872)
  54. The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov (1873)
  55. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877)
  56. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  57. Bel-Ami - Guy De Maupassant (1885)
  58. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1885)
  59. Germinal - Emile Zola (1885)
  60. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  61. The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  62. The Master Of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)
  63. The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1891)
  64. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
  65. The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895)
  66. The Island Of Dr Moreau - H G Wells (1896)
  67. Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)
  68. The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897)
  69. The War Of The Worlds - H G Wells (1898)
  70. The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  71. Call Of The Wild - Jack London (1903)
  72. The Forsythe Saga - John Galsworthy (1906)
  73. Death In Venice - Thomas Mann (1912)
  74. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (1921)
  75. We - Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924)
  76. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  77. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925)
  78. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926)
  79. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
  80. Decline And Fall - Evelyn Waugh (1928)
  81. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D H Lawrence (1928)
  82. All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
  83. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)
  84. Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
  85. Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934)
  86. At The Mountains Of Madness - H P Lovecraft (1936)
  87. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  88. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein (1937)
  89. Chess Story (The Royal Game) - Stefan Zweig (1942)
  90. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
  91. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
  92. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (1944)
  93. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  94. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (1946)
  95. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)
  96. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (1950)
  97. The Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger (1951)
  98. Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951)
  99. The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)
  100. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding (1954)
  101. The Lord Of The Rings - J R R Tolkein (1954-56)
  102. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  103. Justine - Lawrence Durrell (1957)
  104. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (1957)
  105. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
  106. Homo Faber - Max Frisch (1957)
  107. The Once And Future King - T H White (1958)
  108. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
  109. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
  110. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey (1962)
  111. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1963)
  112. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  113. The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
  114. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick (1968)
  115. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke (1968)
  116. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1968)
  117. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles (1969)
  118. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1969)
  119. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)
  120. If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino (1979)
  121. The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco (1980)
  122. Perfume - Patrick Suskind (1985)
  123. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
  124. Disgrace - J M Coetzee (1999)
  125. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (2001)

The books I tried but did not finish for various reasons:
  1. Romance Of The Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong (c.1300)
  2. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (1678-84)
  3. The 120 Days Of Sodom - Marquis de Sade (1785)
  4. Last Of The Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
  5. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)


4 comments:

  1. Yay! My first team member! :) This should be fun once more people join up.

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    1. Well, it must be, with all the cool activities you've planned! =)

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  2. Crime and Punishment is brilliant. One of my favorite Russian novels. I guess I need to look at the full list. BTW, be sure to tell me when you get around to reading The Tale of Genji. If I haven't read it by then, you can be my reason for doing so. :)

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    1. What? What have you found in Crime and Punishment? I feel so stupid sometimes when everybody tells me how perfect it is, and for me it is the most horrible thing ever, and one of the few books I haven't finished... I couldn't. It's so gloomy and pointless... Or maybe I'm really stupid. The full list is there, just click on my link! I read The Tale of Genji half a year ago, but I still want to be your reason to read it =) It's beautifully written, and medieval Japanese relationships are very unusual!

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