Now, I love a good list, so there was simply no way that I was going to go through Boxall's findings and not tally up my score. Like Ms. Fulton, I used this handy-dandy spreadsheet to help me out, courtesy of Arukiyomi, and got some pretty shameful results: I've only read 136 of the 1001 books, or 13.59%, and some of them are just flat-out inexplicable. For instance, why is it that I've read Interview with the Vampire and not any Joyce whatsoever?

Anyway, here's my list, though I should add that I never finished The Magic Mountain, mostly because it seemed like it was never going to end.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
5. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
6. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
7. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
9. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
11. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
12. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
13. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
14. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
15. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
16. Animal Farm by George Orwell
17. Atonement by Ian McEwan
18. Beloved by Toni Morrison
19. Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
20. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
21. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
22. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
23. Burmese Days by George Orwell
24. Candide by Voltaire
25. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
26. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
27. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
29. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
30. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
31. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
32. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
33. Crash by J. G. Ballard
34. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
35. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
36. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
37. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
38. Dracula by Bram Stoker
39. Emma by Jane Austen
40. Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
41. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
42. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
43. Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
44. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
45. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
46. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
47. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
48. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
49. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
50. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
51. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
52. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
53. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
54. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
55. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
56. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
57. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
58. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
59. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
60. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
61. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
62. Howards End by E. M. Forster
63. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
64. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
65. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
66. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
67. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
68. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
69. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
70. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
71. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
72. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
73. Like Life by Lorrie Moore
74. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
75. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
76. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
77. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
78. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
79. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
80. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
81. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
82. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
83. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
84. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
85. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
86. Neuromancer by William Gibson
87. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
88. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
89. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
90. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
91. Persuasion by Jane Austen
92. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
93. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
94. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
95. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
96. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
97. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
98. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
99. Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
100. Regeneration by Pat Barker
101. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
102. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
103. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
104. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
105. The Shining by Stephen King
106. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
107. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
108. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
109. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
110. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
111. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
112. Sula by Toni Morrison
113. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
114. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
115. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
116. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
117. Them by Joyce Carol Oates
118. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
119. The Third Man by Graham Greene
120. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
121. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
122. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
123. The Trial by Franz Kafka
124. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
125. Underworld by Don DeLillo
126. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
127. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
128. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
129. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
130. Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons
131. White Noise by Don DeLillo
132. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
133. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
134. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
135. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
136. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

...why not commit to the 1% Well Read challenge? Ten books from the list below before the end of February 2009

The 1% Well Read challenge:

The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. For you non-math people, 10 out of 1001 is approximately 1%, hence the title. The challenge will run from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009. You may change your list at any time and cross-posting to other challenges is permitted. The only requirement is that your ten book choices must be on the '1001 List.'

I'm already 10 days behind! I see so many books on that list that I want to read, and so many authors who are new to me. I'm not going to pick any particular ten, but I feel good knowing the list is there to refer to.

I am telling you - I am really enjoying signing up for these challenges.  It is helping me put a dent in books on my TBR list that have been on there for WAY too long.  This one is really great - here are the rules:

The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. For you non-math people, 10 out of 1001 is approximately 1%, hence the title. The challenge will run from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009.

You may change your list at any time and cross-posting to other challenges is permitted. The only requirement is that your ten book choices must be on the ‘1001 List‘. Another helpful tool is an Excel spreadsheet by Arukiyoma that is found here.

To sign up visit 1% Well-Read Rules and Signup.  Here are my 10:

1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison
4. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
5. The World According to Garp by John Irving
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
8. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
9. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
10. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

All you have to do is read ten books in ten months...that's one book a month. The books are from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. If you do the math that comes out to about 1% of the books on the list. The challenges began on May 1, 2008 and goes through February 28, 2009.

I've been keeping track of the books I've read on this list for some time now, and I've already read 5.99%, so I'm excited to add another percentage point to that. I've gone through the list and selected the ten books I plan to read for this challenge. And here's the list:

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
2. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
3. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
4. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
5. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
7. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
8. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (yes, I haven't read this yet)
10. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides

E vi domando:

1. Quanti di questi 1001 avete letto?

2. Chi manca e mentre dovrebbe esserci?

3. Chi c'è e non ci dovrebbe essere?

*giuliaduepuntozero