That book list

Of the 1001, I’ve read:

1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Fury, Salman Rushdie
3. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
4. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
5. Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
6. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
7. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
8. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
9. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
10. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
11. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
12. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
13. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
14. The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
15. The World According to Garp, John Irving
16. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
17. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
18. Crash, J. G. Ballard
19. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
20. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
21. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
22. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
23. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
24. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
25. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
26. Animal Farm, George Orwell
27. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
28. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
29. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Dracula, Bram Stoker
32. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
33. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
34. Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
35. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
36. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
37. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Emma, Jane Austen
40. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
41. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
42. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

Of the 1001, I’d like to read:

1. Drop City, T.C. Boyle
2. Under The Skin, Michel Faber
3. Complicity, Iain Banks
4. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
5. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
7. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
8. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
9. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
10. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
12. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Of the 1001, the books I read and couldn’t stand:

1. Atonement, Ian McEwan
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
3. Neuromancer, William Gibson
4. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
5. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
6. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
7. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Having read just 49 of the 1001, I suppose that’s pretty shite. There’s so much interesting stuff that’s been published and isn’t on the list, though.

• 13 May 2008

• Thinking