Friday, February 29

Books Previously Read

To make me feel better and to make my status bar not so depressing, I've decided to list the books I've already read prior to starting on this 1001 list.

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Joke – Milan Kundera
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I haven't stopped reading!

Just because I've given up on blogging doesn't mean I've stopped going through the list...

I've read:
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

I've tried to read but have put down for now:
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

I have to blog about how I liked the books I've read but for now, this will do.