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Did you know that there is a book and a list called 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die?

This challenge is simple.
Check out the list here, and decide how many you would like to read within a year from your start date. You can also look at the list on this website 1001 Book List which lists the book by publication dates.

You can always do this challenge again the next year and try to read more from the list!


Note:
In 2011 we started this challenge, and we've now decided to start a new thread for the challenge to freshen it up a bit! You can find the old thread here

Reading Challenges ~ Emerald Coin

Earn your Emerald Coins with Reading Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon reading 25 or more books from this list in one year


Learn about Gem coins here

Participants:

Amy (Done)
Amy(Round 2)
Amy Round 4
Annina(Done)
Annina(Round 2)
Annina Round 3

Beth DONE
Beth- ROUND 2
Brooke

Cai
Cai Round 2
Cheryl
Christina (Done)
Christina(Round 2) DONE
Christinia Round 3
Claire (Done)
Claire (Round 2) DONE
Claire Round 3
CiCi Miller
Colleen

Eli
Emma
Erika
Ezgi

H.R.

Jennifer
Joy
Juliana

Karrie
Kate S
Katherine
☘KathyD☘
Keely
Kim E.
Kristen

Louise

Maddie
Marianne
Melissa (ladybug)
Melissa (ladybug) Round 2
Melissa ( ladybug) Round 3
Navi
Nele

Q

R~wka

Suzanne

Tahmina
Tracy

Viji

Reserved

NBRC 1001 Books challenge:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge

01. Atonement by Ian McEwan 3/30/17
02. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 4/23/17
03. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 8/18/17
04. 1984 by George Orwell 8/20/17
05. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 8/22/17
06. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 9/8/17
07. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 10/5/17
08. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 10/10/17

I would like to read 50 of these this year.

Start Date: 1/12/16
Progress: 35/50 UPDATED 7/29/17

1. Shame by Salman Rushdie 1/14/17
2. The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie 1/21/17
3. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 1/21/17
4. Silence by Shūsaku Endō 1/24/17
5. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 1/24/17
6. The Human Stain by Philip Roth 2/4/17
7. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 2/16/17
8. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells 2/27/17
9. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 3/18/17
10. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy 3/25/17
11. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 3/26/17
12. Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre 3/28/17
13. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 3/30/17
14. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 4/8/17
15. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4/13/17
16. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 4/22/17
17. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera 4/22/17
18. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 4/23/17
19. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 4/24/17
20. Strait is the Gate by André Gide 4/26/17
21. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 4/27/17
22. The Names by Don DeLillo 5/4/17
23. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 5/5/17
24. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 5/12/17
25. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 5/7/17
26. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 5/14/17
27. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 5/25/17
28. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 5/31/17
29. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt 6/11/17
30. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré 6/19/17
31. The Plague by Albert Camus 6/24/17
32. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 6/28/17
33. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 6/28/17
34. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald 6/30/17
35. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 7/16/17
36. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) by Émile Zola

2017 Challenge

1/1/17-12/31/17
Invisible Man 2/6/17
Madame Bovary 6/1/17
Dracula 6/9/17
The Hobbit 6/11/17
Treasure Island 9/13/17
Life of Pi 9/30/17
A Christmas Carol 12/31/17

I'll join in. Lets start with 12.

NBRC 1001 Books Before You Die Challenge
Feb 6,2017 to February 6, 2018
0/12

I'll join ith 25. I have been trying to read some more off that list.
I'll add them as I go.
1/1//2017-1/1/2018
finished 29/25
1. finished 5/1/2017
2. finished 6/1/2017
3. finished 10/1/2017
4. finished 16/1/2017
5. finished february 2017
6. finished 17/3/2017
7. finished 18/4/2017
8. finished 20/4/2017
9. finished 11/2/2017
10, A Tale of Two Cities finished may 2017
11. In ongenade finished 8/6/2017
12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy finished 13/6/2017
13. The Time Machine finished 13/6/2017
14. The Call of the Wild finished 10/7/2017
15. The God of Small Things finished 15/7/2017
16. The Bell Jar finished 13/8/2017
17. The Three Musketeers finished 26/8/2017
18. Everything Is Illuminated finished 28/8/2017
19. After the Quake finished 30/8/2017
20. Sputnik Sweetheart finished 10/9/2017
21. Half of a Yellow Sun finished 13/9/2017
22. The Virgin Suicides finished 3/10/2017
23. The Age of Innocence finished 10/10/2017
24. The Sun Also Rises finished 7/11/2017
25. The Cement Garden finished 23/11/2017
26. Dead Souls finished 26/11/2017
27.Pride and Prejudice finished 22/12/2017
28. Cat's Cradle finished 31/12/2017
29. The Elegance of the Hedgehog finished 2/12/2017

I'm going to aim for 5

1001 Books to Read Before You Die - 2017

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - 3/24/17
2. North and South - 4/6/17
3. Northanger Abbey - 4/14/17
4. The War of the Worlds - 4/19/17
5. Rebecca - 6/15/17

1001 Books to Read Before You Die - 2018

1. Casino Royale - 9/2/18

Ok, 25 books it is for the coin then

NBRC's 2017 - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
25 out of 25 books read

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Completed:

I am adding my 2018 list with this one. Goal of 25 this year.

2017 1001 Challenge
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Duration: 1/1/17-1/1/18

1. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
3. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
4. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
6. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift]
7. Cain by Jose Saramago
8. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
9. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
10. Embers by Sándor Márai
11. Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin Cao
12. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
13. Howards End by E. M. Forster
14. Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
15. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
16. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
17. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
18. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
19. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
20. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
21. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
22. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
23. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
24. Amerika by Franz Kafka
25. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
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(view spoiler)[2018 1001 BYMRBYD Challenge
Duration: 1/1/18-12/31/18 (Goal 25)

1. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
2. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
4. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
6. Adam Bede by George Eliot
7. Cider House Rules by John Irving
8. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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2019 1001 BYMRBYD Challenge
Duration: 1/1/19-12/31/19 (Goal 25)

1. I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
2. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
3. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
4. White Noise by Don DeLillo
5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace (hide spoiler)]

2020 1001 BYMRBYD Challenge
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January 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
27/25
1. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
4. The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
7. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
8. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
10. The Graduate by Charles Webb
11. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
13. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
14. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
15. Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
16. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
17. The Ambassadors by Henry James
18. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
19. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
20. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
21. Rob Roy by Walter Scott
22. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
23. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
24. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
25. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
26. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
27. The Shining by Stephen King
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2021 1001 BYMRBYD Challenge
21/25
1. The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
2. The Castle by Franz Kafka
3. Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
4. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
6. Hell by Henri Barbusse
7. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
8. The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
9. Utopia by Thomas More
10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
11. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
13. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
14. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
15. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kudera
16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
17. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
18. Mother by Maxim Gorky
19. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
20. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
21. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

NBRC's 2017 - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Read: 3/25

1. Alice in Wonderland [12.02.2017 | ★★★★✰]
2. A Christmas Carol [04.03.2017 | ★★★★★]
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [12.06.2017 | ★★★★✰]

My shelf

I'm going to try this challenge for 2017.

8/25 done

1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Read 1/26 *****
2. The Bluest Eye Read 2/12 *****
3. The Summer Book Read 2/23 ****
4. Breakfast of Champions Read 2/24 *****
5. High-Rise Read 3/2 ****
6. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976)
Read 3/5/2017 *****
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) Read 3/14/2017 ****
8. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White (1982) ***

Welcome to the challenge everyone!

I've linked all of your challenge posts at the top for you convenience.

Good Luck!

※◈◈♡♡♡♡ 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ♡♡♡♡◈◈※

The 1st set of books read:
1. The Little Prince ---------------- 7/2/17
2. The Arabian Nights ---------------- 26/2/17
3. The Great Gatsby ---------------- 30/3/17
4. Cold Comfort Farm ---------------- 30/3/17
5. Wuthering Heights ---------------- 5/5/17
6. The War of the Worlds ---------------- 10/3/17
7. Ulysses and Dubliners -------------------------- 15/5/17
8. Madame Bovary ---------------- 20/9/17
9. The Once and Future King ---------------- 17/8/17
10. Oliver Twist ---------------- 16/10/17
11. Tarzan of the Apes ---------------- 25/1/18
12. Mansfield Park ---------------- 1/1/18
13. Memoirs of a Geisha ---------------- 11/5/18
14. The Return of Tarzan ---------------- 1/2/18
15. The Beasts of Tarzan ---------------- 5/2/18
16. The Son of Tarzan ---------------- 14/2/18

Welcome Katherine!

2017 Challenge 07/02/2017 - 06/02/2018

Aiming for 12 books minimum.

1. 21/02/17
2. 04/04/17
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge

Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

1. Treasure Island
2. The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. The Feast of the Goat
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
5. A Visit from the Goon Squad
6. Dead Souls
7. The Old Man and the Sea
8. The Power and the Glory
9. The Marriage Plot
10. The Godfather
11. On the Road
12. Blonde
13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
14. What I Loved
15. Crime and Punishment
16. The Shining
17. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Welcome to the challenge Cai & Annina!

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

I'm copying my ongoing list from the old thread here.

Read: 31

1. The Shining by Stephen King FINISHED 1/5/17
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis FINISHED 1/6/17
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus FINISHED 1/6/17
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien FINISHED 1/12/17
5. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton FINISHED 1/29/17
6. City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol FINISHED 2/6/17
7. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice FINISHED 2/14/17
8. News from Nowhere by William Morris FINISHED 2/17/17
9. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene FINISHED 2/27/17
10. Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo Jose Cela FINISHED 3/21/17
11. Concrete by Thomas Bernhard FINISHED 4/7/17
12. Survival in Auschwitz (aka If This is a Man) by Primo Levi FINISHED 4/26/17
13. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid FINISHED 4/30/17
14. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez FINISHED 5/16/17
15. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino FINISHED 5/26/17
16. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy FINISHED 6/4/17
17. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi FINISHED 6/15/17
18. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee FINISHED 7/1/17
19. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry FINISHED 7/8/17
20. Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide FINISHED 7/30/17
21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey FINISHED 8/19/17
22. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa FINISHED 8/23/17
23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad FINISHED 9/23/17
24. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED 9/28/17
25. Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse FINISHED 10/4/17
26. The Once and Future King by T.H. White FINISHED 10/12/17
27. The Wonderful O by James Thurber FINISHED 10/24/17
28. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming FINISHED 12/10/17
29. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs FINISHED 12/11/17
30. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells FINISHED 12/23/17
31. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson FINISHED 12/25/17

i'm going to try this...but start at five books since i haven't looked over the list yet

I'm going to aim for 25

1001 Books to Read Before You Die

(From 03.12.17 to 03.11.18)

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1001 Books You Must Read-NBRC Style
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2017
Status: 4/12

1 The Color Purple 2/24/17
2 The Grapes of Wrath 3/21/17
3 The Hobbit 4/4/17
4 The Handmaid's Tale 2/27/17
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CURRENTLY READING
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

BOOKS ON MY TBR LIST
1984 ___ The Black Dahlia
Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park
The Great Gatsby ___ A Room With A View
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
The Catcher in the Rye ___The Reader
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in Time of Cholera
Complicity___ Brighton Rock
Anna Karenina ___ Remains of the Day
Slaughterhouse - Five___ Henry James - several
The Bell Jar ___ Pippi Longstacking
Catch - 22 ___ All The Pretty Horses
A Christmas Carol ___ Day of the Dolphin
The Stranger___ Cloud Atlas
Breakfast at Tiffany's ___ Beloved
Atonement ___ Sula
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
A Clockwork Orange ___Lolita
Naked Lunch___ Walden
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
The Sorrow of Belgium___ Myra Breckinridge
Crime and Punishment___ The Graduate
Rebecca___ The Picture of Dorian Gray
Corrections, Freedom___ Several of Virginia Woolf
A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Cry, The Beloved Country

1001 Books You Must Read Challenge

Duration: from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

I have a few on my shelves, so I'll add them here to keep them in mind.
▪ The Great Gatsby
▪ The Hobbit
▪ Brave New World
▪ One Hundred Years of Solitude
▪ Great Expectations
▪ Lolita
▪ Perfume
▪ Madame Bovary
▪ The Name of the Rose
▪ The Call of the Wild
▪ Ulysses

Books Read:
1. Persuasion

Welcome to the challenge everyone ☺

Wow!! This is great. I haven't started yet but I'm going to go look this up right now, and begin researching which books to read from the list!

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1001 Books You Must Read Challenge

Duration: from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Let me see how many I could cover this year!

Duration: 1/1/2017-12/31/2017
Goal: 25 Books
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Welcome to the challenge everyone!

I believe I've linked everyone's challenge post at the top of the thread, but let me know if I've missed anyone.

Good Luck!

NBRC 1001 Books Before You Die Challenge
May 1,2017 to May 1, 2018
The list in spreadsheet form (link from the Listopia page): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Round 1: 8 books read by May 1, 2018
The Lord of the Rings 11/2/2017 (reread)
Invisible Man 10/6/2017
The Big Sleep 11/13/2017
The Player of Games 10/13/2017
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9/7/2017
The Once and Future King 12/24/2017 (reread)
Alias Grace 1/11/2018
The Moonstone 4/18/2018

Round 2: May 1, 2018 to May 1, 2019
1. Invisible Cities 5/28/2018
2. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 8/21/2018
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (reread)
4. Orlando 11/17/2018

possibilities:

2000s: 2
Under the Skin
Cloud Atlas

1980s: 3
The Satanic Verses
Beloved
Midnight's Children (reread)

1950s-1970s: 10
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Sound and the Fury
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gravity's Rainbow
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Solaris
The Drowned World
The Third Policeman
The Master and Margarita

1900-1950: 10
Of Mice and Men (reread)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pale Fire
The Secret Agent
We
The Maltese Falcon
War with the Newts
The Glass Bead Game
Thank You, Jeeves
The Kingdom of This World

19th c: 12
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (reread)
Vanity Fair
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Red and the Black
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
Bleak House (reread)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (reread)
Daniel Deronda

1700s:
Gulliver's Travels

pre-1700s: 9
Metamorphoses
The Golden Ass
Don Quixote
Monkey: The Journey to the West
Aesop's Fables
One Thousand and One Nights
The Lusiads
Chaereas and Callirhoe
Aithiopika
Gargantua and Pantagruel

Welcome to the challenge Beth!

I'll jump in! I'll be aiming for 25, as well.
I re-started at the beginning of the year and am just going to do calendar years because it's easier for me to track. :)
(My Challenges.)

Duration: Annual until complete

Previous Years: 16 / 1,001
(view spoiler)[· Pre-2017:
1. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (Fall, 2002)
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
4. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (Fall, 2014)
5. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
6. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (Spring, 2003)
7. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel (Spring, 2002)
8. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
10. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Spring, 2003)
11. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
12. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Fall, 2014)
13. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
14. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells (2016)

· 2017:
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (7/17/17)


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Completed 2018: 2/25
17. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (2/15/18)
18. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (6/24/18)
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Welcome to the challenge Colleen!

I have completed my goal for the year. Thanks for the Challenge. I look forward to doing it again next year!

Congratulations Cheryl!!

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 12, 2018
FINISHED

25/25 Completed

1. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell FINISHED 1/4/18
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe FINISHED 1/6/18
3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison FINISHED 1/17/18
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin FINISHED 1/22/18
5. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED 1/23/18
6. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene FINISHED 1/25/18
7. Justine by Lawrence Durrell FINISHED 1/29/18
8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra FINISHED 2/5/18
9. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED 2/22/18
10. Black Box by Amos Oz FINISHED 2/24/18
11. Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger FINISHED 3/26/18
12. The Plague by Albert Camus FINISHED 3/31/18
13. The Cross by Sigrid Undset FINISHED 4/1/18
14. Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric FINISHED 4/12/18
15. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien FINISHED 5/2/18
16. Neuromancer by William Gibson FINISHED 5/4/18
17. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym FINISHED 6/7/18
18. Middlemarch by George Eliot FINISHED 6/25/18
19. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende FINISHED 7/13/18
20. Le tigri di Mompracem by Emilio Salgari FINISHED 8/24/18
21. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic FINISHED 9/28/18
22. The Sea by John Banville FINISHED 11/9/18
23. Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano FINISHED 12/2/18
24. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton FINISHED 12/11/18
25. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera FINISHED 12/12/18

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge

Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018

1. The Shipping News
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Idiot
4. The Yellow Wall-Paper
5. A Passage to India
6. The Stone Diaries
7. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
8.Howards End
9. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories

Welcome (back ) Amy & Annina.

Congratulations Amy!

Jan 1 2018 - Dec 31 2018
To Read Before You Die Challenge
Going to try and read 10 books this year.
10/10

1. The Color Purple 1/31/18
2. Pride and Prejudice 2/23/18
3. The Shining 5/23/18
4. Frankenstein 5/27/18
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5/31/18
6. Jane Eyre 7/31/18
7. The Little Prince 12/24/18
8. The Purloined Letter
9. The Pit and the Pendulum
10. The Fall of the House of Usher
#8, #9, #10 Poe books all read in 1 combined book... The Complete Tales and Poems, finished 12/31/18

Welcome to the challenge; Christina!

Challenge Posts are updated above

42/40 finished
1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Finished: 1/1/2018
2. Rituelen Cees Nooteboom
Finished 2/1/2018
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Pages: 256 p. Date read:13/1/2018 Rating:5 stars
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Pages:253 p. Date read: 22/1/2018 Rating: 4 stars
5.The Plot Against America Philip Roth
Pages:391 p. Date read: 23/1/2018 Rating:4 stars
6. Silas Marner George Eliot
Pages:240 p. Date read: 4/2/2018 4 stars
7.To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Pages:385 p. Date red:2/1/2018 Rating: 5 stars
8. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Pages:507 p. Date read: 29/1/2018 Rating: 4 stars
9.Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 448 p. 29 march 2018 5 stars
10.Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 320 p. 27 march 2018 4 stars
11.A Severed Head Iris Murdoch 210 p. 20 march 2018 5 stars
12. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 307 p. 8 may 2018 5 stars
13.The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
128 p. 15 march 2018 5 stars
14.In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 144 p. 1/3/2018 Rating: 5 stars
15. The Awakening Kate Chopin 195 p. Read:5 march2018 4 stars
16. Ignorance Milan Kundera Pages: 195 p. Date read:13/2/2018 Rating:5 stars
17.Black Dogs Ian McEwan Pages: 214 p. Date read:20/2/2018 Rating: 4 stars
18.Enduring Love Ian McEwan Pages:274 p. Date read: 21/2/2018 Rating: 4 stars
19.Life of Pi Yann Martel Pages:352 p. Date read:24/2/2018 Rating 3 stars
20. Emma Jane Austen 514 p. 20 may 2018 4 stars
21. Orlando Virginia Woolf. 345 p. 5 april 2018 5 stars
22. Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 208 p. 10 april 2018
23. Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster 192 p. 29 april 2018 4 stars
24. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 150 p. 24 september 2018 5 stars
25. Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 335 p. 13 september 2018 4 stars
26. The Bell Iris Murdoch 316 p. 8 september 2018 4 stars
27. The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 128 p. 7 september 2018 3 stars
28. The Gathering Anne Enright 261 p. 5 september 2018 4 stars
29. Spring Torrents Ivan Turgenev 239 p. 2 september 2018 4 stars
30. White Noise Don DeLillo 320 p. 13 august 2018 4 stars
31.Saturday Ian McEwan 289 p. 24 august 2018 5 stars
32. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 360 p. 31 august 2018 5 stars
33. What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 501 p. 7 july 2018 5 stars
34. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières 534 p. 29 july 2019 4 stars
35. Ontbijt voor kampioenen Kurt Vonnegut 280 p. 2 june 2018 5 stars
36. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 190 p. 16 june 2018 5 stars
37. De tijgerkat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 312 p. 22 june 2018 4 stars
38. Winter Ali Smith 336 p. 11 november 2018 4 stars
39. Embers Sándor Márai 214 p. 15 november 2018 4 stars
40. The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 224 p. 24 november 2018 2 stars
41. The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells 224 p. 25 october 2018 3 stars
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 128 p. 27 october 2018 3 stars

Claire wrote: "I finished 29/25 (message 9)
This year I go for 40,. Do I need a new post or link?"

Welcome (back ) Claire! You are linked above in the challenge posts.

And congratulations!

I would like to try this challenge. Not sure how far I will get in this but will try the 25!!

Finish: 01.02.19

Read: 9/25

1 -- #24 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 02.07.18
2 -- # 820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 01.28.18
3 -- #689. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 03.01.18
4 -- #1001. Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus 03.25.18
5 -- # 932. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 04.07.18
6 -- # 897. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 05.13.18
7 -- # 938. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 09.30.18
8 -- # 494. The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) by J.R.R. Tolkien 10.08.18
9 -- # 937. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 10.25.18

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January 1, 2018 - *when it's finished* | 0 of 1,001 Books Read
My Entry | On My Goodreads Challenge
(If I don't remember well enough a book that is already on the list, I will reread it)

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Welcome Juliana!

Let's try again!

Duration: 06/02/18 - 05/02/19