Around the World in 80 Books discussion

1917
1. Anne's House of Dreams ✔
2. His Last Bow: 8 Stories
3. Summer
4. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
5. Growth of the Soil

1918
1. My Ántonia ✔
2. The Elements of Style
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Land That Time Forgot
5.The Madman

1919
1. Demian
2. My Man Jeeves
3. Winesburg, Ohio ✔
4. Rainbow Valley ✔
5. The Moon and Sixpence

1920
1. The Age of Innocence ✔
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles ✔
3. This Side of Paradise
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
5. Women in Love

1921
1. Rilla of Ingleside ✔
2. The Forsyte Saga ✔
3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
4. The Good Soldier Švejk
5. Scaramouche

1922
1. Siddhartha
2. Ulysses ✔
3. The Velveteen Rabbit ✔
4. The Beautiful and Damned
5. The Waste Land and Other Poems

1923
1. The Prophet
2. Whose Body?
3. Emily of New Moon ✔
4. Bambi
5. The Murder on the Links

1924
1. We
2. A Passage to India
3. The Man in the Brown Suit
4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
5. The Magic Mountain

1925
1. The Great Gatsby ✔
2. Mrs. Dalloway ✔
3. The Trial ✔
4. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
5. Mein Kampf

1926
1. The Sun Also Rises ✔
2. Winnie-the-Pooh ✔
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ✔
4. The Richest Man in Babylon
5. The Castle

1927
1. To the Lighthouse ✔
2. Steppenwolf
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop ✔
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey ✔
5. In Search of Lost Time

1928
1. A Room of One's Own ✔
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover ✔
3. Orlando
4. The House at Pooh Corner ✔
5. The Call of Cthulhu

1929
1. All Quiet on the Western Front ✔
2. A Farewell to Arms ✔
3. The Sound and the Fury ✔
4. Letters to a Young Poet
5. Red Harvest

1930
1. As I Lay Dying ✔
2. Murder at the Vicarage ✔
3. The Maltese Falcon ✔
4. The Little Engine That Could ✔
5. The Secret of the Old Clock ✔

1931
1. The Good Earth
2. The Joy of Cooking
3. The Story of Babar
4. The Waves
5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror ✔

1932
1. Brave New World ✔
2. Little House in the Big Woods ✔
3. Light in August
4. Cold Comfort Farm ✔
5. Journey to the End of the Night

1933
1. Down and Out in Paris and London
2. The Red Pony ✔
3. Farmer Boy
4. The Story About Ping
5. Lord Edgware Dies

1934
1. Murder on the Orient Express ✔
2. Tender Is the Night ✔
3. Mary Poppins
4. Tropic of Cancer
5. I, Claudius ✔

1935
1. Little House on the Prairie ✔
2. Tortilla Flat
3. Caddie Woodlawn
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Death in the Clouds

1936
1. Gone with the Wind ✔
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
3. The Story of Ferdinand ✔
4. The A.B.C. Murders
5. Absalom, Absalom! ✔

1937
1. The Hobbit ✔
2. Of Mice and Men ✔
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God ✔
4. Think and Grow Rich
5. Death on the Nile ✔

1938
1. Rebecca ✔
2. Anthem ✔
3. Nausea
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Caps for Sale

1939
1. The Grapes of Wrath ✔
2. And Then There Were None ✔
3. Madeline
4. The Big Sleep ✔
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake

1940
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls ✔
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ✔
3. Native Son ✔
4. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
5. The Problem of Pain

1941
1. Curious George ✔
2. Make Way for Ducklings
3. Little Town on the Prairie
4. The Black Stallion ✔
5. Evil Under the Sun ✔

1942
1. The Stranger ✔
2. The Screwtape Letters ✔
3. The Boxcar Children ✔
4. The Poky Little Puppy ✔
5. The Runaway Bunny

1943
1. The Little Prince ✔
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ✔
3. The Fountainhead
4. Mere Christianity ✔
5. The Plague

1944
1. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
2. Ficciones
3. The Razor's Edge
4. Perelandra
5. The Hundred Dresses

1945
1. Animal Farm ✔
2. Pippi Longstocking ✔
3. The Great Divorce
4. Brideshead Revisited ✔
5. The Glass Menagerie ✔

1946
1. Man's Search for Meaning ✔
2. All the King's Men
3. The Pianist
4. Hiroshima
5. Autobiography of a Yogi

1947
1. The Diary of a Young Girl ✔
2. Goodnight Moon ✔
3. A Streetcar Named Desire ✔
4. The Pearl
5. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ✔

1948
1. Corduroy
2. I Capture the Castle ✔
3. The Pursuit of God
4. Cry, the Beloved Country
5. Blueberries for Sal

1949
1. 1984 ✔
2. The Martian Chronicles
3. Death of a Salesman ✔
4. The Intelligent Investor
5. The Second Sex

1950
1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ✔
2. I, Robot
3. The Story of Art
4. A Town Like Alice ✔
5. A Murder Is Announced ✔

1951
1. The Catcher in the Rye ✔
2. Foundation
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Day of the Triffids

1952
1. Charlotte's Web ✔
2. The Old Man and the Sea ✔
3. East of Eden
4. Invisible Man (Ellison) ✔
5. Waiting for Godot

1953
1. Fahrenheit 451 ✔
2. The Crucible
3. The Silver Chair
4. Nine Stories
5. Childhood's End ✔

1954
1. The Fellowship of the Ring ✔
2. Lord of the Flies ✔
3. The Two Towers ✔
4. The Horse and His Boy
5. I Am Legend and Other Stories

1955
1. Lolita ✔
2. The Return of the King ✔
3. The Magician's Nephew
4. Harold and the Purple Crayon
5. Beezus and Ramona

1956
1. The Chronicles of Narnia ✔
2. The Last Battle
3. Howl and Other Poems
4. The Fall
5. Old Yeller

1957
1. Atlas Shrugged
2. On the Road
3. The Cat in the Hat ✔
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ✔
5. Franny and Zooey

1958
1. Night ✔
2. Flowers for Algernon ✔
3. Things Fall Apart ✔
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1959
1. A Separate Peace ✔
2. Starship Troopers
3. Naked Lunch
4. The Sirens of Titan
5. The Haunting of Hill House ✔

1960
1. To Kill a Mockingbird ✔
2. Green Eggs and Ham ✔
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. Are You My Mother?
5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

1961
1. Catch-22 ✔
2. James and the Giant Peach
3. Where the Red Fern Grows
4. Stranger in a Strange Land ✔
5. The Phantom Tollbooth

1962
1. A Wrinkle in Time ✔
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ✔
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Man in the High Castle
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes ✔

1963
1. Where the Wild Things Are ✔
2. The Bell Jar ✔
3. Cat's Cradle
4. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
5. Amelia Bedelia

1964
1. The Giving Tree
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ✔
3. A Moveable Feast
4. The Book of Three
5. Harriet the Spy ✔

1965
1. Dune
2. In Cold Blood ✔
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4.Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
5. The Crying of Lot 49

1966
1. The Master and Margarita ✔
2. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
4. Wide Sargasso Sea ✔
5. Valley of the Dolls

1967
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude ✔
2. The Outsiders
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ✔
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
5. Rosemary's Baby

1968
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey ✔
3. A Wizard of Earthsea ✔
4. The Last Unicorn
5. Dragonflight

1969
1. Slaughterhouse-Five ✔
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ✔
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
4. The Godfather
5. The Andromeda Strain

1970
1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret ✔
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
3. The Bluest Eye ✔
4. Ringworld
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

1971
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ✔
2. Go Ask Alice
3. The Lorax
4. The Hiding Place ✔
5. The Exorcist

1972
1. Watership Down ✔
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day✔
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
5. All Creatures Great and Small ✔

1973
1. The Princess Bride ✔
2. Breakfast of Champions
3. Rendezvous with Rama
4. Sybil
5. A Wind in the Door

1974
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends ✔
2. Carrie ✔
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ✔
4. Helter Skelter
5. The Forever War ✔

1975
1. 'Salem's Lot ✔
2. Tuck Everlasting
3. Shōgun
4. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
5. Forever . . .

1976
1. Interview with the Vampire
2. The Selfish Gene
3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5. Children of Dune

1977
1. The Shining ✔
2. Bridge to Terabithia
3. The Thorn Birds
4. The Silmarillion
5. The Amityville Horror

1978
1. The Stand ✔
2. The World According to Garp ✔
3. The Westing Game
4. Night Shift ✔
5. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

1979
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ✔
2. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
3. The Neverending Story
4. The Dead Zone ✔
5. Flowers in the Attic ✔

1980
1. The Bourne Identity ✔
2. The Name of the Rose ✔
3. A People's History of the United States ✔
4. A Confederacy of Dunces
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear ✔

1981
1. A Light in the Attic ✔
2. Red Dragon
3. Cujo ✔
4. The One Minute Manager ✔
5. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1982
1. The Color Purple ✔
2. The Gunslinger ✔
3. The BFG ✔
4. The Mists of Avalon ✔
5. The House of the Spirits ✔

1983
1. Pet Sematary ✔
2. The Color of Magic
3. The Witches
4. Christine ✔
5. Alanna: The First Adventure

1984
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being ✔
2. The Hunt for Red October ✔
3. Neuromancer
4. Thinner ✔
5. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

1985
1. Ender's Game
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
4. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
5. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

1986
1. The Handmaid's Tale ✔
2. It ✔
3. Hatchet
4, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History ✔
5. Howl's Moving Castle

1987
1. Watchmen ✔
2. Misery ✔
3. Beloved ✔
4. A Brief History of Time ✔
5. Norwegian Wood

1988
1. The Alchemist
2. Matilda
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Wall and Piece
5. The Queen of the Damned

1989
1. A Time to Kill ✔
2. The Pillars of the Earth
3. The Joy Luck Club ✔
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
5. Number the Stars

1990
1. Good Omens
2. The Eye of the World
3. V for Vendetta
4. Oh, The Places You'll Go! ✔
5. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

1991
1. Outlander ✔
2. Jurassic Park
3. The Firm ✔
4. American Psycho
5. Sophie's World

1992
1. Like Water for Chocolate ✔
2. The Pelican Brief ✔
3. She's Come Undone
4. The Secret History ✔
5. Dragonfly in Amber ✔

1993
1. The Giver ✔
2. Along Came a Spider ✔
3. The Client ✔
4. The Virgin Suicides
5. Girl, Interrupted

1994
1. One for the Money
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story ✔
4. Wizard's First Rule
5. Snow Falling on Cedars ✔

1995
1. The Golden Compass ✔
2. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
3. A Child Called "It"
4. Kiss the Girls ✔
5. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

1996
1. A Game of Thrones
2. The Notebook
3. Bridget Jones's Diary ✔
4. Into the Wild ✔
5. Fight Club

1997
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ✔
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
3. Tuesdays with Morrie ✔
4. The Red Tent
5. Ella Enchanted

1998
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ✔
2. Holes
3. A Clash of Kings
4. The Poisonwood Bible ✔
5. Digital Fortress

1999
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ✔
2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower ✔
3. A Walk to Remember
4. Girl with a Pearl Earring
5. Speak ✔

2000
1. Angels & Demons
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ✔
3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day
5. Confessions of a Shopaholic

2001
1. Life of Pi
2. The Secret Life of Bees ✔
3. American Gods ✔
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ✔
5. Deception Point

2002
1. The Lovely Bones ✔
2. Eragon
3. Middlesex
4. Coraline
5. The Devil in the White City

2003
1. The Kite Runner ✔
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3. The Time Traveler's Wife ✔
4. The Da Vinci Code ✔
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ✔

2004
1. My Sister's Keeper ✔
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire ✔
3. Something Borrowed ✔
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
5. Cloud Atlas

2005
1. Twilight ✔
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ✔
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. The Book Thief ✔
5. The Lightning Thief ✔

2006
1. Eat, Pray, Love ✔
2. Water for Elephants ✔
3. New Moon
4. The Road ✔
5. The Sea of Monsters ✔

2007
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. City of Bones
3. Eclipse
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns ✔
5. Thirteen Reasons Why ✔

2008
1. The Hunger Games ✔
2. Breaking Dawn
3. The Host
4. Paper Towns
5. City of Ashes

2009
1. Catching Fire ✔
2. The Help ✔
3. The Maze Runner
4. If I Stay ✔
5. City of Glass

2010
1. Mockingjay ✔
2. Clockwork Angel
3. Room ✔
4. Matched
5. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

2011
1. Divergent ✔
2. Fifty Shades of Grey ✔
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ✔
4. Steve Jobs
5. Bossypants

2012
1. The Fault in Our Stars ✔
2. Gone Girl ✔
3. Insurgent ✔
4. Me Before You
5. Cinder

2013
1. Eleanor & Park ✔
2. Allegiant ✔
3. The Goldfinch
4. Fangirl
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane ✔

2014
1. All the Light We Cannot See ✔
2. The Martian ✔
3. We Were Liars
4. Yes Please
5. Big Little Lies

2015
1. The Girl on the Train
2. Red Queen
3. The Nightingale
4. Go Set a Watchman
5. All the Bright Places

2016* (Will continue to update through 2017)
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
2. When Breath Becomes Air ✔
3. Truly Madly Guilty
4. The Underground Railroad ✔
5. The Woman in Cabin 10

2017* (Will continue to update through 2018)
1. Into the Water
2. The Hate U Give ✔
3. Little Fires Everywhere
4. A Court of Wings and Ruins
5. Turtles All the Way Down

Now I've got to sit down and determine which ones I've read. Fun to see how many out of these 500+.

I've checked off the ones I've read and by my count I've read 212 as of today. Some of the others I have on my TBR, some I've never heard of and will have to check out, and some I know that I have no interest in and will never read. So my challenge begins.

You have done really well. A lot of the ones you haven't read are children's books and quick reads. I notice you are like me and weak on the newer books.

I love the check marks. How do you do that?

Diane wrote: "You have done really well. A lot of the ones you haven't read are children's books and quick reads. I notice you are like me and weak on the newer books.

I love the check marks. How do you do that?"

In HTML, check marks are & #10003 or & #10004 without the space between the & and the #.

And no, I don't read lots of current fiction.

It is easy to add books to this challenge by choosing some children's books. This week I added:

1922 - The Velveteen Rabbit
1936 - The Story of Ferdinand
1942 - The Poky Little Puppy

I loved the first two and I'm sorry I didn't read them as a child. So my total is now 215

The Velveteen Rabbit has always been a favourite-- and I read it first as a mom.