Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

Thanks for setting up this section for us to track our progress. I am using the full list - all editions.

Books read before I joined GoodReads I have not written reviews for these books:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
6. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review (re-read in 2025)
7. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
14. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
16. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
17. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
18. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
19. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
21. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
22. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
23. Emma by Jane Austen
24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 4/23/24 - 4* - My Review (re-read in 2024)
25. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
26.a) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
26.b) The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
26.c) The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
28. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
29. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
30. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
31. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
32. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
33. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
34. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
35. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
36. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
37. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
38. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
40. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
41. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
42. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
43. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
44. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
45. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review (re-read in 2023)
47. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
48. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
49. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
50. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
51. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
52. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
53. Dracula by Bram Stoker
54. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
55. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
56. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
57. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
58. Contact by Carl Sagan
59. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
60. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
61. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
62. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
63. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
64. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
66. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
67. Silas Marner by George Eliot
68. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
69. Candide by Voltaire
70. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
71. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
72. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
73. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
74. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
75. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
76. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
77. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
78. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
79. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
80. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
81. The Trial by Franz Kafka
82. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
83. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre'
84. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
85. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
86. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
87. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
88. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
89. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
90. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
91. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
92. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
93. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
94. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
95. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
96. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
98. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
99. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
100. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
101. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
102. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
103. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
104. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
105. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
106. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
107. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
108. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
109. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
110. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
111. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
112. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
113. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
114. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
115. The World According to Garp by John Irving
116. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
117. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
118. The Graduate by Charles Webb
119. The Plague by Albert Camus
120. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
121. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
122. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
123. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
124. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
125. Howards End by E.M. Forster
126. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
127. The Shining by Stephen King
128. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
129. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review - re-read
130. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
131. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
132. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
133. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
134. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
135. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
136. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
137. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
138. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
139. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
140. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
141. Persuasion by Jane Austen
142. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
143. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
144. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
145. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
146. The Collector by John Fowles
147. The Magus by John Fowles
148. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
149. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
150. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
151. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
152. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
153. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
154. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
155. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
156. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
157. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
158. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
159. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
160. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
161. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
162. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Read in 2016:

163. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - 3 stars - My Review
164. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - 4 stars - My Review

Read in 2017:

165. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 5 stars - My Review
166. The Circle by Dave Eggers - 4 stars - My Review
167. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - 4 stars - My Review

Read in 2018:

168. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 5 stars - My Review
169. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - 5 stars - My Review
170. The Secret History by Donna Tartt - 2 stars - My Review
171. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood - 2 stars - My Review
172. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - 5 stars - My Review
173. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - 4 stars - My Review
174. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - 4 stars - My Review
175. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - 3 stars - My Review
176. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood - 5 stars - My Review
177. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 5 stars - My Review
178. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - 3 stars - My Review
179. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry - 2 stars - My Review

Read in 2019:

180. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 4 stars - My Review
181. American Rust by Philipp Meyer - 5 stars - My Review
182. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 4 stars - My Review
183. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 4 stars - My Review
184. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - 5 stars - My Review
185. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 4 stars - My Review
186. The Hours by Michael Cunningham - 5 stars - My Review
187. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - 4 stars - My Review
188. The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 4 stars - My Review
189. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy - 4 stars - My Review
190. Atonement by Ian McEwan - 5 stars - My Review
191. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 4 stars - My Review
192. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - 4 stars - My Review
193. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee - 4 stars - My Review
194. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - 5 stars - My Review
195. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - 4 stars - My Review
196. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute - 4 stars - My Review
197. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - 3 stars - My Review
198. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - 4 stars - My Review
199. The Sea by John Banville - 4 stars - My Review

Read in 2020:


200. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago - 4 stars - My Review
201. Small Island by Andrea Levy - 4 stars - My Review
202. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - 4 stars - My Review
203. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - 3 stars - My Review
204. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago - 3 stars - My Review
205. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4 stars - My Review
206. The Untouchable by John Banville - 3 stars - My Review
207. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin - 4 stars - My Review
208. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell - 3 stars - My Review
209. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - 5 stars - My Review
210. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - 5 stars - My Review
211. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - 4 stars - My Review
212. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - 3 stars - My Review
213. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - 3 stars - My Review
214. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4 stars - My Review
215. Regeneration by Pat Barker - 5 stars - My Review
216. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - 2 stars - My Review
217. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - 1 star - My Review
218. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - 4 stars - My Review
219. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - 4 stars - My Review
220. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 3 stars - My Review
221. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - 4 stars - My Full Review
222. The Accidental by Ali Smith - 3 stars - My Review
223. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - 4 stars - My Review
224. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene - 4 stars - My Review
225. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - 4 stars - My Review
226. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi - 4 stars - My Review
227. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4 stars - My Review
228. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - 4 stars - My Review
229. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - 4 stars - My Review
230. Passing by Nella Larsen - 4 stars - My Review
231. Silence by Shūsaku Endō - 4 stars - My Review
232. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 3 stars - My Review
233. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 stars - My Review
234. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry - 4 stars - My Review

Read in 2021:

235. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - 4 stars - My Review
236. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - 4 stars - My Review
237. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - 4 stars - My Review
238. Embers by Sándor Márai - 5 stars - My Review
239. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson - 4 stars - My Review
240. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - 4 stars - My Review
241. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt - 5 stars - My Review
242. Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant - 3 stars - My Review
243. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4 stars - My Review
244. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - 5 stars - My Review
245. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass - 3 stars - My Review
246. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - 3 stars - My Review
247. Middlemarch by George Eliot - 4 stars - My Review
248. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 5 stars - My Review
249. On Beauty by Zadie Smith - 4 stars - My Review
250. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 3 stars - My Review
251. Winter by Ali Smith - 4 stars - My Review
252. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - 4 stars - My Review
253. The Gathering by Anne Enright - 4 stars - My Review
254. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - 4 stars - My Review
255. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides - 3 stars - My Review
256. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela - 3 stars - My Review
257. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - 4 stars - My Review
258. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene - 4 stars - My Review
259. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald - 4 stars - My Review
260. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - 4 stars - My Review
261. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 4 stars - My Review
262. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - 4 stars - My Review
263. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert - 4 stars - My Review
264. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul - 4 stars - My Review
265. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - 4 stars - My Review
266. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 3 stars - My Review
267. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - 4 stars - My Review
268. Native Son by Richard Wright - 4 stars - My Review
269. Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery (aka The Late-Night News) by Petros Markaris - 4 stars - My Review
270. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth - 4 stars - My Review
271. Unless by Carol Shields - 5 stars - My Review
272. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - 4 stars - My Review
273. The Colour by Rose Tremain - 5 stars - My Review
274. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz - 3 stars - My Review
275. White Noise by Don DeLillo - 4 stars - My Review

Read in 2022:

276. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 4* - My Review
277. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 4* - My Review
278. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1* - My Review
279. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - 4* - My Review
280. Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 4* - My Review
281. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - 4* - My Review
282. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 3* - My Review
283. The Master by Colm Tóibín - 5* - My Review
284. Adam Bede by George Eliot - 4* - My Review
285. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul - 4* - My Review
286. July's People by Nadine Gordimer - 4* - My Review
287. The Ambassadors by Henry James - 3* - My Review
288. Independent People by Halldór Laxness - 4* - My Review
289. Justine by Lawrence Durrell - 3* - My Review
290. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 3* - My Review
291. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
292. Beloved by Toni Morrison - 5/2/22 - 4* - My Review
293. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 5/6/22 - 4* - My Review
294. Jazz by Toni Morrison - 5/9/22 - 3* - My Review
295. Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
296. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - 5/17/22 - 4* - My Review
297. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
298. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - 6/12/22 - 3* - My Review
299. Sula by Toni Morrison - 6/18/22 - 4* - My Review
300. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - 7/4/22 - 3* - My Review
301. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - 7/23/22 - 3* - My Review
302. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - 8/1/22 - 4* - My Review
303. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
304. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - 8/19/22 - 2* - My Review
305. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
306. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
307. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - 4* - not reviewed
308. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai - 10/2/22 - 4* - My Review
309. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
310. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - 10/29/22 - 3* - My Review
311. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - 11/12/22 - 3* - My Review
312. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 11/17/22 - 4* - My Review
313. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - 11/20/22 - 3* - not reviewed
314. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 11/22/22 - 4* - not reviewed
315. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
316. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - 12/9/22 - 3* - My Review
317. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
318. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse - 3* - not reviewed

Read in 2023:

319. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 1/6/23 - 4* - My Review
320. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor - 1/8/23 - 3* - My Review
321. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
322. Home by Marilynne Robinson - 1/26/23 - 4* - My Review
323. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald - 1/30/23 - 4* - My Review
324. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell - 2/3/23 - 3* - My Review
325. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 2/3/23 - 4* - My Review
326. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
327. Quicksand by Nella Larsen - 2/10/23 - 3* - My Review
328. The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 2/13/23 - 4* - My Review
329. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James - 2/17/23 - 3* - My Review
330. Libra by Don DeLillo - 2/18/23 - 3* - My Review
331. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
332. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - 2/25/23 - 4* - My Review
333. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 2/27/23 - 3* - My Review
334. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
335. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 10/5/23 - 5* - My Review
336. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3/7/23 - 4* - My Review
337. Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki - 3/9/23 - 4* - My Review
338. Neuromancer by William Gibson - 3/19/23 - 3* - My Review
339. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell - 3/22/23 - 3* - My Review
340. 10:04 by Ben Lerner - 4/3/23 - 4.5* - My Review
341. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - 4/9/23 - 3* - My Review
342. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan - 4/14/23 - 2* - My Review
343. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4/21/23 - 4* - My Review
344. The Waves by Virginia Woolf - 4/28/23 - 4* - My Review
345. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - 5/3/23 - 4* - My Review
346. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - 5/4/23 - 3* - My Review
347. Summer by Edith Wharton - 5/7/23 - 3* - My Review
348. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - 5/10/23 - 4* - My Review
349. Orlando by Virginia Woolf - 5/13/23 - 4* - My Review
350. Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 5/15/23 - 4.5* - My Review
351. The Third Man by Graham Greene - 5/22/23 - 4* - My Review
352. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - 5/26/23 - 4* - My Review
353. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review
354. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
355. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - 6/1/23 - 4* - My Review
356. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow - 6/2/23 - 3* - My Review
357. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 6/3/23 - 3* - My Review
358. Under the Skin by Michel Faber - 6/3/23 - 4* - My Review
359. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - 6/8/23 - 1* - My Review
360. The Golden Bowl by Henry James - 6/9/23 - 4* - My Review
361. Smiley's People by John le Carré - 6/12/23 - 4* - My Review
362. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 6/14/23 - 2* - My Review
363. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - 6/19/23 - 2* - My Review
364. The Awakening: A Solitary Story by Kate Chopin - 6/22/23 - 3* - My Review
365. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - 6/23/23 - 3* - My Review
366. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos - 7/4/23 - 2* - My Review
367. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
368. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion - 7/6/23 - 2* - My Review
369. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - 7/8/23 - 4* - My Review
370. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - 7/10/23 - 3* - My Review
371. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster - 7/13/23 - 4* - My Review
372. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann - 7/23/23 - 4.5* - My Review
373. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño - 8/6/23 - 4* - My Review
374. The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat - 8/14/23 - 2* - My Review
375. Invisible by Paul Auster - 8/24/23 - 3* - My Review
376. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez - 9/3/23 - 4* - My Review
377. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - 9/5/23 - 4* - My Review
378. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - 9/8/23 - 2* - My Review
379. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5 stars - My Review
380. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
381. Rabbit, Run by John Updike - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
382. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt - 3* - not reviewed
383. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
384. Cain by José Saramago - 9/26/23 - 3* - My Review
385. Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 10/30/23 - 3* - My Review
386. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - 12/17/23 - 3* - My Review
387. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 12/28/23 - 5* - My Review
388. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 8/16/23 - 4* - My Review

Read in 2024:

389. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 1/6/24 - 4* - My Review
390. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/23 - 4* - My Review
391. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker - 3* - Not Reviewed
392. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 1/18/24 - 2* - My Review
393. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 1/29/24 - 4* - My Review
394. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - 3/3/24 - 4* - My Review
395. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 3/22/24 - 4* - My Review
396. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride - 3/26/24 - 2* - My Review
397. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford - 3/30/24 - 3.5* - My Review
398. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4/1/24 - 4* - My Review
399. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
400. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 4/10/24 - 3* - My Review
401. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - 4/15/24 - 3* - My Review
402. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
403. The Outsider by Albert Camus - 4* - read previously not reviewed
404. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 6/2/24 - 4* - My Review
405. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - 6/4/24 - 4* - My Review
406. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin - 6/13/24 - 3* - My Review
407. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
408. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 7/9/24 - 1* - My Review
409. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 7/13/24 - 3* - My Review
410. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago - 8/9/24 - 4* - My Review
411. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - 8/16/24 - 4* - My Review
412. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster - 8/28/24 - 2* - My Review
413. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 9/10/24 - 3* - My Review
414. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh - 9/16/24 - 3.5* - My Review
415. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - 9/21/24 - 4* - My Review
416. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante - 9/27/24 - 3* - My Review
417. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - 9/28/24 - 3* - My Review
418. Death In Venice by Thomas Mann - 1/20/24 - 3* - not reviewed
419. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare - 11/20/24 - 3* - My Review
420. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - 11/25/24 - 4* - My Review
421. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton - 12/13/24 - 4* - My Review
422. Rites of Passage by William Golding - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review

Read long ago - just added:
423. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

Note: Also re-read, which is already included in the count:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 4/23/24 - 4* - My Review
Persuasion by Jane Austen - 7/2/24 - 4* - My Review
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Read in 2025:

424. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review
425. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
426. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
427. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review
428. The Iron Heel by Jack London - 3/15/25 - 4* - My Review
429. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
430. Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
431. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch - 6/3/25 - 4* - My Review
432. The Years by Virginia Woolf - 6/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
433. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster - 7/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
434. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
435. Dispatches by Michael Herr - 7/23/25 - 4* - My Review
436. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf - 8/4/25 - 3* - My Review
437. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 8/7/25 - 4* - My Review
438. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - 8/26/25 - 4* - My Review
439. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review

Also re-read, which is already included in the count:
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review

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