Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Because I have read a number of 1001 list books during the previous 3 years of participating in ATW I am going to list here as already read pre challenge (as a reminder to self!)

1001 books read pre challenge start date 1st Jan 2012....

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Life of Pi b Yann Martel
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Outsider aka The stranger by Albert Camus
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Atonement by Ian McEwan
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Middle Parts of Fortune aka Her private's we by Frederic Manning


This challenge should inspire continued forays into 1001 lists....from 1st January 2012 on....

Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez(21/1/2012)
Tunisia The Immoralist by André Gide(22/2/2012
Vietnam The Quiet American by Graham Greene (22/4/2012)
U.S.A. Oklahoma The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (16/5/2012)

India The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (29/5/2012)
Italy & Switzerland A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (4/6/2012)

U.K. & Bangladesh White Teeth by Zadie Smith(17/8/2012)

U.K. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes....following Tanya's post I am also thrilled to have already read this from 2012 1001 list Yay!(14/6/2012)

U.S.A. Georgia The Color Purple by Alice Walker (10/11/2012)

Kazakstan One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn(1/12/2012)
Sierra Leone The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene(18/12/2012)
South Korea The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble(27/12/2012)

U.K.Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 5/4/2013
U.K. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 14/4/2013
U.K. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 28/5/2013
France Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky 16/1/2014
. Ireland The Gathering by Anne Enright 25/10/2014

U.K. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 9/2/2015

18. South Africa Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee15/7/2015
19. U.S.A. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov28/8/2015
20. U.K. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 28/8/2015
21. Europe Candide by Voltaire 25/9/2015
22. Italy The Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia Highsmith 28/9/2015
23. U.K. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 20/12/2015

U.S.A. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 20/2/2016
U.K. Evelina by Fanny Burney 13/3/2016
U.K. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 2/4/2016

U.K.Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 10/10/2016
Oceania - New Zealand Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 17/10/2016

U.K. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 6/11/2016

U.S.A. Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote 29/1/2017
U.K. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 9/3/2017

France The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 17/9/2017

U.S.A. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 29/9/2017

Italy Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 13/1/2018
U.S.A. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 21/1/2018
?? Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein2/9/2018

U.K. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 11/2/2018
France & U.S.A. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico 12/2/2018

U.K. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard 18/12/2019

Spain The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1/8/2020
Germany The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 15/4/2021

U.S.A. Beloved by Toni Morrison8/7/2022
U.K. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 30/6/2022
U.K. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 25/8/2022

Romania/England Dracula by Bram Stoker 17/12/2022

South Africa Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.....loved this...while capturing the essence of South Africa it portrayed the destruction caused by colonization and the subsequent dilemma of redressing the balance following a collision of cultures. Experienced by so many countries the world over. 30/12/2022

U.S.A. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 12/1/2023
U.K. Excellent Women
U.K. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 21/5/2023
Columbia Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 25/5/2023
U.K. Silas Marner by George Eliot 29/5/2023
Italy Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 3/6/2023
U.K. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 8/6/20223
U.K. / Ukraine A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 17/6/2023
Germany The Castle by Franz Kafka 25/6/2023
U.S.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 28/6/20232
Russia Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 30/6/2023
India A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 4/7/2023
U.K. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 14/7/2023
India The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 17/7/2023
U.S.A. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 31/7/2023
Vietnam Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương 20/9/2023
U.K. & Mexico Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 27/9/2023
Italy Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante 23/10/2023
U.S.A. Rabbit, Run by John Updike 28/10/2023
U.S.A.The Circle by Dave Eggers 2/11/2023
Argentina The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene 8/11/2023