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I have decided to blog about reading through the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" - the 2006 edition. I have the actual book, but am using the Lists of Bests list to track my progress. The Lists of Bests list is in reverse chronological order, opposite to the book, for some reason. Here is what I have read so far:

1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
11. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
16. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
45. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
67. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
75. Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
77. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
86. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
92. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
106. Forever a Stranger - Hella S. Haasse
116. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
135. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War - Sebastian Faulks
141. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
143. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
147. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
183. Possession - A.S. Byatt
187. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
190. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
195. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
223. Beloved - Toni Morrison
227. Watchmen - Alan Moore
232. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
236. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
240. Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
241. Contact - Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
254. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
258. Neuromancer - William Gibson
259. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
266. Life and Times of Michael K. - J.M. Coetzee
272. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
293. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
320. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
349. Sula - Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351. The Breast - Philip Roth
365. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
375. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
379. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
400. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
408. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
413. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate - Charles Webb
433. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
437. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
444. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
451. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
461. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
472. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
486. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful O - James Thurber
494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
496. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
508. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
520. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
526. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
529. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
536. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
539. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
549. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
561. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
565. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
574. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
579. The Outsider - Albert Camus
592. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
603. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
608. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
619. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
649. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
667. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
708. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
717. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
752. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
780. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
790. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
797. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
801. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
831. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
838. The Red Room - August Strindberg
840. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
848. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
854. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
857. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
863. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
866. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
886. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
905. Vanity Fair - William Thackery
911. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe
913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
919. The Nose - Nikolai Gogol
931. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
933. Persuasion - Jane Austen
936. Emma - Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
961. The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
962. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
982. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
989. Oroonoko; or, A Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
992. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
996. The Thousand Nights and One Night - Anonymous
1001. Aesop's Fables - Aesop

Some of these books I read so long ago that I have little memory of them. Some of them, like A Suitable Boy, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace (and many others) will stay with me forever. I will talk about the books as I read them and go back and discuss some of the previously read books once in a while.