College Students! discussion

Is anyone else attempting the 1001 list? I've been going at it very slowly, but I would like to take a more strategic approach.

If anyone's interested, there's a free downloadable spreadsheet to help you calculate your total and how many books you need to read per year to achieve the overall goal. I'm not suggesting that we do another group read. I'm just opening up a place to encourage one another as we challenge ourselves.

I'm definitely interested in it, but it intimidates me!

I started adding all the books to a to be read list in my books in October when I first heard of the list, and about 700 of them listed. Another thing I will finish when I get some time.

I have read a bunch already but they were awhile ago, so I decided that if I had already read them I would re-read them and to try my best to see how many I can read. So far I haven't been doing to well (only 7 that are marked) but it has only been a little over 7 months and hopefully after tax season and finals I can start reading some more complex books again.

Last time I was at the Toy Store, I actually bought the book that lists them all. That is when I became intimidated by the list. The list doesn't look near as long as the book makes it look. :)

i'm going to try for it.
i'm putting the books i get done in my reading goals folder.

but it definately is scary.

i mean.
16 books a year and i still wouldnt finish till i was 55.

Thanks for the link Lynn! It looks like I have read 33 of them already. This is going to be hell on my pocketbook! ;)

I know what yall mean about being intimidated. I just got to 2% and I was so excited! haha! So much more to go... But some of them are super short (then again, some are super long).

One thing I really don't like about the list is how a few authors have like 5 books on the list. Ok, like John Updike (who I've actually never read) has several of his "Rabbit" books on there... like, do they all really need to be included on the list? Does each book really contribute that much to literature?

.. And then of course there's the issue of books being excluded. There are plenty of great books that have been excluded from this list.. It's got a big elitist attitude and it definitely leans toward European literature as a general rule. Sigh. No one will ever be satisfied.

I really wish they would have a 100 Books to read list with the best 100 of the 1001. That would be a nice way to start and boost your energy!

Tami, I flipped through the book once a while ago. Do you like it? Do the blurbs about the books help you out any after you've read (or while you're reading)?

i think i'd prefer that list as a back up read. when you cant think of what to get next or just want something different. you can go to that list. because you're right. i've red one margaret atwood book (moral disorder) and didnt neccesarily enjoy it much, but she has about 4 other books on that list too. though the one i read wasnt on it, so maybe that's why.

I can't see it :( it's all weird symbols.

Tahleen, the link is http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?pag...

Does that help?

And I'm kinda like you, Michelle.. I read a lot of things that aren't on the list, but I do try to add them in (like on our School Year Challenge). But if I come across another book that's not in the list, I'll still go ahead and read it before a 1001 book if that's what I'm feelin'

Unfortunately no... thanks though, Lynn! It's not the url, it's the download, it's just not working for me. Oh well.

bummer! Well, he has 2 versions on his website. There's a 2003 version of excel and a 2007 version. Maybe if you try doing one instead of the other? I'm really not computer smart at all.

I did :( I guess I will just have to look through the book!

I haven't actually even really opened the book yet! :) It was only a couple weeks ago, and I have been so busy with work and school right now, that I have been reading "easy" books. I bought the Artemis Fowl series a few months back, and have been breezing through them. I have to update my book list on here, there are several I have read in the last little bit that haven't changed status due to my slacking.

I saw a group on here that was dedicated to this list. They may have something posted to read the list.

Ahh I love Artemis Fowl. Though I am two books behind I think.

Tahleen, did you try to view it before saving it?

If you save it first, it (should) work. Try this:

*right-click on the link
*click on Save Link As (firefox), I think it's Save Target As for IE
*your downloads will come up as it checks for viruses
*double-click(or right-click) to open the download
*instead of letting you download, it will make you save it first
*(important) change the drop down (from a temp file) to My Documents and click save, if you don't do this step you won't be able to view the document
*go into my documents and open it with whatever spreadsheet software you use (MS Office: excel; StarOffice: calc)

The process is a little different using IE, but the fundamentals are the same: you have to switch it from a temp file to my documents to be able to view the actual spreadsheet (and not the symbols).

I hope this helps...

Thanks Mandee, I tried to but it was still all gibberish. I've given up; I did find SOME list online, not sure if it's the same, but I looked through it and decided I should be the one to determine which books I want to read before I die haha. So I'm okay with not being able to see it. Thanks for your help though!

I feel EXACTLY the same way! I looked at the list and thought, hmm, I think stick with my own list, but thanks anyway...(:

true that Tahleen! haha. You can also look at the group devoted to the list: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9...

They have most (if not all) the books on their bookshelf.

awesome thanks lynn!

I'm been working with the spreadsheet for a few months. Right now I'm at a whopping...4.05% (52 books). So, 16 books a year to go. I could probably knock the whole thing out in about three years, but I'm working by interestingness. A lot of the books just don't interest me and I have to force myself to read them.

When I try to view the spreadsheet, it tries to open with adobe reader and doesn't work. Does anyone know how to get it to open using excel?

does anyone know where to get the 1001 books spreadsheet for a mac user?? I don't have excel on my mac. So i need a different spreadsheet version.

I changed my settings so it would open with excel, but it still doesn't want to work. Maybe its a vista problem...

Here's the list:

www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/co...

You can just make you own spreadsheet, or cut and paste it to something else...

PS: I'm not entirely sure it's the same list, but it's the list the group above uses (from Lynn's post).

Good Luck!

Yay Mandee!! :)

Okay... I looked into this. I've read 21.. gah. So if I live as long as I'm supposed to typically I'd need to read 17 of these a year.. doesn't sound too bad.

Someday... maybe... totally by acident lol
It´s VERY intimidating!

But.. but.. there´s no Shakespeare! How can you die without reading any Shakespeare?

I don't think the list includes any plays, so Shakespeare shouldn't feel bad. Plus, I think everyone who has had high school English has read at least one of his plays. Throughout my four years we read at least seven

He includes Dr. Faustus...

I have read 4% of the books on the new list. I have to read 19 books a year to finish the list-I blame it on my love for non-fiction.

I'm planning on reading several from the list this summer. I can't wait!

My plan is to only read books from the list in July. Hopefully I'll work through a big chunk.

so I reading the 1001 books to read before you die list- the one given on an excel spreadsheet...
and some of the books on there...
I'm thinking Oh God, please no.

Thomas Mann made the list THREE times. Please! The Magic Mountain? My mother loved the book so I gave it a try...I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a hot poker...

I'm an avid reader and if I was stranded on a desert island- just me and the book- I'd start reading coconut shells- they have to be more interesting- and use the paper from the book to wrap fish in- a much better use of a resource...
I'll probably want some toilet paper too- but I don't know if I'd actually let those words touch my a$$...

Just finished another (Around the World in 80 Days - fun!) bringing the total to 24! Maybe I can get up to 50 before the summer's over. That's pretty idealistic, but we'll see. ;]

I think my biggest problem is juggling the non-list items I want to read with the list items. And so far on the list, I've really just been reading the things I want to. I haven't forced myself to read anything yet.

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

5 points

1. Read a book with red (crimson or scarlet is fine), white, or blue in the title:

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Red Room by August Strindberg
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

5 points

3. Read a book by an author who was born in May, June, July, or August:

Joseph Heller: Catch 22.

Graham Swift: The Light of Day, Waterland.

Alexander Pope: Dunciad, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus.

Ian Fleming: Casino Royale.

Thomas Hardy: Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Hand of Ethelberta, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Return of the Native, Tess of theD’Urbervilles, The Woodlanders.

Ian McEwan: Amsterdam, Atonement, Black Dogs, The Cement Garden, The Child of Time, Comfort of Strangers, Enduring Love, First Love, Last Rights, In Between the Sheets, Saturday.

Franz Kafka: Amerika, The Castle, Metamorphosis, The Trial.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, The Scarlet Letter.

Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout, The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, The Last September, To the North, A World of Love.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lonely.

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.

Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Foretopman, Moby-Dick.

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, To Have and Have Not.

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kruetzer Sonata, War and Peace.

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

5 points

4. Read a book with sun, summer, beach, wave, sand, heat, sea, towel, camping, vacation, lake, cabin, or mountain in the title:

A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Summer by Edith Wharton
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
The Summer Book by Tove Jannson
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sea by John Banville
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Taebek Mountains by Jo Jung-Rae

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

25 Points

3. Read 2 books by:

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, To Have and Have Not

William Faulkner: Absolom, Absolom, Go Down Moses, The Hamlet, Snopes Trilogy, The Sound and the Fury

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night, the Great Gatsby

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer

Jane Austen: Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Toni Morrison: Beloved, Jazz, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye

Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, Night and Day, Orlando, To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out, The Waves, The Years

John Steinbeck: Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey, The Catcher in the Rye

or 3 of Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan English.

Go Tami!!! Thanks for listing those for us! There's definitely some good ones on there.

oh wow Tami. that's awesome! Thanks for doing that for all the people trying to keep up with this list!

Atonement would also fit the category for book/film...as would Everything is Illuminated, which is also on the list I believe.

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

5 Points #7. Read a book one of your favorite movies in based on and
10 Points #5. Read Shakespeare or another classic and then watch a modern day adaptation.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck and the King of Hearts (1993)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (2005)
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence (1993)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (2000)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1997)
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Atonement by Ian McEwan, Atonement (2007)

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Beloved (1998)
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate (1991)
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia (2006)
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Breakfast of Champions (1999)

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1982)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (2006)
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (2008)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving, The Cider House Rules (1999)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1985)
Contact by Carl Sagan, Contact (1997)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Crash by J. G. Ballard, Crash (1996)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, Cutter's Way (1981)

Dead Babies by Martin Amis, Dead Babies (2000)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner (1982)
Dracula by Bram Stoker, Dracula (1992)

Emma by Jane Austen, Clueless (1995)
Emma by Jane Austen, Emma (1996)
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun (1987)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1999)
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (2004)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1996)
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1983)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor, Felicia's Journey (1999)
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor, Fools of Fortune (1990)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty (1995)
The Golden Bowl by Henry James, The Golden Bowl (2000)
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, Caberet (1972)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1998)

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World (2004)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Hours (2002)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (2000)
Howard's End by E. M. Forster, Howard's End (1992)
The Human Stain by Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2003)

I, Robot By Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (2004)
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1994)
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1996)
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Jude (1996)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1985)

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1999)
Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (1998)
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero (1987)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos, Cruel Intentions (1999)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott, Little Women (1994)
Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Lolita (1997)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1990)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

5 Points #7. Read a book one of your favorite movies in based on and
10 Points #5. Read Shakespeare or another classic and then watch a modern day adaptation.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1999)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1996)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster, The Music of Chance (1993)

Native Son by Richard Wright, Native Son (1986)
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground (1995)
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1992)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (2005)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1992)
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (1985)

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1984)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Persuasion by Jane Austen, Persuasion (1995)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt, Possession (2002)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Quartet by Jean Rhys, Quartet (1981)
The Quiet American by Graham Greene, The Quiet American (2002)

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime (1981)
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (1984)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (2008)
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1995)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Crusoe (1988)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1997)
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster, Room With a View (1986)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List (1993)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1996)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Shining by Stephen King, The Shining (1980)
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (2001)
Silas Marner by George Eliot, A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan (1999)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, The Musketeer (2001)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (2002)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1996)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1999)
The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Trial (1993)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1994)

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1984)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (2004)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides (1999)

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds (2005)
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen (2009)
Waterland by Graham Swift, Waterland (1992)
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1992)

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

10 Points
2. Read a book about food or with a food in the title and then cook that food or something related to that type of food (for example, cook spaghetti if you read a book about Italian food).

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Waterland by Graham Swift
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley


Disclaimer: some of these would be hard to determine a food to cook (like the garden ones or the water ones) I just looked for something to do with food in titles. I am sure that few if any are actually about the food.

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

10 Points

#6. Read a collection of short stories or poetry with at least 150 pages.

Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous


There may be more but thought if I found more I could add them later.

Books that fit the Summer Challenge:

15 Points

#3. In honor of Bastille Day (July 14th), read a book written by a French author, set in France, or about France.

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Mandelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
Candide by Voltaire
Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Justine by Marquis de Sade
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Drunkard by Emile Zola
Nana by Emile Zola
Germinal by Emile Zola
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
The Immortalist by Andre Gide
Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Inferno by Henri Barbusse
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Nadja by Andre Breton
Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Excercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
The Abbot C by Georges Bataille
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
The Story of O by Pauline Reage
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Jealousy by Alain Robbe Grillet
Manon des Sources by Marcel Pagnol
Things by Georges Perec
A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
A Void / Avoid by Georges Perec
W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Ogre by Michel Tournier
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin



All these were in the book with the Authors birth country as France.

The only other one there may be some on that aren't as easy to tell would be the child/animal narrator one. I will keep reading, and post here if I find any others. I really didn't think the lists would be that long for our summer challenge categories. :)
Happy reading everyone.

I've only read 39 of the list. D:

I've only read 22 on the list so far.