Reading 1001 discussion

Powell’s came out with this list. What do you think? http://www.powells.com/25-books-to-re...

I have only read five of them!

I’ve read 16 of them. I find it hard to accept all these “lists to read” because it seems like a way to try to increase sales yet many of these are books that are on many lists including 1001 books and a few I had not heard of.

I have read 9, but a list of 25 is a bit ridiculous. And this list seems as though only Western countries exist.

I’ve read 18 of the 25 books to read and 13 of the International. And added a few to the TBR. If it wasn’t for the 1001 list, I wouldn’t have heard of most of them.

I have read 16 from the list.

I like the international list much better than the original list, even though I have only read 10 of them (all but one of them are on my tbr list, though).

I’ve read 13 on the first list and only 2 of the second, though I’ve read several more of the authors, just not those specific books.

I've read 7 of the International list.

I’ve read 5 from the first list, and none from the international list...although quite a few from both are sitting on my physical shelves waiting to be read, and on my kindle.

I will give them credit though, they do seem to pick some more recently published works and add them into the mix.

I’ve read 12 of the first list and 11 off of the international list. I think the list is pretty strong and there is quite a lot of overlap with the 1001 list

I love lists and have read 13 of these - - not sure any of them except Lolita would make my personal list of 25 can't miss books, but they did seem to use a pretty extensive process for selection.

Have only read four from the international list, but definitely on board with A Fine Balance!

I do slightly better with the International list. 8

14 from the first list and 5 from the second.

How come Murakami is on both lists with different books?

No Dickens, no Solzhenitsyn, no Tolstoy, no Shakespeare, no Cervantes, no George. A backhanded (and illiterate) reference to the Bible in the intro, but it doesn't make the list. Way too heavily focused on the twentieth century for my tastes.

List 1.
Embarrassed to say that I have not read any of them.
Somewhat better, 10 are on my TBR shelf

List 2.
Ditto on none read
2 on the TBR

I checked to see if I had any progress on the Powell's lists since 2017, and I did:

17 on the first list
12 from the international list (thought I'd do better on this one)

I increased to 19 on the first list
9 on the international list.

I am at 10 on the first list and 5 on the international
However that is a big increase for me!

Here's a link that I found interesting last year; what do you think?

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-...

I did better with this list having read 15 of the top group. I have not read The Last Samurai. In the top group there are two books which made the 1001 list that I am not a fan of: The Goldfinch and Atonement. Strangely, I seem to like McEwan books that everyone else does not and not love the ones that everyone else does. However, it does in general seem to be a broad based list of interest. I personally would not put Gone Girl in a list of great literature but it sold a zillion copies and there have been thousands of derivative stories so it must have hit a nerve in our chaotic society. Also, I just love lists because there are quite a few books on here that I have not heard of and now want to read.
Thank you for sharing

While in search for a German edition of the 1001 books, I found that there is a similar German book, called "Das Buch der 1000 Bücher" by Joachim Kaiser (last edition 2002). It might be interesting for those who love lists of great literature. It is very international, and covers not only novels, but also poetry, autobiography etc.

There is a list of all books included at the following link:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d...

Hey all: for everyone interested in the French edition of the 1001 list, I used the link Tatjana shared to compile all the books not on the general edition (if anyone else wants to comb and double check if I missed anything, that would be welcome).

Most of them are translated into English (and some aren't even French books to begin with), so I've put the titles as they appear in English translations here if applicable. I've also put which few are not translated.

If anyone wants the original titles/more info (such as page count or year) lemme know :)

All 67 titles I've found/author are listed below:


-Other Worlds, Cyrano De Bergerac
-The Fortunate Peasant, Marivaux
-Manon Lescaut, Antoine François Prévost
-Paul and Virginia, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
-Corinne, or Italy, Madame de Staël
-Adolphe, Benjamin Constant
-The Confession of a Child of the Century, Alfred de Musset
-Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, François-René de Chateaubriand
-Daughters of Fire: Sylvie, Emilie, Octavie, Gérard de Nerval
-Captain Farcasse Théophile Gautier
-Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
-The Child, Jules Vallès
-Les Déracinés (not translated?), Maurice Barrès
-The Murderess, Alexandre Papadiamantis
-A Lapse of Memory, Victor Segalen
-Fermina Marquez, Valery Larbaud
-Les Extravagants (not translated?), Paul Morand
-Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier
-The Thibaults, Roger Martin du Gard
-Suzanne and the Pacific, Jean Giraudoux
-Thérèse Desqueyroux, François Mauriac
-Belle de jour, Joseph Kessel
-The Seven Madmen, Roberto Arlt
-Second Harvest, Jean Giono
-The Night at the Crossroads, Georges Simenon
-Men of Good Will, Jules Romains
-Les Destinées sentimentales (not translated?) , Jacques Chardonne
-Death on Credit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
-The Girls, Henry de Montherlant
-Diary of a Country Priest, Georges Bernanos
-Gilles (not translated?), Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
-Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of virility, Michel Leiris
-The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
-The Man in a Hurry, Paul Morand
-The Widow, Georges Simenon
-Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet
-Aurelien, Louis Aragon
-The President, Miguel Ángel Asturias
-Querelle of Brest, Jean Genet
-Moira, Julien Green
-The Horseman on the Roof, Jean Giono
-Les Semailles et les moissons (allegedly translated?), Henri Troyat
-Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
-Nedjma, Kateb Yacine
-Changing Track, Michel Butor
-The Lion, Joseph Kessel
-The Planetarium, Nathalie Sarraute
-Passage of Arms, Eric Ambler
-The Falnders Road, Claude Simon
-The Interrogation, J.M.G Le Clézio
-La Place de l'étoile, Patrick Modiano
-Memed, My Hawk Yachar Kemal
-Malina, Ingeborg Bachmann
-I, The Supreme, Augusto Roa Bastos
-At God's Pleasure, Jean d'Ormesson
-The Czar's Madman, Jaan Kross
-A Flight Of Curlews, Maarten 't Hart
-Women, Phillipe Sollers
-The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk
-History (# 1 and 2), Elsa Morante
-All the World's Mornings, Pascal Quignard
-The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
-Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills, Latife Tekin
-Dora Bruder, Patrick Modiano
-Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Amadou Hampâté Bâ
-In the Fog of the Seasons' End, Alex La Guma
-American Bride, Mario Soldati