Reading 1001 discussion

Book wrote: "Hi all,

Can we also do throw back 2021 to catch up with books not read last year due to Covid like we did for 2020. Not sure about other countries but we have been limited for about half the year ..."

That would be nice. We still don't have full 'inter-library loan' service due to COVID.

Book wrote: "I have added new tabs on the spreadsheet for the non English language updates in this thread - I don't seem to have a French list of books have I missed it?

Only want books not on the main Englis..."

Additions on the French edition:

L'Autre Monde Ou Les Etats Et Empires de la Lune (Journey to the Moon) by Cyrano de Bergerac.

Le paysan parvenu by Pierre de Marivaux

Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (Manon Lescaut) by Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles

Paul et Virginie (Paul and Virginia) by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Corinne ou l'Italie (Corinne, or Italy) by Germaine de Staël-Holstein

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

La confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century) by Alfred de Musset

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb) by François-René de Chateaubriand

Les Filles Du Feu (The Daughters of Fire) by Gérard de Nerval

Le Capitaine Fracasse (Captain Fracasse) by Théophile Gautier

Les Diaboliques ([the She-Devils)|17142172] by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

L'Enfant (The Child) by Jules Vallès

Les Déracinés by Maurice Barrès

Les Petites filles et la mort (The Murderess) by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Les Immémoriaux (A Lapse of Memory) by Victor Segalen

Fermina Márquez by Valery Larbaud

Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) by Alain-Fournier

Les Thibault (The Thibaults) by Roger Martin du Gard

Suzanne et le Pacifique (Suzanne and the Pacific) by Jean Giraudoux

Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac

Belle de jour by Joseph Kessel

Les Sept fous (The Seven Madmen) by Roberto Arlt

Regain (Second Harvest) by Jean Giono

La Nuit du carrefour (The Night at the Crossroads) by Georges Simenon

Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte by Jules Romains

Les Destinées sentimentales by Jacques Chardonne

Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment Plan) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Les jeunes filles by Henry de Montherlant

Les Extravagants: Scènes de la vie de bohème cosmopolite by Paul Morand

Les Trafiquants d'armes (Passage of Arms) by Eric Ambler

Gilles by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

L'Âge d'homme (Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility) by Michel Leiris

La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel) by Adolfo Bioy Casares

L' Homme Pressé (The Man in a Hurry) by Paul Morand

La Veuve Couderc (The Widow) by Georges Simenon

Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs (Our Lady of the Flowers) by Jean Genet

Aurélien by Louis Aragon

Monsieur le Président (The President) by Miguel Ángel Asturias

Impasse des deux palais (Palace Walk) by Naguib Mahfouz

Querelle de Brest (Querelle of Brest) by Jean Genet

Moïra by Julien Green

Le Hussard sur le toit (The Horseman on the Roof) by Jean Giono

Les semailles et les moissons (Amelie in Love) by Henri Troyat

Memed le Faucon (Memed, My Hawk) by Yaşar Kemal

Nedjma by Kateb Yacine

La Modification (A Change of Heart) by Michel Butor

Excalibur l'épée dans la pierre (The Sword in the Stone) by T.H. White (this is actually part of the larger The Once and Future King)

Le Lion (The Lion) by Joseph Kessel

The Planetarium (The Planetarium) by Nathalie Sarraute

Le Procès-verbal (The Interrogation) by J.M.G. Le Clézio

La Place de l’Étoile by Patrick Modiano

La Pêche à la truite en Amérique / Sucre de pastèque (Trout Fishing in America / In Watermelon Sugar) by Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing is not on the English list)

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann

Les résistants du Cap (In the Fog of the Seasons' End) by Alex la Guma

Moi le Suprême (I, the Supreme) by Augusto Roa Bastos

Au plaisir de Dieu (At God's Pleasure) by Jean d'Ormesson

La Storia (History) by Elsa Morante

Un instant dans le vent (An Instant in the Wind) by André P. Brink

Femmes (Women) by Philippe Sollers

Contes de la montagne d’ordures (Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills) by Latife Tekin

Le Château blanc (The White Castle) by Orhan Pamuk

Tous les matins du monde (All the World's Mornings) by Pascal Quignard

Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul (Amkoullel, the Fula Boy) by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Dora Bruder (The Search Warrant) by Patrick Modiano

If you would like a trial run of Bookspin, put together a list of 20 books you'd like to read in December. Tomorrow I will spin the randomizer and see which number comes up for you.

You can post your list here if you like and later we will probably create a topic for Bookspin.

1. Reveries of a Solitary Walker
2. Closely Watched Trains
3. No One Writes to the Colonel
4. Of Mice and Men
5. Siddhartha
6. Animal Farm
7. Ethan Frome
8. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
10. Notes From Underground

Question, do we need to do 20 books if they are going to change each month? Would 10 be better?

Bookspin Test

(these will not be on my TBR Challenge list)

1) Mercier and Camier
2) Billards at Half Past Nine
3) Watermelon Sugar
4) The Professor's House
5) Smilla's Sense of Snow
6) Farwell My Lovely
7) Moll Flanders
8) City of God
9) The Old Man and the Sea
10) Kidnapped

The number spin is 20 but we could change that to 10. It is just a trial run this time and I will be spinning tomorrow. I actually don't care if you use ones that are on your TBR as you will have time to fix it if one gets chosen and you read it. Cause TBR doesn't have to be final until Christmas day.

Okay. Got it. I will keep mine at 10 unless other's want to do 20.

1.The Scarlet Letter
2. Small Island
3. Erewhon
4. The Girls of Slender Means
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. The Death of Artemis Cruz
7. The Fall of the House of Usher
8. Pricksongs and Descants
9. Gargantua and Pantagruel
10. Candide
11. The Mill on the Floss
12. Giovanni's Room
13. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
14. Cocaine Nights
15. Seize the Day
16. The Rebel
17. Nights at the Circus
18. The Double
19. Balthazar & Blimundz
20 The Purloined Letter

1. The Case Worker
2. Fifth Business
3. Kim
4. The Years, audible play
5. House Mother Normal
6. Jacob's Room
7. Baltasar and Blimunda8.
9. Home
10. Decline and Fall

1. The Case Worker
2. Fifth Business
3. Kim
4. The Years, audible play
5. House Mother Normal
6. Jacob's Room
7. Baltasar and Blimunda
8. A Boy's Own Story
9. Home
10. Decline and Fall

Cool: I'll put some forward. I've been using the tbr for audios, and so I think I'll use this one for small ebooks I have available:

1 Watt
2 Harriet Hume
3 Love in Excess
4 Pricksongs and Descants
5 House by the Medlar tree
6 Autobiography of Alice b. Toklas
7 Virgin Soil
8 Go Down, Moses
9 The Forest of the Hanged
10 Hangover Square

Okay, for those of you who posted 10 books, the number is 10 and for Pip who posted 20 books, I gave her a double spin and she got 1 and 10.

Happy reading!

1 Chitty Chitty bang bang💥
2 Necessary Lies
3 The complete zombie survival guide
4 The Power of One
5 A Healing Justice
6 Quantum Coin💰
7 The Ask And The Answer
8 The Knife🔪 of Never Letting Go
9 Swimming🏊🏻 Toward the Ocean🌊
10 The Dog🐶 Who Danced👯‍♂️

Reed wrote: "1 Chitty Chitty bang bang💥
2 Necessary Lies
3 The complete zombie survival guide
4 The Power of One
5 A Healing Justice
6 Quantum Coin💰
7 The Ask And The Answer
8 The Knife🔪 of Never Letting..."

These are not 1001 books

I know these are my own books📚 that i haven't read yet

Reed wrote: "I know these are my own books📚 that i haven't read yet"

If you like the idea of Bookspin. I got it from Litsy. You use hashtag #bookspin, the creator is @thearomaofcoffee. That is where I post my other books.

My 10 is Kidnapped! I hope I can read it with my nephews. Pip has Candide, in this best of all possible worlds….

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Oops, wrong, Pip has 10 + 1 not just 10.

So should these be read this month? And do we get extra points for them or just one?

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Pip wrote: "So should these be read this month? And do we get extra points for them or just one?"

Its a trial run, so people could check it out. You should at least get 1 pt. I will think more on it, ok? And yes, the idea is to read them this month but it is okay to not read them, too.

lets make scoring 1 pt for reading, 1 pt for reviewing it. Because you're not discussing them with anyone. We will just do the 2 pts. It will be good way for those that don't have the BOTM to get at least 2 pts for books read.

Great! Though I thought it was for January and I have enough of a challenge to finish the annual read this month!

Its just a trial run, so don't worry if you don't finish, or if you do one only. It was just to give people an idea on how it will work.

My list for this experiment was:
1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
3. Cain, by Jose Saramago
4. The Double, by Jose Saramago
5. Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
6. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
7. The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood
8. Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Wilson
9. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
10. Fury, by Salman Rushdie

so, I'll be reading Fury this month.

Do we plan to have a Bingo card for 2022? Any volunteers to create the Bingo card?

Once we have a volunteer (or not). We will take suggestions for squares.

I can make the Bingo card. I can start by putting up last year's and ask who wants any of them repeated plus last year's suggestions that were not chosen by the randomiser. Then people could also add any new ideas as well.

Thank you

Hey all: Couldn't find the suggestions from last year, but put up the previous ones and some of mine here
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

anyone can contribute and I'll put the generally liked/no issues with ideas into a randomiser on the 26th and then publish for everyone.

Please contribute as many ideas as you want! :)

Does anyone want to volunteer to oversee our annual book for 2022? Someone who has read it already?

I Think Diane and I are the only ones who've read it (to my knowledge), so if she doesn't want to I can take it.

Amanda wrote: "I Think Diane and I are the only ones who've read it (to my knowledge), so if she doesn't want to I can take it."

You can take it.

Amanda wrote: "I Think Diane and I are the only ones who've read it (to my knowledge), so if she doesn't want to I can take it."

Thank you, Amanda

Are we still doing PP for 2022?

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "Are we still doing PP for 2022?"

Yes if you mean participation points. I will need to work on that too.

Kristel wrote: "MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) wrote: "Are we still doing PP for 2022?"

Yes if you mean participation points. I will need to work on that too."

Thanks Kristel, for all of your 'beginning of a new year' prep work!

Kristel, yes, that was what I meant :-)

Thanks, I was just checking. I don't always catch the posts.
Lots of good changes this year.

We appreciate all you do!!

I am looking forward to a new year of reading! Last year I was not being very organised and the result was... not much progress ;-) This year I'm back!

Jessica wrote: "I am looking forward to a new year of reading! Last year I was not being very organised and the result was... not much progress ;-) This year I'm back!"

So glad you're back and wishing you a great year of reading 1001.

I was feeling bored, so I spent some time comparing the international additions and have some observations.

-The majority of the Portuguese list are Brazilian authors, and almost all of their additions are male.
-The Danish have a lot of none-prose additions, especially plays. I was surprised to find Norwegians Ludvig Holberg and Amalie Skram, and the Icelandic Njal's saga there and not on the Norwegian list. (They were all required reading/viewing in my schooldays, although not that particular book by Skram.) But then again, there was no Ibsen on either list.
-The Turkish, Romanian, and Russian lists have only additions that also appear on at least one other list. None of them are Romanian or Russian authors! (Although I suppose there are plenty of Russian ones on the main list.) The Turkish have two Turkish books. Another Turkish book appears on four other lists, but not on the Turkish one.
-The Danish book Slangen i brystet by Henrik Stangerup is listed as having no English translation, but there is one: Snake in the Heart.
-22 books appear on at least three lists (the Norwegian one only shows Norwegian additions, but I would be surprised if it didn't also contain some of these books or some of the Danish ones). I though it was interesting that there's such a continental European consensus about these books, especially since many of them are from non-European countries.

Books that appear on 7 lists:
I, the Supreme
The Seven Madmen

6 lists:
The American Bride
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
The Invention of Morel

5 lists:
The President
Memed, My Hawk
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
In the Fog of the Seasons' End
The Czar's Madman
The Joys of Motherhood
A Flight Of Curlews

4 lists:
The Shadow of the Wind
Border State
The Murderess
The White Castle
In Lucia's Eyes
We Are Doing Fine
The Cardboard Crown

3 lists:
White on Black
Malina
An Instant in the Wind

Leni wrote: "I was feeling bored, so I spent some time comparing the international additions and have some observations.

-The majority of the Portuguese list are Brazilian authors, and almost all of their addi..."

That is very interesting, thanks for documenting your observations.

Yes, thank you Leni. Incredible little project you did.

Thank you, Leni, a most interesting project

I enjoyed reading your observations. Thank you for sharing.