A lot to read before I die: Part 1

You may have noticed* I borrowed 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die from Surry Hills Library. Now I have been reading for the best part of sixty years, so I don’t have much time left. How am I going? How many of the 1001 have I managed?

Here is a list of the ones I have read, as distinct from read about.

Author	Title
Aesop	Aesop’s Fables (some)

Ovid	Metamorphoses (some, and in Latin!)
Apuleius	The Golden Ass

	The Arabian Nights (some)
Cervantes	Don Quixote

Bunyan	The Pilgrim’s Progress
Swift	The Tale of a Tub

Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
Defoe	Moll Flanders

Swift	Gulliver’s Travels
Swift	A Modest Proposal

Fielding	Joseph Andrews
Richardson	Pamela

Richardson	Clarissa (one volume out of four!)
Smollett	Roderick Random

Fielding	Tom Jones
Smollett	Peregrine Pickle

Fielding	Amelia
Voltaire	Candide

Rousseau	Emile
Sterne	Tristram Shandy

Sterne	A Sentimental Journey
Smollett	Humphrey Clinker

Austen	Sense and Sensibility
Austen	Pride and Prejudice

Austen	Mansfield Park
Austen	Emma

Scott	Rob Roy
Austen	Persuasion

Austen	Northanger Abbey
Shelley	Frankenstein

Scott	Ivanhoe
Hogg	The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner

Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans
Hugo	The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Dickens	Oliver Twist
Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby

Poe	The Fall of the House of Usher
Dickens	A Christmas Carol

Poe	The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe	The Purloined Letter

Dumas	The Three Musketeers
Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo

C Bronte	Jane Eyre
E Bronte	Wuthering Heights

Dickens	David Copperfield
Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter (as did The Rabbit 🙂 )

Melville	Moby Dick
Dickens	Bleak House

Dickens	Hard Times
Gaskell	North and South

Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities
Eliot	The Mill on the Floss

Dickens	Great Expectations
Eliot	Silas Marner

Carroll	Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Trollope	The Last Chronicles of Barset

Collins	The Moonstone
Tolstoy	War and Peace

Eliot	Middlemarch
Le Fanu	In a Glass Darkly

Verne	Around the World in Eighty Days
Eliot	Daniel Deronda

Hardy	The Return of the Native
James	The Portrait of a Lady

Stevenson	Treasure Island
Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Twain	Huckleberry Finn
Haggard	King Solomon’s Mines

Stevenson	Kidnapped
Stevenson	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Haggard	She
Stevenson	The Master of Ballantrae

Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hardy	Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Doyle	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Wells	The Time Machine

Stoker	Dracula
James	The Turn of the Screw

Conrad	Lord Jim
Kipling	Kim

Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Conrad	Heart of Darkness

Childers	The Riddle of the Sands
Conrad	Nostromo

That’s enough for now. I’ll explore the rest of the 20th (and even the 21st) century in another post!

Observant people will note some surprising gaps there…

* 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ed by Peter Boxall with an Australian preface by Jennifer Byrne (ABC 2006). You can see the list on that link. I am enjoying it.