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So my plan is to make such a list. Bear with me, as it may take some time to put together. There will be some classics, there will be some new ones, there will be some non-fiction, there will probably be some poetry too. I might include a few re-reads, something I don't do often, but occasionally I am aware of having read something, but now so long ago that the merest trace of an inkling of the content is all that remains. Some are from my shelves, some from my library wishlist and some from the one on Amazon (I have resolved to stop buying there... but it's still a very useful catalogue). I liked the idea of 1001 days as this means that it doesn't totally dominate what I might choose to read, allowing me new finds as well. I guess I might cheat and add new interesting books to the list but that's ok as I can make my own rules. The list is in a random order, no hierarchy of interest or importance is implied. The end date for the challenge is 28th September 2017.
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- *Middlemarch by George Eliot*
- *Moby Dick by Herman Melville*
- *The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing*
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Girl is a half-formed thing by Eimear McBride
- Red Doc by Anne Carson
- Stags Leap by Sharon Olds
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- The Sound and the Fury by Willian Faulkner
- Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- When I was a child I read books by Marilynne Robinson
- Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
- *A visit from the goon squad by Jennifer Egan*
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- *Who will run the frog hospital by Lorrie Moore*
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Inferno by Eileen Myles
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevski
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- *Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
- Nine Stories by JD Salinger
- Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- *Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger*
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- *I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith*
- Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- *How to be Alone by Sara Maitland*
- *Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx*
- *Midnight all day by Hanif Kureshi*
- *Without a Map by Meredith Hall*
- I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag
- Something to Declare by Julian Barnes
- *Faithless by Joyce Carol Oates*
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- *Misreadings by Umberto Eco*
- *The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri*
- *A Life Worth Living by John Holt*
- Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
- Sad Robot Stories by Mason Johnson
- And Yet They Were Happy by Helen Phillips
- Who was changed and who was dead by Barbara Comyns
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
- *Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*
- 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman
- Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
- The Hole by Oyvind Torseter
- *How Proust can change your life by Alain de Botton*
- The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman
- Beautiful Words by Nik Perring
- In the Kettle, the Shriek by Hannah Stephenson
- You learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
- On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Adrienne Rich
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- The latke who couldn't stop screaming by Lemony Snickett
- The year of the hare by Arto Paasilinna
- *A Clockwork Orange by Antony Burgess*
- The uncollected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- People First Economics by David Ransom
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
- The Fire Eaters by David Almond
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley*
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- *Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- *Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons*
- *Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder*
- *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg*
- Lost Cat by Caroline Paul
- *Building a Bridge to the 18th Century by Neil Postman*
- How to talk about books you haven't read by Pierre Bayard
- On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
- Far from the tree by Andrew Solomon
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- To Have and To Be by Erich Fromm
- Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
- The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe Hall
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- Collected Poems by Mark Strand
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(** books already on the shelf)
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