This list from the Guardian caught my attention back in September, but I've been so slack about the place here, that it's only now that it caught my attention again this week, that I'm getting around to finishing off this post.
It's a worthy list. I'd be very happy with myself to read all of these, even some more of these books.
100. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron 2006
99. Broken Glass - Alain Mabanckou 2005, translated by Helen Stevenson 2009
98. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 2005, translated by Steven T Murray 2008
97. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling 2000
96. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara 2015
95. Chronicles: Volume One - Bob Dylan 2004
94. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell 2000
93. Darkmans - Nicola Barker 2007
92. The Siege - Helen Dunmore 2001
91. Light - M. John Harrison 2002
90. Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck 2008, translated by Susan Bernofsky 2010
89. Bad Blood - Lorna Sage 2000
88. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman 2001
87. Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood 2017
86. Adults in the Room - Yanis Varoufakis 2017
85. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins 2006
84. The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy 2018
83. Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli 2016, translated by Luiselli with Lizzie Davis 2017
82. Coraline - Neil Gaiman 2002
81. Harvest - Jim Crace 2013
80. Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang 2002
79. The Spirit Level - Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 2009
78. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin 2015
77. Signs Preceding the End of the World - Yuri Herrera 2009, translated by Lisa Dillman 2015
76. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 2011
75. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk 2009, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2018
74. Days Without End - Sebastian Barry 2016
73. Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick 2009
72. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff 2019
71. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware 2000
70. Notes on a Scandal - Zoë Heller 2003
69. The Infatuations - Javier Marías 2011, translated by Margaret July Costa 2013
68. The Constant Gardener - John Le Carré 2001
67. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker 2018
66. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli 2014
65. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn 2012
64. On Writing - Stephen King 2000
63. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot 2010
62. Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn 2006
61. This House of Grief - Helen Garner 2014
60. Dart - Alice Oswald 2002
59. The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson 2002
58. Postwar - Tony Judt 2005
57. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon 2000
56. Underland - Robert Macfarlane 2019
55. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michel Pollan 2006
54. Women & Power - Mary Beard 2017
53. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey 2000
52. Small Island - Andrea Levy 2004
51. Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín 2009
50. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 2003
49. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - Jeanette Winterson 2011
48. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett 2002
47. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi 2000-2003, translated by Mattias Ripa 2003-2004
46. Human Chain - Seamus Heaney 2010
45. Levels of Life - Julian Barnes 2013
44. Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit 2004
43. Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine 2014
42. Moneyball - Michael Lewis 2010
41. Atonement - Ian McEwan 2001
40. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 2005
39. White Teeth - Zadie Smith 2000
38. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst 2004
37. The Green Road - Anne Enright 2015
36. Experience - Martin Amis 2000
35. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal 2010
34. Outline - Rachel Cusk 2014
33. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel 2006
32. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
31. The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson 2015
30. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead 2016
29. A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard 2009, translated by Don Bartlett 2012
28. Rapture - Carol Ann Duffy 2005
27. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro 2001
26. Capital in the Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty 2013, translated by Arthur Goldhammer 2014
25. Normal People - Sally Rooney 2018
24. A Visit from The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan 2011 (see my review)
23. The Noonday Demon - Andrew Solomon 2001
22. Tenth of December - George Saunders 2013
21. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari 2011, translated by Harari with John Purcell and Haim Watzman 2014
20. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson 2013 (see my review)
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon 2003
18. The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein 2007
17. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 2006 (see my review)
16. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen 2001
15. The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert 2014
14. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters 2002
13. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich 2001
12. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth 2001
11. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante 2011, translated by Ann Goldstein 2012
10. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006
9. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 2004
8. Autumn - Ali Smith 2016
7. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015
6. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman 2000
5. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald 2001, translated by Anthea Bell 2001
4. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
3. Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich 2013, translated by Bela Shayevich 2016
2. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson 2004
1. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel 2009
Damn, I'm really going to have to read Wolf Hall sometime. It's so daunting though.
I'm impressed! I've read 19/100
Not great by most standards, but pretty good for me.
I've finished two of these books (Normal People, Autumn) in the last month or so and I finished a Top Ten title this week! Ali Smith's Autumn. I don't think it would make my Top Ten, but I'm glad to have read it.
I've started 4 of these books but not finished them (for various reasons). I need to crack on. Many of them are already in the house.
4 comments:
Very Interesting list Louise - I got 24.
It was rather US/UK-centric though - and yes, you must read Wolf Hall soon, otherwise you cannot read Bring up the Bodies AND The Mirror and the Light :-)
I love lists as much as you love lists. Even though I'm sure I won't do well on a list created by one from the UK, I still feel compelled to copy and paste it into a Google doc and see how many I've read.
I'm out of step with everyone on Wolf Hall -- I HATED it, though forced myself to keep reading, and nothing could force me to read more of that author's work. What can I say? I think I counted my "finished" books on that list when it came out, but I don't remember.
be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Brona, 24 is an excellent result! Wolf Hall is daunting in and of itself, without me thinking about the other two! Actually I think I must pick up (and finish!) Les Mis before I even contemplate Wolf Hall.
Deb, I'd love to hear your result still. Did you do it?
Mae, at least you've read it. I can't imagine I'm going to like it, but who knows???
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