Pauline's attempt - thread 2

Hello all and welcome to my second thread!

I've been aware of the 1001 book list for a few years now and getting quite obsessive about it ever since. According to arukiyomi, I have to read 22 books/year from now on, which might give you an indication of my age :).

My first language is French and I try to get translated works in French when I can. But I am also fluent in English and enjoy its rich literary tradition.

Double post.

Pre-1700s
The golden ass
The thousand and one nights
La princesse de Clèves
Oroonoko
The tale of the bamboo cutter
La Celestina

1700s
Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
Gulliver's travels
A modest proposal
Jacques le fataliste
Candide
Rasselas
The castle of Otranto
The sorrows of young Werther
Evelina
Rêveries d'un promeneur solitaire
Les liaisons dangereuses
The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano
The mysteries of Udolpho

1800s
Castle Rackrent
Sense and sensibility
Pride and prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Rob Roy
Persuasion
Frankenstein
Last of the Mohicans
Notre Dame de Paris
Le Père Goriot
The nose
Oliver Twist
The fall of the House of Usher
A Christmas Carol
The pit and the pendulum
The purloined letter
Les trois mousquetaires
Le comte de Monte Cristo
Jane Eyre
Agnes Grey
Wuthering Heights
The tenant of Wildfell Hall
David Copperfield
The scarlet letter
Moby-Dick
Uncle Tom's cabin
Villette
Walden
North and South
Madame Bovary
Adam Bede
A tale of two cities
Great Expectations
Les misérables
Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Thérèse Raquin
Little Women
The moonstone
The idiot
Through the looking glass
Autour du monde en 80 jours
Ben-Hur
Treasure Island
The death of Ivan Ilyich
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Germinal
The mayor of Casterbridge
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hunger
Gösta Berling's saga
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The yellow wallpaper
The time machine
The island of Dr. Moreau
Dracula
The war of the worlds
The turn of the screw
The awakening
Lord Jim
Kim
The hound of the Baskervilles
Heart of darkness
Life of a good-for-nothing
La mare au diable

1900s
L'immoraliste
House of mirth
The Jungle
A room with a view
The call of the wild

1910s
Ethan Frome
The thirty-nine steps
The voyage out
Rashomon
Le feu
The return of the soldier
The home and the world

1920s
The age of innocence
Siddhartha
The garden party
Nous autres
The professor's house
The trial
The great Gatsby
Mrs Dalloway
The murder of Roger Ackroyd
The good soldier Svejk
To the lighthouse
Quicksand
Orlando
Les enfants terribles
All quiet on the western front
Claudine's house

1930s
Cakes and ale
Brave new world
Testament of youth
The postman always rings twice
Wild Harbour
Out of Africa
The Hobbit
Their eyes were watching God
Of mice and men
Brighton Rock
Rebecca
La nausée
The grapes of wrath

1940s
The tartar steppe
The power and the glory
L'étranger
Embers
Le petit prince
Ficciones
Arcanum 17
The pursuit of love
Cannery Row
Animal farm
The bridge on the Drina
Titus Groan
La peste
If this is a man
Cry, the beloved country
1984
Chess story
Pippi Longstocking
Bonheur d'occasion

1950s
I, robot
The end of the affair
The catcher in the rye
Le rivage des Syrtes
Foundation
The day of the triffids
Mémoires d'Hadrien
The old man and the sea
Invisible man
Lord of the flies
Bonjour tristesse
Lord of the rings
Les racines du ciel
Doctor Zhivago
On the road
The Midwich cuckoos
The bell
Things fall apart
Pluck the bud and destroy the offspring
Cider with Rosie
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen
Excellent women
L'enfant noir
The burning plain

1960s
To kill a mockingbird
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Solaris
Stranger in a strange land
The drowned world
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
The bell jar
Manon des sources
The graduate
God bless you Mr. Rosewater
In cold blood
The master and Margarita
One hundred years of solitude
The cubs and other stories
Chocky
2001: a space odyssey
The godfather
Slaughterhouse five
God's bits of wood
No one writes to the colonel
Miramar

1970s
Mercier et Camier
I know why the caged bird sings
The bluest eye
Surfacing
The summer book
Invisible cities
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
The lost honor of Katharina Blum
Fateless
W ou le souvenir d'enfance
Interview with the vampire
Song of Solomon
The shining
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Shikasta
The optimist's daughter
The dispossessed
The year of the hare

1980s
The name of the rose
Midnight's children
Waiting for the barbarians
July's people
The house of spirits
Schindler's ark
A pale view of hills
The color purple
The diaries of Jane Somers
Neuromancer
Empire of the sun
L'amant
Perfume
The handmaid's tale
Contact
Watchmen
Beloved
The pigeon
Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency
The long dark tea-time of the soul
Oscar and Lucinda
Cat's eye
Like water for chocolate
The remains of the day
Sexing the cherry
Une si longue lettre
Democracy
Love medecine
Simon and the oaks
Of love and shadows
Le premier jardin
Paradise of the blind

1990s
Possession
Wise children
Regeneration
Wild swans
Black dogs
Black water
Smilla's sense for snow
The English patient
Possessing the secret of joy
A heart so white
The secret history
The emigrants
The Stone diaries
Birdsong
Trainspotting
The shipping news
The wind-up bird chronicle
A fine balance
The reader
The Moor's last sigh
Alias Grace
The ghost road
Fugitive pieces
Silk
Memoirs of a geisha
The hours
The poisonwood bible
Sputnik sweetheart
Fear and trembling
Cryptonomicon
Timbuktu
Kitchen
The twins
Fall on your knees
Crossfire
In search of Klingsor

2000s until now
The blind assassin
Ignorance
Under the skin
Heart of redness
Life of Pi
Don't move
The corrections
Unless
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Cloud atlas
The plot against America
The red queen
The sea
Never let me go
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
I'm not scared
Soldiers of Salamis
The namesake
The swarm
Suite française
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
Measuring the world
The inheritance of loss
Half of a yellow sun
The reluctant fundamentalist
The history of love

A shiny new thread! And congratulations on your #300.

I'm getting close to that number myself I'm fairly sure so I might follow your excellent example and post a new one once I'm there.

Really long threads also take a while to load, so starting new threads every now and then is nice for the readers...

301- Cannery Row



How to throw a party.

4/5

302- The long dark tea-time of the soul



Dirk Gently investigates the realm of North gods. Douglas Adams sure knew how to turn a phrase. Quite funny but several plot holes.

3,5/5

So I realized there was a typo in my thread's title and it's driving me crazy. So I just created a new one and I hope you'll join me:

My new thread