From 25th December 2011 until 24th December 2012 I read 100 books in 362 days. Why I hear you ask…just to see if I could and it’s a good excuse to read. So in no particular order those books were…
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- The Rebel – Albert Camus
- Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History – Adam Nicolson
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Hadrian VII – Frederick William Rolfe
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alegheri
- Aku-Aku – Thor Heyerdahl
- The Man Every Woman Wants – Miranda Lee
- Night of the Crabs – Guy N. Smith
- The Rights of Man – Thomas Paine
- Gullivers Travels – Jonathan Swift
- God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations For Modern Science – James Hannam
- Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Under The Jaguar Sun – Italo Calvino
- Knowledge of Angels – Jill Paton Walsh
- The Book of Imaginary Beings – Jorge Luis Borges
- Lewis Carroll In Numberland – Robin Wilson
- The Dogs and the Wolves – Irene Nemirovsky
- Jezebel – Irene Nemirovsky
- The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game – Simon Kuper
- Death of a Dustman – M. C Beaton
- Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
- Danse Macabre – Stephen king
- No Smoke, No Fire – Dave Jones
- Wasa-Wasa – Harry Macfie & Hans G. Westerlund
- Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
- Snuff – Terry Pratchett
- Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci – Jonathan D. Spence
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- In Siberia – Colin Thubron
- The Red House Mystery – A. A Milne
- The Mystery of Holly Lane – Enid Blyton
- The Devil and Sherlock Holmes – David Grann
- Mr Bliss – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Drinking Arak off An Ayatollah’s Beard – Nicholas Jubber
- Berlin – Antony Beevor
- The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King
- The Battle for Gullywith – Susan Hill
- Have A Little Faith – Mitch Albom
- Educating Jack – Jack Sheffield
- Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination – Robert Macfarlane
- This is not the end of the book; – Umberto Eco
- My Quest For the Yeti – Reinhold Messner
- The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
- Allan Quatermain – H. Rider Haggard
- My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes – Gary Imlach
- Death of a Celebrity – M. C Beaton
- In Arcadia – Ben Okri
- The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
- Bertrand Russell’s Best – Bertand Russell, edited by Robert E. Egner
- The Art of Travel – Alain de Botton
- All Our Worldly Goods – Irene Nemirovsky
- Elephants Can Remember – Agatha Christie
- Jeeves in the Offing – P. G Wodehouse
- Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L James
- The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage – Enid Blyton
- The Histories – Herodotus
- ‘Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
- Vita Brevis – Jostein Gaarder
- Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Second World War – Antony Beevor
- The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
- Death of a Village – M.C Beaton
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Strange Pilgrims – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Story of San Michele – Axel Munthe
- The Hundred and One Dalmatians – Dodie Smith
- Why England lose and Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained – Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
- The news Where You Are – Catherine O’ Flynn
- Strange Meeting – Susan Hill
- The Greatcoat – Helen Dunmore
- Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
- A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable – Brian Clegg
- The Mystery of the Missing Man – Enid Blyton
- Crabs’ Moon: Night of the Crabs 2 – Guy N. Smith
- David Golder – Irene Némirovsky
- Memoirs From the House of the Dead – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations – Mark Goodman
- Ur of the Chaldees – Sir Leonard Woolley
- TV Cream Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents For – Steve Berry
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- A Maze of Death – Philip K. Dick
- Death of a Poison Pen – M. C Beaton
- Up In The Bronx – Stephen Baum
- In Evil Hour – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- Myths of the Near Future – J. G. Ballard
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- Rush: The Autobiography – Ian Rush
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- The Painted Veil – W. Somerset Maugham
- But Not Yet – Lucy Tasker
- Through A Glass, Darkly – Jostein Gaarder
- Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Great list. I’m impressed. I have a few on your lists which I’ve listed on Classcis Club list on my blog: Alan Quatermain and Oliver Twist. They are all re-reads, actually
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I am aiming for 100 read by the end of the year so it’s still a challenge. I’m glad to see the art of reading is still going strong, I shall check out your Classics club post haste!
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This is an amazing list! I’m ashamed now…My list is nothing compared to yours hahaha I really love to read and hope someday I’ll have a list to be proud of. 🙂 Congratulations for this!
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You have read some great books and anyone that can read War and Peace and two other books is pretty impressive. I’m attempting to reach 100 books this year, the pressure is definately on, but you have inspired me to get a move on now.
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PS: Do you recommend Fifty Shades of Grey? 😉
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After that review I did I suspect everyone is just trying to wind me up about it now, lol. I do however recommend burning it!
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Thankyou very much for sharing the list, Getting inspired by your writings! regards Shoba
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Hopefully I’ll get to the magic 100 this year. I shall be checking out your blog later as I have to go to work now at this stupidly earlier hour. Hope you have a great day and are very much inspired.
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Thankyou and welcome Sir ,regards shoba
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Great list!
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I like to mix it up ,so I can get a rounded view of all styles of work, except Moby Dick, I couldn’t go through that again.
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Very eclectic mix! Look forward to viewing the next 25 🙂
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I love to mix it up a bit and keep myself bouncing through lots of different styles and subject matter, and even more exciting is a history of the popes which I am much looking forward to sinking into.
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That does sound interesting, when I see the grand castles and properties they owned around here and in Avignon, it really makes me wonder about their lifestyles back in the day when they were a club of very wealthy and revered men. My how things have changed.
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I bet it was a fantastic lifestyle for them. If only the joy of reading hadn’t been given to the masses then they’d probably be safe in their castles still and we’d have to blog about something different.
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Wow! I should’ve done this, too! Unfortunately, I joined Goodreads later this June so only those books I’ve read after I signed up were in the list.
Let’s keep up reading! 🙂
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I was sad enough to keep all mine in a pile until April when I thought to list them for my own benefit and now i am aiming for 100 for the year. I like a challenge. I shall have to dig my Goodreads account up again myself.
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This comment answers my question a few minutes ago. You have a Goodreads account! 🙂 Please add me!
It is a good thing to have a challenge because you can test (and sometimes push) yourself to your limit. I think you can do well more than a hundred. I wish I could, too. Perhaps I’ll start this January.
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Yeah do it, it’s fun although can get a bit stressful when you end up stuck on a big book for weeks on end. I like to set a challenge a year. Last year I didn’t buy any books which ended up being easier than it sounded. I should beat one hundred this year, just started book ninety. I shall add you when I get around to updating it.
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I feel frustrated when I read a book, especially a classic, for more than a week so my current strategy is to read two or three easy reading novels then tackle a hard one. Good luck in reading 11 more books and by the looks of it, you will meet your 100 mark.
I’ll wait for the invite 🙂
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That is a good plan, I may steal that for my own future use. Half wy through book 90 now so I am in positive spirits. As long as I avoid Moby Dick I shall be alright.
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A good plan indeed and I hope I can stick to it. Some books are just too good but would occupy two-four weeks of my reading time so sometimes I avoid them. Pity that
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I love how you have sooooooo many classics on this list! Great job!!! 🙂
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I love to try and read all the big names. I am hoping to read some other big hitters this year. I always take one to the pub as it makes me seem way more intelligent than I possibly am., lol.
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Good luck for “100 Books Read in 362 days”…by the way what is the current progress ?
take care
Harshit Chauhan
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I completed it last year, I was aiming for the 365 but I did it despite a break for the European Championships, which as usual England failed to do anything good in.
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That makes an average of a book a day. If it’s a little one, fair enough, but how to complete Oliver Twist in 24 hours?!
I’m impressed.
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When you put it like that it does seem pretty good. I really wish I would have had the same drive this year to attempt reading the same amount. Still there is always next year and perhaps I will read Children’s books and aim for 200.
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This is great stuff Ste J! I hope I could read as much as you do! Little wonder you’re so intelligent. 🙂
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I like to set myself challenges, although I didn’t have one this year. I really need to get around to reviewing all the rest of the books, methinks…
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Love Somerset…what about Steinbeck?
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I haven’t read any Steinbeck yet…which makes me under read…I shall remedy this post haste. Greetings and welcome to the blog and the New Year!
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Hey, I just noticed this. 25th December 2011 until 24th December 2012 is 365 days, not 362! You should have included a math book instead of that up in the Bronx one.
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Ha, I had three days off as a treat in the middle in which I wasted my time watched bad TV quizzes probably…I learned nothing so the TV quizzes were true to form!
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Holy Moly, 100. Impressive. I’ll make around sixty this year, though I feel I should be able to count Moby Dick and Anna Karenina as two : ) Great List, looks a lot like mine, though I only read on Stephen King, His memoir. It was fantastic. Looking forward to following your blog, paz, Abby
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Welcome to the blog. You actually managed to read all the way through Moby Dick, I am impressed! I think you should gte three books for that one, I never made it past the chapter detailing all the different types of whales. King has written some really good books, he manages to evoke such atmosphere when his characters talk.
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Wow! That’s an impressive list! 🙂
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The beauty of it is that there is plenty of scope for widening it too!
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Oh my my! Seriously 100 books. ❤
How I wish I could arrange time to have as wide list as yours.
I am flabbergasted. Trust me on this.
Going through above comments, I realized that you have goal of another 100 books, good luck for that. 🙂
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This was a few years ago and it was a challenge near the end but the obsession took over. I haven’t read that many in a single year again but maybe one day…well year!
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My bad.
How could I not see the dates.🙈
I’m really sorry. I just went through some of the last comments and didn’t bother my eyes to look at the year when they were posted.
Embarrassing!😑
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Think nothing of it, it is nice to be remembered of the old posts now and again. It does give me an idea for another 100 post but that would mean spending loads of money buying books so thank you!
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It’s alright then.
But spending money on books is like spending for one’s wisdom. So it won’t be a bad deal, I guess.😉
All the best for your future’s 100 post😀
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You’re right, books are the gift that keep on giving and look good when new people come around your house too. Thank you for your unknowing inspiration.
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Indeed.😄
You’re welcome.😊
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I’m supremely jealous and inspired at the same time by this list. I’ve been struggling to keep up with reading these days, although I have made up for lost time in the past few weeks. 100 books in less than a year is goals right there. Thanks for the motivation! I’m going to scoot now, get home and read through the night. Also, that’s an impressive selection of books. I have crossed out quite a few of these on my list and added a few from here too. 🙂
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I only decided to try for the hundred after somehow managing to get time off at Christmas and flying through the books, it seemed an attainable goal after my fifteen books by the of January. I hope to add more to your list in the near future. I hope you managed some sleep after your night reading!
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Yes, I’ll find your space when I lack the stimulus. I managed to read in absolute bliss tonight, with a cup of coffee and no interruptions. It’s 4:30 a.m. here and I’m finally off to bed, after this unusual reading session! Good night!
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It’s good to mix it up, time of day, place and so on always keeping reading interesting. No interruptions…ah bliss!
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I love the idea of making a stack of 100 books and aiming to get through them like Jaffa Cakes, like marathon miles, like a challenge that could see me photographed with one foot on a pile of 100 books and a Napoleonic look on my face. I often forget what I’ve got and what I really wanted to read, so really like the idea of this number, and to detail which titles. Even if I change it through the year, I’d still be able to take the picture.
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Why is it that eating a whole packet of Jaffa Cakes isn’t particularly challenging these days. Unlike the 100 books that I noly chose to do as I had a good start in January and read about twelve of them. I think you should take a photo of you with whatever books you do conquer, in fact do it each year and get a crown too! We hoarders have the simultaneous pain of forgetting about awesome boos we have but finding them months or years later to great delight. It keeps the blood pumping for me.
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Excellent. I read generally about 150 books in a year. They are French, which is not my mother tongue. 🙂
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That’s an impressive number to read, I hope to master French one day and expand the amount of books I can read.
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