Well I've finally got this [a Christmas present no less], a comprehensive list of 1001 books you should read before you die, you may notice that a lot of the books I've read over the last 12 months or so are to be found in this publication!

As a way of an update I've read the following books from the 1001 entries so far:

Ian McEwan - Saturday
Margaret Drabble - The Red Queen
Peter Ackroyd - The Lambs of London
Alan Garner - Thursbitch
Graham Swift - The Light of Day
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Carol Shields - Unless
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions
Don DeLillo - The Body Artist
Salman Rushdie - Fury
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Haruki Murakami - After the Quake
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Louis de Bernieres - Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
A.S. Byatt - Possession
Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
Ian McEwan - The Child in Time
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Samuel Beckett - Worstward Ho
Salman Rushdie - Grimus
Philip Roth - The Breast
Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
John Fowles - The Collector
J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Ernest Hemingway - To Have and Have Not
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
D.H. Lawrence - The Plumed Serpent
Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
Charlotte Brontë - Villette
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Edgar Allan Poe - The Purloined Letter
Aesopus - Aesop’s Fables
John Banville - The Sea
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Colm Tóibín - The Master
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Michel Faber - Under the Skin
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Alessandro Baricco - Silk
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
William Trevor - Felicia’s Journey
Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up!
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body
Jung Chang - Wild Swans
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Tim O’Brien - The Things They Carried
Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Janice Galloway - The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming Pool Library
James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Amy Hempel - Reasons to Live
John Irving - The Cider House Rules
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School
J.M. Coetzee - The Life and Times of Michael K
Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
Alasdair Gray - Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Stephen King - The Shining
Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Philip Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
James Thurber - The 13 Clocks
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Sandor Marai - Embers
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
James Joyce - Ulysses
John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
E.M. Forster - Howards End
André Gide - The Immoralist
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
George Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
Émile Zola - Nana
Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Edgar Allan Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
Nikolay Gogol - The Nose
James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans
M.G. Lewis - The Monk
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote

Just finished Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled.

Just finished John Cleland - Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure.

Just finished Natsume Soseki - Kokoro and Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Just finished Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island.

Just finished Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Just finished Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

Just finished Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

Just finished J. G. Farrell - The Singapore Grip (this was on Kindle)

Since the last JE I've finished reading J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur and J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun.

Just finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Go.

Just finished Jules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days (Kindle edition).

Just finished Tove Jansson - The Summer Book

Since my last update I've read:

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Aphra Behn - Oroonoko
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

I also read Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" over the Christmas period in 2022, which I forgot to note here.

Recently read A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka.