Will contain:
Moll Flanders - Defoe
The Leopard - Lampedusa
To Have & Have Not - Hemingway
Ivanhoe - Scott
The Woman in White - Collins
The Autumn of the Patriarch - Marquez
Life of Pi - Martel
The Colour Purple - Walker
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
The Buddha of Suburbia - Kureshi
Mansfield Park - Austen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
Saturday - McEwan
Atonement - McEwan
The Well of Loneliness - Hall
Perfume - Suskind
Senor Vivo & the Coco Lord - Bernieres
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - Winterson
The Return of the Native - Hardy
The Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Disgrace - Coetzee
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy
Hideous Kinky - Freud
The Shipping News - Proulx
The Wasp Factory - Banks
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Hardy

Is now ready!
I'm happy for each participant to keep this for a couple of months or so to have chance to read books to swap into it.
No rules other than:
just 1001 books in this;
please replace the same amount of books you take out;
& friendliness!!

Participants:
brunton11
stubee
lucy-lemon
OnlyLiana ...here
Ythan
ekranda
katrinat (end)

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Sent to brunton11

Arrived safely today. I'm looking forward to deciding which books to choose :) Thanks cally-c for taking the time to put the box together.

What a great bookbox! There were some tough decisions to be made but in the end...
I've taken out:
Ivanhoe, Wuthering Heights, Hideous Kinky, The Return of the Native, To Have and Have Not, The Well of Loneliness, Saturday, The Wasp Factory and Mansfield Park.

And replaced them with:
All Quiet on the Western Front - EM Remarque
The 39 Steps - John Buchan
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
Emma - Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

I will get the box posted once I have an address from Stubee.

Posted to stubee today. Enjoy!

Thank you Cally-c for starting this 1001 Book Box and thanks to brunton11 from sending it on to me. I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm going to be putting in the box I've just got to decide on what to take out.

Books I've removed:

1. John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn Of Patriarch
3. E. Anne Proulx - The Shipping News
4. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
5. Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
6. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
7. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
8. Louis de Bernieres - Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Books I've added:

1. Horace McCoy – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2. J. G. Ballard – The Drowned World
3. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
4. Philip Roth - The Breast
5. Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. Andre Gide - The Immoralist
7. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
8. A.S. Byatt - Possession

I have lucy-lemon's address details so this will be in the mail again very soon.

SENT 10/01/2009

This arrived safely a while ago and has so many good books in it! I'm slowly trying to read through some, and then I'm planning on replacing some others with 1001 books I've been hoarding for the past few months :-)

After having the box for ages, I have read a few. I'm taking out these 8 books:
1. Possession - AS Byatt
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. Emma - Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
5. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
6. The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
6. The Immoralist - Andre Gide
7. The Drowned World - JG Ballard
8. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
9. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

and replacing them with:
1. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (this is only on the later list, sorry!)
3. I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
4. Junky - William Burroughs
5. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
6. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7. The Sea - John Banville
8. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

I'm hoping to post it onto OnlyLiana at the weekend.

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Sent to OnlyLiana yesterday afternoon. Sorry for the delay!

Arrived a while ago, can't wait to dive in. Thanks for organising this cally-c!