threelistthursday

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

Abysmal. Hemingway and high school assignments were four of the five. Lord of the Flies is disturbing, but is one of my favorites from this list. (So disturbing). Fun fact - I have been grumbling at most of these lists because The Quiet American is the only Graham Greene they usually list and it isn‘t the one I‘ve read. Only, I just checked The StoryGraph and apparently I read it in 2021 and just didn‘t like it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe

dabbe That is hysterical! And I'll be happy when we're done with this list. I need to find lists that better support what we love to read. I still can't believe I didn't even recognize 72 of these! 🤣 #abysmalindeedy Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 10h

DGRachel @dabbe I think I only recognized maybe 10 from this list and that includes the ones I‘ve read. This list was 🤨 10h

dabbe @DGRachel 🎯🩵🎯 9h

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TheSpineView

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#ThreeListThursday @dabbe #TLT

I totally let this slip my mind yesterday. 🐿🧠

Anyhow.... I still did the same as the two previous weeks. Dismal is what I would call it.

My favorite book by far on this list is LOTR. I also liked I, Robot and Foundation both by Isaac Asimov. I will be rereading Foundation this month for #ClassicLSFBC

dabbe We can be the #dismalduo! Except you kicked my sorry butt! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 10h

TheSpineView @dabbe You crack me up! Dismal Duo!! 🤣🤣 What I want to know is who made these lists? A lot of these books I have never heard of. 🤪🙄😏 8h

dabbe @TheSpineView According to good ol' Wikipedia, “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University. There was a major revision of 280 odd titles in 2018 with the removal of ~300 works almost entirely by English-language authors who have more than one title on the original list.“ That explains it! 🤣 3h

TheSpineView @dabbe Interesting 🌞 3h

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Liz_M

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

I own an edition of this book and have used it as a checklist for more than a decade and i still didn't recognize all the books on the list. 😂

It's not necessarily we're not “well-read“ but rather a specific effort was made to create an international list so, for example, it includes classics from Scandinavian countries that are not well-known elsewhere.

Three books I don't remember reading:
The Roots of Heaven
The Guiltless
Death Sentence

kspenmoll Wowza!!!! 1d

RaeLovesToRead 90?! 🤯🤯🤯 Even with the book as a guide, that is really impressive!!! 1d

Liz_M @RaeLovesToRead So, sorry to disappoint you, but most of these books DO exist. 😆🤓 1d

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Liz_M @kspenmoll Thank you! I'm going to be at a complete loss once I decide I'm done with this list. 1d

TheBookHippie How much do you have to go yet ?? 1d

BarbaraBB You‘re my hero! I wonder if this 10% who apparently read more than you, do exist! Where can I take the quiz by the way? 1d

dabbe Beyond W🤩WZA! Has this book been your major book guide for the last decade? Thanks for the 3 not to read, too! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 24h

dabbe @BarbaraBB The lists are coming from me and #threelistthursday. If you want to follow me, they'll show up in your feed every week. If not, I'll gladly provide the links when you want them. 😊
Here's today's: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list5 24h

BarbaraBB @dabbe Thanks so much! Don‘t I follow you???? Must change that immediately 🤍 23h

BarbaraBB I read 58! Not bad but you‘re so far ahead of me 😀 23h

Liz_M @BarbaraBB The quiz stats are a little wonky -- both TheBookHippie & I are ranked #1 Also, how can it rank a person as #1 and then say 5% of users did better?!?? 🙃

58 is a lot! You read so much more than me and read way more TOB and prize-list books than me. 🌟 17h

Liz_M @TheBookHippie I've read about 980 books (sometimes I count half-completed books, sometimes I don't) from the 1318 books in all the various editions of this list. . 17h

TheBookHippie @Liz_M you‘re getting there!!! 🙃 it‘s fun to follow a list. 15h

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie Are you reading the list too? 14h

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB Nope. I didn‘t even know about it 🤣 13h

dabbe @BarbaraBB 😍 10h

dabbe @BarbaraBB #woohooyou!!! I am not surprised one bit! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 10h

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie and you read all of those 👌🏽 10h

BarbaraBB @dabbe Thanks for organizing ❤️❤️ 10h

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB School. 🤣😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️ 10h

dabbe @BarbaraBB YW! I need to find other lists, so if you know of any, let me know! You're a major book guru! 😍 10h

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie I‘m in awe! 6h

BarbaraBB @dabbe The 1001 list has been my guide for years. I have been neglecting it for the past few years but it‘s the mother list 🥰. What about Booker lists? 6h

dabbe @BarbaraBB Ooh, excellent idea! You've read lots of those, right? I look to you when you post things about them. I'll check it out! 😍 3h

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dabbe

1001: Books You Must Read Before You Die: You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

I S.U.C.K.! For the first time, I actually counted how many books I actually recognized: only 28/100! That means I have never even heard of 72 of them! 😱 Of the nine I actually read, here are three faves:
1. THE LONG GOOD-BYE: love Philip Marlowe and Chandler.
2. THE GO-BETWEEN: beautifully written, reminded me of ATONEMENT (though this one came first).
3. THE LORD OF THE RINGS. #ofcourse

peaKnit I‘ve heard of 14! Read 6…oof. lol 1d

ChaoticMissAdventures I don't think it is you. We are all big readers and many of us are in the book world. I think a lot of these if we looked are not even being published any longer and so by default did not hold up across generations 1d

RaeLovesToRead I love how these lists are so obscure we are now doing marks for recognised haha 1d

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RaeLovesToRead RIGHT. I'M GOING IN. (Wish me luck...) 1d

RaeLovesToRead I've read 8. But I maintain that quite a lot of the books on this list are made up and don't actually exist. 1d

kspenmoll I have only read 9. Favs: Excellent Woman, Barbara Pym, The quiet American, Graham Greene, If This pis a Man, Primo Levi 1d

dabbe @peaKnit Right there with ya! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I also think it's because a lot of them are from all over the world, and at least in my case, I pretty much read American/Brit lit. It's rather challenging to find decent translations as well. 1d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead I had to do SOMETHING to make us feel a wee better! 🤣 1d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🎯🤣🎯 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @kspenmoll Three more for the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

Read4life I‘m consistent. Consistently BAD!!! Just 6 that I‘ve read and 19 that I‘ve heard of before. 😳 6h

dabbe @Read4life I'm with ya, sista! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 3h

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dabbe

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | Peter Boxall

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 5, all from the 1900s. I'm getting worse, not better! 😅
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list5
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.

EVERYONE is tagged; ALL are welcome. 🤗

willaful 9. Fav is Lord of the Rings. I thought The Floating Opera was awful but I may have been too young for it. Want to read Brideshead Revisited and a Town Called Alice. 1d

dabbe @willaful The #hashtagbrigade will be reading BRIDESHEAD this September if you'd like to join us! I want to read that one, too. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💙 1d

Librarybelle Ha! I read 3 on the list. Many titles I‘m unfamiliar with…yikes! 1d

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shortsarahrose Read 6, have seen the movie for two others I haven‘t read (Zorba the Greek and Doctor Zhivago). I actually feel like I had heard of a decent amount and read more than previous lists, but I think we‘re in a time period that I know more about. LOTR is the favorite I‘ve read, though 1984 was also good. 1d

RaeLovesToRead I maintain that despite my consistently rubbish scores on these, I AM A WELL READ INDIVIDUAL 🤣🤣 1d

dabbe @Librarybelle I didn't know 72 OF THEM!!! 😱 #yikesindeedy Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @shortsarahrose LOTR's one of my faves, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead You ARE!!! I promise to find better lists once we're done with this one! Ones that include literature we're all better acquainted with! 😍 1d

RaeLovesToRead @dabbe I'm good with the back catalogue of Harlan Coben hehe 😆 1d

Amor4Libros I got 1: Giovanni‘s Room and I read it last year! 🤣 1d

melissajayne 8; A Town Like Alice is one of my favourites 1d

suvata I got 19. Never even heard of most of them. 1d

MonicaLoves2Read 2 both read in high school. 1984 and Catcher in the Rye 1d

Bookwormjillk I got 8. It‘s been a while but I remember liking Cry, The Beloved Country 1d

Amiable Yikes! I‘m just going to throw in another recommendation for

A Town Like Alice

Texreader Three! And proud of it! 🤣 1d

dabbe @RaeLovesToRead 🤣😍🤣 1d

dabbe @Amor4Libros And that's one I have yet to read! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @melissajayne Now on the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @suvata 🎯🩵🎯 You kicked my sorry butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @MonicaLoves2Read Same, well, sorta. 1st read of CATCHER was in high school; I taught it for years as a teacher, too. I was lucky enough to read 1984 my freshman year in college during the year 1984. Reagan was presdient, so we thought it jived pretty closely with the book. 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk 🎯🩵🎯! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

dabbe @Amiable Moving up on the TBR! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 1d

Dragon I just got 9 😂❤️🐉. My favourites of the 9 were Brideshead Revisited, The End of The Affair and Lord of the Rings 23h

DGRachel Missed this yesterday. Off to see how horribly I do…😂😂 10h

dabbe @Dragon You and I tied! #greatminds! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 10h

dabbe @DGRachel May the force be with you! ✨ 10h

Dragon 🙌❤️🐉 4h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've read 7 of these. Favorites were LOTR, Bonjour Tristesse (more for the sense of place than story) , & Giovanni's Room. I've slowly been working through the short stories that comprise The Burning Plain, but it's not included in the total read. I disliked Zorba the Greek. I've heard of 41 of these, though I'd be hard pressed to tell you what they are about. I might explore some of these lists & add some to my TBR. It is a diverse list. 2h

dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Boy is it! You've given me more for the TBR, too. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙📚💚 2h

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Vansa

The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth

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#ThreelistThursday @dabbe 23 books read, absolutely loved Christ stopped at Eboli and the tagged book,full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5535027924
My 3 I want to read are Transit by Anna Seghers, The man who loved children by Christina Stead and The big sleep by Chandler

dabbe I can only speak to THE BIG SLEEP, and I loved it! The Bogard/Bacall movie is spectacular as well. Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 1w

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Blueberry

1984 | George Orwell

Only 13 out of 100 (sigh). But better than last week. 😆
I'm tagging 1984 because I thought it would be on the list but wasn't.

#ThreeListThursday
@Dabbe

dabbe I think we still have more to go with the 1900s, so it may still be coming! And re: your score and comment, 🩵🎯🩵!!! I'm right there with ya! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵 1w

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TheSpineView

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#ThreeListThursday @dabbe #TLT

I did almost the same as last week. I believe I had a score of 14 last week, and this week it is 13. More than half the books I read on the list was required reading in school.

My favorite was The Hobbit.

I'm so late today so if you want to play consider yourself tagged.

dabbe More than half of this list I had never even heard of! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💙 1w

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dabbe

The Thin Man | Dashiell Hammett

#threelistthursday #tlt @dabbe

Six better than last week. This list is killing me! 🤣 For my 3 faves, I went to book noir: two Hammetts and one Chandler.
1. THE MALTESE FALCON: “And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.”
2. THE BIG SLEEP: “You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, and you were not bothered by things like that.“
3. THE THIN MAN: “Nora: “How do you feel?“
Nick: “Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”

ChaoticMissAdventures I have a canvas print of Maltese Falcon I loved the vibe of the book! 1w

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures How cool is that? You need to post a pic! I loved the book and movie so much that I taught an American film noir unit to my juniors as a reward at the end of the year. They loved it! To have them come into the room before class started and voluntarily talk about what they thought was going to happen next was priceless! 😍 1w

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lil1inblue

Fail Harder: Ridiculous Illustrations of Epic Fails | failblog.org community

8/100 😭 😭 😂 😂
I don't think Peter Boxall and I share many literary pursuits, though *some* of the ones I haven't read are on #mounttbr
💙All Quiet on the Western Front was a “Whoa“ book for me.
💙Just remembering Pippi Longstocking gives me so much joy. I should re-read.
💙I do appreciate that these lists venture outside the usual canon.
#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

dabbe I can't believe that I still need to read ALL QUIET. 😱 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤗 1w

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, I still remember how hard All Quiet hit me! It shares the universal emotional experience of those fighting a war, regardless of time or place. 1w

lil1inblue @BooksandCoffee4Me It was so powerful. I'm so glad I read it in high school with my favorite teacher. We had such fascinating discussions about this book. 1w

lil1inblue @dabbe It's worth the read, but emotionally difficult. 🤗 1w

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