Well I've only 944 to go.

Just in case anyone is interested (and I think it is interesting to read people's bibliographies - to see what books they have chosen, and also what then may well have influenced them) here is what I have read from that list:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  
• Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  
• Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
  
• The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  
• The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  
• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  
• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  
• London Fields – Martin Amis
  
• Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  
• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  
• The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  
• Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  
• Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  
• The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  
• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  
• Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  
• The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  
• The World According to Garp – John Irving
  
• The Shining – Stephen King
  
• Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  
• Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. d**k
  
• Chocky – John Wyndham
  
• The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  
• The Magus – John Fowles
  
• The Collector – John Fowles
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  
• Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  
• Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  
• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien*
  
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  
• Junkie – William Burroughs
  
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  
• Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  
• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
  
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  
• At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
  
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  
• The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  
• The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra*

*I'm in the process of reading both of these books at the moment.

Well I can't believe they left off Narcissus and Goldman (Hesse) or everything by Twain but "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". How the hell do they put "The English Patient" on that list and not more Twain? And where was "Portnoy's Complaint" how do you have that much Philip Roth and not have THAT one? But include "Casino Royale"? Meh.

I've got a long way to go too, but I'd exclude about a third of that list for soppy romance, no matter how well written...just yawn.

Novels aren't my favorite anyway, I prefer non-fiction mostly, but a good novel can certainly be engrossing.

Oh a double post, of course, of course, I breathed near the mouse again.

A lot of those would not be on my list. I too prefer non-fiction.

A lot of those would not be on my list. I too prefer non-fiction.
Is this some guy's list? I couldn't see where it came from.

(Oh damn, sorry. meant to hit 'edit')