I decided to challenge myself to one book a week to try and make a solid dent. I am reading from both the original and updated lists of books. I have now completed the challenge, one that I really enjoyed. It has been a very mixed bag of books, from recent ones to old ones, fact to fiction. I couldn't have done this without the 1001-library, as the various members have kept me well-stocked for books. I plan to do this again next year, not just to knock off books from the list, but also to expand my own reading. There are many books I never would have considered if they hadn't come to me with recommendations from other readers or just because I requested another book.

Here is my list so far:
1.Tipping the Velvet
2.Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books)
3.Evelina (Everyman's Library)
4.London Fields
5.Enduring Love
6.Intimacy (1001 book)
7.The Go-between (Penguin Modern Classics)
8. + 10Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey
9.The 13 Clocks
11. On Beauty
12.The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
13.A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin)
14.The Emigrants
15. The Turn of the Screw: AND The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics)
16.The Satanic Verses
17.Petals of Blood
18.Amsterdam
19.Their Eyes Were Watching God
20.The Moonstone (Penguin Popular Classics)
21.World's End
22.Gulliver's Travels (Wordsworth Classics)
23.Possessing the Secret of Joy
24.Snow
25. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Classics)
26.Aesop's Fables
27.To the Lighthouse
28.Brighton Rock
29.The Child in Time
30.The Stone Diaries (The Perennial Collection)
31.Beloved
32.The Kingdom of This World
33.The Cement Garden
34.Kokoro
35.The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
36. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
37. Lolita
38+39.Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre
40.El extraño caso del Dr Jekyll y Mr. Hyde
41. The Maltese Falcon
42. Morvern Callar
43. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
44. A Morte de Ivan Ilitch
45.Mrs Dalloway
46. The Wings of the Dove
47. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
48. Sons and Lovers
49.The Poisonwood Bible
50.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Picador Books)
51. Regeneration (Penguin Celebrations)
52. The Ghost Road (The regeneration trilogy)

Top reads - I enjoy reading Amado's work, so Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is up there.
Not only because they were last read, but I would thoroughly recommend the Regeneration series from Pat Barker.
Snow, a great insight into Turkey.
Petals of Blood - life in Kenya laid bare.

Disappointments:
Beloved - this just never grabbed me.
Gullivar's Travels - I didn't have sufficient knowledge of the history behind the story.