The 157 Project Booklist Reading Tracker.xlsx

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1	No.	Genre	Book Title	Author	Difficulty	Format	Series 📚	Setting	Rating (Out of 10)	Comments

2	1	Literary Classics	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	Easy / Accessible		No	Rural Regency England
3	2	Literary Classics	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Easy / Accessible		No	1920s Long Island & NYC, USA
4	3	Literary Classics	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	Easy / Accessible		No	1950s New York City, USA
5	4	Literary Classics	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Easy / Accessible		No	Dystopian Future America
6	5	Literary Classics	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	Easy / Accessible		No	Victorian London, England
7	6	Literary Classics	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Easy / Accessible		No	1930s Maycomb, Alabama, USA
8	7	Literary Classics	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Easy / Accessible		No	Victorian London, England
9	8	Literary Classics	1984	George Orwell	Moderate Length or Style		No	Dystopian Airstrip One (London)
10	9	Literary Classics	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	Moderate Length or Style		No	19th-Century Yorkshire, England
11	10	Literary Classics	Beloved	Toni Morrison	Moderate Length or Style		No	Post-Civil War Ohio, USA
12	11	Literary Classics	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	Moderate Length or Style		No	19th-Century France & Mediterranean
13	12	Literary Classics	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	Moderate Length or Style		No	18th-Century Yorkshire Moors, England
14	13	Literary Classics	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Moderate Length or Style		No	1930s Dust Bowl & California, USA
15	14	Literary Classics	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	Moderate Length or Style		No	Dystopian World State (London)
16	15	Literary Classics	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Moderate Length or Style		No	Victorian London & Kent, England
17	16	Literary Classics	East of Eden	John Steinbeck	Moderate Length or Style		No	Salinas Valley, California, USA
18	17	Literary Classics	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	Moderate Length or Style		No	World War II Pianosa Island, Italy
19	18	Literary Classics	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	19th-Century Saint Petersburg, Russia
20	19	Literary Classics	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Fictional Macondo, Colombia
21	20	Literary Classics	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	19th-Century Imperial Russia
22	21	Literary Classics	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Mid-20th Century USA Road Trip
23	22	Literary Classics	The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	1930s Moscow, USSR & Ancient Jerusalem
24	23	Literary Classics	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Early 20th-Century Mississippi, USA
25	24	Literary Classics	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	1930s American South & Harlem, NYC
26	25	Literary Classics	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	19th-Century Normandy, France
27	26	Literary Classics	Middlemarch	George Eliot	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	1830s Midlands, England
28	27	Literary Classics	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	19th-Century Provincial Russia
29	28	Literary Classics	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Napoleonic-Era Imperial Russia
30	29	Literary Classics	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Whaling Ship Pequod, Global Oceans
31	30	Literary Classics	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	17th-Century La Mancha, Spain
32	31	Literary Classics	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	19th-Century France (1832 Uprising)
33	32	Literary Classics	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Late 19th-Century Dublin, Ireland
34	33	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Easy / Accessible		No	Kabul, Afghanistan & California, USA
35	34	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	Easy / Accessible		No	World War II Nazi Germany
36	35	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Easy / Accessible		No	Pacific Ocean Lifeboat & India
37	36	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	A Gentleman in Moscow	Amor Towles	Easy / Accessible		No	Hotel Metropol, Moscow, USSR
38	37	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	Easy / Accessible		Yes	1940s–1950s Barcelona, Spain
39	38	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	Easy / Accessible		No	WWII Saint-Malo, France & Germany
40	39	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	Easy / Accessible		No	Andalusia, Spain & Egyptian Pyramids
41	40	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	Easy / Accessible		No	Late 19th-Century Pre-Colonial Nigeria
42	41	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Stranger	Albert Camus	Easy / Accessible		No	1940s French Algiers, Algeria
43	42	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Normal People	Sally Rooney	Easy / Accessible		No	Modern Dublin & Sligo, Ireland
44	43	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	Moderate Length or Style		No	1970s Unnamed City, India
45	44	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	Moderate Length or Style		No	Dystopian Alternative 1990s England
46	45	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi	Moderate Length or Style		No	18th–21st Century Ghana & USA
47	46	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Moderate Length or Style		No	1960s Biafran War, Nigeria
48	47	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	Moderate Length or Style		No	20th-Century Korea & Japan
49	48	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel	Moderate Length or Style		No	Post-Apocalyptic Great Lakes Region
50	49	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	Moderate Length or Style		No	1960s Kerala, India
51	50	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	Moderate Length or Style		No	1950s Post-WWII Oxfordshire, England
52	51	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	The Trial	Franz Kafka	Moderate Length or Style		No	Unnamed Surreal European City
53	52	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	20th-Century Post-Independence India
54	53	Modern & Contemporary Fiction	A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		No	Modern New York City, USA
55	54	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Deep Space & Earth
56	55	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Earth Orbit Battle School & Space
57	56	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Piranesi	Susanna Clarke	Easy / Accessible		No	An Infinite Labyrinthine House
58	57	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	Easy / Accessible		No	Fictional Middle-earth
59	58	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Magical Realm of Narnia
60	59	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J.K. Rowling	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Hogwarts Castle, Scotland
61	60	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Neverending Story	Michael Ende	Easy / Accessible		No	Magical Realm of Fantastica
62	61	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Neil Gaiman	Easy / Accessible		No	Rural Sussex, England
63	62	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Good Omens	Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Modern Oxfordshire & London, UK
64	63	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Time Machine	H.G. Wells	Easy / Accessible		No	Year 802,701 AD Future Earth
65	64	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells	Easy / Accessible		No	Victorian Surrey & London, England
66	65	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	Easy / Accessible		No	WWII Dresden & Planet Tralfamadore
67	66	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Dune	Frank Herbert	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Desert Planet Arrakis
68	67	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Fictional Middle-earth
69	68	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Foundation	Isaac Asimov	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Galactic Empire (Trantor & Terminus)
70	69	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	Moderate Length or Style		No	Post-Apocalyptic San Francisco, USA
71	70	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Kindred	Octavia Butler	Moderate Length or Style		No	Antebellum Maryland & 1970s California
72	71	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	American Gods	Neil Gaiman	Moderate Length or Style		No	Small-Town Road Trip across USA
73	72	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Dystopian Republic of Gilead
74	73	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	A Game of Thrones	George R.R. Martin	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Fictional Continents of Westeros & Essos
75	74	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Once and Future King	T.H. White	Moderate Length or Style		No	Legendary Medieval Mythic Britain
76	75	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Earthsea Trilogy (A Wizard of Earthsea)	Ursula K. Le Guin	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	Archipelago of Earthsea
77	76	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Neuromancer	William Gibson	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Cyberpunk Chiba City & Orbital Sprawl
78	77	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Fictional Fantasy World of Temerant
79	78	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	Hyperion	Dan Simmons	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Far-Future Planet Hyperion
80	79	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Ice Planet Gethen
81	80	Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Speculative	The Three-Body Problem	Cixin Liu	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Cultural Revolution China & Outer Space
82	81	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	Easy / Accessible		No	Isolated Soldier Island, Devon, UK
83	82	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	Easy / Accessible		No	Suburbia North Carthage, Missouri, USA
84	83	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Hedeby Island & Stockholm, Sweden
85	84	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	Easy / Accessible		Yes	1920s San Francisco, USA
86	85	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	Shutter Island	Dennis Lehane	Easy / Accessible		No	Ashecliffe Hospital, Boston Harbor, USA
87	86	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Agatha Christie	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Fictional English Village King's Abbot
88	87	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Dartmoor, Devon, England
89	88	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	Easy / Accessible		Yes	1930s Los Angeles, USA
90	89	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	Easy / Accessible		No	Manderley Estate, Cornwall, England
91	90	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré	Easy / Accessible		Yes	Cold War Berlin & London
92	91	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	FBI Quantico & Baltimore, USA
93	92	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	Moderate Length or Style		No	1959 Holcomb, Kansas, USA
94	93	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Secret History	Donna Tartt	Moderate Length or Style		No	Elite Hampden College, Vermont, USA
95	94	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith	Moderate Length or Style		Yes	1950s NYC & Amalfi Coast, Italy
96	95	Mystery, Thriller & Crime	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	John le Carré	Complex, Dense, or Monumental Length		Yes	Cold War London, UK
97	96	Horror & Gothic Fiction	Dracula	Bram Stoker	Easy / Accessible		No	Transylvania & Victorian Whitby, UK
98	97	Horror & Gothic Fiction	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	Easy / Accessible		No	Geneva, Switzerland & Arctic Circle
99	98	Horror & Gothic Fiction	The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson	Easy / Accessible		No	Isolated Rural Hill House Mansion
100	99	Horror & Gothic Fiction	The Turn of the Screw	Henry James	Moderate Length or Style		No	Victorian Bly Country Estate, England