1001 Books Project

One girl's attempt to become a megalomaniac book connoisseur

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245. Alice Walker: The Color Purple (1982)

“…have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

The book as a song: It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World by James Brown

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684. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

The book as a song: It’s Happening Again by Agnes Obel

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369. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

The book as a song: Mr. Roboto by Styx

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275. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince (1943)

“To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...”

The book as a song: Through the Eyes of a Child by Reamonn

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548. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

The book as a song: I See Fire by Ed Sheeran 

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539. J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

The book as a song: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by the Smiths

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362. Donna Tartt: A Secret History (1992)

“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw’, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the pituresque at all costs.”

The book as a song: Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen

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844. Stefan Zweig: A Royal Game (1943)   

“For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.”

The book as a song: Mad World by Gary Jules

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato 

*rolls up sleeves*

 Lets do this!