1000 Books To Read

1. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Saturday Ian McEwan 3. On Beauty Zadie Smith 4. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 5.
e 5. Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson 6. The Sea John Banville 7. The Red Queen Margaret Drabble 8. The Plot Against America Philip Roth 9. The Master Colm Tibn 10. Vanishing Point David Markson 11. The Lambs of London Peter Ackroyd 12. Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair 13. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 14. Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle 15. The Colour Rose Tremain 16. Thursbitch Alan Garner 17. The Light of Day Graham Swift 18. What I Loved Siri Hustvedt 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon 20. Islands Dan Sleigh 21. Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee 22. London Orbital Iain Sinclair 23. Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith Sarah Waters 25. The Double Jos Saramago 26. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 27. Unless Carol Shields 28. Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami 29. The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor 30. That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern 31. In the Forest Edna OBrien 32. Shroud John Banville 33. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 34. Youth J.M. Coetzee 35. Dead Air Iain Banks 36. Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 37. The Book of Illusions Paul Auster 38. Gabriels Gift Hanif Kureishi 39. Austerlitz W.G. Sebald 40. Platform Michael Houellebecq 41. Schooling Heather McGowan 42. Atonement Ian McEwan 43. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 44. Dont Move Margaret Mazzantini 45. The Body Artist Don DeLillo 46. Fury Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys Jamie ONeill 48. Choke Chuck Palahniuk 49. Life of Pi Yann Martel 50. The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargos Llosa 51. An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma 52. The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare 54. White Teeth Zadie Smith 55. The Heart of Redness Zakes Mda 56. Under the Skin Michel Faber 57. Ignorance Milan Kundera 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 59. Celestial Harmonies Pter Esterhzy 60. City of God E.L. Doctorow 61. How the Dead Live Will Self 62. The Human Stain Philip Roth 63. The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 64. After the Quake Haruki Murakami 65. Small Remedies Shashi Deshpande 66. Super-Cannes J.G. Ballard 67. House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 68. Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 69. Pastoralia George Saunders 70.
71. 1900s 70. Timbuktu Paul Auster 71. The Romantics Pankaj Mishra 72. Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 73. As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakuli? 74. Everything You Need A.L. Kennedy 75. Fear and Trembling Amlie Nothomb 76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 77. Disgrace J.M. Coetzee 78. Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami 79. Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 80. Intimacy Hanif Kureishi 81. Amsterdam Ian McEwan 82. Cloudsplitter Russell Banks 83. All Souls Day Cees Nooteboom 84. The Talk of the Town Ardal OHanlon 85. Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters 86. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 87. Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 88. Another World Pat Barker 89. The Hours Michael Cunningham 90. Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 91. Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 93. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 94. Great Apes Will Self 95. Enduring Love Ian McEwan 96. Underworld Don DeLillo 97. Jack Maggs Peter Carey 98. The Life of Insects Victor Pelevin 99. American Pastoral Philip Roth 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. The Untouchable John Banville Silk Alessandro Baricco Cocaine Nights J.G. Ballard Hallucinating Foucault Patricia Duncker Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels The Ghost Road Pat Barker Forever a Stranger Hella Haasse Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace The Clay Machine-Gun Victor Pelevin Alias Grace Margaret Atwood The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro Morvern Callar Alan Warner The Information Martin Amis The Moors Last Sigh Salman Rushdie Sabbaths Theater Philip Roth
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The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald The Reader Bernhard Schlink A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Loves Work Gillian Rose The End of the Story Lydia Davis Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst Whatever Michel Houellebecq Land Park Kyong-ni The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Pereira Declares: A Testimony Antonio Tabucchi City Sister Silver Jchym Topol How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman Captain Corellis Mandolin Louis de Bernieres Felicias Journey William Trevor Disappearance David Dabydeen The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx Trainspotting Irvine Welsh Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Looking for the Possible Dance A.L. Kennedy Operation Shylock Philip Roth
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Complicity Iain Banks On Love Alain de Botton What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth The Stone Diaries Carol Shields The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides The House of Doctor Dee Peter Ackroyd The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood The Emigrants W.G. Sebald The Secret History Donna Tartt Life is a Caravanserai Emine zdamar The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch A Heart So White Javier Marias Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker Indigo Marina Warner The Crow Road Iain Banks Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson Jazz Toni Morrison The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Smillas Sense of Snow Peter Heg The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe Black Water Joyce Carol Oates The Heather Blazing Colm Tibn
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Asphodel H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Black Dogs Ian McEwan Hideous Kinky Esther Freud Arcadia Jim Crace Wild Swans Jung Chang American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Times Arrow Martin Amis Mao II Don DeLillo Typical Padgett Powell Regeneration Pat Barker Downriver Iain Sinclair Seor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis de Bernieres Wise Children Angela Carter Get Shorty Elmore Leonard Amongst Women John McGahern Vineland Thomas Pynchon Vertigo W.G. Sebald Stone Junction Jim Dodge The Music of Chance Paul Auster The Things They Carried Tim OBrien A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham Like Life Lorrie Moore Possession A.S. Byatt
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The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle A Disaffection James Kelman Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson Moon Palace Paul Auster Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro The Melancholy of Resistance Lszl Krasznahorkai The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker The Trick is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway The History of the Siege of Lisbon Jos Saramago Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving London Fields Martin Amis The Book of Evidence John Banville Cats Eye Margaret Atwood Foucaults Pendulum Umberto Eco The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White Wittgensteins Mistress David Markson The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey Libra Don DeLillo
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The Player of Games Iain M. Banks Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams The Radiant Way Margaret Drabble The Afternoon of a Writer Peter Handke The Black Dahlia James Ellroy The Passion Jeanette Winterson The Pigeon Patrick Sskind The Child in Time Ian McEwan Cigarettes Harry Mathews The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe The New York Trilogy Paul Auster Worlds End T. Coraghessan Boyle Enigma of Arrival V.S. Naipaul The Taebek Mountains Jo Jung-rae Beloved Toni Morrison Anagrams Lorrie Moore Matigari Ngugi Wa Thiongo Marya Joyce Carol Oates Watchmen Alan Moore & David Gibbons The Old Devils Kingsley Amis Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt
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An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro Extinction Thomas Bernhard Foe J.M. Coetzee The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi Reasons to Live Amy Hempel The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofmann Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garca Mrquez Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson The Cider House Rules John Irving A Maggot John Fowles Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis Contact Carl Sagan The Handmaids Tale Margaret Atwood Perfume Patrick Sskind Old Masters Thomas Bernhard White Noise Don DeLillo Queer William Burroughs Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd Legend David Gemmell Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavi? The Bus Conductor Hines James Kelman The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Jos Saramago The Lover Marguerite Duras
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Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard The Wasp Factory Iain Banks Nights at the Circus Angela Carter The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera Blood and Guts in High School Kathy Acker Neuromancer William Gibson Flauberts Parrot Julian Barnes Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis Shame Salman Rushdie Worstward Ho Samuel Beckett Fools of Fortune William Trevor La Brava Elmore Leonard Waterland Graham Swift The Life and Times of Michael K J.M. Coetzee The Diary of Jane Somers Doris Lessing The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus If Not Now, When? Primo Levi A Boys Own Story Edmund White The Color Purple Alice Walker Wittgensteins Nephew Thomas Bernhard A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro Schindlers Ark Thomas Keneally
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The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende The Newton Letter John Banville On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin Concrete Thomas Bernhard The Names Don DeLillo Rabbit is Rich John Updike Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan Julys People Nadine Gordimer Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid Tsypkin Broken April Ismail Kadare Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee Midnights Children Salman Rushdie Rites of Passage William Golding Rituals Cees Nooteboom Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole City Primeval Elmore Leonard The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera Smileys People John Le Carr Shikasta Doris Lessing A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul Burgers Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
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The Safety Net Heinrich Bll If On a Winters Night a Traveler Italo Calvino The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams The Cement Garden Ian McEwan The World According to Garp John Irving Life: A Users Manual Georges Perec The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch The Singapore Grip J.G. Farrell Yes Thomas Bernhard The Virgin in the Garden A.S. Byatt In the Heart of the Country J.M. Coetzee The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter Delta of Venus Anas Nin The Shining Stephen King Dispatches Michael Herr Petals of Blood Ngugi Wa Thiongo Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke Ratners Star Don DeLillo The Public Burning Robert Coover Interview With the Vampire Anne Rice Cutter and Bone Newton Thornburg
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Amateurs Donald Barthelme Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garca Mrquez W, or the Memory of Childhood Georges Perec A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Grimus Salman Rushdie The Dead Father Donald Barthelme Fateless Imre Kertsz Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard Brautigan High Rise J.G. Ballard Humboldts Gift Saul Bellow Dead Babies Martin Amis Correction Thomas Bernhard Ragtime E.L. Doctorow The Fan Man William Kotzwinkle Dusklands J.M. Coetzee The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Heinrich Bll Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carr Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Fear of Flying Erica Jong A Question of Power Bessie Head The Siege of Krishnapur J.G. Farrell The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino
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Crash J.G. Ballard The Honorary Consul Graham Greene Gravitys Rainbow Thomas Pynchon The Black Prince Iris Murdoch Sula Toni Morrison Invisible Cities Italo Calvino The Breast Philip Roth The Summer Book Tove Jansson G John Berger Surfacing Margaret Atwood House Mother Normal B.S. Johnson In A Free State V.S. Naipaul The Book of Daniel E.L. Doctorow Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson Group Portrait With Lady Heinrich Bll The Wild Boys William Burroughs Rabbit Redux John Updike The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima The Drivers Seat Muriel Spark The Ogre Michael Tournier The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Goalies Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
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Mercier et Camier Samuel Beckett Troubles J.G. Farrell Jahrestage Uwe Johnson The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard Tent of Miracles Jorge Amado Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover Blind Man With a Pistol Chester Hines Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The French Lieutenants Woman John Fowles The Green Man Kingsley Amis Portnoys Complaint Philip Roth The Godfather Mario Puzo Ada Vladimir Nabokov Them Joyce Carol Oates A Void/Avoid Georges Perec Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen Cancer Ward Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The First Circle Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
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Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm Lowry The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf Chocky John Wyndham The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe The Cubs and Other Stories Mario Vargas Llosa One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garca Mrquez The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson The Joke Milan Kundera No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson The Third Policeman Flann OBrien A Man Asleep Georges Perec The Birds Fall Down Rebecca West Trawl B.S. Johnson In Cold Blood Truman Capote The Magus John Fowles The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Giles Goat-Boy John Barth The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
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Things Georges Perec The River Between Ngugi wa Thiongo August is a Wicked Month Edna OBrien God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery OConnor The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald Bartholme Albert Angelo B.S. Johnson Arrow of God Chinua Achebe The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Marguerite Duras Herzog Saul Bellow V. Thomas Pynchon Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut The Graduate Charles Webb Manon des Sources Marcel Pagnol The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Le Carr The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony Burgess The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Collector John Fowles One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Ken Kesey
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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov The Drowned World J.G. Ballard The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Labyrinths Jorg Luis Borges Girl With Green Eyes Edna OBrien The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger A Severed Head Iris Murdoch Faces in the Water Janet Frame Solaris Stanislaw Lem Cat and Mouse Gnter Grass The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Violent Bear it Away Flannery OConnor How It Is Samuel Beckett Our Ancestors Italo Calvino The Country Girls Edna OBrien To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Rabbit, Run John Updike Promise at Dawn Romain Gary Cider With Rosie Laurie Lee
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Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse Naked Lunch William Burroughs The Tin Drum Gnter Grass Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow Memento Mori Muriel Spark Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Bll Breakfast at Tiffanys Truman Capote The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Kenzaburo Oe A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute The Bitter Glass Eils Dillon Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris Paul Gallico Borstal Boy Brendan Behan The End of the Road John Barth The Once and Future King T.H. White The Bell Iris Murdoch Jealousy Alain Robbe-Grillet Voss Patrick White The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham Blue Noon Georges Bataille
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Homo Faber Max Frisch On the Road Jack Kerouac Pnin Vladimir Nabokov Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak The Wonderful O James Thurber Justine Lawrence Durrell Giovannis Room James Baldwin The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon The Roots of Heaven Romain Gary Seize the Day Saul Bellow The Floating Opera John Barth The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith Lolita Vladimir Nabokov A World of Love Elizabeth Bowen The Trusting and the Maimed James Plunkett The Quiet American Graham Greene The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzkis The Recognitions William Gaddis The Ragazzi Pier Paulo Pasolini Bonjour Tristesse Franoise Sagan Im Not Stiller Max Frisch Self Condemned Wyndham Lewis
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The Story of O Pauline Rage A Ghost at Noon Alberto Moravia Lord of the Flies William Golding Under the Net Iris Murdoch The Go-Between L.P. Hartley The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler The Unnamable Samuel Beckett Watt Samuel Beckett Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Junkie William Burroughs The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Casino Royale Ian Fleming The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Drrenmatt Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Wise Blood Flannery OConnor The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Day of the Triffids John Wyndham Foundation Isaac Asimov The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq
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The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Rebel Albert Camus Molloy Samuel Beckett The End of the Affair Graham Greene The Abbot C Georges Bataille The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz The Third Man Graham Greene The 13 Clocks James Thurber Gormenghast Mervyn Peake The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing I, Robot Isaac Asimov The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Simon Vestdijk Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge The Heat of the Day Elizabeth Bowen Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell All About H. Hatterr G.V. Desani Disobedience Alberto Moravia Death Sentence Maurice Blanchot The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
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Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann The Victim Saul Bellow Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau If This Is a Man Primo Levi Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo Calvino The Plague Albert Camus Back Henry Green Titus Groan Mervyn Peake The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andri? Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Animal Farm George Orwell Cannery Row John Steinbeck The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford Loving Henry Green Arcanum 17 Andr Breton Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi The Razors Edge William Somerset Maugham Transit Anna Seghers Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges Dangling Man Saul Bellow The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupry
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Caught Henry Green The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse Embers Sandor Marai Go Down, Moses William Faulkner The Outsider Albert Camus In Sicily Elio Vittorini The Poor Mouth Flann OBrien The Living and the Dead Patrick White Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton Between the Acts Virginia Woolf The Hamlet William Faulkner Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Native Son Richard Wright The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati Party Going Henry Green The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Finnegans Wake James Joyce At Swim-Two-Birds Flann OBrien Coming Up for Air George Orwell Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
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Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie Townsend Warner Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre Rebecca Daphne du Maurier Cause for Alarm Eric Ambler Brighton Rock Graham Greene U.S.A. John Dos Passos Murphy Samuel Beckett Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien The Years Virginia Woolf In Parenthesis David Jones The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis Out of Africa Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley The Thinking Reed Rebecca West Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell
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Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft Nightwood Djuna Barnes Independent People Halldr Laxness Auto-da-F Elias Canetti The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher Isherwood They Shoot Horses, Dont They? Horace McCoy The House in Paris Elizabeth Bowen England Made Me Graham Greene Burmese Days George Orwell The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Thank You, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse Call it Sleep Henry Roth Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein
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Testament of Youth Vera Brittain A Day Off Storm Jameson The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis Grassic Gibbon Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Cline Brave New World Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons To the North Elizabeth Bowen The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett The Radetzky March Joseph Roth The Waves Virginia Woolf The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis Her Privates We Frederic Manning Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico Passing Nella Larsen A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Living Henry Green The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia
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All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Dblin The Last September Elizabeth Bowen Harriet Hume Rebecca West The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe Story of the Eye Georges Bataille Orlando Virginia Woolf Lady Chatterleys Lover D.H. Lawrence The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall The Childermass Wyndham Lewis Quartet Jean Rhys Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh Quicksand Nella Larsen Parades End Ford Madox Ford Nadja Andr Breton Steppenwolf Herman Hesse Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson Amerika Franz Kafka The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
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Blindness Henry Green The Castle Franz Kafka The Good Soldier vejk Jaroslav Ha ek The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence One, None and a Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Counterfeiters Andr Gide The Trial Franz Kafka The Artamonov Business Maxim Gorky The Professors House Willa Cather Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville The Green Hat Michael Arlen The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann We Yevgeny Zamyatin A Passage to India E.M. Forster The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet Zenos Conscience Italo Svevo Cane Jean Toomer Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
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Amok Stefan Zweig The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings Jacobs Room Virginia Woolf Siddhartha Herman Hesse The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus Aarons Rod D.H. Lawrence Babbitt Sinclair Lewis Ulysses James Joyce The Fox D.H. Lawrence Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Main Street Sinclair Lewis Women in Love D.H. Lawrence Night and Day Virginia Woolf Tarr Wyndham Lewis The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad Summer Edith Wharton Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsen Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Under Fire Henri Barbusse Rashomon Akutagawa Ryunosuke The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan Kokoro Natsume Soseki Locus Solus Raymond Roussel Rosshalde Herman Hesse Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Death in Venice Thomas Mann The Charwomans Daughter James Stephens Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Fantmas Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Howards End E.M. Forster Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel Three Lives Gertrude Stein Martin Eden Jack London Strait is the Gate Andr Gide
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Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells The Inferno Henri Barbusse A Room With a View E.M. Forster The Iron Heel Jack London The Old Wives Tale Arnold Bennett The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson Mother Maxim Gorky The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad The Jungle Upton Sinclair Young Trless Robert Musil The Forsyte Sage John Galsworthy The House of Mirth Edith Wharton Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster Nostromo Joseph Conrad Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe The Golden Bowl Henry James The Ambassadors Henry James The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers The Immoralist Andr Gide The Wings of the Dove Henry James Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782. 783. 784. 785. 786. 787. 786. 787. 788. 789. 790. 791. 792. 793. 794. 795. 796. 797. 798. 799. 800. 801. 802. 803.
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann Kim Rudyard Kipling Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1800s Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville and Ross The Stechlin Theodore Fontane The Awakening Kate Chopin The Turn of the Screw Henry James The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells The Invisible Man H.G. Wells What Maisie Knew Henry James Fruits of the Earth Andr Gide Dracula Bram Stoker Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells The Time Machine H.G. Wells Effi Briest Theodore Fontane Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy The Real Charlotte Somerville and Ross The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born in Exile George Gissing Diary of a Nobody George & Weedon Grossmith
804. 805. 806. 807. 808. 809. 810. 811. 812. 813. 814. 815. 816. 817. 818. 819. 820. 821. 822. 823. 824. 825. 826.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle News from Nowhere William Morris New Grub Street George Gissing Gsta Berlings Saga Selma Lagerlf Tess of the DUrbervilles Thomas Hardy The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy La Bte Humaine mile Zola By the Open Sea August Strindberg Hunger Knut Hamsun The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre and Jean Guy de Maupassant Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Prez Galds The People of Hems August Strindberg The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy She H. Rider Haggard The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson King Solomons Mines H. Rider Haggard Germinal mile Zola The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant
827. 828. 829. 830. 831. 832. 833. 834. 835. 836. 837. 838. 839. 840. 841. 842. 843. 844. 845. 846. 847. 848. 849.
Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater Against the Grain Joris-Karl Huysmans The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy A Womans Life Guy de Maupassant Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Bouvard and Pcuchet Gustave Flaubert Ben-Hur Lew Wallace Nana mile Zola The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky The Red Room August Strindberg Return of the Native Thomas Hardy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Drunkard mile Zola Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev Daniel Deronda George Eliot The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy The Enchanted Wanderer Nicolai Leskov Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu
850. 851. 852. 853. 854. 855. 856. 857. 858. 859. 860. 861. 862. 863. 864. 865. 866. 867. 868. 869. 870. 871. 872.
The Devils Fyodor Dostoevsky Erewhon Samuel Butler Spring Torrents Ivan Turgenev Middlemarch George Eliot Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll King Lear of the Steppes Ivan Turgenev He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope Maldoror Comte de Lautraumont The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Little Women Louisa May Alcott Thrse Raquin mile Zola The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley
873. 874. 875. 876. 877. 878. 879. 880. 881. 882. 883. 884. 885. 886. 887. 888. 889. 890. 891. 892. 893. 894. 895.
Les Misrables Victor Hugo Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev Silas Marner George Eliot Great Expectations Charles Dickens On the Eve Ivan Turgenev Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope The Mill on the Floss George Eliot The Woman in White Wilkie Collins The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne Max Havelaar Multatuli A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Oblomovka Ivan Goncharov Adam Bede George Eliot Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert North and South Elizabeth Gaskell Hard Times Charles Dickens Walden Henry David Thoreau Bleak House Charles Dickens Villette Charlotte Bront Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely Harriet Beecher Stowe The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. 897. 898. 899. 900. 901. 902. 903. 904. 905. 906. 907. 908. 909. 910. 911. 912. 913. 914. 915. 916. 917. 918.
Moby-Dick Herman Melville The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne David Copperfield Charles Dickens Shirley Charlotte Bront Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bront Wuthering Heights Emily Bront Agnes Grey Anne Bront Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Lost Illusions Honor de Balzac A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Dead Souls Nikolay Gogol The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
919. 920. 921. 922. 923. 924. 925. 926. 927. 928. 929. 930. 931. 932. 933. 934. 935. 936. 937. 938. 939. 940. 941.
The Nose Nikolay Gogol Le Pre Goriot Honor de Balzac Eugnie Grandet Honor de Balzac The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo The Red and the Black Stendhal The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin The Monastery Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Persuasion Jane Austen Ormond Maria Edgeworth Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott Emma Jane Austen Mansfield Park Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Absentee Maria Edgeworth Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. 943. 944. 943. 944. 945. 946. 947. 948. 949. 950. 951. 952. 953. 954. 955. 956. 957. 958. 959. 960. 961. 962. 963.
Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1700s Hyperion Friedrich Hlderlin The Nun Denis Diderot Camilla Fanny Burney The Monk M.G. Lewis Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe The Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin Justine Marquis de Sade Vathek William Beckford The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis de Sade Cecilia Fanny Burney Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau Evelina Fanny Burney The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humphrey Clinker Tobias George Smollett The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
964. 965. 966. 967. 968. 969. 970. 971. 972. 973. 974. 975. 976. 977. 978. 979.
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole mile; or, On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rameaus Nephew Denis Diderot Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rasselas Samuel Johnson Candide Voltaire The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox Amelia Henry Fielding Peregrine Pickle Tobias George Smollett Fanny Hill John Cleland Tom Jones Henry Fielding Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett Clarissa Samuel Richardson Pamela Samuel Richardson Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift 981. 982. 983. 984. 985. 986. Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift Roxana Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe Love in Excess Eliza Haywood
987. 988. 989. 990. 989.
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift Pre-1700 Oroonoko Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clves Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 991. 992. 993. 994. 995. 996. 997. 998. 999. 1000. 1001. The Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly Gargantua and Pantagruel Franoise Rabelais The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous The Golden Ass Lucius Apuleius Aithiopika Heliodorus Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton Metamorphoses Ovid Aesops Fables Aesopus
Author Comments: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall ISBN 1-84403-417-8
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n2lect2el02/15/2006 Cool. Thanks for posting this. I can't wait to see what else is on the list.
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Slothrop3302/15/2006 This book is not even out yet; how do you know what is in it?? It looks great!
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ukaunz02/16/2006 It showed up on the "new releases" shelf at my local library, I don't know if they somehow got an advanced copy or something? Beats me!
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ukaunz02/16/2006 I should be finished soon... probably next week. Hope you can wait until then!
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queneau11/08/2006 By any chance has anyone got the dates of publication for all the books on this list? Or the decade if not the actual date?
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regius100006/19/2008 Do you read " Do Not Kiss Isabel by Sergiu Somesan" ? http://www.amazon.com/Not-Kiss-Isabel-Sergiu-Somesan/dp/9738855098/ref=s...
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lbangs02/24/2006 Wow! A thousand thanks for taking the time to type and to post this. I've ordered the book, but it does not arrive in America until early March, so this makes for a tasty appetizer! Thanks! Shalom, y'all! L. Bangs
ukaunz02/24/2006 No problems. BTW, if anyone spots a typo, please let me know so I can fix it!
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alyxstarr02/24/2006 I've only spotted two: U.S.A. Dos Passos should be U.S.A. - John Dos Passos Emina - Jane Austen should be Emma - Jane Austen (I'm guessing) Great job, and thanks!
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ukaunz02/27/2006 Hi alyxstarr, thanks for the heads up. It should definitely be Emma by Jane Austen, not sure how I managed to type Emina. John Dos Passos was listed as Dos Passos (twice) in the book "1001 Books You Must Read...", so that's how I typed it up, but it seems strange not to give the author's full name. Anyway, they've both been fixed!
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MaxCastle02/24/2006 I've been meaning to type this list up for weeks; I'm really grateful that you've saved me the trouble. :) Only spotted a couple of typos: it should be Finnegans Wake (no apostrophe); Jeckyll and Hyde should be Jekyll and Hyde; and Momento Mori should be Memento Mori.
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ukaunz02/27/2006 Thanks MaxCastle, have fixed those typos you spotted.

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rleigh04/20/2007 Shouldn't it be The Stranger by Albert Camus?

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n2lect2el02/24/2006 Thanks so much for typing this in--it's just the kind of thing that I live for.
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n2lect2el02/24/2006 Other typos: When I made my checklist of the ones I'd read, I changed Joyce Carol Oates' them to Them (with a capital T) and Burroughs' The Naked Lunch to Naked Lunch (without the the).
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ukaunz02/27/2006 I think that's how they were listed in the book, so that's how I typed it. It actually states in the "1001 Books..." that "them" was published with no capital T, but I've changed it to Them as it looks strange being the only one not capitalised. I looked up The Naked Lunch and you're right, so I changed that one too. Thanks!
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reign_heir07/06/2006 I believe "Slaughterhouse Five" should be listed as "Slaughterhouse-five" Also, "childhood" should be capitalized in "W, or the Memory of Childhood" Should "Kidnapped" be "Kidnapped!"
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EdmondDantes03/24/2008 "Kidnapped!" is correct, but "Slaughterhouse-Five" can be spelled either way, to the best of my understanding.
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puR07/08/2006
No Dante? For what reason?

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gavroche08/16/2006 Probably because Dante's books were written as epic poetry? And this list focuses on novels.
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gemorgan12/02/2006 Well then what the frick, cuz Ovid's Metamorphoses is definitely NOT a novel. How does that qualify for this list and not others in poetic format such as Dante's Divine Comedy; or for that matter, Homer's works, or John Milton's Paradise Lost, or Virgil's The Aeneid?? All of these are much more worthy of being read than 90 percent of the others . . . I just don't see how they can be excluded if Ovid makes the cut.
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Caelica07/19/2007 Seriously. What about Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Virgil, Boccaccio, Langland, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory, etc. etc. etc.
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tbsdy01/26/2008 It's 1001 books you must read before you die. Not 100,001 books you must read before you die. And the general editor, Peter Boxall, wrote that "the final list, including all the novels that one must read and excluding all the ones that it is safe to leave unread, could of course never be drawn up... [nevertheless] at the same time, the limits that the number upon me are cruel and narrow. One thousand and one is after all such a small number, given the extent of the subject matter."
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rjb06/12/2008 I'm sorry, but I will eat my own pancreas with a vichyssoise fork before I admit that "Interview with a Vampire" is more worthy of appearance on this poxy list than the "Canterbury Tales" or the "Decameron". And I'm sure Jeanette Winterson thinks she's better than Homer, but I respectfully disagree.
chamuda06/17/2008 Thank you! You made me laugh so hard I think I've dislodged my own pancreas! kudos to you!
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HMoseley06/21/2008 People need to know this is basically a list of prose novels. I realize that Ovid and perhaps a handful of others on the list wrote in verse. I don't know why the list compiler chose to include Ovid and not Homer, but there you go. In any list, there are contradictions.
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luney4tunes8809/22/2010 shakespeare didn't write books. he wrote plays.

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misscurly12/12/2007 Isn't Beowulf also a poem? It's in there

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davidm8207/28/2006 Thomas Keneally wrote Schindler's List, not Schindler's Ark

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gavroche08/16/2006 Stephen Spielberg directed the movie, Schindler's List, which was based on the book, Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally. It is certainly probable that editions of the book were published after the movie with the titlechange.
misscurly12/12/2007 You can find the book under both titles. I think the notes on that one says something about in Europe it's called one thing, and in North America the other. A couple of novels are like that. A Picture/Portrait of Dorian Grey/Gray is another example from the top of my head
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tbsdy01/26/2008 Not true. It was originally published as Schindler's Ark.

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MelissaJane08/29/2006 "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely" should be "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly."
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annabanana09/03/2006 on a related theme, a mate of mine put the contents of the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" on Excel; the beauty of it being that you can add columns for your friends, and then run it so you can see whose seen the most, who hasn't seen essential films, and lots of other slightly-geeky fun! does anyone want a copy? not sure if there's a way i could go about attaching it here.
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ukaunz09/04/2006 I'd be interested in that. Check my profile for my email address and send it to me if the offer is still good :)
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MauroFilicor05/23/2008 I would love to have one! Mauro
email: mulberryfields@gmail.com
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bertie09/04/2006 I bought this book recently and in my opinion the editors have made a huge mistake. This is too much a list of great novelists and too little a list of great novels. What I mean is that they have included too many second-rated works by authors of great novels and omitted a lot of great novels by unmentioned novelists. Some authors are grossly over-represented - J.G. Ballard, for example, has seven novels listed.
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ukaunz09/05/2006 I did actually notice that some authors seemed to have their entire catalogue listed, which in a way is a waste of space on a list like this!
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Angie10/12/2006 Mmmmmm, too many anglos, what about Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Cervantes, ... ?
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jobman2u10/20/2006 As usual with any list there is going to be furious debate on the inclusions and exclusions.
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MissWatusi10/21/2006 I didn't notice any E.F. Benson of the Queen Lucia fame. He rocks. Hope this helps.
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petia10/25/2006 I agree that thios list is kinda biased. A lot of good writers are left out. =))) Probably the critics never even read them. What a shame!
tbsdy01/26/2008 Wow, that's making a massive assumption Petia. In actual fact, that book was compiled by Peter Boxall, but reviewed by over 70 contributors, all experts in their field. I suspect that Mr Boxall has read far more widely than 1001 books - after all, he needed to select from a vast pool of existing literature. Ergo sum he has read far more than 1001 novels. I'm assuming that he had the opposite problem: he had to work out what to leave out of the list and what to keep in. The list is, in point of fact, a vast survey of the novel from 4 BCE to 2005. I think a far more interesting question is: what books would he have had to have cut to have included other books you believe should be in the list?
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tbsdy01/26/2008 Cervantes is in the list.

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NateD10/24/2006 I know it's easy to nitpick such a list, but c'mon ... where's Bernard Malamud?? (The Fixer should not be forgotten.) Where's Mailer?? (The Naked and the Dead: Best WWII novel.) Where's James Jones?? (From Here to Eternity: 2nd best WWII novel.) Only one Mark Twain? Only one Jack Kerouac? I know that Jack doesn't have much literary respect, but he's darn sure superior to Elmore Leonard (3 entries) and all those Hitchhiker's Guide sequels. Ah, but plenty of the likes of Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee and Martin Amis. I mean, they're good and all, but ... Although I will say that I'm impressed with the boldness of listing Stephen King in such company.
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plbeard05/24/2008 Norman Mailer, yes--one of the major novelists in any language in the second half of the 20th century. Why five examples of Toni Morrison, four of J.C. Oates, three of Updike, and zero of Mailer? Very odd.
I'd go against the grain of the popularity of his first novel and suggest The Deer Park (1955) and The Executioner's Song (1979).
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petia10/25/2006 Hey guys, The name of the author of the book #73 in the list is Slavenka Drakulic.
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asper10/25/2006 no 'voyage au bout de la nuit' ?? no one Celine's ?? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............

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scrawlspacer10/05/2007 See #648.

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JEK11/04/2006 Did I miss it or is 1984 missing from this list?JEK

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alpy03/06/2007 on 547 nineteen Eighty-four

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feigningintr04/10/2009 It's not on the list, and I'm SHOCKED. One of the greatest books ever written.
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corry00011/28/2006 Does anyone happen to have this list in Excel format?
Arukiyomi10/25/2007 you can download the automated spreadsheet for recording progress with these books at Arukiyomi's blog
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kihaku12/06/2006 can anyone list out about 100 books out of these 1001. jst to make sure we get hold of the best of the best.
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kihaku12/06/2006 ukaunz, is there any way you can list out around 100 out of 1001....from 1800's-2000..just to make sure i get hold of the best of the best.
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tbsdy01/26/2008 The problem you have there is that the task at hand is subjective. If we picked out 100 books, you might have missed 100 amazing books in the meantime. Personally, I recommend that you read Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, To Kill and Mockingbird and War and Peace. Cannot bring myself to read any of Satre's novels - far too base, and even criminal. Neither can I bring myself to read American Psycho.
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windykitten05/13/2009 they are "criminal"?? wtf. "far too base" please... I mean you can think whatever you want about it, but use some adjectives that make sense.
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JANUVA04/03/2007
Hey, you are very English-written-novels-sided. You are forgetting one of the best books ever written: El tnel (the tunnel) by the Argentine genius Ernesto Sabato. A must read! Greetings from Costa Rica!
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misscurly09/30/2007 The person who posted this list didn't create it; it is actually taken from a published book. THe book is really interesting; it explains why each selection is important to read, without giving away the plot. Also, this isn't an English-only list. I would say about half of the selections are not originally English; off the top of my head I know there are many of the major Russian, German and French novels listed, and I'm sure there are also major selections from other languages and countries.
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costas04/03/2007 A Publisher from Greece (Kastaniotis) claims that one of their books is listed in this book. The title of the book is "The Dog's Mother" and the writer Pavlos (or Paul) Matessis. I don't see it in the list. Why so? (Answer to Costas Armeftis)
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tbsdy01/26/2008 I own this book, and "The Dog's Mother" is not on the list. Neither is Pavlos Matessis. He did win the 2002 Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize for this novel, however.
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jwasilewsky04/24/2007 1984 is listed as number 547, George Orwell. Instead of numerically the numbers are written out in words. It was required high school reading, and okay. Perhaps I should revisit it now as an adult.
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Catalyst04/26/2007 Mm, you should. I love that book, but I pretty much love any novel that even hints at being about a dystopian society.
I've read 1.69% of the list. Makes me feel like I need to read much, much more.
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Goodbar08/10/2007 Greetings all, just registered and looking for inspiration as I'm about to purchase my chunk of "Holiday Fiction" - I've rented a small farmhouse in a small village named Poix de Picardie, just East of Amiens in Northern France. I think it fitting that I loose myself in a WW1, or WW2 story. I've read Songbird and thought it was class. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Merci!
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meisa_pastel09/10/2007 There's no one book that comes from Indonesian writer. I think Pramoedya Ananta Toer has many wonderful books known as "The Buru of quartet". Because of those books, he had ever become one of candidates accepting international nobel. It has translated in many languages. It's international works.
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cbutler146705/24/2008 I think the comments to this list are as interesting as the list itself. I just requested the first book in the Buru Quartet from my local library. Didn't find E.M.Forster's "Passage to India" on the list - it's on my Top 10. Also, is there a copy of the list in alphabetical order by author? CButler
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not-just-yet05/25/2008 FWIW, "Passage to India" is at #708. I made the sorted list for you; once it passes the moderator it should be at http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.34082 (with name "1001 books you must read before you die, alphabetical by author")
jakewrites10/03/2007 thank you--very useful to have this list in digital form, although I also own and use the book one typo that might be corrected: the author of 'Blind Man with a Pistol' is Chester Himes, not Hines
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misscurly12/12/2007 Is everyone advocating for their own country's writers in these discussions?
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revcaro03/01/2008 Please, The Forsyte SagA by John Galsworthy....not "Sage"

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EdmondDantes03/24/2008 Possible typo: Isn't "The Count of Monte-Cristo" supposed to be "The Count of Monte Cristo"? Probable it's both ways.
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montin03/27/2008 I have bought the book and use the list a lot. I have seen the edition in French and it has a different choice, with more authors from around the world (including many mentioned by other discussions). I have compiled (from the French edition) in Excel about 200 additional titles not on this list (Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, etc.). If anyone is interested, we could share.
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xaulo05/14/2008 Im really interested! can you send it to my mail or post it? Thanks! xaulo@yahoo.com
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ktmceneaney05/23/2008 Some random recommendations: Tale of Genji, the very first novel and perhaps the greatest ever written. Shusako Endo, Deep River and Scandal Toer, Prameodya Ananta, The Buru Quartet Dasi, Osamu,No Longer Human Prose, Francine, The Peaceable Kingdom Booth, Alan, The Roads to Sata Fergusson, Will, Hokkaido Highway Blues Coover, Robert , Briar Rose Higgins, Aidan, Balcony of Europe Wall, Mervyn, Leaves for the Burning Lavin, Mary, Selected Stories O'Connor, Frank, Collected Stories Richards, Alun, Selected Stories Powys, John Cooper, Autobiography and Weymouth Sands Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs Himes, Chester, The Quality of Hurt Denby, David, The Catacombs Reed, Ishmael, The Free-Lance Pallbearers and The Terrible Twos McClanahan, Ed, Famous People I Have Known Leskov, Nikolai, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Tynyanov, Yuri, Lieutenant Kije Shukshin, Vasily, Stories from a Siberian Village Dovlatov, Sergi, The Suitcase and Ours Murphy, Delia, Eight Feet in the Andes Moore, Tim, Continental Drifter Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber Androvic, Ivo, Bridge on the Drina Tully, Jim, Beggars of Life The Journey to the West Mo Yan, The Republic of Wine Zola, Emile, The Earth and The Abbe Moure's Sin Dick, Philip K, The Laughing Policeman Cather, Willa, My Antonia Sommerville and Ross, The Real Charlotte Saroyan,Wiiliam, Not Dying Klima, Ivan, Love and Garbage Steiner,George, After Babel Moore, Geroge, Hail and Farewell Watson, Ian, Chekhov's Journey Jen, Gish, Mona in the Promised Land Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums and Orpheus Remembered Ha Jin, Ocean of Words Abbey, Edward, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Voinovitch, Vladimir, The Extraorianry life and Adventures of Private Chonkin Moore, Brain, An Answer from Limbo Becett, Three Novels O'Brian, Flann, The Third Policeman Kavanagh, Patrick, The Green Fool O'Flaherty, Liam, The Black Soil Least-Heat Moon, Blue Highways Bowen, Elizabeth, The Last September Rhys, Jean, Collected Short Stories Freeling,Nicholas, Love in Amsterdam McGahern, John, Collected Stories Kadohata, Cynthia, The Floating World Shen Congwen, Imperfect Paradise Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter Oda Sakunosuke, Stories of Osaka Life Kamata, Suzanne, The Broken Bidge Davidson, Cathy, 36 Views of Mount Fuji Hong Ying, Daughter of the River Hessler, Peter, River Town Guanlong Cao, The Attic O'Brien, Kate, Mary Lavelle Houellebecq, Michael, The Elementary Particles Keneally, Thomas, To Asmara Burgess, Anthony, The Doctor is Sick Martinson, Harry, Aniara MacGill, Children of the Dead End and Lanty Hanlon Gorky, Maxim, My Childhood Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain du Maurier, Daphne, The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte Bodenheim, Maxwell, Replenishing Jessica Hamill, Pete, Loving Women Constant, Benjamin, Adolphe Altick, Richard, The Scholar Adventurers Collins, James, Sixpence House Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquietude Thomson, David, Woodbrook Fletcher, Martin, Almost Heaven Howells, Wiliam, The Rise of Silas Lapham Twain, Mark, The Guilded Age Dos Passoss, Three Soldiers Bulgakov, Mikail, The Master and the Margaritta Simon, Claude, The Road to Flanders Graves, Robert, Count Belisarius Stuart, Francis, Black List Section H Berrigan, Daniel, To Dwell in Peace Clarke, Austin, A Penny in the Clouds
Poers, J. F., Collected Stories Berberova, Nina, The Italics are Mine Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope Cao Xingjian, Soul Mountain Rushby, Kevin, Eating the Flowers of Paradise Kennedy, William, Quinn's Book and Roscoe Rexroth, Kenneth, An Autobiographical Novel Lenz, Sigfreid, Selected Stories Jackson, Kenneth, Invisible Forms Hubbell, Susan, A Country Year Dilliard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Bierce, Ambrose, In the Midst of War Briusov, Valerii, The Fiery Angel Pelevin, Victor, Homo Zapiens Shalamov, Varlam, Kolyma Taels Zinoviev, Aleksandr,The Yawning Heights Zoshchenko, Mikhail, Collected Stories Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle These are all great reads. I suppose I could go on, but I've got to get back to the book I'm writing. k.mceneaney@yahoo.com
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silvia08/21/2008 Well, I'm Italian and I'd want to know why Dante's "Divina Commedia", "Ludovico Ariosto's works, "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni and other important Italian authors are not in the list, but Luigi Pirandello and Italo Calvino...
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raktabhmahes10/11/2008 Please tell me how do you find these reads (they comprise a few Indian wriitngs too!): Category Book Author Management M1 Marketing Management Bowdy and Peter M2 Financial Management (i) Khan & Jain (ii) T.M. Pandey M3 Management of Information Systems Griffin M4 Management M5 Mathematics for Business Studies Dr. J.K.Thukral M6 You Inc. Hedges
M7 Iacocca An Autobiography Lee Iacocca M8 Straight from the Gut Jack Welch M9 Knowledge Management Strategies Microsoft M10 Business making skills Simon M11 Architect of Quality Juran M12 Management Peter Drucker English Literature E1 Atlas shrugged Ayn Rand E2 Fountainhead Ayn Rand E3 Eools Die Maria Puzo E4 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown E5 Half a Life V.S. Naipaul E6 Harry Potter (a) and the order of phoenix (b) and the chamber of secrets J.K. Rowling (c) and the prisoner of Azbakan E7 Five point Someone Chetan Bhagat E8 Goddess of small things Arundhati Roy E9 To Sir, with love E.H.Braithwaite E10 David Copperfield E11 Great Expectations Charles Dickens E12 Oliver Twist E13 Tale of Two Cities E14 Lord of the flies William Golding E15 Haiku for lovers Manu Bazzane E15 The Canterbury Tales Chaucer E16 The Beloved Anarchist by P.R Taikad E17 She Rider Hoggard E18 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy E19 For from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy E20 The Trumpet Major Thomas Hardy E21 One Hundred Years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez. E23 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence E24 Mother Maxim Gorky E25 The Artamanovs Maxim Gorky E26 Dead souls Maxim Gorky E27 Anna Karenina Vol 1 & 2 Count Lev Tolstoy E28 Notes from the Underground House Dostoyevski E29 Short Stories Chekov E30 Lady Windermeres Fan Oscar Wilde E31 Death of Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe E32 Short Novels & Stories Anton Chekov E33 Gone with the Wind Margeret Mitchelle E34 Pygmalion G.B. Shaw E36 Candida G.B. Shaw
E37 Decline and Fall of Roman Empire Gibbon E38 Uneasy Money P.G. Woodehouse E39 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte E40 Silas Marner George Eliot E41 A Circle in Time Jean Walton E42 The Portrait of a Crack V. Finnel E43 Poetry Thomas Gunn E44 Selected Essays Steven Rawlinson E45 The Great Remakes of Nature J.V.Michurina E46 Lifes Handicap Rudyard Kipling E47 Wings of Death Toyoll E48 Stories Mikhail Sholokes E49 The Devils Alternative Fredrick Forsyth E50 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne E51 Zamindar V. Fitzegerald E52 Fathers & Sons Ivan Turgenev E53 A nest of the Gentry Ivan Turgenev E54 Henry IV Part I William Shakespeare E55 The lovely Bones Alice Sebold E55 The American Leslie Walter E56 Rising Tides Nora Roberts E57 Middle March George Eliot E58 The seventh secret Truing Wallace E59 The Fire and Rain Girish Karnad E60 The Fall Make Richard Gordon E61 A stranger in the Mirror Sidney Sheldon E62 The Prodigal Daughter Jeffery Archer E63 The City of Joy Dominique Lapierre E64 The Diary of a young Girl Anne Frank E65 Adam Bede George Eliot E66 When Eight Bells Toll Alistair Maclean E67 The Idiot Fyoder Dostoyesky E68 The Winters Tale William Shakespeare Polity and Sociology PS1 The Poverty of Philosphy Karl Marx PS2 Articles and Speeches PS3 About Lenin Lenin PS4 On Imperialism & Imperialists 2 PS5 Selected works 1 & 2 PS6 Down Pages from a Life of Struggle Yuri Akestine PS7 The British Cooperative Movement Jack Bailey PS8 My Experiment with truth M.K. Gandhi PS9 When freedom is menaced Lal Bahadur Shashtri PS11 Geopolitical Relations & Regional Cooperation Dr. K. Gopal PS12 H.P.S. Menon A Tribute by (Edited) Menon
PS15 Six Essays in Cooperative Sociology Andre Beteille PS16 The USSR and Developing Countries Progress Publishers PS17 The Glowing legend of Sri Syed S. Ziaurahman PS18 Society and the Environment of a Soviet PS19 Nations Rise and Fall Why. PS20 A short History of the world H. G. Wells PS20 Socialist Bulgaria PS21 Selected Works 1 & 2 Marx & Engels PS22 The Road to Communism PS23 The Children who sleep by the River Debbie Taylor PS24 The Making of Indias Foreign Policy J. Bandhhopadhaya PS25 The International working class movement PS26 Ireland and the Irish Question Marx and Engels PS27 Maxim Gorky PS31 The first Indian war of Independence Marx & Engels PS32 Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov PS34 Das Capital Karl Marx PS35 Communist Manifest Karl Marx PS36 Indian Constitution D.D. Basu PS37 History Romilla Thaper Economy, Psychology, Philosophy and others MISC1Macro Economics Dhingra MISC2When you sell that counts Donald L. Cossidy MISC3Making money on the stock market S.S.Graubl MISC4A Manual of foreign exchange Pither MISC5Indian Economy survey MISC6The interpretation of dreams Sigmund Freud MISC7Im OK Youre OK Thomas A. Harris M.D. MISC8Over the Top Zig Ziglar MISC9Get set go Swati-Shailesh Lodha MISC14Science of self realization MISC17The secret of Janmyoga MISC18Thus spoke Zarathustra Frederick Nietzsche MISC19The way of Power Sohan Blifield MISC21Rise of the modern West Minakshi Phukan MISC22Workbook of History. MISC31The Third Eye T. Lobsang Rampa MISC32The Yoga of a Yogi T. Krishnamacharya MISC33Science, Religion and Peace S.N. Prasad, Suman Shukla MISC34India-Vietnam Relations Ganesh Sharma MISC35Corporate laws and Social practice G. K. Kapoor MISC36The Universal History of Numbers Georges Ifrah MISC37The Evolution of Khasi Music Lakynshai Syiem MISC38Let us Create a New India in the 21st century M. Ganeshan
MISC39Nationalist Movement in South India M.S.R. Anjaneyuvulu MISC40Powerful Media Words K. Khaja Mohideen MISC41J. Krishnamurthy demystified Kalidas Joshi MISC42Stars speak Fortune in our hands K.S. Mangesh Kumar MISC43The Everyday Politics of Labour Geert De Neve MISC44Social Democracy in Practice MISC45Socialist International Pradip Bose MISC46Beyond Shirdi K. Venkataraman MISC47Buddhist Centers of Orissa B. Bandhopadhyay MISC48What happens to Gods and demons H. N. Verma MISC49Cultural Tourism Management Vishwas Mehta MISC50Walking the Tightrope Rehana Ahmed MISC51The Great Mortality John Kelly MISC52The lost dreams Mohd. Salim MISC53Nobel Prize Winners in Pictures1901-2003 MISC54The Rama Saga P. K. Pandeya MISC52Essentials of Buddhism and Jainism K. N. Neelkandan MISC53Identity and Image Management Rajendra Ghuje MISC54Promising Professions Mamta Ghuje MISC55Brand-wise Leveraging People MISC56To Build Powerful Brands Jyothi Menon MISC57Advanced Accounting V. K. Saxena MISC58Mahashwetha Sudha Murthy MISC59Majority People's Right for MISC60Preferential Participation Jawahar Nessan MISC61Cancer Made me Kasthuri Sreenivasan MISC62Forget Kathmandu- An Entry for Democracy Manjushree Thapa MISC63Folklore, Public Sphere and Civil Society M.D. Muthukumarswamy, Molly Kaushal MISC64Energizing Rural Development through Panchayats Bibek Debray, P.D. Kaushik MISC65Without a Second Sheela Balaji MISC66Dalits, Land and Dignity V. B. Rawat MISC67Prevention of Blindness T. Selvaraju MISC68I want my son back Uma Eyyunni MISC69Understanding Islam Frithjof Schuon MISC70A matter of taste Nilanjan S. Roy MISC71Dreams and their interpretation made easy Dr. Francis Menezes MISC72India and Japan- Blossoming a new understanding Rajaram Panda, Yoo Fukuzawa MISC73The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness Stephen R. Covey MISC74The Marketing White Book 2003-2004 Businessworld MISC75The Intelligent Investors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Bookworm910/19/2008 I prefer this list of yours. The grand list posted seemed to be lacking.
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Amonavis12/08/2008 Really? That many economics and management books? This list IS lacking, but at least it attempts to pinpoint books that speak about something larger than just getting ahead in the corporate world. When someone in his old age is nearing death I doubt he's going to think "Oh, I wish I had read 'Management of Information Systems'" or "I'd better read another economics textbook." I agree with some of your other picks and like your inclusion of books from outside the Western world, but The Da Vinci Code and Atlas Shrugged...don't really have a whole lot of substance. Especially the Da Vinci Code. In a few years no one will be talking about this book anymore because the characters are two-dimensional and the plot is ridiculous. As for Atlas Shrugged, people will probably be talking about this for a long time. But that is not to say that it is a good book. Ayn Rand writes bad prose--a fact which should alone exclude her from the list--but her philosophy is annoyingly preachy and sophomoric. Unfortunately most people feel the need to trudge through her ridiculously long books and make believe they LIKE her vile philosophy in order to come off as an intellectual. I once did too. But most real intellectuals (those that are university-affiliated) dismiss her novels and philosophy.
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peppery05/24/2008 I would welcome a copy of your list. How can we go about this?
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pharden4240@05/25/2008 i'm only trying to get a copy of the list

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peppery05/24/2008 If your list is still available, I would love to have it. Can you send it to me? peppery76@yahoo.com Thanks!
lwallace7305/24/2008 Montin-I'd like to see your French edition list in Excel. Thanks
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montin06/23/2008 My list is on-line at http://membres.lycos.fr/chmontin/documents/ And is called liste 1001 franais.xls Under construction, watch that space ! montin@coditel.net
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shadygrove05/23/2008 All 6 Jane Austens seems a little slavish. Leaving off Northanger Abbey would leave room for another worthy book. No Barbara Pym? Even if you think novels have to be about anomie and dreariness, it might be helpful in sorting them out, to have an idea of their oppsite. And if they had to scrape up poetry, fables & whatever to have any list at all for pre-1700, why leave out Tale of Genji?
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dm1000305/23/2008 let's remember it reflects a british literary taste. waterstone, an english bookstore, put out a list of the best fiction of the century in 2000 and it included some odd and unfamilar stuff. "crome yellow" by huxley never gets mentioned in the states and it was the best book of it's publishing year. an american version would be at least 30% different i'd bet.
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Slothrop3305/23/2008 Your list is linked to a NYTimes article today!

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karasik05/23/2008 Nothing by Louise Erdrich? Are you kidding?

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freic3905/24/2008 I'm pleased to see many of my favorites but was hoping to see the Nobel Prize Winner Sigrid Undseth for her wonderful trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter.
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beatriz05/24/2008 More typos: Under "The Princess of Clves," "MadelAine" should be "MadelEine"; FranoisE Rabelais should be Franois (he was not a woman). Sorry to be picky but if people actually go looking for these authors, they should have the correct spelling handy.
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jenner05/25/2008 Any good librarian would help anyone find an author if it's just a matter of an "a" v. an "e" or an accent mark. I wouldn't worry so much about it.
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lukemw05/26/2008 one big issue with the list: why is beowulf not included?
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rjb06/12/2008 And not just Beowulf! Why are only 13 books written before 1700 included in the list? Are we to assume that the entire period between the invention of writing and the birth of Aphra Behn were a mere waste of labour? Fie! Where are Chaucer, Dante, and Bocaccio? Where Homer and Aeschylus? Where Gilgamesh? Where Shakespeare? Where the Bible? This whole exercise is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it makes me want to fling my computer out the window in speechless rage.
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Gaspard06/14/2008 The idea of a list is fine but why then leave out George Bernard Shaw or Tanizaki ? You could have done Great Detective stories or All-fiction or had a documentary section. Does anybody out there have the courage to do a Great Authors list and just give one or two names of books ? In that cas I would love to see it and find out what i've missed. The idea of one or two names of books is just so as to sound intelligent in the bookshop. Thanks in advance
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HMoseley06/25/2008 Why leave out George Bernard Shaw? Apparently, Shaw was omitted because drama was omitted. Shaw wrote plays. Note the absence of Shakespeare, O'Neill, Ibsen, Tennessee Williams, Durrenmatt, and other major dramatists.
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trionon07/14/2008 some seriously odd omissions....for instance why is "Mother" by Gorky so significant but no mention of his epic "Life of Klim Samgin"? Where is Pushkin's "Evgeny Onegin" for that matter, other acclaimed past and modern Russian (and Soviet) works such as Ilf & Petrov's "12 Chairs" and "Little Golden Calf", Ludmila Ulitskaya's "Kukotsky's Case" and "Sonechka"... Far too generous with Jane Austen but I'd much rather see in that list "Constant Nymph" by Margaret Kennedy, "Falling" by EJ Howard, "Half Broken Things" and "Puccini's Ghost" by Morag Joss. Why no mention "Three in a Boat" by JK Jerome? Where is Dante's "Divine Comedy", Moliere, Homer's "Iliad", Shakespeare???? Is "Murder of Roger Ackroyd" really the best of Agatha Christie, how about "Ten Little Niggers" (before the PC madness)? I would also like to include "Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, "Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" by Sue Townsend, Thomass Moore's "Utopia", Checkov's "Bet", works by Akunin, C.S. Lewis...to name a few
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banquo08/31/2008 I'd reccomend Roberto Bolao, Herman Broch, Fernando Vallejo, Par Lagerqvist, Gombrowicz, Milosz, Pamuk, Montherlant, Malraux...not to mention others that are out of the list
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tobyhubner10/14/2008
I recently found this book in the American Library in Paris. But I quickly put it down. Why? Because missing from their list is ANY book by Jim Harrison, the American author, and arguably the greatest living American writer. But then I understood. Boxall and Ackroyd are Brits. And we know about the Brits don't we, especially their writers, who have to be SO clever and load EVERY sentence with such cleverness that the books become unreadable cuteness. Except Le Carre. Note Boxall's "new" book, Den DeLillo and The Possibility of Fiction. Is that typical Brit clever incomprehensible nonsense? I rest my case.
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Nance12/31/2008 I don't understand the choice of Labyrinths AND Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. I mean, in Wikipedia they say Labyrinths is an anthology that contain the most famous works of Ficciones and El Aleph. Then why in the 1001 list not put Ficciones and El Aleph OR only Labyrinths?
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Escaped Goat01/07/2009 I guess at the end of the day everyone has their own taste and no one will ever be happy with the final list. From what I gather the aurthor is british and the list has most likley stemed from years of reading based on his own reading and most likely study. I for example am 22year old Australian female, I failed english in grade 10 and left school in the early part of grade 11. I would have on my own list of must read books, which would include books that i have already read, for example most books by John Marsden an excellent australian writer for teenagers, and many works by Nicholas Sparkes. Any book (novel) that takes the reader out of their own world and makes them feel like they are in another would be a must for me. However I would have to say that most of these books do not differ from a bar of soap to me personally on the basis that i have never heard of them. so I imagine that the book from which this list was derived is quite esential in the fact that it tells you why it was picked and most likely gives you a brief outline of the plot. I however have not much intension of reading quite that many books in my life time. However from the list I may draw up a list of my own and try to focus on those. I think that perhaps the problem many readers have with this list and the lack of their particularly favorite writers is that less of the books they have already read are on the list and therefore they they have read a smaller percentage of the 1001 books you must read before you die, than they had hoped. Personally I believe that the person who has read all 1001 books would be a fearsome sight to see for sure.
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azrael31401/19/2009 I like this list, and there are a lot of great books on it, but there seem to be an inordinate amount of books from the 1900's. I mean 715 out of the 1001 books to read before you die seems just a bit much.
mgt02/11/2009 There is now a website for the book (as well as the other 1001s), so feel free to visit the forum and continue the discussions there: www.1001beforeyoudie.com Too much Philip Roth? Too much Coetzee? Did we get Houellebecq's date of birth wrong? Why is Houellebecq in the book in the first place? Or, have any suggestions for books to add to an updated edition? Make a suggestion, or just have a rant about the all of the missing classics...
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AngelofMusic03/21/2009 Why isn't Frankenstein included?!

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kenavl10/08/2009 Frankenstein is on the list. It is #931.

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Cossy07/15/2009 This is a great list and I've barely made a dent in it. One thing that makes me nervous, however, is the listing of The Shining by Stephen King. That might be one of his worst books. I wonder if the author of this list felt inclined to include The Shining because it inspired such a fantastic movie. Unfortunately, Stanley Kubrik even stated that The Shining was a lousy book and he made the movie only because he liked the imagery so much. Also, Interview With A Vampire? That book was really cheesy.
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Ionut10/03/2009 Great list indeed, but, at the first glance, I don't see anywhere Goethe - Faust and Dante - Divine Comedy. These books should be in the top of the "must read"s
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theotherworldly10/07/2009
Hi, I think it's "Ada or Ardor" for the Vladimir Nabokov novel, and it's "Blue of Noon" by Georges Bataille. Thanks for the list, it's fantastic because it gives me a direction as to the new stuff -- I've been stuck in the 1900s for a realy long time.
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lawniemower12/24/2009 I am offically going to try to read as many of these as a i can.

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jlk7e12/26/2009 I agree that leaving out the Tale of Genji is just totally ridiculous. In addition, all the classic Chinese novels have also been excluded - Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms should all be on the list, in my view. And modern Japanese novels also seem rather under-represented. Where are Abe, Tanizaki, and Kawabata? The poetry and fables thing is also rather weird. If you're going to include poems, wouldn't the Iliad and the Odyssey, which actually tell stories that are arguably novelistic (especially the Odyssey) make a lot more sense than the Metamorphoses, which is just a series of loosely connected stories from mythology in verse? Some of the selections for later authors are also odd - including "The Monastery" for Scott but excluding "Waverley" and "The Heart of Midlothian"? Including "Castle Richmond" for Trollope but excluding "Barchester Towers" and "The Way We Live Now"? "Martin Chuzzlewit" but not "The Pickwick Papers"? I'd add that any list of 1001 novels "you must read before you die" should really not be comprised of 40% novels from the last 40 years. If there's anything that's clear from a review of literary history, it's that our judgment of what's going to last is often quite bad. The Telegraph's 1900 list of the best novels of all time should be illustrative of this - writers with multiple books on the list include William Harrison Ainsworth, James Grant, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lever, Samuel Lover, Bulwer Lytton, Captain Marryat, Charles Reade, Michael Scott, and G. J. Whyte-Melville, several of whom I've never even heard of. For Dickens they include The Old Curiosity Shop and Martin Chuzzlewit, but not David Copperfield, Bleak House, or Great Expectations. The only Trollope novel is Orley Farm. There's three by Thackeray, but no Vanity Fair. For George Eliot, they only have Scenes of Clerical Life, not even a novel. Wuthering Heights is missing, and no Stevenson, Hardy, James. Their selection of non-British novels is even worse - they have Anna Karenina, but no War and Peace, nothing by Dostoyevsky or any other Russian writer. For the French, no Stendhal, no Zola, no Flaubert. Basically, the list did not stand the test of time at all. And that was an attempt to do 100 novels, and included several books from before the nineteenth century, when one would think critical taste would
have hardened a bit more. This list is of 1000, and half of them are from the last 50 years. Does anybody think that even 10% of the books they list from that period are really going to have any staying power? What are the chances that "Everything Is Illuminated," "The Pigeon," and "The Swimming Pool Library" are really going to stand up better than such not-included works as Pickwick Papers, Barchester Towers, and Waverley, which have all remained popular for a century and a half or more? Or, for that matter, than the Tale of Genji and the Chinese classics, which have been around even longer? Obviously, a book like this shouldn't just be a boring list of universally recognized classics. But, even so, the balance seems wrong. Another irritating thing is the lack of short story collections. Somehow they have two by Borges, but can't see fit to include Dubliners or In Our Time. Hands up everybody who thinks Colm Toibin's "The Heather Blazing" is more important than Dubliners or that Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke" is more important than any or all Hemingway short story collections. To say nothing of Hawthorne and Chekhov - the former is only represented by his novels, and the latter not at all. Also, if you're allowed to include collections, why do we have three separate Poe short stories as distinct entries? Why not combine them into "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" or "Collected Stories" and make room for two other books? Anyway, a lot of this is nit-picking - coming up with a list of 1000 books that will satisfy everyone is impossible, and I commend the book's authors for trying.
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FeedingtheDragon12/29/2009 Hamlet - first and foremost. If there is a single work in literature that one should read to be "cultured" it is Hamlet. Snow by Orhan Pamuk - which, in my opinion, is one of the finest books of the decade. It is a beautiful and tragic composition. Gilead by Marilynn Robinson...the book won here a Pulitzer Prize...it's a gorgeous book. There is nothing by Richard Russo, and no body has mentioned Richard Russo, which is a shame. Empire Falls, especially, which also won a Pulitzer. -Sure, the Pulitzer certainly isn't a keynote, objective look at "literary merit" but it does *help* Where the hell are: -Alice In Wonderland -Chronicles of Narnia -Dune -Ender's Game -His Dark Materials -Kite Runner -The Prince -The Republic I could go on and on. I'm sure there are lots of books on the list that don't deserve to be there, also?
I certainly don't see any sort of objectivity. I would rank Ulysses near the top of the list...it's one of the finest novels ever written. How is this list organized? What qualifications were used in selection and placement? The author of said book needs to examine literature a little more. Or maybe I just don't understand "good books."
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lukeprog01/12/2010 ukaunz, It seems this is the most popular list on Listology! How many views does it have?
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Marquee01/12/2010 lolwtf. even in my drunken state I can find that out. WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE A BOT.
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ukaunz02/04/2010 Wow!!! I'm amazed at the popularity of this list. Most people do realise I didn't "write" it, right? I just typed it up from the book. A "bibliography" was included in the author's note, but maybe some people miss it? Anyway, thanks for all your comments! I haven't visited this site in AGES so it was quite amazing for me to see how often the list is visited/cloned/quoted - even a NY Times mention? (or did they just mention the book?). Personally, I don't think I'll read many of the books on the list. It would be interesting to compile one from the comments people have left. P.S. I don't know if I'll ever have time to fix the typos, but thanks for spotting them.
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Ronpol11203/30/2010 I just like that verbally, the skeleton joke is not that funny. It only becomes Hindi jokes once you visualize the event happening. It's such a short joke, it's a bit jarring to hear it end so soon, so your brain goes over it to find the humour, and then it's funny.
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mike k04/22/2010 this list gives the impression that must read material only originates from the west. So unfortunate that people who have a literary era identified with their work,namely the BOOM such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Ernesto Sabato are not included. Too bad for those people that look at these sorts of lists to actually find good books.
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Zagzaga04/28/2010 This list meets my expectations. Thanks to all who spent their time on it. And to the one who posted. Will be back as soon as I read them all. See you all in 10-15 years.
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Arukiyomi05/02/2010 hey all... been following some of the more recent comments. Firstly, ukaunz's list here is from the original 1st edition of the list published in 2006. Many of the concerns some of you have voiced that the list is biased to WASP writers were dealt with in the 2008 release when 282 of these books were replaced to make it more authoritative of world literature. In March 2010, a third edition was released. 11 books were added/removed, all published in the last 2 years. ukaunz was my inspiration: from the list here, I created a spreadsheet to help you track your progress with the list. This has been downloaded well over 40,000 times! In late March 2010, I released a brand new v4 of this spreadsheet to coincide with the 3rd edition of the book. To get yours, head to http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?page_id=1806
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bugnotme05/17/2010 One book I think is a nice addition to this fantastic list is Pop-splat, by South African author Ian Martin. It is one of the few books I've ever read that really made me think and completely changed my view of society and how the world operates. Surprising, given the deceptively simple story: a wealthy businessman is murdered in yet another Johannesburg hijacking. The disturbed son thinks something fishy is on the go and decides to investigate. This precipitates a violent, overthe-top but also funny hell-ride across the country. Sure, the narrative is entertaining and the book is easy to read as it's saturated with sick humour and violence. But on another level it is jam-packed with so many ideas that after I put the book
down I spent a week digesting it all. Martin challenges everything from SUV drivers to religious fanatics to private schools and overpopulation. A lot of the ideas are subtly blended into the action in a comical way. For instance, during a violent break-in Martin uses the opportunity to attack snobbish art connoisseurs, calling a Madonna and Child painting 'Prostitute with baboon fetus.' It's a weird combination - over-the-top, Quentin Tarantino-like thrills with world-changing ideas. But it really works. To get an idea of the tone of the book, this is what the dedication says: "This book is dedicated to the youth in the hope they will reject the crappy values of their parents." You can also get excerpts and the first chapter here: www.pop-splat.co.za
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Arukiyomi06/01/2010 pop-splat ain't on the list... this comment is bogus...

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MeghanKate8707/12/2010 I actually am on a mission to watch all of the movies in the 1001 Movies book, the 5th edition. If you want to check out my blog please feel free! http://meliestowright.blogspot.com/ It has been only a few months and I know it's a slow start but getting through the silent films seems to be a killer. I am watching them in the order they are in, in the book.
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bugnotme09/07/2010 Of course Pop-splat isn't on the list but would make a nice addition to it. If it was up to me I'd put it up there with 'Choke' as Chuck and Ian are similar authors.
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jess696910/25/2010 Nice post. What kind of blog platform is this? I don't think its wordpress. Where did you get your template? Is it prebuilt? Jesse
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grace241410/30/2010
wow tat list is so long.

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1. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Saturday Ian McEwan 3. On Beauty Zadie Smith 4. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 5.

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ukaunz02/27/2006 Thanks MaxCastle, have fixed those typos you spotted.

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rleigh04/20/2007 Shouldn't it be The Stranger by Albert Camus?

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No Dante? For what reason?

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luney4tunes8809/22/2010 shakespeare didn't write books. he wrote plays.

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misscurly12/12/2007 Isn't Beowulf also a poem? It's in there

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davidm8207/28/2006 Thomas Keneally wrote Schindler's List, not Schindler's Ark

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tbsdy01/26/2008 Not true. It was originally published as Schindler's Ark.

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MauroFilicor05/23/2008 I would love to have one! Mauro

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tbsdy01/26/2008 Cervantes is in the list.

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asper10/25/2006 no 'voyage au bout de la nuit' ?? no one Celine's ?? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............

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scrawlspacer10/05/2007 See #648.