My list of books I might be interested in reading from the 1001 list

Submitted by lucette on Sun, 10/22/2006 - 11:44
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  1. 2000s
  2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  4. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  5. The Sea – John Banville
  6. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  7. Vanishing Point – David Markson
  8. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  9. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  10. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  11. The Colour – Rose Tremain
  12. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
  13. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  14. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
  15. Islands – Dan Sleigh
  16. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
  17. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  18. The Double – José Saramago
  19. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  20. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
  21. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
  22. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
  23. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
  24. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
  25. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
  26. Schooling – Heather McGowan
  27. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
  28. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
  29. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
  30. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
  31. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
  32. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
  33. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  34. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
  35. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
  36. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
  37. How the Dead Live – Will Self
  38. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
  39. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
  40. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
  42. 1900s
  43. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
  44. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  45. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  46. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  47. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
  48. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  49. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
  50. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
  51. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
  52. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
  53. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  54. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  55. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  56. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  57. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  58. Great Apes – Will Self
  59. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  60. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  61. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  62. The Untouchable – John Banville
  63. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
  64. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  65. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  66. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  67. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
  68. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  69. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
  70. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  71. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  72. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
  73. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  74. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  75. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
  76. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  77. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
  78. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
  79. Land – Park Kyong-ni
  80. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  81. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  82. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  83. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
  84. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
  85. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  86. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
  87. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  88. On Love – Alain de Botton
  89. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  90. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  91. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
  92. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  93. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  94. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  95. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
  96. Indigo – Marina Warner
  97. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  98. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  99. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  100. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  101. Arcadia – Jim Crace
  102. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
  103. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
  104. Amongst Women – John McGahern
  105. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  106. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  107. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  108. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  109. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
  110. A Disaffection – James Kelman
  111. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  112. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  113. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  114. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  115. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  116. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  117. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  118. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  119. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  120. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
  121. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  122. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  123. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  124. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  125. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  126. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  127. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  128. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  129. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
  130. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  131. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  132. Legend – David Gemmell
  133. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
  134. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  135. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  136. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
  137. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  138. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  139. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  140. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
  141. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  142. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  143. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  144. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  145. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  146. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  147. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  148. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
  149. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  150. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  151. Dispatches – Michael Herr
  152. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  153. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  154. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
  155. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  156. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
  157. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  158. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
  159. Fateless – Imre Kertész
  160. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  161. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  162. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  163. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  164. G – John Berger
  165. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  166. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
  167. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
  168. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  169. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
  170. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  171. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  172. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
  173. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
  174. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  175. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  176. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
  177. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
  178. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  179. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  180. Chocky – John Wyndham
  181. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  182. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  183. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  184. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  185. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  186. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  187. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  188. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  189. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  190. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  191. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  192. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  193. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  194. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  195. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  196. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  197. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  198. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  199. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  200. Voss – Patrick White
  201. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  202. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  203. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  204. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  205. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  206. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  207. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
  208. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  209. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  210. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  211. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
  212. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
  213. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  214. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  215. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  216. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  217. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  218. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  219. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  220. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  221. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  222. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
  223. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  224. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  225. Transit – Anna Seghers
  226. Embers – Sandor Marai
  227. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  228. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
  229. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  230. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
  231. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  232. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
  233. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  234. In Parenthesis – David Jones
  235. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  236. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  237. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  238. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  239. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
  240. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  241. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
  242. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  243. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  244. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  245. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  246. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  247. Living – Henry Green
  248. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  249. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  250. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  251. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  252. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  253. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  254. Nadja – André Breton
  255. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
  256. Blindness – Henry Green
  257. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  258. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  259. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  260. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  261. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  262. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  263. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  264. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  265. Cane – Jean Toomer
  266. Amok – Stefan Zweig
  267. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  268. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
  269. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  270. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  271. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  272. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  273. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  274. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
  275. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  276. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  277. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  278. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  279. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
  280. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  281. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  282. Mother – Maxim Gorky
  283. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  284. Young Törless – Robert Musil
  285. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  286. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  287. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  288. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  290. 1800s
  291. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
  292. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
  293. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
  294. Born in Exile – George Gissing
  295. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  296. News from Nowhere – William Morris
  297. New Grub Street – George Gissing
  298. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
  299. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
  300. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
  301. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  302. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
  303. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
  304. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  305. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
  306. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
  307. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
  308. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
  309. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
  310. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  311. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
  312. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  313. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
  314. Adam Bede – George Eliot
  315. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  316. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  317. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  318. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  319. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
  320. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
  321. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
  322. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
  323. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
  325. 1700s
  326. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
  327. The Nun – Denis Diderot
  328. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
  329. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  330. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  331. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
  332. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
  333. Vathek – William Beckford
  334. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  335. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  336. Evelina – Fanny Burney
  337. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
  338. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  339. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
  340. Amelia – Henry Fielding
  341. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
  342. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
  344. Pre-1700
  345. The Anatomy of Melancholy
  346. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
  347. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  348. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
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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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