Substantially fewer than 1001 Books I HAVE Read Before I Die (so far)

Submitted by washwords on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 02:34
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  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
  • Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  • The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  • Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  • The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  • The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  • The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  • The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  • The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  • Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  • American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  • Amongst Women – John McGahern
  • A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  • The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  • Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  • Beloved – Toni Morrison
  • Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  • Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  • The World According to Garp – John Irving
  • Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  • Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  • Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  • Rabbit Redux – John Updike
  • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  • Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  • Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  • Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  • Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  • Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  • Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  • On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  • Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  • The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  • Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  • The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  • Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  • Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  • The Plague – Albert Camus
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  • The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  • Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  • To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  • Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  • The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  • Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
  • The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  • To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  • The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  • Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Trial – Franz Kafka
  • A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  • The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  • Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  • Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  • Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
  • Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  • Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  • Howards End – E.M. Forster
  • A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  • The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  • Young Törless – Robert Musil
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  • Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  • Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  • The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  • The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
  • The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  • The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  • Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  • The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  • Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
  • Middlemarch – George Eliot
  • Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  • Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  • Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  • Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  • The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  • Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  • The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  • A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  • The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  • Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  • Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  • Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  • Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • Emma – Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  • Justine – Marquis de Sade
  • Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  • Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Candide – Voltaire
  • A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  • Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  • Roxana – Daniel Defoe
  • Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  • Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  • Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
  • The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
  • Metamorphoses – Ovid
  • Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
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