"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" - Want to read first

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  • 2000s
  • Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  • The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  • Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  • Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  • Shroud – John Banville
  • Youth – J.M. Coetzee
  • The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
  • Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
  • At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
  • The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
  • 1900s
  • The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  • Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  • Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  • Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  • The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  • The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
  • Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  • On Love – Alain de Botton
  • A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  • The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  • The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  • Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  • Jazz – Toni Morrison
  • Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  • Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
  • American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  • A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  • Possession – A.S. Byatt
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  • The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  • Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  • The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  • An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  • Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  • Waterland – Graham Swift
  • The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  • The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  • Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  • Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  • The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  • The World According to Garp – John Irving
  • The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  • The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  • Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  • Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  • Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  • Crash – J.G. Ballard
  • The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  • Sula – Toni Morrison
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  • Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
  • The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  • The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  • The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  • Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  • The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  • Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  • A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  • Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
  • Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  • At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  • Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  • Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  • Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Years – Virginia Woolf
  • In Parenthesis – David Jones
  • Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  • England Made Me – Graham Greene
  • Burmese Days – George Orwell
  • The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  • Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  • Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  • To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  • Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  • The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  • The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  • The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  • Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  • The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  • Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  • Summer – Edith Wharton
  • A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  • The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  • The Ambassadors – Henry James
  • The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  • 1800s
  • Born in Exile – George Gissing
  • Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • New Grub Street – George Gissing
  • The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  • Nana – Émile Zola
  • Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
  • The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
  • Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  • He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
  • The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  • Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  • The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • Adam Bede – George Eliot
  • North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  • Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  • Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  • Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  • The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  • The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  • Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  • Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  • Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
  • Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
  • 1700s
  • Camilla – Fanny Burney
  • Cecilia – Fanny Burney
  • Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • Evelina – Fanny Burney
  • A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
  • Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  • The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  • Amelia – Henry Fielding
  • Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
  • Pamela – Samuel Richardson
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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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