1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

      2000s
      1 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
      2 Saturday by Ian McEwan
      3 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
      4 Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
      5 Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
      6 The Sea by John Banville
      7 The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
      8 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
      9 The Master by Colm Tóibín
      10 Vanishing Point by David Markson
      11 The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
      12 Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
      13 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
      14 Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle
      15 The Colour by Rose Tremain
      16 Thursbitch by Alan Garner
      17 The Light of Day by Graham Swift
      18 What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
      19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
      20 Islands by Dan Sleigh
      21 Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
      22 London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
      23 Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
      24 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
      25 The Double by José Saramago
      26 Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
      27 Unless by Carol Shields
      28 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
      29 The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
      30 That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
      31 In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
      32 Shroud by John Banville
      33 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
      34 Youth by J.M. Coetzee
      35 Dead Air by Iain Banks
      36 Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
      37 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
      38 Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
      39 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
      40 Platform by Michael Houellebecq
      41 Schooling by Heather McGowan
      42 Atonement by Ian McEwan
      43 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
      44 Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini
      45 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
      46 Fury by Salman Rushdie
      47 At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
      48 Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
      49 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
      50 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
      51 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
      52 The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
      53 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
      54 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
      55 The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
      56 Under the Skin by Michel Faber
      57 Ignorance by Milan Kundera
      58 Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
      59 Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
      60 City of God by E.L. Doctorow
      61 How the Dead Live by Will Self
      62 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
      63 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
      64 After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
      65 Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande
      66 Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
      67 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
      68 Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
      69 Pastoralia by George Saunders

      1900s
      70 Timbuktu by Paul Auster
      71 The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
      72 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
      73 As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulic
      74 Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
      75 Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
      76 The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
      77 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
      78 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
      79 Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
      80 Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
      81 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
      82 Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
      83 All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
      84 The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon
      85 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
      86 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
      87 Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
      88 Another World by Pat Barker
      89 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
      90 Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
      91 Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
      92 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
      93 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
      94 Great Apes by Will Self
      95 Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
      96 Underworld by Don DeLillo
      97 Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
      98 The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
      99 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
      100 The Untouchable by John Banville
      101 Silk by Alessandro Baricco
      102 Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
      103 Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
      104 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
      105 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
      106 Forever a Stranger by Hella Haasse
      107 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
      108 The Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin
      109 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
      110 The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
      111 Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
      112 The Information by Martin Amis
      113 The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
      114 Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
      115 The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
      116 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
      117 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
      118 Love's Work by Gillian Rose
      119 The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
      120 Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
      121 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
      122 Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
      123 Land by Park Kyong-ni
      124 The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
      125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
      126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
      127 City Sister Silver by Jàchym Topol
      128 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
      129 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
      130 Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
      131 Disappearance by David Dabydeen
      132 The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
      133 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
      134 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
      135 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
      136 Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
      137 Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
      138 Complicity by Iain Banks
      139 On Love by Alain de Botton
      140 What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
      141 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
      142 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
      143 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
      144 The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
      145 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
      146 The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
      147 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
      148 Life is a Caravanserai by Emine Özdamar
      149 The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
      150 A Heart So White by Javier Marias
      151 Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
      152 Indigo by Marina Warner
      153 The Crow Road by Iain Banks
      154 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
      155 Jazz by Toni Morrison
      156 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
      157 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
      158 The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
      159 Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
      160 The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
      161 Asphodel by Hilda Doolittle
      162 Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
      163 Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
      164 Arcadia by Jim Crace
      165 Wild Swans by Jung Chang
      166 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
      167 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
      168 Mao II by Don DeLillo
      169 Typical by Padgett Powell
      170 Regeneration by Pat Barker
      171 Downriver by Iain Sinclair
      172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernieres
      173 Wise Children by Angela Carter
      174 Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
      175 Amongst Women by John McGahern
      176 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
      177 Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
      178 Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
      179 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
      180 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
      181 A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
      182 Like Life by Lorrie Moore
      183 Possession by A.S. Byatt
      184 The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
      185 The Midnight Examiner by William Kotzwinkle
      186 A Disaffection by James Kelman
      187 Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
      188 Moon Palace by Paul Auster
      189 Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
      190 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
      191 The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
      192 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
      193 The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
      194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
      195 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
      196 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
      197 London Fields by Martin Amis
      198 The Book of Evidence by John Banville
      199 Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
      200 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
      201 The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
      202 Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
      203 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
      204 The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
      205 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
      206 Libra by Don DeLillo
      207 The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
      208 Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
      209 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams
      210 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
      211 The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
      212 The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
      213 The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
      214 The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
      215 The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
      216 The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
      217 Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
      218 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
      219 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
      220 World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
      221 Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
      222 The Taebek Mountains by Jo Jung-rae
      223 Beloved by Toni Morrison
      224 Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
      225 Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
      226 Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
      227 Watchmen by Alan/David Moore/Gibbons
      228 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
      229 Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
      230 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
      231 Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
      232 Foe by J.M. Coetzee
      233 The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
      234 Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
      235 The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann
      236 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
      237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
      238 The Cider House Rules by John Irving
      239 A Maggot by John Fowles
      240 Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
      241 Contact by Carl Sagan
      242 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
      243 Perfume by Patrick Süskind
      244 Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
      245 White Noise by Don DeLillo
      246 Queer by William Burroughs
      247 Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
      248 Legend by David Gemmell
      249 Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
      250 The Bus Conductor Hines by James Kelman
      251 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
      252 The Lover by Marguerite Duras
      253 Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
      254 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
      255 Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
      256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
      257 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
      258 Neuromancer by William Gibson
      259 Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
      260 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
      261 Shame by Salman Rushdie
      262 Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
      263 Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
      264 La Brava by Elmore Leonard
      265 Waterland by Graham Swift
      266 The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
      267 The Diary of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing
      268 The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
      269 The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
      270 If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
      271 A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
      272 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
      273 Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
      274 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
      275 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
      276 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
      277 The Newton Letter by John Banville
      278 On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
      279 Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
      280 The Names by Don DeLillo
      281 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
      282 Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
      283 The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
      284 July's People by Nadine Gordimer
      285 Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
      286 Broken April by Ismail Kadare
      287 Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
      288 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
      289 Rites of Passage by William Golding
      290 Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
      291 Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
      292 City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
      293 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
      294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
      295 Smiley's People by John Le Carré
      296 Shikasta by Doris Lessing
      297 A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
      298 Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
      299 The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll
      300 If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
      301 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
      302 The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
      303 The World According to Garp by John Irving
      304 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
      305 The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
      306 The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
      307 Yes by Thomas Bernhard
      308 The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
      309 In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
      310 The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
      311 Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
      312 The Shining by Stephen King
      313 Dispatches by Michael Herr
      314 Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
      315 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
      316 The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
      317 The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
      318 Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
      319 The Public Burning by Robert Coover
      320 Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
      321 Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg
      322 Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
      323 Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf
      324 Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
      325 W, or the Memory of childhood by Georges Perec
      326 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
      327 Grimus by Salman Rushdie
      328 The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
      329 Fateless by Imre Kertész
      330 Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
      331 High Rise by J.G. Ballard
      332 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
      333 Dead Babies by Martin Amis
      334 Correction by Thomas Bernhard
      335 Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
      336 The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
      337 Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
      338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
      339 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
      340 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
      341 Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
      342 A Question of Power by Bessie Head
      343 The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
      344 The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
      345 Crash by J.G. Ballard
      346 The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
      347 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
      348 The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
      349 Sula by Toni Morrison
      350 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
      351 The Breast by Philip Roth
      352 The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
      353 G by John Berger
      354 Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
      355 House Mother Normal by B.S. Johnson
      356 In A Free State by V.S. Naipaul
      357 The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
      358 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
      359 Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Böll
      360 The Wild Boys by William Burroughs
      361 Rabbit Redux by John Updike
      362 The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
      363 The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
      364 The Ogre by Michael Tournier
      365 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
      366 Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
      367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
      368 Mercier et Camier by Samuel Beckett
      369 Troubles by J.G. Farrell
      370 Jahrestage by Uwe Johnson
      371 The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
      372 Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
      373 Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
      374 Blind Man With a Pistol by Chester Hines
      375 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
      376 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
      377 The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
      378 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
      379 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
      380 Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
      381 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
      382 A Void/Avoid by Georges Perec
      383 Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
      384 Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
      385 The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
      386 Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
      387 Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      388 The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      389 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
      390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. privates
      391 Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid by Malcolm Lowry
      392 The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
      393 In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
      394 A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
      395 The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
      396 Chocky by John Wyndham
      397 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
      398 The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
      399 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
      400 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
      401 Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
      402 The Joke by Milan Kundera
      403 No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
      404 The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
      405 A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
      406 The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
      407 Trawl by B.S. Johnson
      408 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
      409 The Magus by John Fowles
      410 The Vice-Consul by Marguerite Duras
      411 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
      412 Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
      413 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
      414 Things by Georges Perec
      415 The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
      416 August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
      417 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
      418 Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
      419 The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
      420 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
      421 Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Bartholme
      422 Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
      423 Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
      424 The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras
      425 Herzog by Saul Bellow
      426 V. by Thomas Pynchon
      427 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
      428 The Graduate by Charles Webb
      429 Manon des Sources by Marcel Pagnol
      430 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
      431 The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
      432 Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
      433 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
      434 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      435 The Collector by John Fowles
      436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
      437 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
      438 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
      439 The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
      440 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
      441 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
      442 Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
      443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
      444 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
      445 Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
      446 A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
      447 Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
      448 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
      449 Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
      450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
      451 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
      452 The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
      453 How It Is by Samuel Beckett
      454 Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
      455 The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
      456 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
      457 Rabbit, Run by John Updike
      458 Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
      459 Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
      460 Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
      461 Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
      462 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
      463 Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
      464 Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
      465 Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
      466 Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll
      467 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
      468 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
      469 Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring by Kenzaburo Oe
      470 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
      471 The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
      472 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
      473 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
      474 Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
      475 Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
      476 The End of the Road by John Barth
      477 The Once and Future King by T.H. White
      478 The Bell by Iris Murdoch
      479 Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
      480 Voss by Patrick White
      481 The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
      482 Blue Noon by Georges Bataille
      483 Homo Faber by Max Frisch
      484 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
      485 Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
      486 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
      487 The Wonderful "O" by James Thurber
      488 Justine by Lawrence Durrell
      489 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
      490 The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
      491 The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
      492 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
      493 The Floating Opera by John Barth
      494 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
      495 The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
      496 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
      497 A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
      498 The Trusting and the Maimed by James Plunkett
      499 The Quiet American by Graham Greene
      500 The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzákis
      501 The Recognitions by William Gaddis
      502 The Ragazzi by Pier Paulo Pasolini
      503 Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
      504 I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
      505 Self Condemned by Wyndham Lewis
      506 The Story of O by Pauline Réage
      507 A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia
      508 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
      509 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
      510 The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
      511 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
      512 The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
      513 Watt by Samuel Beckett
      514 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
      515 Junkie by William Burroughs
      516 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
      517 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
      518 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
      519 The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
      520 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
      521 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
      522 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
      523 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
      524 Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
      525 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
      526 Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
      527 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
      528 The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
      529 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
      530 The Rebel by Albert Camus
      531 Molloy by Samuel Beckett
      532 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
      533 The Abbot C by Georges Bataille
      534 The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
      535 The Third Man by Graham Greene
      536 The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
      537 Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
      538 The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
      539 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
      540 The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
      541 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
      542 Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
      543 The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
      544 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
      545 Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
      546 The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
      547 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
      548 All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
      549 Disobedience by Alberto Moravia
      550 Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
      551 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
      552 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
      553 Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
      554 The Victim by Saul Bellow
      555 Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
      556 If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
      557 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
      558 The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
      559 The Plague by Albert Camus
      560 Back by Henry Green
      561 Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
      562 The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
      563 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
      564 Animal Farm by George Orwell
      565 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
      566 The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
      567 Loving by Henry Green
      568 Arcanum 17 by André Breton
      569 Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
      570 The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
      571 Transit by Anna Seghers
      572 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
      573 Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
      574 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
      575 Caught by Henry Green
      576 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
      577 Embers by Sandor Marai
      578 Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
      579 The Outsider by Albert Camus
      580 In Sicily by Elio Vittorini
      581 The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien
      582 The Living and the Dead by Patrick White
      583 Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
      584 Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
      585 The Hamlet by William Faulkner
      586 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
      587 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
      588 Native Son by Richard Wright
      589 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
      590 The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
      591 Party Going by Henry Green
      592 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
      593 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
      594 At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
      595 Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
      596 Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
      597 Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
      598 Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
      599 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
      600 After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvie Townsend Warner
      601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
      602 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
      603 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
      604 Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
      605 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
      606 U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
      607 Murphy by Samuel Beckett
      608 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
      609 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
      610 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
      611 The Years by Virginia Woolf
      612 In Parenthesis by David Jones
      613 The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
      614 Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
      615 To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
      616 Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
      617 Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
      618 The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
      619 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
      620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
      621 Wild Harbour by Ian MacPherson
      622 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
      623 At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
      624 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
      625 Independent People by Halldór Laxness
      626 Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
      627 The Last of Mr. Norris by Christopher Isherwood
      628 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
      629 The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
      630 England Made Me by Graham Greene
      631 Burmese Days by George Orwell
      632 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
      633 Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
      634 Novel With Cocaine by M. Ageyev
      635 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
      636 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
      637 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
      638 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
      639 Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
      640 Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
      641 Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
      642 Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
      643 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
      644 Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
      645 A Day Off by Storm Jameson
      646 The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
      647 A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
      648 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
      649 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
      650 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
      651 To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
      652 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
      653 The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
      654 The Waves by Virginia Woolf
      655 The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
      656 Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
      657 The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
      658 Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
      659 Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
      660 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
      661 Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico
      662 Passing by Nella Larsen
      663 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
      664 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
      665 Living by Henry Green
      666 The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
      667 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
      668 Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
      669 The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
      670 Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
      671 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
      672 Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
      673 Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
      674 Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
      675 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
      676 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
      677 The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
      678 The Childermass by Wyndham Lewis
      679 Quartet by Jean Rhys
      680 Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
      681 Quicksand by Nella Larsen
      682 Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
      683 Nadja by André Breton
      684 Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
      685 Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
      686 To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
      687 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
      688 Amerika by Franz Kafka
      689 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
      690 Blindness by Henry Green
      691 The Castle by Franz Kafka
      692 The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
      693 The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence
      694 One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
      695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
      696 The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
      697 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
      698 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
      699 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
      700 The Counterfeiters by André Gide
      701 The Trial by Franz Kafka
      702 The Artamonov Business by Maxim Gorky
      703 The Professor's House by Willa Cather
      704 Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
      705 The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
      706 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
      707 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
      708 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
      709 The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
      710 Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
      711 Cane by Jean Toomer
      712 Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
      713 Amok by Stefan Zweig
      714 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
      715 The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
      716 Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
      717 Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
      718 The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
      719 Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
      720 The Last Days of Humanity by Karl Kraus
      721 Aaron's Rod by D.H. Lawrence
      722 Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
      723 Ulysses by James Joyce
      724 The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
      725 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
      726 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
      727 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
      728 Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
      729 Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
      730 Tarr by Wyndham Lewis
      731 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
      732 The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
      733 Summer by Edith Wharton
      734 Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsen
      735 Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
      736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
      737 Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
      738 Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
      739 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
      740 The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
      741 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
      742 The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
      743 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
      744 Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
      745 Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
      746 Rosshalde by Herman Hesse
      747 Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
      748 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
      749 Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
      750 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
      751 The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
      752 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
      753 Fantômas by Marcel/Pierre Allain/Souvestre
      754 Howards End by E.M. Forster
      755 Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
      756 Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
      757 Martin Eden by Jack London
      758 Strait is the Gate by André Gide
      759 Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
      760 The Inferno by Henri Barbusse
      761 A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
      762 The Iron Heel by Jack London
      763 The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
      764 The House on the Borderland by Arnold Bennett
      765 Mother by Maxim Gorky
      766 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
      767 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
      768 Young Törless by Robert Musil
      769 The Forsyte Sage by John Galsworthy
      770 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
      771 Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
      772 Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
      773 Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
      774 Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
      775 The Golden Bowl by Henry James
      776 The Ambassadors by Henry James
      777 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
      778 The Immoralist by André Gide
      779 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
      780 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
      781 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
      782 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
      783 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
      784 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
      785 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

      1800s
      786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Somerville/Ross
      787 The Stechlin by Theodore Fontane
      788 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
      789 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
      790 The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
      791 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
      792 What Maisie Knew by Henry James
      793 Fruits of the Earth by André Gide
      794 Dracula by Bram Stoker
      795 Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
      796 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
      797 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
      798 Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane
      799 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
      800 The Real Charlotte by Somerville/Ross
      801 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
      802 Born in Exile by George Gissing
      803 Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Goldsmith
      804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
      805 News from Nowhere by William Morris
      806 New Grub Street by George Gissing
      807 Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf
      808 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
      809 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
      810 The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
      811 La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola
      812 By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
      813 Hunger by Knut Hamsun
      814 The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
      815 Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
      816 Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdés
      817 The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg
      818 The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
      819 She by H. Rider Haggard
      820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
      821 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
      822 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
      823 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
      824 Germinal by Émile Zola
      825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
      826 Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
      827 Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
      828 Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
      829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
      830 A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant
      831 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
      832 The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
      833 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
      834 Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
      835 Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
      836 Nana by Émile Zola
      837 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      838 The Red Room by August Strindberg
      839 Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
      840 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
      841 Drunkard by Émile Zola
      842 Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
      843 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
      844 The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
      845 The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
      846 Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
      847 The Enchanted Wanderer by Nicolai Leskov
      848 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
      849 In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
      850 The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      851 Erewhon by Samuel Butler
      852 Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
      853 Middlemarch by George Eliot
      854 Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
      855 King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
      856 He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
      857 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
      858 Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
      859 Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
      860 Maldoror by Comte de Lautréaumont
      861 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      862 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
      863 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
      864 Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
      865 The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
      866 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
      867 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      868 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
      869 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
      870 Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
      871 Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
      872 The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
      873 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
      874 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
      875 Silas Marner by George Eliot
      876 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
      877 On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
      878 Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
      879 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
      880 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
      881 The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
      882 Max Havelaar by Multatuli
      883 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
      884 Oblomovka by Ivan Goncharov
      885 Adam Bede by George Eliot
      886 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
      887 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
      888 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
      889 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
      890 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
      891 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
      892 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
      893 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely by Harriet Beecher Stowe
      894 The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
      895 The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
      896 Moby-privates by Herman Melville
      897 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
      898 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
      899 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
      900 Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
      901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
      902 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
      903 Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
      904 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
      905 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
      906 The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
      907 La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
      908 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
      909 The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
      910 Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
      911 The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
      912 Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
      913 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
      914 Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
      915 The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
      916 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
      917 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
      918 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
      919 The Nose by Nikolay Gogol
      920 Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
      921 Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
      922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
      923 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
      924 The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
      925 Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
      926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James
      Hogg
      927 The Albigenses by Charles Robert Maturin
      928 Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
      929 The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
      930 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
      931 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
      932 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
      933 Persuasion by Jane Austen
      934 Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
      935 Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
      936 Emma by Jane Austen
      937 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
      938 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
      939 The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
      940 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
      941 Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
      942 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
     
      1700s
      943 Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin
      944 The Nun by Denis Diderot
      945 Camilla by Fanny Burney
      946 The Monk by M.G. Lewis
      947 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
      948 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
      949 The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
      950 The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
      951 Justine by Marquis de Sade
      952 Vathek by William Beckford
      953 The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
      954 Cecilia by Fanny Burney
      955 Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      956 Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
      957 Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      958 Evelina by Fanny Burney
      959 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
      960 Humphrey Clinker by Tobias George Smollett
      961 The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
      962 A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
      963 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
      964 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
      965 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
      966 Émile; or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      967 Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
      968 Julie; or, the New Eloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      969 Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
      970 Candide by Voltaire
      971 The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
      972 Amelia by Henry Fielding
      973 Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
      974 Fanny Hill by John Cleland
      975 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
      976 Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett
      977 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
      978 Pamela by Samuel Richardson
      979 Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
      980 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by J. Arbuthnot et al.
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Mmh! Quite a list, and i haven't read even ONE of the 2000's. I must be way behind times  I've read about 41 of the rest shaa - 17 of the 1900's, 33 of the 1800's, and 1 of the 1700's - Hyperion, wonderful sci-fi.

Gamine, where did u get this list? _{You said you've read only 25, so i know you didn't make it up yourself} There are some books i was expecting to see on the list - like Stephen King's Tommyknockers (it's even better than The Shining), Michael Critchton's Jurassic Park, and Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of God.

(B T W, #262 is Westward Ho!, not Worstward Ho - read it way back in secondary school - bunch of English sailors went on an expedition and spent the rest of the novel trying to fight their way back home. And #866 is Moby D i c k; Oga Seun's bad word snifter must've changed it to "Moby privates"

ditto

@ topic

read 23 books

2000s
26 Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (saw the movie too – Awesome)

39 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

60 City of God by E.L. Doctorow (saw the movie too)

62 The Human Stain by Philip Roth (saw the movie too – excellent)

1900s
93 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (the book is slow at first. saw the movie too) aiight!!
155 Jazz by Toni Morrison

156 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (saw the movie too – excellent)

192 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

223 Beloved by Toni Morrison (saw the movie too)

272 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (saw the movie too.  The book is better than the movie

320 Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (saw the movie too – The book is better than the movie)

367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

376 The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

456 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

552 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

697 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (great book)

1800s

825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (The movie sis showing on TCM right now.  I am shock to see this on the list seeing there was controversy over this book as Racist.  Oh well )

823 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

873 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

898 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

902 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ( A must read. Saw all the movies,  . .am a sucker for love stories)

P.S you list say 1001 but you only posted 980


One love

Tremendous list

i am ashamed to see that i was able to have read only the following i.e only thirty-three. though that is not the sum of all the books i have read in my life time

      406 The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
      423 Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
      472 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
      490 The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
      494 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (watched the movies)
      508 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
      521 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
      539 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov                     (watched the movies)
      564 Animal Farm by George Orwell
      585 The Hamlet by William Faulkner
      723 Ulysses by James Joyce
      743 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
      749 Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
      804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
      821 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
      822 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
      823 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
      831 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
      848 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
      855 King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
      875 Silas Marner by George Eliot
      876 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
      883 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
      898 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
      904 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
      905 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
      908 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
      913 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
      918 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
      925 Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
      930 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
      938 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

i counted 89 out of the millions, highest so far, right?

meanwhile, i have read every Chase, Grisham, Sheldon , Archer, Patterson and they are all not there

meeen, see list! be like life assignment. i'm partial to science fiction and fantasy so i think i will start with that.
i know i've read some of those books i just dont remember all but some names are familiar, let me see:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (back in primary school)
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Watchmen by Alan/David Moore/Gibbons
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

meeen i dey jack o!

Les Miserables was hot. If you only read that from the whole lot, then you can die happy. . Seriously tho', the list is very long, can anyone read the whole lot even if they live to be 200? I think not. But anything by Mark Twain, Charles Dickens n Alexandre Dumas are worth reading, and keeping, till u reach your ripe old age of 102. . As for most of the others, you can live (and die, lol) very well off without them.

@epi
all animals are equal, but some are more equal to others

@Azanor
how many you read wey you dey shout say you dey jack; no be ya mate read all finish so

yea, remember Napolean chased Snowball off the farm b/c snowball found out he broke the animal commandments.  Napolean was sleeping in bed and was drinking alchohol.  I was referring to Napolean (the highlighted). I know Snowball was the pig.  Was Napolean the dog? Geeze!!!

You know what?? i am going to order the book right now b/c I feel like reading it again. 

@epi
please dont tempt me to imitate you in seeking a copy of that book, i hardly have time to read two pages of a book!
lol

oops, i forgot

Primo Levi and Lolita

lots of books, im even skipping a number

i expected to see, The Alchemist and Fountainhead by Ayn Rand in the list

Damn Brits! LOL