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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. &nb 1 Like 3 Shares |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Gamine(f): 3:51pm On Jan 24, 2009 |
Contd. 981 Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 982 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 983 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 984 Roxana by Daniel Defoe 985 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 986 Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood 987 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 988 A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift Pre-1700 989 Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 990 The Princess of Clèves by Marie-Madelaine de Lafayatte 991 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 992 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 993 The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe 994 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly 995 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Françoise Rabelais 996 The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous 997 The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius 998 Aithiopika by Heliodorus 999 Chaireas and Kallirhoe by Chariton 1000 Metamorphoses by Ovid 1001 Aesop's Fables by Aesopus Ive read about 25 of them, Still a LONG way to go!  That Kazuo Ishiguro is really good,  |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by kay9(m): 5:07pm On Jan 24, 2009 |
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" |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by abdulone(m): 5:24pm On Jan 24, 2009 |
what a great collection of books, thanks for the post, and i think this should be a challenge to all nairalanders in the literature/writing section. once more thanks for the post. |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Epi: 5:46pm On Jan 24, 2009 |
abdulone: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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Sapphic: 6:34pm On Jan 25, 2009 |
@ Gamine, I think you are about 21 books shy of the advertised 1001 books. |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by vescucci(m): 12:16pm On Jan 26, 2009 |
Tremendous list |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by spikedcylinder: 12:40pm On Jan 26, 2009 |
Lol! You people read the entire list?  |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by dgreatrock(m): 2:45pm On Jan 26, 2009 |
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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Gamine(f): 6:03pm On Jan 26, 2009 |
Im sorry i posted the complete list but Nairaland cut it. . . . Anyway looking back at the list i must have read more than 25 we had a lot of strange books, in my house when i was much younger lots without a beginning or end sef. My Schools libarary had a lot of old classics from Hemingway, Baldwin, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Lawrence,LOTS!!! i read so much @Kay9, you have read alot o, but the truth is, no matter how well-read one is,, i saw the list on my brothers computer, i intend to go through it all! LOL |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by SamMilla1(m): 11:06pm On Jan 26, 2009 |
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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by kay9(m): 1:05am On Jan 27, 2009 |
Sam Milla: Haba Sammy! And here was I already thumping my chest as No.1 Most Read LIT-NL member Thing is, if i begin add the ones i've watched (as in movies), my list fit reach 100 Hey V, u didn't say how many u've read. Don't tell me you skipped literature classes in high school. . . Eze Goes To School, Silas Marner, Anthills of the Savanna, Arms and the Man, The Maids Are Not To Blame, She Stoops To Conquer, etc |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Azanor(m): 7:00pm On Jan 27, 2009 |
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! |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Epi: 7:06pm On Jan 27, 2009 |
564 Animal Farm by George Orwell How come I miss this one. It a text book in BVI for Literature. Snowball vs napolean. Oh yea, remember the animal commandments. Awesome!!! 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal. but some animals are more equal than others |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by maedan(f): 9:10pm On Jan 27, 2009 |
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 ur ripe old age of 102. . As for most of the others, you can live (and die, lol) very well off without them.  |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by ogre(m): 11:52pm On Jan 27, 2009 |
I've read, drumroll, 43. Absolutely dismal but why is the french lieutenant's woman by John Fowles not on the list? ehn,ehn,ehn? |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by dgreatrock(m): 1:46pm On Jan 28, 2009 |
@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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by OnoEdosio(m): 8:28pm On Jan 28, 2009 |
And I think say na me read pass!!Now this is intimidating!Fancy reading only a few books from the 2000s,but i try for the oldies sha. Now gud and patriotic nairalanders,where can i get these books ooo, If uve got any soft copies pls let me know and would really be glad.This is really a lifetime homework cos ive got to read em all(i hope to livelong)! |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Epi: 6:13am On Jan 29, 2009 |
dgreatrock: 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. |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by TOYOSI20(f): 6:53am On Jan 29, 2009 |
Bwoi do i have a long way to go for real!!  |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by dgreatrock(m): 9:46am On Jan 29, 2009 |
@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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Gamine(f): 6:01pm On Jan 30, 2009 |
You know, i didnt really sit down with the list before. . when i did i found this out, i have watched about 40 of them sha.LOL 62 The Human Stain by Philip Roth 60 City of God by E.L. Doctorow 89 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 93 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 156 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 166 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 177 Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 181 A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham 190 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 200 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 213 The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy 210 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams 218 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 223 Beloved by Toni Morrison 227 Watchmen by Alan/David Moore/Gibbons 238 The Cider House Rules by John Irving 245 White Noise by Don DeLillo 253 Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard 257 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Neuromancer by William Gibson 272 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 276 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 3 The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan Rites of Passage by William Golding 301 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 309 In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee 312 The Shining by Stephen King 320 Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice 345 Crash by J.G. Ballard 358 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 379 The Godfather by Mario Puzo 389 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 423 Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe 428 The Graduate by Charles Webb 436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 456 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 467 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 472 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 486 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 492 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow 494 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 499 The Quiet American by Graham Greene 500 The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzákis 508 Lord of the Flies by William Golding 517 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 518 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming 521 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 527 Foundation by Isaac Asimov 539 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 547 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 552 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 564 Animal Farm by George Orwell 574 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 579 The Outsider by Albert Camus 585 The Hamlet by William Faulkner 587 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 599 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 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 614 Out of Africa by Isak Dineson 615 To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 628 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy 638 Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 649 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 660 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 672 Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau 676 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 691 The Castle by Franz Kafka 695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 699 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 723 Ulysses by James Joyce 726 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 749 Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 752 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 761 A Room With a View by E.M. Forster 772 Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 776 The Ambassadors by Henry James 781 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 790 The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 791 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells 794 Dracula by Bram Stoker 796 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 797 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 808 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 809 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 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 825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 831 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 833 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 835 Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace 848 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 854 Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 863 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 857 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 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 872 The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 873 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 876 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 883 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 889 Walden by Henry David Thoreau 890 Bleak House by Charles Dickens 893 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely by Harriet Beecher Stowe 896 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 897 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 898 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ll 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 908 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 911 The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 913 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 914 Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol 917 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 918 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 925 Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 931 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 936 Emma by Jane Austen 937 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 938 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 940 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 955 Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 956 Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 964 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 982 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 983 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 987 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 991 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 992 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 993 The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe 1001 Aesop's Fables by Aesopus 996 The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous 997 The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Gamine(f): 2:04pm On Feb 02, 2009 |
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 |
| Re: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by luvbooks(f): 4:04pm On May 11, 2009 |
Why didnt anyone mention Da Vinci Code  I'm disappointed o!!!  And why isn't Sidney Sheldon on this list |
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