Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 edition)"

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Each work of literature listed here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word. These works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others. (Description from Amazon.com)

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists. Please do not remove or add titles that will change this list from how it appears in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd.

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  1. 651.
    To the North (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Elizabeth Bowen
  2. 652.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett
  3. 653.
    The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)
    by Joseph Roth
  4. 654.
    The Waves
    by Virginia Woolf
  5. 655.
    The Glass Key
    by Dashiell Hammett
  6. 656.
    Cakes and Ale
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  7. 657.
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    The Apes of God
    by Wyndham Lewis
  8. 658.
    Her Privates We
    by Frederic Manning
  9. 659.
    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh
  10. 660.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  12. 662.
    Passing (Penguin Classics)
    by Nella Larsen
  13. 663.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  14. 664.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett
  15. 665.
    ?
    Living;: A novel
    by Henry Green
  16. 666.
    The Time of Indifference: A Novel
    by Alberto Moravia
  17. 667.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  18. 668.
    Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
    by Alfred Doblin
  19. 669.
    The Last September
    by Elizabeth Bowen
  20. 670.
    Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Rebecca West
  21. 671.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  22. 672.
    Jean Cocteau : Les Enfants terribles
    by Cocteau
  23. 673.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe
  24. 674.
    Story of the Eye
    by Georges Bataille
  25. 675.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf
  26. 676.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  27. 677.
    The Well of Loneliness
    by Radclyffe Hall
  28. 678.
    Childermass
    by Wyndham Lewis
  29. 679.
    Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Jean Rhys
  30. 680.
    Decline and Fall
    by Evelyn Waugh
  31. 681.
    Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Nella Larsen
  32. 682.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford
  33. 683.
    Nadja
    by Andre Breton
  34. 684.
    Steppenwolf
    by Hermann Hesse
  35. 685.
    Remembrance of Things Past Vol.I, II & III
    by Marcel Proust
  36. 686.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf
  37. 687.
    TARKA THE OTTER (Concord Library)
    by Henry Williamson
  38. 688.
    Amerika
    by Franz Kafka
  39. 689.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  40. 690.
    Blindness (British Literature Series)
    by Henry Green
  41. 691.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  43. 693.
    The Plumed Serpent
    by D.H. Lawrence
  44. 694.
    One, None and a Hundred Thousand
    by Luigi Pirandello
  45. 695.
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie Audio Mystery)
    by Agatha Christie
  46. 696.
    The Making of Americans (American Literature Series)
    by Gertrude Stein
  47. 697.
    Manhattan Transfer: A Novel
    by John Dos Passos
  48. 698.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  49. 699.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  50. 700.
    The Counterfeiters: A Novel
    by Andre Gide

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chubacca_alpaca

Just curious... — 6 years ago

Why is this list under the “More” section of listsofbests.com instead of under the link labelled “Books”?

Any ideas, or is it just cute eccentricity?

;-)

Sep 25, 04:44AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

seriza

Question about the numbering — 6 years ago

Why are there two number 49s?

Sep 20, 05:02AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

melimeli

Will I ever finish??? — 6 years ago

OMG, I read, and I read ,and I read, and it just seems like I am never going to finish it.

Sep 15, 06:33AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Perlle

Changes — 6 years ago

Jacques the Fatalist and Cranford were out of place so I put them back where they should go. Also, The Fall of the House of Usher is intended to be only the short story. (I checked this against the book) so I removed the book of short stories and included the correct listing.

Also, there were several dozen books that did not have an image; however, a link was actually available to Amazon, so I changed those as well.

Aug 14, 07:17AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tinseltoes

Untitled — 6 years ago

isn’t catch 22 and on the road repeated twice?

and 1984 and catcher in the rye?

and the invisible man and to kill a mockingbird?

Jul 05, 07:36PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Perlle

List Source — 6 years ago

I corrected the list source because it wasn’t working. It was going to the page for a second and then couldn’t display the page. I updated the link, so it’s working again.

Jun 26, 05:54AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Perlle

Should be OK now — 6 years ago

The list was missing #868. I added Alice in Wonderland because it was missing from the list. Note: Through the Looking Glass is at #854, but that is not the same as Alice in Wonderland. I’m sure if there was any confusion there or not, but I thought I’d point it out.

Jun 26, 05:50AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wisepig

REPEAT: Alice in Wonderland — 6 years ago

That was the only repeat I saw. Deleting one of the versions of Alice in Wonderland would bring the total to 1001 from 1002.

Jun 25, 10:24PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Mindi T

Untitled — 6 years ago

I believe that the list has repeats in a few spots. I noticed that a couple books were repeated. It could just be my imagination, but someone might want to double check.

Jun 13, 11:41PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

penguinmdh

The Order is Once Again Correct — 6 years ago

I believe the order is correct. I checked the first 500 book by book and spot checked the last 500. All of the ordering errors seem to be in the first four and last two pages.

To match the source list, I added the following:

1. Underworld by Don DeLillo at 96

2. On Love by Alain de Botton at 139.

3. Tarka the Otter at 687

I deleted Essays in Love which did not apprear on the source list.

I also broke Things(414) and A Man Asleep (405) by Georges Perec into two entries to allow them to be checked off individually.

Jun 07, 05:03AM | 0 comments | Reply to this


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