1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Add to my lists | Print this list

This is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall. I copied the list for personal use.

  1. 1.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Drag me to re-order


  2. 2.
    Saturday
    by Ian Mcewan

    Drag me to re-order


  3. 3.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

    Drag me to re-order


  4. 4.
    Slow Man
    by J.M. Coetzee

    Drag me to re-order


  5. 5.
    Adjunct: An Undigest
    by Peter Manson

    Drag me to re-order


  6. 6.
    Sea, The
    by John Banville

    Drag me to re-order


  7. 7.
    The Red Queen
    by Margaret Drabble

    Drag me to re-order


  8. 8.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

    Drag me to re-order


  9. 9.
    The Master
    by Colm Toibin

    Drag me to re-order


  10. 10.
    Vanishing Point: A Novel
    by David Markson

    Drag me to re-order


  11. 11.
    The Lambs of London
    by Peter Ackroyd

    Drag me to re-order


  12. 12.
    Dining on Stones
    by Iain Sinclair

    Drag me to re-order


  13. 13.
    Cloud Atlas
    by David Mitchell

    Drag me to re-order


  14. 14.
    Drop City
    by T.Coraghessan Boyle

    Drag me to re-order


  15. 15.
    The Colour
    by Rose Tremain

    Drag me to re-order


  16. 16.
    Thursbitch
    by Alan Garner

    Drag me to re-order


  17. 17.
    The Light of Day
    by Graham Swift

    Drag me to re-order


  18. 18.
    What I Loved: A Novel
    by Siri Hustvedt

    Drag me to re-order


  19. 19.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

    Drag me to re-order


  20. 20.
    Islands
    by Dan Sleigh

    Drag me to re-order


  21. 21.
    Elizabeth Costello
    by J. M. Coetzee

    Drag me to re-order


  22. 22.
    London Orbital
    by Iain Sinclair

    Drag me to re-order


  23. 23.
    Family Matters
    by Rohinton Mistry

    Drag me to re-order


  24. 24.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters

    Drag me to re-order


  25. 25.
    The Double
    by Jose Saramago

    Drag me to re-order


  26. 26.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

    Drag me to re-order


  27. 27.
    Unless: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Carol Shields

    Drag me to re-order


  28. 28.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

    Drag me to re-order


  29. 29.
    The Story of Lucy Gault
    by William Trevor

    Drag me to re-order


  30. 30.
    ?
    That They May Face the Rising Sun (Great Irish Writers, 1)
    by John McGahern

    Drag me to re-order


  31. 31.
    ?
    In the Forest
    by Edna O’Brien

    Drag me to re-order


  32. 32.
    Shroud
    by John Banville

    Drag me to re-order


  33. 33.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

    Drag me to re-order


  34. 34.
    Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
    by J. M. Coetzee

    Drag me to re-order


  35. 35.
    Dead Air
    by Iain Banks

    Drag me to re-order


  36. 36.
    Nowhere Man
    by Aleksandar Hemon

    Drag me to re-order


  37. 37.
    The Book of Illusions
    by Paul Auster

    Drag me to re-order


  38. 38.
    ?
    Gabriel’s Gift
    by Hanif Kureishi

    Drag me to re-order


  39. 39.
    Austerlitz
    by W.G. Sebald

    Drag me to re-order


  40. 40.
    Platform
    by Michel Houellebecq

    Drag me to re-order


  41. 41.
    Schooling
    by Heather McGowan

    Drag me to re-order


  42. 42.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian Mcewan

    Drag me to re-order


  43. 43.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

    Drag me to re-order


  44. 44.
    ?

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by m0narexia on Sep 10, 2007.
 

Comments