1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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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
  2. 2.
    Saturday
    by Ian McEwan
  3. 3.
    On Beauty
    by ZAdie Smith
  4. 4.
    Slow Man
    by J.M. Coetzee
  5. 5.
    Adjunct: An Undigest
    by Peter Manson
  6. 6.
    Sea, The
    by John Banville
  7. 7.
    The Red Queen
    by Margaret Drabble
  8. 8.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth
  9. 9.
    The Master
    by Colm Toibin
  10. 10.
    Vanishing Point: A Novel
    by David Markson
  11. 11.
    The Lambs of London
    by Peter Ackroyd
  12. 12.
    Dining on Stones
    by Iain Sinclair
  13. 13.
    Cloud Atlas
    by David Mitchell
  14. 14.
    Drop City
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  15. 15.
    The Colour
    by Rose Tremain
  16. 16.
    Thursbitch
    by Alan Garner
  17. 17.
    The Light of Day
    by Graham Swift
  18. 18.
    What I Loved: A Novel
    by Siri Hustvedt
  19. 19.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  20. 20.
    Islands
    by Dan Sleigh
  21. 21.
    Elizabeth Costello
    by J. M. Coetzee
  22. 22.
    London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25
    by Iain Sinclair
  23. 23.
    Family Matters
    by Rohinton Mistry
  24. 24.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters
  25. 25.
    The Double
    by Jose Saramago
  26. 26.
    Everything Is Illuminated
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  27. 27.
    Unless: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Carol Shields
  28. 28.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami
  29. 29.
    The Story of Lucy Gault: A Novel
    by William Trevor
  30. 30.
    ?
    That They May Face the Rising Sun
    by John McGahern
  31. 31.
    ?
    In the Forest
    by Edna O’Brien
  32. 32.
    Shroud
    by John Banville
  33. 33.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  34. 34.
    Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
    by J. M. Coetzee
  35. 35.
    Dead Air.Provoking Thriller.
    by Iain Banks
  36. 36.
    Nowhere Man
    by Aleksandar Hemon
  37. 37.
    The Book of Illusions
    by Paul Auster
  38. 38.
    ?
    Gabriel’s Gift
    by Hanif Kureishi
  39. 39.
    Austerlitz
    by W G Sebald
  40. 40.
    Platform
    by Michel Houellebecq
  41. 41.
    Schooling
    by Heather McGowan
  42. 42.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian Mcewan
  43. 43.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen
  44. 44.
    ?
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Created by m0narexia on Sep 10, 2007.
 

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starlagurl

I already made this list — 4 years ago

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2222

Sep 11, 11:37AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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