MomsMyJob's "From...1001 Books to Read Before You Die"A list of titles that I own and am working on from Dr. Peter Boxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list (2006 and 2008 versions)....alphabetical by author. I will add more titles as they are purchased/read. |
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Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chinua Achebe
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
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The Man with the Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
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Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
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Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis
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Dead Babies
by Martin Amis
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London Fields
by Martin Amis
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Money
by Martin Amis
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Time's Arrow
by Martin Amis
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) | ||
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Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
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Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
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Emma (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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Persuasion (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
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The Book of Illusions: A Novel
by Paul Auster
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The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Paul Auster
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
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Cocaine Nights
by J. G. Ballard
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The Wasp Factory: A Novel
by Iain Banks
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Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
by Aphra Behn
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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The Victim
by Saul Bellow
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The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Arnold Bennett
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Ficciones (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jorge Luis Borges
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The House in Paris
by Elizabeth Bowen
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The Last September (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Elizabeth Bowen
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Drop City
by T.Coraghessan Boyle
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Jane Eyre (Modern Library Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
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Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library Classics)
by Samuel Butler
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Possession: A Romance (Modern Library)
by A.S. Byatt
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold | ||
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Created by MomsMyJob on Jan 20, 2008.
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