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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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1. Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Chinua Achebe
 
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
 
3. Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
 
4. The Man with the Golden Arm
by Nelson Algren
 
5. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
 
6. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
 
7. Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis
 
8. Dead Babies
by Martin Amis
 
9. London Fields
by Martin Amis
 
10. Money
by Martin Amis
 
11. Time's Arrow
by Martin Amis
 
12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
 
13. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)  
14. Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
 
15. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
 
16. Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
 
17. The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
by Margaret Atwood
 
18. Emma (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
19. Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
20. Northanger Abbey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
21. Persuasion (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
22. Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
23. Sense and Sensibility (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
 
24. The Book of Illusions: A Novel
by Paul Auster
 
25. The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Paul Auster
 
26. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
 
27. Cocaine Nights
by J. G. Ballard
 
28. The Wasp Factory: A Novel
by Iain Banks
 
29. Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
by Aphra Behn
 
30. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
31. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
32. Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
33. The Victim
by Saul Bellow
 
34. The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Arnold Bennett
 
36. Ficciones (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
37. The House in Paris
by Elizabeth Bowen
 
38. The Last September (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Elizabeth Bowen
 
39. Drop City
by T.Coraghessan Boyle
 
40. Jane Eyre (Modern Library Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
 
41. Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
 
42. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
 
43. The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library Classics)
by Samuel Butler
 
44. Possession: A Romance (Modern Library)
by A.S. Byatt
 
45. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
 
46. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
 
47. The Plague
by Albert Camus
 
48. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
 
49. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
 
50. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
 
51. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  
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Created by MomsMyJob on Jan 20, 2008.