Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 2008 version

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I have decided to take on the monumentally crazy task of entering the new version of the 1001 BYMR list. This list happens to go in chronological order, like the actual book, instead of reverse chronological.

There are 284 new books on the list – so this list is quite a bit different than the 2006 version. The entries tend to be more international, but also heavier on modern work. The pre-1700 and 1700s categories of the previous list have been lumped together into pre-1800.

Please please please do not make any changes unless it is to better follow the list source. Thanks!

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    The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
    by Anonymous

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  2. 2.
    The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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  3. 3.
    The Tale of Genji
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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    Water Margin
    by Shih-Nai an

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    Tirant Lo Blanc/ Tirant the White
    by Joanot Martorell

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  8. 8.
    LA Celestina
    by fernando De Rojas

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  11. 11.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  12. 12.
    The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Luis Vaz de Camoes

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    The Unfortunate Traveler/or The Life of Jack Wilton
    by Thomas Nashe

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  15. 15.
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    Thomas of Reading or, The Fixe Worthy Yeomen Of The West
    by Thomas Deloney

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  16. 16.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  18. 18.
    The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)
    by Bernal Diaz del Castillo

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  20. 20.
    The Princess of Cleves
    by Madame de Lafayette

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  21. 21.
    Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
    by Aphra Behn

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  22. 22.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  23. 23.
    Love in Excess
    by Eliza Haywood

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  24. 24.
    Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  25. 25.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  27. 27.
    Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry Fielding

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  29. 29.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  30. 30.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  31. 31.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  33. 33.
    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
    by Tobias George Smollett

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  35. 35.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  38. 38.
    Emile (Everyman's Library (Paper))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  39. 39.
    The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Horace Walpole

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  40. 40.
    The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

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  41. 41.
    Tristram Shandy (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by LAURENCE STERNE

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  42. 42.
    A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)
    by Laurence Sterne

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  43. 43.
    The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Mackenzie

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  44. 44.
    Humphrey Clinker (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Tobias George Smollett

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  45. 45.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  46. 46.
    Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Frances Burney

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  48. 48.
    Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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  49. 49.
    The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  50. 50.
    The 120 Days Of Sodom
    by Marquis de Sade

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Created by buocl on Jul 15, 2008.
 

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Mayhem17
Vancouver

Tarka the Otter — 8 weeks ago

This was written by Henry Williamson, Annabel Large was the illustrator.

Oct 01, 04:02PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

GabeGrey
Tucson

Thanks! — 16 weeks ago

Here’s the 2006 version, with no changes, if anyone is interested.

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55126

Aug 10, 02:13AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

buocl
Medina

Finished! — 19 weeks ago

I am finally finished entering the list – I hope everyone enjoys it. If not, complain to the author of the book.

There are many books on here that don’t have covers/pictures. Some of them are not in English yet, and others looked like they had covers when I clicked “add to list” but then the covers disappeared. I was replacing any like that at first, but it got to be too time consuming. So if anyone else wants to try and find better links, be my guest.

Also, I really tried to not have books that included other stories (i.e. Forever a Stranger and Other Stories). However, if that was the only good choice it was the one I used. For the most part, the “Other Stories” can be ignored.

Jul 22, 07:45AM | 3 comments | Reply to this

Mayhem17
Vancouver

Fantastic — 19 weeks ago

Was hoping someone would do this, thank you buocl, now I have even more books to read.

Jul 18, 09:05PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

keren7

Thank you — 19 weeks ago

Thanks for doing this :)

Jul 17, 09:10AM | 1 comment | Reply to this