Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2008 edition)"

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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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  1. 51.
    Anton Reiser
    by Karl Philipp Moritz

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  2. 52.
    Vathek (Nonsuch Classics Series)
    by William Beckford

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  3. 53.
    Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings
    by Marquis De Sade

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  4. 54.
    A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Set) [BOX SET]
    by Cao Xueqin

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  5. 55.
    The Adventures Of Caleb Williams, Or, Things
    by William Godwin

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  7. 57.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

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  9. 59.
    The Monk (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Lewis

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  10. 60.
    Camilla (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fanny Burney

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  11. 61.
    Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  12. 62.
    The Nun (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  13. 63.
    Hypérion
    by Friedrich Hölderlin

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  14. 64.
    Castle Rackrent
    by Maria Edgeworth

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  15. 65.
    Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Novel
    by Novalis

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  16. 66.
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    Rameau's Nephew
    by Denis Diderot

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  17. 67.
    Elective Affinities (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  18. 68.
    Michael Kohlhaas (Art of the Novella series, The)
    by Heinrich von Kleist

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  19. 69.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  20. 70.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  21. 71.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  22. 72.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  23. 73.
    Rob Roy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  24. 74.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  25. 75.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  26. 76.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin

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  27. 77.
    The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics)
    by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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  28. 78.
  29. 79.
    Life of a Good-for-Nothing (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Von Eichendorff

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  30. 80.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  31. 81.
    The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
    by Alessandro Manzoni

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  32. 82.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  33. 83.
  34. 84.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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  35. 85.
    Eugenie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  36. 86.
    Père Goriot (Oxford World's Classics Series)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  37. 87.
    Nikolai Gogol's the Nose
    by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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  38. 88.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  39. 89.
    The Lion of Flanders
    by Hendrik Conscience

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  40. 90.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  41. 91.
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  42. 92.
    Camera Obscura
    by Nicolaas (aka Hildebrand) Beets

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  43. 93.
    A Hero of Our Own Times
    by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov

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  44. 94.
    Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  45. 95.
    Lost Illusions
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  46. 96.
    The Pit and the Pendulum
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  47. 97.
    The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  48. 98.
    Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics)
    by Domingo F. Sarmiento

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  49. 99.
    The Devil's Pool
    by George Sand

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  50. 100.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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Created by buocl on Jul 15, 2008.
 

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Wisconsin08
Wausau

Thanks! — 40 weeks ago

Thank-you so much for doing this! Now, I have to figure out which list to go with. I like the international flavor of this list better so I might go with this one even though I dropped from 8 to 6 percent complete.

Feb 24, 06:02AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Mayhem17
Vancouver

Tarka the Otter — 1 year ago

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

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

GabeGrey
Tucson

Thanks! — 1 year 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! — 1 year 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 — 1 year 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 — 1 year ago

Thanks for doing this :)

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


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