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. 351.
    Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  2. 352.
    Miss Lonelyhearts
    by Nathanael West

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  3. 353.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  4. 354.

  5. 355.
    Thank You, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  6. 356.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  7. 357.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  8. 358.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

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  9. 359.
    On the Heights of Despair
    by E. M. Cioran

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  10. 360.
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    The bells of Basel;
    by Aragon

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  11. 361.
    The Nine Tailors
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  12. 362.
    Auto-da-Fe
    by Elias Canetti

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  13. 363.
    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Midnight Classics)
    by Horace McCoy

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  14. 364.
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    The Last of Mr. Norris
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  15. 365.
    Untouchable (Penguin Classics)
    by Mulk Raj Anand

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  16. 366.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  17. 367.
    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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  18. 369.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  19. 370.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  20. 371.
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying
    by George Orwell

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  21. 372.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  22. 373.
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    The Thinking Reed
    by Rebecca West

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  23. 374.
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    Eyeless in Gaza
    by Aldous Huxley

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  24. 375.
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    Summer Will Show (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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  25. 376.
    Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu
    by She Lao

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  26. 377.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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  27. 378.
    In Parenthesis (New York Review Books)
    by David Jones

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  28. 379.
    Ferdydurke
    by Witold Gombrowicz

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  29. 380.
    Blind Owl
    by Sadegh Hedayat

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  30. 381.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  31. 382.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  32. 383.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

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  33. 384.
    Murphy (Beckett, Samuel)
    by Samuel Beckett

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  34. 385.
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  35. 386.
    Brighton Rock (Vintage Classics)
    by Graham Greene

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  36. 387.
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    Cause for Alarm
    by Eric Ambler

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  37. 388.
    Alamut
    by Vladimir Bartol

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  38. 389.
    Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  39. 390.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  40. 391.
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)
    by Winifred Watson

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  41. 392.
    On the Edge of Reason (A Revived Modern Classic)
    by Miroslav Krleza

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  42. 393.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  43. 394.
    Goodbye to Berlin. (Lernmaterialien)
    by Christopher Isherwood

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  44. 395.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  45. 396.
    Good Morning, Midnight
    by Jean Rhys

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  46. 397.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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  47. 398.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  48. 399.
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    Native Son (P.S.)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  49. 400.
    The Tartar Steppe
    by Dino Buzzati

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