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. 401.
  2. 402.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  3. 403.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

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  4. 404.
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    Broad and Alien is the World
    by Ciro Alegria

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  5. 405.
    The Living and the Dead (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Patrick White

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  6. 406.
    The Harvesters
    by Cesare Pavese

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  7. 407.
    Conversations in Sicily
    by Elio Vittorini

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  8. 408.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
    by Patrick McCarthy

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  9. 409.
    Embers
    by Sandor Marai

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  10. 410.
    Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Stefan Zweig

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  11. 411.
    The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  12. 412.
    Joseph and His Brothers (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

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  13. 413.
    The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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  14. 414.
    Dangling Man (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  15. 415.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  16. 416.
    Transit.
    by Anna Seghers

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  17. 417.
    Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  18. 418.
    Loving (A novel by Henry Green)
    by Henry Green

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  19. 419.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  20. 420.
    The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Ivo Andric

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  21. 421.
    Christ Stopped at Eboli : The Story of a Year
    by Carlo Levi

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  22. 422.
    Arcanum 17 (Green Integer)
    by Andre Breton

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  23. 423.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  24. 424.
    Bosnian Chronicle: A Novel
    by Ivo Andric

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  25. 425.
    The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library)
    by Gabrielle Roy

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  26. 426.
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    Andrea: A translation of Carmen Laforet's novel Nada
    by Carmen Laforet

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  27. 427.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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  28. 428.
    Titus Groan (Gormenghast Trilogy)
    by Mervyn Peake

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  29. 429.
    Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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  30. 430.
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    Back
    by Henry Green

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  31. 431.
    A House in the Uplands
    by Erskine Caldwell

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  32. 432.
    The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
    by Italo Calvino

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  33. 433.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  34. 434.
    If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Primo Levi

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  35. 435.
    Exercises In Style
    by Raymond Queneau

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  36. 436.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  38. 438.
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    Midaq Alley
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  39. 439.
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    Froth on the Daydream (Quartet Encounters)
    by Boris Vian

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  41. 441.
    Ashes and Diamonds (European Classics)
    by Jerzy Andrzejewski

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  42. 442.
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    Disobedience
    by Alberto Moravia

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  43. 443.
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    All about H. Hatterr

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  44. 444.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  45. 445.
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    In the Heart of the Seas
    by S.Y. Agnon

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  46. 446.
    This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
    by Tadeusz Borowski

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  47. 447.
    Death Sentence
    by Maurice Blanchot

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  48. 448.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

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  49. 449.
    The Man With The Golden Arm
    by Nelson Algren

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  50. 450.
    The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
    by Alejo Carpentier

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