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

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!

(found at: http://randomfieldnotes.blogspot.com/2008/06/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die.html)

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1.
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 The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
by Anonymous
  
2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
3. The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
  
4. Three Kingdoms Romance (Complete and Unabridged)  
5.
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 Water Margin
by Shih-Nai an
  
6. The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))
by Apuleius
  
7.
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 Tirant Lo Blanc/ Tirant the White
by Joanot Martorell
  
8. LA Celestina
by fernando De Rojas
  
9.
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 Amadis De Gaula - Amadis of Gaul Three Volume Set  
10. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics)  
11. Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
by Francois Rabelais
  
12. The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
by Luis Vaz de Camoes
  
13. Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures
by Wu Cheng'en
  
14.
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 The Unfortunate Traveler/or The Life of Jack Wilton
by Thomas Nashe
  
15.
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 Thomas of Reading or, The Fixe Worthy Yeomen Of The West
by Thomas Deloney
  
16. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
17.
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 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
18. The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)
by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
  
19. The Adventurous Simplicissimus; Being the description of the life of a strange vagabond...  
20. The Princess of Cleves
by Madame de Lafayette
  
21. Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)
by Aphra Behn
  
22. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
23. Love in Excess
by Eliza Haywood
  
24. Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
25. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
26. A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Jonathan Swift
  
27. Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Henry Fielding
  
28.
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 Memoirs: Of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus.
by Charles Kerby-Miller
  
29. Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
  
30. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
  
31. Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
32. Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wadsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics)
by John Cleland
  
33. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
by Tobias George Smollett
  
34. The Female Quixote : or The Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics)
by Charlotte Lennox
  
35. Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire
  
36. The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Oxford World's Classics)
by Samuel Johnson
  
37. La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise : Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
38. Emile (Everyman's Library (Paper))
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
39. The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Horace Walpole
  
40. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics)
by Oliver Goldsmith
  
41. Tristram Shandy (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by LAURENCE STERNE
  
42. A Sentimental Journey (Penguin Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
43. The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry Mackenzie
  
44. Humphrey Clinker (Wordsworth Classics)
by Tobias George Smollett
  
45. The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
46. Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)
by Frances Burney
  
47. Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)  
48. Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  
49. The Confessions (Penguin Classics)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
50. The 120 Days Of Sodom
by Marquis de Sade
  
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Created by buocl on Jul 15, 2008.