The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. III: 1900-1999

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I cross-referenced Harold Bloom’s Western Canon with the Peter Boxall "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2006 and 2008 versions, inclusive) to come up with this Must-Read list to end all Must-Read lists. It will be split into three volumes by century. PLEASE DON’T ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING. Create your own, or adopt mine and leave me a comment if I have omitted something. Please remember that Bloom is hopelessly stuffy (H. G. Wells is "serious" literature and Jules Verne isn’t; Waugh’s political satire is worthwhile and "Brideshead Revisited" is fluff) and that his "canon" doesn’t include anything from the past 20 years or so. Boxall’s lists are almost entirely comprised of novels.

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    Conrad, Joseph-Lord Jim

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    None but the Brave
    by Arthur Schnitzler

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    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Henry James

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    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

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    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

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    The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

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    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Edith Wharton

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    O Jovem Törless (The Confusions of Young Törless)
    by Robert Musil

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    The Forsyte Saga : The Man of Property and In Chancery
    by John Galsworthy

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    The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

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    Mother
    by Maxim Gorky

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    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett

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  15. 16.
    Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  16. 17.
    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

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  17. 18.
    Three Lives
    by Gertrude Stein

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    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  21. 22.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  23. 25.
    Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

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  25. 27.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

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    Lewis, Sinclair-Babbitt

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    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

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    Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
    by Italo Svevo

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    Cane
    by Jean Toomer

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    Mann, Thomas-The Magic Mountain

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    Billy Budd, Foretopman
    by Herman Melville

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    The Professor’s House
    by Willa Cather

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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka,

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    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The Making of Americans
    by Gertrude Stein

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    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Gesammelte Werke, Band 1 - Amerika
    by Franz Kafka

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    Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
    by Marcel Proust

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    Ford, Ford Maddox-Parade's End

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    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    A Handful Of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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Comments

Missing book — 1 year ago

Naguib Mahfouz’s Miramar is also on both lists (2008 Boxall only).