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 DELETEANYTHING. 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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  2. 2.
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    Conrad, Joseph-Lord Jim

  3. 3.
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    None but the Brave
    by Arthur Schnitzler
  4. 4.
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    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.
    Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Henry James
  6. 6.
    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide
  7. 7.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James
  8. 8.
    The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James
  9. 9.
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    Nostromo
    by Joseph Conrad
  10. 10.
    The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Edith Wharton
  11. 11.
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    O Jovem Törless (The Confusions of Young Törless)
    by Robert Musil
  12. 12.
    The Forsyte Saga : The Man of Property and In Chancery
    by John Galsworthy
  13. 13.
    The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

  14. 14.
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    Mother
    by Maxim Gorky
  15. 15.
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    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett
  16. 16.
    Tono-Bungay (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  17. 17.
    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  18. 18.
    Three Lives
    by Gertrude Stein
  19. 19.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster
  20. 20.
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    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

  21. 21.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  22. 22.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence
  23. 23.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford
  24. 24.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce
  25. 25.
    Women in Love (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  26. 26.
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    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton
  27. 27.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  28. 28.
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    Lewis, Sinclair-Babbitt

  29. 29.
    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset
  30. 30.
    Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
    by Italo Svevo
  31. 31.
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  32. 32.
    Cane
    by Jean Toomer
  33. 33.
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    Mann, Thomas-The Magic Mountain

  34. 34.
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    Billy Budd, Foretopman
    by Herman Melville
  35. 35.
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    The Professor’s House
    by Willa Cather
  36. 36.
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    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka,
  37. 37.
    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  38. 38.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  39. 39.
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    The Making of Americans
    by Gertrude Stein
  40. 40.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  41. 41.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  42. 42.
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    Gesammelte Werke, Band 1 - Amerika
    by Franz Kafka
  43. 43.
  44. 44.
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    Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
    by Marcel Proust
  45. 45.
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    Ford, Ford Maddox-Parade's End

  46. 46.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf
  48. 48.
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  49. 49.
    Vile Bodies
    by Evelyn Waugh
  50. 50.
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    A Handful Of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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Created by jillelvish on Oct 09, 2008.
 

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frbrown

Missing book — 3 years ago

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

Nov 11, 07:14PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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