Lists of Bests: Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die http://www.listsofbests.com/list/56411 Preface by Peter Ackroyd, written by over one hundred international critics. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:22 GMT en-us 0 50 1001 50 0 Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840509.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/156355 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/156355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039332642X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Callirhoe (Loeb Classical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/770838 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/770838"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674995309.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chariton</div> Aithiopika http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3933577 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heliodorus</div> The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/483706 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/483706"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110473250_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apuleius</div> Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3267"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442898.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61215018_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834723 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834723"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445501.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Rabelais</div> Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit, 1579; Euphues And His England, 1580 (1868) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3933573 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3933573"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ayhMCRVXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111926 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111926"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140430679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65732452_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Nashe</div> The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60691"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486426750.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Bunyan</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> The Princess of Cleves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960737 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2960737"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01OuEuhhCzL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madame de Lafayette</div> Oroonoko: An Authoritative Text Historical Backgrounds Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11039 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11039"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393970140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aphra Behn</div> A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55073 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55073"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192835939.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Love in Excess http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/768923 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/768923"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551113678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eliza Haywood</div> Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9406 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4277 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4277"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192834592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39858343_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439491.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48505"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486287599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Swift</div> Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843591 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843591"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486415880.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4195750 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scriblerus Club & Charles Kerby-Miller (ed.)</div> Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4245 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4245"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192829602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39961292_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Richardson</div> Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3167 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3167"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140432159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Richardson</div> The Adventures of Roderick Random (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/768180 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/768180"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192837168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Smollett</div> Tom Jones (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249324 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/249324"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393965945.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> Fanny Hill: or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857958 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/857958"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375758089.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438525_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cleland</div> The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782725 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01EXZ5hAmlL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Smollett</div> Amelia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2841612 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2841612"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ZFA3GBTVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> The Female Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782720 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782720"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BDtCsNxnL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Lennox</div> Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14658"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486266893.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67176 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67176"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014043108X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138681837_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Johnson</div> La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise : Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906525 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906525"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0271006021.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056427878_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393906 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/393906"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872204863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Diderot</div> Emile, or On Education http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933498 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2933498"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/011klLiAwgL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John, Jacques Rousseau</div> The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106840 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106840"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486434125.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace Walpole</div> The Vicar of Wakefield (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1116311 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1116311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192805126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Goldsmith</div> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439777.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542626 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542626"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Q317QNYKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Sterne</div> The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753077 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753077"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192840320.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Mackenzie</div> The Expedition of Humphry Clinker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2717563 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2717563"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406923540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44272759_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias George Smollett</div> The Sorrows of Young Werther (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2594946 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2594946"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424553.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109803699_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64488 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64488"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840312.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Burney</div> The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquieres: Botanical Writings ; And Letter to Franquieres (Collected Writings of Rousseau) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753060 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4323"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838679.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos</div> The Confessions (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3234 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3234"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044033X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188745_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/379187 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/379187"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances Burney</div> The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24036 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130127.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marquis De Sade</div> Vathek: With the Episodes of Vathek (Broadview Literary Texts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4195801 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4195801"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DAKPSDZRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Beckford</div> Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84713 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802132189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marquis De Sade</div>