Friday, September 17, 2010

1001 books you should read before you die

According to 1morechapter's list of 1001 books:  "There are now three editions of the 1001 list, with 1294 titles on [the] three lists."  I'm not going to post all 1294 books, but here are the ones I've read.  My list is almost a tenth of the 1001 we "should" read.

1. Home ~ by Marilynne Robinson
2. Half of a Yellow Sun ~ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Never Let Me Go ~ by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ by Mark Haddon
5. The Namesake ~ by Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Family Matters ~ by Rohinton Mistry
7. The Corrections ~ by Jonathan Franzen
8. Life of Pi ~ by Yann Martel
9. Atonement ~ by Ian McEwan
10. Disgrace ~ by J. M. Coetzee
11. The Hours ~ by Michael Cunningham
12. The Poisonwood Bible ~ by Barbara Kingsolver
13. Memoirs of a Geisha ~ by Arthur Golden
14. Fall on Your Knees ~ by Ann-Marie MacDonald
15. The Reader ~ by Bernhard Schlink
16. A Fine Balance ~ by Rohinton Mistry
17. The Shipping News ~ by E. Annie Proulx
18. Possession ~ by A.S. Byatt
19. Like Water for Chocolate ~ by Laura Esquivel
20. A Prayer for Owen Meany ~ by John Irving
21. The Color Purple ~ by Alice Walker
22. The House of the Spirits ~ by Isabel Allende
23. The Name of the Rose ~ by Umberto Eco
24. Burger's Daughter ~ by Nadine Gordimer
25. The World According to Garp ~ by John Irving
26. Song of Solomon ~ by Toni Morrison
27. The Dispossessed ~ by Ursula K. Le Guin
28. Fear of Flying ~ by Erica Jong
29. The Bluest Eye ~ by Toni Morrison
30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ~ by Maya Angelou
31. Them ~ by Joyce Carol Oates
32. 2001: A Space Odyssey ~ by Arthur C. Clarke
33. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ~ by John Le Carré
34. The Bell Jar ~ by Sylvia Plath
35. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ~ by Ken Kesey
37. Stranger in a Strange Land ~ by Robert Heinlein
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ~ by Muriel Spark
39. Catch-22 ~ by Joseph Heller
40. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ by Harper Lee
41. Henderson the Rain King ~ by Saul Bellow
42. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris ~ by Paul Gallico
43. Doctor Zhivago ~ by Boris Pasternak
44. The Last Temptation of Christ ~ by Nikos Kazantzákis
45. Lord of the Flies ~ by William Golding
46. Invisible Man ~ by Ralph Ellison
47. The Old Man and the Sea ~ by Ernest Hemingway
48. Barabbas ~ by Par Lagerkvist
49. Nineteen Eighty-Four ~ by George Orwell
50. The Plague ~ by Albert Camus
51. Animal Farm ~ by George Orwell
52. The Little Prince ~ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
53. For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ by Ernest Hemingway
54. The Grapes of Wrath ~ by John Steinbeck
55. Nausea ~ by Jean-Paul Sartre
56. Rebecca ~ by Daphne du Maurier
57. Of Mice and Men ~ by John Steinbeck
58. Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ by Zora Neale Hurston
59. Gone With the Wind ~ by Margaret Mitchell
60. Man’s Fate ~ by Andre Malraux
61. Brave New World ~ by Aldous Huxley
62. Cold Comfort Farm ~ by Stella Gibbons
63. All Quiet on the Western Front ~ by Erich Maria Remarque
64. The Sound and the Fury ~ by William Faulkner
65. Lady Chatterley’s Lover ~ by D. H. Lawrence
66. The Sun Also Rises ~ by Ernest Hemingway
67. The Castle ~ by Franz Kafka
68. The Great Gatsby ~ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. The Trial ~ by Franz Kafka
70. Billy Budd ~ by Herman Melville
71. The Magic Mountain ~ by Thomas Mann
72. Siddhartha ~ by Herman Hesse
73. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ by James Joyce
74. The Good Soldier ~ by Ford Madox Ford
75. Ethan Frome ~ by Edith Wharton
76. Heart of Darkness ~ by Joseph Conrad
77. The Awakening ~ by Kate Chopin
78. The Time Machine ~ by H. G. Wells
79. The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ by Oscar Wilde
80. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Mark Twain
81. The Death of Ivan Ilyich ~ by Leo Tolstoy
82. The Brothers Karamazov ~ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
83. Little Women ~ by Louisa May Alcott
84. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ~ by Lewis Carroll
85. Silas Marner ~ by George Eliot
86. Great Expectations ~ by Charles Dickens
87. A Tale of Two Cities ~ by Charles Dickens
88. Walden ~ by Henry David Thoreau
89. Moby-Dick ~ by Herman Melville
90. The Scarlet Letter ~ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
91. A Christmas Carol ~ by Charles Dickens
92. Ivanhoe ~ by Sir Walter Scott
93. Candide ~ by Voltaire
94. A Modest Proposal ~ by Jonathan Swift
95. Gulliver’s Travels ~ by Jonathan Swift
96. Robinson Crusoe ~ by Daniel Defoe
97. The Thousand and One Nights ~ by Anonymous
98. Aesop’s Fables ~ by Aesop

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