1001 Books to Read Before you Die


Yeah, thats right I am simultaneously working on two life lists of books at the same time! Don't panic! The Novel 100 list has all but 6 of their books on this much larger list of 1001. So as you peruse my blog. Posts that start with the title "Book #- Book Title" are books that appear on the Novel 100 list. Whereas books that appear as (Book Title-Book #) appear on the list "1001 Books to Read Before you die. Confusing? Yeah probably so check back on this page often and I will update my status on this list here.

1) The Tale of Genji
2) Don Quixote
3) Tom Jones
4) Emma
5) Moby Dick
6) Bleak House
7) Madame Bovary
8) Great Expectations
9) Crime and Punishment
10) War and Peace
11) Middlemarch
12) Anna Karenina
13) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14) The Ambassadors
15) Of Human Bondage
16) Ulysses
17) The Magic Mountain
18) The Great Gatsby
19) Rememberance of Things Past (so far only 2 of the 6 books)
20) Absalom, Absalom
21) The Hobbit
22) The Catcher in the Rye
23) The Lord of the Rings
24) To Kill a Mockingbird
25) the Unberable Lightness of Being
26) One Hundred Years of Solitude
27) Alias Grace
28) Life of Pi
29) The Elegance of the Hedgehog
30) Notes from the Underground
31) Wuthering Heights
32) Castle Of Otranto
33) The Secret Agent
34) The Poisonwood Bible
35) London Fields
36) The Nine Tailors
37) Vanity Fair
38) Invisible Man
39) Finnegan's Wake
40) The Man Without Qualities
41) The Thousand and One Nights
42) Gravity's Rainbow
43) Portrait of a Lady
44) Women in Love
45) The Red and the Black
46) Tristram Shandy
47) Dead Souls
48) Tess of D'Urbervilles
49) Buddenbrooks
50) Le Pere Goriot
51) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
52) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
53) The Children's Book
54)The Name of the Rose
55) Foucault's Pendulum
56) The Tin Drum
57) The Fall of the House of Usher
58) The Thirty Nine Steps
59) Everything is Illuminated
60) Anagrams
61) The Water Babies
62) The Moonstone
63) Robinson Crusoe
64) Thank You, Jeeves
65) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
66) Molloy
67) Malone Dies
68) Pride and Prejudice
69)The Scarlet Letter
70) Fathers and Sons
71) Neuromancer
72) The Big Sleep
73) The Forsyte Saga
74) Nostromo
75) Rebecca
76) Beloved
77) Death in Venice
78) American Tragedy
79) A Void
80) The Golden Notebook
81) Clarissa
82) Dream of Red Mansions
83) The Trial
84) Uncle Silas