1001 BookS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE
_It's a book based site so I obviously have to have a good old how
many books have I read section. I bought 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
(2011 version) and optimistically went through counting
how many books I had read so far, hoping my English degree might
bump me up a bit. But I still have a long way to go to get through the 1001 books that are apparently a
requisite to death.
But I'm not going to dedicate this site entirely to working my way through the list, as there are already some bloggers out there committed to this task, but I may throw a couple in here and there and keep updating my total. Maybe one day I will hit all 1001 but at this stage just reading 100 seems like a better target.
To help me keep track, below is space for all 1001 books on the list. Rather than write them all on at once I am going to add titles as I read them. Hopefully this will have the effect of being able to see myself becoming a more well-read person but I imagine that it will start off as just a bit depressing and stay that way for a while.
But I'm not going to dedicate this site entirely to working my way through the list, as there are already some bloggers out there committed to this task, but I may throw a couple in here and there and keep updating my total. Maybe one day I will hit all 1001 but at this stage just reading 100 seems like a better target.
To help me keep track, below is space for all 1001 books on the list. Rather than write them all on at once I am going to add titles as I read them. Hopefully this will have the effect of being able to see myself becoming a more well-read person but I imagine that it will start off as just a bit depressing and stay that way for a while.
94/1001
Pre- 1800
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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn 22. 23. 24. 25. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift 26. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift 27. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding 28. 29. Pamela - Samuel Richardson 30. 31. 32. |
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34. 35. Candide - Voltaire 36. Rasselas - Samuel Johnson 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Evelina - Fanny Burney 47. 48. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 49. 50. 51. 52. Vathek - William Beckford 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. |
1800s
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65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 72. Emma - Jane Austen 73. 74. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 102. 103. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 104. 105. 106. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 120. 121. 122. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. |
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141. 142. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll 143. 144. 145. Erewhon - Samuel Butler 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 171. 172. 173. 174. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. 183. 184. 185. 186. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. News from Nowhere - William Morris 192. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 193. Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith 194. 195. 196. 197. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells 198. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells 199. 200. Dracula - Bram Stoker 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells 206. 207. 208. 209. 210. 211. |
1900s
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213. 214. 215. 216. 217. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 218. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. Call of the Wild - Jack London 224. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239. 240. 241. 242. Howards End - E. M. Forster 243. 244. 245. 246. 247. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 262. 263. 264. 265. 266. 267. 268. 269. 270. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 271. Chrome Yellow - Aldous Huxley 272. 273. 274. 275. 276. 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. 285. 286. 287. 288. 289. 290. 291. 292. 293. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 294. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 295. 296. 297. 298. 299. 300. 301. 302. 303. 304. 305. 306. 307. 308. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 309. 310. 311. 312. 313. 314. 315. 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. 322. 323. 324. 325. 326. 327. 328. 329. 330. 331. 332. 333. 334. 335. 336. 337. 338. 339. 340. 341. 342. 343. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 344. 345. 346. 347. 348. 349. 350. 351. 352. 353. 354. 355. 356. 357. 358. 359. 360. 361. 362. 363. 364. 365. 366. 367. 368. 369. 370. 371. 372. 373. 374. 375. 376. 377. 378. 379. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 380. 381. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien 382. 383. 384. 385. 386. 387. 388. 389. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier 390. 391. 392. 393. 394. 395. 396. 397. 398. 399. 400. 401. 402. 403. 404. 405. 406. 407. 408. 409. 410. 411. 412. 413. 414. 415. 416. 417. 418. 419. Animal Farm - George Orwell 420. 421. 422. 423. 424. 425. 426. 427. 428. 429. 430. 431. 432. 433. 434. 435. 436. 437. 438. 439. 440. 441. 442. 443. 444. 445. 446. 447. 448. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 449. 450. 451. 452. 453. 454. 455. 456. 457. 458. 459. 460. 461. 462. 463. 464. 465. 466. 467. 468. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Sallinger 469. 470. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 471. 472. 473. 474. 475. 476. 477. 478. 479. 480. 481. 482. 483. 484. 485. 486. 487. 488. 489. 490. 491. 492. 493. 494. 495. 496. 497. 498. 499. 500. 501. 502. 503. 504. 505. 506. 507. 508. 509. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov 510. 511. 512. 513. 514. 515. 516. 517. 519. 520. 521. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 522. 523. 524. 525. 526. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham 527. 528. 529. 530. 531. 532. 533. 534. 535. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 536. 537. 538. 539. 540. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote 541. 542. 543. 544. 545. 546. 547. 548. 549. 550. 551. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 552. 553. 554. 555. 556. 557. 558. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 559. 560. 561. 562. 563. 564. 565. 566. 567. 568. 569. 570. 571. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 572. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 573. 574. 575. 576. 577. |
578.
579. 580. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 581. 582. 583. 584. 585. 586. 587. 588. 589. 590. 591. 592. 593. 594. 595. 596. 597. 598. 599. 600. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 601. 602. 603. 604. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 605. 606. 607. 608. 609. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov 610. 611. 612. 613. 614. 615. 616. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 617. 618. 619. 620. 621. 622. 623. 624. 625. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 626. 627. 628. 629. 630. 631. 632. 633. 634. 635. 636. 637. 638. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 639. 640. 641. 642. 643. 644. 645. 646. 647. 648. 649. 650. 651. 652. 653. 654. 655. 656. 657. 658. 659. 660. 661. 662. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood 663. 664. 665. 666. 667. 668. 669. 670. 671. 672. 673. 674. 675. 676. 677. 678. 679. 680. 681. 682. 683. 684. 685. 686. 687. 688. 689. 690. 691. 692. 693. 694. 695. 696. 697. 698. 699. 700. 701. 702. 703. 704. 705. 706. 707. The Shining - Stephen King 708. 709. 710. 711. 712. 713. 714. 715. 716. 717. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe - Douglas Adams 718. 719. 720. 721. 722. 723. 724. 725. 726. 727. 728. 729. 730. 731. 732. 733. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 734. 735. 736. 737. 738. 739. 740. 741. 742. 743. 744. 745. 746. 747. 748. The Color Purple - Alice Walker 749. 750. 751. 752. 753. 754. 755. 756. 757. 758. 759. 760. 761. 762. 763. 764. 765. 766. 767. 768. 769. 770. 771. 772. 773. 774. 775. 776. 777. 778. 779. 780. 781. 782. 783. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 784. 785. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 787. 788. 789. 790. 791. 792. 793. 794. 795. 796. 797. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 798. 799. 800. 801. 802. 803. 804. 805. 806. 807. 808. 809. 810. 811. Beloved - Toni Morrison 812. 813. 814. 815. 816. 817. 818. 819. 820. 821. 822. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga 823. 824. 825. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey 826. 827. 828. 829. 830. 831. 832. 833. 834. 835. 836. 837. 838. 839. 840. 841. 842. 843. 844. 845. 846. 847. 848. 849. 850. 851. 852. 853. 854. 855. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis 856. 857. 858. 859. Regeneration - Pat Barker 860. 861. 862. 863. 864. 865. 866. 867. 868. 869. 870. 881. 882. 883. 884. 885. 886. 887. 888. 889. 890. 891. 892. 893. Remembering Babylon - David Malouf 894. 895. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides 896. 897. 898. 899. 900. 901. 902. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 903. 904. 905. 906. 907. 908. 909. 910. 911. 912. 913. 914. 915. 916. 917. 918. 919. 920. 921. 922. 923. 924. 925. 926. 927. 928. 929. 930. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker 931. 932. 933. 934. 935. 936. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 937. 938. 939. 940. 941. 942. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan 943. 944. 945. 946. The Hours - Michael Cunningham 947. 948. 949. 950. |
2000s
951.
952. 953. 954. 955. White Teeth - Zadie Smith 956. 957. 958. 959. 960. 961. 962. 963. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 964. 965. 966. 967. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer 968. 969. 970. 971. 972. 973. 974. 975. 976. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell |
977.
978. 979. 980. 981. 982. 983. The Accidental - Ali Smith 984. 985. 986. 987. 988. 989. 990. 991. 992. 993. 994. 995. 996. 997. 998. 999. 1000. 1001. |