1001 Books

I'm sure most people are familiar with the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list (or at least the idea of it). I don't necessarily agree with all of the book selections.. but I thought it might be fun to keep a running tally. So here goes:

2000s
8.     The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace


1900s
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
134.   Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
184.   The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
190.   Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
196.   A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
203.   The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
208.   Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
223.   Beloved – Toni Morrison
225.  Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
232.   Foe – J.M. Coetzee
236.   Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
256.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
284.  July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
287.   Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288.     Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
293.  The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301.  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
312.  The Shining – Stephen King
314.  Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315.    Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
320.   Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
342.    A Question of Power – Bessie Head
365.  The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
375.  Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376.    The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
399.    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
411.   Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
418.     Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
423.  Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
451.  Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
456.   To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457.    Rabbit, Run – John Updike
472.    Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
478.   The Bell – Iris Murdoch
484.  On the Road – Jack Kerouac
494.   The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
496.     Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
508.   Lord of the Flies – William Golding
517.   Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
520.   Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521.    The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
529.  The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
547.  Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
552.   Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553.   Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
559.  The Plague – Albert Camus
563.   Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564.  Animal Farm – George Orwell
574.  The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
579.  The Outsider – Albert Camus
587.  For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588.  Native Son – Richard Wright
592.  The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593.   Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
603.   Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608.   Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609.  Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610.  The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
619.  Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
622.   Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
649.   Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
663.   A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
671.  The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
686.   To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
689.  The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
698.   Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
699.   The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
701.  The Trial – Franz Kafka
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
717.  Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
723.  Ulysses – James Joyce
728.   Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
736.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
747.  Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
762.   The Iron Heel – Jack London
766.   The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767.    The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
780.   Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781.   The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
783.   Kim – Rudyard Kipling
785.  Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

1800s
788.   The Awakening – Kate Chopin
789.    The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
791.   The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
794.  Dracula – Bram Stoker
797.  The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
799.  Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
801.  The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
804.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805.    News from Nowhere – William Morris
808.  Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809.  The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
821.  The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
825.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831.   Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
839.  Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
843.   Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
848.  Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
853.   Middlemarch – George Eliot
854.   Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
857.  War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863.  Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
867.   Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
873.   Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
883.   A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
885.   Adam Bede – George Eliot
888.   Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889.    Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890.     Bleak House – Charles Dickens
891.    Villette – Charlotte Brontë
893.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
895.  The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897.  The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
901.  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902.    Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
903.    Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904.   Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905.  Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
906.  The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
908.  The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
913.   A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
917.   The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
918.  Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
922.   The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
925.  Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
932.  Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933.   Persuasion – Jane Austen
936.   Emma – Jane Austen
937.   Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938.  Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940.   Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

1700s
949.   The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
952.  Vathek – William Beckford
980.   Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
987.  Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

pre-1700s
992.  Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
996.  The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1000.   Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001.    Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus