Read Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1001 has a nice (although suspiciously impossible) ring to it 16 months ago

46 down,
955 to go

2000s
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen*
White Teeth – Zadie Smith

1900s
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster

1800s
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

1700s
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

Apparently I get more and more illiterate as the centuries unfold. hah. Now that I’ve actually browsed the list I’m not sure I want to do this after all. I DO however really want Boxall’s book.



Comments:

samshki just did a stupid thing.

Peter Boxall was one of my lecturers at uni. Impossibly intelligent and absolutely gorgeous. Good luck with finishing all 1001!


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