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Tags: Books
2000s
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday Ian McEwan
On Beauty Zadie Smith
Slow Man J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson
The Sea John Banville
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
The Master Colm Tibn
Vanishing Point David Markson
The Lambs of London Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour Rose Tremain
Thursbitch Alan Garner
The Light of Day Graham Swift
What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
Islands Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital Iain Sinclair
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
The Double Jos Saramago
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern
In the Forest Edna OBrien
Shroud John Banville
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air Iain Banks
Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster
Gabriels Gift Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz W.G. Sebald
Platform Michael Houellebecq
Schooling Heather McGowan
Atonement Ian McEwan
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Dont Move Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist Don DeLillo
Fury Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie ONeill
Choke Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare
White Teeth Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness Zakes Mda
Under the Skin Michel Faber
Ignorance Milan Kundera
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Slothrop33
02/15/2006
This book is not even out yet; how do you know what is in it?? It looks great!
ukaunz
02/16/2006
It showed up on the "new releases" shelf at my local library, I don't know if
they somehow got an advanced copy or something? Beats me!
ukaunz
02/16/2006
I should be finished soon... probably next week. Hope you can wait until then!
queneau
11/08/2006
By any chance has anyone got the dates of publication for all the books on
this list? Or the decade if not the actual date?
regius1000
06/19/2008
Do you read " Do Not Kiss Isabel by Sergiu Somesan" ?
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Kiss-Isabel-SergiuSomesan/dp/9738855098/ref=s...
lbangs
02/24/2006
Wow! A thousand thanks for taking the time to type and to post this. I've ordered
the book, but it does not arrive in America until early March, so this makes for a
tasty appetizer!
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Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
ukaunz
02/24/2006
No problems. BTW, if anyone spots a typo, please let me know so I can fix it!
alyxstarr
02/24/2006
I've only spotted two:
U.S.A. Dos Passos should be U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
Emina - Jane Austen should be Emma - Jane Austen (I'm guessing)
Great job, and thanks!
ukaunz
02/27/2006
Hi alyxstarr, thanks for the heads up. It should definitely be Emma by Jane
Austen, not sure how I managed to type Emina.
John Dos Passos was listed as Dos Passos (twice) in the book "1001
Books You Must Read...", so that's how I typed it up, but it seems strange
not to give the author's full name.
Anyway, they've both been fixed!
MaxCastle
02/24/2006
I've been meaning to type this list up for weeks; I'm really grateful that you've
saved me the trouble. :)
Only spotted a couple of typos: it should be Finnegans Wake (no
apostrophe); Jeckyll and Hyde should be Jekyll and Hyde; and Momento
Mori should be Memento Mori.
ukaunz
02/27/2006
Thanks MaxCastle, have fixed those typos you spotted.
rleigh
04/20/2007
Shouldn't it be The Stranger by Albert Camus?
n2lect2el
02/24/2006
Thanks so much for typing this in--it's just the kind of thing that I live for.
n2lect2el
02/24/2006
Other typos: When I made my checklist of the ones I'd read, I changed Joyce
Carol Oates' them to Them (with a capital T) and Burroughs' The Naked Lunch to
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ukaunz
02/27/2006
I think that's how they were listed in the book, so that's how I typed it. It
actually states in the "1001 Books..." that "them" was published with no
capital T, but I've changed it to Them as it looks strange being the only one not
capitalised. I looked up The Naked Lunch and you're right, so I changed that
one too. Thanks!
reign_heir
07/06/2006
I believe "Slaughterhouse Five" should be listed as "Slaughterhouse-five"
Also, "childhood" should be capitalized in "W, or the Memory of Childhood"
Should "Kidnapped" be "Kidnapped!"
EdmondDantes
03/24/2008
"Kidnapped!" is correct, but "Slaughterhouse-Five" can be spelled either
way, to the best of my understanding.
puR
07/08/2006
No Dante? For what reason?
gavroche
08/16/2006
Probably because Dante's books were written as epic poetry? And this list
focuses on novels.
gemorgan
12/02/2006
Well then what the frick, cuz Ovid's Metamorphoses is definitely NOT a
novel. How does that qualify for this list and not others in poetic format such
as Dante's Divine Comedy; or for that matter, Homer's works, or John Milton's
Paradise Lost, or Virgil's The Aeneid??
All of these are much more worthy of being read than 90 percent of the others
. . . I just don't see how they can be excluded if Ovid makes the cut.
Caelica
07/19/2007
Seriously. What about Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Virgil, Boccaccio,
Langland, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory, etc. etc. etc.
tbsdy
01/26/2008
It's 1001 books you must read before you die. Not 100,001 books you
must read before you die. And the general editor, Peter Boxall, wrote that
"the final list, including all the novels that one must read and excluding all
the ones that it is safe to leave unread, could of course never be drawn
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up... [nevertheless] at the same time, the limits that the number upon me
are cruel and narrow. One thousand and one is after all such a small
number, given the extent of the subject matter."
rjb
06/12/2008
I'm sorry, but I will eat my own pancreas with a vichyssoise fork before I
admit that "Interview with a Vampire" is more worthy of appearance on
this poxy list than the "Canterbury Tales" or the "Decameron". And I'm
sure Jeanette Winterson thinks she's better than Homer, but I
respectfully disagree.
chamuda
06/17/2008
Thank you! You made me laugh so hard I think I've dislodged my own
pancreas!
kudos to you!
HMoseley
06/21/2008
People need to know this is basically a list of prose novels.
I realize that Ovid and perhaps a handful of others on the list wrote in
verse. I don't know why the list compiler chose to include Ovid and not
Homer, but there you go. In any list, there are contradictions.
luney4tunes88
09/22/2010
shakespeare didn't write books. he wrote plays.
misscurly
12/12/2007
Isn't Beowulf also a poem?
It's in there
davidm82
07/28/2006
Thomas Keneally wrote Schindler's List, not Schindler's Ark
gavroche
08/16/2006
Stephen Spielberg directed the movie, Schindler's List, which was based on
the book, Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally.
It is certainly probable that editions of the book were published after the movie
with the titlechange.
misscurly
12/12/2007
You can find the book under both titles. I think the notes on that one says
something about in Europe it's called one thing, and in North America the
other. A couple of novels are like that.
A Picture/Portrait of Dorian Grey/Gray is another example from the top of my
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tbsdy
01/26/2008
Not true. It was originally published as Schindler's Ark.
MelissaJane
08/29/2006
"Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely" should be "Uncle Tom's Cabin;
or, Life Among the Lowly."
annabanana
09/03/2006
on a related theme, a mate of mine put the contents of the book "1001 Movies
You Must See Before You Die" on Excel; the beauty of it being that you can add
columns for your friends, and then run it so you can see whose seen the most,
who hasn't seen essential films, and lots of other slightly-geeky fun! does
anyone want a copy? not sure if there's a way i could go about attaching it here.
ukaunz
09/04/2006
I'd be interested in that. Check my profile for my email address and send it to
me if the offer is still good :)
MauroFilicor
05/23/2008
I would love to have one!
Mauro
email: mulberryfields@gmail.com
bertie
09/04/2006
I bought this book recently and in my opinion the editors have made a huge
mistake. This is too much a list of great novelists and too little a list of great
novels. What I mean is that they have included too many second-rated works by
authors of great novels and omitted a lot of great novels by unmentioned
novelists. Some authors are grossly over-represented - J.G. Ballard, for example,
has seven novels listed.
ukaunz
09/05/2006
I did actually notice that some authors seemed to have their entire catalogue
listed, which in a way is a waste of space on a list like this!
Angie
10/12/2006
Mmmmmm, too many anglos, what about Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende,
Cervantes, ... ?
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jobman2u
10/20/2006
As usual with any list there is going to be furious debate on the inclusions and
exclusions.
MissWatusi
10/21/2006
I didn't notice any E.F. Benson of the Queen Lucia fame. He rocks. Hope this
helps.
petia
10/25/2006
I agree that thios list is kinda biased.
A lot of good writers are left out.
=))) Probably the critics never even read them.
What a shame!
tbsdy
01/26/2008
Wow, that's making a massive assumption Petia. In actual fact, that book
was compiled by Peter Boxall, but reviewed by over 70 contributors, all
experts in their field.
I suspect that Mr Boxall has read far more widely than 1001 books - after all,
he needed to select from a vast pool of existing literature. Ergo sum he has
read far more than 1001 novels.
I'm assuming that he had the opposite problem: he had to work out what to
leave out of the list and what to keep in. The list is, in point of fact, a vast
survey of the novel from 4 BCE to 2005.
I think a far more interesting question is: what books would he have had to
have cut to have included other books you believe should be in the list?
tbsdy
01/26/2008
Cervantes is in the list.
bgfentif61
09/29/2011
Gabriel Garcia Marquez IS included: Love in the Time of Cholera, Autumn of
the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude
But I miss Ismail Kadare ;)
best regards,
produktproben
NateD
10/24/2006
I know it's easy to nitpick such a list, but c'mon ... where's Bernard Malamud??
(The Fixer should not be forgotten.) Where's Mailer?? (The Naked and the Dead:
Best WWII novel.) Where's James Jones?? (From Here to Eternity: 2nd best
WWII novel.) Only one Mark Twain? Only one Jack Kerouac? I know that Jack
doesn't have much literary respect, but he's darn sure superior to Elmore
Leonard (3 entries) and all those Hitchhiker's Guide sequels.
Ah, but plenty of the likes of Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee and Martin Amis. I
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plbeard
05/24/2008
Norman Mailer, yes--one of the major novelists in any language in the second
half of the 20th century.
Why five examples of Toni Morrison, four of J.C. Oates, three of Updike, and
zero of Mailer? Very odd.
I'd go against the grain of the popularity of his first novel and suggest The Deer
Park (1955) and The Executioner's Song (1979).
petia
10/25/2006
Hey guys,
The name of the author of the book #73 in the list is Slavenka Drakulic.
asper
10/25/2006
no 'voyage au bout de la nuit' ?? no one Celine's ??
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............
scrawlspacer
10/05/2007
See #648.
JEK
11/04/2006
Did I miss it or is 1984 missing from this list?JEK
alpy
03/06/2007
on 547 nineteen Eighty-four
feigningintr
04/10/2009
It's not on the list, and I'm SHOCKED. One of the greatest books ever written.
corry000
11/28/2006
Does anyone happen to have this list in Excel format?
Arukiyomi
10/25/2007
you can download the automated spreadsheet for recording progress with
these books at
Arukiyomi's blog
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kihaku
12/06/2006
can anyone list out about 100 books out of these 1001. jst to make sure we get
hold of the best of the best.
kihaku
12/06/2006
ukaunz, is there any way you can list out around 100 out of 1001....from 1800's2000..just to make sure i get hold of the best of the best.
tbsdy
01/26/2008
The problem you have there is that the task at hand is subjective. If we picked
out 100 books, you might have missed 100 amazing books in the meantime.
Personally, I recommend that you read Crime and Punishment, Les
Miserables, To Kill and Mockingbird and War and Peace.
Cannot bring myself to read any of Satre's novels - far too base, and even
criminal. Neither can I bring myself to read American Psycho.
windykitten
05/13/2009
they are "criminal"?? wtf. "far too base" please... I mean you can think
whatever you want about it, but use some adjectives that make sense.
JANUVA
04/03/2007
Hey, you are very English-written-novels-sided. You are forgetting one of the best
books ever written: El tnel (the tunnel) by the Argentine genius Ernesto Sabato.
A must read!
Greetings from Costa Rica!
misscurly
09/30/2007
The person who posted this list didn't create it; it is actually taken from a
published book. THe book is really interesting; it explains why each selection
is important to read, without giving away the plot.
Also, this isn't an English-only list. I would say about half of the selections are
not originally English; off the top of my head I know there are many of the
major Russian, German and French novels listed, and I'm sure there are also
major selections from other languages and countries.
costas
04/03/2007
A Publisher from Greece (Kastaniotis) claims that one of their books is listed in
this book. The title of the book is "The Dog's Mother" and the writer Pavlos (or
Paul) Matessis. I don't see it in the list. Why so? (Answer to Costas Armeftis)
tbsdy
01/26/2008
I own this book, and "The Dog's Mother" is not on the list. Neither is Pavlos
Matessis. He did win the 2002 Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize for this novel,
however.
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jwasilewsky
04/24/2007
1984 is listed as number 547, George Orwell.
Instead of numerically the numbers are written out in words. It was required high
school reading, and okay. Perhaps I should revisit it now as an adult.
Catalyst
04/26/2007
Mm, you should. I love that book, but I pretty much love any novel that even
hints at being about a dystopian society.
I've read 1.69% of the list. Makes me feel like I need to read much, much
more.
Goodbar
08/10/2007
Greetings all, just registered and looking for inspiration as I'm about to purchase
my chunk of "Holiday Fiction" - I've rented a small farmhouse in a small village
named Poix de Picardie, just East of Amiens in Northern France. I think it fitting
that I loose myself in a WW1, or WW2 story. I've read Songbird and thought it
was class. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Merci!
meisa_pastel
09/10/2007
There's no one book that comes from Indonesian writer. I think Pramoedya
Ananta Toer has many wonderful books known as "The Buru of quartet".
Because of those books, he had ever become one of candidates accepting
international nobel. It has translated in many languages. It's international works.
cbutler1467
05/24/2008
I think the comments to this list are as interesting as the list itself. I just
requested the first book in the Buru Quartet from my local library.
Didn't find E.M.Forster's "Passage to India" on the list - it's on my Top 10.
Also, is there a copy of the list in alphabetical order by author?
CButler
not-just-yet
05/25/2008
FWIW, "Passage to India" is at #708.
I made the sorted list for you; once it passes the moderator it should be at
http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.34082
(with name "1001 books you must read before you die, alphabetical by
author")
jakewrites
10/03/2007
thank you--very useful to have this list in digital form, although I also own and
use the book
one typo that might be corrected: the author of 'Blind Man with a Pistol' is
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misscurly
12/12/2007
Is everyone advocating for their own country's writers in these discussions?
revcaro
03/01/2008
Please, The Forsyte SagA by John Galsworthy....not "Sage"
EdmondDantes
03/24/2008
Possible typo: Isn't "The Count of Monte-Cristo" supposed to be "The Count of
Monte Cristo"? Probable it's both ways.
montin
03/27/2008
I have bought the book and use the list a lot. I have seen the edition in French
and it has a different choice, with more authors from around the world (including
many mentioned by other discussions). I have compiled (from the French edition)
in Excel about 200 additional titles not on this list (Netherlands, Spain, Portugal,
etc.). If anyone is interested, we could share.
xaulo
05/14/2008
Im really interested! can you send it to my mail or post it? Thanks!
xaulo@yahoo.com
ktmceneaney
05/23/2008
Some random recommendations:
Tale of Genji, the very first novel and perhaps the greatest ever written.
Shusako Endo, Deep River and Scandal
Toer, Prameodya Ananta, The Buru Quartet
Dasi, Osamu,No Longer Human
Prose, Francine, The Peaceable Kingdom
Booth, Alan, The Roads to Sata
Fergusson, Will, Hokkaido Highway Blues
Coover, Robert , Briar Rose
Higgins, Aidan, Balcony of Europe
Wall, Mervyn, Leaves for the Burning
Lavin, Mary, Selected Stories
O'Connor, Frank, Collected Stories
Richards, Alun, Selected Stories
Powys, John Cooper, Autobiography and Weymouth Sands
Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs
Himes, Chester, The Quality of Hurt
Denby, David, The Catacombs
Reed, Ishmael, The Free-Lance Pallbearers and The Terrible Twos
McClanahan, Ed, Famous People I Have Known
Leskov, Nikolai, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Tynyanov, Yuri, Lieutenant Kije
Shukshin, Vasily, Stories from a Siberian Village
Dovlatov, Sergi, The Suitcase and Ours
Murphy, Delia, Eight Feet in the Andes
Moore, Tim, Continental Drifter
Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
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silvia
08/21/2008
Well, I'm Italian and I'd want to know why Dante's "Divina Commedia",
"Ludovico Ariosto's works, "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni and
other important Italian authors are not in the list, but Luigi Pirandello and Italo
Calvino...
raktabhmahes
10/11/2008
Please tell me how do you find these reads (they comprise a few Indian
wriitngs too!):
Category
Book Author
Management
M1 Marketing Management Bowdy and Peter
M2 Financial Management
(i) Khan & Jain
(ii) T.M. Pandey
M3 Management of Information Systems Griffin
M4 Management
M5 Mathematics for Business Studies Dr. J.K.Thukral
M6 You Inc. Hedges
M7 Iacocca An Autobiography Lee Iacocca
M8 Straight from the Gut Jack Welch
M9 Knowledge Management Strategies Microsoft
M10 Business making skills Simon
M11 Architect of Quality Juran
M12 Management Peter Drucker
English Literature
E1 Atlas shrugged Ayn Rand
E2 Fountainhead Ayn Rand
E3 Eools Die Maria Puzo
E4 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
E5 Half a Life V.S. Naipaul
E6 Harry Potter
(a) and the order of phoenix
(b) and the chamber of secrets J.K. Rowling
(c) and the prisoner of Azbakan
E7 Five point Someone Chetan Bhagat
E8 Goddess of small things Arundhati Roy
E9 To Sir, with love E.H.Braithwaite
E10 David Copperfield
E11 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
E12 Oliver Twist
E13 Tale of Two Cities
E14 Lord of the flies William Golding
E15 Haiku for lovers Manu Bazzane
E15 The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
E16 The Beloved Anarchist by P.R Taikad
E17 She Rider Hoggard
E18 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
E19 For from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
E20 The Trumpet Major Thomas Hardy
E21 One Hundred Years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Bookworm9
10/19/2008
I prefer this list of yours. The grand list posted seemed to be lacking.
Amonavis
12/08/2008
Really? That many economics and management books? This list IS
lacking, but at least it attempts to pinpoint books that speak about
something larger than just getting ahead in the corporate world. When
someone in his old age is nearing death I doubt he's going to think "Oh, I
wish I had read 'Management of Information Systems'" or "I'd better read
another economics textbook."
I agree with some of your other picks and like your inclusion of books from
outside the Western world, but The Da Vinci Code and Atlas
Shrugged...don't really have a whole lot of substance. Especially the Da
Vinci Code. In a few years no one will be talking about this book anymore
because the characters are two-dimensional and the plot is ridiculous. As
for Atlas Shrugged, people will probably be talking about this for a long
time. But that is not to say that it is a good book. Ayn Rand writes bad
prose--a fact which should alone exclude her from the list--but her
philosophy is annoyingly preachy and sophomoric. Unfortunately most
people feel the need to trudge through her ridiculously long books and
make believe they LIKE her vile philosophy in order to come off as an
intellectual. I once did too. But most real intellectuals (those that are
university-affiliated) dismiss her novels and philosophy.
peppery
05/24/2008
I would welcome a copy of your list. How can we go about this?
pharden4240@
05/25/2008
i'm only trying to get a copy of the list
peppery
05/24/2008
If your list is still available, I would love to have it. Can you send it to me?
peppery76@yahoo.com Thanks!
lwallace73
05/24/2008
Montin-I'd like to see your French edition list in Excel. Thanks
montin
06/23/2008
My list is on-line at
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http://membres.lycos.fr/chmontin/documents/
And is called liste 1001 franais.xls
Under construction, watch that space !
montin@coditel.net
shadygrove
05/23/2008
All 6 Jane Austens seems a little slavish. Leaving off Northanger Abbey would
leave room for another worthy book.
No Barbara Pym? Even if you think novels have to be about anomie and
dreariness, it might be helpful in sorting them out, to have an idea of their
oppsite.
And if they had to scrape up poetry, fables & whatever to have any list at all for
pre-1700, why leave out Tale of Genji?
dm10003
05/23/2008
let's remember it reflects a british literary taste. waterstone, an english
bookstore, put out a list of the best fiction of the century in 2000 and it included
some odd and unfamilar stuff. "crome yellow" by huxley never gets mentioned in
the states and it was the best book of it's publishing year. an american version
would be at least 30% different i'd bet.
Slothrop33
05/23/2008
Your list is linked to a NYTimes article today!
karasik
05/23/2008
Nothing by Louise Erdrich? Are you kidding?
freic39
05/24/2008
I'm pleased to see many of my favorites but was hoping to see
the Nobel Prize Winner Sigrid Undseth for her wonderful trilogy
Kristin Lavransdatter.
beatriz
05/24/2008
More typos: Under "The Princess of Clves," "MadelAine" should be
"MadelEine"; FranoisE Rabelais should be Franois (he was not a woman).
Sorry to be picky but if people actually go looking for these authors, they should
have the correct spelling handy.
jenner
05/25/2008
Any good librarian would help anyone find an author if it's just a matter of an
"a" v. an "e" or an accent mark. I wouldn't worry so much about it.
lukemw
05/26/2008
one big issue with the list: why is beowulf not included?
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rjb
06/12/2008
And not just Beowulf! Why are only 13 books written before 1700 included in
the list? Are we to assume that the entire period between the invention of
writing and the birth of Aphra Behn were a mere waste of labour? Fie! Where
are Chaucer, Dante, and Bocaccio? Where Homer and Aeschylus? Where
Gilgamesh? Where Shakespeare? Where the Bible?
This whole exercise is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it makes me want to fling
my computer out the window in speechless rage.
Gaspard
06/14/2008
The idea of a list is fine but why then leave out George Bernard Shaw or Tanizaki
?
You could have done Great Detective stories or All-fiction or had a documentary
section.
Does anybody out there have the courage to do a Great Authors list and just give
one or two names of books ? In that cas I would love to see it and find out what
i've missed. The idea of one or two names of books is just so as to sound
intelligent in the bookshop.
Thanks in advance
HMoseley
06/25/2008
Why leave out George Bernard Shaw?
Apparently, Shaw was omitted because drama was omitted.
Shaw wrote plays. Note the absence of Shakespeare, O'Neill, Ibsen,
Tennessee Williams, Durrenmatt, and other major dramatists.
trionon
07/14/2008
some seriously odd omissions....for instance why is "Mother" by Gorky so
significant but no mention of his epic "Life of Klim Samgin"? Where is
Pushkin's "Evgeny Onegin" for that matter, other acclaimed past and modern
Russian (and Soviet) works such as Ilf & Petrov's "12 Chairs" and "Little
Golden Calf", Ludmila Ulitskaya's "Kukotsky's Case" and "Sonechka"... Far
too generous with Jane Austen but I'd much rather see in that list "Constant
Nymph" by Margaret Kennedy, "Falling" by EJ Howard, "Half Broken Things"
and "Puccini's Ghost" by Morag Joss. Why no mention "Three in a Boat" by
JK Jerome? Where is Dante's "Divine Comedy", Moliere, Homer's "Iliad",
Shakespeare???? Is "Murder of Roger Ackroyd" really the best of Agatha
Christie, how about "Ten Little Niggers" (before the PC madness)? I would
also like to include "Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, "Secret Diary of Adrian
Mole" by Sue Townsend, Thomass Moore's "Utopia", Checkov's "Bet", works
by Akunin, C.S. Lewis...to name a few
banquo
08/31/2008
I'd reccomend Roberto Bolao, Herman Broch, Fernando Vallejo, Par Lagerqvist,
Gombrowicz, Milosz, Pamuk, Montherlant, Malraux...not to mention others that
are out of the list
tobyhubner
10/14/2008
I recently found this book in the American Library in Paris. But I quickly put it
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down. Why? Because missing from their list is ANY book by Jim Harrison, the
American author, and arguably the greatest living American writer. But then I
understood. Boxall and Ackroyd are Brits. And we know about the Brits don't
we, especially their writers, who have to be SO clever and load EVERY sentence
with such cleverness that the books become unreadable cuteness. Except Le
Carre. Note Boxall's "new" book, Den DeLillo and The Possibility of Fiction. Is
that typical Brit clever incomprehensible nonsense? I rest my case.
Nance
12/31/2008
I don't understand the choice of Labyrinths AND Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges.
I mean, in Wikipedia they say Labyrinths is an anthology that contain the most
famous works of Ficciones and El Aleph. Then why in the 1001 list not put
Ficciones and El Aleph OR only Labyrinths?
Escaped Goat
01/07/2009
I guess at the end of the day everyone has their own taste and no one will ever
be happy with the final list. From what I gather the aurthor is british and the list
has most likley stemed from years of reading based on his own reading and
most likely study. I for example am 22year old Australian female, I failed english
in grade 10 and left school in the early part of grade 11. I would have on my own
list of must read books, which would include books that i have already read, for
example most books by John Marsden an excellent australian writer for
teenagers, and many works by Nicholas Sparkes. Any book (novel) that takes
the reader out of their own world and makes them feel like they are in another
would be a must for me. However I would have to say that most of these books
do not differ from a bar of soap to me personally on the basis that i have never
heard of them. so I imagine that the book from which this list was derived is quite
esential in the fact that it tells you why it was picked and most likely gives you a
brief outline of the plot. I however have not much intension of reading quite that
many books in my life time. However from the list I may draw up a list of my own
and try to focus on those. I think that perhaps the problem many readers have
with this list and the lack of their particularly favorite writers is that less of the
books they have already read are on the list and therefore they they have read a
smaller percentage of the 1001 books you must read before you die, than they
had hoped. Personally I believe that the person who has read all 1001 books
would be a fearsome sight to see for sure.
azrael314
01/19/2009
I like this list, and there are a lot of great books on it, but there seem to be an
inordinate amount of books from the 1900's. I mean 715 out of the 1001 books to
read before you die seems just a bit much.
mgt
02/11/2009
There is now a website for the book (as well as the other 1001s), so feel free to
visit the forum and continue the discussions there:
www.1001beforeyoudie.com
Too much Philip Roth? Too much Coetzee? Did we get Houellebecq's date of
birth wrong? Why is Houellebecq in the book in the first place?
Or, have any suggestions for books to add to an updated edition?
Make a suggestion, or just have a rant about the all of the missing classics...
AngelofMusic
03/21/2009
Why isn't Frankenstein included?!
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kenavl
10/08/2009
Frankenstein is on the list. It is #931.
Cossy
07/15/2009
This is a great list and I've barely made a dent in it. One thing that makes me
nervous, however, is the listing of The Shining by Stephen King. That might be
one of his worst books. I wonder if the author of this list felt inclined to include
The Shining because it inspired such a fantastic movie. Unfortunately, Stanley
Kubrik even stated that The Shining was a lousy book and he made the movie
only because he liked the imagery so much. Also, Interview With A Vampire?
That book was really cheesy.
Ionut
10/03/2009
Great list indeed, but, at the first glance, I don't see anywhere Goethe - Faust
and Dante - Divine Comedy. These books should be in the top of the "must
read"s
theotherworldly
10/07/2009
Hi, I think it's "Ada or Ardor" for the Vladimir Nabokov novel, and it's "Blue of
Noon" by Georges Bataille. Thanks for the list, it's fantastic because it gives me
a direction as to the new stuff -- I've been stuck in the 1900s for a realy long
time.
lawniemower
12/24/2009
I am offically going to try to read as many of these as a i can.
jlk7e
12/26/2009
I agree that leaving out the Tale of Genji is just totally ridiculous. In addition, all
the classic Chinese novels have also been excluded - Journey to the West,
Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms
should all be on the list, in my view. And modern Japanese novels also seem
rather under-represented. Where are Abe, Tanizaki, and Kawabata?
The poetry and fables thing is also rather weird. If you're going to include poems,
wouldn't the Iliad and the Odyssey, which actually tell stories that are arguably
novelistic (especially the Odyssey) make a lot more sense than the
Metamorphoses, which is just a series of loosely connected stories from
mythology in verse?
Some of the selections for later authors are also odd - including "The Monastery"
for Scott but excluding "Waverley" and "The Heart of Midlothian"? Including
"Castle Richmond" for Trollope but excluding "Barchester Towers" and "The Way
We Live Now"? "Martin Chuzzlewit" but not "The Pickwick Papers"?
I'd add that any list of 1001 novels "you must read before you die" should really
not be comprised of 40% novels from the last 40 years. If there's anything that's
clear from a review of literary history, it's that our judgment of what's going to last
is often quite bad.
The Telegraph's 1900 list of the best novels of all time should be illustrative of
this - writers with multiple books on the list include William Harrison Ainsworth,
James Grant, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lever, Samuel Lover, Bulwer Lytton,
Captain Marryat, Charles Reade, Michael Scott, and G. J. Whyte-Melville,
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several of whom I've never even heard of. For Dickens they include The Old
Curiosity Shop and Martin Chuzzlewit, but not David Copperfield, Bleak House,
or Great Expectations. The only Trollope novel is Orley Farm. There's three by
Thackeray, but no Vanity Fair. For George Eliot, they only have Scenes of
Clerical Life, not even a novel. Wuthering Heights is missing, and no Stevenson,
Hardy, James. Their selection of non-British novels is even worse - they have
Anna Karenina, but no War and Peace, nothing by Dostoyevsky or any other
Russian writer. For the French, no Stendhal, no Zola, no Flaubert. Basically, the
list did not stand the test of time at all. And that was an attempt to do 100
novels, and included several books from before the nineteenth century, when one
would think critical taste would have hardened a bit more. This list is of 1000,
and half of them are from the last 50 years. Does anybody think that even 10%
of the books they list from that period are really going to have any staying
power? What are the chances that "Everything Is Illuminated," "The Pigeon," and
"The Swimming Pool Library" are really going to stand up better than such notincluded works as Pickwick Papers, Barchester Towers, and Waverley, which
have all remained popular for a century and a half or more? Or, for that matter,
than the Tale of Genji and the Chinese classics, which have been around even
longer? Obviously, a book like this shouldn't just be a boring list of universally
recognized classics. But, even so, the balance seems wrong.
Another irritating thing is the lack of short story collections. Somehow they have
two by Borges, but can't see fit to include Dubliners or In Our Time. Hands up
everybody who thinks Colm Toibin's "The Heather Blazing" is more important
than Dubliners or that Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke" is more important than any or
all Hemingway short story collections. To say nothing of Hawthorne and Chekhov
- the former is only represented by his novels, and the latter not at all. Also, if
you're allowed to include collections, why do we have three separate Poe short
stories as distinct entries? Why not combine them into "Tales of Mystery and
Imagination" or "Collected Stories" and make room for two other books?
Anyway, a lot of this is nit-picking - coming up with a list of 1000 books that will
satisfy everyone is impossible, and I commend the book's authors for trying.
FeedingtheDragon
12/29/2009
Hamlet - first and foremost. If there is a single work in literature that one should
read to be "cultured" it is Hamlet.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk - which, in my opinion, is one of the finest books of the
decade. It is a beautiful and tragic composition.
Gilead by Marilynn Robinson...the book won here a Pulitzer Prize...it's a
gorgeous book.
There is nothing by Richard Russo, and no body has mentioned Richard Russo,
which is a shame. Empire Falls, especially, which also won a Pulitzer.
-Sure, the Pulitzer certainly isn't a keynote, objective look at "literary merit" but it
does *help*
Where the hell are:
-Alice In Wonderland
-Chronicles of Narnia
-Dune
-Ender's Game
-His Dark Materials
-Kite Runner
-The Prince
-The Republic
I could go on and on. I'm sure there are lots of books on the list that don't
deserve to be there, also?
I certainly don't see any sort of objectivity. I would rank Ulysses near the top of
the list...it's one of the finest novels ever written. How is this list organized?
What qualifications were used in selection and placement? The author of said
book needs to examine literature a little more. Or maybe I just don't understand
"good books."
lukeprog
01/12/2010
ukaunz,
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It seems this is the most popular list on Listology! How many views does it
have?
Marquee
01/12/2010
lolwtf.
even in my drunken state I can find that out.
WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE A BOT.
ukaunz
02/04/2010
Wow!!! I'm amazed at the popularity of this list. Most people do realise I didn't
"write" it, right? I just typed it up from the book. A "bibliography" was included in
the author's note, but maybe some people miss it? Anyway, thanks for all your
comments! I haven't visited this site in AGES so it was quite amazing for me to
see how often the list is visited/cloned/quoted - even a NY Times mention? (or
did they just mention the book?). Personally, I don't think I'll read many of the
books on the list. It would be interesting to compile one from the comments
people have left.
P.S. I don't know if I'll ever have time to fix the typos, but thanks for spotting
them.
mike k
04/22/2010
this list gives the impression that must read material only originates from the
west.
So unfortunate that people who have a literary era identified with their
work,namely the BOOM such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Ernesto Sabato are
not included. Too bad for those people that look at these sorts of lists to actually
find good books.
Zagzaga
04/28/2010
This list meets my expectations.
Thanks to all who spent their time on it. And to the one who posted.
Will be back as soon as I read them all. See you all in 10-15 years.
Arukiyomi
05/02/2010
hey all... been following some of the more recent comments. Firstly, ukaunz's
list here is from the original 1st edition of the list published in 2006. Many of the
concerns some of you have voiced that the list is biased to WASP writers were
dealt with in the 2008 release when 282 of these books were replaced to make it
more authoritative of world literature.
In March 2010, a third edition was released. 11 books were added/removed, all
published in the last 2 years.
ukaunz was my inspiration: from the list here, I created a spreadsheet to help
you track your progress with the list. This has been downloaded well over 40,000
times!
In late March 2010, I released a brand new v4 of this spreadsheet to coincide
with the 3rd edition of the book. To get yours, head to
http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?page_id=1806
bugnotme
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05/17/2010
One book I think is a nice addition to this fantastic list is Pop-splat, by South
African author Ian Martin.
It is one of the few books I've ever read that really made me think and completely
changed my view of society and how the world operates. Surprising, given the
deceptively simple story: a wealthy businessman is murdered in yet another
Johannesburg hijacking. The disturbed son thinks something fishy is on the go
and decides to investigate. This precipitates a violent, over-the-top but also funny
hell-ride across the country.
Sure, the narrative is entertaining and the book is easy to read as it's saturated
with sick humour and violence. But on another level it is jam-packed with so
many ideas that after I put the book down I spent a week digesting it all. Martin
challenges everything from SUV drivers to religious fanatics to private schools
and overpopulation. A lot of the ideas are subtly blended into the action in a
comical way. For instance, during a violent break-in Martin uses the opportunity
to attack snobbish art connoisseurs, calling a Madonna and Child painting
'Prostitute with baboon fetus.'
It's a weird combination - over-the-top, Quentin Tarantino-like thrills with worldchanging ideas. But it really works.
To get an idea of the tone of the book, this is what the dedication says: "This
book is dedicated to the youth in the hope they will reject the crappy values of
their parents."
You can also get excerpts and the first chapter here: www.pop-splat.co.za
Arukiyomi
06/01/2010
pop-splat ain't on the list... this comment is bogus...
adamabbott
03/07/2011
There are two spelling mistakes in the first paragraph on the webpage. Doesn't
bode well.
MeghanKate87
07/12/2010
I actually am on a mission to watch all of the movies in the 1001 Movies book,
the 5th edition. If you want to check out my blog please feel free!
http://meliestowright.blogspot.com/ It has been only a few months and I know it's
a slow start but getting through the silent films seems to be a killer. I am
watching them in the order they are in, in the book.
bugnotme
09/07/2010
Of course Pop-splat isn't on the list but would make a nice addition to it. If it was
up to me I'd put it up there with 'Choke' as Chuck and Ian are similar authors.
Nimbette2
01/31/2011
Okay, so I have read 4.3% of the books on the list and if I read 30 a year to get
to the 1001...I will be 69 years old (32 years from now) by the time I am done yikes!
I am very disappointed Tale of Genji is not on here. It is first novel turned classic.
Also, the Bible even if you are not Christian..it still is an interesting read.
Phantom of the Opera,Camilla (the vampire novel), The Good Earth, Chronicles
of Narnia.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a creative genius if you ever read all his series.
Tarzan has 25 books, which are great. BUT, no mention of his Barsoom (MARS)
series...I love, love it and has its merits.
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With so much literature floating around how can you really pin down a list and
have everyone agree with it? We all like so many different things.
I also see the new 2010 list does have some updates to it.
Nimbette2
02/02/2011
Hi Georg12 = which ones have you read? Just curious.
Camilla above I meant Carmilla...first female vampire novel and a classic also.
aramini
02/02/2011
Okay, I've read about 230 of these and I have to say there's a lot of repetition and
some downright bad books on there, like listing multiple Adams stuff (Dirk
Gently) multiple Beckett things that all have the same banal philosophy, and
multiple Rabbit Updike books.
Having said that good list but we need the collected Shakespeare on there! And
since SFnal type works like Peake and even Ballard are on there, its unforgivable
that Gene Wolfe's Sun books are not on there, books better and more literate
and carefully constructed than 228 of the other books on here I have read. Thank
God Tristram Shandy is there, and Mishima, but Wolfe really really has to be
there if such curmudgeonly unimpressive speculative porn fiction like Crash is.
listologylisa
04/20/2011
Btw I also can recommend the following 4 books:
Sabbaths Theater Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
All of them are really good reads to, sometimes it takes a while to get into the
matter but they are very good.
simple007
05/24/2011
simply good and very nice article.. Great share Many thanks
eriflame
06/08/2011
WHERE IS HARRY POTTER?
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