1001 Books: You Must Read Before You Die
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1001 BOOKS
YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE
GENERAL EDITOR PETER BOXALL
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Contributors
Pre-1800
The Thousand and One Nights
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tale of Genji
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Water Margin
The Golden Ass
Tirant lo Blanc
La Celestina
Amadis of Gaul
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Lusiad
Monkey: A Journey to the West
Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas of Reading
Don Quixote
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
The Conquest of New Spain
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
The Princess of Clèves
Oroonoko
Robinson Crusoe
Love in Excess
Moll Flanders
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal
Joseph Andrews
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Pamela
Clarissa
Tom Jones
Fanny Hill
Peregrine Pickle
The Female Quixote
Candide
Rasselas
Julie; or, The New Eloise
Émile; or, On Education
The Castle of Otranto
The Vicar of Wakefield
Tristram Shandy
A Sentimental Journey
The Man of Feeling
Humphry Clinker
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Evelina
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Dangerous Liaisons
Confessions
The 120 Days of Sodom
Anton Reiser
Vathek
Justine
A Dream of Red Mansions
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
The Interesting Narrative
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
The Monk
Camilla
Jacques the Fatalist
The Nun
Hyperion
1800s
Castle Rackrent
Henry of Ofterdingen
Rameau’s Nephew
Elective Affinities
Michael Kohlhaas
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Rob Roy
Frankenstein
Ivanhoe
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Last of the Mohicans
The Betrothed
The Red and the Black
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Eugene Onegin
Eugénie Grandet
Le Père Goriot
The Nose
Oliver Twist
The Lion of Flanders
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Fall of the House of Usher
Camera Obscura
A Hero of Our Times
Dead Souls
Lost Illusions
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Three Musketeers
Facundo
The Devil’s Pool
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Jane Eyre
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
David Copperfield
The Scarlet Letter
Moby-Dick
The House of the Seven Gables
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Cranford
Bleak House
Walden
Green Henry
North and South
Madame Bovary
Indian Summer
Adam Bede
Oblomov
The Woman in White
The Mill on the Floss
Max Havelaar
Great Expectations
Silas Marner
Fathers and Sons
Les Misérables
The Water-Babies
Notes from the Underground
Uncle Silas
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Crime and Punishment
Last Chronicle of Barset
Thérèse Raquin
The Moonstone
Little Women
The Idiot
Maldoror
Phineas Finn
Sentimental Education
War and Peace
King Lear of the Steppes
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Middlemarch
Spring Torrents
Erewhon
The Devils
In a Glass Darkly
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Enchanted Wanderer
Far from the Madding Crowd
Pepita Jimenéz
The Crime of Father Amado
Drunkard
Anna Karenina
Martín Fierro
The Red Room
Ben-Hur
Nana
The Portrait of a Lady
The House by the Medlar Tree
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Treasure Island
A Woman’s Life
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Regent’s Wife
Bel-Ami
Marius the Epicurean
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Germinal
King Solomon’s Mines
The Quest
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Manors of Ulloa
The People of Hemsö
Pierre and Jean
Under the Yoke
The Child of Pleasure
Eline Vere
Hunger
By the Open Sea
La Bête Humaine
Thaïs
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Down There
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Gösta Berling’s Saga
New Grub Street
News from Nowhere
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Diary of a Nobody
The Viceroys
Jude the Obscure
Effi Briest
The Time Machine
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Quo Vadis
Dracula
What Maisie Knew
Compassion
Pharaoh
Fruits of the Earth
The War of the Worlds
As a Man Grows Older
Dom Casmurro
The Awakening
The Stechlin
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Some Experiences of an Irish R. M.
1900s
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Sister Carrie
None but the Brave
Kim
Buddenbrooks
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Heart of Darkness
The Wings of the Dove
The Immoralist
The Ambassadors
The Riddle of the Sands
The Call of the Wild
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
The Way of All Flesh
Hadrian the Seventh
Nostromo
The House of Mirth
Professor Unrat
Solitude
Young Törless
The Forsyte Saga
The Jungle
The Secret Agent
Mother
The House on the Borderland
The Old Wives’ Tale
The Inferno
A Room with a View
Strait is the Gate
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Howards End
Impressions of Africa
Fantômas
Ethan Frome
The Charwoman’s Daughter
Death in Venice
Sons and Lovers
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Platero and I
Tarzan of the Apes
Locus Solus
Kokoro
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Rainbow
Of Human Bondage
The Good Soldier
Rashomon
Under Fire
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Underdogs
Pallieter
Home and the World
Growth of the Soil
The Return of the Soldier
Tarr
The Storm of Steel
Women in Love
Main Street
The Age of Innocence
Crome Yellow
Life of Christ
Ulysses
Babbitt
Claudine’s House
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
The Forest of the Hanged
Siddhartha
The Enormous Room
Kristin Lavransdatter
Amok
The Devil in the Flesh
Zeno’s Conscience
A Passage to India
We
The Magic Mountain
The Green Hat
The New World
The Professor’s House
The Artamonov Business
The Trial
The Counterfeiters
The Great Gatsby
Mrs. Dalloway
Chaka the Zulu
The Making of Americans
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Under Satan’s Sun
The Good Soldier Švejk
Alberta and Jacob
The Castle
Blindness
The Sun Also Rises
Amerika
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Tarka the Otter
To the Lighthouse
Remembrance of Things Past
Steppenwolf
Nadja
Quicksand
Decline and Fall
Some Prefer Nettles
Parade’s End
The Well of Loneliness
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Orlando
Story of the Eye
Retreat Without Song
Les Enfants Terribles
Berlin Alexanderplatz
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Time of Indifference
Living
I Thought of Daisy
A Farewell to Arms
Passing
Look Homeward, Angel
The Maltese Falcon
Her Privates We
The Apes of God
Monica
Insatiability
The Waves
To the North
The Thin Man
Journey to the End of the Night
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
The Radetzky March
The Forbidden Realm
Cold Comfort Farm
Brave New World
Vipers’ Tangle
The Man Without Qualities
Cheese
Man’s Fate
A Day Off
Testament of Youth
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Murder Must Advertise
Miss Lonelyhearts
Call it Sleep
The Street of Crocodiles
Thank You, Jeeves
Tender is the Night
Tropic of Cancer
The Postman Always Rings Twice
On the Heights of Despair
The Bells of Basel
The Nine Tailors
Auto-da-Fé
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
The Last of Mr. Norris
Untouchable
Independent People
Nightwood
At the Mountains of Madness
Absalom, Absalom!
War with the Newts
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gone with the Wind
The Thinking Reed
Eyeless in Gaza
Summer Will Show
Rickshaw Boy
Out of Africa
In Parenthesis
Ferdydurke
The Blind Owl
The Hobbit
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Of Mice and Men
Murphy
U.S.A.
Brighton Rock
Cause for Alarm
Alamut
Rebecca
Nausea
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
On the Edge of Reason
The Big Sleep
Goodbye to Berlin
The Grapes of Wrath
Good Morning, Midnight
At Swim-Two-Birds
Finnegans Wake
Native Son
The Tartar Steppe
The Power and the Glory
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Man Who Loved Children
Broad and Alien is the World
The Living and the Dead
The Harvesters
Conversations in Sicily
The Outsider
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Chess Story
The Glass Bead Game
Joseph and His Brothers
The Little Prince
Dangling Man
The Razor’s Edge
Transit
Pippi Longstocking
Loving
Animal Farm
The Bridge on the Drina
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Arcanum 17
Brideshead Revisited
Bosnian Chronicle
The Tin Flute
Andrea
The Death of Virgil
Titus Groan
Zorba the Greek
Back
House in the Uplands
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Under the Volcano
If This Is a Man
Exercises in Style
The Plague
Doctor Faustus
Midaq Alley
Froth on the Daydream
Journey to the Alcarria
Ashes and Diamonds
Disobedience
All About H. Hatterr
Cry, the Beloved Country
In the Heart of the Seas
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Death Sentence
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Man with the Golden Arm
Kingdom of This World
The Heat of the Day
Love in a Cold Climate
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
I, Robot
The Grass is Singing
A Town Like Alice
The Moon and the Bonfires
Gormenghast
The 13 Clocks
The Labyrinth of Solitude
The Abbot C
The Guiltless
Barabbas
The End of the Affair
Molloy
The Rebel
The Catcher in the Rye
The Opposing Shore
Foundation
Malone Dies
Day of the Triffids
Memoirs of Hadrian
The Hive
Wise Blood
The Old Man and the Sea
Invisible Man
The Judge and His Hangman
Excellent Women
A Thousand Cranes
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Casino Royale
Junkie
Lucky Jim
The Lost Steps
The Hothouse
The Long Good-Bye
The Go-Between
The Dark Child
A Day in Spring
A Ghost at Noon
The Story of O
Under the Net
Lord of the Flies
The Mandarins
Bonjour Tristesse
Death in Rome
The Sound of Waves
The Unknown Soldier
I’m Not Stiller
The Ragazzi
The Recognitions
The Burning Plain
The Quiet American
The Trusting and the Maimed
The Tree of Man
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Lolita
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Lord of the Rings
The Lonely Londoners
The Roots of Heaven
The Floating Opera
Giovanni’s Room
Justine
The Glass Bees