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Author Message nia sunset Senior Member Username: nia Post Number: 2565 Registered: 04-2006 Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 5:13 pm:    http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books Today a young man, a student in the university, gave me this link, "1001 Books you must read before die". I checked now, wow! There are so many that I must read... But I also checked what I read in all my life, 245 books in this list. but there are more than this that not included in this list. I can't believe all our life (like someone as me) should be passing between pages of books, if it is wanted to read all of them. There are some names who I love to read them again and again, and I read most of their books, for example, Margurite Duras, Kafka, Shakespear, Margurite Yourcenar, Hermann Hesse, Richard Bach, St.Exupιry, J.J.Roussseau, J.P.Sartre, Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Hemingway, Jack London, Borges, Neruda, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Wolf, E.A.Poe, T.S.Eliot,...and more I can add from my literature too. But of course 1001 books is a well number and well point for a man having all these reading experiences... Blessing and Happiness into your reading life, with my love, nia Butterfly Wings of Nia "Carry the beauties;wash the badnesses with your poetical spirit" Rania S. Watts Advanced Member Username: cementcoveredcherries Post Number: 1103 Registered: 04-2008 Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 5:46 pm:    Dear Nia, Thank you for the list, number 196 "A Prayer for Owen Meany" is one of my favourites. Love, Rania S. Watts "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman Cement Covered Cherries nia sunset Senior Member Username: nia Post Number: 2567 Registered: 04-2006 Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 5:58 pm:    That is one of my unread books, there are so many that I havent read yet... Thank you dearest, with my love, nia Butterfly Wings of Nia "Carry the beauties;wash the badnesses with your poetical spirit" Emusing Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6080 Registered: 08-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 6:36 pm:    Nia I put the list here too: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 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 Tσibνn 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 – Josι 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 O’Brien Shroud – John Banville Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Youth – J.M. Coetzee Dead Air – Iain Banks Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald Platform – Michael Houellebecq Schooling – Heather McGowan Atonement – Ian McEwan The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini The Body Artist – Don DeLillo Fury – Salman Rushdie At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill 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 Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace Celestial Harmonies – Pιter Esterhαzy City of God – E.L. Doctorow How the Dead Live – Will Self The Human Stain – Philip Roth The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood After the Quake – Haruki Murakami Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates Pastoralia – George Saunders 1900s Timbuktu – Paul Auster The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli? Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy Fear and Trembling – Amιlie Nothomb The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi Amsterdam – Ian McEwan Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis Another World – Pat Barker The Hours – Michael Cunningham Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden Great Apes – Will Self Enduring Love – Ian McEwan Underworld – Don DeLillo Jack Maggs – Peter Carey The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin American Pastoral – Philip Roth The Untouchable – John Banville Silk – Alessandro Baricco Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels The Ghost Road – Pat Barker Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro Morvern Callar – Alan Warner The Information – Martin Amis The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald The Reader – Bernhard Schlink A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry Love’s Work – Gillian Rose The End of the Story – Lydia Davis Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst Whatever – Michel Houellebecq Land – Park Kyong-ni The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi City Sister Silver – Jΰchym Topol How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor Disappearance – David Dabydeen The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy Operation Shylock – Philip Roth Complicity – Iain Banks On Love – Alain de Botton What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald The Secret History – Donna Tartt Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Φzdamar The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch A Heart So White – Javier Marias Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker Indigo – Marina Warner The Crow Road – Iain Banks Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson Jazz – Toni Morrison The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hψeg The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates The Heather Blazing – Colm Tσibνn Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Black Dogs – Ian McEwan Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud Arcadia – Jim Crace Wild Swans – Jung Chang American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis Mao II – Don DeLillo Typical – Padgett Powell Regeneration – Pat Barker Downriver – Iain Sinclair Seρor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres Wise Children – Angela Carter Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard Amongst Women – John McGahern Vineland – Thomas Pynchon Vertigo – W.G. Sebald Stone Junction – Jim Dodge The Music of Chance – Paul Auster The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham Like Life – Lorrie Moore Possession – A.S. Byatt The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle A Disaffection – James Kelman Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson Moon Palace – Paul Auster Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro The Melancholy of Resistance – Lαszlσ Krasznahorkai The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway The History of the Siege of Lisbon – Josι Saramago Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving London Fields – Martin Amis The Book of Evidence – John Banville Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey Libra – Don DeLillo The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy The Passion – Jeanette Winterson The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind The Child in Time – Ian McEwan Cigarettes – Harry Mathews The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae Beloved – Toni Morrison Anagrams – Lorrie Moore Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Marya – Joyce Carol Oates Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro Extinction – Thomas Bernhard Foe – J.M. Coetzee The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcνa Mαrquez Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson The Cider House Rules – John Irving A Maggot – John Fowles Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis Contact – Carl Sagan The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Perfume – Patrick Süskind Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard White Noise – Don DeLillo Queer – William Burroughs Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd Legend – David Gemmell Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi? The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – Josι Saramago The Lover – Marguerite Duras Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker Neuromancer – William Gibson Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis Shame – Salman Rushdie Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett Fools of Fortune – William Trevor La Brava – Elmore Leonard Waterland – Graham Swift The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White The Color Purple – Alice Walker Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende The Newton Letter – John Banville On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin Concrete – Thomas Bernhard The Names – Don DeLillo Rabbit is Rich – John Updike Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan July’s People – Nadine Gordimer Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin Broken April – Ismail Kadare Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie Rites of Passage – William Golding Rituals – Cees Nooteboom Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole City Primeval – Elmore Leonard The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera Smiley’s People – John Le Carrι Shikasta – Doris Lessing A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer The Safety Net – Heinrich Bφll If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan The World According to Garp – John Irving Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell Yes – Thomas Bernhard The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter Delta of Venus – Anaοs Nin The Shining – Stephen King Dispatches – Michael Herr Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo The Public Burning – Robert Coover Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg Amateurs – Donald Barthelme Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel Garcνa Mαrquez W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell Grimus – Salman Rushdie The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme Fateless – Imre Kertιsz Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan High Rise – J.G. Ballard Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow Dead Babies – Martin Amis Correction – Thomas Bernhard Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Bφll Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carrι Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong A Question of Power – Bessie Head The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino Crash – J.G. Ballard The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch Sula – Toni Morrison Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino The Breast – Philip Roth The Summer Book – Tove Jansson G – John Berger Surfacing – Margaret Atwood House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Bφll The Wild Boys – William Burroughs Rabbit Redux – John Updike The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark The Ogre – Michael Tournier The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett Troubles – J.G. Farrell Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles The Green Man – Kingsley Amis Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth The Godfather – Mario Puzo Ada – Vladimir Nabokov Them – Joyce Carol Oates A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf Chocky – John Wyndham The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcνa Mαrquez The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson The Joke – Milan Kundera No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien A Man Asleep – Georges Perec The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West Trawl – B.S. Johnson In Cold Blood – Truman Capote The Magus – John Fowles The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon Things – Georges Perec The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras Herzog – Saul Bellow V. – Thomas Pynchon Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut The Graduate – Charles Webb Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carrι The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Collector – John Fowles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch Faces in the Water – Janet Frame Solaris – Stanislaw Lem Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark Catch-22 – Joseph Heller The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor How It Is – Samuel Beckett Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Rabbit, Run – John Updike Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse Naked Lunch – William Burroughs The Tin Drum – Günter Grass Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow Memento Mori – Muriel Spark Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Bφll Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute The Bitter Glass – Eilνs Dillon Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan The End of the Road – John Barth The Once and Future King – T.H. White The Bell – Iris Murdoch Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet Voss – Patrick White The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham Blue Noon – Georges Bataille Homo Faber – Max Frisch On the Road – Jack Kerouac Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber Justine – Lawrence Durrell Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary Seize the Day – Saul Bellow The Floating Opera – John Barth The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett The Quiet American – Graham Greene The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzαkis The Recognitions – William Gaddis The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini Bonjour Tristesse – Franηoise Sagan I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis The Story of O – Pauline Rιage A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia Lord of the Flies – William Golding Under the Net – Iris Murdoch The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett Watt – Samuel Beckett Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis Junkie – William Burroughs The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin Casino Royale – Ian Fleming The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham Foundation – Isaac Asimov The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger The Rebel – Albert Camus Molloy – Samuel Beckett The End of the Affair – Graham Greene The Abbot C – Georges Bataille The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz The Third Man – Graham Greene The 13 Clocks – James Thurber Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing I, Robot – Isaac Asimov The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani Disobedience – Alberto Moravia Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann The Victim – Saul Bellow Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau If This Is a Man – Primo Levi Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino The Plague – Albert Camus Back – Henry Green Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh Animal Farm – George Orwell Cannery Row – John Steinbeck The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford Loving – Henry Green Arcanum 17 – Andrι Breton Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham Transit – Anna Seghers Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Dangling Man – Saul Bellow The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupιry Caught – Henry Green The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse Embers – Sandor Marai Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner The Outsider – Albert Camus In Sicily – Elio Vittorini The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien The Living and the Dead – Patrick White Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf The Hamlet – William Faulkner Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway Native Son – Richard Wright The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati Party Going – Henry Green The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck Finnegans Wake – James Joyce At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien Coming Up for Air – George Orwell Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler Brighton Rock – Graham Greene U.S.A. – John Dos Passos Murphy – Samuel Beckett Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Years – Virginia Woolf In Parenthesis – David Jones The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft Nightwood – Djuna Barnes Independent People – Halldσr Laxness Auto-da-Fι – Elias Canetti The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen England Made Me – Graham Greene Burmese Days – George Orwell The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse Call it Sleep – Henry Roth Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain A Day Off – Storm Jameson The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Cιline Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons To the North – Elizabeth Bowen The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth The Waves – Virginia Woolf The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis Her Privates We – Frederic Manning Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico Passing – Nella Larsen A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett Living – Henry Green The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Dφblin The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen Harriet Hume – Rebecca West The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille Orlando – Virginia Woolf Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis Quartet – Jean Rhys Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh Quicksand – Nella Larsen Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford Nadja – Andrι Breton Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson Amerika – Franz Kafka The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway Blindness – Henry Green The Castle – Franz Kafka The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Counterfeiters – Andrι Gide The Trial – Franz Kafka The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky The Professor’s House – Willa Cather Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville The Green Hat – Michael Arlen The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann We – Yevgeny Zamyatin A Passage to India – E.M. Forster The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo Cane – Jean Toomer Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley Amok – Stefan Zweig The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf Siddhartha – Herman Hesse The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis Ulysses – James Joyce The Fox – D.H. Lawrence Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton Main Street – Sinclair Lewis Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence Night and Day – Virginia Woolf Tarr – Wyndham Lewis The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad Summer – Edith Wharton Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce Under Fire – Henri Barbusse Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan Kokoro – Natsume Soseki Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel Rosshalde – Herman Hesse Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence Death in Venice – Thomas Mann The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton Fantτmas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Howards End – E.M. Forster Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel Three Lives – Gertrude Stein Martin Eden – Jack London Strait is the Gate – Andrι Gide Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells The Inferno – Henri Barbusse A Room With a View – E.M. Forster The Iron Heel – Jack London The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson Mother – Maxim Gorky The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad The Jungle – Upton Sinclair Young Tφrless – Robert Musil The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster Nostromo – Joseph Conrad Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe The Golden Bowl – Henry James The Ambassadors – Henry James The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers The Immoralist – Andrι Gide The Wings of the Dove – Henry James Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann Kim – Rudyard Kipling Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 1800s Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane The Awakening – Kate Chopin The Turn of the Screw – Henry James The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells What Maisie Knew – Henry James Fruits of the Earth – Andrι Gide Dracula – Bram Stoker Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells The Time Machine – H.G. Wells Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born in Exile – George Gissing Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle News from Nowhere – William Morris New Grub Street – George Gissing Gφsta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlφf Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy La Bκte Humaine – Ιmile Zola By the Open Sea – August Strindberg Hunger – Knut Hamsun The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pιrez Galdιs The People of Hemsφ – August Strindberg The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy She – H. Rider Haggard The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard Germinal – Ιmile Zola The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James Bouvard and Pιcuchet – Gustave Flaubert Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace Nana – Ιmile Zola The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Red Room – August Strindberg Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Drunkard – Ιmile Zola Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev Daniel Deronda – George Eliot The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky Erewhon – Samuel Butler Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev Middlemarch – George Eliot Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope Maldoror – Comte de Lautrιaumont The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Thιrθse Raquin – Ιmile Zola The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley Les Misιrables – Victor Hugo Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev Silas Marner – George Eliot Great Expectations – Charles Dickens On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne Max Havelaar – Multatuli A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov Adam Bede – George Eliot Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell Hard Times – Charles Dickens Walden – Henry David Thoreau Bleak House – Charles Dickens Villette – Charlotte Brontλ Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne Moby-Dick – Herman Melville The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Shirley – Charlotte Brontλ Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontλ Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontλ Agnes Grey – Anne Brontλ Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontλ Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe Lost Illusions – Honorι de Balzac A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens The Nose – Nikolay Gogol Le Pθre Goriot – Honorι de Balzac Eugιnie Grandet – Honorι de Balzac The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo The Red and the Black – Stendhal The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen Persuasion – Jane Austen Ormond – Maria Edgeworth Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott Emma – Jane Austen Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth 1700s Hyperion – Friedrich Hφlderlin The Nun – Denis Diderot Camilla – Fanny Burney The Monk – M.G. Lewis Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin Justine – Marquis de Sade Vathek – William Beckford The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade Cecilia – Fanny Burney Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Evelina – Fanny Burney The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole Ιmile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rasselas – Samuel Johnson Candide – Voltaire The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox Amelia – Henry Fielding Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett Fanny Hill – John Cleland Tom Jones – Henry Fielding Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett Clarissa – Samuel Richardson Pamela – Samuel Richardson Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift Roxana – Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift Pre-1700 Oroonoko – Aphra Behn The Princess of Clθves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly Gargantua and Pantagruel – Franηoise Rabelais The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius Aithiopika – Heliodorus Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton Metamorphoses – Ovid Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus Thank you for this. I will be looking it over to see what I've missed. xo e Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia Gary Blankenship Moderator Username: garydawg Post Number: 24697 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 8:32 pm:    The trouble with these lists is they generate who isn't there lists, and with this one not in alpha order that is a bit difficult. But for me Titus Groan Dark Tower Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein and the boys James Lee Burke Patrick O'Brien Ed McBain Emily, Walt and Willie Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire A whole slew of children's books from Winnie and Wind in the Willows to the good Dr Z History of the English Speaking World Profiles in Courage Harry Potter and pardon any of those of there. You see, my list will be different, but similar (we both do Tarzen and Bond) but both equally valid. The key is to read and learn. BTW, some of these are no more than short stories. Smiles. Gary Celebrate Walt with Gary: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm Ros Badcoe (Rosemary) Intermediate Member Username: endolith Post Number: 474 Registered: 03-2008 Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 5:32 am:    Yes, these lists are always open to dispute! And at a quick look, there are books there that I would classify as ok but not as 'must reads' - White Teeth, for example, I thought was over-rated. Nice to see Douglas Adams there, though. nia sunset Senior Member Username: nia Post Number: 2569 Registered: 04-2006 Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 7:53 am:    Rosemary, you are so right, this is not well-done, I mean the list... even how they lsted them, for what, for who... And there are also so many names that weren't listed in, and why? But in any case, 1001 books are standing there and I am always a good reader and reading takes a big part of my life for a long time, I can say from my childhood time till now. Even more than my writing time. But I there are still so many books that I havent read them yet... This is amazing of course. Maybe the point is this!!! A life of a man, can it be enough to read all of them, I am thinking... Yes, Gary, the key is to read and learn... On the other hand there are some books you read but dont leave any sign, any impressive touch, and they almost disappeare from your mind... But also there is another point, when you read a book, for example in your youth ages and you didnt like it and you think that you never take this book and read. But one day you read and this time you say WOW! how I missed to read it like that before... Of course between reader and book, there is always a very special relation, book and reader should be ready to each other. This is a kind of voyage between book/reader and book/yourself... layers of layers in this reading voyage. Right now I try to find the original version of the "Heart of Darkness", written by Joseph Conrad. It would be so exciting for me to read it in its original language after many years then... I hope I can find. Otherwise I will look for when I go abroad. Thank you, have a nice weekend, with my love, nia Butterfly Wings of Nia "Carry the beauties;wash the badnesses with your poetical spirit" Gary Blankenship Moderator Username: garydawg Post Number: 24702 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 8:13 am:    Nia, for me the book that exemplifies that is Doctor Zhivago. I tried in while young and could not get past the first chapter, but picked it up years later, ckipped chapter 1 and loved it. I don't see it on the list but the list is difficult to find works on, and I do see others I mentioned in my first post. One more thing. It is Anglo-centric, and misses a fair number of Eastern works which is really unfortunate. And I really can't figure out why William S does not make the list... Smiles. Gary Celebrate Walt with Gary: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm Mariah Wilson Intermediate Member Username: mariahwilson43 Post Number: 834 Registered: 11-2007 Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 6:19 am:    a few of my all time favorites that I didn't see on the list.... The Count of Monte Cristo~Alexandre Dumas~ They Cage the Animals at Night~?~ King Lear~Shakespeare~ I am David~Anne Holm~ False Memory/By The Light of the Moon/One Door Away From Heaven/~Dean R. Koontz Too me there is a lot there that maybe shouldn't be and a lot not there that should. www.lostandlonelypoets.yuku.com Ros Badcoe (Rosemary) Intermediate Member Username: endolith Post Number: 476 Registered: 03-2008 Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 7:38 am:    Gary - William Shatner? Isn't he more famous for his singing? (Message edited by endolith on July 19, 2008) Gary Blankenship Moderator Username: garydawg Post Number: 24710 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 8:10 am:    Ros, LOL. Smiles. Gary Celebrate Walt with Gary: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm Judy Thompson Advanced Member Username: judyt54 Post Number: 1231 Registered: 11-2007 Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 8:31 am:    any list of 'must reads' is as subjective as 'favorite foods' and depends on the education and background of the person making the list. I was half way through the list before I found even a name I was familiar with, and the ones I did know I had read and for the most part came away empty. I dont see Robert Pirszig, Ayn Rand, Ursula LeGuin. I agree, Gary, no Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, my god no Asimov. your list and mine would probably be much closer to each other's. Where are (unless I missed it) E. B. White, and all the good mystery writers? I guess the minute you start making a list it's as much about who you don't include as it is who you choose.