1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die2006/2008/2010 Edition

72 Works 948,717 Books 15,060 Reviews ½ 4.0
From the book by Peter Boxall.
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Years:
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Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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London Fields by Martin Amis
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Emma by Jane Austen
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Moon Palace by Paul Auster
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The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
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The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
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Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
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Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
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The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
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G. by John Berger
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Correction by Thomas Bernhard
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Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
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World's End by T.C. Boyle
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
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Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
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Mao II by Don DeLillo
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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S: A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Howards End by E. M. Forster
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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The Taebek Mountains by Jo Jung-rae
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Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
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The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
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Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
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The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
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The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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V. by Thomas Pynchon
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
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From the book by Peter Boxall. (English, Member-written)
Eine liste von Peter Boxhall: 1001 Bücher Deutsche Ausgabe: 1001 Bücher, die Sie lesen sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist (2007) (German, Member-written)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary referente book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University,[with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. Each title is accompanied by a brief synopsis and critique briefly explaining why the book was chosen. Some entries have illustrations.

(Spanish, Member-written)

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