1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1,324 Works 7,129,142 Books 133,316 Reviews ½ 3.9
From the book by Peter Boxall.
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WorkCategoryYear
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2018 Edition
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
2018 Edition
The Circle by Dave Eggers
2018 Edition
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
2018 Edition
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
2018 Edition
10:04 by Ben Lerner
2018 Edition
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
2018 Edition
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
2018 Edition
Winter by Ali Smith
2018 Edition
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2018 Edition
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2010/2012 Edition
In the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Little Women / Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegría
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fantômas by Marcel Allain
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Commandant by Jessica Anderson
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
2008/2010/2012 Edition
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Amadis of Gaul by Anónimo
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anónimo
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fado Alexandrino by António Lobo Antunes
2008/2010/2012 Edition
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Bells of Basel by Louis Aragon
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Invisible by Paul Auster
2010/2012 Edition
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Crash by J. G. Ballard
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Sea by John Banville
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2010/2012 Edition
Hell by Henri Barbusse
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Regeneration by Pat Barker
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2012 Edition
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Floating Opera by John Barth
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Abbot C by Georges Bataille
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Vathek by William Beckford
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Herzog by Saul Bellow
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Under Satan's Sun by Georges Bernanos
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Böll
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery by Richard Brautigan
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Arcanum 17 by André Breton
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nadja by André Breton
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Dry White Season by André Brink
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Guiltless by Hermann Broch
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Camilla by Fanny Burney
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Evelina by Frances Burney
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Junky by William S. Burroughs
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
2010/2012 Edition
The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A House in the Uplands by Erskine Caldwell
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Plague by Albert Camus
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Stranger by Albert Camus
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Bebo's Girl by Carlo Cassola
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Solitude by Víctor Català
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Hive by Camilo José Cela
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
On the Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran
2008/2010/2012 Edition
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Claudine's House by Colette
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions by Robert Coover
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Arcadia by Jim Crace
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Heretic by Miguel Delibes
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Underworld by Don DeLillo
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
White Noise by Don DeLillo
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Thomas of Reading by Thomas Deloney
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Viceroys by Federico De Roberto
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2008/2010/2012 Edition
All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Nun by Denis Diderot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Democracy by Joan Didion
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Hương Dương
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Book of Daniel: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Ragtime: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Asphodel by Hilda Doolittle
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fool's Gold by Maro Douka
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Vice Consul by Marguerite Duras
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Quest by Frederik van Eeden
2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2012 Edition
Adam Bede by George Eliot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Silas Marner by George Eliot
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Deep River by Shūsaku Endō
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Gathering by Anne Enright
2010/2012 Edition
The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Moscow Circles by Venedikt Erofeev
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2012 Edition
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou
2008/2010/2012 Edition
In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Wars by Timothy Findley
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Thaïs by Anatole France
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck
2010/2012 Edition
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2012 Edition
Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Memory of Fire, Volume 1: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2008/2010/2012 Edition
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Legend by David Gemmell
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Neuromancer by William Gibson
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Fruits of the Earth by André Gide
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Immoralist by André Gide
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Strait is the Gate by André Gide
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
New Grub Street by George Gissing
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The dead souls by Nikolai Gogol
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Nose by Nikolaj Gogol
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Mother by Maxim Gorki
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Artamonov Business by Maxim Gorky
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Dog Years by Günter Grass
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Géza Gárdonyi
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Back by Henry Green
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Blindness by Henry Green
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Living by Henry Green
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Loving by Henry Green
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Simplicissimus by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Memories of Rain: A Novel by Sunetra Gupta
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haase
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2012 Edition
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The First Garden by Anne Hébert
2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Martín Fierro by José Hernández
2008/2010/2012 Edition
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
Camera obscura by Hildebrand
2008/2010/2012 Edition
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
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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.

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