heidilach's 1001

2000s (8 books)

The accidental, by Ali Smith
Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
The curious incident of the dog in the night time, by Mark Haddon (2008 ed.; removed)
The elegance of the hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Never let me go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2006 ed.; removed)
Suite francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
The white tiger, by Aravid Adiga

1900s (33 books)

American psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (2006 ed.; removed)
Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger
Cat's cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
The collecter, by John Fowles (2006 ed.; removed)
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson (2006 ed.; removed)
Decline and fall, by Evelyn Waugh
The handmaid's tale, by Margaret Atwood
The heart of darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Interview with the vampire, by Anne Rice
The jungle, by Upton Sinclair
The leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Lord of the flies, by William Golding
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (2008 ed.; removed)
The murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
Naked lunch, by William S. Burroughs
The name of the rose, by Umberto Eco (2008 ed.; removed)
Pale fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume, a story of a murderer, by Patrick Suskind
A portrait of the artist as a young man, by James Joyce
A prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe
Time's arrow, by Martin Amis (2006 ed.; removed)
To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The virgin suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
White noise, by Don DeLillo

1800s (25 books)

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The brothers Karamazov, by Fedor Dostoevskii (2006 ed.; removed)
Crime and punishment, by Fedor Dostoevskii
Dead souls, by Nikolai Gogol
The death of Ivan Ilyich, by Lev Tolstoi
Emma, by Jane Austen
Evgenii Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin
Fathers and sons, by Ivan Turgenev
A hero of our time, by Mikhail Lermontov
The idiot, by Fedor Dostoevskii
Little women, by Louisa Mae Alcott
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
The moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The nose, by Nikolai Gogol
Notes from the underground, by Fedor Dostoveskii
Old Goriot, by Honore de Balzac
Persuasion, by Jane Austen (2006 ed.; removed)
Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen
The scarlet letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sense and sensibility, by Jane Austen
A tale of two cities, by Charles Dickens (2006 ed.; removed)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
Uncle Tom's cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
War and peace, by Lev Tolstoi

I am working off of all three editions of the list. If I ever finish this, there will be over 1001 books.

I really have to disagree with whoever decided to remove The Master and Margarita from the 2010 edition of this list! I'm hoping that it's still on there and I just skipped over it somehow. That would make me feel much better...especially since The virgin suicides and White noise are still on the list. Those are two books I would never recommend. They should really pay me to write my own list of suggested reading. :)

So why was The Master and Margarita so good? I need to read more books from that period but I never thought it was one I would like.