1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

As so many other bloggers and readers, I’ve jumped 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die band wagon. And well, there has been three updated versions so far (and I’m guessing there might be one more this year), so the list doesn’t contain only 1001 books anymore. Now it’s 1305. Now, I haven’t dropped everything else in order to read the list. I’m hoping to get through it but I’m going a bit slow. I use it as inspiration as to which novels have been important and influential throughout the history of the novel and even though I  like crossing books off the list, I’m not putting a lot of focus on this. Slow and steady is my motto for this list.
Here’s my list of the ones I’ve read so far – with links to the ones, I’ve written reviews of on the blog. (The other reviews (most of them at least) can be found on my Goodreads profile – username: Christina Stind Rosendahl).

1. Franz Kafka: The Trial
2. Yann Martel: Life of Pi
3. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
4. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
5. Georges Perec: Life – A User’s Manual
6. Paulo Coelho: Veronika Decides to Die
7. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
8. Junot Diaz: The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao
9. Will Self: How the Dead Live
10. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
11. John Irving: The World According to Garp
12. Gabriel Garcia Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
13. Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
14. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
15. Anthony Burgess: Clockwork Orange
16. Douglas Adam: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
17. Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
18. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
19. Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
20. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
21. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
22. Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire
23. Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart
24. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
25. Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
26. Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
27. H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness
28. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenia
29. Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
30. Elisabeth Bowen: The House in Paris
31. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
32. John Cleland: Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
33. E.L. Doctorow: City of God
34. Alan Moore: Watchmen
35. Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel Novel and Three Stories
36. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
37. Martin Amis: Dead Babies
38. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
39. John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
40. Joseph Heller: Catch-22
41. Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter
42. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
43. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
44. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
45. George Eliot: Middlemarch
46. Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting
47. Jane Austen: Emma
48. Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
49. Flannery O’Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge
50. John Fowles: The Magus
51. Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
52. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
53. Bernhard Schlink: The Reader
54. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
55. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
56. Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
57. Harry Mulisch: The Discovery of Heaven
58. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
59. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
60. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
61. John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany
62. David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes
63. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
64. A.S. Byatt: The Children’s Book
65. Matthew Lewis: The Monk
66. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
67. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
68. Gustave Flaubert:Madame Bovary
69. Orhan Pamuk: Snow
70. Jung Chang: Wild Swans
71. Donna Tartt: The Secret History
72. Charles Dickens: Hard Times
73. Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
74. Don DeLillo: Falling Man
75. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
76. Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
77. Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
78. Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones
79. Toni Morrison: Beloved
80. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
81. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
82. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
83. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
84. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
85. Virginia Woolf: Orlando
86. Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
87. Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
88. Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
89. John Updike: Rabbit Run (The Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom series)
90. A. S. Byatt: Possession

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