Boxall’s 1001 Books

There is a list that has been compiled of 1001 books that every bibliophile should read before she dies. I am attempting this list, and have already read several of them. Obviously, this is going to take me years, but I’ll post those that I have read here (plus the links to any reviews I’ve done).

1. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
2. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
3. Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
4. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
6. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
7. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
8. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
9. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
10. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
11. HG Wells, The War of the Worlds
12. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
13. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
14. JD Salinger, Franny and Zooey
15. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
16. Michael Cunningham, The Hours
17. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
18. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
19. TC Boyle, Drop City
20. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
21. JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
22. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
23. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
24. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
25. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
26. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
27. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
28. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
29. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
30. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
31. George Orwell, 1984
32. George Orwell, Animal Farm
33. William Golding, Lord of the Flies
34. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
35. Bram Stoker, Dracula
36. Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
37. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
38. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
39. Jane Austen, Emma
40. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
41. JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit
42. DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
43. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
44. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
45. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
46. JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
47. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
48. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
49. Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
50. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
51. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
52. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
53. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
54. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
55. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
56. Stephen King, The Shining
57. Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
58. Lawrence Durrell, Justine
59. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
60. Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
61. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
62. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
63. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
64. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
65. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
66. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
67. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
68. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
69. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
70. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
71. D.H. Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod
72. Christine Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
73. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
74. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
75. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
76. Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
77. Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
78. Fanny Burney, Cecilia
79. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
80. Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
81. Ian McEwan, Atonement
82. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
83. Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
84. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
85. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
86. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
87. Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
88. Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
89. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
90. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
91. Graham Green, The Heart of the Matter
92. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
93. EM Forster, A Room with a View

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