Book List

I do love lists of books to read. There is a new book out that is a list of books (but, wait, does that book make the list?). The new book lists the 1001 books you should read before you die.
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These are the books on the list that I've read. I do pretty well in contemporary literature, and pretty well in the 1700s thanks to a couple of college classes, but I think I need to go back to some classics.

And, Interview With a Vampire? Really? I could suggest a hundred other things you could do with that span of time. Come see me if you really are feeling some Anne Rice coming on, and I'll give you something else to do. Unless you're in high school, and into black lipstick, and then go for it.


2000s

1. The Sea – John Banville
2. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
3. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
5. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
6. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
8. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
9. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
10. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

1900s
11. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
12. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
13. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
14. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
15. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
16. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
17. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
18. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
19. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
20. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
21. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
22. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
23. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
24. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
25. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
26. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
27. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
28. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
29. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
30. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
31. Possession – A.S. Byatt
32. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
33. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
34. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
35. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
36. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
37. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
38. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
39. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
40. Beloved – Toni Morrison
41. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
42. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
43. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
44. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
45. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
47. Neuromancer – William Gibson
48. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
49. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
50. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
51. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
52. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
53. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
54. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
55. The World According to Garp – John Irving
56. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
57. The Shining – Stephen King
58. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
59. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
60. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
61. Crash – J.G. Ballard
62. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
63. Sula – Toni Morrison
64. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
65. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
66. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
67. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
68. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
69. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
70. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
71. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
72. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
73. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
74. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
75. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
76. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
77. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
78. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
79. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
80. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
81. V. – Thomas Pynchon
82. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
83. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
84. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
86. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
87. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
88. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
89. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
90. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
91. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
92. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
93. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
94. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
95. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
96. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
97. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
98. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
99. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
100. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
101. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
102. Junkie – William Burroughs
103. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
104. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
105. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
106. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
107. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
108. Animal Farm – George Orwell
109. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
110. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
111. Loving – Henry Green
112. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
113. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
114. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

115. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
116. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
117. Native Son – Richard Wright
118. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
119. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
120. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
121. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
122. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
123. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
124. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
125. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
126. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
127. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
128. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
129. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
130. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
131. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
132. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
133. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
134. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
135. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
136. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
137. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
138. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
139. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
140. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
141. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
142. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
143. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
144. Howards End – E.M. Forster
145. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
146. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
147. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

1800s

148. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
149. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
150. Dracula – Bram Stoker
151. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
152. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
153. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
154. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
155. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
156. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
157. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
158. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
159. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
160. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
161. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
162. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
163. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
164. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
165. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
166. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
167. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
168. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
169. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
170. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
171. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
172. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
173. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
174. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
175. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
176. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
177. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
178. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
179. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
180. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
181. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
182. Emma – Jane Austen

1700s

183. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
184. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
185. Vathek – William Beckford
186. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
187. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
188. Candide – Voltaire
189. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
190. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
191. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
192. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

1600s

193. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
194. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
195. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus