Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

The Professor's House by Willa Cather

Sota ja rauha II by Leo Tolstoy.

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Tenda dos Milagres by Jorge Amado

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

Foe by J.M. Coetzee

The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger

Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Book #2 of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Animal's People by Indra Sinha

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd.

Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

I'm about a third of the way thru Dracula by Bran Stoker. I've managed to make it to 52 years old having never read this as I'm not really a fan of horror, but I'm finding it less scary and more intriguing thus far.

A year ago, I tried to get through Frankenstein and found it incredibly dull, but did love Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I read it aloud to my partner on a car trip last year so I'm hoping that I continue to enjoy Stoker's well loved classic.

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

Burmese Days by George Orwell

Justine by Lawrence Durrell

Begun on Friday: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro. This is my third book of Munro's wonderful short stories. In this one I think the stories all have the same main character so kind of between a novel and shorts.

Christy wrote: "I'm about a third of the way thru Dracula by Bran Stoker..."

Bram Stoker was one of the many great classic Irish writers along with Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. There are excellent younger Irish writers also like William Trevor, John McGahern and Colm Toibin.

George P. wrote: "Christy wrote: "I'm about a third of the way thru Dracula by Bran Stoker..."

Bram Stoker was one of the many great classic Irish writers along with Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. There ..."

Got to say, I wouldn't call Joyce "classic" anything and he is so different from anything Victorian that the connection to Wilde and Stoker had never occurred to me. I mean, sure, they are all Irish but that's about it.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Complicity by Iain Banks.

Dawn's Left Hand by Dorothy M. Richardson.

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross

The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth.

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (plan to finish by year-end)
The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie
The Inferno by Henri Barbusse

Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

Clear Horizon by Dorothy M. Richardson. 11th book in the Pilgrimage series.

Actually near the end of City Primeval by Elmore Leonard and half-through War with the Newts by Karel Čapek. Capek's book was added in 2008 while Leonard's was dropped. Capek's book has got to be one of the weirder ones on the list.

Rose wrote: "The Shipping News by Annie Proulx"

Proulx wrote the short story Brokeback Mountain in Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other stories which was the basis of the movie.