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Bonnie's Book Challenge
21st Century, 1-251.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.2.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey N.3.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.4.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.5. [image error] Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
6.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.7.
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen.8.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.9.
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.10.
Atonement by Ian McEwan.11.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.12.
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett.13.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.14.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon.15.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.16.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.17.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.18.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.19.
Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.20.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo.21.
The Secret Magdalene A Novel by Ki Longfellow.22.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.23.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.24.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.25.
The Known World by Edward P. Jones.
21st Century, 26-5026.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.27.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.28.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A Novel by Lisa See.29.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.30.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.31. [image error] The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.
32.
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.33.
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.34.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress A Novel by Dai Sijie.35.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.36.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.37.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.38.
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.39.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.40.
The March A Novel by E. L. Doctorow41.
The Stolen Child A Novel by Keith Donohue.42.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. 43.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk.44.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. 45.
The Master A Novel by Colm Toibin.46.
Out Stealing Horses A Novel by Per Petterson.47.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith.48.
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky.49.
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.50.
Everything Is Illuminated A Novel by Jonathan Foer.
21st Century 51-7551.
What Is the What by Dave Eggers.52.
The Gathering by Anne Einright.53.
The Sea by John Banville.54.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell.55.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.56.
Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout.57.
Wolf Totem by Jian Rong.58.
March by Geraldine Brooks.59.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.60.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.61.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif. 62.
The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeanette Walls.63.
The Successor by Ismail Kadare.64.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie.65.
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki.66.
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt.67.
Mad Woman on the Bridge and Other Stories by Su Tong.68.
The Bridegroom Stories by Ha Jin.69.
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami.70.
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.71.
Terror by Dan Simmons.72.
The Shipping News A Novel by Annie Proulx.73.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.74.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian A Novel by Marina Lewycka.75.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.
21st Century, 76-10076.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.77.
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry.78.
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald.79.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett.80. [image error] Three Junes by Julia Glass.
81.
World Without End by Ken Follet.82.
Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.83. [image error] The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea.
84.
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie.85.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.86.
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.87.
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn.88.
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin.89.
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.90.
Case Histories A Novel by Kate Atkinson.91.
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.92.
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti.93.
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.94.
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See.95.
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.96.
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam.97.
Old School by Tobias Wolff.98.
Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn.99.
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka.100.
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama.
21st Century, 101-125121.
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe.122.
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.123.
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth A Novel by Xiaolu Gao.124.
The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico A Novel by Sarah McCoy.125.
To Swim Across the World by Ginger Park.126.
The Mulberry Empire, Or, the Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan by Philip Hensher.127.
English Passengers A Novel by Matthew Kneale.128.
The Calligrapher's Daughter A Novel by Eugenia Kim.129.
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin.130.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville.131.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.132.
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich.133.
Ines of My Soul A Novel by Isabel Allende.134.
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum.135.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer.136.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.137.
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
20th Century, 1-251990s
1.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.2.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.3. [image error] The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
4.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham.5.
Possession A Romance by A.S. Byatt.6.
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.7.
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan.8.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.9.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.10.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.11.
The Shipping News A Novel by Annie Proulx.12.
Like Water for Chocolate A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel.13.
A Thousand Acres A Novel by Jane Smiley.14.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres.15.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle A Novel by Haruki Murakami.16.
A Suitable Boy A Novel by Vikram Seth.17.
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.18.
Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang.19.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.20.
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.21.
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk.22.
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende.23.
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.24.
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif.25.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.
20th Century, 26-5026.
The Famished Road by Ben Okri.27.
Regeneration by Pat Barker.28.
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.29.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.30.
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth.31.
Cloudstreet A Novel by Tim Winton.32.
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami.33.
Blindness by Jose Saramago.34.
Jazz by Toni Morrison.35.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.36.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.37.
A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines.38.
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi.39.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle.40.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.41.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.42.
Infinite Jest A Novel by David Foster Wallace.43.
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.44.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.45.
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.46.
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.47.
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.48.
Underworld A Novel by Don DeLillo.49.
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.50.
Leviathan by Paul Auster.
20th Century, 51-7551.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore.52.
The Giant's House A Romance by Elizabeth McCracken.53.
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe.54.
Two Lives "Reading Turgenev" and "My House In Umbria" by William Trevor.55.
Mating A Novel by Norman Rush.56.
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri.57.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.58.
Wise Children by Angela Carter.59.
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta.60.
The Winshaw Legacy or, What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe.61.
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald.62.
The Night in Question Stories by Tobias Wolff.63.
Last Orders by Graham Smith.64.
Asylum by Patrick McGrath.65.
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo.66.
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.67.
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro.68.
The Great World A novel by David Malouf.69.
Amongst Women by John McGahern.70.
Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee.71.
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle.72.
A Home at the End of the World A Novel by Michael Cunningham.73.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth.74.
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Berniere.75.
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard.
20th Century, 76-10076.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic.77. [image error] In Search of Klingsor The International Bestselling Novel by Jorge Volpi.
78. [image error] Paradise by Toni Morrison.
79.
An Instance of the Fingerpost A Novel by Iain Pears.80.
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama.81.
Everything You Need A Novel by A.L. Kennedy.82.
Rice by Su Tong.83.
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb.84.
Cloudsplitter A Novel by Russell Banks.85.
All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe.86.
Veronika Decides to Die A Novel of Redemption by Paulo Coelho.87.
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.88.
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin.89.
Untouchable by John Banville.90.
Silk by Alessandro Baricco.91.
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald.92.
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez.93.
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo.94.
Pereira Declares A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi.95.
Deep River by Shusaku Endo.96.
The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm.97.
Complicity by Iain Banks.98.
On Love A Novel by Alain de Botton.99.
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee.100.
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf.
20th Century, 101-125101.
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald.102.
Before Night Falls A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas.103.
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch.104.
A Heart So White by Javier Marias.105.
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis.106.
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker.107.
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.108.
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates.109.
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin.110.
Arcadia A Play by Tom Stoppard.111.
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell.112.
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.113.
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge.114.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.115.
Like Life by Lorrie Moore.116.
The Shadow Lines A Novel by Amitav Ghosh.117.
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.118.
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw.119.
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald.120.
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry.121.
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer.122.
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth.123.
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane.124.
The Underground Man by Ross MacDonald.125.
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills.
20th Century, 126-1501980s
126.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.127.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.128.
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker.129.
Beloved by Toni Morrison.130.
Rites of Passage by William Golding.131.
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally.132.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.133.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.134.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.135.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.136.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.137.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.138.
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee139.
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.140.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.141.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.142. [image error] The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Novel by Milan Kundera.
143.
The Wasp Factory A Novel by Iain Banks.144.
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner.145.
The Bone People by Kerry Hulme.146.
Tracks by Louise Erdrich.147.
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.148.
The Name of the Rose Including Postscript by Umberto Eco.149.
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.150.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
20th Century, 151-175151.
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler.152.
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel.153.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.154.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.155.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe A Novel by Fannie Flagg.156.
Winter's Tale by Mark Halprin.157.
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Taylor.158.
Perfume The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.159.
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard.160.
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.161.
Love Medicine A Novel by Louise Erdrich.162.
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro.163.
Akhenaten Dweller in Truth A Novel by Naguib Mahfouz.164.
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.165.
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende.166.
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.167.
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler.168. [image error] Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty.
169.
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie.170.
Ironweed by William Kennedy.171.
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard.172.
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes.173.
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin.174.
The Book of Evidence by John Banville.175.
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.
20th Century, 176-200176.
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.177.
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine.178.
The Physician by Noah Gordon.179.
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips.180.
Black Robe A Novel by Brian Moore.181.
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone.182.
Lanark A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray.
20th Century, 201-2251970s
201.
Watership Down by Richard Adams.202.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.203.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.204.
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough.205.
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff. 206.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.207.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.208.
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer.209.
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer.210.
The Wars by Timothy Findley.211.
Papillon by Henri Charriere. 212.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Stories by Raymond Carver.213.
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
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EXTRA
20th Century, 26-501960s
43.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.44.
Dune by Frank Herbert.45.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.46.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.47.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.48.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.49.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.50.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X.51.
The Collector by John Fowles.
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Yes, I have read the Blind Assassin (it's actually first on this list) and loved it to death. I think it's definitely a book that everyone should read.
20th Century, 51-7551.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.52.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.53.
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges.54.
Travels with Charley In Search of America by John Steinbeck.55.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.56.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. 57.
The Magus by John Fowles. 58.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.59.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexsander S.60.
The Chosen by Chaim Potok.61.
Rabbit, Run by John Updike.1950s
62.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.63.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein.64.
Night by Elie Wiesel.65.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.66.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck.67.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.68.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.69.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. 70.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov. 71.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.72.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller.73.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.74.
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia High smith.75.
The Once and Future King by T.H. White.
Palace Walk by Naghib Mafouz.
20th Century, 76-10076.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.77.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.78.
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow.79.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.80.
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy.81.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.82.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.83.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 84.
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.85.
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.1940s
86.
1984 by George Orwell.87.
Animal Farm by George Orwell.88.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.89.
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre90.
The Stranger by Albert Camus.91.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. 92.
Death of a Salesman Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts & a Requiem by Arthur Miller.93.
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.1930s
94.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.95.
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.96.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.97.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.98.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.99.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. 100. [image error] Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
20th Century, 101-25101.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.102.
I, Claudius by Robert Graves.103.
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.104.
The Hobbit Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkein105.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.106.
At the Mountains of Madness The Definitive Edition by H.P. Lovecraft.1920s
107.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.108.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.109.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.110.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.111.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft.112.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.113.
A Passage to India by E.M. Forester.114.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.115.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.116.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. 117.
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves.118.
The Trial by Franz Kafka.119.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.120.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.1910s
121.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.122.
Dubliners by James Joyce.123.
Kokoro by Notsume Soseki.124.
The Metamorphosis Literary Touchstone by Franz Kafka.125.
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence.
20th Century, 126-50126.
Pygmalion - Literary Touchstone Edition by George Bernard Shaw.127.
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.128.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.129. [image error] The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
130.
Howards End by E.M. Forster131.
My Antonia by Willa Cather. 132.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham.1900s
133.
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster134.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London.135.
White Fang by Jack London.136.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois.137.
The Ambassadors by Henry James.138.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.139.
The Man Who Was Thursday A Nightmare by G.K. Chesteron.140.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.141.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Literary Touchstone Edltion by Arthur Conan Doyle.142.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling.143.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton.144.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczky.145.
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.
19th Century, 1-251.
The Importance of Being Earnest And Other Plays by Oscar Wilde.2.
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.3.
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde.4.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.5.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin.6.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.7.
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.8.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.9.
The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James.10.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.11.
The American by Henry James.12.
Daisy Miller by Henry James.13.
What Maisie Knew by Henry James.14.
The Ambassadors by Henry James.15.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.16.
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.17.
The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.18.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.19.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.20.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.21.
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.22.
Germinal by Emile Zola.23.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.24.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.25.
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.
19th Century, 26-5026.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.27. [image error] Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
28.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.29.
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.30.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.31.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.32.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.33.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.34.
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy.35.
Middlemarch by George Eliot.36.
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.37.
Silas Marner by George Eliot.38.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll.39.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.40.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.41.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.42.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.43.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.44.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens.45.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.46.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.47.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.48.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.49.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.50.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery.
19th Century, 51-7551.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.52.
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.53.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.54.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.55.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.56.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.57.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.58.
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin.59. [image error] Faust Pt. 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
60. [image error] Faust Part Two Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
61.
The Red and the Black by Stendhal.62.
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.63.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.64.
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott.65.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.66.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.67.
Emma by Jane Austen.68.
Persuasion by Jane Austen.69.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.70.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.71.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.72.
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss.
19th Century, 76-100
18th-8th Centuries, 1-2518th Century
1.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.2.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.3.
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.4.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.5.
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift.6.
Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding.7.
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope.8.
The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau.9.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 by James Boswell.10.
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.11.
The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson.12.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin.13.
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire.14.
Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire.15.
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay.16. [image error] The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Florida Edition by Laurence Stern.
17.
The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole.18.
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.19.
The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan.20.
The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais21.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine. 22. [image error] Evelina Or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney.
23.
Persian Letters by Montesqieu. 24.
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland.25.
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
18th-8th Centuries, 26-5017th Century
26.
The Pilgrim's Progress by James Bunyan.27.
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn.28.
Phèdre by Jean Racine.29.
Paradise Lost by John Milton.30.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys. 31.
Discourse on Method And The Meditations by Renee Descartes. 32.
The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette. 33.
Don Quixote by Cervantes.34.
Tartuffe by Moliere.35.
Le Misanthrope by Moliere.36.
L'école des femmes by Moliere.37.
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare.38.
The Tempest by William Shakespeare.39.
King Lear by William Shakespeare.40.
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare.41.
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare.42.
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare.43.
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.44.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare.45.
Othello by William Shakespeare.46.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare.47.
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare.48.
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare.49.
Pericles by William Shakespeare.50.
The Complete Poems by Ben Johnson.
18th-8th Centuries, 51-7516th Century
51.
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.52.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.53.
Utopia by Thomas More.54.
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais.55.
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.56.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. 57.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. 58.
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. 59.
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. 60. [image error] A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
61.
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. 62.
Henry V by William Shakespeare. 63.
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare. 64.
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare. 65.
Richard II by William Shakespeare. 66.
Richard III by William Shakespeare. 67.
Journey to the West The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures by Cheng'en Wu.8th-15th Centuries
68.
Beowulf A New Verse Translation by Anonymous.69.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.70.
Hope you don't mind me commenting (I think you can delete my entry if it messes up the flow) but have you heard of listsofbests.com? You can add your list there, and when you "check" off the book, it stays in your history that you've read it, and flags for you what % you have completed. Great list, by the way!!
Thank you! I've seen listsofbests when I was looking up other booklists, but I never thought about creating my own there. Maybe when this monstrosity is done, I will upload it over there, because it will be nice to see what % I'm actually reading.I decided if I'm really anal about comments admist my list, I will just cut and paste all my entries into a new thread in this folder and have Bonnie's Book Challenge 2.0 or whatever, so no worries about the comment.
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It's obviously heavily weighted toward the 20th & 21st Century (with an assist from the 19th) because my interest in pre-19th century lit is pretty slim. Plus, there are just a whole lot more books around from the past couple centuries.
For the 21st Century stuff, I aimed for books that were on lots of "best" lists or popular with the critics. Books that were critical hits or aimed for high-brow, even if I thought they were lame and often boring (that's right, I'm talking about you The Historian) made the cut. Books that were wildly successful and inexplicably on best lists but I felt were crap didn't (yeah, you, Da Vinci Code; I'm still mad at you for making me believe the myth that Friday the 13th unluckiness has to do with the Templar destruction, as well as pretensions that you were anything other than pulp fluff). My list, my rules.
I also aimed for a more international scope in the list for the 20th & 21st centuries, as a lot of really good books by international authors are available nowadays (as opposed to earlier centuries, where the works are either untranslated or hard to get through: ancient/medieval Western lit is painful enough; medieval whatever else lit sounds like as much fun as setting myself on fire...although I at least try to pay lip service to it and will maybe try to find abridged versions...or graphic novel versions).
Last thought: 1001 is a LOT of books. I've only listed about 500 so far and I'm wondering if there are really over 500 more thought-provoking/critcally aclaimed/classic books out there that I want to read.
Where I got the books for this list (some of them):
Booker Prize Winners and Nominees
Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
1001 Books To Read Before You Die, Broken Down by Decade on Jennifer's Amazing Blog
Waterstone's Top 100 Books of the Century
Newsweek's Top 100 Books
Update (12/17): Currently at nearly 450 books on the list. No wonder the authors of the original 1001 list included so many weird books (including ones with no English translation!)...finding 1001 books is really hard. Afraid of eventually having to include books I don't want just to pad the list.