In lieu of a well-considered post that requires me to do more than hit the delete key 919 times, I’ve decided to post the paltry list of books I’ve read from the 1001 (Fiction) Books That You Must Read Before You Die.
Thanks to the staggeringly well-read (20 percent!) Sameer for bringing the list to my attention, and to Jason Kottke for bringing it to his.
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Downriver - Iain Sinclair
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Crash - J.G. Ballard
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Collector - John Fowles
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Native Son - Richard Wright
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
She - H. Rider Haggard
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Emma - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
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