Assembled by over 100 literary critics, the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list boasts some of the best literature in the world. While I do not expect to read all of the works, I want to keep track of how many I have read. I bought and downloaded the full version of the spreadsheet made by Arukiyomi (http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?page_id=1806) to help me keep track. I'll also keep this page updated with the works that I've read and that are on my TBR pile. I'm including any work that was on any of the three lists, which include a total of 1294 works of literature. I also included links to my reviews, if I have reviewed it for my blog.
Read:
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
2. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5. Atonement by Ian McEwan
6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
7. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
8. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
9. Watchmen by Alan Moore
10. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
12. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
13. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
14. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. The Bell Jar by Sylvnia Plath
17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
18. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
19. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
21. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
22. Lord of the Flies by William Golding23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
24. 1984 by George Orwell
25. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
26. Animal Farm by George Orwell
27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
28. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
29. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
30. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
31. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
33. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
34. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
35. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeral36. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
37. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
38. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
39. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
40. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
41. Dracula by Bram Stoker
42. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
43. Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
44. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
45. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
46. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
47. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
48. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
49. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. Little Women by Loisa May Alcott
51. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky52. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
53. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
54. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
55. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
57. Vanity Fair by William Makepease Thackeray
58. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
59. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
60. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
61. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
62. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
63. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
64. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
65. Emma by Jane Austen
66. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
67. Camilla by Fanny Burney
68. The Monk by Mathew Lewis
69. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
70. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
71. Candide by Voltaire
72. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
73. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
74. A Thousand and One Nights
75. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
76. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
77. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
TBR:
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2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
3. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
7. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
8. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Graduate by Charles Webb
10. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
11. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
12. The Plague by Albert Camus
13.
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
17. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
18. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
19. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
20. The War of the World by H.G. Wells
21. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
22. Middlemarch by George Eliot
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24. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
25. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
26. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
