1001 books to read
I’m attempting to complete the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge (2010 edition). I will review these books as I read them and tag them accordingly. I’m officially 100 books in, not all have been enjoyable, but I have also discovered some hidden gems. Links go to reviews where I have written them.Anyone else who is undertaking a similar challenge is welcomed to join me. Email me if you’d like to guest post on any of these novels!These are ordered by their publication date.
Completed – 115 Books
- #12 – Falling Man by: Don DeLillo
- #41 – Life of Pi by: Yann Martel
- #43 – Atonement by: Ian McEwan
- #71 – Underworld by: Don DeLillo
- #84 – Infinite Jest by: David Foster Wallace
- #86 – Alias Grace by: Margaret Atwood
- #89 – Santa Evita by: Tomas Eloy
- #127 – All the Pretty Horses by: Cormac McCarthy
- #147 – American Psycho by: Bret Easton Ellis
- #157 – The Buddha of Suburbia by: Hanif Kureishi
- #167 – Like Water for Chocolate by: Laura Esquivel
- #168 – A Prayer for Owen Meany by: John Irving
- #172 – Foucault’s Pendulum by: Umberto Eco
- #186 – The Black Dahlia by: James Ellroy
- #191 – Beloved by: Toni Morrison
- #209 – Love in the Time of Cholera by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- #212 – The Cider House Rules by: John Irving
- #214 – Contact by: Carl Sagan
- #218 – The Handmaid’s Tale by: Margaret Atwood
- #221 – White Noise by: Don DeLillo
- #232 – The Wasp Factory by: Iain Banks
- #233 – Neuromancer by: William Gibson
- #256 – Schindler’s Ark by: Thomas Keneally
- #272 – Confederacy of Dunces by: John Kennedy Toole
- #284 – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams
- #285 – The Cement Garden by: Ian McEwan
- #291 – Requiem for a Dream by: Hubert Selby Jr.
- #294 – The Shining by: Stephen King
- #305 – Interview With the Vampire by: Anne Rice
- #339 – Surfacing by: Margaret Atwood
- #344 – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by: Hunter S. Thompson
- #363 – Slaughterhouse Five by: Kurt Vonnegut
- #366 – Portnoy’s Complaint by: Phillip Roth
- #367 – The Godfather by: Mario Puzo
- #375 – 2001: A Space Odyssey by: Arthur C. Clarke
- #376 – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by: Phillip K. Dick
- #386 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- #416 – Cat’s Cradle by: Kurt Vonnegut
- #422 – The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath
- #430 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by: Ken Kesey
- #431 – A Clockwork Orange by: Anthony Burgess
- #436 – Stranger in a Strange Land by: Robert Heinlein
- #445 – Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller
- #452 – To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
- #463 – Breakfast at Tiffany’s by: Truman Capote
- #481 – The Once and Future King by: T.H. White
- #482 – On the Road by: Jack Kerouac
- #492 – The Talented Mr. Ripley by: Patricia Highsmith
- #493 – Lolita by: Vladimir Nabokov
- #508 – Lord of the Flies by: William Golding
- #520 – Casino Royale by: Ian Fleming
- #525 – The Invisible Man by: Ralph Ellison
- #526 – The Old Man and the Sea by: Ernest Hemingway
- #534 – Catcher in the Rye by: J.D. Salinger
- #545 – A Town Like Alice by: Nevil Shute
- #547 – I, Robot by: Isaac Asimov
- #554 – Nineteen Eighty-Four by: George Orwell
- #556 – This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by: Tadeusz Borowski
- #566 – The Plague by: Albert Camus
- #573 – Zorba the Greek by: Nikos Kanantzákis
- #583 – Animal Farm by: George Orwell
- #600 – For Whom the Bell Tolls by: Ernest Hemingway
- #607 – The Grapes of Wrath by: John Steinbeck
- #613 – Rebecca by: Daphne du Maurier
- #619 – Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck
- #630 – Gone With the Wind by: Margaret Mitchell
- #634 – At the Mountain of Madness by: H.P. Lovecraft
- #644 – The Postman Always Rings Twice by: James M. Cain
- #659 – Brave New World by: Aldous Huxley
- #698 – The Sun Also Rises by: Ernest Hemingway
- #705 – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by: Agatha Christie
- #709 – The Great Gatsby by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- #711 – The Trial by: Franz Kafka
- #717 – We by: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- #718 – A Passage to India by: E.M. Forster
- #724 – Siddhartha by: Herman Hesse
- #729 – Ulysses by: James Joyce
- #731 – Crome Yellow by: Aldous Huxley
- #769 – The Jungle by: Upton Sinclair
- #774 – House of Mirth by: Edith Wharton
- #784 – Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad
- #794 – The Awakening by: Kate Chopin
- #797 – The War of The Worlds by: H.G. Wells
- #802 – Dracula by: Bram Stoker
- #804 – The Island of Dr. Moreau by: H.G. Wells
- #810 – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by: Sir Conan Arthur Doyle
- #814 – Tess of d’Urbervilles by: Thomas Hardy
- #816 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by: Oscar Wilde
- #828 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde by: Robert Louis Stevenson
- #832 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain
- #848 – Anna Karenina by: Leo Tolstoy
- #854 – Around the World in Eighty Days by: Jules Verne
- #860 – Through the Looking Glass by: Lewis Carroll
- #862 – War and Peace by: Leo Tolstoy
- #866 – The Idiot by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- #867 – Little Women by: Louisa May Alcott
- #871 – Crime and Punishment by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- #873 – Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by: Lewis Carroll
- #877 – Les Miserables by: Victor Hugo
- #880 – Great Expectations by: Charles Dickens
- #895 – Moby-Dick by: Herman Melville
- #896 – The Scarlet Letter by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- #899 – Wuthering Heights by: Emily Bronte
- #900 – Vanity Fair by: William Makepeace Thackery
- #901 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- #902 – The Count of Monte Cristo by: Alexandre Dumas
- #906 – The Pit and the Pendulum by: Edgar Allen Poe
- #911 – The Fall of the House of Usher by: Edgar Allen Poe
- #914 – Oliver Twist by: Charles Dickens
- #930 – Emma by: Jane Austen
- #932 – Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen
- #967 – Candide by: Voltaire
- #976 – A Modest Proposal by: Jonathan Swift