Once again, I saw this list at Pages Turned, who got it from Kiri at Book Crossing. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I’m interested in reading. I’m really shocked at many of the subtractions — too many to list. I do want to point out, though, that Ficciones by Borges was removed, and that is one that dumbfounds me. The new list was supposed to be more international. What was wrong with Ficciones in that regard?
I’m going to stick with the original 1001 list, but I will use the new one as a tool for research into more international titles.
Titles already read: 7
Titles interested in reading: 42
The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan Pre-1700
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly Pre-1700
Aithiopika Heliodorus Pre-1700
Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton Pre-1700
Metamorphoses Ovid Pre-1700
Aesop’s Fables Aesopus Pre-1700
Cecilia Fanny Burney 1700′s
Rameau’s Nephew Denis Diderot 1700′s
Amelia Henry Fielding 1700′s
Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1700′s
Roxana Daniel Defoe 1700′s
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1700′s
The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1800′s
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells 1800′s
The Real Charlotte Somerville/Ross 1800′s
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1800′s
Born in Exile George Gissing 1800′s
The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1800′s
Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdés 1800′s
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1800′s
She H. Rider Haggard 1800′s
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1800′s
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1800′s
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1800′s
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1800′s
Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev 1800′s
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1800′s
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1800′s
The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert 1800′s
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1800′s
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1800′s
On the Eve Ivan Turgenev 1800′s
Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1800′s
The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 1800′s
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1800′s
Hard Times Charles Dickens 1800′s
Villette Charlotte Brontë 1800′s
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1800′s
Shirley Charlotte Brontë 1800′s
Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell 1800′s
Agnes Grey Anne Brontë 1800′s
La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas 1800′s
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe 1800′s
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1800′s
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1800′s
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1800′s
The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin 1800′s
The Monastery Sir Walter Scott 1800′s
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1800′s
Persuasion Jane Austen 1800′s
Ormond Maria Edgeworth 1800′s
The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1800′s
Timbuktu Paul Auster 1900′s
The Romantics Pankaj Mishra 1900′s
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1900′s
Everything You Need A.L. Kennedy 1900′s
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1900′s
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami 1900′s
Intimacy Hanif Kureishi 1900′s
Amsterdam Ian McEwan 1900′s
Cloudsplitter Russell Banks 1900′s
Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters 1900′s
Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 1900′s
Another World Pat Barker 1900′s
Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon 1900′s
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1900′s
Great Apes Will Self 1900′s
American Pastoral Philip Roth 1900′s
The Untouchable John Banville 1900′s
Cocaine Nights J.G. Ballard 1900′s
The Information Martin Amis 1900′s
The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1900′s
Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth 1900′s
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald 1900′s
Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster 1900′s
The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst 1900′s
The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee 1900′s
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh 1900′s
Operation Shylock Philip Roth 1900′s
Complicity Iain Banks 1900′s
The House of Doctor Dee Peter Ackroyd 1900′s
The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood 1900′s
The Emigrants W.G. Sebald 1900′s
A Heart So White Javier Marias 1900′s
Jazz Toni Morrison 1900′s
Black Water Joyce Carol Oates 1900′s
The Heather Blazing Colm Tóibín 1900′s
Black Dogs Ian McEwan 1900′s
Time’s Arrow Martin Amis 1900′s
Downriver Iain Sinclair 1900′s
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis de Bernieres 1900′s
Wise Children Angela Carter 1900′s
Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1900′s
A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham 1900′s
Possession A.S. Byatt 1900′s
A Disaffection James Kelman 1900′s
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow 1900′s
The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker 1900′s
The Book of Evidence John Banville 1900′s
Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood 1900′s
The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White 1900′s
Libra Don DeLillo 1900′s
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks 1900′s
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams 1900′s
The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1900′s
The Child in Time Ian McEwan 1900′s
Marya Joyce Carol Oates 1900′s
Foe J.M. Coetzee 1900′s
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1900′s
A Maggot John Fowles 1900′s
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis 1900′s
Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1900′s
Queer William Burroughs 1900′s
Worstward Ho Samuel Beckett 1900′s
Fools of Fortune William Trevor 1900′s
The Diary of Jane Somers Doris Lessing 1900′s
The Newton Letter John Banville 1900′s
Concrete Thomas Bernhard 1900′s
The Names Don DeLillo 1900′s
The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan 1900′s
Rites of Passage William Golding 1900′s
City Primeval Elmore Leonard 1900′s
Shikasta Doris Lessing 1900′s
The Safety Net Heinrich Böll 1900′s
The World According to Garp John Irving 1900′s
Yes Thomas Bernhard 1900′s
The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter 1900′s
Petals of Blood Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1900′s
Ratner’s Star Don DeLillo 1900′s
The Public Burning Robert Coover 1900′s
Amateurs Donald Barthelme 1900′s
Grimus Salman Rushdie 1900′s
High Rise J.G. Ballard 1900′s
Dead Babies Martin Amis 1900′s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré 1900′s
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1900′s
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch 1900′s
Sula Toni Morrison 1900′s
The Breast Philip Roth 1900′s
The Wild Boys William Burroughs 1900′s
The Driver’s Seat Muriel Spark 1900′s
The Ogre Michael Tournier 1900′s
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke 1900′s
Mercier et Camier Samuel Beckett 1900′s
Troubles J.G. Farrell 1900′s
The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard 1900′s
The Green Man Kingsley Amis 1900′s
The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch 1900′s
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm Lowry 1900′s
Chocky John Wyndham 1900′s
The Cubs and Other Stories Mario Vargas Llosa 1900′s
The Joke Milan Kundera 1900′s
A Man Asleep Georges Perec 1900′s
The Birds Fall Down Rebecca West 1900′s
Trawl B.S. Johnson 1900′s
August is a Wicked Month Edna O’Brien 1900′s
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1900′s
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1900′s
Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald Bartholme 1900′s
Albert Angelo B.S. Johnson 1900′s
The Collector John Fowles 1900′s
The Drowned World J.G. Ballard 1900′s
The Violent Bear it Away Flannery O’Connor 1900′s
How It Is Samuel Beckett 1900′s
Our Ancestors Italo Calvino 1900′s
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow 1900′s
Memento Mori Muriel Spark 1900′s
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Paul Gallico 1900′s
The End of the Road John Barth 1900′s
The Wonderful “O” James Thurber 1900′s
Seize the Day Saul Bellow 1900′s
A World of Love Elizabeth Bowen 1900′s
Self Condemned Wyndham Lewis 1900′s
The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 1900′s
Watt Samuel Beckett 1900′s
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1900′s
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 1900′s
The Third Man Graham Greene 1900′s
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 1900′s
The Victim Saul Bellow 1900′s
Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1900′s
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford 1900′s
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1900′s
Caught Henry Green 1900′s
Go Down, Moses William Faulkner 1900′s
The Poor Mouth Flann O’Brien 1900′s
Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton 1900′s
Between the Acts Virginia Woolf 1900′s
The Hamlet William Faulkner 1900′s
Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler 1900′s
Party Going Henry Green 1900′s
Coming Up for Air George Orwell 1900′s
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller 1900′s
After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie Townsend Warner 1900′s
The Years Virginia Woolf 1900′s
The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis 1900′s
To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1900′s
Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson 1900′s
The House in Paris Elizabeth Bowen 1900′s
England Made Me Graham Greene 1900′s
Burmese Days George Orwell 1900′s
Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht 1900′s
Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1900′s
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1900′s
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis Grassic Gibbon 1900′s
The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett 1900′s
Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham 1900′s
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1900′s
Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico 1900′s
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1900′s
The Last September Elizabeth Bowen 1900′s
Harriet Hume Rebecca West 1900′s
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1900′s
The Childermass Wyndham Lewis 1900′s
Quartet Jean Rhys 1900′s
The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence 1900′s
Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1900′s
Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville 1900′s
Cane Jean Toomer 1900′s
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1900′s
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield 1900′s
Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf 1900′s
The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton 1900′s
The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus 1900′s
Aaron’s Rod D.H. Lawrence 1900′s
The Fox D.H. Lawrence 1900′s
Night and Day Virginia Woolf 1900′s
The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad 1900′s
Summer Edith Wharton 1900′s
Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1900′s
The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1900′s
Rosshalde Herman Hesse 1900′s
Three Lives Gertrude Stein 1900′s
Martin Eden Jack London 1900′s
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1900′s
The Iron Heel Jack London 1900′s
Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster 1900′s
The Golden Bowl Henry James 1900′s
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900′s
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2000′s
Saturday Ian McEwan 2000′s
On Beauty Zadie Smith 2000′s
Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 2000′s
Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson 2000′s
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble 2000′s
Vanishing Point David Markson 2000′s
The Lambs of London Peter Ackroyd 2000′s
Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair 2000′s
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle 2000′s
The Colour Rose Tremain 2000′s
Thursbitch Alan Garner 2000′s
The Light of Day Graham Swift 2000′s
Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee 2000′s
London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2000′s
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2000′s
Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2000′s
The Double José Saramago 2000′s
Unless Carol Shields 2000′s
The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor 2000′s
That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern 2000′s
In the Forest Edna O’Brien 2000′s
Shroud John Banville 2000′s
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2000′s
Youth J.M. Coetzee 2000′s
Dead Air Iain Banks 2000′s
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster 2000′s
Gabriel’s Gift Hanif Kureishi 2000′s
Schooling Heather McGowan 2000′s
Don’t Move Margaret Mazzantini 2000′s
The Body Artist Don DeLillo 2000′s
Fury Salman Rushdie 2000′s
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2000′s
Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2000′s
An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma 2000′s
Ignorance Milan Kundera 2000′s
Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 2000′s
City of God E.L. Doctorow 2000′s
How the Dead Live Will Self 2000′s
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000′s
After the Quake Haruki Murakami 2000′s
Super-Cannes J.G. Ballard 2000′s
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000′s
Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000′s
Pastoralia George Saunders 2000′s
I agree with you. I’ll probably work mostly from the original list, but the new one provides a lot of fun exploration potential! I’ve found many wonderful reads off this list despite all the criticism. I’m glad you have, too!
Lezlie
Just wanted to let you know that I didn’t compile the list of deletions. The spreadsheet was put together by “Kiri” of Book Crossing. . .
Thanks, SFP, I changed my post to mention the original source.
Seems like some pretty radical changes to the list. I wonder why they didn’t just call it Another 1001 books to Read before you die? Or the International version of the list? It’s pretty much half changed.
I received the book as a gift two years ago and I have been referring to it for reading ideas. Honestly it’s a very expansive list and I have read more from the second half: Atwood, Ishiguro Auster, etc.