Books read

1001 books you must read before you die -- 2011

2000s (x3)
40. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
85. Atonement by Ian McEwan
94. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
111. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb

1900s (x10)
131. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
282. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
327. A Maggot by John Fowles
380. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
582. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
666. The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
721. The Third Man by Graham Greene
905. Quartet by Jean Rhys
955. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
981. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
991. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
997. Martin Eden by Jack London

1800s (x3)
1038. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
1045. Dracula by Bram Stoker
1056. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1700s (x1)
1252. Fanny Hill by John Clelland

Other books (x1)
The African Queen by C. S. Forester
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

1001 books you must read before you die -- 2010

1900s (x)
131. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
232. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
263. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
282. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
373. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
380. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
400. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
412. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
439. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
514. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
518. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
533. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
539. Chocky – John Wyndham
542. The Manor - Isaac Bashevis Singer
588. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
591. The Collector – John Fowles MULTIPLE
592. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
601. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
620. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
624. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
673. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
683. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
685. The Story of O – Pauline Réage MULTIPLE
689. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley MULTIPLE
704. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
709. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham MULTIPLE
711. Foundation – Isaac Asimov MULTIPLE
713. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
721. The Third Man – Graham Greene
734. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell MULTIPLE
779. Embers – Sandor Marai
787. The Man Who Loved Children - Stead
793. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene MULTIPLE
801. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck MULTIPLE
815. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck MULTIPLE
829. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell MULTIPLE
839. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
855. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
865. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley MULTIPLE
900. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence MULTIPLE
928. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
938. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster MULTIPLE
962. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
974. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce MULTIPLE
980. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
988. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence MULTIPLE
994. Howards End – E.M. Forster MULTIPLE
997. Martin Eden – Jack London
999. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
1008. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy MULTIPLE
1025. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle MULTIPLE
1027. Kim – Rudyard Kipling

1800s (x46)
1038. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
1039. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
1045. Dracula by Bram Stoker
1050. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
1056. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1060. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
1062. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
1076. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
1080. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
1081. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
1084. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
1091. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
1095. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
1101. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
1102. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
1110. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
1115. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
1117. Middlemarch – George Eliot
1121. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
1127. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
1131. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
1132. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
1140. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
1147. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
1151. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
1152. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
1156. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
1157. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
1158. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
1163. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
1164. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
1165. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
1168. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
1170. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë MULTIPLE
1171. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
1172. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
1175. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
1176. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas MULTIPLE
1189. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
1194. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
1206. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
1207. Persuasion – Jane Austen MULTIPLE
1210. Emma – Jane Austen MULTIPLE 
1211. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen MULTIPLE 
1212. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen MULTIPLE
1213. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen MULTIPLE