Read 50 Books from the 1001 Books List in 2008

Read 50 Books from the 1001 Books List in 2008

Welcome Read 50 Books In One Year members and anyone who should happen across this list.




"When a new book is published, read an old one." Samuel Rogers

One of my goals is to read all the books that Dr. Peter Boxall (Harvard Literature professor) lists in his book, "1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die." I know it will take years to get them all read, (according to calulations based on the average lifespan of a western female, I need to read 31 of these books per year to finish before I die) but, here are 50 I'd like to read in 2008. I'll mark the # off in red as I read them

1. A Bend in the River (audio) by V. S. Naipaul - # 297
2. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (audio) - #64
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan- #42
4. Broken April by Ismail Kadare - # 286
5. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood - #199
6. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee - # 459
7. Complicity by Iain Banks - #138
8. Emma by Jane Austen - #936
9. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad - #780
10. Howards End by E. M. Forster- #754
11. Independent People (Vintage International) by Halldór Kiljan Laxness - #625
12. Kim by Rudyard Kipling- #783
13. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (audio) - #49
14. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - #937
15. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - #33
16. Morvern Callar by Warner, Alan #111
17. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - #698
18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (audio)  - #1
19. Northanger Abby by Jane Austen - #932
20. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck- #608
21. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - #484
22. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson- #237
23. Passing by Nella Larsen - #662
24. Persuasion by Jane Austen- #933
25. Saturday by Ian McEwan- #2
26. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - #940
27. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - #187
28. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - #375
29. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg - #157
30. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare - #53
31. Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin - #285
32. The Bridge on the Drina  by Ivo Andric - #562
33. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan-(audio)  - #302
34. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan-(audio)  #283
35. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - #532
36. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - #276
37. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd - #11
38. The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - #400
39. The Once and Future King by T.H. White - #477
40. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble - #7
41. The Sea by John Banville - #6
42. The Story of Lucy Gault  by William Trevor #29
43. The Story of O by Pauline Réage - #506
44. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - #901
45. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - #254
46. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Gilman- #801
47. Trainspotting by Irvine Walsh - #134
48. Unless by Carol Shields #27
49. Wide Sargasso Sea - #411
50. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor- #522

© Susan K. Barton 2008