1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
These books are not selected by booklit, but are taken from the book entitled 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Buy from Amazon: UK | US) , which, if it doesn’t inspire you to read them will at least give you the tools to convince people you have. The original blog posting regarding this list and its purpose on booklit can be found here.
2000s
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday, Ian McEwan
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
The Sea, John Banville
The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
The Master, Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point, David Markson
The Lambs Of London, Peter Ackroyd
Dining On Stones, Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour, Rose Tremain
Thursbitch, Alan Garner
The Light Of Day, Graham Swift
What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Islands, Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
The Double, José Saramago
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless, Carol Shields
Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Story Of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
In The Forest, Edna O’Brien
Shroud, John Banville
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth, J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air, Iain Banks
Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
The Book Of Illusions, Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
Platform, Michael Houellebecq
Schooling, Heather McGowan
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move, Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
