- Timbuktu - Paul Auster
- The Romantics - Pakaj Mishra
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakulic
- Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
- Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
- Elementary Particles - Michael Houellebecq
- Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
- Amsteram - Ian McEwan
- Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
- All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
- The Talk of the Town - Ardal O'Hanlon
- Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
- Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingslover
- Galmorama - Bret Easton Ellis
- Another World - Pat Barker
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
- Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Goldne
- Great Apes - Will Self
- Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
- Underworld - Don DeLillo
- Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
- The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
- American Pastoral - Philip Roth
- The Untouchable - John Banville
- Silk - Alessandro Baricco
- Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
- Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
- Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
- The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
- Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- The Clay Machine Gun – Victor Pelevin
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
- The Information – Martin Amis
- The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
- Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
- The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
- The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
- The End of the Story – Lydia David
- Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
- The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
- Whatever – Michael Houellebecq
- Land – Park Kyong-ni
- The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
- City Sister Silver – Jachym Topol
- How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
- Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
- Disappearance – David Dabydeen
- The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
- The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
- Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
- Complicity – Ian Banks
- On Love – Alain de Botton
- What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
- The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
- The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Ozdamar
- The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
- A Heart So White – Javier Marias
- Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
- Indigo – Marina Warner
- The Crow Road - Ian Banks
- Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
- Jazz - Toni Morrison
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
- The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCable
- Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
- The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin
- Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
- Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
- Arcadia - Jim Crace
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
- Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
- Mao II - Don DeLillo
- Typical - Padgett Powell
Monday, November 10, 2008
List-o-Phile Monday
Continuing from last week's post on the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die post, here are the first 100 books from the 1900s (running backwards)
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I really have a problem with this 1001 books I must read before I die list. I mean, 1001 books? That's a lot of books! Do I really need to read "American Psycho" before I die? I mean, really? "American Psycho"? I don't think so. The guy who made this list needed an editor. Tell him to call me back when it's down to 101...or at least when he's pared it down enough so that "American Psycho" and its peers aren't included.
Sorry, that was a bit of a rant...
It's a strange list. There's an explanation for how it was put together, I just don't remember what it was. I don't think that he really meant for anyone to read all 1,001...just to produce it as a guide. The title, obviously, is just for dramatic effect. There are actually sister books out there - 1,001 Movies, 1,001 Albums, etc.
Like most book lists, the only real value in them is to introduce a reader to new authors. Just because of this list, I've read some really great books, and discovered authors who I might/probably never would have encountered otherwise...Anna Seghers, Janice Galloway, Primo Levi, Radclyffe Hall, etc.
There are some real stinkers on the list too.
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