«1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die»
Product Description
For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The featured works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others.Addictive, browsable, knowledgeable—1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die will be a boon companion for anyone who loves good writing and an inspiration for anyone who is just beginning to discover a love of books. Each entry is accompanied by an authoritative yet opinionated critical essay describing the importance and influence of the work in question. Also included are publishing history and career details about the authors, as well as reproductions of period dust jackets and book designs.
About the Author
Dr. Peter Boxall is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction and drama.
1. 2000s
2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Saturday – Ian McEwan
4. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
5. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
6. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
7. The Sea – John Banville
8. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
9. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
10. The Master – Colm Tóibín
11. Vanishing Point – David Markson
12. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
13. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
14. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
15. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
16. The Colour – Rose Tremain
17. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
18. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
19. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
21. Islands – Dan Sleigh
22. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
23. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
24. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
25. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
26. The Double – José Saramago
27. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
28. Unless – Carol Shields
29. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
30. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
31. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
32. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
33. Shroud – John Banville
34. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
36. Dead Air – Iain Banks
37. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
38. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
39. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
40. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
41. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
42. Schooling – Heather McGowan
43. Atonement – Ian McEwan
44. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
45. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
46. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
47. Fury – Salman Rushdie
48. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
49. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
52. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
53. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
54. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
55. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
56. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
58. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
59. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
60. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
61. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
62. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
64. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
65. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
66. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
67. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
68. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
69. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
70. Pastoralia – George Saunders
71. 1900s
72. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
73. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
74. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
75. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
76. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
77. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
78. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
79. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
80. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
81. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
82. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
83. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
84. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
85. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
86. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
87. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
88. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
89. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
90. Another World – Pat Barker
91. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
92. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
93. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
94. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
95. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
96. Great
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