1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

[Faneros]

top 20

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

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[glynndah]

I've read one of those.

 

[Shadowann2]

Damn! I haven't read a single one!

 

[firespin]

I'll wait for the cliff notes.

 

[HB1965]

Wow. I definitely agree with many of those choices.

 

[firespin]

Not much Tom Clancy or Barbara Cartwright.

 

[glynndah]

Not much Tom Clancy or Barbara Cartwright.

They're in the next twenty.

 

[firespin]

They're in the next twenty.

Along with Sidney Sheldon and Steven King, I hope.

If I read a book a week, it will still take almost 20 years.

 

[glynndah]

Along with Sidney Sheldon and Steven King, I hope.

If I read a book a week, it will still take almost 20 years.

I'm afraid with some of those books, it'll certain seem that long.

 

[Faneros]

if you read a book a month, it would take you to about 2063, I won't live that long...

 

[firespin]

if you read a book a month, it would take you to about 2063, I won't live that long...

That's about 55 years from now. Some here might make it. But that would take almost twenty books / year.

 

[Faneros]

Shouldn't the Democrats be crushing McCain in the polls?

,,,,,,

 

[Faneros]

That's about 55 years from now. Some here might make it. But that would take almost twenty books / year.

I wont be around...

 

[glynndah]

I read the entire list.. Not the books, just the list. That has to count for something. Oh, and I think I've read about 75 of them. At this rate, I'll never get through the list. If I have to read all of them before I die, I'm as good as immortal.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Damn! I haven't read a single one!

Pooh. Me either.

 

[glynndah]

Along with Sidney Sheldon and Steven King, I hope.

If I read a book a week, it will still take almost 20 years.

I checked. Stephen King is on the list. Those books listed were just the ones published in the 2000s. There are more popular ones on the list.

 

[firespin]

I read the entire list.. Not the books, just the list. That has to count for something. Oh, and I think I've read about 75 of them. At this rate, I'll never get through the list. If I have to read all of them before I die, I'm as good as immortal.

War and Peace, Remembrance of Thing Past, and Ulysses. And that's just three, there are a dozens more equally drab and bleak reads here.

This list makes no sense to me, sorry.

 

[Little Tighty]

Are you there God? it's me Margaret - Judy Blume.

 

[glynndah]

War and Peace, Remembrance of Thing Past, and Ulysses. And that's just three, there are a dozens more equally drab and bleak reads here.

This list makes no sense to me, sorry.

There were a few good ones. Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Raymond Chandler, etc.

Does it count if you've seen the movie?

 

[wideeyedone]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon


This book is phenomenal. It was written by a special ed teacher. The story is told from the perspective of a boy with high functioning autism.

 

[HB1965]

The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

This is a really good book

 

[KRCummings]

Curious Incident is the only one I've ever read.

 

[Cock_Breath]

I want a blowjob from roryn

 

[Not Normal]

There's a pretty good chance I will not get to 1001 books before death.

 

[KRCummings]

There's a pretty good chance I will not get to 1001 books before death.

Why not? I've probably read a couple thousand books so far and it's not like I sit around reading all the time.