I found this list on line and thought that it was pretty interesting. I dont know who put it together though. So far I've read ten of the books on the list and I'm working on my 11th. I had to shorten it into 2 parts because it had too many characters.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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

• Thurs**** – 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

• Fury – Salman Rushdie

• At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

• Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

• Life of Pi – Yann Martel

• The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

• An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma

• The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

• Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare

• White Teeth – Zadie Smith

• The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

• Under the Skin – Michel Faber

• Ignorance – Milan Kundera

• Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace

• Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy

• City of God – E.L. Doctorow

• How the Dead Live – Will Self

• The Human Stain – Philip Roth

• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

• After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

• Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

• Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

• Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

• Pastoralia – George Saunders

1900s

• Timbuktu – Paul Auster

• The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra

• Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

• As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?

• Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy

• Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb

• The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

• Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

• Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

• Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq

• Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi

• Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

• Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

• All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom

• The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon

• Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

• Glamorama – 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 Golden

• 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 Davis

• Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster

• The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

• Whatever – Michel 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 – Jàchym 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 – E. Annie Proulx

• Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

• Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

• Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

• Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

• Complicity – Iain 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 Özdamar

• 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 – Iain Banks

• Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

• Jazz – Toni Morrison

• The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

• Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg

• The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe

• Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates

• The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín

• 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

• Regeneration – Pat Barker

• Downriver – Iain Sinclair

• Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres

• Wise Children – Angela Carter

• Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard

• Amongst Women – John McGahern

• Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

• Vertigo – W.G. Sebald

• Stone Junction – Jim Dodge

• The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

• A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

• Like Life – Lorrie Moore

• Possession – A.S. Byatt

• The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

• The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle

• A Disaffection – James Kelman

• Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

• Moon Palace – Paul Auster

• Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow

• Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai

• The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker

• The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway

• The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago

• Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

• London Fields – Martin Amis

• The Book of Evidence – John Banville

• Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

• Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

• The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White

• Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson

• The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

• The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

• Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

• Libra – Don DeLillo

• The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

• Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

• The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble

• The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke

• The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

• The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

• The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind

• The Child in Time – Ian McEwan

• Cigarettes – Harry Mathews

• The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

• The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

• World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle

• Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul

• The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

• Beloved – Toni Morrison

• Anagrams – Lorrie Moore

• Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

• Marya – Joyce Carol Oates

• Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

• The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis

• Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt

• An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

• Extinction – Thomas Bernhard

• Foe – J.M. Coetzee

• The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

• Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel

• The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann

• Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

• The Cider House Rules – John Irving

• A Maggot – John Fowles

• Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

• Contact – Carl Sagan

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

• Perfume – Patrick Süskind

• Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard

• White Noise – Don DeLillo

• Queer – William Burroughs

• Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

• Legend – David Gemmell

• Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?

• The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman

• The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago

• The Lover – Marguerite Duras

• Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard

• The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

• Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

• Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker

• Neuromancer – William Gibson

• Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

• Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis

• Shame – Salman Rushdie

• Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett

• Fools of Fortune – William Trevor

• La Brava – Elmore Leonard

• Waterland – Graham Swift

• The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee

• The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing

• The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek

• The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus

• If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi

• A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

• The Color Purple – Alice Walker

• Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard

• A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

• The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

• The Newton Letter – John Banville

• On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin

• Concrete – Thomas Bernhard

• The Names – Don DeLillo

• Rabbit is Rich – John Updike

• Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray

• The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan

• July’s People – Nadine Gordimer

• Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

• Broken April – Ismail Kadare

• Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee

• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

• Rites of Passage – William Golding

• Rituals – Cees Nooteboom

• Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

• City Primeval – Elmore Leonard

• The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

• Smiley’s People – John Le Carré

• Shikasta – Doris Lessing

• A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul

• Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

• The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll

• If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

• The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

• The World According to Garp – John Irving

• Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

• The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch

• The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell

• Yes – Thomas Bernhard

• The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt

• In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee

• The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter

• Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin

• The Shining – Stephen King

• Dispatches – Michael Herr

• Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

• Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

• The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

• The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke

• Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo

• The Public Burning – Robert Coover

• Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice

• Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

• Amateurs – Donald Barthelme

• Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf

• Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

• W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec

• A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell

• Grimus – Salman Rushdie

• The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme

• Fateless – Imre Kertész

• Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan

• High Rise – J.G. Ballard

• Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow

• Dead Babies – Martin Amis

• Correction – Thomas Bernhard

• Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow

• The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle

• Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee

• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré

• Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

• A Question of Power – Bessie Head

• The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

• The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino

• Crash – J.G. Ballard

• The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

• Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

• The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch

• Sula – Toni Morrison

• Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

• The Breast – Philip Roth

• The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

• G – John Berger

• Surfacing – Margaret Atwood

• House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson

• In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul

• The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

• Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll

• The Wild Boys – William Burroughs

• Rabbit Redux – John Updike

• The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima

• The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

• The Ogre – Michael Tournier

• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

• Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

• Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

• Troubles – J.G. Farrell

• Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson

• The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard

• Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado

• Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover

• Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines

• Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

• The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

• Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

• The Godfather – Mario Puzo

• Ada – Vladimir Nabokov

• Them – Joyce Carol Oates

• A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec

• Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen

• Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal

• The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

• Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

• Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

• The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

• 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

• Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry

• The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

• In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

• A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

• The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf

• Chocky – John Wyndham

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

• The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa

• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

• Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson

• The Joke – Milan Kundera

• No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson

• The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

• A Man Asleep – Georges Perec

• The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West

• Trawl – B.S. Johnson

• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

• The Magus – John Fowles

• The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras

• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

• Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth

• The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon

• Things – Georges Perec

• The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

• August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien

• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

• Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor

• The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector

• Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

• Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme

• Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson

• Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe

• The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras

• Herzog – Saul Bellow

• V. – Thomas Pynchon

• Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

• The Graduate – Charles Webb

• Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré

• The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark

• Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess

• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

• The Collector – John Fowles

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

• Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

• The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard

• The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing

• Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges

• Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien

• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani

• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

• Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

• A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

• Faces in the Water – Janet Frame

• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

• Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

• The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

• How It Is – Samuel Beckett

• Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino

• The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

• Rabbit, Run – John Updike

• Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary

• Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee

• Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse

• Naked Lunch – William Burroughs

• The Tin Drum – Günter Grass

• Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes

• Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow

• Memento Mori – Muriel Spark

• Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll

• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

• The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

• Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe

• A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

• The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon

• Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe

• Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico

• Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan

• The End of the Road – John Barth

• The Once and Future King – T.H. White

• The Bell – Iris Murdoch

• Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet

• Voss – Patrick White

• The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

• Blue Noon – Georges Bataille

• Homo Faber – Max Frisch

• On the Road – Jack Kerouac

• Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

• Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

• The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber

• Justine – Lawrence Durrell

• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

• The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

• The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary

• Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

• The Floating Opera – John Barth

• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

• A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen

• The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett

• The Quiet American – Graham Greene

• The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis

• The Recognitions – William Gaddis

• The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini

• Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

• I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

• Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis

• The Story of O – Pauline Réage

• A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia

• Lord of the Flies – William Golding

• Under the Net – Iris Murdoch

• The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley

• The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

• The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett

• Watt – Samuel Beckett

• Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

• Junkie – William Burroughs

• The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow

• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

• Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

• The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

• Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

• Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

• The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

• Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

• Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

• Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

• Foundation – Isaac Asimov

• The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

• The Rebel – Albert Camus

• Molloy – Samuel Beckett

• The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

• The Abbot C – Georges Bataille

• The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz

• The Third Man – Graham Greene

• The 13 Clocks – James Thurber

• Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

• The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

• The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese

• The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk

• Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford

• The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge

• The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen

• Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier

• The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren

• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

• All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani

• Disobedience – Alberto Moravia

• Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot

• The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene

• Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

• Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

• The Victim – Saul Bellow

• Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau

• If This Is a Man – Primo Levi

• Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

• The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino

• The Plague – Albert Camus

• Back – Henry Green

• Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

• The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?

• Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

• Animal Farm – George Orwell

• Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

• The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford

• Loving – Henry Green

• Arcanum 17 – André Breton

• Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

• The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham

• Transit – Anna Seghers

• Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

• Dangling Man – Saul Bellow

• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Caught – Henry Green

• The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse

• Embers – Sandor Marai

• Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner

• The Outsider – Albert Camus

• In Sicily – Elio Vittorini

• The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien

• The Living and the Dead – Patrick White

• Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton

• Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf

• The Hamlet – William Faulkner

• Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler

• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

• Native Son – Richard Wright

• The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

• The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati

• Party Going – Henry Green

• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

• Finnegans Wake – James Joyce

Hmmm, pretty good list. Who wrote it? Catch 22 is a pretty good book.

I've read 27 of these. It took me about 6 months to read Foucoult's Pendulum, and I still didn't understand it.

Two of my all-time favorites are on this list. A lot that I've been meaning to read, too.

There are a couple on there that I had to read for my Anthropology classes - Things Fall Apart, and The God of Small Things. I recommend both

The Time Traveller's Wife should be on that list.

ok off to read part II

thanks for posting these, Red.

Sadly I haven't read much of these books. Sometimes I see authors I know but their books that I've read aren't the ones listed. I have indeed seen some of the movie versions of the books, if that counts as knowing it before I die. LOL.

Hopefully I'll have more luck with the second list.

lol yeah, out of my 10 i've only read like 3 from this list and like 7 from the other

I've read 19 of these. FINNEGAN'S WAKE I read back in High School on a dare. I read the whole thing from cover to cover and didn't understand a blessed thing.

I'd love to see which ones you've read, DL. If I get time I'll post which ones I've read.

Wow, just glancing through I haven't read a single one. I need to get busy.

What's The time traveller's wife about Jeanie? It sounds intriguing.

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Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce