Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

My goal is to read all books on the lists including the ones which were taken off. Won't necessarily finish all books; I tend to dnf in the spirit of 'too many good books only one life'
I have already read some of the books on the list so will put those up and others as I progress through them.

Read before 2023

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
3. Home by Marilynne Robinson
4. The Gathering by Anne Enright
5. Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
6. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
7. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
8. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
10. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
11. Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
12. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
13. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Saturday – Ian McEwan
15. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
16. The Master – Colm Tóibín
17. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
18. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
20. Unless – Carol Shields
21. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
22. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
23. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
24. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
25. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
26. Atonement – Ian McEwan
27. I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
28. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
29. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
30. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
31. Pastoralia – George Saunders
32. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
33. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
34. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
35. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
36. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
37. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
38. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
39. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
40. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
41. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
42. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
43. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
44. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
45. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
46. The Information – Martin Amis
47. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
48. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
49. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
50. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
51. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
52. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
53. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
54. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
55. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
56. Jazz – Toni Morrison
57. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
58. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
59. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
60. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
61. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
62. Regeneration – Pat Barker
63. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
64. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
65. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
66. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
67. Possession – A.S. Byatt
68. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
69. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
70. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
71. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
72. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
73. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
74. Beloved – Toni Morrison
75. The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov
76. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
77. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
78. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
79. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
80. Neuromancer – William Gibson
81. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
82. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
85. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
86. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
87. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
88. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
89. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
90. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
91. The World According to Garp – John Irving
92. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
93. The Shining – Stephen King
94. Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
95. Fateless – Imre Kertész
96. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
97. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
98. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
99. Sula – Toni Morrison
100. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
101. The Breast – Philip Roth
102. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
103. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
104. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
105. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
106. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
107. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
108. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
109. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
110. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
111. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
112. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
113. Chocky – John Wyndham
114. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
115. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
116. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
117. Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal
118. The Graduate – Charles Webb
119. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
120. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
121. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
122. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
123. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
124. Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
125. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassan
126. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
127. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
128. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
129. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
130. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
131. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
132. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
133. The Guide by Narayan
134. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
135. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
136. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
137. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
138. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
139. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
140. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
141. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
142. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
143. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
144. Barabbas by Lagerkvist
145. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
146. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
147. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
148. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
149. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
150. Froth on the Daydream by Vian
151. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
152. Animal Farm – George Orwell
153. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
154. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
155. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
156. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
157. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
158. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
159. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
160. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
161. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
162. Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
163. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
164. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
165. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
166. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
167. Untouchable by Anand
168. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
169. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
170. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
171. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
172. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
173. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
174. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
175. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
176. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
177. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
178. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
179. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
180. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
181. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
182. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
183. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
184. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
185. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
186. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
187. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
188. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
190. Mother – Maxim Gorky
191. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
192. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
193. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
194. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
195. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
196. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
197. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
198. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
199. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
200. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
201. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
202. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
203. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
204. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
205. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
206. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
207. Persuasion – Jane Austen
208. Emma – Jane Austen
209. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
210. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
211. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
212. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
213. Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending
214. Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
215. Jonathan Franzen: Freedom
216. Chad Harbach: The Art of Fielding
217. Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
218. Haruki Murakami: 1Q84

January - December 2023