Boxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read

I came across this list a few months ago and decided I wanted to see how many of these books I can read in my lifetime.  As I read a book off the list I will add it to this page.  To see the full list of books, see here!

Read: 62

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
5. White Noise by Don DeLillo
6. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
7. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
13. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
14. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
16. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
17. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
18. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
19. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
20. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
21. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
22. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
23. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
24. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
25. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
26. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
27. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
30. Dracula by Bram Stoker
31. Call of the Wild by Jack London
32. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
33. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
34. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
35. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
36. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
37. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
38. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
39. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
40. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
41. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
42. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
43. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
44. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
45. Persuasion by Jane Austen
46. Emma by Jane Austen
47. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
48. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
49. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
50. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
51. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
52. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
53. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
54. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
55. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
56. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
57. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
58. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
59. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
60. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
61. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
62. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
63. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens