Peter Boxall, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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The book lists titles chronologically by publication, with descriptions written by a variety of 'international critics'. Compiled 101 genre titles.
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Titles Cited: 101
Publication: Universe Publishing, 2006
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 101
Publication: Universe Publishing, 2006
- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (William Heinemann, 1987)
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series, 1979-1984)
- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (William Heinemann, 1988)
- Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (Cape, 1969)
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow (Jonathan Cape , 1991)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (series, 1951-1953)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (Jonathan Cape, 1970)
- J. G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights (Flamingo, 1996)
- J. G. Ballard, Crash (Jonathan Cape, 1973)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun (Gollancz, 1984)
- J. G. Ballard, High-Rise (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
- J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes (HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2000)
- Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Macmillan, 1988)
- Iain M. Banks, The Wasp Factory (Macmillan, 1984)
- John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy (Doubleday, 1966)
- Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962; Argentina 1944)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (New Directions, 1962)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Harper & Row, 1967; France 1967)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914)
- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (Olympia Press , 1959)
- William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys (Grove Press, 1971)
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon, or Over the Range (Trübner and Co, 1872)
- Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; Italy 1979)
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974; Italy 1972)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Macmillan, 1871)
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (Chatto & Windus , 1984)
- Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (Gollancz, 1977)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (Pantheon, 2000)
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (Viking, 1985)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Chapman and Hall, 1843)
- Michel Faber, Under the Skin (Canongate Books, 2000)
- John Fowles, The Magus (Little, Brown, 1965)
- David Gemmell, Legend (Century, 1984)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate , 1981)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969; Switzerland 1943)
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (Chapman & Hall, 1908)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber, 2005)
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Heinemann, 1898)
- Stephen King, The Shining (Doubleday , 1977)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Doris Lessing, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Knopf, 1979)
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (Astounding, 1936)
- Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (Hurst, Robinson, 1820)
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Sceptre, 2004)
- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (DC Comics, 1987)
- William Morris, News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (Roberts Brothers, 1890)
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (Knopf, 2005; Japan 2002)
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg , 1945)
- George Orwell, Coming Up for Air (Gollancz, 1939)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Signet Classic, 1960)
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (Lippincott, 1966)
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Viking , 1973)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Philip Roth, The Breast (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972)
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- Salman Rushdie, Grimus (Gollancz , 1975)
- Carl Sagan, Contact (Simon & Schuster, 1985)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (Avon, 1999)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume (Knopf, 1986)
- James Thurber, The 13 Clocks (Simon & Schuster, 1950)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (Sampson Low, 1873; France 1872)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte, 1973)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando (Hogarth , 1928)
- John Wyndham, Chocky (Ballantine, 1968)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (Michael Joseph, 1957)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (Dutton, 1924)
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