1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

There's an argument going on in the New York Times at the moment about this subject. They are using the Boxall list, which is divided thematically.

Queenie is not going to reprint 1001 book titles as that would ruin her front page, but here for the delectation of readers is the list of sixty nine books on the list that were published in the 2000s.

Queenie has read twenty eight of them, approximately 40 per cent.

How many have you read?

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Q
Saturday – Ian McEwan Q
On Beauty – Zadie Smith Q
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Q
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville Q
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín Q - not quite finished
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell Q
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 Q
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry Q
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters Q
The Double – José Saramago Q
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer Q
Unless – Carol Shields Q
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami Q
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor Q
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern Q
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Q
Youth – J.M. Coetzee Q
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald Q
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan Q
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen Q
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo Q
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill Q
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel Q
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 Q
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 Q
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood Q
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates Q
Pastoralia – George Saunders