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Tigerlily

Books added to the 2008 edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:

Pre-1800

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter – Anonymous

The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu

Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong

The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an Luo Guanzhong

Tirant Lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell

La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas

Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo

The Life of Larzirillo de Tormes – Anonymous

The Lusiad – Luis Vaz de Camoes

Monkey: A Journey to the West – Wu Cheng’en

Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney

The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans Von Grimmelshausen

The Princess of Cleves –Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

Anton Reiser – Karl Philipp Moritz

A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin

1800s

Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis

Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich Von Kliest

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Life of a Good-For-Nothing – Joseph Von Eichendorff

Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin

The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience

Camera Obscura – Hildebrand

A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

The Devil’s Pool – George Sand

Green Henry – Gottfried keller

Indian Summer – Adalbert Strifer

Max Havelaar – Multatuli

Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera

The Crime of Father Amado – Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

The Regent’s Wife – Clarin Leopoldo Alas

The Quest – Frederik Van Eden

The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan

Under The Yolk – Ivan Vazov

The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio

Eline Vere – Louis Couperus

Thais – Anatole France

Down There – Joris – Karl Huysmans

The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto

Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos

Pharaoh – Boleslaw prus

As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo

Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi

1900s

Sansokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari

None but The Brave – Arthur Schnitzler

The Call of The Wild – Jack London

Memoirs of my Nervous Illness – Daniel P. Schreber

The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler

Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann

Solitude – Victor Catala

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke

Platero and I – juan Ramon Jimenez

The Underdogs – Mariano azuela

Pallieter – Felix Timmermans

Home and the World – Rabindra Nath Tagore

Growth of the Soul – Knut Hamsun

The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger

Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini

Claudine’s House – Colette

The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu

Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset

The New World – Heruy Walda-Sellasse

Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo

Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos

Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel

The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig

Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki

Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnoor

I Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson

Monica - Saunders Lewis

Insatiability – Stanislaw lgnacy Witkiewicz

The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza

The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth

The Forbidden Realm – J. J. Slauerhoff

Viper’s Tangle – Francois Mauriac

Cheese – Willem Elsschot

Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux

The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz

The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon

Untouchable - Muik Raj Anand

War With the Newts – Karel Capek

Rickshaw Boy – Lao She

Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz

The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat

Alamut – Vladimar Bartol

On the Edge of Reason – Miroslav Krleza

The Man who Loved Children – Christina Stead

Broad and Alien is the World – Ciro Alegria

Chess Story – Stefan Zweig

Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann

Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren

Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andric

The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy

Andrea – Carmen Laforet

The Death of Virgil – Hermann Broch

Zorba The Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis

House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell

Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian

Journey to the Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela

Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski

In the Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski

The Guiltless – Hermann Broch

Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist

The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela

Excellent Women – Barbara Pym

A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata

The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier

The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen

The Dark Child – Camara Laye

A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac

The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir

Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen

The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima

The unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna

The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo

The Tree of Man – Patrick White

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa

The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger

The Manila Rope – Veijo Meri

The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck

The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado

The Guide – R. K. Narayan

The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Deep Rivers – Jose Maria Arguedas

Down Second Avenue – Ezekiel Mphahlele

The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Halftime – Martin Walser

Bebo’s girl – Carlo Cassola

God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene

The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti

No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas

Time of Silence – Luis Martin-Santos

The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes

The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa

The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis

Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers

Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabel

Garden Ashes – Danilo Kis

Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic

Silence – Shusaku Endo

To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia

Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo

Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz

Z – Vassilis Vassilikos

The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Day of the Dolphin – Robert merle

The Cathedral – Oles Honchar

Jacob the

– Jurek Becker

The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad

Moscow Stations – Venedikt Yerofeev

Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig

Seasons of Migrations to the North – Tayeb Salih

Here’s to You Jesusa! – Elena Poniatowska

Fifth Business – Robertson Davies

Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion

A World For Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Cataract – Mykhaylo Osadchyi

Lives of Girls & Women – Alice Munro

The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi

The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty

The Dispossessed – Ursela K. Le Guin

The Diviners – Margaret Laurence

The Port – Antun Soljan

The Commandant – Jessica Anderson

The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna

Women at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi

Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor

Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig

Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami

The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky

Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym

The Wars – Timothy Findley

The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro

Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr

The Back Room – Carmen Martin Gaite

So Long a Letter – Mariama Ba

A Dry White season – Andre Brink

The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa

Baltasar and Blimunda – Jose Saramago

The Christmas Oratorio – Goran Tunstrom

Fado Alexandrino – Antonio Lobo Antunes

The Witness – Juan Jose Saer

Professor Martens’ departure – Jean Kross

Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel – Julian Rios

Fool’s Gold – Maro Douka

Southern Seas – Manuel Vasquez Montalban

Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai

The House with the Blind Glass Windows – Herbjorg Wassmo

Leaden Wings – Zhang Jie

The War at the End of the World – Mario Vargas Llosa

Couples, Passerby – Botho Strauss

Democracy – Joan Didion

The Young Man – Botho Strauss

Love machine – Louise Erdrich

Half of Man is Woman – Zhang Xianliang

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

Simon and the Oaks – Marianne Fredriksson

Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid

Ancestral Voices – Etienne Van Heerden

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman- Andrzej Szczypiorski

Memory of Fire – Eduardo Galeano

Ballad for Georg Henig – Viktor Paskov

Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende

All Souls – Javier Marias

Black Box – Amos Oz

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

The First Garden – Anne Herbert

The Last World – Christoph Ransmayr

Paradise of the Blind – Duong Thu Huong

Gimmick! – Joost Zwagerman

Obabakoak – Bernado Atxaga

Inland – Gerald Murnane

The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor

The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh

The Daughter – Pavlos Matesis

The Laws – Connie Palmen

Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell

Astradeni – Eugenia Fakinou

Memoirs of rain – Sunetra Gupta

All The Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy

The Triple Mirror of the Self – Zulfikar Ghose

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture – Aposolos Doxiadis

Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas

The Adventures and misadventures of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis

Remembering Babylon – David Malouf

The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee

The Twins – Tessa de Loo

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light – Ivan Klima

Deep River – Shusaku Endo

Our Lady Of Assassins – Fernando Vallejo

Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante

The Late-Night News – Petros Markaris

Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Matinez

A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza

Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie Macdonald

Margot and the Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts

Crossfire – Miyabe Miyuki

The Heretic – Miguel Deliber

Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano

Pavel’s Letters – Monika Maron

In Search of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi

The Musuem of Unconditional Surrender – DubravKa Ugresic

2000s

Bartleby and Co – Enrique Vila-Matas

Celestial Harmonies – Peter Esterhazy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti

Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas

Snow – Orhan Pamuk

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

Vernon God Little DBC Pierre

The Successor – Ismail Kadare

Lady Number Thirteen – Jose Carlos Somoza

Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias

The Swarm – Frank Schatzing

Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist

Small Island – Andrea Levy

2666 – Roberto Bolano

The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst

The Accidental – Ali Smith

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka

Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann

Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn

Carry Me Down – M.J. Hyland

Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon

The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai

The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell

Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid

Falling Man – Don Delillo

Animal’s People – Indra Sinha

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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

A BIG thank you to Sally3 who has a copy of the revised book and went to the trouble of sifting through it for the new additions! Must have taken a while to do that.

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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily

Books added to the 2008 edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:

Pre-1800 & 1800s

Know absolutely none of those listed!

1900s

Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren - I actually recognise one! Haven't read it though.

A Dry White season – Andre Brink - on wish list.

2000s

Vernon God Little DBC Pierre - on wish list, really want to read this.

Small Island – Andrea Levy - Yay! There's one actually on my TBR!

The Accidental – Ali Smith - previous BB read. Thought it was ok, not great.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka - can't believe this is on the list to be honest. Thought it was ok.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Sally3 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:49 am Post subject:

Pre-1800

Never heard of any of these.

1800s

Havn't read any of these.

1900s

Havn't read any of these but there is quite a few I fancy.

2000s
Read - A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian (0k read)

TBR (so far,will check out the rest)

Suite Francaise
I'm Not Scared
Cary Me Down

eightlegs · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks Sally. And I've not heard of many either!!!

But I have read I'm Not Scared, a short book and worth reading IMO. "Liked" is probably not a word I'd use though, not because it wasn't good to read but I found it "unsettling" (couldn't think of a better word without putting people off or giving too much away! If you've read it you might know what I mean!

Also have The Accidental on TBR.

Daniela-26 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

I've read one of the above list and that's The namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ~ I thoroughly ejoyed this one and would recommend it!

I have Small Island, Suite Francaise and Half of a Yellow Sun on my TBR.

I'm afraid I haven't heard of the majority though

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Reading: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
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heathera · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

I've not heard of most of these!! I've got Half of a Yellow Sun, A Short History of Tractors... and Small Island on my tbr but that's about it.

I take it these must replace other books that were previously on the list? It's all a bit complicated when trying to work out what we've read from the list this year. Are we using the old one and the new one side by side?
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The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman

1001 Book Challenge:
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2008 - 14
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Kilgore Trout · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

There are two on the pre 1800 list that some perhaps are familar with.... The Water Margin, and Monkey were both TV programs in the 70s/80s!! Monkey was my favourite as a kid! It was legendary (literally). Surely some of you must remember Monkey, Pigsy, and Triptaka et al??

..... and what an awesome theme tune!!!!

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2008 '1001 Challenge' Books: 9

Tigerlily · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:41 am Post subject:

No I don't remember those programmes!

Heather, we'll be running the lists alongside each other, so it's up to you if you want to do both lists or just the one. I'm going to combine both lists - I don't want to miss out on those in the first list but omitted from the second. The second list seems to be about including more international authors, don't you think?
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Daniela-26 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:17 am Post subject:

miranda · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

miranda · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:48 am Post subject:

I haven't heard of most of the one before 2000s, but of the 2000 ones Small Island and Half of a Yellow Sun are both brilliant books. In fact, they were two of my best reads last year!
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Currently reading: The Human Stain by Philip Roth
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.'

Kilgore Trout · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:31 am Post subject:

heathera · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

annecater · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

Thanks Caroline (aka Sally3) for doing this - it must have taken you ages!

Well, what I'd like to know is who decides the books and what criteria they have to mee? I've never heard of most of them.

Call of the Wild - Jack London - would like to read this

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren - a favourite as a child, my first cat was named after her!

Zorba The Greek - Nikos Kazantzaks - I've looked at this loads of times when on holiday, this might make me read it now!

This Way For The Gas - Tadeusz Borowski - this has been on my wish list for a while

Fall On Your Knees - Anne Marie McDonald - I've had a copy of this for ages, but had just decided that I wont read it!

I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammanti - on my TBR

Tractors - Marina Lewycka - read this, agree with Glynis though and dont really see why it's on the list
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Carry Me Down - MJ Hyland - hated this and gave up on it

Half a Yellow Sun - gave up on this one too

Falling Man - Don DeLillo - read this earlier this year - didnt enjoy it all and dont know why it's on the list either.

I'm going to check out some of the other titles though.
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Currently reading: The Tent The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy and Granny The Pag by Nina Bawden

1001 Challenge Books read in 2009 - 3
1001 Challenge Books read in 2008 - 8
1001 Challenge Books read in 2007 - 13

wonderlake · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

1900's ~ I believe The Leopard was already in the 1,001 ?

I read Kitchen in May

and also I'm Not Scared, Vernon God Little previously

I have Snow, and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian TBR.

Falling man doesn't get a glowing review:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2286734,00.html

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Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 11

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