1001 Books: Part One [2000s]
I don't know why I'm doing this, but clearly I have lost my mind.
Okay, uh, really, I'm not aiming to complete this, not as much as I'm using this as a list of recs to keep an eye on. And if I happen to read a book that's on this list, great! But it's not ZOMG important.
11 / 1001 books. 1% done!
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6. The Sea - John Banville
7. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9. The Master - Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point - David Markson
11. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
14. Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour - Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
18. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
20. Islands - Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
25. The Double - José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless - Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
31. In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud - John Banville
33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth - J. M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air - Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
40. Platform - Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling - Heather McGowan
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
46. Fury - Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
57. Ignorance - Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
60. City of God - E. L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live - Will Self
62. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia - George Saunders
Okay, uh, really, I'm not aiming to complete this, not as much as I'm using this as a list of recs to keep an eye on. And if I happen to read a book that's on this list, great! But it's not ZOMG important.
11 / 1001 books. 1% done!
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6. The Sea - John Banville
7. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9. The Master - Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point - David Markson
11. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
14. Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour - Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
18. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
20. Islands - Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
25. The Double - José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless - Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
31. In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud - John Banville
33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth - J. M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air - Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
40. Platform - Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling - Heather McGowan
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
46. Fury - Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
57. Ignorance - Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
60. City of God - E. L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live - Will Self
62. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia - George Saunders