1001 books you must read before you die   Dr. Peter Boxall's list of the best 1001 books from the 2000s, 1900s, 1800s, 1700s and pre 1700s is now pretty infamous and featured on quite a few websites. I'm a huge bookworm so I've been meaning to add this page to my site for quite some time. I might not agree with quite a few of Dr. Boxall's choices (for instance, the absence of Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Wind in the Willows, Roald Dahl books etc), but any list would be the same I'm sure, unless it was me writing it! You can view the full list here. Here follow the books from his list that I have read, want to read or are in the process of reading.   Reading   None   Read   1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 93. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 95. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 135. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 165. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 190. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 274. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro 494. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 496. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 508. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 574. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 610. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 676. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 708. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 824. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 831. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 848. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 868. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 876. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 898. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 904. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 913. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 918. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 938. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 983. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift 987. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 1001. Aesop's Fables by Aesopus   Want to read next   2. Saturday by Ian McEwan 84. The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon 85. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters 134. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 246. Queer by William Burroughs 258. Neuromancer by William Gibson 275. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally 451. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 529. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 644. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain 744. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki 747. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 791. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 794. Dracula by Bram Stoker 808. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 822. Kidnapped! by Robert Louis Stevenson 835. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 872. The Water-Babies by Charles Kingley 893. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 908. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 931. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 965. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 985. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe