1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2000s)

 I have the 2015 edition and when I first got it I often used it to pick a good book to read, however, I totally forgot that I had it for several years. I've taken it from my bookshelf and am going to leave it where I can see it in 2023. Hopefully I can get through a few more. I've copied the list from 1001 Book Reviews.com for the 2000s. Let's see how many I have read and can get to next year!

• Orange - read before 2023
• Blue - read in 2023

2000s

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
1 a. Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
1 b. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
2 a. Falling Man – Don DeLillo
2 b. The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
3 a. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
3 b. Invisible – Paul Auster
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
4 a. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4 b. American Rust – Philipp Meyer
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
5 a. The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
5 b. Cost: A Novel – Roxana Robinson
6. The Sea – John Banville
6 a. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
6 b.The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
7 a. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
7 b. Home – Marilynne Robinson
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
8 a. Carry Me Down – M.J.Hyland
8 b. Kieron Smith, Boy – James Kelman
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
9 a. Mother’s Milk – Edward St.Aubyn
9 b. The Gathering – Anne Enright
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
10 a. Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
10 b. The Blind Side Of The Heart – Julia Franck
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
11 a. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
11 b. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
13 a. The Accidental – Ali Smith
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
14 a. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
15 a. 2666 – Roberto Bolano
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
16 a. Small Island – Andrea Levy
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
17 a. The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
20 a. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
21 a. The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
23 a. Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
24 a. A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
27 a. Lady Number Thirteen – Jose Carlos Somoza
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
28 a. The Successor – Ismail Kadare
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
29 a. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
30 a. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
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
35 a. Snow – Orhan Pamuk
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
41 a. Soldiers of Salamis – Javer Cercas
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
42 a. I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
44 a. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
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
53 a. Bartleby and Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas
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