1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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3	Read?	#	Book Title	Author	Wilson score	nationality	Period	TBR

4		1	Aesop’s Fables	Aesopus	174	Greek	pre-1700s
5		2	Metamorphoses	Ovid	368	Roman	pre-1700s
6		3	Chaireas and Kallirhoe	Chariton	1136		pre-1700s
7		4	An Ethiopian Romance	Heliodorus	1164	Syrian	pre-1700s
8		5	The Thousand and One Nights	Anonymous	525	Arabian	pre-1700s
9		6	The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter	Anonymous	873		pre-1700s
10		7	The Tale of Genji	Murasaki, Shikibu	1082		pre-1700s
11		8	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Luo, Guanzhong	1158		pre-1700s
12		9	The Water Margin	Shi, Nai'an	414		pre-1700s
13		10	Tirant lo Blanc	Martorell, Joanot	1280		pre-1700s
14		11	La Celestina	Rojas, Fernando de	1154		pre-1700s
15		12	Amadis of Gaul	Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de	1195		pre-1700s
16		13	The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes	Anonymous	1001		pre-1700s
17		14	Gargantua and Pantagruel	Rabelais, François	1055	French	pre-1700s
18		15	The Lusiads	Camões, Luís de	293		pre-1700s
19		16	Monkey: Journey to the West	Wu, Cheng'en	294		pre-1700s
20		17	Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit	Lyly, John	1297	English	pre-1700s
21		18	The Unfortunate Traveller	Nashe, Thomas	1200	English	pre-1700s
22		19	Thomas of Reading	Deloney, Thomas	1307		pre-1700s
23		20	The Golden Ass	Apuleius, Lucius	465	Roman	pre-1700s
24	pre	21	Don Quixote	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	840	Spanish	pre-1700s
25		22	The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	1123	Spanish	pre-1700s
26		23	The Conquest of New Spain	Díaz del Castillo, Bernal	234		pre-1700s
27		24	The Adventurous Simplicissimus	Grimmelshausen, Hans von	946		pre-1700s
28	pre	25	The Pilgrim’s Progress	Bunyan, John	259	English	pre-1700s
29		26	The Princess of Clèves	La Fayette, Madame de	1122	French	pre-1700s
30	pre	27	Oroonoko	Behn, Aphra	1272	English	pre-1700s
31		28	A Tale of a Tub	Swift, Jonathan	1005	English	1700s
32	pre	29	Robinson Crusoe	Defoe, Daniel	834	English	1700s
33		30	Love in Excess	Haywood, Eliza	1188	English	1700s
34	pre	31	Moll Flanders	Defoe, Daniel	1034	English	1700s
35		32	Roxana	Defoe, Daniel	1147	English	1700s
36		33	Gulliver’s Travels	Swift, Jonathan	990	English	1700s
37		34	A Modest Proposal	Swift, Jonathan	106	English	1700s
38		35	Joseph Andrews	Fielding, Henry	1204	English	1700s
39		36	Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus	Arbuthnot, John et al	1090	Irish	1700s
40	pre	37	Pamela	Richardson, Samuel	1299	English	1700s
41	pre	38	Clarissa	Richardson, Samuel	1276	English	1700s
42		39	Roderick Random	Smollett, Tobias George	1157	English	1700s
43		40	Tom Jones	Fielding, Henry	1023	English	1700s
44		41	Fanny Hill	Cleland, John	1186	English	1700s
45		42	Peregrine Pickle	Smollett, Tobias George	1222	Scottish	1700s
46		43	Amelia	Fielding, Henry	1171	English	1700s
47		44	The Female Quixote	Lennox, Charlotte	1069	America	1700s
48	pre	45	Candide	Voltaire	565	French	1700s
49		46	The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	Johnson, Samuel	1084	English	1700s
50		47	Julie; or, the New Eloise	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	1224	French	1700s
51		48	Émile; or, On Education	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	1037	French	1700s
52		49	The Castle of Otranto	Walpole, Horace	1223	English	1700s
53		50	The Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver	1052	English	1700s
54		51	Tristram Shandy	Sterne, Laurence	949	English	1700s
55		52	A Sentimental Journey	Sterne, Laurence	1148	English	1700s
56		53	The Man of Feeling	Mackenzie, Henry	1266	Scottish	1700s
57		54	Humphry Clinker	Smollett, Tobias George	1156	Scottish	1700s
58	pre	55	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	778	German	1700s
59	pre	56	Evelina	Burney, Fanny	938	English	1700s
60		57	Reveries of a Solitary Walker	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	835	French	1700s
61	pre	58	Dangerous Liaisons	Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de	213	French	1700s
62		59	Confessions	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	1056	French	1700s
63		60	Cecilia	Burney, Fanny	1064	English	1700s
64		61	The 120 Days of Sodom	Sade, Marquis de	1262	French	1700s
65		62	Anton Reiser	Moritz, Karl Philipp	1051		1700s
66		63	Vathek	Beckford, William Thomas	1191	English	1700s
67		64	Justine	Sade, Marquis de	1129	French	1700s
68		65	A Dream of Red Mansions	Cao, Xueqin	201		1700s
69	pre	66	The Adventures of Caleb Williams	Godwin, William	1127	English	1700s
70		67	The Interesting Narrative	Equiano, Olaudah	757	Nigerian	1700s
71		68	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Radcliffe, Ann	1209	English	1700s
72		69	Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	772	German	1700s
73		70	The Monk	Lewis, M.G.	694	English	1700s
74		71	Camilla	Burney, Fanny	1054	English	1700s
75		72	Jacques the Fatalist	Diderot, Denis	584	French	1700s
76		73	The Nun	Diderot, Denis	806	French	1700s
77		74	Hyperion	Hölderlin, Friedrich	361	German	1700s
78		75	Castle Rackrent	Edgeworth, Maria	1228	English	1800s
79		76	Henry of Ofterdingen	Novalis	948		1800s
80		77	Rameau’s Nephew	Diderot, Denis	1130	French	1800s
81		78	Elective Affinities	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	781	German	1800s
82		79	The Absentee	Edgeworth, Maria	1041	English	1800s
83		80	Michael Kohlhaas	Kleist, Heinrich von	1015		1800s
84	pre	81	Sense and Sensibility	Austen, Jane	175	English	1800s
85	pre	82	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	25	English	1800s
86	pre	83	Mansfield Park	Austen, Jane	594	English	1800s
87	pre	84	Emma	Austen, Jane	306	English	1800s
88		85	Rob Roy	Scott, Sir Walter	928	Scottish	1800s
89		86	Ormond	Edgeworth, Maria	1225	English	1800s
90	pre	87	Persuasion	Austen, Jane	73	English	1800s
91	pre	88	Northanger Abbey	Austen, Jane	530	English	1800s
92	pre	89	Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary	609	English	1800s
93	pre	90	Ivanhoe	Scott, Sir Walter	813	Scottish	1800s
94		91	The Monastery	Scott, Sir Walter	1231	Scottish	1800s
95		92	Melmoth the Wanderer	Maturin, Charles Robert	984	Irish	1800s
96		93	The Albigenses	Maturin, Charles Robert	1312	Irish	1800s
97		94	The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr	Hoffman, E.T.A.	529		1800s
98		95	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	Hogg, James	888	Scottish	1800s
99		96	The Life of a Good-for-Nothing	Eichendorff, Joseph von	1146		1800s
100		97	Last of the Mohicans	Cooper, James Fenimore	837	American	1800s