1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a collection of books compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and published in a book. On this site you can view all of these books, a synopsis of the vast majority of them, and also purchase those books you wish to read.

Categories

The 1001 books which have been selected as the best books by the critics have been split into the following categories, according to the time when they were first published.

Category No Of Books

2000s 69
1900s 716
1800s 157
1700s 46
Pre-1700 13

Book of the Day: Book Number 817
The People of Hemso by August Strindberg

Most Popular Books

Title Author

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
On Beauty Zadie Smith
Saturday Ian McEwan
Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson
Vanishing Point David Markson
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
Slow Man J.M. Coetzee
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble
Metamorphoses Ovid
The Sea John Banville
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
Thursbitch Alan Garner
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
Aesop's Fables Aesopus
Oroonoko Aphra Behn
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
Aithiopika Heliodorus
Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen
City Sister Silver Jachym Topol