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.

1001 Best Books - Book 1

Book Number 1

Title Never Let Me Go

Author Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN 057122413X

Category 2000s

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day