This will be a list of the 101 "Books to Read Before You Die" as published by Ottakar's Books on their website (before they were taken over by Waterstones). I have read 75 so far and will try to put a short review of each the books I have read, although I read many of them some years ago.
Here's the list:
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
Alias GraceMargaret Atwood
American PsychoBret Easton Ellis
PerfumePatrick Suskind
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel G. Marquez
All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
AtonementIan McEwan
The Bell JarSylvia Plath
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
BelovedToni Morrison
The Big SleepRaymond Chandler
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote
The Diary of Anne FrankAnne Frank
Catch 22Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
Cider with RosieLaurie Lee
The Color PurpleAlice Walker
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crow RoadIain Banks
DraculaBram Stoker
And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie
Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis de Bernieres
The Crimson Petal and the WhiteMichel Faber
The Daughter of TimeJosephine Tey
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole
The Code of the WoostersP.G. Wodehouse
An Evil CradlingBrian Keenan
FingersmithSarah Waters
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeMark Haddon
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
Fear and Loathing in Las VegasHunter S. Thompson
The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles
The Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
Ham on RyeCharles Bukowski
Hey Nostradamus!Douglas Coupland
If This Is A ManPrimo Levi
What A Carve Up!Jonathan Coe
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor
An Instance of the FingerpostIain Pears
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A HatOliver Sacks
House of LeavesMark Z. Danielewski
Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
I Capture the CastleDodie Smith
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin
Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte
Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
Life of PiYann Martel
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
Long Walk to FreedomNelson Mandela
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding
The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely BonesAlice Sebold
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey
Oranges Are Not The Only FruitJeanette Winterson
The MonkMatthew Lewis
The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco
New York TrilogyPaul Auster
Northern Lights Philip Pullman
The OdysseyHomer
The OutsiderAlbert Camus
The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver
PossessionA.S. Byatt
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
A Prayer for Owen MeanyJohn Irving
Rabbit, RunJohn Updike
The ReaderBernard Schlink
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerJames Hogg
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
The Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsRobert Tressell
RebeccaDaphne du Maurier
The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt
The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse 5Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on CedarsDavid Guterson
Sophie's WorldJostein Gaarder
A Suitable BoyVikram Seth
StalingradAntony Beevor
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe
To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee
Touching the VoidJow Simpson
TrainspottingIrvine Welsh
WaterlandGraham Swift
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kindera
The Wind Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami
The Worst Journey in the WorldApsley Cherry-Garrard
The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins
Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
A Time of GiftsPatrick Leigh Fermor
Can you suggest any books that might have been included? I for one was disappointed that Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes wasn't on the list.
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