1001 Novels You Must Read Before You Die

Well the Brits have done it again!

An overwhelming list of the proper books to consume to make your life complete.

As a masochist of the first sort.. I can hardly resist!

I downloaded the list.. randomized the order using a trusty excel spreadsheet.. and

ended up with my first ten books to read this summer.

This - on top of - my annual undertaking of the Pulitzer Prize winners!

I will order these from Abe Books (Check this on-line house out if you don't know them)

and see how the selection goes.

Here are the first ten for me. If you want the entire list - email me and I can forward it on to you! ;-)

1 A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
2 Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
3 Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
4 Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
5 Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
6 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
7 Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
8 The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
9 Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
10 Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

As always.. any comments on my undertaking are welcome!