Whenever I’m not quite sure what to read next, I find it helpful to choose something from Peter Boxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

To view all the ones I’ve reviewed, click on my 1001 Books to read before you die tag.

Alternatively, check out the list below. The reviews are arranged in alphabetical order by book title — hyperlinks take you to my review in full.

• ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ by James Joyce
• ‘Alias Grace’ by Margaret Atwood
• ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque
• ‘Amongst Women’ by John McGahern
  
• ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan
• ‘A Room with a View’ by E.M. Forster
• ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ by Françoise Sagan
• ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ by Truman Capote
• ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Greene
• ‘Carry Me Down’ by M.J. Hyland
• ‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell
• ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ by Choderlos de Laclos
• ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker
• ‘Excellent Women’ by Barbara Pym
• ‘Fall on Your Knees’ by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• ‘Fifth Business’ by Robertson Davies
• ‘Fugitive Pieces’ by Anne Michaels
  
• ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler’ by Italo Calvino
  
• ‘I’m Not Scared’ by Niccolo Ammaniti
• ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte
• ‘July’s People’ by Nadine Gordimer
• ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ by Arthur Golden
  
• ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ by Winifred Watson
• ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell
  
• ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier
• ‘Season of Migration to the North’ by Tayeb Salih
• ‘Silk’ by Alessandro Baricco
• ‘Soldiers of Salamis’ by Javier Cercas
• ‘The Bell Jar’ by Slyvia Plath
• ‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen
  
• ‘The End of the Affair’ by Graham Greene
• ‘The Gathering’ by Anne Enright
• ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• ‘The Lonely Londoners’ by Sam Selvon
• ‘The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum or How violence develops and where it can lead’ by Heinrich Böll
• ‘The Lover’ by Margeurite Duras
• ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov
• ‘The Sea’ by John Banville
• ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith
• ‘Under the Skin’ by Michel Faber
• ‘Vernon God Little’ by DBC Pierre
  
• ‘Voss’ by Patrick White
• ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys
• ‘Wise Blood’ by Flannery O’Connor

This page will be updated as and when I review titles from this book. It was last updated on 18 May 2017.