Can you name the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pt. 1 (before 1900)? by johnlk

Can you name the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pt. 1 (before 1900)?

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Author	Book
Aesop
Ovid
Chariton
Heliodorus
Lucius Apuleius
Anonymous
François Rabelais
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
Miguel de Cervantes
John Bunyan
Madame de La Fayette
Aphra Behn
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Eliza Haywood
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Denis Diderot
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollett
Henry Fielding
John Cleland
Tobias Smollett
Henry Fielding
Charlotte Lennox
Voltaire
Samuel Johnson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Horace Walpole
Oliver Goldsmith
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
Henry Mackenzie
Tobias Smollett
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fanny Burney

Author	Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fanny Burney
Marquis de Sade
William Beckford
Marquis de Sade
William Godwin
Olaudah Equiano
Ann Radcliffe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
M. G. Lewis
Fanny Burney
Denis Diderot
Friedrich Hölderlin
Maria Edgeworth
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jane Austen
Maria Edgeworth
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Maria Edgeworth
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Charles Robert Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin
James Hogg
James Fenimore Cooper
Alessandro Manzoni
Stendhal
Victor Hugo
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Nikolai Gogol
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe
Stendhal
Nikolai Gogol

Author	Book
Charles Dickens
Honoré de Balzac
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Gustave Flaubert
George Eliot
Ivan Goncharov
Charles Dickens
Multatuli
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wilkie Collins
George Eliot
Anthony Trollope
Ivan Turgenev
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Ivan Turgenev
Victor Hugo
Charles Kingsley
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sheridan Le Fanu

Author	Book
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jules Verne
Anthony Trollope
Emile Zola
Louisa May Alcott
Wilkie Collins
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Comte de Lautréaumont
Anthony Trollope
Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
Ivan Turgenev
Lewis Carroll
George Eliot
Ivan Turgenev
Samuel Butler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sheridan Le Fanu
Jules Verne
Nicolai Leskov
Thomas Hardy
Gustave Flaubert
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Ivan Turgenev
Emile Zola
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Hardy
August Strindberg
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emile Zola
Lew Wallace
Gustave Flaubert
Henry James
Giovanni Verga
Robert Louis Stevenson
Guy de Maupassant
Leo Tolstoy
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Walter Pater
Guy de Maupassant

Author	Book
Mark Twain
Emile Zola
H. Rider Haggard
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
H. Rider Haggard
Thomas Hardy
August Strindberg
Benito Perez Galdos
Guy de Maupassant
Robert Louis Stevenson
Knut Hamsun
August Strindberg
Emile Zola
Leo Tolstoy
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Hardy
Selma Lagerlöf
George Gissing
William Morris
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
George and Weedon Grossmith
George Gissing
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Somerville and Ross
Thomas Hardy
Theodor Fontane
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Bram Stoker
André Gide
Henry James
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
Henry James
Kate Chopin
Theodor Fontane
Somerville and Ross

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pt. 1 (before 1900) Quiz

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	dollymix:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 13:27 GMT		3 points
	Please up the time to 20 minutes and also accept "Around the world in 80 days". Good quiz otherwise, although I think the underlying list has some flaws; surely, for example, one of the seven Thomas Hardy books could be exchanged for The Canterbury Tales, or Beowulf, or Piers Plowman? And do we really need to read six of the eight novels written by the Bronte sisters?

	johnlk:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 15:54 GMT		6 points
	I made the changes you suggested. I agree that the list is problematic. It seems to basically be a list of novels, but then includes random things like Ovid's Metamorphoses. I think this is why the works you mention aren't included, but I don't really get the criteria. Some of the particular selections are weird, too - Scott's "The Monastery" but not Waverley or The Heart of Midlothian? Trollope's "Castle Richmond" but not Barchester Towers or The Way We Live Now? Martin Chuzzlewit but not Pickwick Papers? And why include individual Poe short stories?

	Trazom:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 17:27 GMT		1 point
	Agreed. I've read Castle Richmond, and it's kind of interesting (a youngish widow and her marriagable daughter both in love with the same young man) but come on — it's like 20th on the list of Trollope novels you have to read. But that's them, not you — as a quiz this is a lot of fun! Are we really going to do three more installments to get to 1001?

	johnlk:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 17:56 GMT		3 points
	I'll try to put up Part 2 later this afternoon, to get to about mid-century. After that it gets kind of dizzyingly full of recent novels I've never heard of, but I'll do it if there's interest.

	Chocolatl:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 04:08 GMT		1 point
	I've read Fanny Burney's stuff, but I'm sure that most people could live a full and satisfying life without ever encountering her. I guess that just points out how subjective these lists are. It's a good quiz, though.

	Cortez:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 11:55 GMT		2 points
	Too many for me.

	johnlk:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 15:52 GMT		4 points
	The idea that you have to read three Fanny Burney novels before you die does seem difficult to justify.

	Hoc:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 03:31 GMT		1 point
	The entries for Poe are short stories, not novels or books on their own.

	johnlk:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 16:09 GMT		1 point
	They are indeed. I have no idea why.

	Aaron_Kashtan:	Nov 30th, 2011 at 20:35 GMT		1 point
	Also this is just Western literature, so no Ramayana or Tale of Genji or Hung Lou Meng.

	milgita:	Dec 1st, 2011 at 13:18 GMT		-3 points
	I disagree that anyone should read either Metamorphoses or Moby Dick. Both of those books are awful. However I completely agree that everyone who has not read Les Miserables,Ivanhoe, and most of the Dickens novels is missing out.

	dicko:	Dec 2nd, 2011 at 21:50 GMT		2 points
	216 answers is at least 166 too many. And anything by Anne Bronte shouldn't make the top 1,000,000 let alone the top 1000.

	Aristocles:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 22:21 GMT		3 points
	this list is messed up. No Odyssey, no Illiad, no religious works, or for that matter, no Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost.

	johnlk:	Dec 6th, 2011 at 03:59 GMT		2 points
	Aaron - It's actually not just western literature. It's just they do a really terrible job of including non-western literature. Aristocles - yeah, it's weird. I would say "it's really a list of novels," because it mostly is, except that they include a bunch of things that aren't novels. It's hard to say what they were thinking.

	whatthedickens:	Dec 15th, 2011 at 14:29 GMT		1 point
	I am most baffled by Equiano--certainly, his is an important work (one of the first, if not THE first slave narrative ever written), but how can you then leave out Frederick Douglass??

	Platonicus:	Dec 22nd, 2011 at 01:10 GMT		1 point
	I think the one who made this list had no idea about world literature. It's ridiculous to exclude so many classics and to include a dozen works of some rather unimportant authors.

	Platonicus:	Dec 22nd, 2011 at 01:12 GMT		1 point
	And for the creator of the quiz, please accept the original title for foreign works, like for the German ones.