英国卫报遴选“1000本死前必读小说”

英国卫报遴选

“1000

本死前必读小说

”

英国卫报

（

Guardian

）

在

2009

年一月，

由一群专业人 士选出了

1000

本每个人在死前必读的小说，

不是选最佳小说，

也不是选最喜爱的小

说，而是选必读 小说。

这个榜单不分语言与年代，排除长诗、回忆录

与短篇小说 ，共选出

1000

本七大类的小说，由于我本人学艺不精，

只认得

Crime

这一个字，所以我就整理 了这一类的

147

本，把有无

中译、有 无改编电视电影作一整理。最早是

1844

年大仲马的《基度< /p>

山恩仇记》

，最新的则是

2008

年

Richard Price

的《

Lush Life

》

。

1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list

Selected

by

the

Guardian's

Review

team

and

a

panel

of

expert

judges, this list includes only novels

–

no memoirs, no short stories,

no long poems

–

from any decade and in any language. Originally

published

in

thematic

supplements

–

love, crime, comedy, family

and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy,

war and

travel

–

they appear here for the first time in a single list.

Comedy

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Money by Martin Amis

The Information by Martin Amis

The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

Augustus

Carp,

Esq.

by

Himself:

Being

the

Autobiography

of

a

Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

The Adventures of

Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Queen Lucia by EF Benson

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury

No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon

Illywhacker by Peter Carey

A Season in Sinji by JL Carr

The Harpole Report by JL Carr

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary

The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

Just William by Richmal Crompton

The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot

A Fairy Tale of New Y

ork by JP Donleavy

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

Ennui by Maria Edgeworth

Cheese by Willem Elsschot

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Caprice by Ronald Firbank

Bouvard et Pé

cuchet by Gustave Flaubert

Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn

The Polygots by William Gerhardie

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)

Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson

Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René

Lesage

Changing Places by David Lodge

Nice Work by David Lodge

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

England, Their England by AG Macdonell

Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen

Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset

Maugham

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

Charade by John Mortimer

Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin

La Disparition by Georges Perec

Les Revenentes by Georges Perec

La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec

My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym

Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau

Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

The Westminster Alice by Saki

The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle

Great Apes by Will Self

Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe

Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe

Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed

Belles Lettres Papers:

A Novel by Charles Simmons

Moo by Jane Smiley

Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T

obias Smollett

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence

Sterne

White Man Falling by Mike Stocks

Handley Cross by RS Surtees

A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

Penrod by Booth Tarkington

The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell

Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon

Tono Bungay by HG Wells

Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse

Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse

Thank Y

ou Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse

The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse

Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse

Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric

Ambler

Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler

Journey into Fear by Eric

Ambler

The New Y

ork Trilogy by Paul Auster

Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Greenmantle by John Buchan

The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain

Double Indemnity by James M Cain

True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious

Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by

Agatha Christie

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter

The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter

Ratking by Michael Dibdin

Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin

Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin

A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin

Vendetta by Michael Dibdin

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Crime of Father Amado by José

Maria de E?

a de Queiroz

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

LA Confidential by James Ellroy

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

Y

ou Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene

The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

The Third Man by Graham Greene

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

The King of T

orts by John Grisham

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Black Sunday by Thomas Harris

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill

A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles

Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indridason

Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes

Cover Her Face by PD James

A Taste for Death by PD James

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman

Misery by Stephen King

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Constant Gardener by John le Carre

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Sidetracked by Henning Mankell

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim

The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky

Blacklist by Sara Paretsky

Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace

Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace

The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos

Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos

Lush Life by Richard Price

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

V by Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin

Exit Music by Ian Rankin

Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell

Dissolution by CJ Sansom

Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers

Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers

The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon

The Blue Room by Georges Simenon

The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Daughter of Time by Josephine T

ey

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine

A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine

King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Native Son by Richard Wright

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Family and self

The Face of

Another by Kobo Abe

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Epileptic by David B

Room T

emperature by Nicholson Baker

Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac

Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

A Legacy by Sybille Bedford

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

G by John Berger

Extinction by Thomas Bernhard

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch

Evelina by Fanny Burney

The Way of

All Flesh by Samuel Butler

The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin

The Outsider by Albert Camus

Wise Children by Angela Carter

The Professor's House by Willa Cather

The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Les Enfants T

errible by Jean Cocteau

The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Being Dead by Jim Crace

Quarantine by Jim Crace

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

My New Y

ork Diary by Julie Doucet

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Silence by Shusaku Endo

The Gathering by Anne Enright

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

Howards End by EM Forster

Spies by Michael Frayn

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Immoralist by Andre Gide

The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Washington Square by Henry James

The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

The Unfortunates by BS Johnson

A Portrait of the Artist as a Y

oung Man by James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

Martin Eden by Jack London

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

The Chateau by William Maxwell

The Rector's Daughter by FM Mayor

The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

The Bluest Eye by T

oni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Who Do Y

ou Think Y

ou Are? by Alice Munro

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul

At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

My Name Is

Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Good Companions by JB Priestley

The Shipping News by E

Annie Proulx

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

A Married Man by Piers Paul Read

Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson

The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson

Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean- Jacques Rousseau

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Unless by Carol Shields

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Three Sisters by May Sinclair

The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis

Singer

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

The Secret Diary of

Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

Death in Summer by William Trevor

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno

The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

Frost in May by Antonia White

The Tree of Man by Patrick White

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Oranges

Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Love

Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain- Fournier

Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani

Love for Lydia by HE Bates

More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Vilette by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Look At Me by Anita Brookner

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Possession by AS Byatt

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

A Month in the Country by JL Carr

My Antonia by Willa Cather

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Cheri by Sidonie- Gabrielle Collette

Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette

The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

A Room with a View by EM Forster

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

The Sorrows of Y

oung Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Living by Henry Green

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene