1001 Books You Must Read

I just came across this list : 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It is a literary reference book compiled by over a hundred critics.

I immediately fell into the obvious trap - how many have I actually read! And I was dismayed to find have read too few, even though the list includes some very well known classics.

I have read about 20:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Pity I didn't have a blog sooner ... as early as I started reading!

And read abridged version of these in schooldays:
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Emma – Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

And saw a few movies ....
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell


Surprises:
- Nevil Shute's 'A Town Like Alice' made it to the list, but not 'Requiem For A Wren'. I have always maintained that the latter is far better than the former.
- Likewise with Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn made it, but not Tom Sawyer. Wonder why ...
- I was rather surprised to find 'Alice in Wonderland'. I mean I have enjoyed it since childhood, but a must read?

Disappointments:
- Anne Frank's 'Diary Of A Young Girl' is not there. But perhaps it is an autobiography, rather than a nove.
- So with Henri Cherriere's ' Papillon'
- What about 'Gulliver's travels'?