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I recently discovered the list of “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die” which has been published in a book of the same title but which can also be found on the Internet in list and Excel forms. An Excel spreadsheet is considerably more manageable since it’s such a long list. The only Excel version I’ve been able to find, however, is kind of awful. The formatting is terrible for starters, but overall the thing is buggy and doesn’t really work. And it’s full of hyperlinks, which are really annoying. You can find that one here.
So I made my own version of the spreadsheet. It’s simple and easy to read, without all the clutter and “fancy” formatting of the other. And it works. If you use the dropdown menus at the top to sort the books, it keeps everything in order instead of jumbling it all up.
So feel free to download my version of the spreadsheet. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to comment or email me.
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Thank you!!!!! While I’d like to buy the book, I can’t afford it right now and what I really wanted was to be able to generate a list that i could sort by Title – didn’t seem to be a way to do that with the other “fancier” one – yours is just exactly what I needed. I really appreciate all the time that you put into this,
Barbara
You’re welcome!
It’s really depressing that I’ve only heard of about 300 of these at most. I thought I was well-read, but apparently not, if these are the books everyone’s supposed to read.
The list is great, but its missing some books – Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin, Persuasion by Jane Austen, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, nothing by James Fenimore Cooper. That’s as far as I’ve gotten so far.
@ Tim,
I think you’ll find that those are all books which feature on the 2006 version of the list. In 2008 the list was updated and many more non-western authors were included. Obviously, the whites had to make room for them and all the books you mention did so. Fenimore’s Mohicans is still on the list though, so he is represented.
Arukiyomi’s much simplified v3 edition of the list contains books from both the 2008 and 2006 lists but minus the “terrible formatting” of the previous version. It can be found HERE if you’re interested.
Thanks, I was wondering about that.
Tim