I mille romanzi che tutti dovrebbero leggere (parte I)

Il Guardian ha selezionato i mille romanzi che tutti dovrebbero leggere. Come resistere alla tentazione di vedere quali ho letto e quali mi mancano, da accanita lettrice quale sono?
Pubblicherò a pezzi l'elenco completo con segnato in grassetto quali ho letto... i titoli sono in inglese...

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1. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
2. Money by Martin Amis
3. The Information by Martin Amis
4. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
5. According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
6. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
7. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
8. Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford
9. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
10. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
11. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
12. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
13. Queen Lucia by EF Benson
14. The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman
15. A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
16. The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
17. No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
18. Illywhacker by Peter Carey
19. A Season in Sinji by JL Carr
20. The Harpole Report by JL Carr
21. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
22. Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
23. The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
24. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
25. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
26. Just William by Richmal Crompton
27. The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
28. Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
29. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
30. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
31. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
32. A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy
33. The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
34. Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
35. Cheese by Willem Elsschot
36. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
37. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
38. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
39. Caprice by Ronald Firbank
40. Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
41. Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
42. The Polygots by William Gerhardie
43. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
44. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
45. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
46. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
47. Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
48. Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green
49. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
50. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
51. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
52. The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
54. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
55. Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins
56. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
57. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
58. The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
59. Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
60. The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson
61. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
62. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
63. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
64. The Castle by Franz Kafka
65. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
66. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
67. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
68. L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage
69. Changing Places by David Lodge
70. Nice Work by David Lodge
71. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
72. England, Their England by AG Macdonell
73. Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
74. Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen
75. Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham
76. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
77. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
78. Puckoon by Spike Milligan
79. The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
80. Charade by John Mortimer
81. Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
82. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
83. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
84. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
85. Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
86. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
87. La Disparition by Georges Perec
88. Les Revenentes by Georges Perec
89. La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec
90. My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett
91. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
92. A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
93. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
94. Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
95. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
96. Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
97. Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven
98. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
99. The Westminster Alice by Saki
100. The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
101. Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle
102. Great Apes by Will Self
103. Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
104. Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
105. Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
106. Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons
107. Moo by Jane Smiley
108. Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
109. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett
110. The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
111. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
112. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
113. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
114. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
115. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
116. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
117. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
118. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
119. White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
120. Handley Cross by RS Surtees
121. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
122. Penrod by Booth Tarkington
123. The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
124. Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
125. Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas
126. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
127. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
128. Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
129. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
130. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
131. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
132. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
133. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
134. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
135. Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
136. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
137. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
138. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
139. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
140. Tono Bungay by HG Wells
141. Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
142. The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
143. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
144. Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse
145. Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse
146. Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
147. Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse
148. The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
149. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse

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