1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University.
The list contains 1001 titles and is made up of novels, short stories, and short story collections.

There was a major revision of 280 odd titles in 2008. The clear shift within the list has been the removal of ~300 works almost entirely by English-language authors who have more than one title on the original list in favor of lesser known works, often by non-English-language writers.

The 2010 revised and updated edition of the book is less Anglocentric.

This list contains the most updated information available

Deleted books have been added as a bonus