The Gaurdian Reads You

The Guardian is spouting what it declares to be the 1000 novels everyone must read. The Geek in me is amused because the first part is SF/F novels. The snark in me wonders how this relates to NBC's "Must See TV."

Anyways, here's the list, and just for the joy of it, I've marked those items which I've actually read in bold (for snyopsis of the various books, go on to the Gaurdian site via the link above):

1. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
2. Brian W Aldiss - Non-Stop (1958)
3. Isaac Asimov - Foundation (1951)
4. Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (2000)
5. Paul Auster - In the Country of Lost Things (1987)
6. JG Ballard - The Drowned World (1962)
7. JG Ballard - Crash (1973)
8. JG Ballard - Millennium People (2003)
9. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (1984)
10. Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas (1987)
11. Clive Barker - Weaveworld (1987)
12. Nicola Barker - Darkmans (2007)
13. Stephen Baxter - The Time Ships (1995)
14. Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio (1999)
15. Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (1956)
16. Poppy Z Brite - Lost Souls (1992)
17. Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon (1960)
18. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita (1966)
19. Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race (1871)
20. Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (1960)
21. Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars (1912)
22. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch (1959)
23. Octavia Butler - Kindred (1979)
24. Samuel Butler - Erewhon (1872)
25. Italo Calvino - The Baron In the Trees (1957)
26. Ramsey Campbell - The Influence (1988)
27. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
28. Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)
29. Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus (1984)
30. Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)
31. GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
32. Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End (1953)
33. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel (2004)
34. Michael G Coney - Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975)
35. Douglas Copeland - Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
36. Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves (2000)
37. Marle Darrieussecq - Pig Tales (1996)
38. Samuel R Delaney - The Enstein Intersection (1967)
39. Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
40. Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle (1962)
41. Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum (1968)
42. Michael Faber - Under the Skin (2000)
43. John Fowles - The Magus (1966)
44. Neil Gaiman - American Gods (2001)
45. Alan Garner - Red Shift (1973)
46. William Gibson - Neuromancer (1984)
47. Charlotte Perkins Gilman -Herland (1915)
48. William Golding - Lord of the Flies (1954)
49. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War (1974)
50. M John Harrison - Light (2002)
51. Robert A Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
52. Frank Herbert - Dune (1965)
53. Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game (1943)
54. Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker (1980)
55. James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
56. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised (1998)
57. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)
58. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled (1995)
59. Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
60. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (1898)
61. PD James - The Children of Men (1992)
62. Richard Jefferies - After London; Or, Wild England (1885)
63. Gwyneth Jones - Bold as Love (2001)
64. Franz Kafka - The Trial (1925)
65. Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon (1966)
66. Stephen King - The Shining (1977)
67. Marghanita Laski - The Victorian Chase-longue (1953)
68. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (1864)
69. Ursula Le Guin - The Earthsea series (1968-1990)
70. Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (1961)
71. Doris Lessing - Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
72. David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
73. Ken McLeod - The Night Sessions (2008)
74. C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)
75. Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (2005)
76. Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward (1994)
77. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend (1954)
78. Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
79. Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy (1992)
80. Cormac McCarthy - The Road (2006)
81. Jed Mercurio - Ascent (2007)
82. China Miéville - The Scar (2002)
83. Andrew Miller - Ingenious Pain (1997)
84. Walter M Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960)
85. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (2004)
86. Michael Moorcock - Mother London (1988)
87. William Morris - News From Nowhere (1890)
88. Toni Morrison - Beloved (1987)
89. Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995)
90. Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardor (1969)
91. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
92. Larry Niven - Ringworld (1970)
93. Jeff Noon - Vurt (1993)
94. Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (1967)
95. Ben Okri - The Famished Road (1991)
96. Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (1996)
97. Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey (1818)
98. Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (1946)
99. John Cowper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance (1932)
100. Terry Pratchett - The Discworld series (1983-)
101. Christopher Priest - The Prestige (1995)
102. Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials (1995-2000)
103. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34)
104. Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
105. Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space (2000)
106. Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
107. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
108. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses (1988)
109. Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943)
110. José Saramago - Blindness (1995)
111. Will Self - How the Dead Live (2000)
112. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)
113. Dan Simmons - Hyperion (1989)
114. Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker (1937)
115. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (1992)
116. Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
117. Bram Stoker - Dracula (1897)
118. Rupert Thomson - The Insult (1996)
119. JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937)
120. JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)
121. Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889)
122. Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan (1959)
123. Robert Walser - Institute Benjamenta (1909)
124. Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes (1926)
125. Sarah Waters - Affinity (1999)
126. HG Wells - The Time Machine (1895)
127. HG Wells - The War of the Worlds (1898)
128. TH White - The Sword in the Stone (1938)
129. Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun (1980-83)
130. John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids (1951)
131. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
132. Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (1924)

Now, I'm left a bit confused. Lord of the Flies and The Shining I just don't see as SF/F. Also, why not 1984? Or Tarzan? Or Peter Pan? Aand most definitely why not The Island of Dr. Moreau? Why nothing by John Scalzi or Cory Doctorow? I'm also confused why sometimes the books are listed as full series (Discworld, His Dark Materials & The Chronicles of Narnia for example) while others are listed as individual novels within a series (Foundation, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and RingWorld for example).

A rather spastic list, if one asks me; oh well.