The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White The Color Purple – Alice Walker Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende The Newton Letter – John Banville On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin Concrete – Thomas Bernhard The Names – Don DeLillo Rabbit is Rich – John Updike Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan July’s People – Nadine Gordimer Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin Broken April – Ismail Kadare Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie Rites of Passage – William Golding Rituals – Cees Nooteboom Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole City Primeval – Elmore Leonard The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera Smiley’s People – John Le Carré Shikasta – Doris Lessing A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan The World According to Garp – John Irving Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell Yes – Thomas Bernhard The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin The Shining – Stephen King Dispatches – Michael Herr Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo The Public Burning – Robert Coover Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg Amateurs – Donald Barthelme Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell Grimus – Salman Rushdie The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme Fateless – Imre Kertész Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan High Rise – J.G. Ballard Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow Dead Babies – Martin Amis Correction – Thomas Bernhard Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong A Question of Power – Bessie Head The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino Crash – J.G. Ballard The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch Sula – Toni Morrison Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino The Breast – Philip Roth The Summer Book – Tove Jansson G – John Berger Surfacing – Margaret Atwood House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll The Wild Boys – William Burroughs Rabbit Redux – John Updike The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark The Ogre – Michael Tournier The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett Troubles – J.G. Farrell Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles The Green Man – Kingsley Amis Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth The Godfather – Mario Puzo Ada – Vladimir Nabokov Them – Joyce Carol Oates A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf Chocky – John Wyndham The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson The Joke – Milan Kundera No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien A Man Asleep – Georges Perec The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West Trawl – B.S. Johnson In Cold Blood – Truman Capote The Magus – John Fowles The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon Things – Georges Perec The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras Herzog – Saul Bellow V. – Thomas Pynchon Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut The Graduate – Charles Webb Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Collector – John Fowles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch Faces in the Water – Janet Frame Solaris – Stanislaw Lem Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark Catch-22 – Joseph Heller The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor How It Is – Samuel Beckett Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Rabbit, Run – John Updike Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse Naked Lunch – William Burroughs The Tin Drum – Günter Grass Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow Memento Mori – Muriel Spark Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan The End of the Road – John Barth The Once and Future King – T.H. White The Bell – Iris Murdoch Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet Voss – Patrick White The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham Blue Noon – Georges Bataille Homo Faber – Max Frisch On the Road – Jack Kerouac Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber Justine – Lawrence Durrell Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary Seize the Day – Saul Bellow The Floating Opera – John Barth The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett The Quiet American – Graham Greene The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis The Recognitions – William Gaddis The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis The Story of O – Pauline Réage A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia Lord of the Flies – William Golding Under the Net – Iris Murdoch The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett Watt – Samuel Beckett Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis Junkie – William Burroughs The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin Casino Royale – Ian Fleming The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham Foundation – Isaac Asimov The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger The Rebel – Albert Camus Molloy – Samuel Beckett The End of the Affair – Graham Greene The Abbot C – Georges Bataille The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz The Third Man – Graham Greene The 13 Clocks – James Thurber Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing I, Robot – Isaac Asimov The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani Disobedience – Alberto Moravia Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann The Victim – Saul Bellow Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau If This Is a Man – Primo Levi Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino The Plague – Albert Camus Back – Henry Green Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh Animal Farm – George Orwell Cannery Row – John Steinbeck The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford Loving – Henry Green Arcanum 17 – André Breton Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham Transit – Anna Seghers Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges Dangling Man – Saul Bellow The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Caught – Henry Green The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse Embers – Sandor Marai Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner The Outsider – Albert Camus In Sicily – Elio Vittorini The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien The Living and the Dead – Patrick White Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf The Hamlet – William Faulkner Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway Native Son – Richard Wright The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati Party Going – Henry Green The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck Finnegans Wake – James Joyce At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien Coming Up for Air – George Orwell Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler Brighton Rock – Graham Greene U.S.A. – John Dos Passos Murphy – Samuel Beckett Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Years – Virginia Woolf In Parenthesis – David Jones The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft Nightwood – Djuna Barnes Independent People – Halldór Laxness Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen England Made Me – Graham Greene Burmese Days – George Orwell The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse Call it Sleep – Henry Roth Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain A Day Off – Storm Jameson The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons To the North – Elizabeth Bowen The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth The Waves – Virginia Woolf The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis Her Privates We – Frederic Manning Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico Passing – Nella Larsen A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett Living – Henry Green The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen Harriet Hume – Rebecca West The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille Orlando – Virginia Woolf Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis Quartet – Jean Rhys Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh Quicksand – Nella Larsen Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford Nadja – André Breton Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson Amerika – Franz Kafka The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway Blindness – Henry Green The Castle – Franz Kafka The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Counterfeiters – André Gide The Trial – Franz Kafka The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky The Professor’s House – Willa Cather Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville The Green Hat – Michael Arlen The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann We – Yevgeny Zamyatin A Passage to India – E.M. Forster The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo Cane – Jean Toomer Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley Amok – Stefan Zweig The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf Siddhartha – Herman Hesse The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis Ulysses – James Joyce The Fox – D.H. Lawrence Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton Main Street – Sinclair Lewis Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence Night and Day – Virginia Woolf Tarr – Wyndham Lewis The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad Summer – Edith Wharton Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce Under Fire – Henri Barbusse Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan Kokoro – Natsume Soseki Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel Rosshalde – Herman Hesse Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence Death in Venice – Thomas Mann The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Howards End – E.M. Forster Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel Three Lives – Gertrude Stein Martin Eden – Jack London Strait is the Gate – André Gide Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells The Inferno – Henri Barbusse A Room With a View – E.M. Forster The Iron Heel – Jack London The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson Mother – Maxim Gorky The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad The Jungle – Upton Sinclair Young Törless – Robert Musil The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster Nostromo – Joseph Conrad Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe The Golden Bowl – Henry James The Ambassadors – Henry James The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers The Immoralist – André Gide The Wings of the Dove – Henry James Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann Kim – Rudyard Kipling Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad1800s Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane The Awakening – Kate Chopin The Turn of the Screw – Henry James The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells What Maisie Knew – Henry James Fruits of the Earth – André Gide Dracula – Bram Stoker Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells The Time Machine – H.G. Wells Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born in Exile – George Gissing Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle News from Nowhere – William Morris New Grub Street – George Gissing Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola By the Open Sea – August Strindberg Hunger – Knut Hamsun The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy She – H. Rider Haggard The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard