2000s

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders

1900s

1. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
2. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
3. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
4. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
5. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
6. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
7. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
8. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
9. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
10. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
11. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
12. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
13. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
14. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
15. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
16. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
17. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
18. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
19. Another World – Pat Barker
20. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
21. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
22. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
23. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
24. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
25. Great Apes – Will Self
26. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
27. Underworld – Don DeLillo
28. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
29. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
30. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
1. The Untouchable – John Banville
2. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
3. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
4. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
5. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
6. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
7. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
8. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
9. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
10. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
11. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
12. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
13. The Information – Martin Amis
14. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
15. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
16. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
17. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
18. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
19. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
20. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
21. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
22. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
23. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
24. Land – Park Kyong-ni
25. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
26. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
27. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
28. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
29. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
30. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
31. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
32. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
33. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
34. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
35. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
36. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
37. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
38. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
39. Complicity – Iain Banks
40. On Love – Alain de Botton
41. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
42. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
43. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
44. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
45. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
46. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
47. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
48. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
49. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
50. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
51. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
52. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
53. Indigo – Marina Warner
54. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
55. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
56. Jazz – Toni Morrison
57. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
58. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
59. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
60. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
61. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
62. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
63. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
64. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
65. Arcadia – Jim Crace
66. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
67. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
68. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
69. Mao II – Don DeLillo
70. Typical – Padgett Powell
71. Regeneration – Pat Barker
72. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
73. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
74. Wise Children – Angela Carter
75. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
76. Amongst Women – John McGahern
77. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
78. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
79. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
80. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
81. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
82. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
83. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
84. Possession – A.S. Byatt
85. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
86. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
87. A Disaffection – James Kelman
88. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
89. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
90. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
91. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
92. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
93. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
94. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
95. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
96. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
97. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
98. London Fields – Martin Amis
99. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
100. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
101. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
102. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
103. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
104. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
105. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
106. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
107. Libra – Don DeLillo
108. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
109. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
110. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
111. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
112. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
113. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
114. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
115. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
116. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
117. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
118. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
119. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
120. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
121. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
122. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
123. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
124. Beloved – Toni Morrison
125. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
126. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
127. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
128. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
129. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
130. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
131. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
132. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
133. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
134. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
135. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
136. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
137. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
138. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
139. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
140. A Maggot – John Fowles
141. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
142. Contact – Carl Sagan
143. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
144. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
145. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
146. White Noise – Don DeLillo
147. Queer – William Burroughs
148. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
149. Legend – David Gemmell
150. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
151. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
152. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
153. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
154. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
155. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
156. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
157. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
158. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
159. Neuromancer – William Gibson
160. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
161. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
162. Shame – Salman Rushdie
163. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
164. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
165. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
166. Waterland – Graham Swift
167. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
168. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
169. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
170. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
171. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
172. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
173. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
174. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
175. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
176. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
177. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
178. The Newton Letter – John Banville
179. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
180. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
181. The Names – Don DeLillo
182. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
183. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
184. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
185. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
186. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
187. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
188. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
189. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
190. Rites of Passage – William Golding
191. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
192. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
193. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
194. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
195. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
196. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
197. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
198. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
199. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
200. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
201. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
202. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
203. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
204. The World According to Garp – John Irving
205. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
206. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
207. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
208. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
209. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
210. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
211. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
212. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
213. The Shining – Stephen King
214. Dispatches – Michael Herr
215. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
216. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
217. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
218. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
219. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
220. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
221. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
222. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
223. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
224. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
225. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
226. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
227. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
228. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
229. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
230. Fateless – Imre Kertész
231. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
232. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
233. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
234. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
235. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
236. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
237. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
238. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
239. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
240. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
241. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
242. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
243. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
244. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
245. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
246. Crash – J.G. Ballard
247. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
248. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
249. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
250. Sula – Toni Morrison
251. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
252. The Breast – Philip Roth
253. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
254. G – John Berger
255. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
256. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
257. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
258. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
259. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
260. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
261. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
262. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
263. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
264. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
265. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
266. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
267. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
268. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
269. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
270. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
271. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
272. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
273. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
274. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
275. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
276. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
277. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
278. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
279. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
280. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
281. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
282. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
283. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
284. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
285. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
286. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
287. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
288. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
289. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
290. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
291. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
292. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
293. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
294. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
295. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
296. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
297. Chocky – John Wyndham
298. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
299. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
300. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
301. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
302. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
303. The Joke – Milan Kundera
304. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
305. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
306. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
307. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
308. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
309. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
310. The Magus – John Fowles
311. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
312. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
313. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
314. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
315. Things – Georges Perec
316. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
317. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
318. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
319. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
320. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
321. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
322. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
323. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
324. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
325. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
326. Herzog – Saul Bellow
327. V. – Thomas Pynchon
328. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
329. The Graduate – Charles Webb
330. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
331. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
332. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
333. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
334. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
335. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
336. The Collector – John Fowles
337. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
338. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
339. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
340. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
341. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
342. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
343. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
344. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
345. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
346. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
347. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
348. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
349. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
350. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
351. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
352. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
353. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
354. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
355. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
356. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
357. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
358. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
359. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
360. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
361. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
362. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
363. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
364. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
365. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
366. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
367. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
368. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
369. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
370. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
371. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
372. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
373. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
374. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
375. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
376. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
377. The End of the Road – John Barth
378. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
379. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
380. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
381. Voss – Patrick White
382. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
383. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
384. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
385. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
386. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
387. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
388. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
389. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
390. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
391. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
392. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
393. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
394. The Floating Opera – John Barth
395. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
396. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
397. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
398. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
399. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
400. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
401. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
402. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
403. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
404. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
405. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
406. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
407. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
408. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
409. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
410. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
411. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
412. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
413. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
414. Watt – Samuel Beckett
415. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
416. Junkie – William Burroughs
417. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
418. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
419. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
420. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
421. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
422. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
423. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
424. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
425. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
426. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
427. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
428. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
429. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
430. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
431. The Rebel – Albert Camus
432. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
433. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
434. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
435. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
436. The Third Man – Graham Greene
437. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
438. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
439. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
440. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
441. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
442. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
443. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
444. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
445. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
446. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
447. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
448. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
449. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
450. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
451. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
452. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
453. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
454. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
455. The Victim – Saul Bellow
456. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
457. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
458. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
459. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
460. The Plague – Albert Camus
461. Back – Henry Green
462. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
463. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
464. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
465. Animal Farm – George Orwell
466. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
467. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
468. Loving – Henry Green
469. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
470. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
471. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
472. Transit – Anna Seghers
473. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
474. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
475. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
476. Caught – Henry Green
477. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
478. Embers – Sandor Marai
479. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
480. The Outsider – Albert Camus
481. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
482. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
483. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
484. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
485. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
486. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
487. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
488. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
489. Native Son – Richard Wright
490. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
491. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
492. Party Going – Henry Green
493. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
494. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
495. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
496. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
497. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
498. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
499. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
500. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
501. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
502. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
503. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
504. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
505. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
506. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
507. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
508. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
509. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
510. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
511. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
512. The Years – Virginia Woolf
513. In Parenthesis – David Jones
514. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
515. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
516. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
517. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
518. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
519. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
520. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
521. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
522. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
523. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
524. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
525. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
526. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
527. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
528. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
529. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
530. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
531. England Made Me – Graham Greene
532. Burmese Days – George Orwell
533. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
534. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
535. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
536. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
537. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
538. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
539. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
540. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
541. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
542. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
543. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
544. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
545. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
546. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
547. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
548. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
549. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
550. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
551. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
552. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
553. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
554. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
555. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
556. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
557. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
558. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
559. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
560. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
561. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
562. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
563. Passing – Nella Larsen
564. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
565. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
566. Living – Henry Green
567. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
568. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
569. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
570. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
571. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
572. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
573. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
574. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
575. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
576. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
577. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
578. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
579. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
580. Quartet – Jean Rhys
581. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
582. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
583. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
584. Nadja – André Breton
585. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
586. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
587. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
588. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
589. Amerika – Franz Kafka
590. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
591. Blindness – Henry Green
592. The Castle – Franz Kafka
593. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
594. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
595. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
596. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
597. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
598. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
599. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
600. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
601. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
602. The Trial – Franz Kafka
603. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
604. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
605. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
606. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
607. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
608. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
609. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
610. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
611. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
612. Cane – Jean Toomer
613. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
614. Amok – Stefan Zweig
615. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
616. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
617. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
618. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
619. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
620. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
621. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
622. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
623. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
624. Ulysses – James Joyce
625. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
626. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
627. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
628. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
629. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
630. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
631. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
632. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
633. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
634. Summer – Edith Wharton
635. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
636. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
637. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
638. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
639. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
640. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
641. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
642. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
643. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
644. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
645. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
646. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
647. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
648. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
649. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
650. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
651. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
652. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
653. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
654. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
655. Howards End – E.M. Forster
656. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
657. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
658. Martin Eden – Jack London
659. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
660. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
661. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
662. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
663. The Iron Heel – Jack London
664. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
665. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
666. Mother – Maxim Gorky
667. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
668. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
669. Young Törless – Robert Musil
670. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
671. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
672. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
673. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
674. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
675. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
676. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
677. The Ambassadors – Henry James
678. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
679. The Immoralist – André Gide
680. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
681. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
682. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
683. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
684. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
685. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
686. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

1800s

1. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
2. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
3. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
4. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
5. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
6. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
7. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
8. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
9. Dracula – Bram Stoker
10. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
11. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
12. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
13. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
14. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
15. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
16. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
17. Born in Exile – George Gissing
18. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20. News from Nowhere – William Morris
21. New Grub Street – George Gissing
22. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
24. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
25. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
26. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
27. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
28. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
29. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
30. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
31. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
32. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
33. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
34. She – H. Rider Haggard
35. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
36. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
37. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
38. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
39. Germinal – Émile Zola
40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
41. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
42. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
43. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
44. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
45. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
46. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
47. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
48. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
49. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
50. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
51. Nana – Émile Zola
52. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
53. The Red Room – August Strindberg
54. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
55. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
56. Drunkard – Émile Zola
57. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
58. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
59. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
60. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
61. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
62. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
63. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
64. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
65. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
66. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
67. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
68. Middlemarch – George Eliot
69. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
70. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
71. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
72. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
73. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
74. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
75. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
76. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
78. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
79. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
80. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
81. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
82. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
83. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
84. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
85. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
86. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
87. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
88. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
89. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
90. Silas Marner – George Eliot
91. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
92. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
93. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
94. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
95. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
96. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
97. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
98. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
99. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
100. Adam Bede – George Eliot
101. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
102. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
103. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
104. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
105. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
106. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
107. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
108. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
109. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
110. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
111. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
112. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
113. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
114. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
115. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
116. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
117. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
118. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
119. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
120. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
121. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
122. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
123. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
124. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
125. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
126. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
127. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
128. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
129. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
130. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
131. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
132. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
133. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
134. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
135. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
136. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
138. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
139. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
140. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
141. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
142. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
143. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
144. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
145. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
146. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
147. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
148. Persuasion – Jane Austen
149. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
150. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
151. Emma – Jane Austen
152. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
153. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
154. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
155. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
156. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
157. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

1700s

1. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
2. The Nun – Denis Diderot
3. Camilla – Fanny Burney
4. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
5. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
7. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
8. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
9. Justine – Marquis de Sade
10. Vathek – William Beckford
11. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
12. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
13. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
15. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. Evelina – Fanny Burney
17. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
19. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
20. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
21. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
22. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
23. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
24. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
25. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
26. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
27. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
28. Candide – Voltaire
29. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
30. Amelia – Henry Fielding
31. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
32. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
33. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
34. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
35. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
36. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
37. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
38. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
39. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
40. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
41. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
42. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
43. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
44. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
45. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
46. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

1. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
2. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
3. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
4. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
5. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
6. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
7. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
8. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
9. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
10. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
11. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
12. Metamorphoses – Ovid
13. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus