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"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

2000s

  • Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
  • After The Quake, Haruki Murakami
  • An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
  • At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O’Neill
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
  • Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy
  • Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
  • City Of God, E.L. Doctorow
  • Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
  • Dead Air, Iain Banks
  • Dining On Stones, Iain Sinclair
  • Don’t Move, Margaret Mazzantini
  • Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
  • Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
  • Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
  • Fury, Salman Rushdie
  • Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
  • House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
  • How The Dead Live, Will Self
  • Ignorance, Milan Kundera
  • In The Forest, Edna O’Brien
  • Islands, Dan Sleigh
  • Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
  • Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
  • London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
  • Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
  • Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
  • On Beauty, Zadie Smith
  • Pastoralia, George Saunders
  • Platform, Michael Houellebecq
  • Saturday, Ian McEwan
  • Schooling, Heather McGowan
  • Shroud, John Banville
  • Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
  • Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande
  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
  • Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard
  • That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
  • The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
  • The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
  • The Book Of Illusions, Paul Auster
  • The Colour, Rose Tremain
  • The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
  • The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon
  • The Devil And Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
  • The Double, José Saramago
  • The Feast Of The Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
  • The Heart Of Redness, Zakes Mda
  • The Human Stain, Philip Roth
  • The Lambs Of London, Peter Ackroyd
  • The Light Of Day, Graham Swift
  • The Master, Colm Tóibín
  • The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
  • The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
  • The Sea, John Banville
  • The Story Of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
  • Thursbitch, Alan Garner
  • Under The Skin, Michel Faber
  • Unless, Carol Shields
  • Vanishing Point, David Markson
  • What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
  • White Teeth, Zadie Smith
  • Youth, J.M. Coetzee

1900s

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
  • A Bend In The River, V.S. Naipaul
  • A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
  • A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  • A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
  • A Dance To The Music of Time, Anthony Powell
  • A Day Off, Storm Jameson
  • A Disaffection, James Kelman
  • A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
  • A Ghost At Noon, Alberto Moravia
  • A Handful Of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
  • A Heart So White, Javier Marias
  • A Home At The End Of The World, Michael Cunningham
  • A Kestrel For A Knave, Barry Hines
  • A Maggot, John Fowles
  • A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
  • A Pale View Of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A Passage To India, E.M. Forster
  • A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce
  • A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  • A Question Of Power, Bessie Head
  • A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
  • A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
  • A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
  • A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
  • A Void, Georges Perec
  • A World Of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
  • Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence
  • Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
  • Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
  • Ada Or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
  • After The Death Of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Warner
  • Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
  • Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
  • All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
  • All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
  • All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
  • Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
  • American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  • American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
  • Amerika, Franz Kafka
  • Amok, Stefan Zweig
  • Amongst Women, John McGahern
  • Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
  • An Artist Of The Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Another World, Pat Barker
  • Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
  • Arcadia, Jim Crace
  • Arcanum 17, André Breton
  • Arrow Of God, Chinua Achebe
  • As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic
  • Asphodel, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
  • At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
  • Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
  • August Is A Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
  • Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti
  • Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
  • Back, Henry Green
  • Belle Du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
  • Between The Acts, Virginia Woolf
  • Billiards At Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
  • Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  • Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
  • Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
  • Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Blind Man With A Pistolm, Chester Hines
  • Blindness, Henry Green
  • Blood And Guts In High School, Kathy Acker
  • Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
  • Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
  • Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
  • Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  • Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
  • Broken April, Ismail Kadare
  • Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
  • Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
  • Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
  • Burmese Days, George Orwell
  • Cakes And Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
  • Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
  • Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Cane, Jean Toomer
  • Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  • Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
  • Cat And Mouse, Günter Grass
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
  • Caught, Henry Green
  • Cause For Alarm, Eric Ambler
  • Chocky, John Wyndham
  • Christ Stopped At Eboli, Carlo Levi
  • Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
  • Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
  • City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
  • City Sister Silve, Jàchym Topol
  • Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
  • Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
  • Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  • Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
  • Coming Up For Air, George Orwell
  • Complicity, Iain Banks
  • Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
  • Contact, Carl Sagan
  • Conversations In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
  • Correction, Thomas Bernhard
  • Crash, J.G. Ballard
  • Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
  • Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
  • Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
  • Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
  • Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
  • Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, Malcolm Lowry
  • Dead Babies, Martin Amis
  • Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
  • Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
  • Decline And Fall, Evelyn Waugh
  • Delta Of Venus, Anaïs Nin
  • Dictionary Of The Khazars, Milorad Pavic
  • Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
  • Disappearance, David Dabydeen
  • Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
  • Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
  • Dispatches, Michael Herr
  • Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
  • Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
  • Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
  • Downriver, Iain Sinclair
  • Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
  • Embers, Sandor Marai
  • Empire Of The Sun, J.G. Ballard
  • Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
  • England Made Me, Graham Greene
  • Enigma Of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
  • Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
  • Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
  • Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
  • Exercises In Style, Raymond Queneau
  • Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
  • Eyeless In Gaza, Aldous Huxley
  • Faces In The Water, Janet Frame
  • Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  • Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
  • Fateless, Imre Kertész
  • Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  • Fear And Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
  • Fear Of Flying, Erica Jong
  • Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
  • Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
  • Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
  • Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
  • Foe, J.M. Coetzee
  • Fools Of Fortune, William Trevor
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
  • Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse
  • Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  • Franny And Zooey, J.D. Salinger
  • Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
  • G, John Berger
  • Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
  • Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
  • Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
  • Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
  • Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
  • Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
  • Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  • Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
  • Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
  • Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  • Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
  • Great Apes, Will Self
  • Grimus, Salman Rushdie
  • Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
  • Growth Of The Soil, Knut Hamsen
  • Hadrian The Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
  • Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker
  • Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
  • Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
  • Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
  • Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
  • Henderson The Rain King, Saul Bellow
  • Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
  • Herzog, Saul Bellow
  • Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
  • High Rise, J.G. Ballard
  • Homo Faber, Max Frisch
  • House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
  • How It Is, Samuel Beckett
  • How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
  • Howards End, E.M. Forster
  • Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
  • If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
  • If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino
  • If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
  • Impressions Of Africa, Raymond Roussel
  • In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
  • In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
  • In Parenthesis, David Jones
  • In The Heart Of The Country, J.M. Coetzee
  • In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
  • Independent People, Halldór Laxness
  • Indigo, Marina Warner
  • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  • Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
  • Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice
  • Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
  • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  • I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
  • Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
  • Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
  • Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
  • Jazz, Toni Morrison
  • Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Journey To The End Of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
  • Junkie, William Burroughs
  • Justine, Lawrence Durrell
  • Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
  • Kim, Rudyard Kipling
  • Kingdom Of This World, Alejo Carpentier
  • Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
  • La Brava, Elmore Leonard
  • Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
  • Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
  • Land, Park Kyong-ni
  • Legend, David Gemmell
  • Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
  • Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
  • Libra, Don DeLillo
  • Life And Death Of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
  • Life Is A Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar
  • Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
  • Like Life, Lorrie Moore
  • Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
  • Living, Henry Green
  • Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • London Fields, Martin Amis
  • Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
  • Looking For The Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy
  • Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
  • Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
  • Lost Language Of Cranes, David Leavitt
  • Love In A Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
  • Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
  • Loving, Henry Green
  • Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
  • Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
  • Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
  • Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
  • Manon Des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
  • Mao II, Don DeLillo
  • Martin Eden, Jack London
  • Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
  • Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
  • Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
  • Memoirs Of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Mercier Et Camier, Samuel Beckett
  • Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  • Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
  • Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, Peter Høeg
  • Molloy, Samuel Beckett
  • Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
  • Moon Palace, Paul Auster
  • Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
  • Mother, Maxim Gorky
  • Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
  • Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
  • Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Murphy, Samuel Beckett
  • Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
  • Nadja, André Breton
  • Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
  • Native Son, Richard Wright
  • Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • Night And Day, Virginia Woolf
  • Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
  • Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
  • Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
  • Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
  • Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
  • Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
  • Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
  • On Love, Alain de Botton
  • On The Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
  • On the Road, Jack Kerouac
  • One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
  • One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
  • One, None And A Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
  • Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
  • Orlando, Virginia Woolf
  • Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey
  • Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
  • Out of Africa, Isak Dineson
  • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
  • Party Going, Henry Green
  • Passing, Nella Larsen
  • Patterns Of Childhood, Christa Wolf
  • Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
  • Perfume, Patrick Süskind
  • Petals Of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
  • Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
  • Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
  • Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
  • Possessing The Secret Of Joy, Alice Walker
  • Possession, A.S. Byatt
  • Pricksongs And Descants, Robert Coover
  • Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
  • Promise At Dawn, Romain Gary
  • Quartet, Jean Rhys
  • Queer, William Burroughs
  • Quicksand, Nella Larsen
  • Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
  • Rabbit Redux, John Updike
  • Rabbit, Run, John Updike
  • Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
  • Rashōmon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  • Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
  • Reasons To Live, Amy Hempel
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
  • Regeneration, Pat Barker
  • Remembrance Of Things Past, Marcel Proust
  • Rites Of Passage, William Golding
  • Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
  • Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
  • Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
  • Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
  • Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
  • Seize The Day, Saul Bellow
  • Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
  • Sexing The Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
  • Señor Vivo And The Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
  • Shame, Salman Rushdie
  • Shikasta, Doris Lessing
  • Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
  • Silk, Alessandro Baricco
  • Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
  • Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
  • Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
  • Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
  • Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  • Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
  • Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
  • Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
  • Story Of The Eye, Georges Bataille
  • Strait Is The Gate, André Gide
  • Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
  • Sula, Toni Morrison
  • Summer In Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
  • Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Summer, Edith Wharton
  • Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
  • Tarka The Otter, Henry Williamson
  • Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
  • Tarzan Of The Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tent Of Miracles, Jorge Amado
  • Testament Of Youth, Vera Brittain
  • Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
  • The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
  • The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
  • The Adventures Of Augie March, Saul Bellow
  • The Afternoon Of A Writer, Peter Handke
  • The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton
  • The Ambassadors, Henry James
  • The Apes Of God, Wyndham Lewis
  • The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
  • The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
  • The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
  • The Autumn Of The Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White
  • The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  • The Bell, Iris Murdoch
  • The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
  • The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
  • The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
  • The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
  • The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
  • The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
  • The Bonfire Of The Vanities, Tom Wolfe
  • The Book Of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
  • The Book Of Evidence, John Banville
  • The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, Milan Kundera
  • The Breast, Philip Roth
  • The Bridge On The Drina, Ivo Andric
  • The Buddha Of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
  • The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
  • The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
  • The Case Of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
  • The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
  • The Castle, Franz Kafka
  • The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
  • The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
  • The Child In Time, Ian McEwan
  • The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
  • The Cider House Rules, John Irving
  • The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin
  • The Collector, John Fowles
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  • The Comfort Of Strangers, Ian McEwan
  • The Counterfeiters, André Gide
  • The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
  • The Crow Road, Iain Banks
  • The Crying Of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
  • The Cubs And Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
  • The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
  • The Devil In The Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
  • The Diary Of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
  • The Discovery Of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
  • The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
  • The Drowned And The Saved, Primo Levi
  • The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
  • The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
  • The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene
  • The End Of The Road, John Barth
  • The End Of The Story, Lydia Davis
  • The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
  • The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
  • The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
  • The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • The Floating Opera, John Barth
  • The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
  • The Fox, D.H. Lawrence
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
  • The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
  • The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
  • The Garden Where The Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
  • The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
  • The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
  • The Girls Of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
  • The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
  • The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
  • The Glimpses Of The Moon, Edith Wharton
  • The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
  • The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  • The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  • The Golden Bowl, Henry James
  • The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
  • The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
  • The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
  • The Graduate, Charles Webb
  • The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • The Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
  • The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
  • The Hamlet, William Faulkner
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • The Heart Of The Matter, Graham Greene
  • The Heat Of The Day, Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín
  • The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon, José Saramago
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
  • The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
  • The Hours, Michael Cunningham
  • The House In Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
  • The House Of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
  • The House Of Mirth, Edith Wharton
  • The House Of The Spirits, Isabel Allende
  • The House On The Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
  • The Immoralist, André Gide
  • The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
  • The Information, Martin Amis
  • The Invention Of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
  • The Iron Heel, Jack London
  • The Joke, Milan Kundera
  • The Judge And His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
  • The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
  • The Labyrinth Of Solitude, Octavio Paz
  • The Last Days Of Humanity, Karl Kraus
  • The Last Of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
  • The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis
  • The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
  • The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • The Life And Times Of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
  • The Life Of Insects, Victor Pelevin
  • The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Living And The Dead, Patrick White
  • The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
  • The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, Douglas Adams
  • The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
  • The Lord Of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
  • The Lover, Marguerite Duras
  • The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
  • The Magus, John Fowles
  • The Making Of Americans, Gertrude Stein
  • The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
  • The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
  • The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
  • The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Master Of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
  • The Melancholy Of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
  • The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
  • The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
  • The Moon And The Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
  • The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
  • The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
  • The Music Of Chance, Paul Auster
  • The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
  • The Names, Don DeLillo
  • The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
  • The Newton Letter, John Banville
  • The Nice And The Good, Iris Murdoch
  • The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Ogre, Michael Tournier
  • The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
  • The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  • The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
  • The Once And Future King, T.H. White
  • The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
  • The Outsider, Albert Camus
  • The Parable Of The Blind, Gert Hofmann
  • The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
  • The Passion Of New Eve, Angela Carter
  • The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
  • The Path To The Spider’s Nest, Italo Calvino
  • The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
  • The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • The Player Of Games, Iain M. Banks
  • The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
  • The Power And The Glory, Graham Greene
  • The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  • The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
  • The Public Burning, Robert Coover
  • The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
  • The Quest For Christa T., Christa Wolf
  • The Quiet American, Graham Greene
  • The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
  • The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
  • The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
  • The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
  • The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
  • The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
  • The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
  • The Rebel, Albert Camus
  • The Recognitions, William Gaddis
  • The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Return Of The Soldier, Rebecca West
  • The Revenge For Love, Wyndham Lewis
  • The Riddle Of The Sands, Erskine Childers
  • The Rings Of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
  • The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
  • The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
  • The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
  • The Safety Net, Heinrich Böll
  • The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
  • The Sea Of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
  • The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
  • The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
  • The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  • The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
  • The Shining, Stephen King
  • The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
  • The Siege Of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
  • The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
  • The Sorrow Of Belgium, Hugo Claus
  • The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
  • The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
  • The Story Of O, Pauline Réage
  • The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  • The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
  • The Talk Of The Town, Ardal O’Hanlon
  • The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
  • The Temple Of My Familiar, Alice Walker
  • The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
  • The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
  • The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
  • The Third Man, Graham Greene
  • The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
  • The Time Of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
  • The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
  • The Trial, Franz Kafka
  • The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
  • The Trusting And The Maimed, James Plunkett
  • The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera
  • The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
  • The Untouchable, John Banville
  • The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
  • The Victim, Saul Bellow
  • The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor
  • The Virgin In The Garden, A.S. Byatt
  • The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
  • The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
  • The Waves, Virginia Woolf
  • The Well Of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
  • The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
  • The Wings Of The Dove, Henry James
  • The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
  • The World According To Garp, John Irving
  • The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago
  • The Years, Virginia Woolf
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  • Them, Joyce Carol Oates
  • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • Things, Georges Perec
  • Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
  • Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
  • Timbuktu, Paul Auster
  • Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
  • Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
  • Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
  • To Have And Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • To The North, Elizabeth Bowen
  • Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
  • Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
  • Transit, Anna Seghers
  • Trawl, B.S. Johnson
  • Tropic Of Cancer, Henry Miller
  • Tropic Of Capricorn, Henry Miller
  • Troubles, J.G. Farrell
  • Typical, Padgett Powell
  • U.S.A., John Dos Passos
  • Ulysses, James Joyce
  • Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
  • Under The Net, Iris Murdoch
  • Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
  • Underworld, Don DeLillo
  • V., Thomas Pynchon
  • Veronika Decides To Die, Paulo Coelho
  • Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
  • Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
  • Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
  • Voss, Patrick White
  • W, Or The Memory Of Childhood, Georges Perec
  • Waiting For The Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
  • Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  • Waterland, Graham Swift
  • Watt, Samuel Beckett
  • We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • What A Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
  • Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
  • Where Angels Fear To Tread, E.M. Forster
  • White Noise, Don DeLillo
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
  • Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
  • Wild Swans, Jung Chang
  • Willard And His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
  • Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
  • Wise Children, Angela Carter
  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
  • Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
  • Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
  • World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
  • Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
  • Yes, Thomas Bernhard
  • Young Törless, Robert Musil
  • Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo

1800s

  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant
  • Adam Bede, George Eliot
  • Against The Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
  • Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
  • Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Born In Exile, George Gissing
  • Bouvard And Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
  • By the Open Sea, August Strindberg
  • Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
  • Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
  • Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
  • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  • Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
  • Diary Of A Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith
  • Dracula, Bram Stoker
  • Drunkard, Émile Zola
  • Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
  • Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • =Emma, Jane Austen
  • Erewhon, Samuel Butler
  • Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
  • Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  • Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
  • Fortunata And Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés
  • Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Fruits Of The Earth, André Gide
  • Germinal, Émile Zola
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf
  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens
  • He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
  • Hunger, Knut Hamsun
  • In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Jules Verne
  • Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
  • Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • King Lear Of The Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
  • King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
  • La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola
  • La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
  • Last Of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
  • Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
  • Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  • Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
  • Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  • Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont
  • Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
  • Marius The Epicurean, Walter Pater
  • Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
  • Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Max Havelaar, Multatuli
  • Melmoth The Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
  • Middlemarch, George Eliot
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
  • Nana, Émile Zola
  • New Grub Street, George Gissing
  • News From Nowhere, William Morris
  • North And South, Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  • Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • On The Eve, Ivan Turgenev
  • Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
  • Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
  • Persuasion, Jane Austen
  • Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
  • Pierre And Jean, Guy de Maupassant
  • Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Return Of The Native, Thomas Hardy
  • Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
  • Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen
  • Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
  • She, H. Rider Haggard
  • Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
  • Silas Marner, George Eliot
  • Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross
  • Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev
  • Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  • The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth
  • The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
  • The Awakening, Kate Chopin
  • The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
  • The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Charterhouse Of Parma, Stendhal
  • The Count Of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  • The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
  • The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
  • The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Hand Of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
  • The House By The Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
  • The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
  • The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
  • The Island Of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
  • The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
  • The Last Chronicle Of Barset, Anthony Trollope
  • The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
  • The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Master Of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
  • The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot
  • The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
  • The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
  • The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
  • The People Of Hemsö, August Strindberg
  • The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • The Pit And The Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James
  • The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, James Hogg
  • The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross
  • The Red And The Black, Stendhal
  • The Red Room, August Strindberg
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
  • The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Temptation Of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
  • The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
  • The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
  • The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
  • The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James
  • The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
  • The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
  • The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
  • The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
  • The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
  • Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among The Lonely, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Villette, Charlotte Brontë
  • Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau
  • War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  • What Maisie Knew, Henry James
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

1700s

  • A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
  • A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
  • A Tale Of A Tub, Jonathan Swift
  • Amelia, Henry Fielding
  • Camilla, Fanny Burney
  • Candide, Voltaire
  • Cecilia, Fanny Burney
  • Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
  • Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • Evelina, Fanny Burney
  • Fanny Hill, John Cleland
  • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett
  • Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin
  • Jacques The Fatalist, Denis Diderot
  • Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
  • Julie; Or, the New Eloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Justine, Marquis de Sade
  • Love In Excess, Eliza Haywood
  • Memoirs Of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  • Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
  • Pamela, Samuel Richardson
  • Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett
  • Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
  • Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
  • Reveries Of A Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
  • Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett
  • Roxana, Daniel Defoe
  • The 120 Days Of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
  • The Adventures Of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
  • The Castle Of Otranto, Horace Walpole
  • The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
  • The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
  • The Man Of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
  • The Monk, M.G. Lewis
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
  • The Nun, Denis Diderot
  • The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Vicar Of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
  • Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
  • Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
  • Vathek, William Beckford
  • Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Émile; Or, On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pre-1700

  • Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus
  • Aithiopika, Heliodorus
  • Chaireas And Kallirhoe, Chariton
  • Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
  • Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit, John Lyly
  • Gargantua And Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais
  • Metamorphoses, Ovid
  • Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
  • The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
  • The Princess Of Clèves, Comtesse de La Fayette
  • The Thousand And One Nights, Anonymous
  • The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe
nov 28 2012 ∞
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