"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