from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall ISBN 1-84403-417-8

2000s

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  • Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
  • Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
  • The Sea by John Banville
  • The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
  • The Master by Colm Tóibín
  • Vanishing Point by David Markson
  • The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
  • Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • The Colour by Rose Tremain
  • _Thursbitch _ by Alan Garner
  • The Light of Day by Graham Swift
  • _What I Loved _ by Siri Hustvedt
  • _The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time _ by Mark Haddon
  • _Islands _ by Dan Sleigh
  • _Elizabeth Costello _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _London Orbital _ by Iain Sinclair
  • _Family Matters _ by Rohinton Mistry
  • _Fingersmith _ by Sarah Waters
  • _The Double _ by José Saramago
  • _Everything is Illuminated _ by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • _Unless _ by Carol Shields
  • _Kafka on the Shore _ by Haruki Murakami
  • _The Story of Lucy Gault _ by William Trevor
  • _That They May Face the Rising Sun _ by John McGahern
  • _In the Forest _ by Edna O’Brien
  • _Shroud _ by John Banville
  • _Middlesex _ by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • _Youth _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _Dead Air _ by Iain Banks
  • _Nowhere Man _ by Aleksandar Hemon
  • _The Book of Illusions _ by Paul Auster
  • _Gabriel’s Gift _ by Hanif Kureishi
  • _Austerlitz _ by W.G. Sebald
  • _Platform _ by Michael Houellebecq
  • _Schooling _ by Heather McGowan
  • _Atonement _ by Ian McEwan
  • _The Corrections _ by Jonathan Franzen
  • _Don’t Move _ by Margaret Mazzantini
  • _The Body Artist _ by Don DeLillo
  • _Fury _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _At Swim, Two Boys _ by Jamie O’Neill
  • _Choke _ by Chuck Palahniuk
  • _Life of Pi _ by Yann Martel
  • _The Feast of the Goat _ by Mario Vargos Llosa
  • _An Obedient Father _ by Akhil Sharma
  • _The Devil and Miss Prym _ by Paulo Coelho
  • _Spring Flowers, Spring Frost _ by Ismail Kadare
  • _White Teeth _ by Zadie Smith
  • _The Heart of Redness _ by Zakes Mda
  • _Under the Skin _ by Michel Faber
  • _Ignorance _ by Milan Kundera
  • _Nineteen Seventy Seven _ by David Peace
  • _Celestial Harmonies _ by Péter Esterházy
  • _City of God _ by E.L. Doctorow
  • _How the Dead Live _ by Will Self
  • _The Human Stain _ by Philip Roth
  • _The Blind Assassin _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _After the Quake _ by Haruki Murakami
  • _Small Remedies _ by Shashi Deshpande
  • _Super-Cannes _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _House of Leaves _ by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • _Blonde _ by Joyce Carol Oates
  • _Pastoralia _ by George Saunders

1900s

  • _Timbuktu _ by Paul Auster
  • _The Romantics _ by Pankaj Mishra
  • _Cryptonomicon _ by Neal Stephenson
  • _As If I Am Not There _ by Slavenka Drakuli?
  • _Everything You Need _ by A.L. Kennedy
  • _Fear and Trembling _ by Amélie Nothomb
  • _The Ground Beneath Her Feet _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _Disgrace _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _Sputnik Sweetheart _ by Haruki Murakami
  • _Elementary Particles _ by Michel Houellebecq
  • _Intimacy _ by Hanif Kureishi
  • _Amsterdam _ by Ian McEwan
  • _Cloudsplitter _ by Russell Banks
  • _All Souls Day _ by Cees Nooteboom
  • _The Talk of the Town _ by Ardal O’Hanlon
  • _Tipping the Velvet _ by Sarah Waters
  • _The Poisonwood Bible _ by Barbara Kingsolver
  • _Glamorama _ by Bret Easton Ellis
  • _Another World _ by Pat Barker
  • _The Hours _ by Michael Cunningham
  • _Veronika Decides to Die _ by Paulo Coelho
  • _Mason & Dixon _ by Thomas Pynchon
  • _The God of Small Things _ by Arundhati Roy
  • _Memoirs of a Geisha _ by Arthur Golden
  • _Great Apes _ by Will Self
  • _Enduring Love _ by Ian McEwan
  • _Underworld _ by Don DeLillo
  • _Jack Maggs _ by Peter Carey
  • _The Life of Insects _ by Victor Pelevin
  • _American Pastoral _ by Philip Roth
  • _The Untouchable _ by John Banville
  • _Silk _ by Alessandro Baricco
  • _Cocaine Nights _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _Hallucinating Foucault _ by Patricia Duncker
  • _Fugitive Pieces _ by Anne Michaels
  • _The Ghost Road _ by Pat Barker
  • _Forever a Stranger _ by Hella Haasse
  • _Infinite Jest _ by David Foster Wallace
  • _The Clay Machine-Gun _ by Victor Pelevin
  • _Alias Grace _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _The Unconsoled _ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • _Morvern Callar _ by Alan Warner
  • _The Information _ by Martin Amis
  • _The Moor’s Last Sigh _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _Sabbath’s Theater _ by Philip Roth
  • _The Rings of Saturn _ by W.G. Sebald
  • _The Reader _ by Bernhard Schlink
  • _A Fine Balance _ by Rohinton Mistry
  • _Love’s Work _ by Gillian Rose
  • _The End of the Story _ by Lydia Davis
  • _Mr. Vertigo _ by Paul Auster
  • _The Folding Star _ by Alan Hollinghurst
  • _Whatever _ by Michel Houellebecq
  • _Land _ by Park Kyong-ni
  • _The Master of Petersburg _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle _ by Haruki Murakami
  • _Pereira Declares: A Testimony _ by Antonio Tabucchi
  • _City Sister Silver _ by Jàchym Topol
  • _How Late It Was, How Late _ by James Kelman
  • _Captain Corelli’s Mandolin _ by Louis de Bernieres
  • _Felicia’s Journey _ by William Trevor
  • _Disappearance _ by David Dabydeen
  • _The Invention of Curried Sausage _ by Uwe Timm
  • _The Shipping News _ by E. Annie Proulx
  • _Trainspotting _ by Irvine Welsh
  • _Birdsong _ by Sebastian Faulks
  • _Looking for the Possible Dance _ by A.L. Kennedy
  • _Operation Shylock _ by Philip Roth
  • _Complicity _ by Iain Banks
  • _On Love _ by Alain de Botton
  • _What a Carve Up! _ by Jonathan Coe
  • _A Suitable Boy _ by Vikram Seth
  • _The Stone Diaries _ by Carol Shields
  • _The Virgin Suicides _ by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • _The House of Doctor Dee _ by Peter Ackroyd
  • _The Robber Bride _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _The Emigrants _ by W.G. Sebald
  • _The Secret History _ by Donna Tartt
  • _Life is a Caravanserai _ by Emine Özdamar
  • _The Discovery of Heaven _ by Harry Mulisch
  • _A Heart So White _ by Javier Marias
  • _Possessing the Secret of Joy _ by Alice Walker
  • _Indigo _ by Marina Warner
  • _The Crow Road _ by Iain Banks
  • _Written on the Body _ by Jeanette Winterson
  • _Jazz _ by Toni Morrison
  • _The English Patient _ by Michael Ondaatje
  • _Smilla’s Sense of Snow _ by Peter Høeg
  • _The Butcher Boy _ by Patrick McCabe
  • _Black Water _ by Joyce Carol Oates
  • _The Heather Blazing _ by Colm Tóibín
  • _Asphodel _ by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • _Black Dogs _ by Ian McEwan
  • _Hideous Kinky _ by Esther Freud
  • _Arcadia _ by Jim Crace
  • _Wild Swans _ by Jung Chang
  • _American Psycho _ by Bret Easton Ellis
  • _Time’s Arrow _ by Martin Amis
  • _Mao II _ by Don DeLillo
  • _Typical _ by Padgett Powell
  • _Regeneration _ by Pat Barker
  • _Downriver _ by Iain Sinclair
  • _Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord _ by Louis de Bernieres
  • _Wise Children _ by Angela Carter
  • _Get Shorty _ by Elmore Leonard
  • _Amongst Women _ by John McGahern
  • _Vineland _ by Thomas Pynchon
  • _Vertigo _ by W.G. Sebald
  • _Stone Junction _ by Jim Dodge
  • _The Music of Chance _ by Paul Auster
  • _The Things They Carried _ by Tim O’Brien
  • _A Home at the End of the World _ by Michael Cunningham
  • _Like Life _ by Lorrie Moore
  • _Possession _ by A.S. Byatt
  • _The Buddha of Suburbia _ by Hanif Kureishi
  • _The Midnight Examiner _ by William Kotzwinkle
  • _A Disaffection _ by James Kelman
  • _Sexing the Cherry _ by Jeanette Winterson
  • _Moon Palace _ by Paul Auster
  • _Billy Bathgate _ by E.L. Doctorow
  • _Remains of the Day _ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • _The Melancholy of Resistance _ by László Krasznahorkai
  • _The Temple of My Familiar _ by Alice Walker
  • _The Trick is to Keep Breathing _ by Janice Galloway
  • _The History of the Siege of Lisbon _ by José Saramago
  • _Like Water for Chocolate _ by Laura Esquivel
  • _A Prayer for Owen Meany _ by John Irving
  • _London Fields _ by Martin Amis
  • _The Book of Evidence _ by John Banville
  • _Cat’s Eye _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _Foucault’s Pendulum _ by Umberto Eco
  • _The Beautiful Room is Empty _ by Edmund White
  • _Wittgenstein’s Mistress _ by David Markson
  • _The Satanic Verses _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _The Swimming-Pool Library _ by Alan Hollinghurst
  • _Oscar and Lucinda _ by Peter Carey
  • _Libra _ by Don DeLillo
  • _The Player of Games _ by Iain M. Banks
  • _Nervous Conditions _ by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • _The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul _ by Douglas Adams
  • _Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency _ by Douglas Adams
  • _The Radiant Way _ by Margaret Drabble
  • _The Afternoon of a Writer _ by Peter Handke
  • _The Black Dahlia _ by James Ellroy
  • _The Passion _ by Jeanette Winterson
  • _The Pigeon _ by Patrick Süskind
  • _The Child in Time _ by Ian McEwan
  • _Cigarettes _ by Harry Mathews
  • _The Bonfire of the Vanities _ by Tom Wolfe
  • _The New York Trilogy _ by Paul Auster
  • _World’s End _ by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • _Enigma of Arrival _ by V.S. Naipaul
  • _The Taebek Mountains _ by Jo Jung-rae
  • _Beloved _ by Toni Morrison
  • _Anagrams _ by Lorrie Moore
  • _Matigari _ by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • _Marya _ by Joyce Carol Oates
  • _Watchmen _ by Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  • _The Old Devils _ by Kingsley Amis
  • _Lost Language of Cranes _ by David Leavitt
  • _An Artist of the Floating World _ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • _Extinction _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _Foe _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _The Drowned and the Saved _ by Primo Levi
  • _Reasons to Live _ by Amy Hempel
  • _The Parable of the Blind _ by Gert Hofmann
  • _Love in the Time of Cholera _ by Gabriel García Márquez
  • _Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit _ by Jeanette Winterson
  • _The Cider House Rules _ by John Irving
  • _A Maggot _ by John Fowles
  • _Less Than Zero _ by Bret Easton Ellis
  • _Contact _ by Carl Sagan
  • _The Handmaid’s Tale _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _Perfume _ by Patrick Süskind
  • _Old Masters _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _White Noise _ by Don DeLillo
  • _Queer _ by William Burroughs
  • _Hawksmoor _ by Peter Ackroyd
  • _Legend _ by David Gemmell
  • _Dictionary of the Khazars _ by Milorad Pavi?
  • _The Bus Conductor Hines _ by James Kelman
  • _The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis _ by José Saramago
  • _The Lover _ by Marguerite Duras
  • _Empire of the Sun _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _The Wasp Factory _ by Iain Banks
  • _Nights at the Circus _ by Angela Carter
  • _The Unbearable Lightness of Being _ by Milan Kundera
  • _Blood and Guts in High School _ by Kathy Acker
  • _Neuromancer _ by William Gibson
  • _Flaubert’s Parrot _ by Julian Barnes
  • _Money: A Suicide Note _ by Martin Amis
  • _Shame _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _Worstward Ho _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Fools of Fortune _ by William Trevor
  • _La Brava _ by Elmore Leonard
  • _Waterland _ by Graham Swift
  • _The Life and Times of Michael K _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _The Diary of Jane Somers _ by Doris Lessing
  • _The Piano Teacher _ by Elfriede Jelinek
  • _The Sorrow of Belgium _ by Hugo Claus
  • _If Not Now, When? _ by Primo Levi
  • _A Boy’s Own Story _ by Edmund White
  • _The Color Purple _ by Alice Walker
  • _Wittgenstein’s Nephew _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _A Pale View of Hills _ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • _Schindler’s Ark _ by Thomas Keneally
  • _The House of the Spirits _ by Isabel Allende
  • _The Newton Letter _ by John Banville
  • _On the Black Hill _ by Bruce Chatwin
  • _Concrete _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _The Names _ by Don DeLillo
  • _Rabbit is Rich _ by John Updike
  • _Lanark: A Life in Four Books _ by Alasdair Gray
  • _The Comfort of Strangers _ by Ian McEwan
  • _July’s People _ by Nadine Gordimer
  • _Summer in Baden-Baden _ by Leonid Tsypkin
  • _Broken April _ by Ismail Kadare
  • _Waiting for the Barbarians _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _Midnight’s Children _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _Rites of Passage _ by William Golding
  • _Rituals _ by Cees Nooteboom
  • _Confederacy of Dunces _ by John Kennedy Toole
  • _City Primeval _ by Elmore Leonard
  • _The Name of the Rose _ by Umberto Eco
  • _The Book of Laughter and Forgetting _ by Milan Kundera
  • _Smiley’s People _ by John Le Carré
  • _Shikasta _ by Doris Lessing
  • _A Bend in the River _ by V.S. Naipaul
  • _Burger’s Daughter _ by Nadine Gordimer
  • _The Safety Net _ by Heinrich Böll
  • _If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler _ by Italo Calvino
  • _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy _ by Douglas Adams
  • _The Cement Garden _ by Ian McEwan
  • _The World According to Garp _ by John Irving
  • _Life: A User’s Manual _ by Georges Perec
  • _The Sea, The Sea _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _The Singapore Grip _ by J.G. Farrell
  • _Yes _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _The Virgin in the Garden _ by A.S. Byatt
  • _In the Heart of the Country _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _The Passion of New Eve _ by Angela Carter
  • _Delta of Venus _ by Anaïs Nin
  • _The Shining _ by Stephen King
  • _Dispatches _ by Michael Herr
  • _Petals of Blood _ by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • _Song of Solomon _ by Toni Morrison
  • _The Hour of the Star _ by Clarice Lispector
  • _The Left-Handed Woman _ by Peter Handke
  • _Ratner’s Star _ by Don DeLillo
  • _The Public Burning _ by Robert Coover
  • _Interview With the Vampire _ by Anne Rice
  • _Cutter and Bone _ by Newton Thornburg
  • _Amateurs _ by Donald Barthelme
  • _Patterns of Childhood _ by Christa Wolf
  • _Autumn of the Patriarch _ by Gabriel García Márquez
  • _W, or the Memory of Childhood _ by Georges Perec
  • _A Dance to the Music of Time _ by Anthony Powell
  • _Grimus _ by Salman Rushdie
  • _The Dead Father _ by Donald Barthelme
  • _Fateless _ by Imre Kertész
  • _Willard and His Bowling Trophies _ by Richard Brautigan
  • _High Rise _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _Humboldt’s Gift _ by Saul Bellow
  • _Dead Babies _ by Martin Amis
  • _Correction _ by Thomas Bernhard
  • _Ragtime _ by E.L. Doctorow
  • _The Fan Man _ by William Kotzwinkle
  • _Dusklands _ by J.M. Coetzee
  • _The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum _ by Heinrich Böll
  • _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy _ by John Le Carré
  • _Breakfast of Champions _ by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • _Fear of Flying _ by Erica Jong
  • _A Question of Power _ by Bessie Head
  • _The Siege of Krishnapur _ by J.G. Farrell
  • _The Castle of Crossed Destinies _ by Italo Calvino
  • _Crash _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _The Honorary Consul _ by Graham Greene
  • _Gravity’s Rainbow _ by Thomas Pynchon
  • _The Black Prince _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _Sula _ by Toni Morrison
  • _Invisible Cities _ by Italo Calvino
  • _The Breast _ by Philip Roth
  • _The Summer Book _ by Tove Jansson
  • _G _ by John Berger
  • _Surfacing _ by Margaret Atwood
  • _House Mother Normal _ by B.S. Johnson
  • _In A Free State _ by V.S. Naipaul
  • _The Book of Daniel _ by E.L. Doctorow
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas _ by Hunter S. Thompson
  • _Group Portrait With Lady _ by Heinrich Böll
  • _The Wild Boys _ by William Burroughs
  • _Rabbit Redux _ by John Updike
  • _The Sea of Fertility _ by Yukio Mishima
  • _The Driver’s Seat _ by Muriel Spark
  • _The Ogre _ by Michael Tournier
  • _The Bluest Eye _ by Toni Morrison
  • _Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick _ by Peter Handke
  • _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings _ by Maya Angelou
  • _Mercier et Camier _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Troubles _ by J.G. Farrell
  • _Jahrestage _ by Uwe Johnson
  • _The Atrocity Exhibition _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _Tent of Miracles _ by Jorge Amado
  • _Pricksongs and Descants _ by Robert Coover
  • _Blind Man With a Pistol _ by Chester Hines
  • _Slaughterhouse-five _ by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • _The French Lieutenant’s Woman _ by John Fowles
  • _The Green Man _ by Kingsley Amis
  • _Portnoy’s Complaint _ by Philip Roth
  • _The Godfather _ by Mario Puzo
  • _Ada _ by Vladimir Nabokov
  • _Them _ by Joyce Carol Oates
  • _A Void/Avoid _ by Georges Perec
  • _Eva Trout _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _Myra Breckinridge _ by Gore Vidal
  • _The Nice and the Good _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _Belle du Seigneur _ by Albert Cohen
  • _Cancer Ward _ by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • _The First Circle _ by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • _2001: A Space Odyssey _ by Arthur C. Clarke
  • _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? _ by Philip K. Dick
  • _Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid _ by Malcolm Lowry
  • _The German Lesson _ by Siegfried Lenz
  • _In Watermelon Sugar _ by Richard Brautigan
  • _A Kestrel for a Knave _ by Barry Hines
  • _The Quest for Christa T. _ by Christa Wolf
  • _Chocky _ by John Wyndham
  • _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test _ by Tom Wolfe
  • _The Cubs and Other Stories _ by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • _One Hundred Years of Solitude _ by Gabriel García Márquez
  • _The Master and Margarita _ by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • _Pilgrimage _ by Dorothy Richardson
  • _The Joke _ by Milan Kundera
  • _No Laughing Matter _ by Angus Wilson
  • _The Third Policeman _ by Flann O’Brien
  • _A Man Asleep _ by Georges Perec
  • _The Birds Fall Down _ by Rebecca West
  • _Trawl _ by B.S. Johnson
  • _In Cold Blood _ by Truman Capote
  • _The Magus _ by John Fowles
  • _The Vice-Consul _ by Marguerite Duras
  • _Wide Sargasso Sea _ by Jean Rhys
  • _Giles Goat-Boy _ by John Barth
  • _The Crying of Lot 49 _ by Thomas Pynchon
  • _Things _ by Georges Perec
  • _The River Between _ by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • _August is a Wicked Month _ by Edna O’Brien
  • _God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater _ by Kurt Vonnegut
  • _Everything That Rises Must Converge _ by Flannery O’Connor
  • _The Passion According to G.H. _ by Clarice Lispector
  • _Sometimes a Great Notion _ by Ken Kesey
  • _Come Back, Dr. Caligari _ by Donald Bartholme
  • _Albert Angelo _ by B.S. Johnson
  • _Arrow of God _ by Chinua Achebe
  • _The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein _ by Marguerite Duras
  • _Herzog _ by Saul Bellow
  • _V. _ by Thomas Pynchon
  • _Cat’s Cradle _ by Kurt Vonnegut
  • _The Graduate _ by Charles Webb
  • _Manon des Sources _ by Marcel Pagnol
  • _The Spy Who Came in from the Cold _ by John Le Carré
  • _The Girls of Slender Means _ by Muriel Spark
  • _Inside Mr. Enderby _ by Anthony Burgess
  • _The Bell Jar _ by Sylvia Plath
  • _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich _ by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • _The Collector _ by John Fowles
  • _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest _ by Ken Kesey
  • _A Clockwork Orange _ by Anthony Burgess
  • Pale Fire _ by Vladimir Nabokov
  • _The Drowned World _ by J.G. Ballard
  • _The Golden Notebook _ by Doris Lessing
  • _Labyrinths _ by Jorg Luis Borges
  • _Girl With Green Eyes _ by Edna O’Brien
  • _The Garden of the Finzi-Continis _ by Giorgio Bassani
  • _Stranger in a Strange Land _ by Robert Heinlein
  • _Franny and Zooey _ by J.D. Salinger
  • _A Severed Head _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _Faces in the Water _ by Janet Frame
  • _Solaris _ by Stanislaw Lem
  • _Cat and Mouse _ by Günter Grass
  • _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie _ by Muriel Spark
  • _Catch-22 _ by Joseph Heller
  • _The Violent Bear it Away _ by Flannery O’Connor
  • _How It Is _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Our Ancestors _ by Italo Calvino
  • _The Country Girls _ by Edna O’Brien
  • _To Kill a Mockingbird _ by Harper Lee
  • _Rabbit, Run _ by John Updike
  • _Promise at Dawn _ by Romain Gary
  • _Cider With Rosie _ by Laurie Lee
  • _Billy Liar _ by Keith Waterhouse
  • _Naked Lunch _ by William Burroughs
  • _The Tin Drum _ by Günter Grass
  • _Absolute Beginners _ by Colin MacInnes
  • _Henderson the Rain King _ by Saul Bellow
  • _Memento Mori _ by Muriel Spark
  • _Billiards at Half-Past Nine _ by Heinrich Böll
  • _Breakfast at Tiffany’s _ by Truman Capote
  • _The Leopard _ by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • _Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring _ by Kenzaburo Oe
  • _A Town Like Alice _ by Nevil Shute
  • _The Bitter Glass _ by Eilís Dillon
  • _Things Fall Apart _ by Chinua Achebe
  • _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning _ by Alan Sillitoe
  • _Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris _ by Paul Gallico
  • _Borstal Boy _ by Brendan Behan
  • _The End of the Road _ by John Barth
  • _The Once and Future King _ by T.H. White
  • _The Bell _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _Jealousy _ by Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • _Voss _ by Patrick White
  • _The Midwich Cuckoos _ by John Wyndham
  • _Blue Noon _ by Georges Bataille
  • _Homo Faber _ by Max Frisch
  • _On the Road _ by Jack Kerouac
  • _Pnin _ by Vladimir Nabokov
  • _Doctor Zhivago _ by Boris Pasternak
  • _The Wonderful “O” _ by James Thurber
  • _Justine _ by Lawrence Durrell
  • _Giovanni’s Room _ by James Baldwin
  • _The Lonely Londoners _ by Sam Selvon
  • _The Roots of Heaven _ by Romain Gary
  • _Seize the Day _ by Saul Bellow
  • _The Floating Opera _ by John Barth
  • _The Lord of the Rings _ by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • _The Talented Mr. Ripley _ by Patricia Highsmith
  • _Lolita _ by Vladimir Nabokov
  • _A World of Love _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _The Trusting and the Maimed _ by James Plunkett
  • _The Quiet American _ by Graham Greene
  • _The Last Temptation of Christ _ by Nikos Kazantzákis
  • _The Recognitions _ by William Gaddis
  • _The Ragazzi _ by Pier Paulo Pasolini
  • _Bonjour Tristesse _ by Françoise Sagan
  • _I’m Not Stiller _ by Max Frisch
  • _Self Condemned _ by Wyndham Lewis
  • _The Story of O _ by Pauline Réage
  • _A Ghost at Noon _ by Alberto Moravia
  • _Lord of the Flies _ by William Golding
  • _Under the Net _ by Iris Murdoch
  • _The Go-Between _ by L.P. Hartley
  • _The Long Goodbye _ by Raymond Chandler
  • _The Unnamable _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Watt _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Lucky Jim _ by Kingsley Amis
  • _Junkie _ by William Burroughs
  • _The Adventures of Augie March _ by Saul Bellow
  • _Go Tell It on the Mountain _ by James Baldwin
  • _Casino Royale _ by Ian Fleming
  • _The Judge and His Hangman _ by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • _Invisible Man _ by Ralph Ellison
  • _The Old Man and the Sea _ by Ernest Hemingway
  • _Wise Blood _ by Flannery O’Connor
  • _The Killer Inside Me _ by Jim Thompson
  • _Memoirs of Hadrian _ by Marguerite Yourcenar
  • _Malone Dies _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Day of the Triffids _ by John Wyndham
  • _Foundation _ by Isaac Asimov
  • _The Opposing Shore _ by Julien Gracq
  • _The Catcher in the Rye _ by J.D. Salinger
  • _The Rebel _ by Albert Camus
  • _Molloy _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _The End of the Affair _ by Graham Greene
  • _The Abbot C _ by Georges Bataille
  • _The Labyrinth of Solitude _ by Octavio Paz
  • _The Third Man _ by Graham Greene
  • _The 13 Clocks _ by James Thurber
  • _Gormenghast _ by Mervyn Peake
  • _The Grass is Singing _ by Doris Lessing
  • _I, Robot _ by Isaac Asimov
  • _The Moon and the Bonfires _ by Cesare Pavese
  • _The Garden Where the Brass Band Played _ by Simon Vestdijk
  • _Love in a Cold Climate _ by Nancy Mitford
  • _The Case of Comrade Tulayev _ by Victor Serge
  • _The Heat of the Day _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _Kingdom of This World _ by Alejo Carpentier
  • _The Man With the Golden Arm _ by Nelson Algren
  • _Nineteen Eighty-Four _ by George Orwell
  • _All About H. Hatterr _ by G.V. Desani
  • _Disobedience _ by Alberto Moravia
  • _Death Sentence _ by Maurice Blanchot
  • _The Heart of the Matter _ by Graham Greene
  • _Cry, the Beloved Country _ by Alan Paton
  • _Doctor Faustus _ by Thomas Mann
  • _The Victim _ by Saul Bellow
  • _Exercises in Style _ by Raymond Queneau
  • _If This Is a Man _ by Primo Levi
  • _Under the Volcano _ by Malcolm Lowry
  • _The Path to the Nest of Spiders _ by Italo Calvino
  • _The Plague _ by Albert Camus
  • _Back _ by Henry Green
  • _Titus Groan _ by Mervyn Peake
  • _The Bridge on the Drina _ by Ivo Andri?
  • _Brideshead Revisited _ by Evelyn Waugh
  • _Animal Farm _ by George Orwell
  • _Cannery Row _ by John Steinbeck
  • _The Pursuit of Love _ by Nancy Mitford
  • _Loving _ by Henry Green
  • _Arcanum 17 _ by André Breton
  • _Christ Stopped at Eboli _ by Carlo Levi
  • _The Razor’s Edge _ by William Somerset Maugham
  • _Transit _ by Anna Seghers
  • _Ficciones _ by Jorge Luis Borges
  • _Dangling Man _ by Saul Bellow
  • _The Little Prince _ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • _Caught _ by Henry Green
  • _The Glass Bead Game _ by Herman Hesse
  • _Embers _ by Sandor Marai
  • _Go Down, Moses _ by William Faulkner
  • _The Outsider _ by Albert Camus
  • _In Sicily _ by Elio Vittorini
  • _The Poor Mouth _ by Flann O’Brien
  • _The Living and the Dead _ by Patrick White
  • _Hangover Square _ by Patrick Hamilton
  • _Between the Acts _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _The Hamlet _ by William Faulkner
  • _Farewell My Lovely _ by Raymond Chandler
  • _For Whom the Bell Tolls _ by Ernest Hemingway
  • _Native Son _ by Richard Wright
  • _The Power and the Glory _ by Graham Greene
  • _The Tartar Steppe _ by Dino Buzzati
  • _Party Going _ by Henry Green
  • _The Grapes of Wrath _ by John Steinbeck
  • _Finnegans Wake _ by James Joyce
  • _At Swim-Two-Birds _ by Flann O’Brien
  • _Coming Up for Air _ by George Orwell
  • _Goodbye to Berlin _ by Christopher Isherwood
  • _Tropic of Capricorn _ by Henry Miller
  • _Good Morning, Midnight _ by Jean Rhys
  • _The Big Sleep _ by Raymond Chandler
  • _After the Death of Don Juan _ by Sylvie Townsend Warner
  • _Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day _ by Winifred Watson
  • _Nausea _ by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • _Rebecca _ by Daphne du Maurier
  • _Cause for Alarm _ by Eric Ambler
  • _Brighton Rock _ by Graham Greene
  • _U.S.A. _ by John Dos Passos
  • _Murphy _ by Samuel Beckett
  • _Of Mice and Men _ by John Steinbeck
  • _Their Eyes Were Watching God _ by Zora Neale Hurston
  • _The Hobbit _ by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • _The Years _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _In Parenthesis _ by David Jones
  • _The Revenge for Love _ by Wyndham Lewis
  • _Out of Africa _ by Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  • _To Have and Have Not _ by Ernest Hemingway
  • _Summer Will Show _ by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • _Eyeless in Gaza _ by Aldous Huxley
  • _The Thinking Reed _ by Rebecca West
  • _Gone With the Wind _ by Margaret Mitchell
  • _Keep the Aspidistra Flying _ by George Orwell
  • _Wild Harbour _ by Ian MacPherson
  • _Absalom, Absalom! _ by William Faulkner
  • _At the Mountains of Madness _ by H.P. Lovecraft
  • _Nightwood _ by Djuna Barnes
  • _Independent People _ by Halldór Laxness
  • _Auto-da-Fé _ by Elias Canetti
  • _The Last of Mr. Norris _ by Christopher Isherwood
  • _They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? _ by Horace McCoy
  • _The House in Paris _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _England Made Me _ by Graham Greene
  • _Burmese Days _ by George Orwell
  • _The Nine Tailors _ by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • _Threepenny Novel _ by Bertolt Brecht
  • _Novel With Cocaine _ by M. Ageyev
  • _The Postman Always Rings Twice _ by James M. Cain
  • _Tropic of Cancer _ by Henry Miller
  • _A Handful of Dust _ by Evelyn Waugh
  • _Tender is the Night _ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • _Thank You, Jeeves _ by P.G. Wodehouse
  • _Call it Sleep _ by Henry Roth
  • _Miss Lonelyhearts _ by Nathanael West
  • _Murder Must Advertise _ by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • _The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas _ by Gertrude Stein
  • _Testament of Youth _ by Vera Brittain
  • _A Day Off _ by Storm Jameson
  • _The Man Without Qualities _ by Robert Musil
  • _A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) _ by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • _Journey to the End of the Night _ by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • _Brave New World _ by Aldous Huxley
  • _Cold Comfort Farm _ by Stella Gibbons
  • _To the North _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _The Thin Man _ by Dashiell Hammett
  • _The Radetzky March _ by Joseph Roth
  • _The Waves _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _The Glass Key _ by Dashiell Hammett
  • _Cakes and Ale _ by W. Somerset Maugham
  • _The Apes of God _ by Wyndham Lewis
  • _Her Privates We _ by Frederic Manning
  • _Vile Bodies _ by Evelyn Waugh
  • _The Maltese Falcon _ by Dashiell Hammett
  • _Hebdomeros _ by Giorgio de Chirico
  • _Passing _ by Nella Larsen
  • _A Farewell to Arms _ by Ernest Hemingway
  • _Red Harvest _ by Dashiell Hammett
  • _Living _ by Henry Green
  • _The Time of Indifference _ by Alberto Moravia
  • _All Quiet on the Western Front _ by Erich Maria Remarque
  • _Berlin Alexanderplatz _ by Alfred Döblin
  • _The Last September _ by Elizabeth Bowen
  • _Harriet Hume _ by Rebecca West
  • _The Sound and the Fury _ by William Faulkner
  • _Les Enfants Terribles _ by Jean Cocteau
  • _Look Homeward, Angel _ by Thomas Wolfe
  • _Story of the Eye _ by Georges Bataille
  • _Orlando _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _Lady Chatterley’s Lover _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _The Well of Loneliness _ by Radclyffe Hall
  • _The Childermass _ by Wyndham Lewis
  • _Quartet _ by Jean Rhys
  • _Decline and Fall _ by Evelyn Waugh
  • _Quicksand _ by Nella Larsen
  • _Parade’s End _ by Ford Madox Ford
  • _Nadja _ by André Breton
  • _Steppenwolf _ by Herman Hesse
  • _Remembrance of Things Past _ by Marcel Proust
  • _To The Lighthouse _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _Tarka the Otter _ by Henry Williamson
  • _Amerika _ by Franz Kafka
  • _The Sun Also Rises _ by Ernest Hemingway
  • _Blindness _ by Henry Green
  • _The Castle _ by Franz Kafka
  • _The Good Soldier Švejk _ by Jaroslav Hašek
  • _The Plumed Serpent _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _One, None and a Hundred Thousand _ by Luigi Pirandello
  • _The Murder of Roger Ackroyd _ by Agatha Christie
  • _The Making of Americans _ by Gertrude Stein
  • _Manhattan Transfer _ by John Dos Passos
  • _Mrs. Dalloway _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _The Great Gatsby _ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • _The Counterfeiters _ by André Gide
  • _The Trial _ by Franz Kafka
  • _The Artamonov Business _ by Maxim Gorky
  • _The Professor’s House _ by Willa Cather
  • _Billy Budd, Foretopman _ by Herman Melville
  • _The Green Hat _ by Michael Arlen
  • _The Magic Mountain _ by Thomas Mann
  • _We _ by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • _A Passage to India _ by E.M. Forster
  • _The Devil in the Flesh _ by Raymond Radiguet
  • _Zeno’s Conscience _ by Italo Svevo
  • _Cane _ by Jean Toomer
  • _Antic Hay _ by Aldous Huxley
  • _Amok _ by Stefan Zweig
  • _The Garden Party _ by Katherine Mansfield
  • _The Enormous Room _ by E.E. Cummings
  • _Jacob’s Room _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _Siddhartha _ by Herman Hesse
  • _The Glimpses of the Moon _ by Edith Wharton
  • _Life and Death of Harriett Frean _ by May Sinclair
  • _The Last Days of Humanity _ by Karl Kraus
  • _Aaron’s Rod _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _Babbitt _ by Sinclair Lewis
  • _Ulysses _ by James Joyce
  • _The Fox _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _Crome Yellow _ by Aldous Huxley
  • _The Age of Innocence _ by Edith Wharton
  • _Main Street _ by Sinclair Lewis
  • _Women in Love _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _Night and Day _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _Tarr _ by Wyndham Lewis
  • _The Return of the Soldier _ by Rebecca West
  • _The Shadow Line _ by Joseph Conrad
  • _Summer _ by Edith Wharton
  • _Growth of the Soil _ by Knut Hamsen
  • _Bunner Sisters _ by Edith Wharton
  • _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man _ by James Joyce
  • _Under Fire _ by Henri Barbusse
  • _Rashomon _ by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  • _The Good Soldier _ by Ford Madox Ford
  • _The Voyage Out _ by Virginia Woolf
  • _Of Human Bondage _ by William Somerset Maugham
  • _The Rainbow _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _The Thirty-Nine Steps _ by John Buchan
  • _Kokoro _ by Natsume Soseki
  • _Locus Solus _ by Raymond Roussel
  • _Rosshalde _ by Herman Hesse
  • _Tarzan of the Apes _ by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • _The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists _ by Robert Tressell
  • _Sons and Lovers _ by D.H. Lawrence
  • _Death in Venice _ by Thomas Mann
  • _The Charwoman’s Daughter _ by James Stephens
  • _Ethan Frome _ by Edith Wharton
  • _Fantômas _ by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  • _Howards End _ by E.M. Forster
  • _Impressions of Africa _ by Raymond Roussel
  • _Three Lives _ by Gertrude Stein
  • _Martin Eden _ by Jack London
  • _Strait is the Gate _ by André Gide
  • _Tono-Bungay _ by H.G. Wells
  • _The Inferno _ by Henri Barbusse
  • _A Room With a View _ by E.M. Forster
  • _The Iron Heel _ by Jack London
  • _The Old Wives’ Tale _ by Arnold Bennett
  • _The House on the Borderland _ by William Hope Hodgson
  • _Mother _ by Maxim Gorky
  • _The Secret Agent _ by Joseph Conrad
  • _The Jungle _ by Upton Sinclair
  • _Young Törless _ by Robert Musil
  • _The Forsyte Sage _ by John Galsworthy
  • _The House of Mirth _ by Edith Wharton
  • _Professor Unrat _ by Heinrich Mann
  • _Where Angels Fear to Tread _ by E.M. Forster
  • _Nostromo _ by Joseph Conrad
  • _Hadrian the Seventh _ by Frederick Rolfe
  • _The Golden Bowl _ by Henry James
  • _The Ambassadors _ by Henry James
  • _The Riddle of the Sands _ by Erskine Childers
  • _The Immoralist _ by André Gide
  • _The Wings of the Dove _ by Henry James
  • _Heart of Darkness _ by Joseph Conrad
  • _The Hound of the Baskervilles _ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • _Buddenbrooks _ by Thomas Mann
  • _Kim _ by Rudyard Kipling
  • _Sister Carrie _ by Theodore Dreiser
  • _Lord Jim _ by Joseph Conrad

1800s

  • _Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. _ by Somerville and Ross
  • _The Stechlin _ by Theodore Fontane
  • _The Awakening _ by Kate Chopin
  • _The Turn of the Screw _ by Henry James
  • _The War of the Worlds _ by H.G. Wells
  • _The Invisible Man _ by H.G. Wells
  • _What Maisie Knew _ by Henry James
  • _Fruits of the Earth _ by André Gide
  • _Dracula _ by Bram Stoker
  • _Quo Vadis _ by Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • _The Island of Dr. Moreau _ by H.G. Wells
  • _The Time Machine _ by H.G. Wells
  • _Effi Briest _ by Theodore Fontane
  • _Jude the Obscure _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _The Real Charlotte _ by Somerville and Ross
  • _The Yellow Wallpaper _ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • _Born in Exile _ by George Gissing
  • _Diary of a Nobody _ by George & Weedon Grossmith
  • _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes _ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • _News from Nowhere _ by William Morris
  • _New Grub Street _ by George Gissing
  • _Gösta Berling’s Saga _ by Selma Lagerlöf
  • _Tess of the D’Urbervilles _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _The Picture of Dorian Gray _ by Oscar Wilde
  • _The Kreutzer Sonata _ by Leo Tolstoy
  • _La Bête Humaine _ by Émile Zola
  • _By the Open Sea _ by August Strindberg
  • _Hunger _ by Knut Hamsun
  • _The Master of Ballantrae _ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • _Pierre and Jean _ by Guy de Maupassant
  • _Fortunata and Jacinta _ by Benito Pérez Galdés
  • _The People of Hemsö _ by August Strindberg
  • _The Woodlanders _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _She _ by H. Rider Haggard
  • _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde _ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • _The Mayor of Casterbridge _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _Kidnapped _ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • _King Solomon’s Mines _ by H. Rider Haggard
  • _Germinal _ by Émile Zola
  • _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn _ by Mark Twain
  • _Bel-Ami _ by Guy de Maupassant
  • _Marius the Epicurean _ by Walter Pater
  • _Against the Grain _ by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • _The Death of Ivan Ilyich _ by Leo Tolstoy
  • _A Woman’s Life _ by Guy de Maupassant
  • _Treasure Island _ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • _The House by the Medlar Tree _ by Giovanni Verga
  • _The Portrait of a Lady _ by Henry James
  • _Bouvard and Pécuchet _ by Gustave Flaubert
  • _Ben-Hur _ by Lew Wallace
  • _Nana _ by Émile Zola
  • _The Brothers Karamazov _ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • _The Red Room _ by August Strindberg
  • _Return of the Native _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _Anna Karenina _ by Leo Tolstoy
  • _Drunkard _ by Émile Zola
  • _Virgin Soil _ by Ivan Turgenev
  • _Daniel Deronda _ by George Eliot
  • _The Hand of Ethelberta _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _The Temptation of Saint Anthony _ by Gustave Flaubert
  • _Far from the Madding Crowd _ by Thomas Hardy
  • _The Enchanted Wanderer _ by Nicolai Leskov
  • _Around the World in Eighty Days _ by Jules Verne
  • _In a Glass Darkly _ by Sheridan Le Fanu
  • _The Devils _ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • _Erewhon _ by Samuel Butler
  • _Spring Torrents _ by Ivan Turgenev
  • _Middlemarch _ by George Eliot
  • _Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There _ by Lewis Carroll
  • _King Lear of the Steppes _ by Ivan Turgenev
  • _He Knew He Was Right _ by Anthony Trollope
  • _War and Peace _ by Leo Tolstoy
  • _Sentimental Education _ by Gustave Flaubert
  • _Phineas Finn _ by Anthony Trollope
  • _Maldoror _ by Comte de Lautréaumont
  • _The Idiot _ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • _The Moonstone _ by Wilkie Collins
  • _Little Women _ by Louisa May Alcott
  • _Thérèse Raquin _ by Émile Zola
  • _The Last Chronicle of Barset _ by Anthony Trollope
  • _Journey to the Centre of the Earth _ by Jules Verne
  • _Crime and Punishment _ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • _Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland _ by Lewis Carroll
  • _Our Mutual Friend _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Uncle Silas _ by Sheridan Le Fanu
  • _Notes from the Underground _ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • _The Water-Babies _ by Charles Kingsley
  • _Les Misérables _ by Victor Hugo
  • _Fathers and Sons _ by Ivan Turgenev
  • _Silas Marner _ by George Eliot
  • _Great Expectations _ by Charles Dickens
  • _On the Eve _ by Ivan Turgenev
  • _Castle Richmond _ by Anthony Trollope
  • _The Mill on the Floss _ by George Eliot
  • _The Woman in White _ by Wilkie Collins
  • _The Marble Faun _ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • _Max Havelaar _ by Multatuli
  • _A Tale of Two Cities _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Oblomovka _ by Ivan Goncharov
  • _Adam Bede _ by George Eliot
  • _Madame Bovary _ by Gustave Flaubert
  • _North and South _ by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • _Hard Times _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Walden _ by Henry David Thoreau
  • _Bleak House _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Villette _ by Charlotte Brontë
  • _Cranford _ by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • _Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely _ by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • _The Blithedale Romance _ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • _The House of the Seven Gables _ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • _Moby-Dick _ by Herman Melville
  • _The Scarlet Letter _ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • _David Copperfield _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Shirley _ by Charlotte Brontë
  • _Mary Barton _ by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall _ by Anne Brontë
  • _Wuthering Heights _ by Emily Brontë
  • _Agnes Grey _ by Anne Brontë
  • _Jane Eyre _ by Charlotte Brontë
  • _Vanity Fair _ by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • _The Count of Monte-Cristo _ by Alexandre Dumas
  • _La Reine Margot _ by Alexandre Dumas
  • _The Three Musketeers _ by Alexandre Dumas
  • _The Purloined Letter _ by Edgar Allan Poe
  • _Martin Chuzzlewit _ by Charles Dickens
  • _The Pit and the Pendulum _ by Edgar Allan Poe
  • _Lost Illusions _ by Honoré de Balzac
  • _A Christmas Carol _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Dead Souls _ by Nikolay Gogol
  • _The Charterhouse of Parma _ by Stendhal
  • _The Fall of the House of Usher _ by Edgar Allan Poe
  • _The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby _ by Charles Dickens
  • _Oliver Twist _ by Charles Dickens
  • _The Nose _ by Nikolay Gogol
  • _Le Père Goriot _ by Honoré de Balzac
  • _Eugénie Grandet _ by Honoré de Balzac
  • _The Hunchback of Notre Dame _ by Victor Hugo
  • _The Red and the Black _ by Stendhal
  • _The Betrothed _ by Alessandro Manzoni
  • _Last of the Mohicans _ by James Fenimore Cooper
  • _The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner _ by James Hogg
  • _The Albigenses _ by Charles Robert Maturin
  • _Melmoth the Wanderer _ by Charles Robert Maturin
  • _The Monastery _ by Sir Walter Scott
  • _Ivanhoe _ by Sir Walter Scott
  • _Frankenstein _ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • _Northanger Abbey _ by Jane Austen
  • _Persuasion _ by Jane Austen
  • _Ormond _ by Maria Edgeworth
  • _Rob Roy _ by Sir Walter Scott
  • _Emma _ by Jane Austen
  • _Mansfield Park _ by Jane Austen
  • _Pride and Prejudice _ by Jane Austen
  • _The Absentee _ by Maria Edgeworth
  • _Sense and Sensibility _ by Jane Austen
  • _Elective Affinities _ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • _Castle Rackrent _ by Maria Edgeworth

1700s

  • _Hyperion _ by Friedrich Hölderlin
  • _The Nun _ by Denis Diderot
  • _Camilla _ by Fanny Burney
  • _The Monk _ by M.G. Lewis
  • _Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship _ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • _The Mysteries of Udolpho _ by Ann Radcliffe
  • _The Interesting Narrative _ by Olaudah Equiano
  • _The Adventures of Caleb Williams _ by William Godwin
  • _Justine _ by Marquis de Sade
  • _Vathek _ by William Beckford
  • _The 120 Days of Sodom _ by Marquis de Sade
  • _Cecilia _ by Fanny Burney
  • _Confessions _ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • _Dangerous Liaisons _ by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • _Reveries of a Solitary Walker _ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • _Evelina _ by Fanny Burney
  • _The Sorrows of Young Werther _ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • _Humphrey Clinker _ by Tobias George Smollett
  • _The Man of Feeling _ by Henry Mackenzie
  • _A Sentimental Journey _ by Laurence Sterne
  • _Tristram Shandy _ by Laurence Sterne
  • _The Vicar of Wakefield _ by Oliver Goldsmith
  • _The Castle of Otranto _ by Horace Walpole
  • _Émile; or, On Education _ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • _Rameau’s Nephew _ by Denis Diderot
  • _Julie; or, the New Eloise _ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • _Rasselas _ by Samuel Johnson
  • _Candide _ by Voltaire
  • _The Female Quixote _ by Charlotte Lennox
  • _Amelia _ by Henry Fielding
  • _Peregrine Pickle _ by Tobias George Smollett
  • _Fanny Hill _ by John Cleland
  • _Tom Jones _ by Henry Fielding
  • _Roderick Random _ by Tobias George Smollett
  • _Clarissa _ by Samuel Richardson
  • _Pamela _ by Samuel Richardson
  • _Jacques the Fatalist _ by Denis Diderot
  • _Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus _ by J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  • _Joseph Andrews _ by Henry Fielding
  • _A Modest Proposal _ by Jonathan Swift
  • _Gulliver’s Travels _ by Jonathan Swift
  • _Roxana _ by Daniel Defoe
  • _Moll Flanders _ by Daniel Defoe
  • _Love in Excess _ by Eliza Haywood
  • _Robinson Crusoe _ by Daniel Defoe
  • _A Tale of a Tub _ by Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

  • _Oroonoko _ by Aphra Behn
  • _The Princess of Clèves _ by Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  • _The Pilgrim’s Progress _ by John Bunyan
  • _Don Quixote _ by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • _The Unfortunate Traveller _ by Thomas Nashe
  • _Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit _ by John Lyly
  • _Gargantua and Pantagruel _ by Françoise Rabelais
  • _The Thousand and One Nights _ by Anonymous
  • _The Golden Ass _ by Lucius Apuleius
  • _Aithiopika _ by Heliodorus
  • _Chaireas and Kallirhoe _ by Chariton
  • _Metamorphoses _ by Ovid
  • _Aesop’s Fables _ by Aesopus
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