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