to read before you die. (who says? if they knew anything, there would be less jane austen, more dante, less 20th century literature. also, where is ayn rand?) pre 1700

• Aesop's Fables . Aesopus
• Metamorphoses . Ovid
• Chaireas and Kallirhoe . Chariton
• Aithiopika . Heliodorus
• The Golden Ass . Lucius Apuleius
• The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
• Gargantua and Pantagruel . Francoise Rabelais
• Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit . John Lyly
• The Unfortunate Traveler . Thomas Nashe
• Don Quixote . Miguel de Cervantes
• The Pilgrim's Progress . John Bunyan
• The Princess of Cleves . Comtesse de La Fayette
• Oroonoko . Aphra Behn

1700s

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

1800s

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

1900s

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

2000s

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