• books I've read.

2000's

• 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

1900's

• 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 - 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 - 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

1800's

• 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

1700's

• 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's

• 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