2000s

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

1900s

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

1800s

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

1700s

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

Pre-1700

• Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
• The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
• The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
• Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
• Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
• The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
• The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
• Aithiopika – Heliodorus
• Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
• Metamorphoses – Ovid
• Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus