64/998 (yes, there aren't 1000 novels)

Comedy (3/149)

• Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
• Money - Martin Amis
• The Information - Martin Amis
• The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
• According to Queeney - Beryl Bainbridge
• Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes
• Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man - Henry Howarth Bashford
• Molloy - Samuel Beckett
• Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
• The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
• The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
• Queen Lucia - EF Benson
• The Ascent of Rum Doodle - WE Bowman
• A Good Man in Africa - William Boyd
• The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury
• No Bed for Bacon - Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
• Illywhacker - Peter Carey
• A Season in Sinji - JL Carr
• The Harpole Report - JL Carr
• The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
• Mister Johnson - Joyce Cary
• The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary
• Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
• The Case of the Gilded Fly - Edmund Crispin
• Just William - Richmal Crompton
• The Provincial Lady - EM Delafield
• Slouching Towards Kalamazoo - Peter De Vries
• The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
• Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
• Jacques the Fatalist and his Master - Denis Diderot
• A Fairy Tale of New York - JP Donleavy
• The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
• Ennui - Maria Edgeworth
• Cheese - Willem Elsschot
• Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
• Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
• Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
• Caprice - Ronald Firbank
• Bouvard et Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
• Towards the End of the Morning - Michael Frayn
• The Polygots - William Gerhardie
• Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
• Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
• Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Brewster's Millions - Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
• Squire Haggard's Journal - Michael Green
• Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
• Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene
• Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
• The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - Eric Hodgkins
• High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
• I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
• The Lecturer's Tale - James Hynes
• Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood
• The Mighty Walzer Howard - Jacobson
• Pictures from an Institution - Randall Jarrell
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
• Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
• The Castle - Franz Kafka
• Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor
• Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
• The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester
• L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) - Alain-René Lesage
• Changing Places - David Lodge
• Nice Work - David Lodge
• The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay
• England, Their England - AG Macdonell
• Whisky Galore - Compton Mackenzie
• Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf - David Madsen
• Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard - W Somerset Maugham
• Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
• Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
• Puckoon - Spike Milligan
• The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
• Charade - John Mortimer
• Titmuss Regained - John Mortimer
• Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
• Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• Fireflies - Shiva Naipaul
• The Sacred Book of the Werewolf - Victor Pelevin
• La Disparition - Georges Perec
• Les Revenentes - Georges Perec
• La Vie Mode d'Emploi - Georges Perec
• My Search for Warren Harding - Robert Plunkett
• A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
• A Time to be Born - Dawn Powell
• Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
• Less Than Angels - Barbara Pym
• Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau
• Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
• Alms for Oblivion - Simon Raven
• Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
• The Westminster Alice - Saki
• The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
• Hurrah for St Trinian's - Ronald Searle
• Great Apes - Will Self
• Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharpe
• Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe
• Office Politics - Wilfrid Sheed
• Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel - Charles Simmons
• Moo - Jane Smiley
• Topper Takes a Trip - Thorne Smith
• The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett
• The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
• The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Tobias Smollett
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
• The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
• The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
• Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark
• A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
• White Man Falling - Mike Stocks
• Handley Cross - RS Surtees
• A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
• Penrod - Booth Tarkington
• The Luck of Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray
• Before Lunch - Angela Thirkell
• Tropic of Ruislip - Leslie Thomas
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
• Venus on the Half-Shell - Kilgore Trout
• The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
• The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
• Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
• Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
• Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
• The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
• A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil - Fay Weldon
• Tono Bungay - HG Wells
• Molesworth - Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
• The Wimbledon Poisoner - Nigel Williams
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - Angus Wilson
• Something Fresh - PG Wodehouse
• Piccadilly Jim - PG Wodehouse
• Thank You Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
• Heavy Weather - PG Wodehouse
• The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse
• Joy in the Morning - PG Wodehouse

Crime (9/147)

• The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
• Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
• The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
• Epitaph for a Spy - Eric Ambler
• Journey into Fear - Eric Ambler
• The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
• Trent's Last Case - EC Bentley
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
• The Beast Must Die - Nicholas Blake
• Lady Audley's Secret - Mary E Braddon
• The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
• The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
• The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
• Greenmantle - John Buchan
• The Asphalt Jungle - WR Burnett
• The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
• Double Indemnity - James M Cain
• True History of the Ned Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
• The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr
• The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
• The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish - James Hadley Chase
• The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
• The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
• The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
• A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
• The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
• Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
• Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell
• The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
• Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
• Poetic Justice - Amanda Cross
• The Ipcress File - Len Deighton
• Last Seen Wearing - Colin Dexter
• The Remorseful Day - Colin Dexter
• Ratking - Michael Dibdin
• Dead Lagoon - Michael Dibdin
• Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin
• A Rich Full Death - Michael Dibdin
• Vendetta - Michael Dibdin
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
• My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• The Pledge - Friedrich Durrenmatt
• The Crime of Father Amado - José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
• The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
• LA Confidential - James Ellroy
• The Big Nowhere - James Ellroy
• A Quiet Belief in Angels - RJ Ellory
• Sanctuary - William Faulkner
• Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
• Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
• You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming
• The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
• Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
• A Gun for Sale - Graham Greene
• The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene
• The Third Man - Graham Greene
• A Time to Kill - John Grisham
• The King of Torts - John Grisham
• Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
• The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
• Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
• The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
• Fatherland - Robert Harris
• Black Sunday - Thomas Harris
• Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
• Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins
• Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
• The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
• Bones and Silence - Reginald Hill
• A Rage in Harlem - Chester Himes
• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
• Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household
• Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles
• Silence of the Grave - Arnadur Indridason
• Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
• Cover Her Face - PD James
• A Taste for Death - PD James
• Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman
• Misery - Stephen King
• Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
• Kim - Rudyard Kipling
• The Constant Gardener - John le Carre
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• 52 Pick-up - Elmore Leonard
• Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
• Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
• The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
• Cop Hater - Ed McBain
• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
• Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
• Sidetracked - Henning Mankell
• Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
• The Great Impersonation - E Phillips Oppenheim
• The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent - E Phillips Oppenheim
• My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
• Toxic Shock - Sara Paretsky
• Blacklist - Sara Paretsky
• Nineteen Seventy Four - David Peace
• Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
• The Big Blowdown - George Pelecanos
• Hard Revolution - George Pelecanos
• Lush Life - Richard Price
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• V - Thomas Pynchon
• The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
• Black and Blue - Ian Rankin
• The Hanging Gardens - Ian Rankin
• Exit Music - Ian Rankin
• Judgment in Stone - Ruth Rendell
• Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell
• Dissolution - CJ Sansom
• Whose Body? - Dorothy L Sayers
• Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy Le Sayers
• The Madman of Bergerac - Georges Simenon
• The Blue Room - Georges Simenon
• The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
• Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• The League of Frightened Men - Rex Stout
• Perfume - Patrick Suskind
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
• The Getaway - Jim Thompson
• Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
• A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine
• A Fatal inversion - Barbara Vine
• King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine
• The Four Just Men - Edgar Wallace
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
• Native Son - Richard Wright
• Therese Raquin - Emile Zola

Family and self (7/146)

• The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
• Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
• Epileptic - David B
• Room Temperature - Nicholson Baker
• Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
• Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
• The Crow Road - Iain Banks
• The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks
• Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
• Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
• A Legacy - Sybille Bedford
• Herzog - Saul Bellow
• Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
• The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
• G - John Berger
• Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
• Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles
• Any Human Heart - William Boyd
• The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch
• Evelina - Fanny Burney
• The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
• The Sound of my Voice - Ron Butlin
• The Outsider - Albert Camus
• Wise Children - Angela Carter
• The Professor's House - Willa Cather
• The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• Les Enfants Terrible - Jean Cocteau
• The Vagabond - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
• Manservant and Maidservant - Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Being Dead - Jim Crace
• Quarantine - Jim Crace
• The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
• Roxana - Daniel Defoe
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• My New York Diary - Julie Doucet
• The Millstone - Margaret Drabble
• My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
• Silence - Shusaku Endo
• The Gathering - Anne Enright
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
• Howards End - EM Forster
• Spies - Michael Frayn
• Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
• The Man of Property - John Galsworthy
• Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Immoralist - Andre Gide
• The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide
• The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
• The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
• Hunger - Knut Hamsun
• The Shrimp and the Anemone - LP Hartley
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
• Narziss and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
• The Three Paradoxes - Paul Hornschemeier
• Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• The Ambassadors - Henry James
• Washington Square - Henry James
• The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins
• The Unfortunates - BS Johnson
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
• Memet my Hawk - Yasar Kemal
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
• The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
• Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
• Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
• Invitation to the Waltz - Rosamond Lehmann
• The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
• How Green was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
• Martin Eden - Jack London
• Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
• The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
• Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
• The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
• Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
• The Chateau - William Maxwell
• The Rector's Daughter - FM Mayor
• The Ordeal of Richard Feverek - George Meredith
• Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
• Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• Who Do You Think You Are? - Alice Munro
• The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
• The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
• A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul
• At-Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness - Kezaburo Oe
• The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• My Name Is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
• The Good Companions - JB Priestley
• The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx
• Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
• A Married Man - Piers Paul Read
• Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
• The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney - Henry Handel Richardson
• Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
• Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
• The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
• Alberta and Jacob - Cora Sandel
• A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
• Unless - Carol Shields
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
• The Three Sisters - May Sinclair
• The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate - Isaac Bashevis Singer
• A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
• On Beauty - Zadie Smith
• The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield
• Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
• The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• Angel - Elizabeth Taylor
• Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
• The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
• Death in Summer - William Trevor
• Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
• Peace in War - Miguel de Unamuno
• The Rabbit Omnibus - John Updike
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
• Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
• The History of Mr Polly - HG Wells
• The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
• Frost in May - Antonia White
• The Tree of Man - Patrick White
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
• I'll Go to Bed at Noon - Gerard Woodward
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss

Love (11/141)

• Le Grand Meaulnes - Henri Alain-Fournier
• Dom Casmurro - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
• Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
• The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis - Giorgio Bassani
• Love for Lydia - HE Bates
• More Die of Heartbreak - Saul Bellow
• Lorna Doone - RD Blackmore
• The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
• The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Vilette - Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Look At Me - Anita Brookner
• Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
• Possession - AS Byatt
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
• Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
• A Month in the Country - JL Carr
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
• Claudine a l'ecole - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
• Cheri - Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
• Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad
• The Princess of Cleves - Madame de Lafayette
• The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
• The Lover - Marguerite Duras
• Adam Bede - George Eliot
• Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
• A Room with a View - EM Forster
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
• Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
• Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide
• Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Living - Henry Green
• The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
• The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
• Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
• The Go-Between - LP Hartley
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• The Infamous Army - Georgette Heyer
• Regency Buck - Georgette Heyer
• The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
• Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - WH Hudson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
• The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
• The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
• Beauty and Saddness - Yasunari Kawabata
• The Far Pavillions - Mary Margaret Kaye
• Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
• Moon over Africa - Pamela Kent
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
• Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
• The Rainbow - DH Lawrence
• Women in Love - DH Lawrence
• The Echoing Grove - Rosamond Lehmann
• The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
• Zami - Audre Lorde
• Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
• Samarkand - Amin Maalouf
• Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
• The Silent Duchess - Dacia Maraini
• A Heart So White - Javier Marias
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
• So Long, See you Tomorrow - William Maxwell
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
• The Egoist - George Meredith
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
• Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller
• Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
• The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
• Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
• Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
• Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Painter of Signs - RK Narayan
• Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
• All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
• The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
• Manon Lescaut - Abbe Prevost
• Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
• Maurice Guest - Henry Handel Richardson
• Pamela - Samuel Richardson
• Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
• Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
• Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
• Ali and Nino - Kurban Said
• Light Years - James Salter
• A Sport and a Passtime - James Salter
• The Reader - Benhardq Schlink
• The Reluctant Orphan - Aara Seale
• Love Story - Eric Segal
• Enemies, a Love Story - Isaac Bashevis Singer
• At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
• I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
• The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
• Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
• Waterland - Graham Swift
• Diary of a Mad Old Man - Junichiro Tanizaki
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Music and Silence - Rose Tremain
• First Love - Ivan Turgenev
• Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
• The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
• The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
• The Graduate - Charles Webb
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
• East Lynne - Ellen Wood
• Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

Science fiction and fantasy (20/149)

• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Non-Stop - Brian W Aldiss
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster
• The Drowned World - JG Ballard
• Crash - JG Ballard
• Millennium People - JG Ballard
• The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
• Weaveworld - Clive Barker
• Darkmans - Nicola Barker
• The Time Ships - Stephen Baxter
• Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
• Vathek - William Beckford
• The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Lost Souls - Poppy Z Brite
• Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown
• Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Coming Race - EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess
• A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Erewhon - Samuel Butler
• The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
• The Influence - Ramsey Campbell
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
• Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
• The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
• The Man who was Thursday - GK Chesterton
• Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• Hello Summer, Goodbye - Michael G Coney
• Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
• House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
• Pig Tales - Marie Darrieussecq
• The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R Delaney
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
• Camp Concentration - Thomas M Disch
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• Under the Skin - Michel Faber
• The Magus - John Fowles
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Red Shift - Alan Garner
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• Light - M John Harrison
• The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
• Dune - Frank L Herbert
• The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
• Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
• Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• The Children of Men - PD James
• After London; or, Wild England - Richard Jefferies
• Bold as Love - Gwyneth Jones
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
• The Shining - Stephen King
• The Victorian Chaise-longue - Marghanita Laski
• Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Earthsea Series - Ursula Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
• Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
• Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
• The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
• The Monk - Matthew Lewis
• A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
• The Night Sessions - Ken Macleod
• Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
• Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith
• I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
• Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
• The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Ascent - Jed Mercurio
• The Scar - China Mieville
• Ingenious Pain - Andrew Miller
• A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• Mother London - Michael Moorcock
• News from Nowhere - William Morris
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Ada or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Vurt - Jeff Noon
• The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
• The Famished Road - Ben Okri
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
• Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
• Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
• The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
• A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys
• The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
• The Prestige - Christopher Priest
• His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
• Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
• The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
• Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• The Female Man - Joanna Russ
• Air - Geoff Ryman
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Blindness - Jose Saramago
• How the Dead Live - Will Self
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• The Insult - Rupert Thomson
• The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
• Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• Institute Benjamenta - Robert Walser
• Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Affinity - Sarah Waters
• The Time Machine - HG Wells
• The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
• The Sword in the Stone - TH White
• The Old Men at the Zoo - Angus Wilson
• The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
• Orlando - Virginia Woolf
• Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
• The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
• We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

State of the nation (7/134)

• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
• Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe
• London Fields - Martin Amis
• Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand
• Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
• La Comedie Humaine - Honore de Balzac
• They Were Counted - Miklos Banffy
• A Kind of Loving - Stan Barstow
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
• Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett
• The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
• Room at the Top - John Braine
• A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
• Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
• Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
• The Virgin in the Garden - AS Byatt
• Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
• The Plague - Albert Camus
• The Kingdom of this World - Alejo Carpentier
• What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
• Disgrace - JM Coetzee
• Waiting for the Barbarians - JM Coeztee
• Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
• Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
• Underworld - Don DeLillo
• White Noise - Don DeLillo
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens
• Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
• Hard Times - Charles Dickens
• Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
• Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
• Sybil or The Two Nations - Benjamin Disraeli
• Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
• The Book of Daniel - EL Doctorow
• Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• USA - John Dos Passos
• Sister Carrie - Theodor Dreiser
• Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• Silas Marner - George Eliot
• The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
• Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
• Independence Day - Richard Ford
• A Passage to India - EM Forster
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• The Recognitions - William Gaddis
• Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
• North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
• The Odd Women - George Gissing
• New Grub Street - George Gissing
• July's People - Nadine Gordimer
• Mother - Maxim Gorky
• Lanark - Alastair Gray
• Love on the Dole - Walter Greenwood
• The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
• A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
• The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
• South Riding - Winifred Holtby
• Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
• Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
• Chronicle in Stone - Ismael Kadare
• How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
• The Leopard - Giuseppi di Lampedusa
• A Girl in Winter - Philip Larkin
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
• Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
• Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
• Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
• Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
• The Group - Mary McCarthy
• Amongst Women - John McGahern
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• Of Love & Hunger - Julian Maclaren-Ross
• Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
• The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
• Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
• A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
• The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
• A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul
• McTeague - Frank Norris
• Personality - Andrew O'Hagan
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The Ragazzi Pier - Paolo Pasolini
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
• The Moon and the Bonfire - Cesare Pavese
• GB84 - David Peace
• Headlong Hall - Thomas Love Peacock
• Afternoon Men - Anthony Powell
• Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
• The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
• American Pastoral - Philip Roth
• The Human Stain - Philip Roth
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
• Shame - Salman Rushdie
• To Each his Own - Leonardo Sciascia
• Staying On - Paul Scott
• Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
• The Lonely Londoners - Samuel Selvon
• God's Bit of Wood - Ousmane Sembene
• The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
• Richshaw Boy - Lao She
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• Novel on Yellow Paper - Stevie Smith
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• The Red and the Black - Stendhal
• This Sporting Life - David Storey
• The Red Room - August Stringberg
• The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
• Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
• The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
• The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
• Couples - John Updike
• Z - Vassilis Vassilikos
• Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
• Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
• The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
• The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
• The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
• Germinal - Emile Zola
• La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola

War and travel (7/132)

• Silver Stallion - Junghyo Ahn
• Death of a Hero - Richard Aldington
• Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge
• Darkness Falls from the Air - Nigel Balchin
• Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
• Regeneration - Pat Barker
• A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry
• Fair Stood the Wind for France - HE Bates
• Carrie's War - Nina Bawden
• The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
• The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
• An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd
• When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti
• One of Ours - Willa Cather
• Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• Monkey - Wu Ch'eng-en
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
• Sharpe's Eagle - Bernard Cornwell
• The History of Pompey the Little - Francis Coventry
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• Bomber - Len Deighton
• Deliverance - James Dickey
• Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos
• South Wind - Norman Douglas
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
• Justine - Lawrence Durrell
• The Bamboo Bed - William Eastlake
• The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell
• Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
• Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
• The African Queen - CS Forester
• The Ship - CS Forester
• Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
• The Beach - Alex Garland
• To The Ends of the Earth trilogy - William Golding
• Asterix the Gaul - Rene Goscinny
• The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
• Count Belisarius - Robert Graves
• Life and Fate - Vassily Grossman
• De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
• King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
• She: A History of Adventure - H Rider Haggard
• The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
• Covenant with Death - John Harris
• Enigma - Robert Harris
• The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
• Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
• From Here to Eternity - James Jones
• Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor
• Confederates - Thomas Keneally
• Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
• Day - AL Kennedy
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
• The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
• If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• The Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean
• All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
• The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
• Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
• La Condition Humaine - Andre Malraux
• Fortunes of War - Olivia Manning
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale - Herman Melville
• Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener
• The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
• History - Elsa Morante
• Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
• The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
• Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
• The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• Burmese Days - George Orwell
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
• The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell
• The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell
• The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
• Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolp Erich Raspe
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• The Crab with the Golden Claws - Georges Remi Herge
• Tintin in Tibet - Georges Remi Herge
• The Castafiore Emerald - Georges Remi Herge
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
• Sacaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
• Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
• Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Hunters - James Salter
• Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
• The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
• Austerlitz - WG Sebald
• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
• The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw
• A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
• Maus - Art Spiegelman
• The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
• Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson
• A Sentimental Journey - Lawrence Sterne
• Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone
• Sophie's Choice - William Styron
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
• A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
• Williwaw - Gore Vidal
• Candide - Voltaire
• Slaughter-House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
• Men at Arms - Evelyn Waugh
• The Island of Dr Moreau - HG Wells
• The Machine-Gunners - Robert Westall
• Voss - Patrick White
• The Virginian - Owen Wister
• The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
• The Debacle - Emile Zola