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 Drakulic
• 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
• Atomised, 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 Silve, 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
• Miss Smilla’s Feeling For 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
• The 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 Pavic
• 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
• A 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
• The 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 Pistolm, Chester Hines
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
• The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
• Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
• The Godfather, Mario Puzo
• Ada Or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
• Them, Joyce Carol Oates
• A Void, 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 Solzhenitsyn
• The First Circle, Aleksandr 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

8Cat’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 *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
• The 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
• All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
• 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 Spider’s Nest, Italo Calvino
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• Back, Henry Green
• Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
• The Bridge On The Drina, Ivo Andric
• 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
• Conversations 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
• 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
• 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
• Rashōmon, 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 Saga, 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, Comtesse de La Fayette
• The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
• 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