sent to me by a friend, the original list appears here.

• don quixote - miguel de cervantes
• war and peace - leo tolstoy
• ulysses - james joyce
• in search of lost time - marcel proust
• the brothers karamazov - feodor dostoevsky
• moby-dick - herman melville
• madame bovary - gustave flaubert
• middlemarch - george eliot
• the magic mountain - thomas mann
• the tale of genji - muraski shikibu
• emma - jane austen
• bleak house - charles dickens
• anna karenina - leo tolstoy
• the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain
  • if i read this when i was like 8, should i read it again?
• tom jones - henry fielding
• great expectations - charles dickens
• absalom, absalom! - william faulkner
• the ambassadors - henry james
• one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
• the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
• to the lighthouse - virginia woolf
• crime and punishment - feodor dostoevsky
• the sound and the fury - william faulkner
• vanity fair - william makepeace thackeray
• invisible man - ralph ellison
• finnegans wake - james joyce
• the man without qualities - robert musil
• gravity's rainbow - thomas pynchon
• the portrait of a lady - henry james
• women in love - d. h. lawrence
• the red and the black - stendhal
• tristram shandy - laurence sterne
• dead souls - nikolai gogol
• tess of the d'urbervilles - thomas hardy
• buddenbrooks - thomas mann
• le pere goriot - honore de balzac
• a portrait of the artist as a young man - james joyce
• wuthering heights - emily bronte
• the tin drum - gunter grass
• molloy; malone dies; the unnamable - samuel beckett
• pride and prejudice - jane austen
• the scarlet letter - nathaniel hawthorne
• fathers and sons - ivan turgenev
• nostromo - joseph conrad
• beloved - toni morrison
• an american tragedy - theodore dreiser
• lolita - vladimir nabokov
  • i need to finish this. i'm about 75% done.
• the golden notebook - doris lessing
• clarissa - samuel richardson
• dream of the red chamber - cao xuqin
• the trial - franz kafka
• jane eyre - charlotte bronte
• the red badge of courage - stephen crane
• the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
• petersburg - andrey bely
• things fall apart - chinue achebe
• the princess of cleves - madame de lafayette
• the stranger - albert camus
• my antonia - willa cather
• the counterfeiters - andre gide
• the age of innocence - edith wharton
• the good soldier - ford madox ford
• the awakening - kate chopin
  • did i read this in english class?
• a passage to india - e. m. forster
• herzog - saul bellow
• germinal - emile zola
• call it sleep - henry roth
• usa trilogy - john dos passos
• hunger - knut hamsun
• berlin alexanderplatz - alfred doblin
• cities of salt - 'abd al-rahman munif
• the death of artemio cruz - carlos fuentes
• a farefell to arms - ernest hemingway
• brideshead revisited - evelyn waugh
• the last chronicle of barset - anthony trollope
• the pickwick papers - charles dickens
• robinson crusoe - daniel defoe
• the sorrows of young werther - johann wolfgang von goethe
• candide - voltaire
• native son - richard wright
• under the volcano - malcolm lowry
• oblomov - ivan goncharov
• their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
• waverly - sir walter scott
• snow country - kawabata yasunari
• 1984 - george orwell
• the betrothed - alessandro manzoni
• the last of the mohicans - james fenimore cooper
• uncle tom's cabin - harriet beecher stowe
• les miserables - victor hugo
• on the road - jack kerouac
• frankenstein - mary shelley
• the leopard - guiseppe tomasi di lampedusa
• the catcher in the rye - j. d. salinger
• the woman in white - wilkie collins
• the good soldier svejk - jaroslav hasek
• dracula - bram stoker
• the three musketeers - alexandre dumas
• the hound of baskervilles - arthur conan doyle
• gone with the wind - margaret mitchell