"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
# 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
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# 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
# 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 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
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# 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
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# 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
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# 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 *** – Lucius Apuleius
# Aithiopika – Heliodorus
# Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
# Metamorphoses – Ovid
# Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus