Saturday, May 31, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Stolen post
1001 Books You Must Read before You Die
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go * Kazuo Ishiguro
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Atonement * Ian McEwan
The Corrections * Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move * Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist * Don DeLillo
Fury * Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys * Jamie O’Neill
Choke * Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi * Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat * Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father * Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym * Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost * Ismail Kadare
White Teeth * Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness * Zakes Mda
Under the Skin * Michel Faber
Ignorance * Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven * David Peace
Celestial Harmonies * Péter Esterházy
City of God * E. L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live * Will Self
The Human Stain * Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin * Margaret Atwood
After the Quake * Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies * Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes * J. G. Ballard
House of Leaves * Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde * Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia * George Saunders
1900s
Timbuktu * Paul Auster
The Romantics * Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon * Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There * Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need * A. L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling * Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet * Salman Rushdie
Disgrace * J. M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart * Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles * Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy * Hanif Kureishi
9. Amsterdam * Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter * Russell Banks
All Souls Day * Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town * Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet * Sarah Waters
10. 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
11. Memoirs of a Geisha * Arthur Golden
Great Apes * Will Self
12. 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
13. Sabbath’s Theater * Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn * W. G. Sebald
14. 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
15. The Virgin Suicides * Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee * Peter Ackroyd
16. 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
17. Possessing the Secret of Joy * Alice Walker
Indigo * Marina Warner
The Crow Road * Iain Banks
Written on the Body * Jeanette Winterson
Jazz * Toni Morrison
18. 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
19. The Things They Carried * Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World * Michael Cunningham
Like Life * Lorrie Moore
20. 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
21. Remains of the Day * Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance * László Krasznahorkai
22. The Temple of My Familiar * Alice Walker
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing * Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon * José Saramago
23. 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
24. Beloved * Toni Morrison
Anagrams * Lorrie Moore
Matigari * Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya * Joyce Carol Oates
25. Watchmen * Alan Moore and 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
26. The Handmaid’s Tale * Margaret Atwood
Perfume * Patrick Süskind
Old Masters * Thomas Bernhard
27. 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
28. The Unbearable Lightness of Being * Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School * Kathy Acker
29. 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
30. The Color Purple * Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew * Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills * Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark * Thomas Keneally
31. The House of the Spirits * Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter * John Banville
On the Black Hill * Bruce Chatwin
Concrete * Thomas Bernhard
32. 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
33. Midnight’s Children * Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage * William Golding
Rituals * Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces * John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval * Elmore Leonard
34. 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
35. Delta of Venus * Anaïs Nin
The Shining * Stephen King
Dispatches * Michael Herr
Petals of Blood * Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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.
39. 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
40. 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
41. In Cold Blood * Truman Capote
The Magus * John Fowles
The Vice-Consul * Marguerite Duras
42. 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
43. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold * John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means * Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby * Anthony Burgess
44. The Bell Jar * Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich * Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. Henderson the Rain King * Saul Bellow
Memento Mori * Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine * Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s * Truman Capote
50. 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
51. 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
52. 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
53. The Lord of the Rings * J. R. R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley * Patricia Highsmith
54. 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
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
59. 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 Andric
60. Brideshead Revisited * Evelyn Waugh
61. Animal Farm * George Orwell
Cannery Row * John Steinbeck
62. The Pursuit of Love * Nancy Mitford
Loving * Henry Green
Arcanum 17 * André Breton
63. Christ Stopped at Eboli * Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge * William Somerset Maugham
Transit * Anna Seghers
Ficciones * Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man * Saul Bellow
64. 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
65. 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
Finnegan’s 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
66. Of Mice and Men * John Steinbeck
67. Their Eyes Were Watching God * Zora Neale Hurston
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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
71. 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
72. 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
73. Billy Budd, Foretopman * Herman Melville
The Green Hat * Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain * Thomas Mann
74. We * Yevgeny Zamyatin
75. 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
76. Ulysses * James Joyce
The Fox * D. H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow * Aldous Huxley
77. 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
78. 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
79. Death in Venice * Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter * James Stephens
Ethan Frome * Edith Wharton
Fantômas * Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
80. Howard’s 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
81. 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
82. The Jungle * Upton Sinclair
Young Törless * Robert Musil
83. The Forsyte Sage * John Galsworthy
84. 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
85. 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
86. The Awakening * Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw * Henry James
87. The War of the Worlds * H. G. Wells
88. The Invisible Man * H. G. Wells
What Maisie Knew * Henry James
Fruits of the Earth * André Gide
89. 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
90. The Yellow Wallpaper * Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile * George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody * George and 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
91. 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
92. 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
93. The Portrait of a Lady * Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet * Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur * Lew Wallace
Nana * Émile Zola
94. 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
95. 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
96. 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
97. Crime and Punishment * Fyodor Dostoevsky
98. 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
99. Great Expectations * Charles Dickens
On the Eve * Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond * Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss * George Eliot
100. The Woman in White * Wilkie Collins
101. The Marble Faun * Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar * Multatuli
102. 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
103. Walden * Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House * Charles Dickens
104. Villette * Charlotte Brontë
Cranford * Elizabeth Gaskell
105. 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
106. The Scarlet Letter * Nathaniel Hawthorne
107. David Copperfield * Charles Dickens
108. Shirley * Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton * Elizabeth Gaskell
109. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall * Anne Brontë
110. Wuthering Heights * Emily Brontë
111. Agnes Grey * Anne Brontë
112. Jane Eyre * Charlotte Brontë
113. 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
114. The Pit and the Pendulum * Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions * Honoré de Balzac
115. 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
116. 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
117. 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
118. Ivanhoe * Sir Walter Scott
119. Frankenstein * Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
120. Northanger Abbey * Jane Austen
121. Persuasion * Jane Austen
Ormond * Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy * Sir Walter Scott
122. Emma * Jane Austen
123. Mansfield Park * Jane Austen
124. Pride and Prejudice * Jane Austen
The Absentee * Maria Edgeworth
125. 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
126. Rameau’s Nephew * Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise * Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas * Samuel Johnson
127. 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
128. A Modest Proposal * Jonathan Swift
129. Gulliver’s Travels * Jonathan Swift
Roxana * Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders * Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess * Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe * Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub * Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
Oroonoko * Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves * Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
130. The Pilgrim’s Progress * John Bunyan
131. Don Quixote * Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller * Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit * John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel * Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights * Anonymous
The Golden Ass * Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika * Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe * Chariton
132. Metamorphoses * Ovid
Aesop’s Fables * Aesopus
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