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"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz

2000s



  1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

  2. Saturday – Ian McEwan

  3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith

  4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

  5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson

  6. The Sea – John Banville

  7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

  8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

  9. The Master – Colm Tóibín

  10. Vanishing Point – David Markson

  11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd

  12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair

  13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

  14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

  15. The Colour – Rose Tremain

  16. Thurs***** – Alan Garner

  17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift

  18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt

  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

  20. Islands – Dan Sleigh

  21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee

  22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair

  23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry

  24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

  25. The Double – José Saramago

  26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

  27. Unless – Carol Shields

  28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

  29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

  30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern

  31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien

  32. Shroud – John Banville

  33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

  34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee

  35. Dead Air – Iain Banks

  36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon

  37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster

  38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi

  39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

  40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq

  41. Schooling – Heather McGowan

  42. Atonement – Ian McEwan

  43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

  44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini

  45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo

  46. Fury – Salman Rushdie

  47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

  48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

  49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

  50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

  51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma

  52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

  53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare

  54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

  55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

  56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber

  57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera

  58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace

  59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy

  60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow

  61. How the Dead Live – Will Self

  62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth

  63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

  64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

  65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

  66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

  67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

  68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

  69. Pastoralia – George Saunders


1900s



  1. Timbuktu – Paul Auster

  2. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra

  3. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

  4. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?

  5. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy

  6. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb

  7. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

  8. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

  9. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

  10. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq

  11. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi

  12. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

  13. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

  14. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom

  15. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon

  16. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

  17. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

  18. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

  19. Another World – Pat Barker

  20. The Hours – Michael Cunningham

  21. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

  22. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

  23. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

  24. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

  25. Great Apes – Will Self

  26. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan

  27. Underworld – Don DeLillo

  28. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey

  29. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin

  30. American Pastoral – Philip Roth

  31. The Untouchable – John Banville

  32. Silk – Alessandro Baricco

  33. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard

  34. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker

  35. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

  36. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker

  37. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse

  38. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

  39. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin

  40. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

  41. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

  42. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner

  43. The Information – Martin Amis

  44. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

  45. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth

  46. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

  47. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink

  48. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

  49. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose

  50. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis

  51. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster

  52. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

  53. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq

  54. Land – Park Kyong-ni

  55. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee

  56. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

  57. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi

  58. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol

  59. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman

  60. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres

  61. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor

  62. Disappearance – David Dabydeen

  63. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm

  64. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx

  65. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

  66. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

  67. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

  68. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

  69. Complicity – Iain Banks

  70. On Love – Alain de Botton

  71. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

  72. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

  73. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

  74. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

  75. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd

  76. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood

  77. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald

  78. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

  79. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar

  80. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch

  81. A Heart So White – Javier Marias

  82. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker

  83. Indigo – Marina Warner

  84. The Crow Road – Iain Banks

  85. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

  86. Jazz – Toni Morrison

  87. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

  88. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg

  89. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe

  90. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates

  91. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín

  92. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

  93. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan

  94. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

  95. Arcadia – Jim Crace

  96. Wild Swans – Jung Chang

  97. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

  98. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

  99. Mao II – Don DeLillo

  100. Typical – Padgett Powell

  101. Regeneration – Pat Barker

  102. Downriver – Iain Sinclair

  103. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres

  104. Wise Children – Angela Carter

  105. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard

  106. Amongst Women – John McGahern

  107. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

  108. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald

  109. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge

  110. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

  111. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

  112. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

  113. Like Life – Lorrie Moore

  114. Possession – A.S. Byatt

  115. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

  116. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle

  117. A Disaffection – James Kelman

  118. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

  119. Moon Palace – Paul Auster

  120. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow

  121. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

  122. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai

  123. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker

  124. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway

  125. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago

  126. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

  127. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

  128. London Fields – Martin Amis

  129. The Book of Evidence – John Banville

  130. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

  131. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

  132. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White

  133. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson

  134. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

  135. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

  136. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

  137. Libra – Don DeLillo

  138. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

  139. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

  140. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

  141. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

  142. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble

  143. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke

  144. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

  145. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

  146. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind

  147. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan

  148. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews

  149. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

  150. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

  151. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle

  152. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul

  153. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

  154. Beloved – Toni Morrison

  155. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore

  156. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

  157. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates

  158. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

  159. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis

  160. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt

  161. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

  162. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard

  163. Foe – J.M. Coetzee

  164. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

  165. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel

  166. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann

  167. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

  168. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

  169. The Cider House Rules – John Irving

  170. A Maggot – John Fowles

  171. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

  172. Contact – Carl Sagan

  173. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

  174. Perfume – Patrick Süskind

  175. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard

  176. White Noise – Don DeLillo

  177. Queer – William Burroughs

  178. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

  179. Legend – David Gemmell

  180. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?

  181. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman

  182. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago

  183. The Lover – Marguerite Duras

  184. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard

  185. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

  186. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

  187. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

  188. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker

  189. Neuromancer – William Gibson

  190. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

  191. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis

  192. Shame – Salman Rushdie

  193. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett

  194. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor

  195. La Brava – Elmore Leonard

  196. Waterland – Graham Swift

  197. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee

  198. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing

  199. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek

  200. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus

  201. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi

  202. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

  203. The Color Purple – Alice Walker

  204. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard

  205. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

  206. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

  207. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

  208. The Newton Letter – John Banville

  209. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin

  210. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard

  211. The Names – Don DeLillo

  212. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike

  213. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray

  214. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan

  215. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer

  216. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

  217. Broken April – Ismail Kadare

  218. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee

  219. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

  220. Rites of Passage – William Golding

  221. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom

  222. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

  223. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard

  224. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

  225. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

  226. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré

  227. Shikasta – Doris Lessing

  228. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul

  229. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

  230. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll

  231. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

  232. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

  233. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

  234. The World According to Garp – John Irving

  235. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

  236. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch

  237. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell

  238. Yes – Thomas Bernhard

  239. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt

  240. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee

  241. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter

  242. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin

  243. The Shining – Stephen King

  244. Dispatches – Michael Herr

  245. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

  246. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

  247. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

  248. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke

  249. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo

  250. The Public Burning – Robert Coover

  251. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice

  252. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

  253. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme

  254. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf

  255. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

  256. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec

  257. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell

  258. Grimus – Salman Rushdie

  259. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme

  260. Fateless – Imre Kertész

  261. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan

  262. High Rise – J.G. Ballard

  263. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow

  264. Dead Babies – Martin Amis

  265. Correction – Thomas Bernhard

  266. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow

  267. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle

  268. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee

  269. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll

  270. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré

  271. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  272. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

  273. A Question of Power – Bessie Head

  274. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

  275. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino

  276. Crash – J.G. Ballard

  277. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

  278. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

  279. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch

  280. Sula – Toni Morrison

  281. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

  282. The Breast – Philip Roth

  283. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

  284. G – John Berger

  285. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood

  286. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson

  287. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul

  288. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow

  289. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

  290. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll

  291. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs

  292. Rabbit Redux – John Updike

  293. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima

  294. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

  295. The Ogre – Michael Tournier

  296. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

  297. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke

  298. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

  299. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

  300. Troubles – J.G. Farrell

  301. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson

  302. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard

  303. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado

  304. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover

  305. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines

  306. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  307. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

  308. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

  309. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

  310. The Godfather – Mario Puzo

  311. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov

  312. Them – Joyce Carol Oates

  313. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec

  314. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen

  315. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal

  316. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

  317. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

  318. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  319. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  320. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

  321. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

  322. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry

  323. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

  324. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

  325. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

  326. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf

  327. Chocky – John Wyndham

  328. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

  329. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa

  330. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

  331. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

  332. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson

  333. The Joke – Milan Kundera

  334. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson

  335. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

  336. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec

  337. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West

  338. Trawl – B.S. Johnson

  339. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

  340. The Magus – John Fowles

  341. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras

  342. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

  343. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth

  344. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon

  345. Things – Georges Perec

  346. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

  347. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien

  348. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

  349. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor

  350. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector

  351. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

  352. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme

  353. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson

  354. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe

  355. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras

  356. Herzog – Saul Bellow

  357. V. – Thomas Pynchon

  358. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

  359. The Graduate – Charles Webb

  360. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol

  361. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré

  362. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark

  363. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess

  364. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

  365. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  366. The Collector – John Fowles

  367. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

  368. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

  369. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

  370. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard

  371. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing

  372. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges

  373. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien

  374. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani

  375. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

  376. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

  377. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

  378. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame

  379. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

  380. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass

  381. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

  382. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

  383. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

  384. How It Is – Samuel Beckett

  385. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino

  386. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

  387. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

  388. Rabbit, Run – John Updike

  389. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary

  390. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee

  391. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse

  392. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs

  393. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass

  394. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes

  395. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow

  396. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark

  397. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll

  398. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

  399. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  400. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe

  401. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

  402. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon

  403. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

  404. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe

  405. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico

  406. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan

  407. The End of the Road – John Barth

  408. The Once and Future King – T.H. White

  409. The Bell – Iris Murdoch

  410. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet

  411. Voss – Patrick White

  412. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

  413. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille

  414. Homo Faber – Max Frisch

  415. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

  416. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

  417. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

  418. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber

  419. Justine – Lawrence Durrell

  420. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

  421. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

  422. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary

  423. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

  424. The Floating Opera – John Barth

  425. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

  426. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

  427. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

  428. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen

  429. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett

  430. The Quiet American – Graham Greene

  431. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis

  432. The Recognitions – William Gaddis

  433. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini

  434. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

  435. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

  436. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis

  437. The Story of O – Pauline Réage

  438. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia

  439. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

  440. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch

  441. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley

  442. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

  443. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett

  444. Watt – Samuel Beckett

  445. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

  446. Junkie – William Burroughs

  447. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow

  448. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

  449. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

  450. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

  451. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

  452. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

  453. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

  454. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

  455. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

  456. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

  457. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

  458. Foundation – Isaac Asimov

  459. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

  460. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

  461. The Rebel – Albert Camus

  462. Molloy – Samuel Beckett

  463. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

  464. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille

  465. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz

  466. The Third Man – Graham Greene

  467. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber

  468. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

  469. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

  470. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

  471. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese

  472. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk

  473. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford

  474. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge

  475. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen

  476. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier

  477. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren

  478. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

  479. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani

  480. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia

  481. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot

  482. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene

  483. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

  484. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

  485. The Victim – Saul Bellow

  486. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau

  487. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi

  488. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

  489. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino

  490. The Plague – Albert Camus

  491. Back – Henry Green

  492. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

  493. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?

  494. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

  495. Animal Farm – George Orwell

  496. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

  497. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford

  498. Loving – Henry Green

  499. Arcanum 17 – André Breton

  500. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

  501. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham

  502. Transit – Anna Seghers

  503. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

  504. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow

  505. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  506. Caught – Henry Green

  507. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse

  508. Embers – Sandor Marai

  509. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner

  510. The Outsider – Albert Camus

  511. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini

  512. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien

  513. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White

  514. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton

  515. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf

  516. The Hamlet – William Faulkner

  517. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler

  518. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

  519. Native Son – Richard Wright

  520. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

  521. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati

  522. Party Going – Henry Green

  523. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

  524. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce

  525. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien

  526. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell

  527. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood

  528. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

  529. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys

  530. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

  531. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner

  532. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

  533. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

  534. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

  535. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler

  536. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

  537. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos

  538. Murphy – Samuel Beckett

  539. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

  540. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

  541. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

  542. The Years – Virginia Woolf

  543. In Parenthesis – David Jones

  544. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis

  545. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

  546. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

  547. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner

  548. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley

  549. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West

  550. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

  551. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

  552. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson

  553. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

  554. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

  555. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes

  556. Independent People – Halldór Laxness

  557. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti

  558. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood

  559. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy

  560. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen

  561. England Made Me – Graham Greene

  562. Burmese Days – George Orwell

  563. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers

  564. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht

  565. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev

  566. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain

  567. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

  568. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh

  569. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

  570. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

  571. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

  572. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

  573. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers

  574. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein

  575. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain

  576. A Day Off – Storm Jameson

  577. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil

  578. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  579. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  580. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

  581. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

  582. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

  583. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

  584. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth

  585. The Waves – Virginia Woolf

  586. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett

  587. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham

  588. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis

  589. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning

  590. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh

  591. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

  592. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico

  593. Passing – Nella Larsen

  594. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

  595. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett

  596. Living – Henry Green

  597. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia

  598. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

  599. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin

  600. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen

  601. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West

  602. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

  603. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau

  604. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe

  605. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille

  606. Orlando – Virginia Woolf

  607. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

  608. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall

  609. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis

  610. Quartet – Jean Rhys

  611. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

  612. Quicksand – Nella Larsen

  613. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford

  614. Nadja – André Breton

  615. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

  616. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

  617. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

  618. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson

  619. Amerika – Franz Kafka

  620. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

  621. Blindness – Henry Green

  622. The Castle – Franz Kafka

  623. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek

  624. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence

  625. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello

  626. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

  627. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein

  628. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos

  629. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

  630. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

  631. The Counterfeiters – André Gide

  632. The Trial – Franz Kafka

  633. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky

  634. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather

  635. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville

  636. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen

  637. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

  638. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

  639. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

  640. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet

  641. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

  642. Cane – Jean Toomer

  643. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley

  644. Amok – Stefan Zweig

  645. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield

  646. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings

  647. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

  648. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

  649. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton

  650. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair

  651. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus

  652. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence

  653. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis

  654. Ulysses – James Joyce

  655. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

  656. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley

  657. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

  658. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis

  659. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

  660. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf

  661. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis

  662. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

  663. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad

  664. Summer – Edith Wharton

  665. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen

  666. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton

  667. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

  668. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse

  669. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

  670. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

  671. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf

  672. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

  673. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence

  674. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

  675. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki

  676. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel

  677. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse

  678. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

  679. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell

  680. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence

  681. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

  682. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens

  683. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

  684. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

  685. Howards End – E.M. Forster

  686. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel

  687. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein

  688. Martin Eden – Jack London

  689. Strait is the Gate – André Gide

  690. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells

  691. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse

  692. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster

  693. The Iron Heel – Jack London

  694. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett

  695. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson

  696. Mother – Maxim Gorky

  697. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

  698. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

  699. Young Törless – Robert Musil

  700. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy

  701. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

  702. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann

  703. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster

  704. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad

  705. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe

  706. The Golden Bowl – Henry James

  707. The Ambassadors – Henry James

  708. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers

  709. The Immoralist – André Gide

  710. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James

  711. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

  712. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  713. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann

  714. Kim – Rudyard Kipling

  715. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser

  716. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad


1800s



  1. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross

  2. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane

  3. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

  4. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

  5. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

  6. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

  7. What Maisie Knew – Henry James

  8. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide

  9. Dracula – Bram Stoker

  10. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz

  11. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells

  12. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

  13. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane

  14. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

  15. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross

  16. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  17. Born in Exile – George Gissing

  18. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith

  19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  20. News from Nowhere – William Morris

  21. New Grub Street – George Gissing

  22. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf

  23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

  24. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

  25. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

  26. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

  27. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg

  28. Hunger – Knut Hamsun

  29. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson

  30. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant

  31. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés

  32. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg

  33. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

  34. She – H. Rider Haggard

  35. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

  36. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

  37. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

  38. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

  39. Germinal – Émile Zola

  40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

  41. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant

  42. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater

  43. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans

  44. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy

  45. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant

  46. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

  47. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga

  48. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

  49. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert

  50. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace

  51. Nana – Émile Zola

  52. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  53. The Red Room – August Strindberg

  54. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

  55. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

  56. Drunkard – Émile Zola

  57. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev

  58. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot

  59. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy

  60. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert

  61. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

  62. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov

  63. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

  64. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu

  65. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  66. Erewhon – Samuel Butler

  67. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev

  68. Middlemarch – George Eliot

  69. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll

  70. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev

  71. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope

  72. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

  73. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

  74. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope

  75. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont

  76. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  77. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

  78. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

  79. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

  80. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope

  81. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

  82. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  83. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

  84. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

  85. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu

  86. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  87. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley

  88. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

  89. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

  90. Silas Marner – George Eliot

  91. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

  92. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev

  93. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope

  94. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

  95. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

  96. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne

  97. Max Havelaar – Multatuli

  98. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

  99. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov

  100. Adam Bede – George Eliot

  101. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

  102. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

  103. Hard Times – Charles Dickens

  104. Walden – Henry David Thoreau

  105. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

  106. Villette – Charlotte Brontë

  107. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

  108. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

  109. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne

  110. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

  111. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

  112. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

  113. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

  114. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

  115. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

  116. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë

  117. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

  118. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

  119. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

  120. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

  121. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

  122. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas

  123. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

  124. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe

  125. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

  126. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

  127. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac

  128. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

  129. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol

  130. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal

  131. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

  132. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

  133. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

  134. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol

  135. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

  136. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac

  137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

  138. The Red and the Black – Stendhal

  139. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni

  140. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

  141. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

  142. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin

  143. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin

  144. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott

  145. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

  146. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  147. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

  148. Persuasion – Jane Austen

  149. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth

  150. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

  151. Emma – Jane Austen

  152. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

  153. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

  154. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth

  155. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

  156. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  157. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth


1700s



  1. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

  2. The Nun – Denis Diderot

  3. Camilla – Fanny Burney

  4. The Monk – M.G. Lewis

  5. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  6. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

  7. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano

  8. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin

  9. Justine – Marquis de Sade

  10. Vathek – William Beckford

  11. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

  12. Cecilia – Fanny Burney

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