1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

From m00se:

This is a list compiled by Dr. Peter Boxall. Not sure I entirely agree with the list as I think these tend to favor certain authors and are often totally subjective and generally tend to ignore non-Western materials but I've put the ones I've read in bold, all 40 of them. Also, yes, I do realize that this means to admitting to the world that I've never read Jane Austen. Don't shoot me and I refuse to give up my librarian credentials. My friend Selena and I are starting a little club where we are planning on reading all of Jane's novels and then watching the adaptations. I know I am excited about it.


1. 2000s
2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Saturday – Ian McEwan
4. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
5. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
6. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
7. The Sea – John Banville
8. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
9. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
10. The Master – Colm Tóibín
11. Vanishing Point – David Markson
12. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
13. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
14. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
15. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
16. The Colour – Rose Tremain
17. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
18. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
19. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
21. Islands – Dan Sleigh
22. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
23. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
24. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
25. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
26. The Double – José Saramago
27. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
28. Unless – Carol Shields
29. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
30. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
31. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
32. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
33. Shroud – John Banville
34. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
36. Dead Air – Iain Banks
37. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
38. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
39. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
40. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
41. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
42. Schooling – Heather McGowan
43. Atonement – Ian McEwan
44. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
45. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
46. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
47. Fury – Salman Rushdie
48. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
49. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
52. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
53. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
54. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
55. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
56. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
58. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
59. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
60. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
61. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
62. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
64. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
65. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
66. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
67. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
68. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
69. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
70. Pastoralia – George Saunders
71.
72. 1900s
73. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
74. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
75. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (have gotten part-way through this like 3 times)
76. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
77. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
78. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
79. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
80. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
81. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
82. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
83. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
84. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
85. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
86. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
87. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
88. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
89. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
90. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
91. Another World – Pat Barker
92. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
93. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
94. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
95. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
96. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
97. Great Apes – Will Self
98. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
99. Underworld – Don DeLillo
100. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
101. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
102. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
103. The Untouchable – John Banville
104. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
105. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
106. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
107. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
108. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
109. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
110. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
111. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
112. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
113. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
114. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
115. The Information – Martin Amis
116. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
117. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
118. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
119. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
120. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
121. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
122. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
123. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
124. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
125. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
126. Land – Park Kyong-ni
127. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
128. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
129. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
130. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
131. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
132. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
133. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
134. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
135. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
136. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
137. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
138. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
139. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
140. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
141. Complicity – Iain Banks
142. On Love – Alain de Botton
143. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
144. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
145. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
146. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
147. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
148. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
149. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
150. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
151. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
152. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
153. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
154. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
155. Indigo – Marina Warner
156. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
157. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
158. Jazz – Toni Morrison
159. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
160. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
161. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
162. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
163. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
164. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
165. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
166. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
167. Arcadia – Jim Crace
168. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
169. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
170. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
171. Mao II – Don DeLillo
172. Typical – Padgett Powell
173. Regeneration – Pat Barker
174. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
175. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
176. Wise Children – Angela Carter
177. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
178. Amongst Women – John McGahern
179. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
180. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
181. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
182. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
183. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
184. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
185. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
186. Possession – A.S. Byatt
187. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
188. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
189. A Disaffection – James Kelman
190. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
191. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
192. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
193. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
194. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
195. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
196. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
197. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
198. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
199. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
200. London Fields – Martin Amis
201. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
202. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
203. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
204. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
205. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
206. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
207. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
208. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
209. Libra – Don DeLillo
210. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
211. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
212. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
213. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
214. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
215. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
216. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
217. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
218. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
219. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
220. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
221. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
222. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
223. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
224. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
225. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
226. Beloved – Toni Morrison
227. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
228. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
229. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
230. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
231. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
232. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
233. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
234. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
235. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
236. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
237. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
238. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
239. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
240. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
241. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
242. A Maggot – John Fowles
243. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
244. Contact – Carl Sagan
245. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
246. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
247. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
248. White Noise – Don DeLillo
249. Queer – William Burroughs
250. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
251. Legend – David Gemmell
252. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
253. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
254. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
255. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
256. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
257. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
258. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
259. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
260. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
261. Neuromancer – William Gibson
262. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
263. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
264. Shame – Salman Rushdie
265. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
266. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
267. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
268. Waterland – Graham Swift
269. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
270. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
271. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
272. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
273. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
274. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
275. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
276. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
277. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
278. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
279. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
280. The Newton Letter – John Banville
281. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
282. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
283. The Names – Don DeLillo
284. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
285. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
286. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
287. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
288. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
289. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
290. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
291. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
292. Rites of Passage – William Golding
293. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
294. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
295. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
296. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
297. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
298. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
299. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
300. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
301. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
302. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
303. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
304. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
305. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
306. The World According to Garp – John Irving
307. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
308. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
309. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
310. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
311. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
312. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
313. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
314. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
315. The Shining – Stephen King
316. Dispatches – Michael Herr
317. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
318. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
319. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
320. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
321. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
322. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
323. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
324. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
325. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
326. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
327. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
328. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
329. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
330. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
331. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
332. Fateless – Imre Kertész
333. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
334. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
335. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
336. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
337. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
338. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
339. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
340. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
341. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
342. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
343. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
344. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
345. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
346. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
347. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
348. Crash – J.G. Ballard
349. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
350. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
351. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
352. Sula – Toni Morrison
353. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
354. The Breast – Philip Roth
355. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
356. G – John Berger
357. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
358. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
359. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
360. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
361. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
362. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
363. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
364. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
365. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
366. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
367. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
368. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
369. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
370. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
371. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
372. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
373. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
374. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
375. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
376. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
377. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
378. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
379. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
380. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
381. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
382. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
383. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
384. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
385. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
386. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
387. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
388. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
389. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
390. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
391. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
392. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
393. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
394. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
395. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
396. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
397. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
398. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
399. Chocky – John Wyndham
400. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
401. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
402. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
403. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
404. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
405. The Joke – Milan Kundera
406. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
407. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
408. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
409. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
410. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
411. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
412. The Magus – John Fowles
413. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
414. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
415. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
416. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
417. Things – Georges Perec
418. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
419. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
420. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
421. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
422. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
423. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
424. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
425. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
426. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
427. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
428. Herzog – Saul Bellow
429. V. – Thomas Pynchon
430. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
431. The Graduate – Charles Webb
432. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
433. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
434. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
435. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
436. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
437. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
438. The Collector – John Fowles
439. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
440. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
441. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
442. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
443. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
444. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
445. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
446. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
447. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
448. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
449. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
450. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
451. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
452. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
453. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
454. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
455. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
456. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
457. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
458. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
459. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
460. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
461. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
462. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
463. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
464. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
465. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
466. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
467. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
468. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
469. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
470. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
471. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
472. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
473. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
474. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
475. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
476. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
477. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
478. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
479. The End of the Road – John Barth
480. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
481. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
482. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
483. Voss – Patrick White
484. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
485. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
486. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
487. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
488. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
489. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
490. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
491. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
492. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
493. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
494. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
495. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
496. The Floating Opera – John Barth
497. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
498. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
499. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
500. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
501. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
502. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
503. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
504. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
505. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
506. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
507. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
508. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
509. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
510. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
511. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
512. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
513. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
514. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
515. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
516. Watt – Samuel Beckett
517. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
518. Junkie – William Burroughs
519. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
520. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
521. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
522. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
523. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
524. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
525. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
526. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
527. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
528. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
529. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
530. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
531. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
532. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
533. The Rebel – Albert Camus
534. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
535. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
536. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
537. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
538. The Third Man – Graham Greene
539. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
540. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
541. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
542. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
543. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
544. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
545. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
546. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
547. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
548. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
549. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
550. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
551. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
552. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
553. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
554. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
555. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
556. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
557. The Victim – Saul Bellow
558. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
559. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
560. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
561. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
562. The Plague – Albert Camus
563. Back – Henry Green
564. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
565. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
566. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
567. Animal Farm – George Orwell
568. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
569. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
570. Loving – Henry Green
571. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
572. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
573. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
574. Transit – Anna Seghers
575. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
576. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
577. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
578. Caught – Henry Green
579. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
580. Embers – Sandor Marai
581. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
582. The Outsider – Albert Camus
583. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
584. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
585. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
586. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
587. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
588. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
589. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
590. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
591. Native Son – Richard Wright
592. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
593. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
594. Party Going – Henry Green
595. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
596. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
597. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
598. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
599. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
600. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
601. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
602. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
603. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
604. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
605. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
606. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
607. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
608. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
609. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
610. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
611. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
612. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
613. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
614. The Years – Virginia Woolf
615. In Parenthesis – David Jones
616. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
617. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
618. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
619. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
620. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
621. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
622. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
623. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
624. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
625. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
626. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
627. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
628. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
629. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
630. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
631. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
632. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
633. England Made Me – Graham Greene
634. Burmese Days – George Orwell
635. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
636. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
637. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
638. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
639. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
640. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
641. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
642. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
643. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
644. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
645. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
646. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
647. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
648. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
649. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
650. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
651. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
652. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
653. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
654. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
655. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
656. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
657. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
658. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
659. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
660. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
661. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
662. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
663. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
664. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
665. Passing – Nella Larsen
666. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
667. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
668. Living – Henry Green
669. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
670. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
671. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
672. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
673. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
674. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
675. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
676. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
677. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
678. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
679. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
680. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
681. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
682. Quartet – Jean Rhys
683. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
684. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
685. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
686. Nadja – André Breton
687. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
688. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
689. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
690. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
691. Amerika – Franz Kafka
692. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
693. Blindness – Henry Green
694. The Castle – Franz Kafka
695. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
696. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
697. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
698. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
699. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
700. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
701. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
702. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
703. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
704. The Trial – Franz Kafka
705. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
706. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
707. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
708. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
709. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
710. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
711. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
712. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
713. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
714. Cane – Jean Toomer
715. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
716. Amok – Stefan Zweig
717. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
718. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
719. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
720. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
721. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
722. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
723. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
724. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
725. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
726. Ulysses – James Joyce
727. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
728. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
729. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
730. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
731. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
732. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
733. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
734. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
735. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
736. Summer – Edith Wharton
737. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
738. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
739. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
740. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
741. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
742. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
743. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
744. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
745. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
746. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
747. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
748. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
749. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
750. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
751. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
752. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
753. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
754. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
755. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
756. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
757. Howards End – E.M. Forster
758. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
759. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
760. Martin Eden – Jack London
761. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
762. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
763. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
764. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
765. The Iron Heel – Jack London
766. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
767. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
768. Mother – Maxim Gorky
769. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
770. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
771. Young Törless – Robert Musil
772. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
773. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
774. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
775. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
776. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
777. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
778. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
779. The Ambassadors – Henry James
780. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
781. The Immoralist – André Gide
782. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
783. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
784. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
785. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
786. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
787. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
788. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
789.
790. 1800s
791. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
792. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
793. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
794. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
795. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
796. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
797. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
798. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
799. Dracula – Bram Stoker
800. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
801. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
802. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
803. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
804. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
805. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
806. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
807. Born in Exile – George Gissing
808. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
809. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
810. News from Nowhere – William Morris
811. New Grub Street – George Gissing
812. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
813. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
814. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
815. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
816. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
817. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
818. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
819. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
820. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
821. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
822. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
823. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
824. She – H. Rider Haggard
825. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
826. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
827. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
828. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
829. Germinal – Émile Zola
830. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
832. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
833. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
834. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
835. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
836. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
837. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
838. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
839. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
840. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
841. Nana – Émile Zola
842. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
843. The Red Room – August Strindberg
844. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
845. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
846. Drunkard – Émile Zola
847. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
848. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
849. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
850. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
851. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
852. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
853. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
854. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
855. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
856. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
857. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
858. Middlemarch – George Eliot
859. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
860. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
861. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
862. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
864. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
865. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
866. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
867. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
868. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
869. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
870. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
871. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
872. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
873. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
874. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
875. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
876. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
877. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
878. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
879. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
880. Silas Marner – George Eliot
881. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
882. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
883. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
884. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
885. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
886. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
887. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
888. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
889. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
890. Adam Bede – George Eliot
891. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
892. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
894. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
895. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
896. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
897. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
898. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
899. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
900. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
901. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
902. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
903. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
904. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
905. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
906. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
907. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
908. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
909. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
910. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
911. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
912. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
913. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
914. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
915. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
916. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
917. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
918. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
919. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
920. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
921. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
922. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
923. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
924. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
925. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
926. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
927. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
928. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
929. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
930. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
931. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
932. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
933. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
934. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
935. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
936. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
937. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
938. Persuasion – Jane Austen
939. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
940. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
941. Emma – Jane Austen
942. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
943. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
944. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
945. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
946. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
947. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
948.
949. 1700s
950. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
951. The Nun – Denis Diderot
952. Camilla – Fanny Burney
953. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
954. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
955. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
956. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
957. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
958. Justine – Marquis de Sade
959. Vathek – William Beckford
960. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
961. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
962. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
963. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
964. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
965. Evelina – Fanny Burney
966. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
967. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
968. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
969. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
970. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
971. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
972. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
973. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
974. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
975. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
976. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
977. Candide – Voltaire
978. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
979. Amelia – Henry Fielding
980. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
981. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
982. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
983. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
984. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
985. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
986. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
987. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
988. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
989. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
990. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
991. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
992. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
993. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
994. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
995. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
996.
997. Pre-1700
998. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
999. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
1000. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
1001. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1002. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
1003. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
1004. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
1005. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1006. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
1007. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
1008. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1009. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1010. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus