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* Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
* Saturday – Ian McEwan
* On Beauty – Zadie Smith
* Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
* Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
* The Sea – John Banville
* The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
* The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
* The Master – Colm Tóibín
* Vanishing Point – David Markson
* The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
* Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
* Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
* Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
* The Colour – Rose Tremain
* Thursbitch – Alan Garner
* The Light of Day – Graham Swift
* What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
* Islands – Dan Sleigh
* Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
* London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
* Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
* Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
* The Double – José Saramago
* Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
* Unless – Carol Shields
* Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
* The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
* That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
* In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
* Shroud – John Banville
* Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
* Youth – J.M. Coetzee
* Dead Air – Iain Banks
* Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
* The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
* Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
* Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
* Platform – Michael Houellebecq
* Schooling – Heather McGowan
* Atonement – Ian McEwan
* The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
* Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
* The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
* Fury – Salman Rushdie
* At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
* Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
* Life of Pi – Yann Martel
* The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
* An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
* The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
* Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
* White Teeth – Zadie Smith
* The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
* Under the Skin – Michel Faber
* Ignorance – Milan Kundera
* Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
* Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
* City of God – E.L. Doctorow
* How the Dead Live – Will Self
* The Human Stain – Philip Roth
* The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
* After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
* Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
* Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
* House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
* Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
* Pastoralia – George Saunders
* Timbuktu – Paul Auster
* The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
* Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
* As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
* Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
* Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
* The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
* Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
* Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
* Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
* Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
* Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
* Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
* All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
* The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
* Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
* The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
* Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
* Another World – Pat Barker
* The Hours – Michael Cunningham
* Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
* Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
* The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
* Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
* Great Apes – Will Self
* Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
* Underworld – Don DeLillo
* Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
* The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
* American Pastoral – Philip Roth
* The Untouchable – John Banville
* Silk – Alessandro Baricco
* Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
* Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
* Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
* The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
* Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
* Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
* The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
* Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
* The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
* Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
* The Information – Martin Amis
* The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
* Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
* The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
* The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
* A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
* Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
* The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
* Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
* The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
* Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
* Land – Park Kyong-ni
* The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
* Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
* City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
* How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
* Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
* Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
* Disappearance – David Dabydeen
* The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
* The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
* Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
* Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
* Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
* Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
* Complicity – Iain Banks
* On Love – Alain de Botton
* What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
* A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
* The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
* The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
* The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
* The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
* The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
* The Secret History – Donna Tartt
* Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
* The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
* A Heart So White – Javier Marias
* Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
* Indigo – Marina Warner
* The Crow Road – Iain Banks
* Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
* Jazz – Toni Morrison
* The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
* Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
* The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
* Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
* The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
* Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
* Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
* Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
* Arcadia – Jim Crace
* Wild Swans – Jung Chang
* American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
* Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
* Mao II – Don DeLillo
* Typical – Padgett Powell
* Regeneration – Pat Barker
* Downriver – Iain Sinclair
* Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
* Wise Children – Angela Carter
* Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
* Amongst Women – John McGahern
* Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
* Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
* Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
* The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
* The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
* A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
* Like Life – Lorrie Moore
* Possession – A.S. Byatt
* The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
* The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
* A Disaffection – James Kelman
* Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
* Moon Palace – Paul Auster
* Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
* Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
* The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
* The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
* The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
* The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
* Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
* A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
* London Fields – Martin Amis
* The Book of Evidence – John Banville
* Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
* Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
* The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
* Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
* The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
* The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
* Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
* Libra – Don DeLillo
* The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
* Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
* The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
* Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
* The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
* The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
* The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
* The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
* The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
* The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
* Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
* The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
* The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
* World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
* Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
* The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
* Beloved – Toni Morrison
* Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
* Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
* Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
* Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
* The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
* Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
* An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
* Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
* Foe – J.M. Coetzee
* The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
* Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
* The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
* Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
* Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
* The Cider House Rules – John Irving
* A Maggot – John Fowles
* Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
* Contact – Carl Sagan
* The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
* Perfume – Patrick Süskind
* Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
* White Noise – Don DeLillo
* Queer – William Burroughs
* Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
* Legend – David Gemmell
* Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
* The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
* The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
* The Lover – Marguerite Duras
* Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
* The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
* Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
* Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
* Neuromancer – William Gibson
* Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
* Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
* Shame – Salman Rushdie
* Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
* Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
* La Brava – Elmore Leonard
* Waterland – Graham Swift
* The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
* The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
* The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
* The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
* If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
* A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
* The Color Purple – Alice Walker
* Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
* A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
* Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
* The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
* The Newton Letter – John Banville
* On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
* Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
* The Names – Don DeLillo
* Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
* Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
* The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
* July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
* Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
* Broken April – Ismail Kadare
* Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
* Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
* Rites of Passage – William Golding
* Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
* Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
* City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
* The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
* The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
* Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
* Shikasta – Doris Lessing
* A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
* Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
* The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
* If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
* The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
* The World According to Garp – John Irving
* Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
* The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
* The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
* Yes – Thomas Bernhard
* The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
* In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
* The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
* Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
* The Shining – Stephen King
* Dispatches – Michael Herr
* Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
* Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
* The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
* The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
* Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
* The Public Burning – Robert Coover
* Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
* Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
* Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
* Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
* Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
* W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
* A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
* Grimus – Salman Rushdie
* The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
* Fateless – Imre Kertész
* Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
* High Rise – J.G. Ballard
* Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
* Dead Babies – Martin Amis
* Correction – Thomas Bernhard
* Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
* The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
* Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
* The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
* Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
* Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
* A Question of Power – Bessie Head
* The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
* The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
* Crash – J.G. Ballard
* The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
* Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
* The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
* Sula – Toni Morrison
* Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
* The Breast – Philip Roth
* The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
* G – John Berger
* Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
* House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
* In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
* The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
* Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
* The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
* Rabbit Redux – John Updike
* The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
* The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
* The Ogre – Michael Tournier
* The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
* Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
* Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
* Troubles – J.G. Farrell
* Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
* The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
* Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
* Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
* Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
* Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
* The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
* The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
* Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
* The Godfather – Mario Puzo
* Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
* Them – Joyce Carol Oates
* A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
* Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
* Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
* The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
* Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
* Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
* The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
* 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
* Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
* The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
* In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
* A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
* The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
* Chocky – John Wyndham
* The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
* The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
* One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
* The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
* Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
* The Joke – Milan Kundera
* No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
* The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
* A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
* The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
* Trawl – B.S. Johnson
* In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
* The Magus – John Fowles
* The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
* Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
* Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
* The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
* Things – Georges Perec
* The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
* August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
* God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
* Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
* The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
* Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
* Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
* Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
* Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
* The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
* Herzog – Saul Bellow
* V. – Thomas Pynchon
* Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
* The Graduate – Charles Webb
* Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
* The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
* The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
* Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
* The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
* The Collector – John Fowles
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
* A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
* Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
* The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
* The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
* Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
* Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
* The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
* Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
* Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
* A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
* Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
* Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
* Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
* The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
* Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
* The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
* How It Is – Samuel Beckett
* Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
* The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
* To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
* Rabbit, Run – John Updike
* Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
* Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
* Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
* Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
* The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
* Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
* Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
* Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
* Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
* Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
* The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
* Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
* A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
* The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
* Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
* Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
* Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
* The End of the Road – John Barth
* The Once and Future King – T.H. White
* The Bell – Iris Murdoch
* Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
* Voss – Patrick White
* The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
* Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
* Homo Faber – Max Frisch
* On the Road – Jack Kerouac
* Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
* Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
* The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
* Justine – Lawrence Durrell
* Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
* The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
* The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
* Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
* The Floating Opera – John Barth
* The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
* Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
* A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
* The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
* The Quiet American – Graham Greene
* The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
* The Recognitions – William Gaddis
* The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
* Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
* I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
* Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
* The Story of O – Pauline Réage
* A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
* Lord of the Flies – William Golding
* Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
* The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
* The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
* The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
* Watt – Samuel Beckett
* Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
* Junkie – William Burroughs
* The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
* Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
* Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
* The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
* Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
* The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
* Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
* The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
* Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
* Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
* Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
* Foundation – Isaac Asimov
* The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
* The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
* The Rebel – Albert Camus
* Molloy – Samuel Beckett
* The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
* The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
* The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
* The Third Man – Graham Greene
* The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
* Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
* The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
* I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
* The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
* The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
* Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
* The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
* The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
* Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
* The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
* Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
* All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
* Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
* Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
* The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
* Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
* Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
* The Victim – Saul Bellow
* Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
* If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
* Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
* The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
* The Plague – Albert Camus
* Back – Henry Green
* Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
* The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
* Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
* Animal Farm – George Orwell
* Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
* The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
* Loving – Henry Green
* Arcanum 17 – André Breton
* Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
* The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
* Transit – Anna Seghers
* Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
* Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
* The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
* Caught – Henry Green
* The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
* Embers – Sandor Marai
* Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
* The Outsider – Albert Camus
* In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
* The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
* The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
* Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
* Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
* The Hamlet – William Faulkner
* Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
* For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
* Native Son – Richard Wright
* The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
* The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
* Party Going – Henry Green
* The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
* Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
* At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
* Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
* Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
* Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
* Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
* The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
* After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
* Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
* Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
* Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
* Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
* Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
* U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
* Murphy – Samuel Beckett
* Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
* Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
* The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Years – Virginia Woolf
* In Parenthesis – David Jones
* The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
* Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
* To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
* Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
* Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
* The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
* Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
* Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
* Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
* Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
* At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
* Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
* Independent People – Halldór Laxness
* Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
* The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
* They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
* The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
* England Made Me – Graham Greene
* Burmese Days – George Orwell
* The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
* Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
* Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
* The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
* Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
* A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
* Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
* Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
* Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
* Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
* The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
* Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
* A Day Off – Storm Jameson
* The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
* A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
* Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
* Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
* Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
* To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
* The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
* The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
* The Waves – Virginia Woolf
* The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
* Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
* The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
* Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
* Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
* The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
* Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
* Passing – Nella Larsen
* A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
* Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
* Living – Henry Green
* The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
* All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
* Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
* The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
* Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
* The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
* Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
* Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
* Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
* Orlando – Virginia Woolf
* Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
* The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
* The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
* Quartet – Jean Rhys
* Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
* Quicksand – Nella Larsen
* Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
* Nadja – André Breton
* Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
* Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
* To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
* Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
* Amerika – Franz Kafka
* The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
* Blindness – Henry Green
* The Castle – Franz Kafka
* The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
* The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
* One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
* The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
* The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
* Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
* Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
* The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Counterfeiters – André Gide
* The Trial – Franz Kafka
* The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
* The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
* Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
* The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
* The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
* We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
* A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
* The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
* Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
* Cane – Jean Toomer
* Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
* Amok – Stefan Zweig
* The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
* The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
* Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
* Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
* The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
* Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
* The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
* Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
* Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
* Ulysses – James Joyce
* The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
* Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
* The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
* Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
* Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
* Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
* Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
* The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
* The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
* Summer – Edith Wharton
* Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
* Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
* Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
* Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
* The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
* The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
* Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
* The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
* The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
* Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
* Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
* Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
* Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
* The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
* Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
* Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
* The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
* Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
* Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
* Howards End – E.M. Forster
* Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
* Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
* Martin Eden – Jack London
* Strait is the Gate – André Gide
* Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
* The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
* A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
* The Iron Heel – Jack London
* The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
* The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
* Mother – Maxim Gorky
* The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
* The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
* Young Törless – Robert Musil
* The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
* The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
* Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
* Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
* Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
* Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
* The Golden Bowl – Henry James
* The Ambassadors – Henry James
* The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
* The Immoralist – André Gide
* The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
* Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
* The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
* Kim – Rudyard Kipling
* Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
* Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
* Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
* The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
* The Awakening – Kate Chopin
* The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
* The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
* The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
* What Maisie Knew – Henry James
* Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
* Dracula – Bram Stoker
* Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
* The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
* The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
* Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
* Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
* The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
* The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* Born in Exile – George Gissing
* Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* News from Nowhere – William Morris
* New Grub Street – George Gissing
* Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
* The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
* The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
* La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
* By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
* Hunger – Knut Hamsun
* The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
* Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
* Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
* The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
* The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
* She – H. Rider Haggard
* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
* The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
* Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
* King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
* Germinal – Émile Zola
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
* Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
* Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
* Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
* The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
* A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
* Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
* The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
* The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
* Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
* Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
* Nana – Émile Zola
* The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
* The Red Room – August Strindberg
* Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
* Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
* Drunkard – Émile Zola
* Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
* Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
* The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
* The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
* Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
* The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
* Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
* In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
* The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Erewhon – Samuel Butler
* Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
* Middlemarch – George Eliot
* Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
* King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
* He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
* War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
* Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
* Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
* Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
* The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
* The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
* Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
* Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
* The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
* Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
* Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
* Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
* Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
* Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
* The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
* Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
* Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
* Silas Marner – George Eliot
* Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
* On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
* Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
* The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
* The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
* The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Max Havelaar – Multatuli
* A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
* Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
* Adam Bede – George Eliot
* Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
* North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
* Hard Times – Charles Dickens
* Walden – Henry David Thoreau
* Bleak House – Charles Dickens
* Villette – Charlotte Brontë
* Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
* The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
* The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
* The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
* David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
* Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
* Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
* Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
* Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
* Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
* Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
* The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
* La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
* The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
* The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
* Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
* The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
* Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
* A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
* Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
* The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
* The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
* The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
* Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
* The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
* Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
* Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
* The Red and the Black – Stendhal
* The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
* Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
* The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
* The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
* Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
* The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
* Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
* Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
* Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
* Persuasion – Jane Austen
* Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
* Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
* Emma – Jane Austen
* Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
* Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
* The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
* Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
* Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
* Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
* The Nun – Denis Diderot
* Camilla – Fanny Burney
* The Monk – M.G. Lewis
* Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
* The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
* The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
* Justine – Marquis de Sade
* Vathek – William Beckford
* The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
* Cecilia – Fanny Burney
* Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
* Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Evelina – Fanny Burney
* The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
* The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
* A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
* Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
* The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
* The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
* Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
* Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
* Candide – Voltaire
* The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
* Amelia – Henry Fielding
* Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
* Fanny Hill – John Cleland
* Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
* Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
* Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
* Pamela – Samuel Richardson
* Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
* Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
* Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
* A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
* Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
* Roxana – Daniel Defoe
* Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
* Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
* Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
* A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
* Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
* The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
* The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
* Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
* The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
* Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
* Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
* The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
* The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
* Aithiopika – Heliodorus
* Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
* Metamorphoses – Ovid
* Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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