My Progress through 1001+ Books You Must Read Before You Die (06, 08, & 10)

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2000s
American Rust - Philipp Meyer (8/4/10)
Invisible - Paul Auster
The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
Cost - Roxana Robinson
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Kieron Smith, Boy - James Kelman
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (11/11/10)
Animal's People - Indra Sinha
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (5/17/10)
Saturday – Ian McEwan (3/1/08)
Falling Man - Don Dillo
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi
The Kindly Ones - Johnathan Littell
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (4/11/12)
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Carry Me Down - M.J Hyland
Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville (2/20/08)
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble (3/21/12)
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Small Island - Andrea Levy
The Book about Blanche and Marie - Per Olov Enquist
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
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Swarm - Frank Scatzing
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
Your Face Tomorrow - Javier Marias
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Lady Number Thirteen - Jose Carlos Somoza
The Successor - Ismail Kadare
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
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
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
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 (2/25/08)
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (1/6/08)
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 (12/27/07)
Soldiers of Salamis - Javer Cercas
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
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 (12/30/07)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier - Michael Chabon
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 (1/10/08)
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 (2/19/08)
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Bartleby and Co. Enrique Vila-Matas
1900s
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Urgresic
In Search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Pavel's Letters - Monika Maron
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 (3/15/10)
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (7/1/08)
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
The Heretic - Miguel Deliber
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Crossfire - Miyabe Miyuki
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 (10/10/07)
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (3/21/10)
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Money to Burn - Richardo Piglia
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Margot and the Angels - Kristien Hemmerechts
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-MArie Macdonald
A Light Comedy - Eduardo Mendoza
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 (2/7/08)
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
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
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
The Late-Night News Petros Markaris
Trobling Love - Elena Ferrante
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
Our Lady Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
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
Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light - Ivan Klima
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
The Twins - Tessa do Loo
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 (5/7/10)
The Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll - Alvaro Mutis
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
The Triple Mirror of the Self - Zulfikar Ghose
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
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
The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez- Reverte
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 (5/22/10)
Memoirs of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Astradeni - Eugenia Fakinou
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
The Laws - Connie palmen
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (7/3/10)
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
The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis
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 Shadow Lines _ Amitav Ghosh
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 Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (6/10/08)
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Obabokoak - Bernando Atxaga
Gimmick! - Joost Zwagerman
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
Paradise of the Blind - Duong Thu Huong
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Last World - Christopher Ransmayr
Libra – Don DeLillo
The First Garden - Anne Herbert
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams (3/9/08)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (3/9/08)
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
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
Black Box - Amos Oz
All Souls - Javier Marias
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Ballad for Georg Henig - Biktor Paskov
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
Memory of Fire - Eduardo Galeano
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
Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
The Cider House Rules – John Irving (6/8/08)
A Maggot – John Fowles
Simon and the Oaks - Marianna Fredriksson
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (9/21/11)
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (4/6/11)
Perfume – Patrick Süskind (3/2/08)
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
Half of Man is Woman - Zhang Xianliang
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Love Medicine - Louise Erdich
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
The Young Man - Botho Strauss
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Democracy - Joan Didion
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks (1/19/12)
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (6/30/08)
Larva: Midummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Professsor Marten' Departure - Jaan Kross
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
The Witness - Juan Jose Saer
Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Christmas Oratorio - Goran Tunstrom
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee (6/13/08)
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
The Book of Diquiet - Fernando Pessoa
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
Couples, Passerby - Botho Strauss
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan (2/25/08)
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie
The House of Blind Glass Windows - Hernjorg Wassmo
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
Smell of Sadness - Alfred Kossman
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Fool's Gold - Maro Douka
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (9/8/07)
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
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
Quartet in Autumn - Narnara Pym
The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King (2/10/08)
Dispatches – Michael Herr
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice (1/8/12)
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Blaming - Enlizabeth Taylor
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
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawai
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
The Year of the Hare - Arto Passilinna
The Commandant - Jessica Anderson
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Port - Antun Soljan
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. (4/19/10)
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
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 (6/30/08)
The Optimistrist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
The Twilight Years- DSawako Ariyoshi
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
Lives of Girls & Women - Alice Munro
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
Cataract - Mykhaylo Osadchyl
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 (6/6/08)
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
A World for Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
Fifth Business - robertson Davies
Here's to You, Jesusa - Elena Ponistowska
Seasons of the Migrations to the North - Tayeb Salih
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Heartbreak Tango - Manuel Puig
The Case Worker - Gyorgy Konrad
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (12/21/07)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis (6/22/10)
Jacob the Liar - Jurek Becker
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 (1/12/11)
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
The Cathedral - Oles Honchar
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
Day of the Dolphin - robert Merle
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (6/26/08)
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
The Manor - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
Z - Vassisis Vassilikos
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
Marks of Identity - Juan Goytisolo
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia
Slience - Shusaku Endo
Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (1/18/08)
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 (2/13/08)
Things – Georges Perec
Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Back to Oegstgeest - Jan Wolkers
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
The Three Trapped Tigers - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 (2/18/10)
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 (12/26/07)
Dog Years - Gunter Grass
The Third Wdding - Costas Taktsis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (3/5/08)
The Collector – John Fowles
The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Death of Artemio Cruz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (11/20/07)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
Time of Slience - Luis Martin-Santos
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
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy - Xose Neira Vilas
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
The ShipYard - Juan Carlos Onetti
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
God's Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembene
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
Bebo's Girl - Carlo Cassola
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
Halftime - Martin Walser
The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
Down Second Avenue - Ezekiel Mphahlele
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (8/25/07)
Deep Rivers - Jose Maria Arguedas
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
The Guide - R.K. Narayan
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - Jorge Amado
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
The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
The Deadbeats - Ward Ruyslinck
The Manila Rope - Veijo Meri
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
The Glass Bees - Ernst Junger
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 (7/15/08)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (1/14/08)
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Tree of Man - Patrick White
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
The Sound of the Waves - Yukio Mishima
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
The Unknown Soldier - Vaino Linna
Death in Rome - Wolfgang Koeppen
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
A Day in Spring - Ciril Kosmac
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Dark Child - Camara Laye
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (11/17/07)
The Hothouse - Wolfgang Koeppen
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow (8/24/07)
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
A Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (6/9/08)
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
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
Barabbas - Par Lagerkvist
The Guiltless - Hermann Broch
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
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
In The Heart of the Seas - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Ashes and Diamonds - Jerzy Andzejewski
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Journey to the Alcarria Camilo Jose Cela
Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vlan
Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
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
House in the Uplands - Erskine Caldwell
Back – Henry Green
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Death Virgil - Herman Broch
Andrea - Carmen Laforet
The Tin Flute - Gabrielle Roy
Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andric
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell (9/13/07)
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (12/19/07)
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
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (6/8/08)
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Harvesters - Cesare Pavese
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Broad and Aliens is the World - Ciro Alegria
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler (11/9/07)
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
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 (12/6/07)
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 (8/23/07)
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
On the Edge of Reason - Miroslav Krleza
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (1/10/10)
Alamut - Vladimir Bartol
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (11/27/07)
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
The Years – Virginia Woolf
Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
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
War with the Newts - Karel Capek
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Untouchable - Mulk Rak Anand
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
The Bells of Basel - Louis Aragon
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
On the Heights of Despair - Emil Cioran
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
The Street Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
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
Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
Cheese Willem Elsschot
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
Vipers' Tangle - Francois Mauiac
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Forbbiden Realm - J.J. Slauerhoff
The Return of Philip Latinowicz - Miroslav Krleza
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
Monica - Saunders Lewis
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
I Thought of Daisy - Edmund Wilson
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
Retreat Without Song - Shahan Shahnoor
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
Some Prefer Nettles - Junichiro Tanizaki
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (3/29/10)
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
The Case of Sergeant Grischa - Arnold Zweig
Amerika – Franz Kafka (5/18/08)
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (7/7/08)
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Alberta and Jacob - Cora Sandel
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
Under Satan's Sun - Georges Bernanos
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
Chaka the Zulu - Thomas Mofolo
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka (6/6/08)
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The New World - Henruy Walda-Sellasse
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
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf (5/20/10)
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (5/7/11)
The Forest of the Hanged - Liviu Rebreanu
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
Claudine's House - Colette
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Life of Christ - Giovanni Papini
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (3/13/10)
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
The Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West (3/9/11)
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton (6/27/11)
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
Pallieter - Felix Timmermans
The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela
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 (4/23/11)
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence (3/7/12)
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
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells (7/6/10)
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
Solitude - Victor Catala
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (8/25/11)
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (7/18/11)
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness - Daniel P. Schreber
The Golden Bowl – Henry James (9/23/11)
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Call of the Wild - Jack London (4/27/10)
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (11/28/08)
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (3/7/10)
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
None by the Brave - Arthur Schnitzler
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem - Emilio Salgari
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
1800s
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
Exlipse of the Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
Dom Casmurro - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Awakening – Kate Chopin (10/11/07)
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (3/10/11)
As a Man Grows Older - Italo Svevo
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (2/22/08)
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells (2/27/08)
Pharoah - Boleslaw Prus
Compassion - Benito Perez Galdos
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 (2/28/08)
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (2/23/08)
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Viceroys - Federico De Roberto
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3/5/08)
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
Down There - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (8/30/11)
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
Thais - Anatole France
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio
Eline Vere - Louis Couperus
Under the Yoke - Ivan Vazov
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 Manors of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazan
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (3/3/08)
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (3/3/08)
The Quest - Frederik van Eeden
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
The Regent's Wife - Clarins Leopoldo Alas
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 Posthumrous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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 (4/2/08)
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Martin Fierro - Jose Hernandez
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (7/31/10)
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Crime of Father Amado - Jose Maria Eca de quieros
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Pepita Jimez - Juan Valera
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne (6/9/08)
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/12/10)
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 (2/1/11
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1/10/09)
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (6/4/08)
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope (10/28/11)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (8/2/11)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (2/29/08)
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (2/19/12)
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (6/1/08)
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 (11/27/07)
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Indian Summer - Adalbert Stifter
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (6/24/10)
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times – Charles Dickens (5/19/08)
Green Henry - Gottfried Keller
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë (5/16/10)
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 (7/15/10)
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 (3/8/11)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (11/7/07)
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (6/11)
The Devil's Pool - George Sand
Facundo - Domingo Fustino Sarmiento
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (3/12/10)
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
A Hero of our Times - Mikhail Yurevich - Lermontov
Camera Obscura - Hildebrand
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (11/30/07)
The Lion of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience
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
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Puskin
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing - Joesph von Eichenforff
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - E.T.A. Hoffman
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (11/30/07)
Persuasion – Jane Austen (11/19/07)
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen (10/22/07)
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (1/12/08)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (12/18/07)
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (10/15/07)on Kleist
Michel Kohlhass - Heinrich v
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth (3/12/10)
1700s
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann (9/23/10)
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
A Dream of Red Mansions - Cao Xueqin
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
Anton Reiser - Karl Phillip Moritz
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 (7/20/10)
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 (5/24/08)
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 (8/25/10)
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (4/27/08)
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Pre 1700
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Adventures of Simlicissimus - Hans von Girmmelshausen
The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The Travels of Persoles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes Saaverdra
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thomas of Reading - Thomas Deloney
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Monkey: A Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
The Lusiad - Luis Vaz de Camoes
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes - Anonymous
Amadis of Gaul - Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas
Tirant lo Blac - Joanot Martorell
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
The Water Margin - Shi Nai'an And Luo Guanzhong
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
Metamorphoses – Ovid
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Author Comments:

Read #100 on 8/26/08

2006, 2008 & 2010 Editions. 2010 May be slightly out of order for specific publication dates, I just did them by year. They are the top 11, all the new books in 2010 edition were release 2007 and onward.

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1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die

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My Progress through 1001+ Books You Must Read Before You Die (06, 08, & 10)

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