"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

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Pre-1700
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
1700s
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Amelia – Henry Fielding
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Candide – Voltaire
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evelina – Fanny Burney
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
Justine – Marquis de Sade
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
1800s
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
The Red Room – August Strindberg
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nana – Émile Zola
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Germinal – Émile Zola
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
New Grub Street – George Gissing
News from Nowhere – William Morris
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
Born in Exile – George Gissing
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
1900s
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The Iron Heel – Jack London
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Martin Eden – Jack London
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Summer – Edith Wharton
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Ulysses – James Joyce
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
Amok – Stefan Zweig
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Cane – Jean Toomer
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Blindness – Henry Green
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Amerika – Franz Kafka
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Nadja – André Breton
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quartet – Jean Rhys
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
Living – Henry Green
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Passing – Nella Larsen
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Burmese Days – George Orwell
England Made Me – Graham Greene
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Years – Virginia Woolf
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Party Going – Henry Green
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Native Son – Richard Wright
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Outsider – Albert Camus
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
Embers – Sandor Marai
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Caught – Henry Green
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Transit – Anna Seghers
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Loving – Henry Green
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
Back – Henry Green
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Junkie – William Burroughs
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Watt – Samuel Beckett
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Floating Opera – John Barth
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Voss – Patrick White
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The End of the Road – John Barth
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Collector – John Fowles
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Herzog – Saul Bellow
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Things – Georges Perec
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
The Magus – John Fowles
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
G – John Berger
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
The Breast – Philip Roth
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Sula – Toni Morrison
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
Fateless – Imre Kertész
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Dispatches – Michael Herr
The Shining – Stephen King
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
The Names – Don DeLillo
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
The Newton Letter – John Banville
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
Waterland – Graham Swift
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
Legend – David Gemmell
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Queer – William Burroughs
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Contact – Carl Sagan
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
A Maggot – John Fowles
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Libra – Don DeLillo
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
London Fields – Martin Amis
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
A Disaffection – James Kelman
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Typical – Padgett Powell
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Indigo – Marina Warner
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
On Love – Alain de Botton
Complicity – Iain Banks
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
Land – Park Kyong-ni
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
The Information – Martin Amis
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
The Untouchable – John Banville
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Great Apes – Will Self
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Another World – Pat Barker
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
2000s
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
How the Dead Live – Will Self
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Fury – Salman Rushdie
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Shroud – John Banville
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Unless – Carol Shields
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Double – José Saramago
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
Islands – Dan Sleigh
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Master – Colm Tóibín
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Sea – John Banville
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Author Comments:

674 to go.

Jalandoni01/15/2010

I've already read 68 books. I started reading last year.
I only have 389 books out of the 1001. I only buy in second hand bookstores.
Goodluck to us!

frentury08/22/2011

Interesting list, helped me to remember a couple of books i wanted to read.
One thing i really don't like - only one book by Enrich Maria Remarque. For me, "The Black obelisque" is by miles his best book, better than his most famous one, which is included and one of the top books overall in writting. For shore all the included, let's say, Murakami one's are not better (i'm not knocking Murakami, i love him, but books like "The Black Obelisque" are on another level).
Also, i understand, there are no pure-philosophy examples here, but "The book about Dao and De, written by Leo Dze" could have been included purely for the influence on all of the eastern culture. Also, i think The Bible should be read at least once in a lifetime, if nothing more, than purely for self-sophistication.

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