1001 Books to Read Before You Die

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
The Children's Book A.S. Byatt
Invisible Paul Auster
American Rust Philipp Meyer
Cost Roxana Robinson
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Home Marilynne Robinson
Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman
The Gathering Anne Enright
The Blind Side of the Heart Julia Franck
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
Falling Man Don DeLillo
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
Against the Day Thomas Pynchon
Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland
Mother's Milk Edward St Aubyn
Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann
The Sea John Banville
The Accidental Ali Smith
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
2666 Roberto Bolano
The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist
The Master Colm Tóibín
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky
The Swarm Frank Schatzing
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
Your Face Tomorrow Javier Marias
A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz
What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
Lady Number Thirteen Jose Carlos Somoza
The Successor Ismail Kadare
Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon
Snow Orhan Pamuk
Platform Michel Houellebecq
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Austerlitz W.G. Sebald
Atonement Ian McEwan
Soldiers of Salamis Javier Cercas
I'm Not Scared Niccolo Ammaniti
The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa
The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare
Under the Skin Michel Faber
White Teeth Zadie Smith
The Human Stain Philip Roth
Celestial Harmonies Péter Esterházy
Bartleby and Co. Enrique Vila-Matas
Fear and Trembling Amélie Nothomb
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Dubravka Ugresic
In Search of Klingsor Jorge Volpi
Pavel's Letters Monika Maron
As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakulic
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
Savage Detectives Roberto Bolano
Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez
The Talk of the Town Ardal O’Hanlon
Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq
The Heretic Miguel Delibes
All Souls Day Cees Nooteboom
The Hours Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Crossfire Miyuki Miyabe
Enduring Love Ian McEwan
Underworld Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs Peter Carey
Money to Burn Ricardo Piglia
The Life of Insects Victor Pelevin
Margot and the Angels Kristien Hemmerechts
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Silk Alessandro Baricco
Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Light Comedy Eduardo Mendoza
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
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
The Late-Night News Petros Markaris
Troubling Love Elena Ferrante
Whatever Michel Houellebecq
Land Park Kyung-ni
Our Lady of the Assassins Fernando Vallejo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver Jáchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières
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
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance A.L. Kennedy
The Twins Tessa de 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
The Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee
Remembering Babylon David Malouf
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Alvaro Mutis
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas
Life is a Caravanserai Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch
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
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Indigo Marina Warner
The Crow Road Iain Banks
Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson
The Dumas Club Arturo Perez-Reverte
Smilla’s Sense of Snow Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe
Asphodel Hilda Doolittle
Memoirs of Rain Sunetra Gupta
Hideous Kinky Esther Freud
Arcadia Jim Crace
Wild Swans Jung Chang
Mao II Don DeLillo
Typical Padgett Powell
Regeneration Pat Barker
Astradeni Eugenia Fakinou
Faceless Killers Henning Mankell
The Laws Connie Palmen
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Vertigo W.G. Sebald
The Daughter Pavlos Matesis
Get Shorty Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women John McGahern
Stone Junction Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance Paul Auster
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle
The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh
The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi
Like Life Lorrie Moore
Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace Paul Auster
London Fields Martin Amis
Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai
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
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Inland Gerald Murnane
Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga
Gimmick! Joost Zwagerman
Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
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 Christoph Ransmayr
The First Garden Anne Herbert
Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga
Cigarettes Harry Mathews
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
The Radiant Way Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia James Ellroy
The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
Black Box Amos Oz
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
All Souls Javier Marias
Beloved Toni Morrison
Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende
The Pigeon Patrick Süskind
World’s End T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival V.S. Naipaul
Ballad for Georg Henig Viktor Paskov
The Taebaek Mountains Jung Rae Cho
Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt
Anagrams Lorrie Moore
Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
Memory of Fire Eduardo Galeano
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction Thomas Bernhard
Watchmen Alan Moore
The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman Andrzej Szczypiorski
Ancestral Voices Etienne van Heerden
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez
The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofmann
Annie John Jamaica Kincaid
The Cider House Rules John Irving
Simon and the Oaks Marianne Fredriksson
Contact Carl Sagan
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Perfume Patrick Süskind
Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Reasons to Live Amy Hempel
Half of Man is Woman Zhang Xianliang
White Noise Don DeLillo
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
The Young Man Botho Strauss
Legend David Gemmell
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic
The Busconductor Hines James Kelman
Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José Saramago
The Lover Marguerite Duras
Democracy Joan Didion
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Neuromancer William Gibson
Nights at the Circus Angela Carter
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel Julian Rios
Blood and Guts in High School Kathy Acker
Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross
Flaubert’s Parrot Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis
Shame Salman Rushdie
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
The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus
Baltasar and Blimunda Jose Saramago
The Book of Disquiet 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
On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin
July’s People Nadine Gordimer
Couples, Passerby Botho Strauss
Rabbit is Rich John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray
The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa
Leaden Wings Zhang Jie
The House with the Blind Glass Windows Herbjorg Wassmo
Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid Tsypkin
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Broken April Ismail Kadare
Smell of Sadness Alfred Kossmann
Rituals Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Clear Light of Day Anita Desai
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Southern Seas Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Smiley’s People John Le Carré
Fool's Gold Maro Douka
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
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
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
The Virgin in the Garden A.S. Byatt
The Back Room Carmen Martin Gaite
Life: A User’s Manual Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip J.G. Farrell
Requiem for a Dream Hubert Selby Jr.
The Beggar Maid Alice Munro
Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin
The Shining Stephen King
Dispatches Michael Herr
The Wars Timothy Findley
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector
Quartet in Autumn Barbara Pym
The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Skvorecky
In the Heart of the Country J.M. Coetzee
Almost Transparent Blue Ryu Murakami
Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig
The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke
Interview With the Vampire Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone Newton Thornburg
Blaming Elizabeth Taylor
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
Correction Thomas Bernhard
The Dead Father Donald Barthelme
Fateless Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard Brautigan
Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi
Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna
The Commandant Jessica Anderson
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
The Port Antun Šoljan
The Fan Man William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll
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
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino
The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
The Twilight Years Sawako Ariyoshi
The Summer Book Tove Jansson
G John Berger
Surfacing Margaret Atwood
In A Free State V.S. Naipaul
House Mother Normal B.S. Johnson
Lives of Girls and 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
Cataract Mykhailo Osadchyi
Rabbit Redux John Updike
The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
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 Poniatowska
Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih
Heartbreak Tango Manuel Puig
Moscow Stations Venedikt Erofeyev
The Case Worker Gyorgy Konrad
Tent of Miracles Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol Chester Himes
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
Jacob the Liar Jurek Becker
Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth
The Godfather Mario Puzo
Ada Vladimir Nabokov
Them Joyce Carol Oates
A Void Georges Perec
The First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal
Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf
The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines
The Cathedral Oles Honchar
Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
Day of the Dolphin Robert Merle
No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson
Z Vassilis Vassilikos
Miramar Naguib Mahfouz
The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
The Magus John Fowles
The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras
Marks of Identity Juan Goytisolo
Giles Goat-Boy John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
To Each His Own Leonardo Sciascia
Silence Shusaku Endo
Death and the Dervish Mesa Selimovic
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Things: A Story of the Sixties Georges Perec
Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
Garden, Ashes Danilo Kis
The River Between Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal
Back to Oegstgeest Jan Wolkers
The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
Dog Years Gunter Grass
The Third Wedding Costas Taktsis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani
The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa
The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes
Girl With Green Eyes Edna O’Brien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
Time of Silence Luis Martin Santos
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Xose Neira Vilas
Faces in the Water Janet Frame
No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head Iris Murdoch
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Cat and Mouse Günter Grass
Solaris Stanislaw Lem
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Shipyard Juan Carlos Onetti
God's Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembene
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
Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch William Burroughs
The Tin Drum Günter Grass
Cider With Rosie Laurie Lee
Down Second Avenue Es'kia Mphahlele
Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Böll
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Kenzaburo Oe
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote
Deep Rivers José María Arguedas
The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Guide R.K. Narayan
The Bitter Glass Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Jorge Amado
Borstal Boy Brendan Behan
The Bell Iris Murdoch
The Once and Future King T.H. White
The Birds Tarjei Vesaas
Jealousy Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
Blue of 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 Glass Bees Ernst Junger
Justine Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin
The Floating Opera John Barth
The Roots of Heaven Romain Gary
The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzákis
The Tree of Man Patrick White
The Trusting and the Maimed James Plunkett
The Quiet American Graham Greene
The Burning Plain Juan Rulfo
The Recognitions William Gaddis
The Ragazzi Pier Paulo Pasolini
I’m Not Stiller Max Frisch
The Unknown Soldier Vaino Linna
The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima
Death in Rome Wolfgang Koeppen
Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan
The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Under the Net Iris Murdoch
The Story of O Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon Alberto Moravia
A Day in Spring Ciril Kosmac
The Dark Child Camara Laye
The Go-Between L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Hothouse Wolfgang Koeppen
The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Junkie William Burroughs
Casino Royale Ian Fleming
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
A Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
Excellent Women Barbara Pym
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 Hive Camilo Jose Cela
Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar
Day of the Triffids John Wyndham
Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
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 13 Clocks James Thurber
Gormenghast Mervyn Peake
The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese
A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Simon Vestdijk
The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge
Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
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
Death Sentence Maurice Blanchot
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski
In The Heart of the Seas Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
All About H. Hatterr G.V. Desani
Disobedience Alberto Moravia
Ashes and Diamonds Jerzy Andrzejewski
Journey to the Alcarria Camilo Jose Cela
Froth on the Daydream Boris Vian
Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz
Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann
The Plague Albert Camus
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
House in the Uplands Erskine Caldwell
Back Henry Green
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzákis
Titus Groan Mervyn Peake
The Death of Virgil Hermann Broch
Andrea Carmen Laforet
The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy
Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andrić
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Arcanum 17 André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi
The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić
Animal Farm George Orwell
Loving Henry Green
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
Transit Anna Seghers
The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham
Dangling Man Saul Bellow
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann
The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse
Chess Story Stefan Zweig
Embers Sandor Marai
The Outsider Albert Camus
Conversations In Sicily Elio Vittorini
The Harvesters Cesare Pavese
The Living and the Dead Patrick White
Broad and Alien is the World Ciro Alegria
The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati
Native Son Richard Wright
Finnegans Wake James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien
Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleza
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
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
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Blind Owl Sadegh Hedayat
Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz
In Parenthesis David Jones
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
Rickshaw Boy Lao She
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
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 Raj Anand
The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Horace McCoy
Auto-da-Fé Elias Canetti
The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers
The Bells of Basel Louis Aragon
On the Heights of Despair Emil Cioran
The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz
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
Man's Fate André Malraux
Cheese Willem Elsschot
The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
Vipers' Tangle Francois Mauriac
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
The Forbidden Realm Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
The Radetzky March Joseph Roth
The Return of Philip Latinowicz Miroslav Krleza
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
To the North Elizabeth Bowen
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Insatiability Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Monica Saunders Lewis
The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We Frederic Manning
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
Passing Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
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
Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau
Retreat Without Song Shahan Shahnour
Story of the Eye Georges Bataille
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall
Parade’s End Ford Madox Ford
Some Prefer Nettles Junichiro Tanizaki
Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand Nella Larsen
Nadja André Breton
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
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
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Blindness Henry Green
The Castle Franz Kafka
Alberta and Jacob Cora Sandel
The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek
Under Satan's Sun Georges Bernanos
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein
Chaka the Zulu Thomas Mofolo
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
The New World Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase
The Green Hat Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
We Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
Zeno’s Conscience Italo Svevo
The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet
Amok Stefan Zweig
Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset
The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings
Siddhartha Herman Hesse
The Forest of the Hanged Liviu Rebreanu
Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair
Claudine's House Colette
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses James Joyce
Life of Christ Giovanni Papini
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
The Storm of Steel Ernst Junger
Tarr Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore
Pallieter Felix Timmermans
The Underdogs Mariano Azuela
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
Under Fire Henri Barbusse
Rashomon Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
Kokoro Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus Raymond Roussel
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
Platero and I Juan Ramón Jiménez
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
Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel
Howards End E.M. Forster
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke
Strait is the Gate André Gide
A Room With a View E.M. Forster
The Inferno Henri Barbusse
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
The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
Young Törless Robert Musil
Solitude Victor Catala
Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness Daniel Paul Schreber
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
The Ambassadors Henry James
The Immoralist André Gide
The Wings of the Dove Henry James
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
Kim Rudyard Kipling
None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem Emilio Salgari
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville and Ross
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Geza Gardonyi
The Stechlin Theodor Fontane
The Awakening Kate Chopin
Dom Casmurro Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
As a Man Grows Older Italo Svevo
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
Fruits of the Earth André Gide
Pharoah Boleslaw Prus
Compassion Benito Pérez Galdós
What Maisie Knew Henry James
Dracula Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
Effi Briest Theodor Fontane
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
The Viceroys Federico De Roberto
Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 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
The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy
Thais Anatole France
La Bête Humaine Émile Zola
By the Open Sea August Strindberg
Hunger Knut Hamsun
Eline Vere Louis Couperus
The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio
Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov
Pierre and Jean Guy de Maupassant
The People of Hemsö August Strindberg
The Manors of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazan
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
The Quest Frederik van Eeden
King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
Germinal Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater
Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant
The Regent's Wife 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
Bouvard and Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Nana Émile Zola
Ben-Hur Lew Wallace
The Red Room August Strindberg
Martin Fierro Jose Hernandez
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard Émile Zola
The Crime of Father Amaro José Maria Eça de Queirós
Pepita Jimenez Juan Valera
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer Nikolai 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 Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope
Maldoror Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
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
Max Havelaar Multatuli
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede George Eliot
Indian Summer Adalbert Stifter
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
Green Henry Gottfried Keller
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Devil's Pool George Sand
Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac
Dead Souls Nikolay Gogol
A Hero of Our Times Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Camera Obscura Hildebrand
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
The Nose Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin
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 Life of a Good-for-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E.T.A. Hoffman
Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott
Emma Jane Austen
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist
Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rameau’s Nephew Denis Diderot
Henry of Ofterdingen Novalis
Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun Denis Diderot
Jacques the Fatalist 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
A Dream of Red Mansions Cao Xueqin
Justine Marquis de Sade
Vathek William Thomas Beckford
Anton Reiser Karl Philipp Moritz
The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis de Sade
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
Humphry 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
Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas Samuel Johnson
Candide Voltaire
The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox
Peregrine Pickle Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill John Cleland
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
Clarissa Samuel Richardson
Pamela Samuel Richardson
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus John Arbuthnot
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Oroonoko Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves Madame de La Fayette
The Adventurous Simplicissimus Hans von Grimmelshausen
The Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz del Castillo
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thomas of Reading Thomas Deloney
The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe
Monkey: Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en
The Lusiad Luís Vaz de Camões
Gargantua and Pantagruel Françoise Rabelais
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
Amadis of Gaul Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
La Celestina Fernando de Rojas
Tirant lo Blanc Joanot Martorell
The Golden Ass Lucius Apuleius
The Water Margin Shi Nai'an
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous

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