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2000s
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan read 1
On Beauty – Zadie Smith read 2
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee read 3
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter MansonThe Sea – John Banville read 5
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth READ 6
The Master – Colm Tóibín read 7
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd read 8
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee read 9
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry READ 10
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters read 11
The Double – José Saramago READ 12
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer read 13
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami read 14
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor READ 15
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides read 16
Youth – J.M. Coetzee read 17
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald read 18
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan read 19
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen read 20
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel read 21
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
White Teeth – Zadie Smith read1The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda read 22
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 read 23
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood READ 24
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates read 25
Pastoralia – George Saunders
1900s
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee read 26
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan read 27
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks read 28
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver read 29
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham read 30
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon read 31
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy read 32
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden read 33
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan read 33
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey read 34
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth read 35
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker read 36
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Information – Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth read 37
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald read 38
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink read 39
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry read 40
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee read 41
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami read
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 read 42
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor read 43
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx read 44
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth read 45
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields read 46
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides read 47
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood 48
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald read 49
The Secret History – Donna Tartt read 50
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson 51
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje read 52
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg read 53
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates read 54
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud read 55
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker read 56
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard read 57
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon read 58
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster read 59
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham read 60
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
Possession – A.S. Byatt read 61
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson read 62
Moon Palace – Paul Auster read 63
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro read 64
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago read 65
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel read 66
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving read
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood 67
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco read 68
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst read 69
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey read 70
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe read
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul read 71
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Beloved – Toni Morrison read 72
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 read 73
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro read 74
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Foe – J.M. Coetzee read 75
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi read 76
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez read 77
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson read 78
The Cider House Rules – John Irving read 79
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis read 80
Contact – Carl Sagan read 81
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood read 82
Perfume – Patrick Süskind 83
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago read 85
The Lover – Marguerite Duras read 86
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter 87
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera read 88
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes read 89
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor read 90
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee 91
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek read
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi read 92
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker read 93
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally read 94
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende read 95
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard read 96
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike 97
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer 98
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin 99
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee 100
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 101
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 102
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera 103
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré 104
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul 105
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer 106
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino 107
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving 108
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec 109
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch 110
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt 111
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee 112
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin 113
The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison 114
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke 115
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover 116
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez 117
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell 118
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow 119
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard 120
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow 121
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll 122
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 123
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 124
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong 125
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell 126
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene 127
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon 128
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch 129
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood 130
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul 131
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll 132
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike 133
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark 134
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison 135
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke 136
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou 137
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover 138
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 139
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 140
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 141
The Godfather – Mario Puzo 142
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 143
Them – Joyce Carol Oates 144
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 145
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 146
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 147
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 148
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 149
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz 150
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf 151
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe 152
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 153
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov 154
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson 155
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien 156
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West 157
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles 158
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 159
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth 160
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien 161
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut 162
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor 163
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey 164
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe 165
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras 166
Herzog – Saul Bellow 167
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut 168
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 169
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark 170
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 171
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 172
The Collector – John Fowles 173
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 174
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 175
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov 176
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges 177
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien 178
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani 179
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger 180
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch 181
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem 182
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark 183
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 184
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor 185
How It Is – Samuel Beckett 186
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien 187
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 188
Rabbit, Run – John Updike 189
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass 190
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow 191
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark 192
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll 193
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 194
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 195
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 196
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
197
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe 198
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan 199
The End of the Road – John Barth 200
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch 201
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White 212
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch 213
On the Road – Jack Kerouac 214
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov 215
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak 216
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell 217
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin 218
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary 219
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow 220
The Floating Opera – John Barth 221
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 222
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 223
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen 224
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene 225
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis 226
The Recognitions – William Gaddis 227
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan 228
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch 229
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
The Story of O – Pauline Réage 230
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia231
Lord of the Flies – William Golding 232
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch 233
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley 234
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 235
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett 236
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis 237
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow 238
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 239
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 240
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 241
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 242
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor 243
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar 244
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett 245
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 246
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett 247
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene 248
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene 249
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing 250
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese 251
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford 252
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen 253
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier 254
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren 255
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 256
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia 257
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene 258
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton 259
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann 260
The Victim – Saul Bellow 261
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau 262
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi 263
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry 264
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
The Plague – Albert Camus 265
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 266
Animal Farm – George Orwell 268
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford 269
Loving – Henry Green 270
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi 271
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham 272
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 273
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow 274
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 275
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Embers – Sandor Marai 276
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner 277
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White 278
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf 279
The Hamlet – William Faulkner 280
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler 281
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 282
Native Son – Richard Wright 283
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 284
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Party Going – Henry Green 285
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 286
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce 287
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien 288
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller 289
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys 290
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 291
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner 292
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre 293
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier294
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene 295
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos 296
Murphy – Samuel Beckett 297
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 298
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 299
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years – Virginia Woolf 300
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) 301
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway 302
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner 303
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley 304
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West 305
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 306
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell 307
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner 308
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes 309
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti 310
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen 311
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers 312
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev 313
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain 314
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller 315
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh 316
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald 317
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 318
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth 319
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West320
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers 321
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein 322
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain 323
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil 324
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon 325
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline 326
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 327
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 328
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen 329
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett 330
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth 331
The Waves – Virginia Woolf 332
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett 333
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham 334
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis 335
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh 336
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 337
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 338
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green 339
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia 340
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 341
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin 342
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen 343
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 344
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe 345
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Orlando – Virginia Woolf 346
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence 347
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall 348
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys 349
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh 350
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford 351
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 352
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 353
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka 354
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 355
Blindness – Henry Green 356
The Castle – Franz Kafka 357
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek 358
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence 359
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 360
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein 361
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos 362
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 363
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 364
The Counterfeiters – André Gide 365
The Trial – Franz Kafka 366
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville 367
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen 368
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 369
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin 370
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 371
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet 372
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo 373
Cane – Jean Toomer 374
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley 375
Amok – Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield 376
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings 377
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf 378
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair 379
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence 380
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis 381
Ulysses – James Joyce 382
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence 383
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley 384
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 385
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis 386
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 387
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf 388
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West 389
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton 390
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen 391
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce 392
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford 393
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf 394
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham 395
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence 396
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 397
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell 399
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence 400
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 401
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 402
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End – E.M. Forster 403
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein 404
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide 405
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells 406
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster 407
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett 408
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 409
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair 410
Young Törless – Robert Musil 411
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy 412
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 413
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann 414
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster 415
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 416
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James 417
The Ambassadors – Henry James 418
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Immoralist – André Gide 419
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James 420
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 421
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 422
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann 423
Kim – Rudyard Kipling 424
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser425
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 426
1800s
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross 427
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin 428
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James 429
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane 430
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 431
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross 432
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman 433
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 434
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing 435
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 436
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 437
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy 438
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola 439
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun 440
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson 441
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant 442
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés 443
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy 444
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – 445 Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 446
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson 447
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 448
Germinal – Émile Zola 449
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 450
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant 451
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater 452
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy 453
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 454
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga 455
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James 456
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert 457
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola 458
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky 459
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy 460
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 461
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev 462
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot 463
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy 464
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert 465
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 466
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne 467
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky 468
Erewhon – Samuel Butler 469
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev 470
Middlemarch – George Eliot 471
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 472
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev 473
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope 474
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 475
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert 476
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope 477
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont 478
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 479
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins 480
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 481
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola 482
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope 483
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 484
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 485
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 486
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 487
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky 488
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 489
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev 490
Silas Marner – George Eliot 491
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 492
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev 493
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope 494
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot 495
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 496
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne 497
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 498
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov 4999
Adam Bede – George Eliot 500
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 501
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 502
Hard Times – Charles Dickens 503
Walden – Henry David Thoreau 504
Bleak House – Charles Dickens 505
Villette – Charlotte Brontë 506
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell 507
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 508
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne 509
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne 510
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 511
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 512
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 513
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë 514
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 515
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë 516
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 517
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 518
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 519
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 520
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 521
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 522
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe 523
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 524
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe 525
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac 526
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 527
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol 528
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal 529
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe 530
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 531
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 532
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol 533
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 534
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac 535
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 536
The Red and the Black – Stendhal537
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni 538
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 539
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg 540
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 541
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 542
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 543
Persuasion – Jane Austen 544
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth 545
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott 546
Emma – Jane Austen 547
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen 548
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 549
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth 550
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 551
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 552
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth 553
1700s
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney 554
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 555
Justine – Marquis de Sade 556
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney 557
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 558
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 559
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney 560
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 561
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett 562
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie 563
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne 564
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne 565
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith 566
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 567
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 568
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson 569
Candide – Voltaire 570
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox 571
Amelia – Henry Fielding 572
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett 573
Fanny Hill – John Cleland 574
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 575
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett 576
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson 577
Pamela – Samuel Richardson 578
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding 579
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift 580
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 581
Roxana – Daniel Defoe 582
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe 583
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 584
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift 585
Pre-1700
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn 586
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 587
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 588
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 589
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe 590
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais 591
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius 592
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Metamorphoses – Ovid 593
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus 594

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