1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - read

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Pre-1700
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus [first edition 4BCE, compiled by rhetorician, first published c.1475]
Metamorphoses – Ovid [composed between c.2-8, first published 1488]
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton [between 50 BCE and 200CE, first published 1750]
Aithiopika – Heliodorus [written c. 250, first published 1534]
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius [written c. 260, first published 1469]
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous [c. 850]
Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais [1532-64]
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly [1578]
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe [1594]
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [1605-15]
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan [1678-84]
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette [1678]
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn [1688]
1700s
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift [1704]
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe [1719]
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood [1719]
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe [1722]
Roxana – Daniel Defoe [1724]
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift [1726]
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift [1729]
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding [1742]
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift [begun in 1713; authors began to die from 1745 onwards]
Pamela – Samuel Richardson [1742]
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson [1749]
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett [1749]
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding [1749]
Fanny Hill – John Cleland [1749]
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett [1751, revised 1758]
Amelia – Henry Fielding [1751]
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox [1752]
Candide – Voltaire [1759]
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson [1759]
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1760]
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot [composed 1761-84, first published 1805]
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1762]
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole [1765]
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith [1766]
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne [1759-67]
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne [1768]
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie [1771]
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett [1771]
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1774]
Evelina – Fanny Burney [1778, anonymously]
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1782]
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos [1782]
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1782, part 2 1788]
Cecilia – Fanny Burney [1782]
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade [1785]
Vathek – William Beckford [1786]
Justine – Marquis de Sade [1791]
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin [1794]
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano [1794]
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe [1794]
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1795-6]
The Monk – M.G. Lewis [1796]
Camilla – Fanny Burney [1796]
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot [1796, written 1773]
The Nun – Denis Diderot [1796, written 1760]
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin [vol. 1 1797, vol. 2 1799]
1800s
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth [1800]
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1809]
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen [1811, anon.]
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth [1812]
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen [1813]
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen [1814]
Emma – Jane Austen [1816]
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott [1817]
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth [1817]
Persuasion – Jane Austen [1818]
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen [1818]
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [1818]
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott [1820]
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott [1820]
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin [1820]
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin [1824]
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg [1824]
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper [1826]
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni [1827]
The Red and the Black – Stendhal [1831]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo [1831]
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac [1834]
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac [1834-5]
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol [1836]
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens [1838]
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens [1839]
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe [1839]
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal [1839]
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol [1842]
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [1843]
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac [1843]
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe [1843]
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens [1844]
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe [1844]
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [1844]
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas [1845]
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas [1845-6]
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray [1847]
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë [1847]
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë [1847]
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë [1847]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë [1848]
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell [1848]
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë [1849]
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens [1850]
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne [1850]
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville [1851]
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne [1851]
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne [1852]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe [1852]
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell [1853]
Villette – Charlotte Brontë [1853]
Bleak House – Charles Dickens [1853]
Walden – Henry David Thoreau [1854]
Hard Times – Charles Dickens [1854]
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell [first serialized 1854-5, first published 1855]
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert [1857]
Adam Bede – George Eliot [1859]
Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov [1859]
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens [1859]
Max Havelaar – Multatuli [1860]
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne [1860]
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins [1860]
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot [1860}
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope [1860]
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev [1860]
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens [1861]
Silas Marner – George Eliot [1861]
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev [1862]
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo [1862]
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley [1863]
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky [1864]
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu [1864]
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens [1865]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll [1865]
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky [1866]
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne [1866]
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope [1867]
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola [1867]
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott [1868]
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins [1868]
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky [1868-9]
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont [1868-9]
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope [1869]
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert [1869]
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy [first serialized 1865-9, first published 1869]
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope [1869]
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev [1870]
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll [1871]
Middlemarch – George Eliot [1871-2]
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev [1872]
Erewhon – Samuel Butler [1872]
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky [1872]
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu [1872]
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne [1873]
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov [1873]
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy [1874]
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert [1874]
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy [1876]
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot [1876]
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev [1877]
Drunkard – Émile Zola [1877]
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy [first serialized 1873-77, first published 1877]
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy [1878]
The Red Room – August Strindberg [1880]
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky [first serialized 1879-80, first published 1880]
Nana – Émile Zola [1880]
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace [1880]
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert [1881]
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James [1881]
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga [1881]
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson [1883]
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant [1883]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy [1884]
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans [1884]
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater [1885]
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant [1885]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain [1885]
Germinal – Émile Zola [1885]
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard [1885]
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson [1886]
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy [1886]
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson [1886]
She – H. Rider Haggard [1887]
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy [1887]
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg [1887]
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés [1887]
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant [1888]
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson [1889]
Hunger – Knut Hamsun [1890]
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg [1890]
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola [1890]
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy [1890]
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde [1891]
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy [1891]
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf [1891]
New Grub Street – George Gissing [1891]
News from Nowhere – William Morris [1891]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1892]
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith [1892]
Born in Exile – George Gissing [1892]
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1892, in book form 1899]
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross [1894]
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy [1895]
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane [1895]
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells [1895]
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells [1896]
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz [1896]
Dracula – Bram Stoker [1897]
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide [1897]
What Maisie Knew – Henry James [1897]
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells [1897]
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells [1898]
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James [1898]
The Awakening – Kate Chopin [1899]
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane [1899]
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross [1899]
1900s
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad [1900]
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser [1900]
Kim – Rudyard Kipling [1901]
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann [1901]
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [1902]
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad [1902]
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James [1902]
The Immoralist – André Gide [1902]
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers [1903]
The Ambassadors – Henry James [1903]
The Golden Bowl – Henry James [1904]
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe [1904]
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad [1904]
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster [1905]
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann [1905]
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton [1905]
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy [1906]
Young Törless – Robert Musil [1906]
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair [1906]
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad [1907]
Mother – Maxim Gorky [1907]
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson [1908]
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett [1908]
The Iron Heel – Jack London [1908]
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster [1908]
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse [1908]
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells [1908]
Strait is the Gate – André Gide [1909]
Martin Eden – Jack London [1909]
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein [1909]
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel [1910]
Howards End – E.M. Forster [1910]
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre [1911]
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton [1911]
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens [1912]
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann [1912]
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence [1913]
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell [1914]
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs [1914]
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse [1914]
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel [1914]
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki [1914]
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan [1915]
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence [1915]
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham [1915]
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf [1915]
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford [1915]
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke [1915]
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse [1916]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce [1916]
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton [1916]
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun [1917]
Summer – Edith Wharton [1917]
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad [1917]
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West [1918]
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis [1918]
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf [1919]
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence [private subscription only 1920, full distribution 1921]
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis [1920]
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton [1920]
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley [1921]
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence [first serialized 1922, first published 1923]
Ulysses – James Joyce [first serialized 1918-21, first published 1922]
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis [1922]
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence [1922]
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus [1922]
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair [1922]
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton [1922]
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse [1922]
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf [1922]
The Enormous Room – e.e. cummings [1922]
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield [1922]
Amok – Stefan Zweig [1922]
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley [1923]
Cane – Jean Toomer [1923]
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo [1923]
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet [1923]
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster [1924]
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin [1924]
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann [1924]
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen [1924]
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville [1924]
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather [1925]
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky [1925]
The Trial – Franz Kafka [1925]
The Counterfeiters – André Gide [1925]
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald [1925]
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf [1925]
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos [1925]
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein [1925]
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie [1926]
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello [1926]
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence [1926]
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek [first published in four volumes 1921-3, in one 1926]
The Castle – Franz Kafka [1926]
Blindness – Henry Green [1926]
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway [1926]
Amerika – Franz Kafka [composed 1912-14, first published 1927]
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson [1927]
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf [1927]
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust [1913-27 in seven volumes]
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse [1927]
Nadja – André Breton [1928]
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford [last volume of tetralogy published 1928, tetralogy published as single volume 1950]
Quicksand – Nella Larsen [1928]
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh [1928]
Quartet – Jean Rhys [1928]
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis [1928]
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall [1928]
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence [privately in 1928, first English language publication 1932]
Orlando – Virginia Woolf [1928]
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille [1928]
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe [1929]
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau [1929]
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner [1929]
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West [1929]
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen [1929]
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin [1929]
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque [1929]
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia [1929]
Living – Henry Green [1929]
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett [1929]
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway [1929]
Passing – Nella Larsen [1929]
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico [1929]
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett [first serialized 1929, first published 1930]
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh [1930]
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning [1930]
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis [1930]
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham [1930]
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett [1931]
The Waves – Virginia Woolf [1931]
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth [1932]
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett [1932]
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen [1932]
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons [1932]
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley [1932]
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline [1932]
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon [1932; first book in a trilogy, others published 1933 and 1934]
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil [last completed volume published 1933]
A Day Off – Storm Jameson [1933]
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain [1933]
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein [1933]
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers [1933]
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West [1933]
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth [1934]
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse [1934]
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald [1934]
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh [1934]
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller [1934]
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain [1934]
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev [1934]
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht [1934]
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers [1934]
Burmese Days – George Orwell [1934]
England Made Me – Graham Greene [1935]
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen [1935]
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy [1935]
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood [1935]
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti [1935]
Independent People – Halldór Laxness [1935]
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes [1936]
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft [first serialized 1936]
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner [1936]
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson [1936]
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell [1936]
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell [1936]
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West [1936]
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley [1936]
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner [1936]
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway [1937]
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) [1937]
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis [1937]
In Parenthesis – David Jones [1937]
The Years – Virginia Woolf [1937]
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien [1937]
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston [1937]
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck [1937]
Murphy – Samuel Beckett [1938]
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos [1938]
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene [1938]
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler [1938]
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier [1938]
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre [1938]
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson [1938]
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner [1938]
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler [1939]
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys [1939]
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller [1939]
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood [1939]
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell [1939]
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien [1939]
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce [1939]
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck [1939]
Party Going – Henry Green [1939]
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati [1940]
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene [1940]
Native Son – Richard Wright [1940]
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway [1940]
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler [1940]
The Hamlet – William Faulkner [1940]
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf [1941]
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton [1941]
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White [1941]
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien [1941]
Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini [1941]
The Outsider – Albert Camus [1942]
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner [1942]
Embers – Sandor Marai [1942]
The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse [1943]
Caught – Henry Green [1943]
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1943]
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow [1944]
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges [1944]
Transit – Anna Seghers [1944]
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham [1944]
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi [1945]
Arcanum 17 – André Breton [1945]
Loving – Henry Green [1945]
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford [1945]
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck [1945]
Animal Farm – George Orwell [1945]
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh [1945]
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri? [1945]
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake [1946]
Back – Henry Green [1946]
The Plague – Albert Camus [1947]
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino [1947]
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry [1947]
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi [1947]
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau [1947, revised edition 1963]
The Victim – Saul Bellow [1947]
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann [1947]
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton [1948]
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene [1948]
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot [1948]
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia [1948]
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani [1948, revised edition 1972]
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell [1949]
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren [1949]
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier [1949]
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen [1949]
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge [1949]
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford [1949]
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk [1950]
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese [1950]
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov [1950]
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing [1950]
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake [1950]
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber [1950]
The Third Man – Graham Greene [1950]
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz [1950]
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille [1950]
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene [1951]
Molloy – Samuel Beckett [1951]
The Rebel – Albert Camus [1951]
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger [1951]
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq [1951]
Foundation – Isaac Asimov [1951; other books in trilogy published 1952 and 1953]
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham [1951]
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett [1951]
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar [1951]
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson [1952]
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor [1952]
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway [1952]
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison [1952]
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt [1952]
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming [1953]
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin [1953]
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow [1953]
Junkie – William Burroughs [1953]
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis [1953]
Watt – Samuel Beckett [1953]
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett [1953]
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler [1953]
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley [1953]
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch [1954]
Lord of the Flies – William Golding [1954]
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia [1954]
The Story of O – Pauline Réage [1954]
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis [1954]
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch [1954]
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan [1954]
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini [1955]
The Recognitions – William Gaddis [1955]
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis [1955]
The Quiet American – Graham Greene [1955]
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett [1955]
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen [1955]
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov [1955]
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith [1955]
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien [1954-6]
The Floating Opera – John Barth [1956]
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow [1956]
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary [1956]
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon [1956]
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin [1956]
Justine – Lawrence Durrell [1957]
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber [1957]
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak [1957]
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov [1957]
On the Road – Jack Kerouac [1957]
Homo Faber – Max Frisch [1957]
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille [1957]
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham [1957]
Voss – Patrick White [1957]
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet [1957]
The Bell – Iris Murdoch [1958]
The Once and Future King – T.H. White [1958]
The End of the Road – John Barth [1958]
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan [1958]
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico [1958]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe [1958]
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe [1958]
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon [1958]
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute [1950]
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe [1958]
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [1958]
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote [1958]
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll [1959]
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark [1959]
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow [1959]
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes [1959]
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass [1959]
The Naked Lunch – William Burroughs [1959]
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse [1959]
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee [1959]
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary [1960]
Rabbit, Run – John Updike [1960]
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee [1960]
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien [1960]
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino [1960]
How It Is – Samuel Beckett [1960]
The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O’Connor [1960]
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller [1961]
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark [1961]
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass [1961]
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem [1961]
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame [1961]
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch [1961]
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger [1961; published as short stories 'Franny' and 'Zooey' in 1955 and 1957]
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein [1961]
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani [1962]
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien [1962]
Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges [1962]
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing [1962]
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard [1962]
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov [1962]
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess [1962]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey [1962]
The Collector – John Fowles [1963]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [1963]
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath [1963]
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess [1963]
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark [1963]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré [1963]
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol [1963]
The Graduate – Charles Webb [1963]
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr [1963]
V. – Thomas Pynchon [1963]
Herzog – Saul Bellow [1964]
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras [1964]
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe [1964]
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson [1964]
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Barthelme [1964]
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey [1964]
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector [1964]
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor [1965]
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr [1965]
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien [1965]
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o [1965]
Things – Georges Perec [1965]
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon [1966]
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth [1966]
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys [1966]
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras [1966]
The Magus – John Fowles [1966, revised edition 1977]
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote [1966]
Trawl – B.S. Johnson [1966]
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West [1966]
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec [1967]
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien [1967]
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson [1967]
The Joke – Milan Kundera [1967]
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson [1967]
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov [first part in 'Moskva' journal, 1966]
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez [1967]
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa [1967]
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe [1968]
Chocky – John Wyndham [1968]
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf [1968]
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines [1968]
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan [1968]
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz [1968]
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry [1968]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick [1968]
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke [1968]
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [1968]
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [1968]
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen [1968]
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch [1968]
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal [1968]
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen [1968]
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec [1969]
them – Joyce Carol Oates [1969]
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov [1969]
The Godfather – Mario Puzo [1969]
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth [1969]
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis [1969]
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles [1969]
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr [1969]
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Himes [1969]
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover [1969]
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado [1969]
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard [1970]
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson [1970]
Troubles – J.G. Farrell [1970]
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett [1970]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou [1970]
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke [1970]
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison [1970]
The Ogre – Michael Tournier [1970]
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark [1970]
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima [1965-70]
Rabbit Redux – John Updike [1971]
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs [1971]
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll [1971]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson [1971]
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow [1971]
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul [1971]
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson [1971]
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood [1972]
G – John Berger [1972]
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson [1972]
The Breast – Philip Roth [1972]
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino [1972]
Sula – Toni Morrison [1973]
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch [1973]
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon [1973]
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene [1973]
Crash – J.G. Ballard [1973]
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino [1973]
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell [1973]
A Question of Power – Bessie Head [1973]
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong [1973]
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr [1973]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré [1974]
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll [1974]
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee [1974]
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle [1974]
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow [1975]
Correction – Thomas Bernhard [1975]
Dead Babies – Martin Amis [1975]
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow [1975]
High Rise – J.G. Ballard [1975]
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan [1975]
Fateless – Imre Kertész [1975]
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme [1975]
Grimus – Salman Rushdie [1975]
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell [12 volumes, published 1951-1975]
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec [1975]
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez [1975]
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf [1976]
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme [1976]
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg [1976]
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice [1976]
The Public Burning – Robert Coover [1976]
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo [1976]
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke [1976]
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector [1977]
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison [1977]
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o [1977]
Dispatches – Michael Herr [1977]
The Shining – Stephen King [1977]
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin [1977]
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter [1977]
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee [1977]
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt [1978]
Yes – Thomas Bernhard [1978]
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell [1978]
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch [1978]
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec [1978]
The World According to Garp – John Irving [1978]
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan [1978]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams [1979]
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino [1979]
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll [1979]
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer [1979]
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul [1979]
Shikasta – Doris Lessing [1979]
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré [1979]
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera [1979]
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco [1980]
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard [1980]
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole [1980]
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom [1980]
Rites of Passage – William Golding [1980]
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie [1980]
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee [1980]
Broken April – Ismail Kadare [1980]
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin [1981]
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer [1981]
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan [1981]
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray [1981]
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike [1981]
The Names – Don DeLillo [1982]
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard [1982]
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin [1982]
The Newton Letter – John Banville [1982]
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende [1982]
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally [1982]
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro [1982]
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard [1982]
The Color Purple – Alice Walker [1982]
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White [1982]
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi [1982]
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus [1983]
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek [1983]
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing [1983]
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee [1983]
Waterland – Graham Swift [1983]
LaBrava – Elmore Leonard [1983]
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor [1983]
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett [1983]
Shame – Salman Rushdie [1983]
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis [1984]
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes [1984]
Neuromancer – William Gibson [1984]
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker [1984]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera [1984]
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter [1984]
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks [1984]
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard [1984]
The Lover – Marguerite Duras [1984]
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago [1984]
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman [1984]
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic [1984]
Legend – David Gemmell [1984]
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd [1985]
Queer – William Burroughs [1985]
White Noise – Don DeLillo [1985]
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard [1985]
Perfume – Patrick Süskind [1985]
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood [1985]
Contact – Carl Sagan [1985]
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis [1985]
A Maggot – John Fowles [1985]
The Cider House Rules – John Irving [1985]
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson [1985]
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez [1985]
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann [1985]
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel [1985]
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi [1986]
Foe – J.M. Coetzee [1986]
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard [1986]
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro [1986]
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt [1986]
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis [1986]
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons [1986]
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates [1986]
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o [1986]
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore [1986]
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae [1986]
Beloved – Toni Morrison [1987]
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul [1987]
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle [1987]
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster [published as one volume 1987, separately in 1985-6]
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe [1987]
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews [1987]
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan [1987]
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind [1987]
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson [1987]
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy [1987]
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke [1987]
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble [1987]
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams [1987]
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams [1988]
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga [1988]
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks [1988]
Libra – Don DeLillo [1988]
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey [1988]
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst [1988]
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie [1988]
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson [1988]
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White [1988]
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco [1988]
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood [1988]
The Book of Evidence – John Banville [1989]
London Fields – Martin Amis [1989]
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving [1989]
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel [1989]
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago [1989]
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway [1989]
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker [1989]
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai [1989]
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro [1989]
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow [1989]
Moon Palace – Paul Auster [1989]
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson [1989]
A Disaffection – James Kelman [1989]
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle [1990]
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi [1990]
Possession – A.S. Byatt [1990]
Like Life – Lorrie Moore [1990]
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham [1990]
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien [1990]
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster [1990]
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge [1990]
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald [1990]
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon [1990]
Amongst Women – John McGahern [1990]
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard [1990]
Wise Children – Angela Carter [1991]
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernières [1991]
Downriver – Iain Sinclair [1991]
Regeneration – Pat Barker [1991]
Typical – Padgett Powell [1991]
Mao II – Don DeLillo [1991]
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis [1991]
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis [1991]
Wild Swans – Jung Chang [1991]
Arcadia – Jim Crace [1992]
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud [1992]
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan [1992]
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) [written 1922, first published 1992]
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín [1992]
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates [1992]
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe [1992]
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Høeg [1992]
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje [1992]
Jazz – Toni Morrison [1992]
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson [1992]
The Crow Road – Iain Banks [1992]
Indigo – Marina Warner [1992]
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker [1992]
A Heart So White – Javier Marias [1992]
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch [1992]
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar [1992]
The Secret History – Donna Tartt [1992]
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald [1992]
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood [1993]
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd [1993]
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides [1993]
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields [1993]
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth [1993]
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe [1993]
On Love – Alain de Botton [1993]
Complicity – Iain Banks [1993]
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth [1993]
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy [1993]
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks [1993]
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh [1993]
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx [1993]
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm [1993]
Disappearance – David Dabydeen [1993]
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor [1994]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières [1994]
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman [1994]
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol [1994]
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi [1994]
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami [1994]
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee [1994]
Land – Park Kyong-ni [1969-94]
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq [1994]
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst [1994]
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster [1994]
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis [1995]
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose [1995]
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry [1995]
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink [1995]
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald [1995]
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth [1995]
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie [1995]
The Information – Martin Amis [1995]
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner [1995]
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro [1995]
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood [1996]
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin [1996]
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace [1996]
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse [1996]
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker [1996]
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels [1996]
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker [1996]
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard [1996]
Silk – Alessandro Baricco [1996]
The Untouchable – John Banville [1997]
American Pastoral – Philip Roth [1997]
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin [first serialized 1994, first published 1997]
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey [1997]
Underworld – Don DeLillo [1997]
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan [1997]
Great Apes – Will Self [1997]
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden [1997]
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy [1997]
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon [1997]
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho [1998]
The Hours – Michael Cunningham [1998]
Another World – Pat Barker [1998]
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis [1998]
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver [1998]
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters [1998]
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon [1998]
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom [1998]
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks [1998]
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan [1998]
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi [1998]
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq [1998]
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami [1999]
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee [1999]
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie [1999]
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb [1999]
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy [1999]
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli? [1999]
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson [1999]
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra [1999]
Timbuktu – Paul Auster [1999]
2000s
Pastoralia – George Saunders [2000]
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates [2000]
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski [2000]
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard [2000]
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande [2000]
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami [2000]
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood [2000]
The Human Stain – Philip Roth [2000]
How the Dead Live – Will Self [2000]
City of God – E.L. Doctorow [2000]
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy [2000]
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace [2000]
Ignorance – Milan Kundera [2000]
Under the Skin – Michel Faber [2000]
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda [2000]
White Teeth – Zadie Smith [2000]
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare [2000]
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho [2000]
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma [2000]
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa [2000]
Life of Pi – Yann Martel [2001]
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk [2001]
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill [2001]
Fury – Salman Rushdie [2001]
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo [2001]
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini [2001]
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen [2001]
Atonement – Ian McEwan [2001]
Schooling – Heather McGowan [2001]
Platform – Michel Houellebecq [2001]
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald [2001]
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi [2001]
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster [2002]
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon [2002]
Dead Air – Iain Banks [2002]
Youth – J.M. Coetzee [2002]
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides [2002]
Shroud – John Banville [2002]
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien [2002]
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern [2002]
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor [2002]
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami [2002]
Unless – Carol Shields [2002]
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer [2002]
The Double – José Saramago [2002]
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters [2002]
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry [2002]
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair [2002]
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee [2003]
Islands – Dan Sleigh [2003]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon [2003]
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt [2003]
The Light of Day – Graham Swift [2003]
Thursbitch – Alan Garner [2003]
The Colour – Rose Tremain [2003]
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle [2004]
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell [2004]
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair [2004]
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd [2004]
Vanishing Point – David Markson [2004]
The Master – Colm Tóibín [2004]
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth [2004]
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble [2004]
The Sea – John Banville [2005]
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson [2005]
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee [2005]
On Beauty – Zadie Smith [2005]
Saturday – Ian McEwan [2005]
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro [2005]
2008 Edition Additions
Pre-1800
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous
The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu
Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong
The Water Margin . Shi Nai'an & Luó Guànzhong
Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell
La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas
Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous
The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões
Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng'en
Thomas of Reading . Thomas Deloney
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Conquest of New Spain . Bernal Díaz del Castillo
The Adventurous Simplicissimus . Hans von Grimmelshausen
1700s
Anton Reiser . Karl Philipp Moritz
A Dream of Red Mansions . Cao Xueqin
1800s
Henry of Ofterdingen . Novalis
Rameau's Nephew . Denis Diderot
Michael Kohlhaas . Heinrich von Kleist
The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr . E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing . Joseph von Eichendorff
Eugene Onegin . Alexander Pushkin
The Lion of Flanders . Hendrick Conscience
Camera Obscura . Hildebrand
A Hero of Our Times . Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Facundo . Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
The Devil's Pool . George Sand
Green Henry . Gottfried Keller
Indian Summer . Adalbert Stifter
Pepita Jimenéz . Juan Valera
The Crime of Father Amado . José Maria Eça de Queirós
Martín Fierro . José Hernández
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Regent's Wife . Clarín Leopoldo Alas
The Quest . Frederik van Eeden
The Manors of Ulloa . Emilia Pardo Bazán
Under the Yoke . Ivan Vazov
The Child of Pleasure . Gabriele D'Annunzio
Eline Vere . Louis Couperus
Thaïs . Anatole France
Down There . Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Viceroys . Federico De Roberto
Compassion . Benito Pérez Galdós
Pharaoh . Boleslaw Prus
As a Man Grows Older . Italo Svevo
Dom Casmurro . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon . Géza Gárdonyi
1900s
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem . Emilio Salgari
None but the Brave . Arthur Schnitzler
The Call of the Wild . Jack London
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness . Daniel P. Schreber
The Way of All Flesh . Samuel Butler
Solitude . Víctor Català
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Rainer Maria Rilke
Platero and I . Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Underdogs . Mariano Azuela
Pallieter . Felix Timmermans
Home and the World . Rabindranath Tagore
The Storm of Steel . Ernst Jünger
Life of Christ . Giovanni Papini
Claudine's House . Colette
The Forest of the Hanged . Liviu Rebreanu
Kristin Lavransdatter . Sigrid Undset
The New World . Heruy Wäldä-Sellassé
Chaka the Zulu . Thomas Mofolo
Under Satan's Sun . Geroges Bernanos
Alberta and Jacob . Cora Sandel
The Case of Sergeant Grischa . Arnold Zweig
Some Prefer Nettles : Junichiro Tanizaki
Retreat Without Song . Shahan Shahnoor
I Thought of Daisy . Edmund Wilson
Monica . Saunders Lewis
Insatiability . Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
The Return of Philip Latinowicz . Miroslav Krleza
The Forbidden Realm . J.J. Slauerhoff
Vipers' Tangle . François Mauriac
Cheese . Willem Elsschot
Man's Fate . André Malraux
The Street of Crocodiles . Bruno Schulz
On the Heights of Despair . Emil Cioran
The Bells of Basel . Louis Aragon
Untouchable . Mulk Raj Anand
War with the Newts . Karel Capek
Rickshaw Boy . Lao She
Ferdydurke . Witold Gombrowicz
The Blind Owl . Sadegh Hedayat
Alamut . Vladimir Bartol
On the Edge of Reason . Miroslav Krleza
The Man Who Loved Children . Christina Steed
Broad and Alien is the World . Ciro Alegría
The Harvesters . Cesare Pavese
Chess Story . Stefan Zweig
Joseph and His Brothers . Thomas Mann
Pippi Longstocking . Astrid Lindgren
Bosnian Chronicle . Ivo Andric
The Tin Flute . Gabrielle Roy
Andrea . Carmen Laforet
The Death of Virgil . Hermann Broch
Zorba the Greek . Nikos Kazantzakis
House in the Uplands . Erskine Caldwell
Midaq Alley . Naguib Mahfouz
Froth on the Daydream . Boris Vian
Journey to the Alcarria . Camilo José Cela
Ashes and Diamonds . Jerzy Andrzejewski
In the Heart of the Seas . Shmuel Yosef Agnon
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman . Tadeusz Borowski
The Guiltless . Hermann Broch
Barabbas . Pär Lagerkvist
The Hive . Camilo José Cela
Excellent Women . Barbara Pym
A Thousand Cranes . Yasunari Kawabata
The Lost Steps . Alejo Carpentier
The Hothouse . Wolfgang Koeppen
The Dark Child . Camara Laye
A Day in Spring . Ciril Kosmac
The Mandarins . Simone de Beauvoir
Death in Rome . Wolfgang Koeppen
The Sound of Waves . Yukio Mishima
The Unknown Soldier . Väinö Linna
The Burning Plain . Juan Rulfo
The Tree of Man . Patrick White
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands . João Guimarães Rosa
The Glass Bees . Ernst Jünger
The Manila Rope . Veijo Meri
The Deadbeats . Ward Ruyslinck
The Birds . Tarjei Vesaas
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon . Jorge Amado
The Guide . R.K. Narayan
Deep Rivers . José María Arguedas
Down Second Avenue . Ezekiel Mphahlele
The Magician of Lublin . Isaac Bashevis Singer
Halftime . Martin Walser
Bebo's Girl . Carlo Cassola
God's Bit of Wood . Ousmane Sembène
The Shipyard . Juan Carlos Onetti
No One Writes to the Colonel . Gabriel García Márquez
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy . Xosé Neira Vilas
Time of Silence . Luis Martín-Santos
The Death of Artemio Cruz . Carlos Fuentes
The Time of the Hero . Mario Vargas Llosa
The Third Wedding . Costas Taktsis
Dog Years . Günter Grass
Three Trapped Tigers . Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Back to Oegstgeest . Jan Wolkers
Closely Watched Trains . Bohumil Hrabal
Garden, Ashes . Danilo Kis
Death and the Dervish . Mesa Selimovic
Silence . Shusaku Endo
To Each His Own . Leonardo Sciascia
Marks of Identity . Juan Goytisolo
Miramar . Naguib Mahfouz
Z . Vassilis Vassilikos
The Manor . Isaac Bashevis Singer
Days of the Dolphin . Robert Merle
The Cathedral . Oles Honchar
Jacob the Liar . Jurek Becker
The Case Worker . György Konrád
Moscow Stations . Venedikt Yerofeev
Heartbreak Tango . Manuel Puig
Seasons of Migrations to the North . Tayeb Salih
Here's to You, Jesusa! . Elena Poniatowska
Fifth Business . Robertson Davies
Play It As It Lays . Joan Didion
A World for Julius . Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Cataract . Mykhaylo Osadchyl
Lives of Girls & Women . Alice Munro
The Twilight Years . Sawako Ariyoshi
The Optimist's Daughter . Eudora Welty
The Dispossessed . Ursula K. Le Guin
The Diviners . Margaret Laurence
The Port . Antun Soljan
The Commandant . Jessica Anderson
The Year of the Hare . Arto Paasilinna
Woman at Point Zero . Nawal El Saadawi
Blaming . Elizabeth Taylor
Kiss of the Spider Woman . Manuel Puig
Almost Transparent Blue . Ryu Murakami
The Engineer of the Human Soul . Josef Skvorecky
Quartet in Autumn . Barbara Pym
The Wars . Timothy Findley
The Beggar Maid . Alice Munro
Requiem for a Dream . Hubert Selby Jr.
The Back Room . Carmen Martín Gaite
So Long a Letter . Mariama Bâ
A Dry White Season . André Brink
Fool's Gold . Maro Douka
Southern Seas . Manuel Vásquez Montalbán
Clear Light of Day . Anita Desai
Smell of Sadness . Alfred Kossmann
The House with the Blind Glass Windows . Herbjørg Wassmo
Leaden Wings . Zhang Jie
The War at the End of the World . Mario Vargas Llosa
Couples, Passerby . Botho Strauss
The Book of Disquiet . Fernando Pessoa
Baltasar and Blimunda . José Saramago
The Christmas Oratorio . Göran Tunström
Fado Alexandrino . António Lobo Antunes
The Witness . Juan José Saer
Professor Martens' Departure . Jaan Kross
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel . Julián Ríos
Democracy . Joan Didion
The Young Man . Botho Strauss
Love Medicine . Louise Erdrich
Half of Man is Woman . Zhang Xianliang
Blood Meridian . Cormac McCarthy
Simon and the Oaks . Marianne Fredriksson
Annie John . Jamaica Kincaid
Ancestral Voices . Etienne van Heerden
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman . Andrzej Szczypiorski
Memory of Fire . Eduardo Galeano
Ballad for Georg Henig . Viktor Pasokov
Of Love and Shadows . Isabel Allende
All Souls . Javier Marías
Black Box . Amos Oz
Kitchen . Banana Yoshimoto
The First Garden . Anne Hébert
The Last World . Christoph Ransmayr
Paradise of the Blind . Duong Thu Huong
Gimmick! . Joost Zwagerman
Obabakoak . Bernardo Atzaga
Inland . Gerald Murnane
The Great Indian Novel . Shashi Tharoo
The Shadow Lines . Amitav Ghosh
The Daughter . Pavlos Matesis
The Laws . Connie Palman
Faceless Killers . Henning Mankell
Astradeni . Eugenia Fakinou
Memoirs of Rain . Sunetra Gupta
The Dumas Club . Arturo Pérez-Reverte
All the Pretty Horses . Cormac McCarthy
The Triple Mirror of the Self . Zulfikar Ghose
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture . Apostolos Doxiadis
Before Night Falls . Reinaldo Arenas
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll . Álvaro Mutis
Remembering Babylon . David Malouf
The Holder of the World . Bharati Mukherjee
The Twins . Tessa de Loo
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light . Ivan Klima
Deep River . Shusaku Endo
Our Lady of the Assassins . Fernando Vallejo
Troubling Love . Elena Ferrante
The Late-Night News . Petros Markaris
Santa Evita . Tomás Martínez
A Light Comedy . Eduardo Mendoza
Fall on Your Knees . Ann-Marie MacDonald
Margot and the Angels . Kristien Hemmerechts
Money to Burn . Ricardo Piglia
Crossfire . Miyabe Miyuki
The Heretic . Miguel Deliber
Dirty Havana Trilogy . Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Savage Detectives . Roberto Bolaño
Pavel's Letters . Monika Moron
In Search of Klingsor . Jorge Volpi
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender . Dubravka Ugresic
2000s
Bartleby and Co. . Enrique Vila-Matas
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay . Michael Chabon
I'm Not Scared . Niccolò Ammaniti
Soldiers of Salamis . Javier Cercas
Snow . Orhan Pamuk
The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri
Vernon God Little . DBC Pierre
The Successor . Ismail Kadare
Lady Number Thirteen . José Carlos Somoza
A Tale of Love and Darkness . Amos Oz
Your Face Tomorrow . Javier Marías
The Swarm . Frank Schätzing
Suite Française . Irène Némirovsky
The Book about Blanche and Marie . Per Olov Enquist
Small Island . Andrea Levy
2666 . Roberto Bolaño
The Line of Beauty . Alan Hollinghurst
The Accidental . Ali Smith
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian . Marina Lewycka
Measuring the World . Daniel Kehlmann
Mother's Milk . Edward S. Aubyn
Carry Me Down . M.J. Hyland
Against the Day . Thomas Pynchon
The Inheritance of Loss . Kiran Desai
The Kindly Ones . Jonathan Littell
Half of a Yellow Sun . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Mohsin Hamid
Falling Man . Don DeLillo
Animal's People . Indra Sinha

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