Books read so far of the "1001 to read..." and what I thought about them.

  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
  • 2000s
  • 1.Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 2.Saturday – Ian McEwan
  • 3.On Beauty – Zadie Smith
  • 4.Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  • 5.Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  • 6.The Sea – John Banville
  • 7.The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  • *8.The Plot Against America – Philip Roth - Not worth my time!
  • 9.The Master – Colm Tóibín
  • 10.Vanishing Point – David Markson
  • 11.The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  • 12.Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  • 13.Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  • 14.Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • 15.The Colour – Rose Tremain
  • 16.Thursbitch – Alan Garner
  • 17.The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  • 18.What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
  • 19.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  • 20.Islands – Dan Sleigh
  • 21.Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
  • 22.London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
  • 23.Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
  • 24.Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  • 25.The Double – José Saramago
  • 26.Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • 27.Unless – Carol Shields
  • 28.Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
  • 29.The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
  • 30.That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
  • 31.In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
  • 32.Shroud – John Banville
  • *33.Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides - Loved it.
  • 34.Youth – J.M. Coetzee
  • 35.Dead Air – Iain Banks
  • 36.Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
  • 37.The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
  • 38.Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
  • 39.Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
  • 40.Platform – Michael Houellebecq - Extremely funny and extremely scary.
  • 41.Schooling – Heather McGowan
  • 42.Atonement – Ian McEwan
  • 43.The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  • 44.Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
  • 45.The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
  • 46.Fury – Salman Rushdie
  • 47.At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
  • 48.Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  • 49.Life of Pi – Yann Martel - Cute, but not all it was made up to be.
  • 50.The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
  • 51.An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
  • 52.The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
  • 53.Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
  • 54.White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  • 55.The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
  • 56.Under the Skin – Michel Faber
  • 57.Ignorance – Milan Kundera
  • 58.Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
  • 59.Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
  • 60.City of God – E.L. Doctorow
  • 61.How the Dead Live – Will Self
  • 62.The Human Stain – Philip Roth
  • 63.The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  • 64.After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
  • 65.Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
  • 66.Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
  • 67.House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
  • 68.Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
  • 69.Pastoralia – George Saunders
  • 1900s
  • 70.Timbuktu – Paul Auster
  • 71.The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  • 72.Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  • 73.As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  • 74.Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
  • 75.Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  • 76.The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
  • 77.Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
  • 78.Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
  • 79.Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
  • 80.Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
  • 81.Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
  • 82.Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
  • 83.All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  • 84.The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  • 85.Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  • 86.The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  • 87.Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
  • 88.Another World – Pat Barker
  • 89.The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  • 90.Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  • 91.Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  • 92.The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  • 93.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden - How did that make it onto this list?
  • 94.Great Apes – Will Self
  • 95.Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  • 96.Underworld – Don DeLillo
  • 97.Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  • 98.The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  • 99.American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  • 100.The Untouchable – John Banville
  • 101.Silk – Alessandro Baricco
  • 102.Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  • 103.Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  • 104.Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  • 105.The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
  • 106.Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
  • 107.Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  • 108.The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
  • 109.Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
  • 110.The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 111.Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  • 112.The Information – Martin Amis
  • 113.The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
  • 114.Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
  • 115.The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
  • 116.The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  • 117.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  • 118.Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
  • 119.The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  • 120.Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
  • 121.The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
  • 122.Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
  • 123.Land – Park Kyong-ni
  • 124.The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
  • 125.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  • 126.Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  • 127.City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  • 128.How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  • 129.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
  • 130.Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
  • 131.Disappearance – David Dabydeen
  • 132.The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
  • 133.The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  • 134.Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  • 135.Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  • 136.Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
  • 137.Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  • 138.Complicity – Iain Banks
  • 139.On Love – Alain de Botton
  • 140.What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  • 141.A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  • 142.The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  • 143.The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides - Chilling, yet, oh so beautiful.
  • 144.The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
  • 145.The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  • 146.The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  • 147.The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • 148.Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  • 149.The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  • 150.A Heart So White – Javier Marias
  • 151.Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  • 152.Indigo – Marina Warner
  • 153.The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  • 154.Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  • 155.Jazz – Toni Morrison
  • 156.The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  • 157.Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg - Can't help but loving his take on the language, I pitty those who will ever only know him translated.
  • 158.The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  • 159.Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  • 160.The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  • 161.Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • 162.Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
  • 163.Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
  • 164.Arcadia – Jim Crace
  • 165.Wild Swans – Jung Chang
  • 166.American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  • 167.Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
  • 168.Mao II – Don DeLillo
  • 169.Typical – Padgett Powell
  • 170.Regeneration – Pat Barker
  • 171.Downriver – Iain Sinclair
  • 172.Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
  • 173.Wise Children – Angela Carter
  • 174.Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  • 175.Amongst Women – John McGahern
  • 176.Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  • 177.Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  • 178.Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  • 179.The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
  • 180.The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  • 181.A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  • 182.Like Life – Lorrie Moore
  • 183.Possession – A.S. Byatt
  • 184.The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  • 185.The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
  • 186.A Disaffection – James Kelman
  • 187.Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  • 188.Moon Palace – Paul Auster
  • 189.Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  • 190.Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 191.The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  • 192.The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  • 193.The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  • 194.The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  • 195.Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  • 196.A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  • 197.London Fields – Martin Amis
  • 198.The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  • 199.Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  • 200.Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  • 201.The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  • 202.Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  • 203.The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  • 204.The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  • 205.Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  • 206.Libra – Don DeLillo
  • 207.The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  • 208.Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • 209.The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  • 210.Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  • 211.The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
  • 212.The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  • 213.The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  • 214.The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
  • 215.The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  • 216.The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  • 217.Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  • 218.The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  • 219.The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster - Is on my bedside-table right now.
  • 220.World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • 221.Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
  • 222.The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  • 223.Beloved – Toni Morrison
  • 224.Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  • 225.Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • 226.Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
  • 227.Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  • 228.The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  • 229.Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
  • 230.An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 231.Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  • 232.Foe – J.M. Coetzee
  • 233.The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  • 234.Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  • 235.The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
  • 236.Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  • 237.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  • 238.The Cider House Rules – John Irving - Can't even count how many times I've read it. Outstanding
  • 239.A Maggot – John Fowles
  • 240.Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  • 241.Contact – Carl Sagan
  • 242.The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood - I don't think I'll ever be completely finished with this one.
  • 243.Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  • 244.Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  • 245.White Noise – Don DeLillo
  • 246.Queer – William Burroughs
  • 247.Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  • 248.Legend – David Gemmell
  • 249.Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
  • 250.The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
  • 251.The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  • 252.The Lover – Marguerite Duras
  • 253.Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  • 254.The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  • 255.Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  • 256.The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  • 257.Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
  • 258.Neuromancer – William Gibson
  • 259.Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  • 260.Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
  • 261.Shame – Salman Rushdie
  • 262.Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  • 263.Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
  • 264.La Brava – Elmore Leonard
  • 265.Waterland – Graham Swift
  • 266.The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
  • 267.The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
  • 268.The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  • 269.The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
  • 270.If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  • 271.A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  • 272.The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • 273.Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  • 274.A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 275.Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  • 276.The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende - Very captivating.
  • 277.The Newton Letter – John Banville
  • 278.On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
  • 279.Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  • 280.The Names – Don DeLillo
  • 281.Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  • 282.Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  • 283.The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  • 284.July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  • 285.Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  • 286.Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  • 287.Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
  • 288.Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  • 289.Rites of Passage – William Golding
  • 290.Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  • 291.Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  • 292.City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  • 293.The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  • 294.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  • 295.Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  • 296.Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  • 297.A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  • 298.Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  • 299.The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  • 300.If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
  • 301.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • 302.The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  • 303.The World According to Garp – John Irving
  • 304.Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
  • 305.The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  • 306.The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  • 307.Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  • 308.The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  • 309.In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
  • 310.The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  • 311.Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
  • 312.The Shining – Stephen King
  • 313.Dispatches – Michael Herr
  • 314.Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • 315.Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  • 316.The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  • 317.The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
  • 318.Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
  • 319.The Public Burning – Robert Coover
  • 320.Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  • 321.Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  • 322.Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
  • 323.Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  • 324.Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
  • 325.W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
  • 326.A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  • 327.Grimus – Salman Rushdie
  • 328.The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
  • 329.Fateless – Imre Kertész
  • 330.Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
  • 331.High Rise – J.G. Ballard
  • 332.Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  • 333.Dead Babies – Martin Amis
  • 334.Correction – Thomas Bernhard
  • 335.Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  • 336.The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
  • 337.Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
  • 338.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
  • 339.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
  • 340.Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • 341.Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  • 342.A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  • 343.The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
  • 344.The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  • 345.Crash – J.G. Ballard
  • 346.The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  • 347.Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  • 348.The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
  • 349.Sula – Toni Morrison
  • 350.Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  • 351.The Breast – Philip Roth
  • 352.The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  • 353.G – John Berger
  • 354.Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  • 355.House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  • 356.In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
  • 357.The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
  • 358.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  • 359.Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
  • 360.The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
  • 361.Rabbit Redux – John Updike
  • 362.The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
  • 363.The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
  • 364.The Ogre – Michael Tournier
  • 365.The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • 366.Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
  • 367.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • 368.Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
  • 369.Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  • 370.Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
  • 371.The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
  • 372.Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  • 373.Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
  • 374.Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  • 375.Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • 376.The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  • 377.The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
  • 378.Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  • 379.The Godfather – Mario Puzo
  • 380.Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  • 381.Them – Joyce Carol Oates
  • 382.A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
  • 383.Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 384.Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
  • 385.The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
  • 386.Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
  • 387.Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • 388.The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • 389.2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  • 390.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  • 391.Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
  • 392.The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
  • 393.In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
  • 394.A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  • 395.The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  • 396.Chocky – John Wyndham
  • 397.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  • 398.The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  • 399.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  • 400.The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  • 401.Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  • 402.The Joke – Milan Kundera
  • 403.No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  • 404.The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  • 405.A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
  • 406.The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
  • 407.Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  • 408.In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • 409.The Magus – John Fowles
  • 410.The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
  • 411.Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  • 412.Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  • 413.The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  • 414.Things – Georges Perec
  • 415.The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • 416.August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  • 417.God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  • 418.Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  • 419.The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  • 420.Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  • 421.Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
  • 422.Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  • 423.Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  • 424.The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  • 425.Herzog – Saul Bellow
  • 426.V. – Thomas Pynchon
  • 427.Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • 428.The Graduate – Charles Webb
  • 429.Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  • 430.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
  • 431.The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  • 432.Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
  • 433.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • 434.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • 435.The Collector – John Fowles
  • 436.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  • 437.A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  • 438.Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  • 439.The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  • 440.The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  • 441.Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  • 442.Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
  • 443.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  • 444.Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  • 445.Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  • 446.A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  • 447.Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  • 448.Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  • 449.Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
  • 450.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  • 451.Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  • 452.The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  • 453.How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  • 454.Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  • 455.The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
  • 456.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - How can praise ever do it justice.
  • 457.Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  • 458.Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
  • 459.Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  • 460.Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  • 461.Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  • 462.The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  • 463.Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
  • 464.Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  • 465.Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  • 466.Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  • 467.Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  • 468.The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • 469.Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  • 470.A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  • 471.The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  • 472.Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  • 473.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  • 474.Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
  • 475.Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  • 476.The End of the Road – John Barth
  • 477.The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  • 478.The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  • 479.Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • 480.Voss – Patrick White
  • 481.The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
  • 482.Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  • 483.Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  • 484.On the Road – Jack Kerouac - Couldn't get through, maybe someday I'll try again.
  • 485.Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  • 486.Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  • 487.The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  • 488.Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  • 489.Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  • 490.The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  • 491.The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
  • 492.Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  • 493.The Floating Opera – John Barth
  • 494.The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 495.The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
  • 496.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov - Written so beautifully, that you do not notice what a brutal stiry it is.
  • 497.A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 498.The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  • 499.The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  • 500.The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  • 501.The Recognitions – William Gaddis
  • 502.The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  • 503.Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
  • 504.I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  • 505.Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
  • 506.The Story of O – Pauline Réage
  • 507.A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
  • 508.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • 509.Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  • 510.The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  • 511.The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  • 512.The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  • 513.Watt – Samuel Beckett
  • 514.Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
  • 515.Junkie – William Burroughs
  • 516.The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  • 517.Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  • 518.Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  • 519.The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • 520.Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • 521.The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • 522.Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
  • 523.The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  • 524.Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  • 525.Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
  • 526.Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  • 527.Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • 528.The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
  • 529.The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger - What's the big deal?
  • 530.The Rebel – Albert Camus
  • 531.Molloy – Samuel Beckett
  • 532.The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  • 533.The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
  • 534.The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
  • 535.The Third Man – Graham Greene
  • 536.The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
  • 537.Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  • 538.The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
  • 539.I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  • 540.The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  • 541.The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  • 542.Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
  • 543.The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  • 544.The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 545.Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  • 546.The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  • 547.Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell - I stayed up all night reading, just couldn't put it down.
  • 548.All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  • 549.Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
  • 550.Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  • 551.The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  • 552.Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  • 553.Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  • 554.The Victim – Saul Bellow
  • 555.Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  • 556.If This Is a Man – Primo Levi - If you haven't read it, you have robbed yourself of one of the greatest books you'll ever come across.
  • 557.Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  • 558.The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
  • 559.The Plague – Albert Camus
  • 560.Back – Henry Green
  • 561.Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
  • 562.The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  • 563.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  • 564.Animal Farm – George Orwell - A modern propechy.
  • 565.Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  • 566.The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  • 567.Loving – Henry Green
  • 568.Arcanum 17 – André Breton
  • 569.Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
  • 570.The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
  • 571.Transit – Anna Seghers
  • 572.Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  • 573.Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
  • 574.The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Cute, but remember thinking "Was that what all the fuss was aabout?", at 13!
  • 575.Caught – Henry Green
  • 576.The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
  • 577.Embers – Sandor Marai
  • 578.Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
  • 579.The Outsider – Albert Camus
  • 580.In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  • 581.The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
  • 582.The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
  • 583.Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  • 584.Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  • 585.The Hamlet – William Faulkner
  • 586.Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
  • 587.For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  • 588.Native Son – Richard Wright
  • 589.The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
  • 590.The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
  • 591.Party Going – Henry Green
  • 592.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • 593.Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  • 594.At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  • 595.Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  • 596.Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  • 597.Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  • 598.Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
  • 599.The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  • 600.After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
  • 601.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  • 602.Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 603.Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier - Just bought it, can't wait to read it
  • 604.Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
  • 605.Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  • 606.U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
  • 607.Murphy – Samuel Beckett
  • 608.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  • 609.Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • 610.The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien - How big can a yawn get?
  • 611.The Years – Virginia Woolf
  • 612.In Parenthesis – David Jones
  • 613.The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
  • 614.Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) - Another of those "you will never be done with it"-books.
  • 615.To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  • 616.Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • 617.Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
  • 618.The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
  • 619.Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell - Liked it alot, wich I did not expect. A curius thing to completely dislike the maincharacter and still like the book.
  • 620.Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  • 621.Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  • 622.Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  • 623.At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  • 624.Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
  • 625.Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  • 626.Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  • 627.The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
  • 628.They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
  • 629.The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 630.England Made Me – Graham Greene
  • 631.Burmese Days – George Orwell
  • 632.The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • 633.Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
  • 634.Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  • 635.The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
  • 636.Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  • 637.A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  • 638.Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 639.Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  • 640.Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
  • 641.Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  • 642.Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • 643.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  • 644.Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
  • 645.A Day Off – Storm Jameson
  • 646.The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  • 647.A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • 648.Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • 649.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • 650.Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  • 651.To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 652.The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  • 653.The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  • 654.The Waves – Virginia Woolf
  • 655.The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  • 656.Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
  • 657.The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
  • 658.Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  • 659.Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
  • 660.The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  • 661.Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  • 662.Passing – Nella Larsen
  • 663.A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  • 664.Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
  • 665.Living – Henry Green
  • 666.The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  • 667.All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  • 668.Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  • 669.The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  • 670.Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
  • 671.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  • 672.Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  • 673.Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  • 674.Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  • 675.Orlando – Virginia Woolf
  • 676.Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
  • 677.The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  • 678.The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
  • 679.Quartet – Jean Rhys
  • 680.Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  • 681.Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  • 682.Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
  • 683.Nadja – André Breton
  • 684.Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  • 685.Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
  • 686.To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf - A luxurious slow read.
  • 687.Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
  • 688.Amerika – Franz Kafka
  • 689.The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • 690.Blindness – Henry Green
  • 691.The Castle – Franz Kafka
  • 692.The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  • 693.The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
  • 694.One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  • 695.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  • 696.The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
  • 697.Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
  • 698.Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • 699.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 700.The Counterfeiters – André Gide
  • 701.The Trial – Franz Kafka
  • 702.The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  • 703.The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  • 704.Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
  • 705.The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  • 706.The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  • 707.We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • 708.A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  • 709.The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  • 710.Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  • 711.Cane – Jean Toomer
  • 712.Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
  • 713.Amok – Stefan Zweig
  • 714.The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  • 715.The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  • 716.Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  • 717.Siddhartha – Herman Hesse - A fine little book.
  • 718.The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  • 719.Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  • 720.The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
  • 721.Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
  • 722.Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  • 723.Ulysses – James Joyce
  • 724.The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  • 725.Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
  • 726.The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  • 727.Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  • 728.Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  • 729.Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  • 730.Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
  • 731.The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  • 732.The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
  • 733.Summer – Edith Wharton
  • 734.Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
  • 735.Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
  • 736.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  • 737.Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  • 738.Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  • 739.The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
  • 740.The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
  • 741.Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  • 742.The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
  • 743.The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
  • 744.Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  • 745.Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
  • 746.Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
  • 747.Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • 748.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  • 749.Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  • 750.Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
  • 751.The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  • 752.Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  • 753.Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  • 754.Howards End – E.M. Forster
  • 755.Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
  • 756.Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
  • 757.Martin Eden – Jack London
  • 758.Strait is the Gate – André Gide
  • 759.Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
  • 760.The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
  • 761.A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  • 762.The Iron Heel – Jack London
  • 763.The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  • 764.The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  • 765.Mother – Maxim Gorky
  • 766.The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  • 767.The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  • 768.Young Törless – Robert Musil
  • 769.The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
  • 770.The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  • 771.Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  • 772.Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
  • 773.Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  • 774.Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
  • 775.The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  • 776.The Ambassadors – Henry James
  • 777.The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  • 778.The Immoralist – André Gide
  • 779.The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  • 780.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • 781.The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 782.Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
  • 783.Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  • 784.Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  • 785.Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  • 1800s
  • 786.Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
  • 787.The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
  • 788.The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  • 789.The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  • 790.The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
  • 791.The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  • 792.What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  • 793.Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
  • 794.Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • 795.Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • 796.The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  • 797.The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  • 798.Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
  • 799.Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  • 800.The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
  • 801.The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • 802.Born in Exile – George Gissing
  • 803.Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  • 804.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 805.News from Nowhere – William Morris
  • 806.New Grub Street – George Gissing
  • 807.Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
  • 808.Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  • 809.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  • 810.The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
  • 811.La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
  • 812.By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
  • 813.Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  • 814.The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 815.Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
  • 816.Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
  • 817.The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
  • 818.The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
  • 819.She – H. Rider Haggard
  • 820.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 821.The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  • 822.Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 823.King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
  • 824.Germinal – Émile Zola
  • 825.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  • 826.Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
  • 827.Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
  • 828.Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • 829.The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  • 830.A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
  • 831.Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson - Loved it as a kid, have yet to re-connect with this old friend.
  • 832.The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
  • 833.The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  • 834.Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  • 835.Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
  • 836.Nana – Émile Zola
  • 837.The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 838.The Red Room – August Strindberg
  • 839.Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  • 840.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • 841.Drunkard – Émile Zola
  • 842.Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
  • 843.Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
  • 844.The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
  • 845.The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
  • 846.Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  • 847.The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
  • 848.Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne - Another childhood favorite, that waits to be rediscovered.
  • 849.In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
  • 850.The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 851.Erewhon – Samuel Butler
  • 852.Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
  • 853.Middlemarch – George Eliot - I got halfway into the second chapter, I think it will be summer-reading, it clearly takes time to get into.
  • 854.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  • 855.King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
  • 856.He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
  • 857.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • 858.Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
  • 859.Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
  • 860.Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
  • 861.The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 862.The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  • 863.Little Women – Louisa May Alcott - How can you judge an old friend? One of those books, that is simply a part of me.
  • 864.Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
  • 865.The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
  • 866.Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  • 867.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky - Frightening and brilliant
  • 868.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll - To weird for my childhood self, haven't read it since.
  • 869.Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  • 870.Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
  • 871.Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 872.The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
  • 873.Les Misérables – Victor Hugo - The first "grown-up book" I read, I still cheris it.
  • 874.Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
  • 875.Silas Marner – George Eliot
  • 876.Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • 877.On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
  • 878.Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
  • 879.The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  • 880.The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • 881.The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 882.Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  • 883.A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • 884.Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
  • 885.Adam Bede – George Eliot
  • 886.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  • 887.North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 888.Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  • 889.Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • 890.Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  • 891.Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  • 892.Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 893.Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe - Only read a "watered-down" children's version, sorry!
  • 894.The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 895.The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 896.Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  • 897.The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 898.David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • 899.Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  • 900.Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 901.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  • 902.Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë - Has some great passages, opened my eyes to Gothic litterrture.
  • 903.Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  • 904.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë - Loved it as a child, find it a little sob-sob now.
  • 905.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 906.The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  • 907.La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
  • 908.The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  • 909.The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  • 910.Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
  • 911.The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  • 912.Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
  • 913.A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  • 914.Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
  • 915.The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
  • 916.The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  • 917.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  • 918.Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  • 919.The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
  • 920.Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
  • 921.Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
  • 922.The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  • 923.The Red and the Black – Stendhal
  • 924.The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
  • 925.Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  • 926.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
  • 927.The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
  • 928.Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
  • 929.The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
  • 930.Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  • 931.Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • 932.Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  • 933.Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • 934.Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
  • 935.Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
  • 936.Emma – Jane Austen - Just the thought of it makes me smile, it is so charming.
  • 937.Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  • 938.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen - Again, just the thought makes me laugh, love mrs. Bennet.
  • 939.The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
  • 940.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  • 941.Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 942.Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
  • 1700s
  • 943.Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
  • 944.The Nun – Denis Diderot
  • 945.Camilla – Fanny Burney
  • 946.The Monk – M.G. Lewis
  • 947.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 948.The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  • 949.The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
  • 950.The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
  • 951.Justine – Marquis de Sade
  • 952.Vathek – William Beckford
  • 953.The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
  • 954.Cecilia – Fanny Burney
  • 955.Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 956.Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • 957.Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 958.Evelina – Fanny Burney
  • 959.The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 960.Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
  • 961.The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
  • 962.A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
  • 963.Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  • 964.The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
  • 965.The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  • 966.Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 967.Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
  • 968.Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 969.Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
  • 970.Candide – Voltaire
  • 971.The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
  • 972.Amelia – Henry Fielding
  • 973.Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
  • 974.Fanny Hill – John Cleland - A terrible story, but not all bad.
  • 975.Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  • 976.Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
  • 977.Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
  • 978.Pamela – Samuel Richardson
  • 979.Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
  • 980.Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  • 981.Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
  • 982.A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  • 983.Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  • 984.Roxana – Daniel Defoe
  • 985.Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  • 986.Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
  • 987.Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  • 988.A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
  • Pre-1700
  • 989.Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
  • 990.The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  • 991.The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan - Very interesting, especially because of all the qoutes you start noticing in other books.
  • 992.Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • 993.The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
  • 994.Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
  • 995.Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
  • 996.The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
  • 997.The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
  • 998.Aithiopika – Heliodorus
  • 999.Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
  • 1000.Metamorphoses – Ovid
  • 1001.Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus - I was never one for fables and having to read them in Latin, did not make my love any deeper.