"2008 Books I Must/Have Read Before You Die (revision & expansion in progress)"

Submitted by thinandlight on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 12:39

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Hamlet - William Shakespeare (R/T)
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (R)
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (R/T)
The Ogre – Michael Tournier (R)
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar (r)
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett (R)
Paradise Lost - John Milton (R)
Tao Te Ching (r)
Baghavad Gita (R)
Metamorphoses – Ovid (R/T)
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (R)
Samson Agonistes - John Milton (R)
1645 Poems - John Milton (R)
Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (R/T)
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (R)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (R)
The Prelude - William Wordsworth (r)
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (R)
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (R)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (R/T)
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard (R)
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (R/T)
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne (R)
Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (R)
Defense of Poetry - Sir Philip Sidney (R)
Fairie Queene - Edmund Spenser (R)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (R)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (w)
The Jade Cabinet - Rikki Ducornet (R)
Macbeth - William Shakespeare (R)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (R)
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (R/T)
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin (R)
The Odyssey - Homer (tr. Fitzgerald) (R)
Plato - The Republic (R)
Plato - The Symposium (R)
Plato - Phaedrus (R/T)
Aristotle - Poetics (R)
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics (R)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (R/T)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (R/T)
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad (R/T)
Blow Up and other stories - Julio Cortazar (r)
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara (R)
2666 - Roberto Bolano (w)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil -
Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolano (r)
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (R/T)
Emma – Jane Austen (R)
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (R)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg (R)
ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound (R)
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times – Charles Dickens (R/T)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincy (r)
Walden – Henry David Thoreau (r)
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin (r)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (R/T)
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (R/T)
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (R/T)
Sophocles - The Oedipus Cycle (R)
The Plague – Albert Camus (R)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (R)
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West (R)
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes (r)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (R/T)
Middlemarch – George Eliot (R/T)
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover (R)
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (r)
The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James (R)
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (R)
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Demian - Herman Hesse (R)
Journey to the East - Herman Hesse (R)
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse (R)
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner (R)
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse - (R)
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (r)
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (R/T)
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (R)
What Maisie Knew – Henry James (R/T)
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria von Rilke (R)
Dread - Robert Steiner (R)
On Being Blue - William Gass (R)
The Tunnel - William Gass (w)
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson (R)
Candide – Voltaire (R)
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille (R)
The Story of O – Pauline Réage (R)
The Iliad - Homer (tr. Latimore) (R)
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (R/t)
Rise of the Novel - Ian Watt (R)
Spanking the Maid - Robert Coover (R)
The Fetishist - Michel Tournier (R)
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow (w)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (r)
Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges (r)
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger (r)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (R)
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (r)
Parsifal - Wolfram von Eschenbach (r)
Yvain - Chretien de Troyes (r)
Conningsby - Benjmain Disraeli (R)
Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli (R)
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott (R)
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (R/T)
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (R)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (R/T)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – +Robert Louis Stevenson (R/T)
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (R/T)
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (R/T)
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs (R/T)
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (R)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera (R)
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell (R/T)
Foe – J.M. Coetzee (R/T)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy (R)
Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano (r)
Nadja – André Breton (r)
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (R)
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (r)
A Minor Apocalypse - Tadeusz Konwicki (r)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (R/T)
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (R/T)
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez (R/T)
Wise Children – Angela Carter (r)
Metaphysics in the Midwest - Curtis White (R)
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding (r)
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding (R)
Utopia - Thomas More (R)
The Prince - Macchiavelli (r)
Kim – Rudyard Kipling (R/T)
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (r)
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (R/T)
The Immoralist – André Gide (R/T)
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson (R)
Pamela – Samuel Richardson (R)
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift (r)
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (R/T)
Roxana – Daniel Defoe (R/T)
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne (r)
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe (R/T)
Amelia – Henry Fielding (R)
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (R/T)
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift (r)
Dubliners - James Joyce (R)
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn (R/T)
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (R)
The Journal of Albion Moonlight - Kenneth Patchen
Euripedes - Complete Tragedies
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (w)
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner (w)
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov (R)
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill (R)
The Limits of State Action - Wilhelm von Humboldt (R)
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau (R)
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien (r)
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper (R/t)
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (R/T)
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (R/T)
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (R)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (R)
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley (R/T)
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (R)
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (R)
On the Aesthetic Education of Man - Friedrich Schiller (R)
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold (R)
Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle (r)
The Paschal Mystery - Hans Urs von Balthassar
Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere - Jurgen Habermas (R)
Between Facts and Norms - Jurgen Habermas
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke (R)
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine (R)
Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decameron - Boccaccio (r)
Sonnets - Petrarch (w)
The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot (R)
Sources of the Self - Charles Taylor (r)
Illuminations - Walter Benjamin (R)
Reflections - Walter Benjamin (R)
The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
One Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
Dialectic of Enlightenment - Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse (R)
The Order of Things - Michel Foucault (r)
History of Sexuality, vol 1 - Michel Foucault (R/T)
The Foucault Effect (R)
Writing and Difference - Jacques Derrida (R)
Of Grammatology - Jacques Derrida (R)
Ecrits - Jacques Lacan (R)
The Fall of Public Man - Richard Sennett (R)
Literary Theory - Terry Eagleton (R)
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (R/T)
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Lover – Marguerite Duras (r/w)
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (r)
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes (w)
G – John Berger (r)
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (w)
Young Törless – Robert Musil (w)
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (w)
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald (r)
Early Stories - John Updike
High Lonesome - Joyce Carol Oates
Self Help - Lorrie Moore
Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson (r)
Correction – Thomas Bernhard (r)
Honey, You've Been Dealt a Winning Hand - Marilyn Kizer
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
Final Harvest - Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Patterson - William Carlos Williams
Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams
The Farmer's Daughters - William Carlos Williams
A - Luis Zukofsky
62: A Model Kit - Julio Cortazar
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds - Julio Cortazar
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Julio Cortazar
The Winners - Julio Cortazar
A Manual for Manuel - Julio Cortazar
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Mario Vargas Llosa - Conversation in the Cathedral
John Cage - Silence
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (w)
Cane – Jean Toomer (w)
Wayne Booth - The Rhetoric of Fiction
Montaigne - Essays
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Information – Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
Possession – A.S. Byatt (r)
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Modern Painters - John Ruskin
Stones of Venice - John Ruskin
Unto this Last - John Ruskin
The Queen of the Air - John Ruskin
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie (w)
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews (r)
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard (r)
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
Sanctuary - William Faulkner (R)
Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
Light in August - William Faullner
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
Benjamin Constant - Adolphe
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard (r)
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (w)
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul (w)
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving
By Night in Chile - Robert Bolano
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec (w)
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard (r)
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter (w!)
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover (r)
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez (w)
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Edwin Mullhouse - Stephen Millhauser (w)
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (w)
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Moral Tales - Jules Laforgue
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
The Grasmere Journals - Dorothy Wordsworth
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Collector – John Fowles (w)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
The Ghost Sonata - August Strindberg
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (R)
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot (r)
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Victim – Saul Bellow
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry (w)
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Loving – Henry Green
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caught – Henry Green
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf (w)
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years – Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Waves – Virginia Woolf (w)
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
Imaginary Conversations - Thomas Landor
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Amok – Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (r)
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf (r)
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (r)
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
Tancred - Benjamin Disraeli
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdos
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
She – H. Rider Haggard (r)
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (r)
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard (r)
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (r)
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater (r)
Studies in the History of the Renaissance - Walter Pater
Appreciations - Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits - Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans (r)
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (r)
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert (r)
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
Red Gauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality - Sir Walter Scott
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
Wilhelm von Humboldt -
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Autobiography - Benvenuto Cellini
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
Collected Stories - Ernest Hemmingway
Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
Complete Stories - Katherine Anne Porter
Collected Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Richard Yates - Collected Stories
Mimesis - Eric Auerbach
Theory of the Novel - Gyorgy Lukacs (r)
History and Class Consciousness - Gyorgy Lukacs (r)
Studies in European Realism - Gyorgy Lukacs (r)
The Historical Novel - Gyorgy Lukacs (r)
Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Frederic Jameson (r)
The Political Unconsciousness - Frederic Jameson (r)
Marxism and Form - Frederic Jameson (r)
The Mirror and the Lamp - M.H. Abrams
Natural Supernatural - M.H. Abrams
A Humument - Tom Phillips
The Palm at the End of the Mind - Wallace Stevens
John Godfrey - Midnight on Your Left
Selected Poems - John Ashberry
Flow Chart - John Ashberry
As We Know - John Ashberry
Three Poems - John Ashberry
The Essential Neruda - Pablo Neruda
The Poetry of... - Pablo Neruda
The Holy Forest - Robin Blaser
Solution Passage - Clark Coolidge (r)
Content's Dream - Charles Bernstein (r)
The Complete Poetry - Cesar Vallejo
Cantos - Ezra Pound
A Season in Hell/the Drunken Boat - Arthur Rimbaud
Paris Spleen - Charles Baudelaire
Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria von Rilke
Poems of... - Paul Celan
The Book Names the Governor - Sir Thomas Elyot
The Book of the Courtier - Castiglione
Confessions - St. Augustine
City of God - St. Augustine
Pensees - Pascal
Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kant - Critique of Judgment
Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
The End of Sorrow - Eknath Eswaran
History of the Conquest of Peru - W.H. Prescott
Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno - Guaman Poma de Ayala
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso
Orlando Innamorato - Matteo Mariaa Boiardo
Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
The Histories - Herodotus
Satyricon - Petronius
The Golden Ass - Apuleius
Pharsalia - Lucan
The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pisan

Author Comments:

Ranking, expansion and revision of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel"
Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
ISBN 1-84403-417-8
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(w) = want to read soon
(r) = reading, started/never finished, or about to read
(R) = read closely or multiple times
(R/T) = read closely and taught

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Slothrop3307/30/2008

Interesting! You're expanding the list in interesting ways. What does the yellow highliting stand for?

thinandlight08/07/2008

Thanks. Yellow means "read in entirety." Feel free to direct me to missing must reads.

misscurly07/30/2008

I love the idea of expansion and critique!

Without remembering all 1001 original seletions, how can we know what you've added? And how far along the list have you ranked?

thinandlight08/07/2008

Thank you. You're right. I haven't documented my additions, and the ranking is very much just begun, but when I have a chance I'll use the "compare documents" function in Word to indicate where and how I've amplified.

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