Monday 31 March 2008

1001 books you must read before you die

I've bolded all the books I have read, recently or in the past. Books in italic are the ones I have available to me one way or the other, but that haven't been read yet (not all are -or will be- books registered on bookcrossing.com).

Source: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/
(Peter Boxall's "1001 books you must read before you die", 2006 edition)

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
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
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
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
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 Drakulic

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
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
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
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
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
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
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

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
376. The French Lieutenan
t’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 Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle - Aleksandr 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 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 - Jorge 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Andrić
563. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
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 - W. Somerset Maugham
571. Transit - Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
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
611. The Years - Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis - David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa - Karen Blixen (Isak Dineson)
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
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
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
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 - W. 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 - Arnold Bennett
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 - 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 Goldsmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 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
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
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
854. Through the Looking Glass - 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
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
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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
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
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
903. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
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 Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933. Persuasion - Jane Austen

934. Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma - Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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
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 de Lafayatte
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
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