1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
2000's
47. At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill
48. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
1.
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
49. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2.
Saturday, Ian McEwan
50. The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
3.
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
51. An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
4.
Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
52. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
5.
Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
6.
The Sea, John Banvil e
54. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
7.
The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
55. The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda
8.
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
56. Under the Skin, Michel Faber
9.
The Master, Colm Toibin
57. Ignorance, Milan Kundera
10. Vanishing Point, David Markson
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
11. The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd
59. Celestial Harmonies, Peter Esterhazy
12. Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair
60. City of God, E.L. Doctorow
13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchel
61. How the Dead Live, Will Self
14. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
62. The Human Stain, Philip Roth
15. The Colour, Rose Tremain
63. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
16. Thursbitch, Alan Garner
64. After the Quake, Haruki Marakami
17. The Light of Day, Graham Swift
65. Smal Remedies, Shashi Deshpande
18. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
66. Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
67. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Haddon
68. Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
20. Islands, Dan Sleigh
69. Pastoralia, George Saunders
21. Elizabeth Costel o, J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
1900's
23. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
24.
70.

Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

Timbuktu, Paul Auster
25.
71.

The Double, Jose Saramago

The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
26.
72.

Everything is Il uminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
27.
73.

Unless, Carol Shields

As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakuli
28. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
74. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
29.
75.

The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor

Fear and Trembling, Amelie Nothomb
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
31.
77.

In the Forest, Edna O'Brien

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
32. Shroud, John Banvil e
78. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
33.
79.

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Elementary Particles, Michel Houel ebecq
34. Youth, J.M. Coetzee
80. Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
35.
81.

Dead Air, Iain Banks

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
36. Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
82. Cloudsplitter, Russel Banks
37.
83.

The Book of Il usions, Paul Auster

Al Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
38. Gabriel's Gift, Hanif Kureishi
84. The Talk of the Town, Ardal O'Hanlon
39.
85.

Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald

Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
40. Platform, Michael Houel ebecq
86. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
41.
87.

Schooling, Heather McGowan

Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
42. Atonement, Ian McEwan
88. Another World, Pat Barker
43.
89.

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

The Hours, Michael Cunningham
44. Don't Move, Margaret Mazzantini
90. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
45.
91.

The Body Artist, Don DeLillo

Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
46. Fury, Salman Rushdie
92. The God of Smal Things, Arundhati Roy

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93. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
144. The House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
94. Great Apes, Will Self
145. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
95. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
146. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
96. Underworld, Don DeLillo
147. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
97. Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
148. Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Ozdamar
98. The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin
149. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
150. A Heart So White, Javier Marias
100. The Untouchable, John Banvil e
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
101. Silk, Alessandro Baricco
152. Indigo, Marina Warner
102. Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
153. The Crow Road, Iain Banks
103. Hal ucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker
154. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
104. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
155. Jazz, Toni Morrison
105. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
156. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
106. Forever a Stranger, Hel a Haasse
157. Smil a's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
107. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
158. The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
108. The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin
159. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
109. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
160. The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin
110. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
161. Asphodel, Hilda Doolittle
111. Movern Cal ar, Alan Warner
162. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
112. The Information, Martin Amis
163. Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
113. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
164. Arcadia, Jim Crace
114. Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth
165. Wild Swans, Jung Chang
115. The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
166. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
116. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
167. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
117. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
168. Mao II, Don DeLil o
118. Love's Work, Gillian Rose
169. Typical, Padgett Powel
119. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis
170. Regeneration, Pat Barker
120. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
171. Downriver, Iain Sinclair
121. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
172. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
122. Whatever, Michel Houel ebecq
173. Wise Children, Angela Carter
123. Land, Park Kyong-ni
174. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
124. The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
175. Amongst Women, John McGahern
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
176. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
177. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
127. City Sister Silver, Jachym Topol
178. Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
128. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
179. The Music of Chance, Paul Auster
129. Captain Corel i's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
180. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
130. Felicia's Journey, William Trevor
181. A Home at the End of the World, Michael
131. Disappearance, David Dabydeen
Cunningham
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
182. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
133. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
183. Possession, A.S. Byatt
134. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
184. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
135. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
185. The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
136. Looking for the Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy
186. A Disaffection, James Kelman
137. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
187. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
138. Complicity, Iain Banks
188. Moon Palace, Paul Auster
139. On Love, Alain de Botton
189. Bil y Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
140. What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
190. Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
141. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
191. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
142. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
192. The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
143. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway

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194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago
244. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
195. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
245. White Noise, Don DeLil o
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
246. Queer, William Burroughs
197. London Fields, Martin Amis
247. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
198. The Book of Evidence, John Banvil e
248. Legend, David Gemmel
199. Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
249. Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavi
200. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
250. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose
202. Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson
Saramago
203. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
252. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
204. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
253. Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
205. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
254. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
206. Libra, Don DeLil o
255. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
207. The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
208. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
257. Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
258. Neuromancer, William Gibson
210. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas
259. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
Adams
260. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
211. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
261. Shame, Salman Rushdie
212. The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke
262. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
213. The Black Dahlia, James El roy
263. Fools of Fortune, William Trevor
214. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
264. La Brava, Elmore Leonard
215. The Pigeon, Patrick Suskind
265. Waterland, Graham Swift
216. The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
266. The Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
217. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
267. The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
268. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
219. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
269. The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus
220. World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
270. If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
221. Enigma of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
271. A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White
222. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
272. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
223. Beloved, Toni Morrison
273. Wittgenstein's Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
224. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
274. A Pale View of Hil s, Kazuo Ishiguro
225. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
275. Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
226. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
276. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
227. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
277. The Newton Letter, John Banvil e
228. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
278. On the Black Hil , Bruce Chatwin
229. Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt
279. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
230. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
280. The Names, Don DeLillo
231. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
281. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
232. Foe, J.M. Coetzee
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
233. The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi
283. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
234. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
284. July's People, Nadine Gordimer
235. The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann
285. Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
236. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
286. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
287. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
238. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
288. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
239. A Maggot, John Fowles
289. Rites of Passage, William Golding
240. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
290. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
241. Contact, Carl Sagan
291. Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
242. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
292. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
243. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
293. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

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294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan
343. The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
Kundera
344. The Castle of Crossed Destines, Italo Calvino
295. Smiley's People, John Le Carre
345. Crash, J.G. Ballard
296. Shikasta, Doris Lessing
346. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
297. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
347. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
298. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
348. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
299. The Safety Net, Heinrich Boll
349. Sula, Toni Morrison
300. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
350. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas
351. The Breast, Philip Roth
Adams
352. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
302. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
353. G, John Berger
303. The World According to Garp, John Irving
354. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
304. Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec
355. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
305. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
356. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
306. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
357. The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
307. Yes, Thomas Bernhard
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S.
308. The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt
Thompson
309. In the Heart of the Country, J.M. Coetzee
359. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Boll
310. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
360. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
311. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
361. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
312. The Shining, Stephen King
362. The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
313. Dispatches, Michael Herr
363. The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
314. Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
364. The Ogre, Michael Tournier
315. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
365. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
366. Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
317. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
318. Ratner's Star, Don DeLil o
368. Mercier et Camier, Samuel Becket
319. The Public Burning, Robert Coover
369. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
320. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
370. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
321. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
371. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
322. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
372. Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado
323. Patterns of Childhood, Christa Wolf
373. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover
324. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
374. Blind Man With a Pistol, Chester Hines
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec
375. Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
326. A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powel
376. The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
327. Grimus, Salman Rushdie
377. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
328. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
378. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
329. Fateless, Imre Kertesz
379. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
330. Wil ard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
380. Ada, Vladimir Nabokov
331. High Rise, J.G. Bal ard
381. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
332. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
382. A Void/Avoid, Georges Perec
333. Dead Babies, Martin Amis
383. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
334. Correction, Thomas Bernhard
384. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
335. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
385. The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
336. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
386. Bel e du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
337. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
387. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boll
388. The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
340. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
341. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid,
342. A Question of Power, Bessie Head
Malcolm Lowry

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392. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
440. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
441. Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
394. A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines
442. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O'Brien
395. The Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
396. Chocky, John Wyndham
444. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
445. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
398. The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
446. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia
447. Faces in the Water, Janet Frame
Marquez
448. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
400. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
449. Cat and Mouse, Gunter Grass
401. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
402. The Joke, Milan Kundera
451. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
403. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
452. The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O'Connor
404. The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
453. How It Is, Samuel Beckett
405. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
454. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
406. The Birds Fal Down, Rebecca West
455. The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien
407. Trawl, B.S. Johnson
456. To Kil a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
408. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
457. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
409. The Magus, John Fowles
458. Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary
410. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
459. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
411. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
460. Bil y Liar, Keith Waterhouse
412. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
461. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
413. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
462. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
414. Things, Georges Perec
463. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
415. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
464. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bel ow
416. August is a Wicked Month, Edna O'Brien
465. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
466. Bil iards at Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Boll
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery
467. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
O'Connor
468. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
419. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo
420. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Oe
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
470. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
422. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
471. The Bitter Glass, Eilis Dillon
423. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
472. Things Fal Apart, Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
425. Herzog, Saul Bel ow
474. Mrs. `Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
426. V., Thomas Pynchon
475. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
427. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
476. The End of the Road, John Barth
428. The Graduate, Charles Webb
477. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
429. Manon des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
478. The Bel , Iris Murdoch
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
479. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
431. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
480. Voss, Patrick White
432. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
481. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
433. The Bel Jar, Sylvia Plath
482. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr
483. Homo Faber, Max Frisch
Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
484. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
435. The Col ector, John Fowles
485. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
486. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
437. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
487. The Wonderful "O", James Thurber
438. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
488. Justine, Lawrence Durrel
439. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
489. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

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490. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon
491. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
Vestdijk
492. Seize the Day, Saul Bel ow
542. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
493. The Floating Opera, John Barth
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
494. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
544. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
545. Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
496. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
546. The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
497. A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
498. The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett
548. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
499. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
549. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
500. The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
550. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
501. The Recognitions, William Gaddis
551. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
502. The Ragazzi , Pier Paulo Pasolini
552. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
503. Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
553. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
504. I'm Not Stil er, Max Frisch
554. The Victim, Saul Bel ow
505. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
555. Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
506. The Story of O, Pauline Reage
556. If This Is a Man, Primo Levi
507. A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia
557. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
508. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino
509. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
559. The Plague, Albert Camus
510. The Go-Between , L.P. Hartley
560. Back, Henry Green
511. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
561. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
512. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
562. The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andri
513. Watt, Samuel Beckett
563. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
514. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
564. Animal Farm, George Orwell
515. Junkie, William Burroughs
565. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
516. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
566. The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
517. Go Tel It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
567. Loving, Henry Green
518. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
568. Arcanum 17, Andre Breton
519. The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Durrenmatt
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
520. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
570. The Razor's Edge, William Somerset Maugham
521. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
571. Transit, Anna Seghers
522. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
572. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
523. The Kil er Inside Me, Jim Thompson
573. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
524. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
574. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
525. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
575. Caught, Henry Green
526. Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
576. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
527. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
577. Embers, Sandor Marai
528. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
578. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
529. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
579. The Outsider, Albert Camus
530. The Rebel, Albert Camus
580. In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
531. Mol oy, Samuel Beckett
581. The Poor Mouth, Flann O'Brien
532. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
582. The Living and the Dead, Patrick White
533. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
583. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz
584. Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
535. The Third Man, Graham Greene
585. The Hamlet, William Faulkner
536. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
586. Farewel My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
537. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
587. For Whom the Bel Tol s, Ernest Hemingway
538. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
588. Native Son, Richard Wright
539. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
589. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
540. The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
590. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati

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591. Party Going, Henry Green
641. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
592. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
642. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
593. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude
594. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
Stein
595. Coming Up for Air, George Orwell
644. Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
596. Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
645. A Day Off, Storm Jameson
597. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
646. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
598. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon
599. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
648. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand
600. After the Death of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend
Celine
Warner
649. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson
650. Cold Comfort Farm, Stel a Gibbons
602. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
651. To the North, Elizabeth Bowen
603. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
652. The Thin Man, Dashiel Hammett
604. Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler
653. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
605. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
654. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
606. U.S.A., John Dos Passos
655. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
607. Murphy, Samuel Beckett
656. Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
608. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
657. The Apes of God, Wyndham Lewis
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
658. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
610. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
659. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
611. The Years, Virginia Woolf
660. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiel Hammett
612. In Parenthesis, David Jones
661. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
613. The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis
662. Passing, Nella Larsen
614. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
663. A Farewel to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
615. To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest, Dashiel Hammett
616. Summer Wil Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
665. Living, Henry Green
617. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley
666. The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
618. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
667. Al Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria
619. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Remarque
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin
621. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
669. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
622. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
670. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
623. At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
671. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
624. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
672. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
625. Independent People, Halldor Laxness
673. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
626. Auto-da-Fe, Elias Canetti
674. Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
627. The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
675. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
628. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy
676. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
629. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
677. The Wel of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
630. England Made Me, Graham Greene
678. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
631. Burmese Days, George Orwell
679. Quartet, Jean Rhys
632. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
680. Decline and Fal , Evelyn Waugh
633. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
681. Quicksand, Nel a Larsen
634. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
682. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
683. Nadja, Andre Breton
636. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
684. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
637. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
685. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
638. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
686. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
639. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
687. Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson
640. Cal it Sleep, Henry Roth
688. Amerika, Franz Kafka

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689. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
739. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
690. Blindness, Henry Green
740. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
691. The Castle, Franz Kafka
741. Of Human Bondage, Wil iam Somerset Maugham
692. The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Haek
742. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
693. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi
744. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
Pirandello
745. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
746. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
696. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
747. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
697. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert
698. Mrs. Dal oway, Virginia Woolf
Tressel
699. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
749. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
700. The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
750. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
701. The Trial, Franz Kafka
751. The Charwoman's Daughter, James Stephens
702. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
752. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
703. The Professor's House, Wil a Cather
753. Fantomas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
704. Bil y Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
754. Howards End, E.M. Forster
705. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
755. Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel
706. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
756. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
707. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
757. Martin Eden, Jack London
708. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
758. Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide
709. The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
759. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
710. Zeno's Conscience, Italo Svevo
760. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
711. Cane, Jean Toomer
761. A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
712. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
762. The Iron Heel, Jack London
713. Amok, Stefan Zweig
763. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
714. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
764. The House on the Borderland, William Hope
715. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
Hodgson
716. Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf
765. Mother, Maxim Gorky
717. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
766. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
718. The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton
767. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
768. Young Torless, Robert Musil
720. The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus
769. The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy
721. Aaron's Rod, D.H. Lawrence
770. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
722. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
771. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
723. Ulysses, James Joyce
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
724. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence
773. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
725. Crome Yel ow, Aldous Huxley
774. Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
726. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
775. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
727. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
776. The Ambassadors, Henry James
728. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
777. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
729. Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
778. The Immoralist, Andre Gide
730. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
779. The Wings of the Dove , Henry James
731. The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
780. Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad
732. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervil es, Sir Arthur Conan
733. Summer, Edith Wharton
Doyle
734. Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen
782. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
735. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
783. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
784. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
737. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
785. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
738. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke

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1800's
832. The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and
834. Bouvard and Pecuchet, Gustave Flaubert
Ross
835. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
787. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
836. Nana, Emile Zola
788. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
837. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
789. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
838. The Red Room, August Strindberg
790. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
839. Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
791. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wel s
840. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
792. What Maisie Knew, Henry James
841. Drunkard, Emile Zola
793. Fruits of the Earth, Andre Gide
842. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
794. Dracula, Bram Stoker
843. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
795. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
844. The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
797. The Time Machine, H.G. Wel s
846. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
798. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
847. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
799. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
848. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
800. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross
849. In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
801. The Yel ow Wal paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
850. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
802. Born in Exile, George Gissing
851. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
803. Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith
852. Spring Torrent, Ivan Turgenev
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur
853. Middlemarch, George Eliot
Conan Doyle
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found
805. News from Nowhere, William Morris
There, Lewis Carroll
806. New Grub Street, George Gissing
855. King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
807. Gosta Berling's Saga, Selma Lagerlof
856. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trol ope
808. Tess of the D'Urbervil es, Thomas Hardy
857. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
858. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
810. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
859. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trol ope
811. La Bete Humaine, Emile Zola
860. Maldoror, Comte de Lautreaumont
812. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg
861. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
813. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
862. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
814. The Master of Bal antrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
863. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
815. Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant
864. Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
816. Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Perez Galdes
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trol ope
817. The People of Hemso, August Strindberg
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
818. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
867. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
819. She, H. Rider Haggard
868. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Robert
869. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Louis Stevenson
870. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
871. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
822. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
872. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
823. King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
873. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
824. Germinal, Emile Zola
874. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
875. Silas Marner, George Eliot
826. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
876. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
827. Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater
877. On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev
828. Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans
878. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trol ope
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
879. The Mil on the Floss, George Eliot
830. A Woman's Life, Guy de Maupassant
880. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
831. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
881. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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882. Max Havelaar, Multatuli
930. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
883. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
931. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
884. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov
932. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
885. Adam Bede, George Eliot
933. Persuasion, Jane Austen
886. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
934. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
887. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskel
935. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
888. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
936. Emma, Jane Austen
889. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
937. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
890. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
938. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
891. Vil ette, Charlotte Bronte
939. The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth
892. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskel
940. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
893. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
941. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
894. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
942. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
895. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel
Hawthorne
1700's
896. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
943. Hyperion, Friedrich Holderlin
897. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
944. The Nun, Denis Diderot
898. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
945. Camil a, Fanny Burney
899. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
946. The Monk, M.G. Lewis
900. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskel
947. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang
901. The Tenant of Wildfel Hal , Anne Bronte
von Goethe
902. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
903. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
949. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
904. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
950. The Adventures of Caleb Wil iams, William Godwin
905. Vanity Fair, Wil iam Makepeace Thackeray
951. Justine, Marquis de Sade
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
952. Vathek, William Beckford
907. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
953. The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
908. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
954. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
909. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Al an Poe
955. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
910. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
956. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
911. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Al an Poe
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques
912. Lost Il usions, Honore de Balzac
Rousseau
913. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
958. Evelina, Fanny Burney
914. Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang
915. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
von Goethe
916. The Fal of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
960. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smol ett
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,
961. The Man of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
Charles Dickens
962. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
918. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
963. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
919. The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
964. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
920. Le Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac
965. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
921. Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac
966. Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
967. Rameau's Nephew, Denis Diderot
923. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
968. Julie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
924. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
969. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
925. Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
970. Candide, Voltaire
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified
971. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
Sinner, James Hogg
972. Amelia, Henry Fielding
927. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
973. Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett
928. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
974. Fanny Hil , John Cleland
929. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott

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