"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

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1. 2000s
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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 Tibn

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 Jos 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 OBrien

Shroud John Banville

Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides

Youth J.M. Coetzee

Dead Air Iain Banks

Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon

The Book of Illusions Paul Auster

Gabriels Gift Hanif Kureishi

Austerlitz W.G. Sebald

Platform Michael Houellebecq

Schooling Heather McGowan

Atonement Ian McEwan

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

Dont Move Margaret Mazzantini

The Body Artist Don DeLillo

Fury Salman Rushdie

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie ONeill

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 Pter Esterhzy

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

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1900s

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 Amlie 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 OHanlon

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

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

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 Moors Last Sigh Salman Rushdie

Sabbaths Theater Philip Roth

The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald

The Reader Bernhard Schlink

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry

Loves 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 Jchym Topol

How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman

Captain Corellis Mandolin Louis de Bernieres

Felicias 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 Emigrants W.G. Sebald

The Secret History Donna Tartt

Life is a Caravanserai Emine zdamar

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

Smillas Sense of Snow Peter Heg

The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe

Black Water Joyce Carol Oates

The Heather Blazing Colm Tibn

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

Times Arrow Martin Amis

Mao II Don DeLillo

Typical Padgett Powell

Regeneration Pat Barker

Downriver Iain Sinclair

Seor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis de Bernieres

Wise Children Angela Carter

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

The Things They Carried Tim OBrien

A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham

Like Life Lorrie Moore

Possession A.S. Byatt

The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi

The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle

A Disaffection James Kelman

Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson

Moon Palace Paul Auster

Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow

Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

The Melancholy of Resistance Lszl Krasznahorkai

The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker

The Trick is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway

The History of the Siege of Lisbon Jos Saramago

Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel

A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving

London Fields Martin Amis

The Book of Evidence John Banville

Cats Eye Margaret Atwood

Foucaults Pendulum Umberto Eco

The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White

Wittgensteins Mistress David Markson

The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie

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 Gentlys 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 Sskind

The Child in Time Ian McEwan

Cigarettes Harry Mathews

The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe

The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

Worlds 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 Thiongo

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

Foe J.M. Coetzee

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 Garca Mrquez

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 Handmaids Tale Margaret Atwood

Perfume Patrick Sskind

Old Masters Thomas Bernhard

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 Jos Saramago

The Lover Marguerite Duras

Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard

The Wasp Factory Iain Banks

Nights at the Circus Angela Carter

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera

Blood and Guts in High School Kathy Acker

Neuromancer William Gibson

Flauberts Parrot Julian Barnes

Money: A Suicide Note Martin Amis

Shame Salman Rushdie

Worstward Ho Samuel Beckett

Fools of Fortune William Trevor

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 Boys Own Story Edmund White

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Wittgensteins Nephew Thomas Bernhard

A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro

Schindlers Ark Thomas Keneally

The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende

The Newton Letter John Banville

On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin

Concrete Thomas Bernhard

The Names Don DeLillo

Rabbit is Rich John Updike

Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray

The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan

Julys People Nadine Gordimer

Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid Tsypkin

Broken April Ismail Kadare

Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee

Midnights Children Salman Rushdie

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

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

Smileys People John Le Carr

Shikasta Doris Lessing

A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul

Burgers Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

The Safety Net Heinrich Bll

If On a Winters Night a Traveler Italo Calvino

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

The Cement Garden Ian McEwan

The World According to Garp John Irving

Life: A Users Manual Georges Perec

The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch

The Singapore Grip J.G. Farrell

Yes Thomas Bernhard

The Virgin in the Garden A.S. Byatt

In the Heart of the Country J.M. Coetzee

The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter

Delta of Venus Anas Nin

The Shining Stephen King

Dispatches Michael Herr

Petals of Blood Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector

The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke

Ratners Star Don DeLillo

The Public Burning Robert Coover

Interview With the Vampire Anne Rice

Cutter and Bone Newton Thornburg

Amateurs Donald Barthelme

Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf

Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garca Mrquez

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

Fateless Imre Kertsz

Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard Brautigan

High Rise J.G. Ballard

Humboldts Gift Saul Bellow

Dead Babies Martin Amis

Correction Thomas Bernhard

Ragtime E.L. Doctorow

The Fan Man William Kotzwinkle

Dusklands J.M. Coetzee

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Heinrich Bll

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carr

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

Gravitys Rainbow Thomas Pynchon

The Black Prince Iris Murdoch

Sula Toni Morrison

Invisible Cities Italo Calvino

The Breast Philip Roth

The Summer Book Tove Jansson

G John Berger

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 Bll

The Wild Boys William Burroughs

Rabbit Redux John Updike

The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima

The Drivers Seat Muriel Spark

The Ogre Michael Tournier

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

Goalies 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

Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover

Blind Man With a Pistol Chester Hines

Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The French Lieutenants Woman John Fowles

The Green Man Kingsley Amis

Portnoys 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

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garca Mrquez

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson

The Joke Milan Kundera

No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson

The Third Policeman Flann OBrien

A Man Asleep Georges Perec

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

The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon

Things Georges Perec

The River Between Ngugi wa Thiongo

August is a Wicked Month Edna OBrien

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut

Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery OConnor

The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector

Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey

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

Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut

The Graduate Charles Webb

Manon des Sources Marcel Pagnol

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Le Carr

The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark

Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony Burgess

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The Collector John Fowles

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Ken Kesey

A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess

Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov

The Drowned World J.G. Ballard

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

Labyrinths Jorg Luis Borges

Girl With Green Eyes Edna OBrien

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani

Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein

Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger

A Severed Head Iris Murdoch

Faces in the Water Janet Frame

Solaris Stanislaw Lem

Cat and Mouse Gnter Grass

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

The Violent Bear it Away Flannery OConnor

How It Is Samuel Beckett

Our Ancestors Italo Calvino

The Country Girls Edna OBrien

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

Rabbit, Run John Updike

Promise at Dawn Romain Gary

Cider With Rosie Laurie Lee

Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse

Naked Lunch William Burroughs

The Tin Drum Gnter Grass

Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes

Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow

Memento Mori Muriel Spark

Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Bll

Breakfast at Tiffanys 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 Eils Dillon

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

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

Pnin Vladimir Nabokov

Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak

The Wonderful O James Thurber

Justine Lawrence Durrell

Giovannis 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

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

A World of Love Elizabeth Bowen

The Trusting and the Maimed James Plunkett

The Quiet American Graham Greene

The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzkis

The Recognitions William Gaddis

The Ragazzi Pier Paulo Pasolini

Bonjour Tristesse Franoise Sagan

Im Not Stiller Max Frisch

Self Condemned Wyndham Lewis

The Story of O Pauline Rage

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

The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow

Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin

Casino Royale Ian Fleming

The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Drrenmatt

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

Wise Blood Flannery OConnor

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

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

The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann

The Victim Saul Bellow

Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau

If This Is a Man Primo Levi

Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry

The Path to the Nest of Spiders Italo Calvino

The Plague Albert Camus

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 Andr Breton

Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi

The Razors Edge William Somerset Maugham

Transit Anna Seghers

Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges

Dangling Man Saul Bellow

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Caught Henry Green

The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse

Embers Sandor Marai

Go Down, Moses William Faulkner

The Outsider Albert Camus

In Sicily Elio Vittorini

The Poor Mouth Flann OBrien

The Living and the Dead Patrick White

Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton

Between the Acts Virginia Woolf

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 OBrien

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

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner

At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft

Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Independent People Halldr Laxness

Auto-da-F Elias Canetti

The Last of Mr. Norris Christopher Isherwood

They Shoot Horses, Dont 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

Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West

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 Cline

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

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

Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Dblin

The Last September Elizabeth Bowen

Harriet Hume Rebecca West

The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner

Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau

Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe

Story of the Eye Georges Bataille

Orlando Virginia Woolf

Lady Chatterleys Lover D.H. Lawrence

The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall

The Childermass Wyndham Lewis

Quartet Jean Rhys

Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh

Quicksand Nella Larsen

Parades End Ford Madox Ford

Nadja Andr Breton

Steppenwolf Herman Hesse

Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust

To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson

Amerika Franz Kafka

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

Blindness Henry Green

The Castle Franz Kafka

The Good Soldier vejk Jaroslav Haek

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

Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Counterfeiters Andr Gide

The Trial Franz Kafka

The Artamonov Business Maxim Gorky

The Professors House Willa Cather

Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville

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

Zenos Conscience Italo Svevo

Cane Jean Toomer

Antic Hay Aldous Huxley

Amok Stefan Zweig

The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield

The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings

Jacobs Room Virginia Woolf

Siddhartha Herman Hesse

The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton

Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair

The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus

Aarons 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

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce

Under Fire Henri Barbusse

Rashomon Akutagawa Ryunosuke

The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf

Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham

The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan

Kokoro Natsume Soseki

Locus Solus Raymond Roussel

Rosshalde Herman Hesse

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell

Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence

Death in Venice Thomas Mann

The Charwomans Daughter James Stephens

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton

Fantmas 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 Andr 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

The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad

The Jungle Upton Sinclair

Young Trless Robert Musil

The Forsyte Sage John Galsworthy

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton

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 Immoralist Andr Gide

The Wings of the Dove Henry James

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann

Kim Rudyard Kipling

Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

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1800s

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville and Ross

The Stechlin Theodore Fontane

The Awakening Kate Chopin

The Turn of the Screw Henry James

The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man H.G. Wells

What Maisie Knew Henry James

Fruits of the Earth Andr Gide

Dracula Bram Stoker

Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells

The Time Machine H.G. Wells

Effi Briest Theodore Fontane

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

The Real Charlotte Somerville and Ross

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

New Grub Street George Gissing

Gsta Berlings Saga Selma Lagerlf

Tess of the DUrbervilles Thomas Hardy

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy

La Bte Humaine mile 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 Prez Galds

The People of Hems August Strindberg

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy

She H. Rider Haggard

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson

King Solomons Mines H. Rider Haggard

Germinal mile Zola

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant

Marius the Epicurean Walter Pater

Against the Grain Joris-Karl Huysmans

The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy

A Womans Life Guy de Maupassant

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

Bouvard and Pcuchet Gustave Flaubert

Ben-Hur Lew Wallace

Nana mile Zola

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Red Room August Strindberg

Return of the Native Thomas Hardy

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

Drunkard mile Zola

Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev

Daniel Deronda George Eliot

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

Middlemarch George Eliot

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

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert

Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope

Maldoror Comte de Lautraumont

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

Little Women Louisa May Alcott

Thrse Raquin mile Zola

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope

Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens

Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley

Les Misrables Victor Hugo

Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev

Silas Marner George Eliot

Great Expectations Charles Dickens

On the Eve Ivan Turgenev

Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope

The Mill on the Floss George Eliot

The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne

Max Havelaar Multatuli

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

Oblomovka Ivan Goncharov

Adam Bede George Eliot

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

North and South Elizabeth Gaskell

Hard Times Charles Dickens

Walden Henry David Thoreau

Bleak House Charles Dickens

Villette Charlotte Bront

Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell

Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby-Dick Herman Melville

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

David Copperfield Charles Dickens

Shirley Charlotte Bront

Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bront

Wuthering Heights Emily Bront

Agnes Grey Anne Bront

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas

La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe

Lost Illusions Honor 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

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

The Nose Nikolay Gogol

Le Pre Goriot Honor de Balzac

Eugnie Grandet Honor de Balzac

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo

The Red and the Black Stendhal

The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni

Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg

The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin

Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin

The Monastery Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott

Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen

Persuasion Jane Austen

Ormond Maria Edgeworth

Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott

Emma Jane Austen

Mansfield Park Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

The Absentee Maria Edgeworth

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth

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1700s

Hyperion Friedrich Hlderlin

The Nun Denis Diderot

Camilla Fanny Burney

The Monk M.G. Lewis

Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe

The Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano

The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin

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

The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humphrey Clinker Tobias George Smollett

The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie

A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne

The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith

The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole

mile; or, On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rameaus Nephew Denis Diderot

Julie; or, the New Eloise Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rasselas Samuel Johnson

Candide Voltaire

The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox

Amelia Henry Fielding

Peregrine Pickle Tobias George Smollett

Fanny Hill John Cleland

Tom Jones Henry Fielding

Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett

Clarissa Samuel Richardson

Pamela Samuel Richardson

Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift

Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding

A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift

Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift

Roxana Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe

Love in Excess Eliza Haywood

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift

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Pre-1700

Oroonoko Aphra Behn

The Princess of Clves Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

The Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly

Gargantua and Pantagruel Franoise Rabelais

The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous

The Golden Ass Lucius Apuleius

Aithiopika Heliodorus

Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton

Metamorphoses Ovid

Aesops Fables Aesopus