Can I Borrow Your Book?: May 2005

Saturday, May 14, 2005

List 1001 Books To Read Before You Die

2000s

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Saturday – Ian McEwan

On Beauty – Zadie Smith

Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson

The Sea – John Banville

The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

The Master – Colm Tóibín

Vanishing Point – David Markson

The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd

Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Colour – Rose Tremain

Thursbitch – Alan Garner

The Light of Day – Graham Swift

What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Islands – Dan Sleigh

Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee

London Orbital – Iain Sinclair

Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

The Double – José Saramago

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Unless – Carol Shields

Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern

In the Forest – Edna O’Brien

Shroud – John Banville

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Youth – J.M. Coetzee

Dead Air – Iain Banks

Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon

The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster

Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi

Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

Platform – Michael Houellebecq

Schooling – Heather McGowan

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini

The Body Artist – Don DeLillo

Fury – Salman Rushdie

At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma

The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

Under the Skin – Michel Faber

Ignorance – Milan Kundera

Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace

Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy

City of God – E.L. Doctorow

How the Dead Live – Will Self

The Human Stain – Philip Roth

The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

Pastoralia – George Saunder

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 – Amélie Nothomb

The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq

Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi

Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom

The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon

Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

Another World – Pat Barker

The Hours – Michael Cunningham

Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

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 Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth

The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

The Reader – Bernhard Schlink

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

Love’s Work – Gillian Rose

The End of the Story – Lydia Davis

Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster

The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

Whatever – Michel Houellebecq

Land – Park Kyong-ni

The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi

City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol

How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres

Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor

Disappearance – David Dabydeen

The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm

The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

Complicity – Iain Banks

On Love – Alain de Botton

What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd

The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood

The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar

The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch

A Heart So White – Javier Marias

Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker

Indigo – Marina Warner

The Crow Road – Iain Banks

Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

Jazz – Toni Morrison

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg

The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe

Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates

The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín

Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Black Dogs – Ian McEwan

Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

Arcadia – Jim Crace

Wild Swans – Jung Chang

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

Mao II – Don DeLillo

Typical – Padgett Powell

Regeneration – Pat Barker

Downriver – Iain Sinclair

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres

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 O’Brien

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 – László Krasznahorkai

The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker

The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway

The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago

Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

London Fields – Martin Amis

The Book of Evidence – John Banville

Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White

Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson

The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

Libra – Don DeLillo

The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble

The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke

The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind

The Child in Time – Ian McEwan

Cigarettes – Harry Mathews

The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle

Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul

The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Anagrams – Lorrie Moore

Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Marya – Joyce Carol Oates

Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis

Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt

An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

Extinction – Thomas Bernhard

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 García Márquez

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

The Cider House Rules – John Irving

A Maggot – John Fowles

Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

Contact – Carl Sagan

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Perfume – Patrick Süskind

Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard

White Noise – Don DeLillo

Queer – William Burroughs

Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

Legend – David Gemmell

Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?

The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago

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

Flaubert’s 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 Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard

A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

The Newton Letter – John Banville

On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin

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

July’s People – Nadine Gordimer

Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

Broken April – Ismail Kadare

Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

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

Smiley’s People – John Le Carré

Shikasta – Doris Lessing

A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul

Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer

The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

The World According to Garp – John Irving

Life: A User’s 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 – Anaïs Nin

The Shining – Stephen King

Dispatches – Michael Herr

Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke

Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo

The Public Burning – Robert Coover

Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice

Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

Amateurs – Donald Barthelme

Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf

Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

W, 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 Kertész

Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan

High Rise – J.G. Ballard

Humboldt’s 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 Böll

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré

Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

A Question of Power – Bessie Head

The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino

Crash – J.G. Ballard

The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch

Sula – Toni Morrison

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

The Breast – Philip Roth

The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

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 Böll

The Wild Boys – William Burroughs

Rabbit Redux – John Updike

The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima

The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

The Ogre – Michael Tournier

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

Troubles – J.G. Farrell

Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson

The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard

Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado

Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover

Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines

Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

Ada – Vladimir Nabokov

Them – Joyce Carol Oates

A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec

Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen

Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal

The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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 García Márquez

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson

The Joke – Milan Kundera

No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

A Man Asleep – Georges Perec

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 Thiong’o

August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor

The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector

Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme

Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson

Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe

The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras

Herzog – Saul Bellow

V. – Thomas Pynchon

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

The Graduate – Charles Webb

Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré

The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark

Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The Collector – John Fowles

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s 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 O’Brien

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 – Günter Grass

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

How It Is – Samuel Beckett

Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino

The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

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 – Günter Grass

Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes

Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow

Memento Mori – Muriel Spark

Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe

A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon

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

Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary

Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

The Floating Opera – John Barth

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

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 Kazantzákis

The Recognitions – William Gaddis

The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini

Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis

The Story of O – Pauline Réage

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 Dürrenmatt

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

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 – André Breton

Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham

Transit – Anna Seghers

Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

Dangling Man – Saul Bellow

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Caught – Henry Green

The 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 O’Brien

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 O’Brien

Coming Up for Air – George Orwell

Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood

Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys

The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler

Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

U.S.A. – John Dos Passos

Murphy – Samuel Beckett

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Years – Virginia Woolf

In Parenthesis – David Jones

The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis

Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner

Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley

The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West

Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson

Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

Nightwood – Djuna Barnes

Independent People – Halldór Laxness

Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti

The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy

The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen

England Made Me – Graham Greene

Burmese Days – George Orwell

The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers

Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht

Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev

The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh

Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

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 Céline

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth

The Waves – Virginia Woolf

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 Döblin

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 Chatterley’s 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

Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford

Nadja – André 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 Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek

The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence

One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein

Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Counterfeiters – André Gide

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky

The Professor’s 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

Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

Cane – Jean Toomer

Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley

Amok – Stefan Zweig

The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield

The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings

Jacob’s 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

Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence

Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley

The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

Main Street – Sinclair Lewis

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf

Tarr – Wyndham Lewis

The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad

Summer – Edith Wharton

Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen

Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton

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 Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

Howards End – E.M. Forster

Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel

Three Lives – Gertrude Stein

Martin Eden – Jack London

Strait is the Gate – André Gide

Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells

The Inferno – Henri Barbusse

A Room With a View – E.M. Forster

The Iron Heel – Jack London

The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett

The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson

Mother – Maxim Gorky

The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Young Törless – 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 – André 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

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 – André 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

Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

By the Open Sea – August Strindberg

Hunger – Knut Hamsun

The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson

Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant

Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés

The People of Hemsö – 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 Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

Germinal – Émile 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 Woman’s 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 Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert

Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace

Nana – Émile Zola

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Red Room – August Strindberg

Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Drunkard – Émile Zola

Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev

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 Lautréaumont

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope

Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Alice’s 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 Misérables – 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 Brontë

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

Uncle Tom’s 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 Brontë

Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

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 – Honoré de Balzac

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol

The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal

The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

The Nose – Nikolay Gogol

Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

The Red and the Black – Stendhal

The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni

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

1700s

Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

The Nun – Denis Diderot

Camilla – Fanny Burney

The Monk – M.G. Lewis

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano

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

Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rameau’s 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

Gulliver’s 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

Pre-1700

Oroonoko – Aphra Behn

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

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly

Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais

The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous

The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius

Aithiopika – Heliodorus

Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton

Metamorphoses – Ovid

Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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