Cardathon Challenge

Challenge starts January 1st 2008 (but can really begin anytime)

To qualify for the Cardathon Challenge a book needs to meet one of the following criteria:

1) a book written by Orson Scott Card
2) a book edited/compiled by Orson Scott Card
3) a book with an introduction by Orson Scott Card
4) a book reviewed by Orson Scott Card on his official website.

No requirement on the number of books. Six to twelve are recommended.

Becky at Becky's Book Reviews has set up the challenge. The blog is Cardathon Challenge

MY TENTATIVE BOOK LIST TO CHOOSE FROM

Magic Mirror
Invasive Procedures
Seventh Son (Alvin Maker)
Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 2)
Rachel & Leah
Rebekah
Lovelock
Cruel Miracles
Enchantment
The Folk of the Fringe
Homecoming: Harmony
Saints
Songmaster
The Worthing Saga

I needed to linked them because I kept forgetting what each one was about.

Themed Reading Challenge

January 1st 2008 - June 30 2008

Choose at least 4 books that share a theme. Write a review about each book you complete and a final wrap up at the end of the challenge.

POSSIBLE THEMES:

* Set in Asian countries

* Cozy (never read before)

* Softball or baseball

* Involve genetics

I ended up going with none of the above! My theme is...
Books by Lois Lowry

1. The Giver by Lois Lowry (completed 1.27.08)
2. Gathering Blue
3. The Messenger
4. Number the Stars

Link to the blog here: themed reading challenge hosted by caribousmom

Just4thehelluvit Reading Challenge

No time limit, no lists. The only rule is your books cannot cross over to any other challenges. You read a book or books just for the helluvit.

Here is the link to the blog: just4thehelluvit

Books I've Read for the Challenge:

In Their Shoes Reading Challenge

This challenge is being hosted by Vasilly over at 1330V

The rules are real simple: you pick the number of books that you want to read. You also pick the books you read. They just have to be either a memoir, autobiography, or biography. It runs from Jan. 1 2008 - Dec. 31 2008.

Here is the blog In Their Shoes.

I finally decided on a list.

1. The Burn Journals (Brent Runyon) 3.12.08
2. The $64 Tomato (William Alexander) 6.12.08
3. Lucky (Alice Seibold)
4. A Million Little Pieces (James Frey)
5. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood. (Julie Gregory)
6. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah) 7.22.08

The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) completed 2.3.08
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Deborah Rodriquez) completed 4.5.08
A Piece of Cake (Cupcake Brown) completed 6.28.08

Book Review: The Ruins

Author: Scott Smith

Pages: 336

Personal Rating: 3.5/5

From the back cover:

The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group—the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig. This is what happens from the moment the searchers—moving into the wild interior—begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific “other” among them . . .

I picked up this book by chance from Goodwill when I saw it was published in 2006. I thought I could get a credit for it on paperback swap. I wasn’t expecting much. At home I saw that Stephen King called it “the best suspense novel of the year” and I decided to give it a try.

Four annoying, recently graduated college students follow a newly met friend into the jungle. They are looking for the new friend’s brother, who has been missing for a week. They are searching for Mayan ruins, the last place the brother said he was going. They end up being trapped on top of a hill by vines and group of native villagers. Most of the story revolves around what happens as they are trapped on the hill.

I hated three of the four main characters. I wanted to strangle them. I almost stopped reading the book I found the girls to be so stupid and irritating. The third male character was almost as aggravating. I think Scott did a nice of job of showing how a stressful situation can bring out the worst flaws in some people. The book also has no chapters. It goes on and on, just like their ordeal.

Would I call this book the best suspense novel of the year? No. I would call it good suspense/horror novel that had some interesting aspects and ideas. I think Smith could come up with some real horrifying stories in the future, I see potential.

Book Awards Reading Challenge

Yes, another challenge. I’m still narrowing down my list. The books I’ve put in italics are still tentative.

8 / 12

Booker Prize
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Gold Dagger Award
1993 Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell

National Book Award
1990 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
2003 Three Junes by Julia Glass completed 8.5.07
2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Pulitzer Prize
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

PEN/Faulkner Award
2002 Bel Canto by Patchett

PEN/Hemingway
1988 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

Newbery Award
1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry

Bram Stoker Award
1992 The Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone

World Fantasy Award
1989 Koko by Peter Straub

British Children's Book of the Year
2007 The Boy in the Striped Pajams (John Boyne) completed 3.20.08

• 3 Irish Book Awards: the Novel of the Year, the People's Choice Book of the Year, and the Children's Book of the Year. It won 2 awards

Nebula Award
1966 Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) completed 3.8.08

Panorama Literario Award: Chile
1983 The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)

• Best Novel of the Year, Chile 1983

Alternates on my Bookshelf

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Plague’s Progress by Arno Karlen

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lamb

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Holes by Louis Sachar

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Throat by Peter Straub

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

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

BOOK AWARDS READING CHALLENGE

Book Review: Women of the Silk

Author—Gail Tsukiyama

Pages: 278

Personal Rating: 5/5

From the back cover:

In Women of the Silk, a West Coast bestseller in its hardcover publication, Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn until dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of miraculous courage and strength.

I decided to read Women of the Silk with the hope that I would like it as much as Snow Flower & the Secret Fan and Memoirs of a Geisha. Although distinctly different from them, it still gave me a glimpse into the Chinese culture that I have begun to enjoy.

Women of the Silk revolves around a young girl Pei, who is sent to work in the silk factory to earn money for her family. Her father tells her they are taking a trip and then leaves her as she is taking a “tour” of the building that will become her home. The story follows Pei through the next 20 years of her life. As the events in Pei’s life unfold, it becomes harder and harder to put the book down.

Book Review: Stiff--The Curious Life of Human Cadvers

Author—Mary Roach

Pages: 303

Personal Rating: 4/5

From the back cover:

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.

The first three quarters of this book were much more interesting than the last quarter which I ended up skimming. Roach examines the many ways cadavers are used today. Each chapter is devoted to a different use. Some examples; Chapter 1—A Head Is A Terrible Thing To Waste, Chapter 4—Dead Man Driving, Chapter 5—Beyond The Black Box. She has a dry sense of humor that is present throughout the book. You will alternate between laughing and being grossed out. Roach also addresses how much resistance the people who work with cadavers encounter from the public and government.

Even though I did not enjoy the last few chapters of this book I’m rating it a 4 out of 5 for its original idea, sense of humor and disgusting descriptions.

Book Review: The Virgin Suicides

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

Pages: 249

Personal Rating: 4/5

From the back cover:

Juxtaposing the most common and most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have forever been changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with five doomed sisters: brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia, whose spectacular
demise inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from the critics-a tender, wickedly funny take of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination.

Virgin Suicides left me with an unsettled feeling in my stomach but I did enjoy it. However much you can enjoy a novel about five teenage girls committing suicide. Eugenide’s descriptions during the novel were compared to the strangest objects and events. The smell of their house was like drilled teeth. The imagery he created was outstanding.

The story is narrated by a man/men. I was never able to determine exactly who it was. I don’t think you were supposed to. It also goes back and forth between the present and the past, sometimes being difficult to tell when it is. Once again, I don’t think you’re supposed to. I did a lot of wondering while I read this book. How could anyone endure as much suffering as those girls? How did their father look the other way? What in the hell was wrong with their mother? It also reminded me of being an teenager and the obsessions and love we so easily develop.

Even though the topic is unpleasant it was a fascinating read.

* I never saw the movie so I have no idea how the two compare.

Saturday Review of Books Reading Challenge

I’m going to try another challenge. For me this will make three. Not a lot for others, but a start for me. I’ve never done a challenge before! For this challenge you need to read six of the books that have been linked to reviews at the Saturday Review of Books in the past year. Review them in your blog. Ending date is December 31, 2007.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 11.26.07

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Silje

Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert (completed 10.9.07)

The Echomaker
Richard Powers (completed 11.26.07)

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak (completed 7. 28.07)

Ella Minnow Pea: a Novel in Letters
Mark Dunn

The Madonna’s of Leningrad
Debra Dean (completed 8.6.07)

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan (shelved 8.25.07--finished half)

Three Junes
Julia Glass (completed 8.5.07)


Hosted by Sherry at Saturday Review of Books Reading Challenge

Something About Me Reading Challenge

I came across this challenge while browsing book blogs and thought it would be great to try. You are asked to list five books that say something about you. Starting August 1st you will pick books that other people have posted to learn something about them. This is such an intriguing idea.

It was difficult choosing the five books. There are so many possibilities and ways to represent yourself. I also don’t remember a lot of what I’ve read. I finally decided to list these five books to say something about me.

Island of the Blue Dolphin—Scott O’Dell. When I would play alone outside I would always pretend that I was alone on an island surviving with what skills I had. I would act out scenes from the book over and over. I also checked this book out from the library over and over.

The Talisman—Steven King & Peter Straub. I dreamed about this book several times. The idea of having parallel worlds and being able to “flip” between the two fascinated me. His journey fascinated me. I’ve never dreamed about a books before or since.

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters—Matt Ridley. As a biology teacher I obviously love science. This book is organized into 23 chapters just like our chromosome are organized in 23 pairs. It puts science into your life in a way a person without a science background can understand. This is something I strive to do everyday with my students.

Snow Flower & the Secret Fan—Lisa See. In 2004 I traveled to China for several weeks. My husband & I tried to spend a lot of our time off the beaten trail. Here we were able to interact with people in ways most vacationers never will. I learned to appreciate the Chinese culture with all its differences and was surprised to learn how curious they were about foreigners (especially Americans). Snow Flower gave me another glimpse into their culture.

A Wrinkle In Time—Madeleine L’Engle. Who wouldn’t want to travel through time & space as child? This book sparked my curiosity at a young age. Were tesseracts real? Could this happen? This book reminds me of enjoying “science” at an early age. It also brings back memories like my dad waking me up to watch lunar eclipses.

I’ve decided to read the following books.

• The Gallery of Regrettable Food—James Lileks
  
• Place Last Seen—Charlotte McGuinn Freeman
  
• A Walk in the Woods—Bill Bryson
  
• The Echo Maker—Richard Powers
  
• So Many Books, So Little Time—Sara Nelson

Hosted by Lisa at Something About Me Reading Challenge (Breaking the Fourth Wall)

List 1001 Books To Read Before You Die

2000s


1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro


2. Saturday – Ian McEwan


3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith


4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee


5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson


6. The Sea – John Banville


7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble


8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth


9. The Master – Colm Tóibín


10. Vanishing Point – David Markson


11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd


12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair


13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell


14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle


15. The Colour – Rose Tremain


16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner


17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift


18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt


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


20. Islands – Dan Sleigh


21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee


22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair


23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry


24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters


25. The Double – José Saramago


26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer


27. Unless – Carol Shields


28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami


29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor


30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern


31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien


32. Shroud – John Banville


33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides


34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee


35. Dead Air – Iain Banks


36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon


37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster


38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi


39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald


40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq


41. Schooling – Heather McGowan


42. Atonement – Ian McEwan


43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen


44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini


45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo


46. Fury – Salman Rushdie


47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill


48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk


49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel


50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa


51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma


52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho


53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare


54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith


55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda


56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber


57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera


58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace


59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy


60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow


61. How the Dead Live – Will Self


62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth


63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood


64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami


65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande


66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard


67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski


68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates


69. Pastoralia – George Saunder



1900s



70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster


71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra


72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson


73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?


74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy


75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb


76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie


77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee


78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami


79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq


80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi


81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan


82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks


83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom


84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon


85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters


86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver


87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis


88. Another World – Pat Barker


89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham


90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho


91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon


92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy


93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden


94. Great Apes – Will Self


95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan


96. Underworld – Don DeLillo


97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey


98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin


99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth


100. The Untouchable – John Banville


101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco


102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard


103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker


104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels


105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker


106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse


107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace


108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin


109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood


110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro


111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner


112. The Information – Martin Amis


113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie


114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth


115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald


116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink


117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry


118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose


119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis


120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster


121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst


122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq


123. Land – Park Kyong-ni


124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee


125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami


126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi


127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol


128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman


129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres


130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor


131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen


132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm


133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx


134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh


135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks


136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy


137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth


138. Complicity – Iain Banks


139. On Love – Alain de Botton


140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe


141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth


142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields


143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides


144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd


145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood


146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald


147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt


148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar


149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch


150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias


151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker


152. Indigo – Marina Warner


153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks


154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson


155. Jazz – Toni Morrison


156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje


157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg


158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe


159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates


160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín


161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)


162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan


163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud


164. Arcadia – Jim Crace


165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang


166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis


167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis


168. Mao II – Don DeLillo


169. Typical – Padgett Powell


170. Regeneration – Pat Barker


171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair


172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres


173. Wise Children – Angela Carter


174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard


175. Amongst Women – John McGahern


176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon


177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald


178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge


179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster


180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien


181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham


182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore


183. Possession – A.S. Byatt


184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi


185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle


186. A Disaffection – James Kelman


187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson


188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster


189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow


190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro


191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai


192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker


193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway


194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago


195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel


196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving


197. London Fields – Martin Amis


198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville


199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood


200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco


201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White


202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson


203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie


204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst


205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey


206. Libra – Don DeLillo


207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks


208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga


209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams


210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams


211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble


212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke


213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy


214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson


215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind


216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan


217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews


218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe


219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster


220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle


221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul


222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae


223. Beloved – Toni Morrison


224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore


225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o


226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates


227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons


228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis


229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt


230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro


231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard


232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee


233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi


234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel


235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann


236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez


237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson


238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving


239. A Maggot – John Fowles


240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis


241. Contact – Carl Sagan


242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood


243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind


244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard


245. White Noise – Don DeLillo


246. Queer – William Burroughs


247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd


248. Legend – David Gemmell


249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?


250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman


251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago


252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras


253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard


254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks


255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter


256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera


257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker


258. Neuromancer – William Gibson


259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes


260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis


261. Shame – Salman Rushdie


262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett


263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor


264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard


265. Waterland – Graham Swift


266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee


267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing


268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek


269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus


270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi


271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White


272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker


273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard


274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro


275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally


276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende


277. The Newton Letter – John Banville


278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin


279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard


280. The Names – Don DeLillo


281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike


282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray


283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan


284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer


285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin


286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare


287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee


288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie


289. Rites of Passage – William Golding


290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom


291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole


292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard


293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco


294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera


295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré


296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing


297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul


298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer


299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll


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


301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams


302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan


303. The World According to Garp – John Irving


304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec


305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch


306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell


307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard


308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt


309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee


310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter


311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin


312. The Shining – Stephen King


313. Dispatches – Michael Herr


314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o


315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison


316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector


317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke


318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo


319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover


320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice


321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg


322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme


323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf


324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez


325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec


326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell


327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie


328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme


329. Fateless – Imre Kertész


330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan


331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard


332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow


333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis


334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard


335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow


336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle


337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee


338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll


339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré


340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong


342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head


343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell


344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino


345. Crash – J.G. Ballard


346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene


347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon


348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch


349. Sula – Toni Morrison


350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino


351. The Breast – Philip Roth


352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson


353. G – John Berger


354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood


355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson


356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul


357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow


358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson


359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll


360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs


361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike


362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima


363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark


364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier


365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison


366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke


367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou


368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett


369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell


370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson


371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard


372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado


373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover


374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines


375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles


377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis


378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth


379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo


380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov


381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates


382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec


383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen


384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal


385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch


386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen


387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke


390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick


391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry


392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz


393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan


394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines


395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf


396. Chocky – John Wyndham


397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe


398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa


399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez


400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov


401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson


402. The Joke – Milan Kundera


403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson


404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien


405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec


406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West


407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson


408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote


409. The Magus – John Fowles


410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras


411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys


412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth


413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon


414. Things – Georges Perec


415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o


416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien


417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut


418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor


419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector


420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey


421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme


422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson


423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe


424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras


425. Herzog – Saul Bellow


426. V. – Thomas Pynchon


427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut


428. The Graduate – Charles Webb


429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol


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


431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark


432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess


433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath


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


435. The Collector – John Fowles


436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey


437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess


438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov


439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard


440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing


441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges


442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien


443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani


444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein


445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger


446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch


447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame


448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem


449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass


450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark


451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller


452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor


453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett


454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino


455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien


456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee


457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike


458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary


459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee


460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse


461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs


462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass


463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes


464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow


465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark


466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll


467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote


468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa


469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe


470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute


471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon


472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe


473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe


474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico


475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan


476. The End of the Road – John Barth


477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White


478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch


479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet


480. Voss – Patrick White


481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham


482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille


483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch


484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac


485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov


486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak


487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber


488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell


489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin


490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon


491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary


492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow


493. The Floating Opera – John Barth


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


495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith


496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov


497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen


498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett


499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene


500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis


501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis


502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini


503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan


504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch


505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis


506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage


507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia


508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding


509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch


510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley


511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler


512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett


513. Watt – Samuel Beckett


514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis


515. Junkie – William Burroughs


516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow


517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin


518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming


519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt


520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison


521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway


522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor


523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson


524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar


525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett


526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham


527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov


528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq


529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger


530. The Rebel – Albert Camus


531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett


532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene


533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille


534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz


535. The Third Man – Graham Greene


536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber


537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake


538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing


539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov


540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese


541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk


542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford


543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge


544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen


545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier


546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren


547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell


548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani


549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia


550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot


551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene


552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton


553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann


554. The Victim – Saul Bellow


555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau


556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi


557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry


558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino


559. The Plague – Albert Camus


560. Back – Henry Green


561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake


562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?


563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh


564. Animal Farm – George Orwell


565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck


566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford


567. Loving – Henry Green


568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton


569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi


570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham


571. Transit – Anna Seghers


572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges


573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow


574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


575. Caught – Henry Green


576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse


577. Embers – Sandor Marai


578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner


579. The Outsider – Albert Camus


580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini


581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien


582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White


583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton


584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf


585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner


586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler


587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway


588. Native Son – Richard Wright


589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene


590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati


591. Party Going – Henry Green


592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck


593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce


594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien


595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell


596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood


597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller


598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys


599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler


600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner


601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson


602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre


603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier


604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler


605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene


606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos


607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett


608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck


609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston


610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien


611. The Years – Virginia Woolf


612. In Parenthesis – David Jones


613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis


614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)


615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway


616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner


617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley


618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West


619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell


620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell


621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson


622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner


623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft


624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes


625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness


626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti


627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood


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


629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen


630. England Made Me – Graham Greene


631. Burmese Days – George Orwell


632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers


633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht


634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev


635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain


636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller


637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh


638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald


639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse


640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth


641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West


642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers


643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein


644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain


645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson


646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil


647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon


648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline


649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley


650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons


651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen


652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett


653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth


654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf


655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett


656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham


657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis


658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning


659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh


660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett


661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico


662. Passing – Nella Larsen


663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway


664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett


665. Living – Henry Green


666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia


667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque


668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin


669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen


670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West


671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner


672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau


673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe


674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille


675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf


676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence


677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall


678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis


679. Quartet – Jean Rhys


680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh


681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen


682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford


683. Nadja – André Breton


684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse


685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust


686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf


687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson


688. Amerika – Franz Kafka


689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway


690. Blindness – Henry Green


691. The Castle – Franz Kafka


692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek


693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence


694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello


695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie


696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein


697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos


698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf


699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald


700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide


701. The Trial – Franz Kafka


702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky


703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather


704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville


705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen


706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann


707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin


708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster


709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet


710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo


711. Cane – Jean Toomer


712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley


713. Amok – Stefan Zweig


714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield


715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings


716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf


717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse


718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton


719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair


720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus


721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence


722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis


723. Ulysses – James Joyce


724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence


725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley


726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton


727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis


728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence


729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf


730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis


731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West


732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad


733. Summer – Edith Wharton


734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen


735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton


736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce


737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse


738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke


739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford


740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf


741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham


742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence


743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan


744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki


745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel


746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse


747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs


748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell


749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence


750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann


751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens


752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton


753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre


754. Howards End – E.M. Forster


755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel


756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein


757. Martin Eden – Jack London


758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide


759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells


760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse


761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster


762. The Iron Heel – Jack London


763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett


764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson


765. Mother – Maxim Gorky


766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad


767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair


768. Young Törless – Robert Musil


769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy


770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton


771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann


772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster


773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad


774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe


775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James


776. The Ambassadors – Henry James


777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers


778. The Immoralist – André Gide


779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James


780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad


781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann


783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling


784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser


785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad



1800s



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


787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane


788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin


789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James


790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells


791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells


792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James


793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide


794. Dracula – Bram Stoker


795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz


796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells


797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells


798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane


799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy


800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross


801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman


802. Born in Exile – George Gissing


803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith


804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


805. News from Nowhere – William Morris


806. New Grub Street – George Gissing


807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf


808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy


809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde


810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy


811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola


812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg


813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun


814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson


815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant


816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés


817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg


818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy


819. She – H. Rider Haggard


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


821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy


822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson


823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard


824. Germinal – Émile Zola


825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain


826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant


827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater


828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans


829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy


830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant


831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson


832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga


833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James


834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert


835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace


836. Nana – Émile Zola


837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky


838. The Red Room – August Strindberg


839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy


840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy


841. Drunkard – Émile Zola


842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev


843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot


844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy


845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert


846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy


847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov


848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne


849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu


850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky


851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler


852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev


853. Middlemarch – George Eliot


854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll


855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev


856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope


857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy


858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert


859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope


860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont


861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky


862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins


863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott


864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola


865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope


866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne


867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky


868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll


869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens


870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu


871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky


872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley


873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo


874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev


875. Silas Marner – George Eliot


876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens


877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev


878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope


879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot


880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins


881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne


882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli


883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens


884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov


885. Adam Bede – George Eliot


886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert


887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell


888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens


889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau


890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens


891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë


892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell


893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe


894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne


895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne


896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville


897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne


898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens


899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë


900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell


901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë


902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë


903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë


904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë


905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray


906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas


907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas


908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas


909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe


910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens


911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe


912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac


913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens


914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol


915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal


916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe


917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens


918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens


919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol


920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac


921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac


922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo


923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal


924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni


925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper


926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg


927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin


928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin


929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott


930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott


931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen


933. Persuasion – Jane Austen


934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth


935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott


936. Emma – Jane Austen


937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen


938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen


939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth


940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen


941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth



1700s



943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin


944. The Nun – Denis Diderot


945. Camilla – Fanny Burney


946. The Monk – M.G. Lewis


947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe


949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano


950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin


951. Justine – Marquis de Sade


952. Vathek – William Beckford


953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade


954. Cecilia – Fanny Burney


955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


956. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos


957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


958. Evelina – Fanny Burney


959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett


961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie


962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne


963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne


964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith


965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole


966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot


968. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson


970. Candide – Voltaire


971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox


972. Amelia – Henry Fielding


973. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett


974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland


975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding


976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett


977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson


978. Pamela – Samuel Richardson


979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot


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


981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding


982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift


983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift


984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe


985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe


986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood


987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe


988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift



Pre-1700



989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn


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


991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan


992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe


994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly


995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais


996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous


997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius


998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus


999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton


1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid


1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus