1001 Books to read before...
List from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (by Peter Boxall). The main list below is from his original publication (2006), while those listed under 'revisions' are titles he included in the 2008 and 2010 reprints.
- Books read are noted in Bold.
- Books reviewed on this blog are Underlined (links to my review).
Original list
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
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
20 Islands – Dan Sleigh
21 Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22 London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23 Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
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
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
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
55 The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56 Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57 Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58 Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59 Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60 City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61 How the Dead Live – Will Self
62 The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63 The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64 After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65 Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66 Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67 House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68 Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69 Pastoralia – George Saunders
1900s
70 Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71 The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72 Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73 As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74 Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
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
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
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
106 Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107 Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108 The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
220 World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221 Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222 The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
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
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
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
285 Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286 Broken April – Ismail Kadare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
519 The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520 Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
522 Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523 The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
525 Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526 Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527 Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528 The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
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
545 Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546 The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
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
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
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
602 Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
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
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
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
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 Scot’s 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
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
688 Amerika – Franz Kafka
689 The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
690 Blindness – Henry Green
691 The Castle – Franz Kafka
692 The Good Soldier – Jaroslav Hasek
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
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
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
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
736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
737 Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
738 Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
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
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 Saga – John Galsworthy
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
785 Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
1800s
786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
787 The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
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
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
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
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
841 Drunkard – Émile Zola
842 Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
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
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
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
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
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
900 Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902 Wuthering Heights – Emily 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
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
934 Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
935 Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
936 Emma – Jane Austen
937 Mansfield Park – 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
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
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
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
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
Revisions
Animal's People - Indira Sinha
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Children's Book - A S Byatt
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Invisible - Paul Auster
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
Cost: A Novel - Roxana Robinson
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Home - Marilynne Robinson
Carry Me Down - M J Hyland
Kieron Smith, Boy - James Kelman
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Who - Junot Diaz
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Small Island - Andrea Levy
The Book about Blanche and Marie - Per Olov Enquist
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Swarm - Frank Schatzing
Your Face Tomorrow - Javier Marias
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
Lady Number Thirteen - Jose Carlos Somoza
The Successor - Ismail Kadare
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Soldiers of Salamis - Javer Cercas
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Bartleby and Co - Enrique Vila-Matas
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Urgresic
In Search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
Pavel's Letters - Monika Maron
Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Guitterez
The Heretic - Miguel Deliber
Crossfire - Miyabe Miyuki
Money to Burn - Ricardo Piglia
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Light Comedy - Eduardo Mendoza
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Light-Night News - Petros Markaris
Troubling Love - Elena Ferrente
Our Lady of Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Waiting for the Dark, Wiating for the Light - Ivan Klima
The Twins - Tessa De Loo
The Holder of the World - Bjarati Mukherkee
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll - Alvaro Mutis
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
Uncle Petros and Goldbac's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
The Triple Mirror of the Self - Zulfikar Ghose
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Memoirs of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
Astradeni - Eugenia Faking
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
The Laws - Connie Palmen
The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis
The Shadow Lines - Amativ Ghosh
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Inland - Gerald Murnane
Obabakoak - Bernando Atxqga
Gimmick! - Joost Zageman
Paradise of the Bling - Duong Thu Huong
The Last World - Christopher Ransmayr
The First Garden - Anne Herbert
Kitchen - Banana Tashimotio
Black Box - Amos Oz
All Souls - Javier Marias
Of Love and Shadow - Isabel Allende
The Ballad for Georg Henig - Viktor Paskov
Memory of Fire - Eduardo Geleano
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman - Andrzej Szczypiorski
Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden
Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Simon and the Oaks - Marianne Fredriksson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Half of Man is Woman - Zhang Xianliang
Love Medicine - Louise Erdlich
The Young Man - Botho Strauss
Democracy - Joan Didion
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios
Professor Marten's Departure - Jaan Kross
The Witness - Juan Jose Saer
Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Christmas Oratorio - Goran Tunstrom
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Sarmago
The Book of Disquiet -Fernando Pessoa
Couples, Passerby - Botho Strauss
The War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie
The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjorg Wassmo
Smell of Sadness - Alfred Kossman
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban
Fool's Gold - Mary Douka
A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawai
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
The Commandant - Jessica Anderson
The Port - Antun Solijan
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
The Dispossessed - Ursula K LeGuin
The Optimistrist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi
Lives of Girls & Women – Alice Munro
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Children's Book - A S Byatt
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Invisible - Paul Auster
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
Cost: A Novel - Roxana Robinson
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Home - Marilynne Robinson
Carry Me Down - M J Hyland
Kieron Smith, Boy - James Kelman
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Who - Junot Diaz
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Small Island - Andrea Levy
The Book about Blanche and Marie - Per Olov Enquist
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Swarm - Frank Schatzing
Your Face Tomorrow - Javier Marias
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
Lady Number Thirteen - Jose Carlos Somoza
The Successor - Ismail Kadare
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Soldiers of Salamis - Javer Cercas
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Bartleby and Co - Enrique Vila-Matas
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Urgresic
In Search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
Pavel's Letters - Monika Maron
Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Guitterez
The Heretic - Miguel Deliber
Crossfire - Miyabe Miyuki
Money to Burn - Ricardo Piglia
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Light Comedy - Eduardo Mendoza
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Light-Night News - Petros Markaris
Troubling Love - Elena Ferrente
Our Lady of Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Waiting for the Dark, Wiating for the Light - Ivan Klima
The Twins - Tessa De Loo
The Holder of the World - Bjarati Mukherkee
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll - Alvaro Mutis
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
Uncle Petros and Goldbac's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
The Triple Mirror of the Self - Zulfikar Ghose
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Memoirs of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
Astradeni - Eugenia Faking
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
The Laws - Connie Palmen
The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis
The Shadow Lines - Amativ Ghosh
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Inland - Gerald Murnane
Obabakoak - Bernando Atxqga
Gimmick! - Joost Zageman
Paradise of the Bling - Duong Thu Huong
The Last World - Christopher Ransmayr
The First Garden - Anne Herbert
Kitchen - Banana Tashimotio
Black Box - Amos Oz
All Souls - Javier Marias
Of Love and Shadow - Isabel Allende
The Ballad for Georg Henig - Viktor Paskov
Memory of Fire - Eduardo Geleano
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman - Andrzej Szczypiorski
Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden
Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Simon and the Oaks - Marianne Fredriksson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Half of Man is Woman - Zhang Xianliang
Love Medicine - Louise Erdlich
The Young Man - Botho Strauss
Democracy - Joan Didion
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios
Professor Marten's Departure - Jaan Kross
The Witness - Juan Jose Saer
Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Christmas Oratorio - Goran Tunstrom
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Sarmago
The Book of Disquiet -Fernando Pessoa
Couples, Passerby - Botho Strauss
The War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie
The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjorg Wassmo
Smell of Sadness - Alfred Kossman
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban
Fool's Gold - Mary Douka
A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawai
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
The Commandant - Jessica Anderson
The Port - Antun Solijan
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
The Dispossessed - Ursula K LeGuin
The Optimistrist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi
Lives of Girls & Women – Alice Munro
Cataract – Mykhaylo Osadchyl
A World for Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
Here’s to You, Jesusa – Elena Poniatowska
Seasons of Migrations to the North – Tayeb Salih
Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig
Moscow Stations – Venedikt Yerofeev
The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad
Jacob the Liar – Jurek Becker
The Cathedral – Oles Honchar
Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia
Silence – Shusaku Endo
Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic
Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers
The Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Dog Years – Gunter Grass
The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis
The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuente
Time of Silence – Luis Martin-Santos
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas
No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti
God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola
Halftime – Martin Walser
The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Down Second Avenue – Ezekiel Mphahlele
The Guide – R.K.Narayan
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck
The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Tree of Man - Patrick White
The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo
The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac
The Dark Child – Camara Laye
The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen
The Lost Steps – Alejo Capentier
A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela
Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
The Guiltless – Hermann Broch
The Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski
In The Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski
Journey to the Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela
Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vlan
Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz
House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell
Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Death of Virgil – Herman Broch
Andrea – Carmen Laforet
The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andrić
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese
Broad and Aliens is the World – Ciro Alegria
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
War with the Newts – Karel Capek
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon
On the Heights of Despair – Emil Cioran
The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux
Cheese – Willem Elsschot
Vipers’ Tangle – Francois Mauriac
The Forbidden Realm – J.J.Slauerhoff
The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza
Insatiability – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Monica – Saunders Lewis
I Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson
Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnoor
The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig
Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos
Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo
The New World – Henruy Walda-Sellasse
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu
Claudine’s House – Colette
Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini
The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
Pallieter – Felix Timmermans
The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela
Platero and I – Juan Ramon Jiminez
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
None but the Brave – Arthur Schnitzler
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo
Pharoah – Boleslaw Prus
Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos
The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto
Down There – Joris-Karl Huysmans
Thais – Anatole France
Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio
Under the Yoke – Ivan Vazov
The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan
The Quest – Frederik van Eeden
The Regent’s Wife – Clarin Leopoldo Alas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez
The Crime of Father Amado – Jose Maria Eca de Quieros
Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera
Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter
Green Henry – Gottfried Keller
The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Camera Obscura – Hildebrand
The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience
Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing – Joseph von Eichendorff
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffman
Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis
A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin
Anton Reiser – Karl Phillip Moritz
The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans von Girmmelshausen
The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney
Monkey: A Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
The Lusiad – Luis Vaz de Camoes
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas
Tirant lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell
The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong
Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous
A World for Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
Here’s to You, Jesusa – Elena Poniatowska
Seasons of Migrations to the North – Tayeb Salih
Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig
Moscow Stations – Venedikt Yerofeev
The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad
Jacob the Liar – Jurek Becker
The Cathedral – Oles Honchar
Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia
Silence – Shusaku Endo
Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic
Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers
The Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Dog Years – Gunter Grass
The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis
The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuente
Time of Silence – Luis Martin-Santos
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas
No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti
God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola
Halftime – Martin Walser
The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Down Second Avenue – Ezekiel Mphahlele
The Guide – R.K.Narayan
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck
The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Tree of Man - Patrick White
The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo
The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac
The Dark Child – Camara Laye
The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen
The Lost Steps – Alejo Capentier
A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela
Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
The Guiltless – Hermann Broch
The Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski
In The Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski
Journey to the Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela
Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vlan
Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz
House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell
Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Death of Virgil – Herman Broch
Andrea – Carmen Laforet
The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andrić
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese
Broad and Aliens is the World – Ciro Alegria
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
War with the Newts – Karel Capek
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon
On the Heights of Despair – Emil Cioran
The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux
Cheese – Willem Elsschot
Vipers’ Tangle – Francois Mauriac
The Forbidden Realm – J.J.Slauerhoff
The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza
Insatiability – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Monica – Saunders Lewis
I Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson
Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnoor
The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig
Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos
Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo
The New World – Henruy Walda-Sellasse
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu
Claudine’s House – Colette
Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini
The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
Pallieter – Felix Timmermans
The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela
Platero and I – Juan Ramon Jiminez
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
None but the Brave – Arthur Schnitzler
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo
Pharoah – Boleslaw Prus
Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos
The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto
Down There – Joris-Karl Huysmans
Thais – Anatole France
Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio
Under the Yoke – Ivan Vazov
The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan
The Quest – Frederik van Eeden
The Regent’s Wife – Clarin Leopoldo Alas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez
The Crime of Father Amado – Jose Maria Eca de Quieros
Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera
Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter
Green Henry – Gottfried Keller
The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Camera Obscura – Hildebrand
The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience
Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing – Joseph von Eichendorff
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffman
Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis
A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin
Anton Reiser – Karl Phillip Moritz
The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans von Girmmelshausen
The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney
Monkey: A Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
The Lusiad – Luis Vaz de Camoes
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas
Tirant lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell
The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong
Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous