part the second: another "essential books" list, books 500-1001

[biblio]

1. The Recognitions - William Gaddis


2. The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini


3. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan


4. I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch


5. Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis


6. The Story of O - Pauline Réage


7. A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia


8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding


9. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch


10. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley


11. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler


12. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett


13. Watt - Samuel Beckett


14. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis


15. Junkie - William Burroughs


16. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow


17. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin


18. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming


19. The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt


20. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison


21. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway


22. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor


23. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson


24. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar


25. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett


26. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham


27. Foundation - Isaac Asimov


28. The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq


29. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger


30. The Rebel - Albert Camus


31. Molloy - Samuel Beckett


32. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene


33. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille


34. The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz


35. The Third Man - Graham Greene


36. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber


37. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake


38. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing


39. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov


40. The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese


41. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk


42. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford


43. The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge


44. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen


45. Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier


46. The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren


47. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell


48. All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani


49. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia


50. Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot


51. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene


52. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton


53. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann


54. The Victim - Saul Bellow


55. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau


56. If This Is a Man - Primo Levi


57. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry


58. The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino


59. The Plague - Albert Camus


60. Back - Henry Green


61. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake


62. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?


63. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh


64. Animal Farm - George Orwell


65. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck


66. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford


67. Loving - Henry Green


68. Arcanum 17 - André Breton


69. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi


70. The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham


71. Transit - Anna Seghers


72. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges


73. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow


74. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


75. Caught - Henry Green


76. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse


77. Embers - Sandor Marai


78. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner


79. The Outsider - Albert Camus  (a/k/a The Stranger)


80. In Sicily - Elio Vittorini


81. The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien


82. The Living and the Dead - Patrick White


83. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton


84. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf


85. The Hamlet - William Faulkner


86. Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler


87. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway


88. Native Son - Richard Wright


89. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene


90. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati


91. Party Going - Henry Green


92. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck


93. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce


94. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien


95. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell


96. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood


97. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller


98. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys


99. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler


100. After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner


101. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson


102. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre


103. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier


104. Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler


105. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene


106. U.S.A. - John Dos Passos


107. Murphy - Samuel Beckett


108. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck


109. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston


110. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien


111. The Years - Virginia Woolf


112. In Parenthesis - David Jones


113. The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis


114. Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)


115. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway


116. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner


117. Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley


118. The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West


119. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell


120. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell


121. Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson


122. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner


123. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft


124. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes


125. Independent People - Halldór Laxness


126. Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti


127. The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood


128. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy


129. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen


130. England Made Me - Graham Greene


131. Burmese Days - George Orwell


132. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers


133. Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht


134. Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev


135. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain


136. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller


137. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh


138. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald


139. Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse


140. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth


141. Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West


142. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers


143. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein


144. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain


145. A Day Off - Storm Jameson


146. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil


147. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon


148. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline


149. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley


150. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons


151. To the North - Elizabeth Bowen


152. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett


153. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth


154. The Waves - Virginia Woolf


155. The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett


156. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham


157. The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis


158. Her Privates We - Frederic Manning


159. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh


160. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett


161. Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico


162. Passing - Nella Larsen


163. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway


164. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett


165. Living - Henry Green


166. The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia


167. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque


168. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin


169. The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen


170. Harriet Hume - Rebecca West


171. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner


172. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau


173. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe


174. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille


175. Orlando - Virginia Woolf


176. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence


177. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall


178. The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis


179. Quartet - Jean Rhys


180. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh


181. Quicksand - Nella Larsen


182. Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford


183. Nadja - André Breton


184. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse


185. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust


186. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf


187. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson


188. Amerika - Franz Kafka


189. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway


190. Blindness - Henry Green


191. The Castle - Franz Kafka


192. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek


193. The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence


194. One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello


195. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie


196. The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein


197. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos


198. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf


199. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald


200. The Counterfeiters - André Gide


201. The Trial - Franz Kafka


202. The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky


203. The Professor’s House - Willa Cather


204. Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville


205. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen


206. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann


207. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin


208. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster


209. The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet


210. Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo


211. Cane - Jean Toomer


212. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley


213. Amok - Stefan Zweig


214. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield


215. The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings


216. Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf


217. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse


218. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton


219. Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair


220. The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus


221. Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence


222. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis


223. Ulysses - James Joyce


224. The Fox - D.H. Lawrence


225. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley


226. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton


227. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis


228. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence


229. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf


230. Tarr - Wyndham Lewis


231. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West


232. The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad


233. Summer - Edith Wharton


234. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen


235. Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton


236. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce


237. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse


238. Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke


239. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford


240. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf


241. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham


242. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence


243. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan


244. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki


245. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel


246. Rosshalde - Herman Hesse


247. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs


248. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell


249. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence


250. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann


251. The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens


252. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton


253. Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre


254. Howards End - E.M. Forster


255. Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel


256. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein


257. Martin Eden - Jack London


258. Strait is the Gate - André Gide


259. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells


260. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse


261. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster


262. The Iron Heel - Jack London


263. The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett


264. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson


265. Mother - Maxim Gorky


266. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad


267. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair


268. Young Törless - Robert Musil


269. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy


270. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton


271. Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann


272. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster


273. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad


274. Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe


275. The Golden Bowl - Henry James


276. The Ambassadors - Henry James


277. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers


278. The Immoralist - André Gide


279. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James


280. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad


281. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


282. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann


283. Kim - Rudyard Kipling


284. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser


285. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad



1800s



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


2. The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane


3. The Awakening - Kate Chopin


4. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James


5. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells


6. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells


7. What Maisie Knew - Henry James


8. Fruits of the Earth - André Gide


9. Dracula - Bram Stoker


10. Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz


11. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells


12. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells


13. Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane


14. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy


15. The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross


16. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman


17. Born in Exile - George Gissing


18. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith


19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


20. News from Nowhere - William Morris


21. New Grub Street - George Gissing


22. Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf


23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy


24. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde


25. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy


26. La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola


27. By the Open Sea - August Strindberg


28. Hunger - Knut Hamsun


29. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson


30. Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant


31. Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés


32. The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg


33. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy


34. She - H. Rider Haggard


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


36. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy


37. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson


38. King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard


39. Germinal - Émile Zola


40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain


41. Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant


42. Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater


43. Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans


44. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy


45. A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant


46. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson


47. The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga


48. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James


49. Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert


50. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace


51. Nana - Émile Zola


52. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky


53. The Red Room - August Strindberg


54. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy


55. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy


56. Drunkard - Émile Zola


57. Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev


58. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot


59. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy


60. The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert


61. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy


62. The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov


63. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne


64. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu


65. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky


66. Erewhon - Samuel Butler


67. Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev


68. Middlemarch - George Eliot


69. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll


70. King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev


71. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope


72. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy


73. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert


74. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope


75. Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont


76. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky


77. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins


78. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott


79. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola


80. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope


81. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne


82. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky


83. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll


84. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens


85. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu


86. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky


87. The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley


88. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo


89. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev


90. Silas Marner - George Eliot


91. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens


92. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev


93. Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope


94. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot


95. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins


96. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne


97. Max Havelaar - Multatuli


98. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens


99. Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov


100. Adam Bede - George Eliot


101. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert


102. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell


103. Hard Times - Charles Dickens


104. Walden - Henry David Thoreau


105. Bleak House - Charles Dickens


106. Villette - Charlotte Brontë


107. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell


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


109. The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne


110. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne


111. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville


112. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne


113. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens


114. Shirley - Charlotte Brontë


115. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell


116. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë


117. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë


118. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë


119. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë


120. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray


121. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas


122. La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas


123. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas


124. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe


125. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens


126. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe


127. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac


128. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens


129. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol


130. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal


131. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe


132. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens


133. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens


134. The Nose - Nikolay Gogol


135. Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac


136. Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac


137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo


138. The Red and the Black - Stendhal


139. The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni


140. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper


141. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg


142. The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin


143. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin


144. The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott


145. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott


146. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


147. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen


148. Persuasion - Jane Austen


149. Ormond - Maria Edgeworth


150. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott


151. Emma - Jane Austen


152. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen


153. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen


154. The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth


155. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen


156. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


157. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth



1700s



1. Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin


2. The Nun - Denis Diderot


3. Camilla - Fanny Burney


4. The Monk - M.G. Lewis


5. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


6. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe


7. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano


8. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin


9. Justine - Marquis de Sade


10. Vathek - William Beckford


11. The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade


12. Cecilia - Fanny Burney


13. Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


14. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos


15. Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


16. Evelina - Fanny Burney


17. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


18. Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett


19. The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie


20. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne


21. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne


22. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith


23. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole


24. Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau


25. Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot


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


27. Rasselas - Samuel Johnson


28. Candide - Voltaire


29. The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox


30. Amelia - Henry Fielding


31. Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett


32. Fanny Hill - John Cleland


33. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding


34. Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett


35. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson


36. Pamela - Samuel Richardson


37. Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot


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


39. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding


40. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift


41. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift


42. Roxana - Daniel Defoe


43. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe


44. Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood


45. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe


46. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift



Pre-1700



1. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn


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


3. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan


4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


5. The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe


6. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly


7. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais


8. The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous


9. The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius


10. Aithiopika - Heliodorus


11. Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton


12. Metamorphoses - Ovid


13. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus


Well gee, my to-read list might keep my busy for the rest of my life.  :P