Jun 10, 2008 22:03
- The Recognitions - William Gaddis
- The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
- Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
- I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
- Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
- The Story of O - Pauline Réage
- A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
- The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
- The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
- Watt - Samuel Beckett
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- Junkie - William Burroughs
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
- The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
- Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
- Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
- Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Rebel - Albert Camus
- Molloy - Samuel Beckett
- The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
- The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
- The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
- The Third Man - Graham Greene
- The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
- Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
- The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
- The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
- Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
- The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
- Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
- Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
- The Victim - Saul Bellow
- Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
- If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- Back - Henry Green
- Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
- The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
- The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
- Loving - Henry Green
- Arcanum 17 - André Breton
- Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
- The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
- Transit - Anna Seghers
- Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
- Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Caught - Henry Green
- The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
- Embers - Sandor Marai
- Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
- The Outsider - Albert Camus (a/k/a The Stranger)
- In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
- The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
- The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
- Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
- Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
- The Hamlet - William Faulkner
- Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
- The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
- Party Going - Henry Green
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
- Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
- Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
- Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
- U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
- Murphy - Samuel Beckett
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Years - Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis - David Jones
- The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
- To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
- Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
- At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
- Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
- Independent People - Halldór Laxness
- Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
- The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
- The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me - Graham Greene
- Burmese Days - George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
- Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
- Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
- The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
- Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
- Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
- Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
- Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
- A Day Off - Storm Jameson
- The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
- A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
- The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
- Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
- Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
- Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
- Passing - Nella Larsen
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
- Living - Henry Green
- The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
- The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
- Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
- Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
- Quartet - Jean Rhys
- Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
- Quicksand - Nella Larsen
- Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
- Nadja - André Breton
- Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
- Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Blindness - Henry Green
- The Castle - Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
- The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
- One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
- The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters - André Gide
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
- The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
- The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
- Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
- Cane - Jean Toomer
- Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
- Amok - Stefan Zweig
- The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
- The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
- Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
- Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
- Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
- Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
- Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
- Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
- The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
- Summer - Edith Wharton
- Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
- Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
- Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
- Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
- Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
- Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End - E.M. Forster
- Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden - Jack London
- Strait is the Gate - André Gide
- Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
- The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
- A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
- The Iron Heel - Jack London
- The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
- The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
- Mother - Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Young Törless - Robert Musil
- The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
- Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
- The Golden Bowl - Henry James
- The Ambassadors - Henry James
- The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
- The Immoralist - André Gide
- The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
- Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
1800s
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
- The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
- The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
- What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Born in Exile - George Gissing
- Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- News from Nowhere - William Morris
- New Grub Street - George Gissing
- Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
- La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
- By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
- Hunger - Knut Hamsun
- The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
- Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
- The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
- The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
- She - H. Rider Haggard
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
- Germinal - Émile Zola
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
- Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
- Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
- A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
- Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
- Nana - Émile Zola
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Red Room - August Strindberg
- Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Drunkard - Émile Zola
- Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
- Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
- The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
- Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
- Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
- In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Erewhon - Samuel Butler
- Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
- King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
- He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
- Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
- The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
- Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
- Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
- Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
- Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
- The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Max Havelaar - Multatuli
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Villette - Charlotte Brontë
- Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
- Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
- Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
- The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
- Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
- The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
- The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
- Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
- The Red and the Black - Stendhal
- The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
- Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
- The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
- Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
- The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
- Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
1700s
- Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
- The Nun - Denis Diderot
- Camilla - Fanny Burney
- The Monk - M.G. Lewis
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
- The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
- Justine - Marquis de Sade
- Vathek - William Beckford
- The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
- Cecilia - Fanny Burney
- Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Evelina - Fanny Burney
- The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
- The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
- A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
- Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
- The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
- The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
- Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
- Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
- Candide - Voltaire
- The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
- Amelia - Henry Fielding
- Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
- Fanny Hill - John Cleland
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
- Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
- Pamela - Samuel Richardson
- Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
- Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
- A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Roxana - Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
- Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
- Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
- The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
- The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
- Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
- The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
- The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
- Aithiopika - Heliodorus
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
- Metamorphoses - Ovid
- Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
Well gee, my to-read list might keep my busy for the rest of my life. :P
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