Book Lists
MLA's 30 (34) Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die
1. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Third Edition, new Revised Standard Version
3. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Return of the King: being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
7. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
11. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book I) - Philip Pullman
12. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book II) - Philip Pullman
13. Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Book III) - Philip Pullman
14. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War - Sebastian Faulks
15. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
16. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
18. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
19. Winnie-The Pooh - A.A. Milne
20. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
21. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
22. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
23. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
25. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
26. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
27. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
28. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
29. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
30. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
31. Middlemarch - George Eliot
32. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
33. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
34. One Day in the Life - Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
50 Best Cult Books
1. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
2. The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell (1957-60)
3. A Rebours - JK Huysmans (1884)
4. Baby and Child Care - Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
5. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf (1991)
6. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
8. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (1951)
9. The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield (1993)
10. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart (1971)
11. Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? - Erich Von Däniken (1968)
12. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (1980)
13. Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg (1824)
15. Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health - L Ron Hubbard (1950)
16. The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley (1954)
17. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
18. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe (1968)
20. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong (1973)
21. The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer (1970)
22. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
23. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R Hofstadter (1979)
24. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973)
25. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (1982)
26. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (1948)
27. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (1979)
28. Iron John: a Book About Men - Robert Bly (1990)
29. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach and Russell Munson (1970)
30. The Magus - John Fowles (1966)
31. Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
32. The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
33. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
34. No Logo - Naomi Klein (2000)
35. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
36. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson (1971)
37. The Outsider - Colin Wilson (1956)
38. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (1923)
39. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell (1914)
40. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr - Edward FitzGerald (1859)
41. The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron (1937)
42. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)
43. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
44. Story of O - Pauline Réage (1954)
45. The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
46. The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda (1968)
47. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (1933)
48. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-85)
49. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values - Robert M Pirsig (1974)
The Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road (McCarthy)
2006 - March (Brooks)
2005 - Gilead (Robinson)
2004 - The Known World (Jones)
2003 - Middlesex (Eugenides)
2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
1999 - The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 - American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 - Independence Day (Ford)
1995 - The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 - The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 - Beloved (Morrison)
1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 - Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 - Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 - The Color Purple (Walker)
1982 - Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 - The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 - Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 - Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1969 - House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 - The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 - The Keepers Of the House (Grau)
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 - The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1960 - Advise and Consent (Drury)
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 - A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 - None given
1956 - Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 - A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 - None given
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
1952 - The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 - The Town (Richter)
1950 - The Way West (Guthrie)
1949 - Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 - All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 - None given
1945 - Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 - Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 - Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 - In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 - None given
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
1939 - The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 - The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 - The Store (Stribling)
1932 - The Good Earth (Buck)
1931 - Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 - Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 - Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 - So Big (Ferber)
1924 - The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 - One of Ours (Cather)
1922 - Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 - None given
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 - His Family (Poole)
Top 100 Novels Printed by the Big Read
(The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Classics from 1983-2008
1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club - Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral - Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus - Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories - Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness - José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest - John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty - Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing - Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession - A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked - David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto - Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters - Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America - Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava - Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time - Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock - Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman - Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers - Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan - Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager - John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City - TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money - Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis - Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia - George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld - Don DeLillo (1997) - DNF
65. The Giver - Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral - Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes - Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert (2006) (I refuse to read this)
79. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash - Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement - Ian McEwan (2002) - Read my review
83. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes - Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On - Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins - Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range - Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples - Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball - Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book) - Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Ackroyd (Foreword) and Peter Boxall (Editor)
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6. The Sea - John Banville
7. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9. The Master - Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point - David Markson
11. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
14. Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour - Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
18. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
20. Islands - Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
25. The Double - José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless - Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
31. In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud - John Banville
33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth - J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air - Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
40. Platform - Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling - Heather McGowan
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
46. Fury - Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
57. Ignorance - Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
60. City of God - E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live - Will Self
62. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia - George Saunder
1990s
70. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
71. The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World - Pat Barker
89. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes - Will Self
95. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
96. Underworld - Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable - John Banville
101. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
112. The Information - Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
123. Land - Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
131. Disappearance - David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
138. Complicity - Iain Banks
139. On Love - Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White - Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
152. Indigo - Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz - Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
164. Arcadia - Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
166. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
168. Mao II - Don DeLillo
169. Typical - Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration - Pat Barker
171. Downriver - Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children - Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women - John McGahern
176. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life - Lorrie Moore
183. Possession - A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
1980s
185. The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection - James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
197. London Fields - Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
206. Libra - Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
220. World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved - Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules - John Irving
239. A Maggot - John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact - Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise - Don DeLillo
246. Queer - William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend - David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
252. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer - William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
261. Shame - Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
264. La Brava - Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland - Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
272. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter - John Banville
278. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names - Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
284. July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April - Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage - William Golding
290. Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
1970s
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
296. Shikasta - Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp - John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
307. Yes - Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining - Stephen King
313. Dispatches - Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning - Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
327. Grimus - Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless - Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise - J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies - Martin Amis
334. Correction - Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power - Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
345. Crash - J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349. Sula - Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351. The Breast - Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
353. G - John Berger
354. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
359. Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre - Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
1960s
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles - J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
377. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
379. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
380. Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them - Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
396. Chocky - John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke - Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
407. Trawl - B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
409. The Magus - John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
413. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
414. Things - Georges Perec
415. The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog - Saul Bellow
426. V. - Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate - Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector - John Fowles
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
444. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
448. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is - Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
1950s
459. Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
468. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road - John Barth
477. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
478. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss - Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber - Max Frisch
484. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful "O" - James Thurber
488. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera - John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
506. The Story of O - Pauline Réage
507. A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
509. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
513. Watt - Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie - William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
518. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
519. The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel - Albert Camus
531. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
1940s
535. The Third Man - Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
537. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
554. The Victim - Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
559. The Plague - Albert Camus
560. Back - Henry Green
561. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
565. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
567. Loving - Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 - André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit - Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught - Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
577. Embers - Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
579. The Outsider - Albert Camus
580. In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
583. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet - William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son - Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
1930s
591. Party Going - Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
602. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
607. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years - Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis - David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
619. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People - Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me - Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days - George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off - Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
651. To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
654. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
655. The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
656. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
659. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
660. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
1920s
661. Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing - Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
665. Living - Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
669. The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
672. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
673. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
675. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
677. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
678. The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
679. Quartet - Jean Rhys
680. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
681. Quicksand - Nella Larsen
682. Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja - André Breton
684. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
688. Amerika - Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness - Henry Green
691. The Castle - Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
693. The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
698. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters - André Gide
701. The Trial - Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
705. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
707. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
708. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
709. The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
710. Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
711. Cane - Jean Toomer
712. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
713. Amok - Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses - James Joyce
724. The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
725. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
726. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
728. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
1910s
729. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
733. Summer - Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
737. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
738. Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
742. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
744. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
749. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
750. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
752. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
753. Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End - E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
1900s
756. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
757. Martin Eden - Jack London
758. Strait is the Gate - André Gide
759. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
760. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
761. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
762. The Iron Heel - Jack London
763. The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother - Maxim Gorky
766. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
768. Young Törless - Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
770. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
773. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
776. The Ambassadors - Henry James
777. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
778. The Immoralist - André Gide
779. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
780. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
783. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
784. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
1890s
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
788. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
789. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
792. What Maisie Knew - Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
795. Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
798. Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
799. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
800. The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802. Born in Exile - George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere - William Morris
806. New Grub Street - George Gissing
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1880s
810. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
811. La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
812. By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
813. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
814. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
817. The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
819. She - H. Rider Haggard
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal - Émile Zola
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
826. Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
828. Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
831. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
832. The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
836. Nana - Émile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
1870s
838. The Red Room - August Strindberg
839. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
840. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
841. Drunkard - Émile Zola
842. Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Erewhon - Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch - George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
855. King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
1860s
856. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
857. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
860. Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
861. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
862. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
864. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
870. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
871. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
873. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
874. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
875. Silas Marner - George Eliot
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
877. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
878. Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
880. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
881. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar - Multatuli
1850s
883. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
884. Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede - George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
887. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
888. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
891. Villette - Charlotte Brontë
892. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 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
1840s
898. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
899. Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
900. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
903. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
910. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
911. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
912. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
1830s
915. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
916. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
919. The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
920. Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
921. Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
923. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
1820s
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
1810s
930. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933. Persuasion - Jane Austen
934. Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma - Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
939. The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
1800s
941. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
1790s
943. Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
944. The Nun - Denis Diderot
945. Camilla - Fanny Burney
946. The Monk - M.G. Lewis
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
949. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
951. Justine - Marquis de Sade
1780s
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
1770s
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
1760s
962. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
964. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
965. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
966. Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967. Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1750s
969. Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
970. Candide - Voltaire
971. The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia - Henry Fielding
973. Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
1740s
974. Fanny Hill - John Cleland
975. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
977. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
978. Pamela - Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
1720s
982. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana - Daniel Defoe
985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
1710s
986. Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
1700s
988. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
992. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton - 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 Callirhoe - Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses - Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus (620-560 BCE)
1. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Third Edition, new Revised Standard Version
3. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Return of the King: being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
7. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
11. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book I) - Philip Pullman
12. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book II) - Philip Pullman
13. Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Book III) - Philip Pullman
14. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War - Sebastian Faulks
15. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
16. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
18. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
19. Winnie-The Pooh - A.A. Milne
20. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
21. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
22. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
23. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
25. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
26. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
27. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
28. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
29. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
30. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
31. Middlemarch - George Eliot
32. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
33. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
34. One Day in the Life - Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
50 Best Cult Books
1. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
2. The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell (1957-60)
3. A Rebours - JK Huysmans (1884)
4. Baby and Child Care - Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
5. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf (1991)
6. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
8. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (1951)
9. The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield (1993)
10. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart (1971)
11. Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? - Erich Von Däniken (1968)
12. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (1980)
13. Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg (1824)
15. Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health - L Ron Hubbard (1950)
16. The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley (1954)
17. Dune - Frank Herbert (1965)
18. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe (1968)
20. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong (1973)
21. The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer (1970)
22. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
23. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R Hofstadter (1979)
24. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973)
25. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (1982)
26. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (1948)
27. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino (1979)
28. Iron John: a Book About Men - Robert Bly (1990)
29. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach and Russell Munson (1970)
30. The Magus - John Fowles (1966)
31. Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
32. The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
33. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
34. No Logo - Naomi Klein (2000)
35. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)
36. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson (1971)
37. The Outsider - Colin Wilson (1956)
38. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (1923)
39. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell (1914)
40. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr - Edward FitzGerald (1859)
41. The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron (1937)
42. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)
43. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
44. Story of O - Pauline Réage (1954)
45. The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
46. The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda (1968)
47. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (1933)
48. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1883-85)
49. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values - Robert M Pirsig (1974)
The Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road (McCarthy)
2006 - March (Brooks)
2005 - Gilead (Robinson)
2004 - The Known World (Jones)
2003 - Middlesex (Eugenides)
2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
1999 - The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 - American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 - Independence Day (Ford)
1995 - The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 - The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 - Beloved (Morrison)
1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 - Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 - Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 - The Color Purple (Walker)
1982 - Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 - The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 - Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 - Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1969 - House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 - The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 - The Keepers Of the House (Grau)
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 - The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1960 - Advise and Consent (Drury)
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 - A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 - None given
1956 - Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 - A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 - None given
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
1952 - The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 - The Town (Richter)
1950 - The Way West (Guthrie)
1949 - Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 - All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 - None given
1945 - Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 - Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 - Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 - In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 - None given
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
1939 - The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 - The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 - The Store (Stribling)
1932 - The Good Earth (Buck)
1931 - Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 - Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 - Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 - So Big (Ferber)
1924 - The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 - One of Ours (Cather)
1922 - Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 - None given
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 - His Family (Poole)
Top 100 Novels Printed by the Big Read
(The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Classics from 1983-2008
1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club - Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral - Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus - Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories - Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness - José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest - John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty - Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing - Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession - A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked - David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto - Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters - Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America - Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava - Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time - Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock - Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman - Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers - Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan - Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager - John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City - TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money - Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis - Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia - George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld - Don DeLillo (1997) - DNF
65. The Giver - Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral - Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes - Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert (2006) (I refuse to read this)
79. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash - Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement - Ian McEwan (2002) - Read my review
83. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes - Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On - Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins - Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range - Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples - Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball - Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book) - Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Ackroyd (Foreword) and Peter Boxall (Editor)
2000s
1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6. The Sea - John Banville
7. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9. The Master - Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point - David Markson
11. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
14. Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour - Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
18. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
20. Islands - Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
25. The Double - José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless - Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
31. In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud - John Banville
33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth - J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air - Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
40. Platform - Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling - Heather McGowan
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
46. Fury - Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
57. Ignorance - Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
60. City of God - E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live - Will Self
62. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia - George Saunder
1990s
70. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
71. The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World - Pat Barker
89. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes - Will Self
95. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
96. Underworld - Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable - John Banville
101. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
112. The Information - Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
123. Land - Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
131. Disappearance - David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
138. Complicity - Iain Banks
139. On Love - Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White - Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
152. Indigo - Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz - Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
164. Arcadia - Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
166. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
168. Mao II - Don DeLillo
169. Typical - Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration - Pat Barker
171. Downriver - Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children - Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women - John McGahern
176. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life - Lorrie Moore
183. Possession - A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
1980s
185. The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection - James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
197. London Fields - Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
206. Libra - Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
220. World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved - Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules - John Irving
239. A Maggot - John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact - Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise - Don DeLillo
246. Queer - William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend - David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
252. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer - William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
261. Shame - Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
264. La Brava - Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland - Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
272. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter - John Banville
278. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names - Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
284. July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April - Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage - William Golding
290. Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
1970s
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
296. Shikasta - Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp - John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
307. Yes - Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining - Stephen King
313. Dispatches - Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning - Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
327. Grimus - Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless - Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise - J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies - Martin Amis
334. Correction - Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power - Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
345. Crash - J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349. Sula - Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351. The Breast - Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
353. G - John Berger
354. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
359. Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre - Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
1960s
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles - J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
377. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
379. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
380. Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them - Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
396. Chocky - John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke - Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
407. Trawl - B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
409. The Magus - John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
413. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
414. Things - Georges Perec
415. The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog - Saul Bellow
426. V. - Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate - Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector - John Fowles
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
444. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
448. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is - Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
1950s
459. Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
468. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road - John Barth
477. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
478. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss - Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber - Max Frisch
484. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful "O" - James Thurber
488. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera - John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
506. The Story of O - Pauline Réage
507. A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
509. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
513. Watt - Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie - William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
518. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
519. The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel - Albert Camus
531. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
1940s
535. The Third Man - Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
537. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
554. The Victim - Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
559. The Plague - Albert Camus
560. Back - Henry Green
561. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
565. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
567. Loving - Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 - André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit - Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught - Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
577. Embers - Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
579. The Outsider - Albert Camus
580. In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
583. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet - William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son - Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
1930s
591. Party Going - Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
602. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
607. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years - Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis - David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
619. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People - Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me - Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days - George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off - Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
651. To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
654. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
655. The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
656. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
659. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
660. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
1920s
661. Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing - Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
665. Living - Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
669. The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
672. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
673. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
675. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
677. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
678. The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
679. Quartet - Jean Rhys
680. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
681. Quicksand - Nella Larsen
682. Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja - André Breton
684. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
688. Amerika - Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness - Henry Green
691. The Castle - Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
693. The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
698. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters - André Gide
701. The Trial - Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
705. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
707. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
708. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
709. The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
710. Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
711. Cane - Jean Toomer
712. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
713. Amok - Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses - James Joyce
724. The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
725. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
726. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
728. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
1910s
729. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
733. Summer - Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
737. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
738. Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
742. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
744. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
749. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
750. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
752. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
753. Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End - E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
1900s
756. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
757. Martin Eden - Jack London
758. Strait is the Gate - André Gide
759. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
760. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
761. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
762. The Iron Heel - Jack London
763. The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother - Maxim Gorky
766. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
768. Young Törless - Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
770. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
773. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
776. The Ambassadors - Henry James
777. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
778. The Immoralist - André Gide
779. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
780. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
783. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
784. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
1890s
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
788. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
789. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
792. What Maisie Knew - Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
795. Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
798. Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
799. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
800. The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
801. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802. Born in Exile - George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere - William Morris
806. New Grub Street - George Gissing
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1880s
810. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
811. La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
812. By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
813. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
814. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
817. The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
819. She - H. Rider Haggard
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal - Émile Zola
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
826. Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
828. Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
831. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
832. The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
836. Nana - Émile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
1870s
838. The Red Room - August Strindberg
839. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
840. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
841. Drunkard - Émile Zola
842. Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Erewhon - Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch - George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
855. King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
1860s
856. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
857. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
860. Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
861. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
862. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
864. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
870. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
871. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
873. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
874. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
875. Silas Marner - George Eliot
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
877. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
878. Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
880. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
881. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar - Multatuli
1850s
883. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
884. Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede - George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
887. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
888. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
891. Villette - Charlotte Brontë
892. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 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
1840s
898. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
899. Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
900. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
903. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
910. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
911. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
912. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
1830s
915. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
916. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
919. The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
920. Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
921. Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
923. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
1820s
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
1810s
930. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
931. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933. Persuasion - Jane Austen
934. Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma - Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
939. The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
1800s
941. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
1790s
943. Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
944. The Nun - Denis Diderot
945. Camilla - Fanny Burney
946. The Monk - M.G. Lewis
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
949. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
951. Justine - Marquis de Sade
1780s
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
1770s
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
1760s
962. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
964. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
965. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
966. Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967. Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1750s
969. Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
970. Candide - Voltaire
971. The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia - Henry Fielding
973. Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
1740s
974. Fanny Hill - John Cleland
975. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
977. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
978. Pamela - Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
1720s
982. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana - Daniel Defoe
985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
1710s
986. Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
1700s
988. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
990. The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
992. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton - 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 Callirhoe - Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses - Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus (620-560 BCE)