1001 books
I might have done this before, but am too lazy to check.. anyway, here's the 1001 books you must read before you die (link also here: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id22845/Books ) list. the ones in bold are the ones I've read. not too many of them xDD
Not making a reading challenge of it, but well.. I like lists and such xD
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz
Count: 69
Italics signify a book I started, but did not finish.
***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 Saunders
***1900s
70.Timbuktu - Paul Auster
71.The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
72.Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
73.As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
74.Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
75.Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
76.The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
77.Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
78.Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
79.Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
80.Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
81.Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
82.Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
83.All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
84.The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
85.Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
86.The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
87.Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
88.Another World - Pat Barker
89.The Hours - Michael Cunningham
90.Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
91.Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
92.The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
94.Great Apes - Will Self
95.Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
96.Underworld - Don DeLillo
97.Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
98.The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
99.American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100.The Untouchable - John Banville
101.Silk - Alessandro Baricco
102.Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
103.Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
104.Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
105.The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
106.Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
107.Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
108.The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
109.Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
110.The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
111.Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
112.The Information - Martin Amis
113.The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
114.Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
115.The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
116.The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117.A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
118.Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
119.The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
120.Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
121.The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
122.Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
123.Land - Park Kyong-ni
124.The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
125.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
126.Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
127.City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
128.How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
129.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
130.Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
131.Disappearance - David Dabydeen
132.The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
133.The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
134.Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
135.Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
136.Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
137.Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
138.Complicity - Iain Banks
139.On Love - Alain de Botton
140.What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
141.A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
142.The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
144.The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
145.The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
146.The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
147.The Secret History - Donna Tartt
148.Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
149.The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
150.A Heart So White - Javier Marias
151.Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
152.Indigo - Marina Warner
153.The Crow Road - Iain Banks
154.Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
155.Jazz - Toni Morrison
156.The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157.Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
158.The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
159.Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
160.The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
161.Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162.Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
163.Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
164.Arcadia - Jim Crace
165.Wild Swans - Jung Chang
166.American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167.Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
168.Mao II - Don DeLillo
169.Typical - Padgett Powell
170.Regeneration - Pat Barker
171.Downriver - Iain Sinclair
172.Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
173.Wise Children - Angela Carter
174.Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
175.Amongst Women - John McGahern
176.Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
177.Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
178.Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
179.The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
180.The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
181.A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
182.Like Life - Lorrie Moore
183.Possession - A.S. Byatt
184.The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
185.The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
186.A Disaffection - James Kelman
187.Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188.Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189.Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
190.Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
191.The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
192.The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
193.The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
194.The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
195.Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196.A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
197.London Fields - Martin Amis
198.The Book of Evidence - John Banville
199.Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
200.Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
201.The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
202.Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
203.The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
204.The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
205.Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
206.Libra - Don DeLillo
207.The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
208.Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
209.The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210.Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
211.The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
212.The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
213.The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214.The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
215.The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
216.The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
217.Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
218.The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
219.The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
220.World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
221.Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
222.The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
223.Beloved - Toni Morrison
224.Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
225.Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226.Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
227.Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228.The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
229.Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
230.An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
231.Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
232.Foe - J.M. Coetzee
233.The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
234.Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
235.The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
236.Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
237.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
238.The Cider House Rules - John Irving
239.A Maggot - John Fowles
240.Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
241.Contact - Carl Sagan
242.The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
243.Perfume - Patrick Süskind
244.Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
245.White Noise - Don DeLillo
246.Queer - William Burroughs
247.Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
248.Legend - David Gemmell
249.Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
250.The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
251.The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
252.The Lover - Marguerite Duras
253.Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
254.The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
255.Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256.The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
257.Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
258.Neuromancer - William Gibson
259.Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
260.Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
261.Shame - Salman Rushdie
262.Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
263.Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
264.La Brava - Elmore Leonard
265.Waterland - Graham Swift
266.The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
267.The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
268.The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
269.The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
270.If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
271.A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
272.The Color Purple - Alice Walker
273.Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
274.A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
275.Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
276.The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
277.The Newton Letter - John Banville
278.On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
279.Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
280.The Names - Don DeLillo
281.Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
282.Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
283.The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
284.July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
285.Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
286.Broken April - Ismail Kadare
287.Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
288.Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
289.Rites of Passage - William Golding
290.Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
291.Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
292.City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
293.The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
294.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
295.Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
296.Shikasta - Doris Lessing
297.A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
298.Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299.The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
300.If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
301.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
302.The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
303.The World According to Garp - John Irving
304.Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
305.The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
306.The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
307.Yes - Thomas Bernhard
308.The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
309.In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
310.The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
311.Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
312.The Shining - Stephen King
313.Dispatches - Michael Herr
314.Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315.Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
316.The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
317.The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
318.Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
319.The Public Burning - Robert Coover
320.Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
321.Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
322.Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
323.Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
324.Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
325.W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
326.A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
327.Grimus - Salman Rushdie
328.The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
329.Fateless - Imre Kertész
330.Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
331.High Rise - J.G. Ballard
332.Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
333.Dead Babies - Martin Amis
334.Correction - Thomas Bernhard
335.Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
336.The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
337.Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
338.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
339.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
340.Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341.Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
342.A Question of Power - Bessie Head
343.The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
344.The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
345.Crash - J.G. Ballard
346.The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
347.Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348.The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349.Sula - Toni Morrison
350.Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351.The Breast - Philip Roth
352.The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
353.G - John Berger
354.Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
355.House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
356.In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
357.The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
358.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
359.Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
360.The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
361.Rabbit Redux - John Updike
362.The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
363.The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
364.The Ogre - Michael Tournier
365.The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
366.Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
367.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368.Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
369.Troubles - J.G. Farrell
370.Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
371.The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
372.Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
373.Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
374.Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
375.Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376.The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
377.The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
378.Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
379.The Godfather - Mario Puzo
380.Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
381.Them - Joyce Carol Oates
382.A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
383.Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
384.Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
385.The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
386.Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
387.Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388.The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389.2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
391.Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
392.The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
393.In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
394.A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
395.The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
396.Chocky - John Wyndham
397.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
398.The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
399.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400.The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
401.Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
402.The Joke - Milan Kundera
403.No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
404.The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
405.A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
406.The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
407.Trawl - B.S. Johnson
408.In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
409.The Magus - John Fowles
410.The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
411.Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
412.Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
413.The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
414.Things - Georges Perec
415.The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416.August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
417.God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
418.Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
419.The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
420.Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
421.Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
422.Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
423.Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
424.The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
425.Herzog - Saul Bellow
426.V. - Thomas Pynchon
427.Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428.The Graduate - Charles Webb
429.Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
430.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
431.The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
432.Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
433.The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
434.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435.The Collector - John Fowles
436.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
437.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438.Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
439.The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
440.The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
441.Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
442.Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
443.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
444.Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
445.Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
446.A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
447.Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
448.Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
449.Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
450.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
452.The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
453.How It Is - Samuel Beckett
454.Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
455.The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
456.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
457.Rabbit, Run - John Updike
458.Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
459.Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
460.Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
461.Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
462.The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
463.Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
464.Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
465.Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
466.Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
467.Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
468.The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469.Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
470.A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
471.The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
472.Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
473.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
474.Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
475.Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
476.The End of the Road - John Barth
477.The Once and Future King - T.H. White
478.The Bell - Iris Murdoch
479.Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
480.Voss - Patrick White
481.The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
482.Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
483.Homo Faber - Max Frisch
484.On the Road - Jack Kerouac
485.Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
486.Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487.The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber
488.Justine - Lawrence Durrell
489.Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
490.The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
491.The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
492.Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
493.The Floating Opera - John Barth
494.The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495.The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
496.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
497.A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
498.The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
499.The Quiet American - Graham Greene
500.The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
501.The Recognitions - William Gaddis
502.The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
503.Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
504.I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
505.Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
506.The Story of O - Pauline Réage
507.A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
508.Lord of the Flies - William Golding
509.Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
510.The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
511.The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
512.The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
513.Watt - Samuel Beckett
514.Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
515.Junkie - William Burroughs
516.The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
517.Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
518.Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
519.The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520.Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
522.Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
523.The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
524.Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
525.Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
526.Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527.Foundation - Isaac Asimov
528.The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
529.The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
530.The Rebel - Albert Camus
531.Molloy - Samuel Beckett
532.The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
533.The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
534.The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
535.The Third Man - Graham Greene
536.The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
537.Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
538.The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
539.I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
540.The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
541.The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
542.Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
543.The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
544.The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
545.Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
546.The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
547.Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
548.All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
549.Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
550.Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
551.The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
552.Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
553.Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
554.The Victim - Saul Bellow
555.Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
556.If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
557.Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
558.The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
559.The Plague - Albert Camus
560.Back - Henry Green
561.Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
562.The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
563.Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564.Animal Farm - George Orwell
565.Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566.The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
567.Loving - Henry Green
568.Arcanum 17 - André Breton
569.Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
570.The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
571.Transit - Anna Seghers
572.Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573.Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575.Caught - Henry Green
576.The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
577.Embers - Sandor Marai
578.Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
579.The Outsider - Albert Camus
580.In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
581.The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
582.The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
583.Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
584.Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
585.The Hamlet - William Faulkner
586.Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
587.For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
588.Native Son - Richard Wright
589.The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
590.The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
591.Party Going - Henry Green
592.The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
593.Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
594.At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
595.Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
596.Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
597.Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
598.Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
599.The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
600.After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
601.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
602.Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603.Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
604.Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
605.Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
606.U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
607.Murphy - Samuel Beckett
608.Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
609.Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610.The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
611.The Years - Virginia Woolf
612.In Parenthesis - David Jones
613.The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614.Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615.To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
616.Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
617.Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
618.The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
619.Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620.Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
621.Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
622.Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
623.At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
624.Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
625.Independent People - Halldór Laxness
626.Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
627.The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
628.They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
629.The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
630.England Made Me - Graham Greene
631.Burmese Days - George Orwell
632.The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
633.Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
634.Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
635.The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
636.Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637.A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
638.Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
639.Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
640.Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
641.Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
642.Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
643.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
644.Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
645.A Day Off - Storm Jameson
646.The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
647.A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648.Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
650.Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
651.To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
652.The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
653.The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
654.The Waves - Virginia Woolf
655.The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
656.Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
657.The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
658.Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
659.Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
660.The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
661.Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
662.Passing - Nella Larsen
663.A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
664.Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
665.Living - Henry Green
666.The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
667.All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
668.Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
669.The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
670.Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
671.The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
672.Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
673.Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
674.Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
675.Orlando - Virginia Woolf
676.Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
677.The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
678.The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
679.Quartet - Jean Rhys
680.Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
681.Quicksand - Nella Larsen
682.Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
683.Nadja - André Breton
684.Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
685.Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
686.To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
687.Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
688.Amerika - Franz Kafka
689.The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
690.Blindness - Henry Green
691.The Castle - Franz Kafka
692.The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
693.The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
694.One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
695.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
696.The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
697.Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
698.Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
700.The Counterfeiters - André Gide
701.The Trial - Franz Kafka
702.The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
703.The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
704.Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
705.The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
706.The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
707.We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
708.A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
709.The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
710.Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
711.Cane - Jean Toomer
712.Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
713.Amok - Stefan Zweig
714.The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
715.The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
716.Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
717.Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
718.The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
719.Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
720.The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
721.Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
722.Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
723.Ulysses - James Joyce
724.The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
725.Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
726.The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727.Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
728.Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
729.Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
730.Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
731.The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
732.The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
733.Summer - Edith Wharton
734.Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
735.Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
736.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
737.Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
738.Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739.The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
740.The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741.Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
742.The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
743.The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
744.Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
745.Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
746.Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
747.Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
748.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
749.Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
750.Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
751.The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
752.Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
753.Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754.Howards End - E.M. Forster
755.Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
756.Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
757.Martin Eden - Jack London
758.Strait is the Gate - André Gide
759.Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
760.The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
761.A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
762.The Iron Heel - Jack London
763.The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
764.The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
765.Mother - Maxim Gorky
766.The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
767.The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
768.Young Törless - Robert Musil
769.The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
770.The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
771.Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
772.Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
773.Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
774.Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
775.The Golden Bowl - Henry James
776.The Ambassadors - Henry James
777.The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
778.The Immoralist - André Gide
779.The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
780.Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781.The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782.Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
783.Kim - Rudyard Kipling
784.Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785.Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
***1800s
786.Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
787.The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
788.The Awakening - Kate Chopin
789.The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
790.The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
791.The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
792.What Maisie Knew - Henry James
793.Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
794.Dracula - Bram Stoker
795.Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
796.The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797.The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
798.Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
799.Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
800.The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
801.The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802.Born in Exile - George Gissing
803.Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
804.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805.News from Nowhere - William Morris
806.New Grub Street - George Gissing
807.Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
808.Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
809.The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
810.The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
811.La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
812.By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
813.Hunger - Knut Hamsun
814.The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
815.Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
816.Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
817.The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
818.The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
819.She - H. Rider Haggard
820.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
821.The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
822.Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
823.King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
824.Germinal - Émile Zola
825.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
826.Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
827.Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
828.Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
829.The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
830.A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
831.Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
832.The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
833.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
834.Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
835.Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
836.Nana - Émile Zola
837.The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
838.The Red Room - August Strindberg
839.Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
840.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
841.Drunkard - Émile Zola
842.Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
843.Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
844.The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
845.The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
846.Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
847.The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
848.Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
849.In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
850.The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
851.Erewhon - Samuel Butler
852.Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
853.Middlemarch - George Eliot
854.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
855.King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
856.He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
857.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
858.Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
859.Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
860.Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
861.The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
862.The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863.Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
864.Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
865.The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866.Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
867.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869.Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
870.Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
871.Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
872.The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
873.Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
874.Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
875.Silas Marner - George Eliot
876.Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
877.On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
878.Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879.The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
880.The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
881.The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
882.Max Havelaar - Multatuli
883.A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
884.Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
885.Adam Bede - George Eliot
886.Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
887.North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
888.Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889.Walden - Henry David Thoreau
890.Bleak House - Charles Dickens
891.Villette - Charlotte Brontë
892.Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893.Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
894.The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
895.The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
896.Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
897.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
898.David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
899.Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
900.Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
901.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
902.Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
903.Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
905.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906.The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
907.La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
908.The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909.The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
910.Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
911.The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
912.Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
913.A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914.Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
915.The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
916.The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
917.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
918.Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
919.The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
920.Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
921.Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
922.The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
923.The Red and the Black - Stendhal
924.The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
925.Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
926.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
927.The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
928.Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
929.The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
930.Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
931.Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932.Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933.Persuasion - Jane Austen
934.Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935.Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
936.Emma - Jane Austen
937.Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
939.The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
940.Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
941.Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942.Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
***1700s
943.Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
944.The Nun - Denis Diderot
945.Camilla - Fanny Burney
946.The Monk - M.G. Lewis
947.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948.The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
949.The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
950.The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
951.Justine - Marquis de Sade
952.Vathek - William Beckford
953.The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
954.Cecilia - Fanny Burney
955.Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956.Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957.Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958.Evelina - Fanny Burney
959.The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960.Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
961.The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
962.A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
963.Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
964.The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
965.The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
966.Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967.Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
968.Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969.Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
970.Candide - Voltaire
971.The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
972.Amelia - Henry Fielding
973.Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
974.Fanny Hill - John Cleland
975.Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
976.Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
977.Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
978.Pamela - Samuel Richardson
979.Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
980.Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981.Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
982.A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
983.Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
984.Roxana - Daniel Defoe
985.Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
986.Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
987.Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
988.A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
***Pre-1700
989.Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
990.The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991.The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
992.Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993.The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
994.Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
995.Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
996.The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
997.The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
998.Aithiopika - Heliodorus
999.Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
1000.Metamorphoses - Ovid
1001.Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
Above all I would say the list provides good material for discussion - what is lacking, what is there too much of... to name just one example I cant understand how there are so many works of Beckett but "Waiting for Godot" is not there o__O
Not making a reading challenge of it, but well.. I like lists and such xD
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz
Count: 69
Italics signify a book I started, but did not finish.
***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 Saunders
***1900s
70.Timbuktu - Paul Auster
71.The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
72.Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
73.As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
74.Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
75.Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
76.The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
77.Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
78.Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
79.Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
80.Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
81.Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
82.Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
83.All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
84.The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
85.Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
86.The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
87.Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
88.Another World - Pat Barker
89.The Hours - Michael Cunningham
90.Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
91.Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
92.The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
94.Great Apes - Will Self
95.Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
96.Underworld - Don DeLillo
97.Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
98.The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
99.American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100.The Untouchable - John Banville
101.Silk - Alessandro Baricco
102.Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
103.Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
104.Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
105.The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
106.Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
107.Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
108.The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
109.Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
110.The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
111.Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
112.The Information - Martin Amis
113.The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
114.Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
115.The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
116.The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117.A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
118.Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
119.The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
120.Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
121.The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
122.Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
123.Land - Park Kyong-ni
124.The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
125.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
126.Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
127.City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
128.How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
129.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
130.Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
131.Disappearance - David Dabydeen
132.The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
133.The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
134.Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
135.Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
136.Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
137.Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
138.Complicity - Iain Banks
139.On Love - Alain de Botton
140.What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
141.A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
142.The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
144.The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
145.The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
146.The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
147.The Secret History - Donna Tartt
148.Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
149.The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
150.A Heart So White - Javier Marias
151.Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
152.Indigo - Marina Warner
153.The Crow Road - Iain Banks
154.Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
155.Jazz - Toni Morrison
156.The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157.Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
158.The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
159.Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
160.The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
161.Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162.Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
163.Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
164.Arcadia - Jim Crace
165.Wild Swans - Jung Chang
166.American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167.Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
168.Mao II - Don DeLillo
169.Typical - Padgett Powell
170.Regeneration - Pat Barker
171.Downriver - Iain Sinclair
172.Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
173.Wise Children - Angela Carter
174.Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
175.Amongst Women - John McGahern
176.Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
177.Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
178.Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
179.The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
180.The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
181.A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
182.Like Life - Lorrie Moore
183.Possession - A.S. Byatt
184.The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
185.The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
186.A Disaffection - James Kelman
187.Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188.Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189.Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
190.Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
191.The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
192.The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
193.The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
194.The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
195.Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196.A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
197.London Fields - Martin Amis
198.The Book of Evidence - John Banville
199.Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
200.Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
201.The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
202.Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
203.The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
204.The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
205.Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
206.Libra - Don DeLillo
207.The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
208.Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
209.The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210.Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
211.The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
212.The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
213.The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214.The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
215.The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
216.The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
217.Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
218.The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
219.The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
220.World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
221.Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
222.The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
223.Beloved - Toni Morrison
224.Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
225.Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226.Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
227.Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228.The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
229.Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
230.An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
231.Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
232.Foe - J.M. Coetzee
233.The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
234.Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
235.The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
236.Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
237.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
238.The Cider House Rules - John Irving
239.A Maggot - John Fowles
240.Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
241.Contact - Carl Sagan
242.The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
243.Perfume - Patrick Süskind
244.Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
245.White Noise - Don DeLillo
246.Queer - William Burroughs
247.Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
248.Legend - David Gemmell
249.Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
250.The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
251.The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
252.The Lover - Marguerite Duras
253.Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
254.The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
255.Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256.The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
257.Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
258.Neuromancer - William Gibson
259.Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
260.Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
261.Shame - Salman Rushdie
262.Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
263.Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
264.La Brava - Elmore Leonard
265.Waterland - Graham Swift
266.The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
267.The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
268.The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
269.The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
270.If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
271.A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
272.The Color Purple - Alice Walker
273.Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
274.A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
275.Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
276.The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
277.The Newton Letter - John Banville
278.On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
279.Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
280.The Names - Don DeLillo
281.Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
282.Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
283.The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
284.July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
285.Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
286.Broken April - Ismail Kadare
287.Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
288.Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
289.Rites of Passage - William Golding
290.Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
291.Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
292.City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
293.The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
294.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
295.Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
296.Shikasta - Doris Lessing
297.A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
298.Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299.The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
300.If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
301.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
302.The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
303.The World According to Garp - John Irving
304.Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
305.The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
306.The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
307.Yes - Thomas Bernhard
308.The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
309.In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
310.The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
311.Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
312.The Shining - Stephen King
313.Dispatches - Michael Herr
314.Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315.Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
316.The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
317.The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
318.Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
319.The Public Burning - Robert Coover
320.Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
321.Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
322.Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
323.Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
324.Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
325.W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
326.A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
327.Grimus - Salman Rushdie
328.The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
329.Fateless - Imre Kertész
330.Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
331.High Rise - J.G. Ballard
332.Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
333.Dead Babies - Martin Amis
334.Correction - Thomas Bernhard
335.Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
336.The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
337.Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
338.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
339.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
340.Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341.Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
342.A Question of Power - Bessie Head
343.The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
344.The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
345.Crash - J.G. Ballard
346.The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
347.Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348.The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349.Sula - Toni Morrison
350.Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351.The Breast - Philip Roth
352.The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
353.G - John Berger
354.Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
355.House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
356.In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
357.The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
358.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
359.Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
360.The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
361.Rabbit Redux - John Updike
362.The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
363.The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
364.The Ogre - Michael Tournier
365.The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
366.Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
367.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368.Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
369.Troubles - J.G. Farrell
370.Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
371.The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
372.Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
373.Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
374.Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
375.Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376.The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
377.The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
378.Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
379.The Godfather - Mario Puzo
380.Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
381.Them - Joyce Carol Oates
382.A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
383.Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
384.Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
385.The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
386.Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
387.Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388.The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389.2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
391.Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
392.The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
393.In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
394.A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
395.The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
396.Chocky - John Wyndham
397.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
398.The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
399.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400.The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
401.Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
402.The Joke - Milan Kundera
403.No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
404.The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
405.A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
406.The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
407.Trawl - B.S. Johnson
408.In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
409.The Magus - John Fowles
410.The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
411.Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
412.Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
413.The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
414.Things - Georges Perec
415.The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416.August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
417.God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
418.Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
419.The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
420.Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
421.Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
422.Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
423.Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
424.The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
425.Herzog - Saul Bellow
426.V. - Thomas Pynchon
427.Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428.The Graduate - Charles Webb
429.Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
430.The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
431.The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
432.Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
433.The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
434.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435.The Collector - John Fowles
436.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
437.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438.Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
439.The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
440.The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
441.Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
442.Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
443.The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
444.Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
445.Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
446.A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
447.Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
448.Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
449.Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
450.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
452.The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
453.How It Is - Samuel Beckett
454.Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
455.The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
456.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
457.Rabbit, Run - John Updike
458.Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
459.Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
460.Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
461.Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
462.The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
463.Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
464.Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
465.Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
466.Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
467.Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
468.The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469.Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
470.A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
471.The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
472.Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
473.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
474.Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
475.Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
476.The End of the Road - John Barth
477.The Once and Future King - T.H. White
478.The Bell - Iris Murdoch
479.Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
480.Voss - Patrick White
481.The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
482.Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
483.Homo Faber - Max Frisch
484.On the Road - Jack Kerouac
485.Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
486.Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487.The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber
488.Justine - Lawrence Durrell
489.Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
490.The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
491.The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
492.Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
493.The Floating Opera - John Barth
494.The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495.The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
496.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
497.A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
498.The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
499.The Quiet American - Graham Greene
500.The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
501.The Recognitions - William Gaddis
502.The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
503.Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
504.I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
505.Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
506.The Story of O - Pauline Réage
507.A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
508.Lord of the Flies - William Golding
509.Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
510.The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
511.The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
512.The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
513.Watt - Samuel Beckett
514.Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
515.Junkie - William Burroughs
516.The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
517.Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
518.Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
519.The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520.Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
522.Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
523.The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
524.Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
525.Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
526.Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527.Foundation - Isaac Asimov
528.The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
529.The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
530.The Rebel - Albert Camus
531.Molloy - Samuel Beckett
532.The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
533.The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
534.The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
535.The Third Man - Graham Greene
536.The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
537.Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
538.The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
539.I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
540.The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
541.The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
542.Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
543.The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
544.The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
545.Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
546.The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
547.Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
548.All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
549.Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
550.Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
551.The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
552.Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
553.Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
554.The Victim - Saul Bellow
555.Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
556.If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
557.Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
558.The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
559.The Plague - Albert Camus
560.Back - Henry Green
561.Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
562.The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
563.Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564.Animal Farm - George Orwell
565.Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566.The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
567.Loving - Henry Green
568.Arcanum 17 - André Breton
569.Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
570.The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
571.Transit - Anna Seghers
572.Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573.Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575.Caught - Henry Green
576.The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
577.Embers - Sandor Marai
578.Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
579.The Outsider - Albert Camus
580.In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
581.The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
582.The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
583.Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
584.Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
585.The Hamlet - William Faulkner
586.Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
587.For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
588.Native Son - Richard Wright
589.The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
590.The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
591.Party Going - Henry Green
592.The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
593.Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
594.At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
595.Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
596.Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
597.Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
598.Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
599.The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
600.After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
601.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
602.Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603.Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
604.Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
605.Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
606.U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
607.Murphy - Samuel Beckett
608.Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
609.Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610.The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
611.The Years - Virginia Woolf
612.In Parenthesis - David Jones
613.The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614.Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615.To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
616.Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
617.Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
618.The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
619.Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620.Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
621.Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
622.Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
623.At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
624.Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
625.Independent People - Halldór Laxness
626.Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
627.The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
628.They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
629.The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
630.England Made Me - Graham Greene
631.Burmese Days - George Orwell
632.The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
633.Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
634.Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
635.The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
636.Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637.A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
638.Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
639.Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
640.Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
641.Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
642.Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
643.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
644.Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
645.A Day Off - Storm Jameson
646.The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
647.A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648.Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
650.Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
651.To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
652.The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
653.The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
654.The Waves - Virginia Woolf
655.The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
656.Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
657.The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
658.Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
659.Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
660.The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
661.Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
662.Passing - Nella Larsen
663.A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
664.Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
665.Living - Henry Green
666.The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
667.All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
668.Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
669.The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
670.Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
671.The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
672.Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
673.Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
674.Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
675.Orlando - Virginia Woolf
676.Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
677.The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
678.The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
679.Quartet - Jean Rhys
680.Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
681.Quicksand - Nella Larsen
682.Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
683.Nadja - André Breton
684.Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
685.Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
686.To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
687.Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
688.Amerika - Franz Kafka
689.The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
690.Blindness - Henry Green
691.The Castle - Franz Kafka
692.The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
693.The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
694.One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
695.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
696.The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
697.Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
698.Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
700.The Counterfeiters - André Gide
701.The Trial - Franz Kafka
702.The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
703.The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
704.Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
705.The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
706.The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
707.We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
708.A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
709.The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
710.Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
711.Cane - Jean Toomer
712.Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
713.Amok - Stefan Zweig
714.The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
715.The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
716.Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
717.Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
718.The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
719.Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
720.The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
721.Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
722.Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
723.Ulysses - James Joyce
724.The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
725.Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
726.The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727.Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
728.Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
729.Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
730.Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
731.The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
732.The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
733.Summer - Edith Wharton
734.Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
735.Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
736.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
737.Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
738.Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739.The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
740.The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741.Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
742.The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
743.The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
744.Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
745.Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
746.Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
747.Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
748.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
749.Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
750.Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
751.The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
752.Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
753.Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754.Howards End - E.M. Forster
755.Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
756.Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
757.Martin Eden - Jack London
758.Strait is the Gate - André Gide
759.Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
760.The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
761.A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
762.The Iron Heel - Jack London
763.The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
764.The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
765.Mother - Maxim Gorky
766.The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
767.The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
768.Young Törless - Robert Musil
769.The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
770.The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
771.Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
772.Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
773.Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
774.Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
775.The Golden Bowl - Henry James
776.The Ambassadors - Henry James
777.The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
778.The Immoralist - André Gide
779.The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
780.Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781.The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782.Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
783.Kim - Rudyard Kipling
784.Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785.Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
***1800s
786.Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
787.The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
788.The Awakening - Kate Chopin
789.The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
790.The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
791.The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
792.What Maisie Knew - Henry James
793.Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
794.Dracula - Bram Stoker
795.Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
796.The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797.The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
798.Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
799.Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
800.The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
801.The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802.Born in Exile - George Gissing
803.Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
804.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805.News from Nowhere - William Morris
806.New Grub Street - George Gissing
807.Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
808.Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
809.The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
810.The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
811.La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
812.By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
813.Hunger - Knut Hamsun
814.The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
815.Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
816.Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
817.The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
818.The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
819.She - H. Rider Haggard
820.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
821.The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
822.Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
823.King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
824.Germinal - Émile Zola
825.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
826.Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
827.Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
828.Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
829.The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
830.A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
831.Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
832.The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
833.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
834.Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
835.Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
836.Nana - Émile Zola
837.The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
838.The Red Room - August Strindberg
839.Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
840.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
841.Drunkard - Émile Zola
842.Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
843.Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
844.The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
845.The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
846.Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
847.The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
848.Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
849.In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
850.The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
851.Erewhon - Samuel Butler
852.Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
853.Middlemarch - George Eliot
854.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
855.King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
856.He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
857.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
858.Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
859.Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
860.Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
861.The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
862.The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863.Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
864.Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
865.The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866.Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
867.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869.Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
870.Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
871.Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
872.The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
873.Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
874.Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
875.Silas Marner - George Eliot
876.Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
877.On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
878.Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879.The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
880.The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
881.The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
882.Max Havelaar - Multatuli
883.A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
884.Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
885.Adam Bede - George Eliot
886.Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
887.North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
888.Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889.Walden - Henry David Thoreau
890.Bleak House - Charles Dickens
891.Villette - Charlotte Brontë
892.Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893.Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
894.The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
895.The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
896.Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
897.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
898.David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
899.Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
900.Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
901.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
902.Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
903.Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
905.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906.The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
907.La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
908.The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909.The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
910.Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
911.The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
912.Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
913.A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914.Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
915.The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
916.The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
917.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
918.Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
919.The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
920.Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
921.Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
922.The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
923.The Red and the Black - Stendhal
924.The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
925.Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
926.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
927.The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
928.Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
929.The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
930.Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
931.Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932.Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933.Persuasion - Jane Austen
934.Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935.Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
936.Emma - Jane Austen
937.Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
939.The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
940.Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
941.Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942.Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
***1700s
943.Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
944.The Nun - Denis Diderot
945.Camilla - Fanny Burney
946.The Monk - M.G. Lewis
947.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948.The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
949.The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
950.The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
951.Justine - Marquis de Sade
952.Vathek - William Beckford
953.The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
954.Cecilia - Fanny Burney
955.Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956.Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957.Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958.Evelina - Fanny Burney
959.The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960.Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
961.The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
962.A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
963.Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
964.The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
965.The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
966.Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967.Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
968.Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969.Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
970.Candide - Voltaire
971.The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
972.Amelia - Henry Fielding
973.Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
974.Fanny Hill - John Cleland
975.Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
976.Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
977.Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
978.Pamela - Samuel Richardson
979.Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
980.Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981.Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
982.A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
983.Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
984.Roxana - Daniel Defoe
985.Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
986.Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
987.Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
988.A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
***Pre-1700
989.Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
990.The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991.The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
992.Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993.The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
994.Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
995.Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
996.The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
997.The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
998.Aithiopika - Heliodorus
999.Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
1000.Metamorphoses - Ovid
1001.Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
Above all I would say the list provides good material for discussion - what is lacking, what is there too much of... to name just one example I cant understand how there are so many works of Beckett but "Waiting for Godot" is not there o__O