1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
So I think a good project for me to do (not during the summer, but in general for life) is to read all the books on this list. Or a least as many as possible. Hopefully my vocabulary will improve...somewhat.
As of:
6-10-09: 11/1001 (.01%)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
2000s
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday - Ian McEwan
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
The Sea - John Banville
The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The Master - Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point - David Markson
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour - Rose Tremain
Thursbitch - Alan Garner
The Light of Day - Graham Swift
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Islands - Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The Double - José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless - Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (wtf, I heard his stuff was esoteric [6-10-08])
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
Shroud - John Banville
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth - J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air - Iain Banks
Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Platform - Michael Houellebecq
Schooling - Heather McGowan
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
Fury - Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
Ignorance - Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
City of God - E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live - Will Self
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia - George Saunders
1900s
Timbuktu - Paul Auster
The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
Another World - Pat Barker
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Great Apes - Will Self
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
The Untouchable - John Banville
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
The Information - Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
Land - Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
Disappearance - David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Complicity - Iain Banks
On Love - Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White - Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
Indigo - Marina Warner
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Jazz - Toni Morrison
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
Arcadia - Jim Crace
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
Mao II - Don DeLillo
Typical - Padgett Powell
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Downriver - Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children - Angela Carter
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women - John McGahern
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
Like Life - Lorrie Moore
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection - James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace - Paul Auster
Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
London Fields - Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Libra - Don DeLillo
The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
Foe - J.M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
A Maggot - John Fowles
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Queer - William Burroughs
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
Legend - David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavi?
The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
La Brava - Elmore Leonard
Waterland - Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter - John Banville
On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
The Names - Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April - Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage - William Golding
Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
Shikasta - Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
Yes - Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
The Shining - Stephen King
Dispatches - Michael Herr
Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
The Public Burning - Robert Coover
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
Grimus - Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
Fateless - Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
High Rise - J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
Dead Babies - Martin Amis
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
A Question of Power - Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
Crash - J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
Sula - Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Breast - Philip Roth
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
G - John Berger
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux - John Updike
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
The Ogre - Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
Troubles - J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
Them - Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
Chocky - John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
The Joke - Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
Trawl - B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Magus - John Fowles
The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Things - Georges Perec
The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
Herzog - Saul Bellow
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate - Charles Webb
Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Collector - John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
How It Is - Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
The End of the Road - John Barth
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss - Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera - John Barth
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (I'm did read it, and watching the movies as much as I have should definitely count)
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions - William Gaddis
The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
The Story of O - Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Read it sophomore year in hs, really liked it)
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Junkie - William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (Read in junior year in hs; I think I was indifferent to it. I should probably read it again)
The Rebel - Albert Camus
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
The Third Man - Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton (Read it sophomore year in hs, didn't like it, thought it was boring)
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
The Victim - Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
The Plague - Albert Camus
Back - Henry Green
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Ivo Andrić
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Loving - Henry Green
Arcanum 17 - André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
Transit - Anna Seghers
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caught - Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
Embers - Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
The Outsider - Albert Camus
In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet - William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Native Son - Richard Wright
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
Party Going - Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Tried to read it in hs but couldn't get through it. Maybe now that I'm older I can)
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
Murphy - Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Read it freshman year in hs, didn't like it, thought it was boring)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (Read it junior year in hs)
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years - Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis - David Jones
The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me - Graham Greene
Burmese Days - George Orwell
The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
A Day Off - Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (Read it senior year in hs, LOVED it)
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
Passing - Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Living - Henry Green
The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (Read it sophomore year in hs, indifferent to it)
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
Quartet - Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
Nadja - André Breton
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
Amerika - Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Blindness - Henry Green
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Read it in hs; liked it, but overall indiffernt to it)
The Counterfeiters - André Gide
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
Cane - Jean Toomer
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
Amok - Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
Summer - Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End - E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden - Jack London
Strait is the Gate - André Gide
Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
The Iron Heel - Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
Mother - Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Young Törless - Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
The Immoralist - André Gide
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
1800s
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Read some passages for history in college)
Born in Exile - George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere - William Morris
New Grub Street - George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
She - H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Germinal - Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Nana - Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room - August Strindberg
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard - Émile Zola
Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar - Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Read is sophormore year in is, liked it)
La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Read it senior year in is, liked it)
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Emma - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
1700s
Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun - Denis Diderot
Camilla - Fanny Burney
The Monk - M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
Justine - Marquis de Sade
Vathek - William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
Cecilia - Fanny Burney
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina - Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Candide - Voltaire
The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
Amelia - Henry Fielding
Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Pamela - Samuel Richardson
Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
Roxana - Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika - Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus