Sep 07, 2010 16:54
From
here, stolen from
theo_harrison.
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
- The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
- The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
- The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
- Watt - Samuel Beckett
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- Junkie - William Burroughs
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
- The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
- Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
- Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
- Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Rebel - Albert Camus
- Molloy - Samuel Beckett
- The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
- The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
- The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
- The Third Man - Graham Greene
- The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
- Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
- The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
- Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
- The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
- Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
- The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
- Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
- Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
- The Victim - Saul Bellow
- Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
- If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- Back - Henry Green
- Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
- The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
- The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
- Loving - Henry Green
- Arcanum 17 - André Breton
- Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
- The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
- Transit - Anna Seghers
- Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
- Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Caught - Henry Green
- The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
- Embers - Sandor Marai
- Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
- The Outsider - Albert Camus
- In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
- The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
- The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
- Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
- Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
- The Hamlet - William Faulkner
- Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
- The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
- Party Going - Henry Green
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
- Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
- Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
- Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
- U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
- Murphy - Samuel Beckett
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Years - Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis - David Jones
- The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
- To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
- Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
- At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
- Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
- Independent People - Halldór Laxness
- Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
- The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
- The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me - Graham Greene
- Burmese Days - George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
- Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
- Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
- The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
- Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
- Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
- Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
- Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
- A Day Off - Storm Jameson
- The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
- A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
- The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
- Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
- Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
- Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
- Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
- Passing - Nella Larsen
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
- Living - Henry Green
- The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
- The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
- Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
- Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
- Quartet - Jean Rhys
- Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
- Quicksand - Nella Larsen
- Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
- Nadja - André Breton
- Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
- Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
- Amerika - Franz Kafka
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Blindness - Henry Green
- The Castle - Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
- The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
- One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
- The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters - André Gide
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
- The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
- The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
- Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
- Cane - Jean Toomer
- Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
- Amok - Stefan Zweig
- The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
- The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
- Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
- Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
- Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
- Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
- Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
- Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
- The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
- Summer - Edith Wharton
- Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
- Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
- Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
- Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
- Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
- Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End - E.M. Forster
- Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden - Jack London
- Strait is the Gate - André Gide
- Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
- The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
- A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
- The Iron Heel - Jack London
- The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
- The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
- Mother - Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Young Törless - Robert Musil
- The Forsyte 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
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- 1800s
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
- The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
- The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
- What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Born in Exile - George Gissing
- Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- News from Nowhere - William Morris
- New Grub Street - George Gissing
- Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
- La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
- By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
- Hunger - Knut Hamsun
- The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
- Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
- The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
- The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
- She - H. Rider Haggard
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
- Germinal - Émile Zola
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
- Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
- Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
- A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
- Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
- Nana - Émile Zola
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Red Room - August Strindberg
- Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Drunkard - Émile Zola
- Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
- Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
- The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
- Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
- Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
- In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Erewhon - Samuel Butler
- Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
- King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
- He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
- Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
- The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
- Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
- Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (sadly, abridged)
- Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
- Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
- The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Max Havelaar - Multatuli
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
- Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Villette - Charlotte Brontë
- Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
- Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
- Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
- The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
- Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
- The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
- The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
- Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
- The Red and the Black - Stendhal
- The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
- Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
- The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
- Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
- The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
- Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
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- 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
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- 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
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