1001 Books To Read Before You Die

[sweet_kalie]

Ok, so i found this list of books to read before you die, and i think i'll try to read them all. I will make a link to this article on the sidebar so you can follow my progress :)

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

1. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
2. The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
3. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
4. As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
5. Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
6. Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
7. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
8. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
9. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
10. Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
11. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
12. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
13. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
14. All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
15. The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
16. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
17. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
18. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
19. Another World - Pat Barker
20. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
21. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
22. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
23. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
24. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
25. Great Apes - Will Self
26. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
27. Underworld - Don DeLillo
28. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
29. The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
30. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
31. The Untouchable - John Banville
32. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
33. Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
34. Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
35. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
36. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
37. Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
38. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
39. The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
40. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
41. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
42. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
43. The Information - Martin Amis
44. The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
45. Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth
46. The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
47. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
48. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
49. Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
50. The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
51. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
52. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
53. Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
54. Land - Park Kyong-ni
55. The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
56. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
57. Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
58. City Sister Silver - Jàchym Topol
59. How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
60. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
61. Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
62. Disappearance - David Dabydeen
63. The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
64. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
65. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
66. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
67. Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
68. Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
69. Complicity - Iain Banks
70. On Love - Alain de Botton
71. What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
74. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
75. The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
76. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
77. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
78. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
79. Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Özdamar
80. The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
81. A Heart So White - Javier Marias
82. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
83. Indigo - Marina Warner
84. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
85. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
86. Jazz - Toni Morrison
87. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
88. Smilla’s Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
89. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
90. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
91. The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín
92. Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
93. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
94. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
95. Arcadia - Jim Crace
96. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
97. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
98. Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
99. Mao II - Don DeLillo
100. Typical - Padgett Powell
101. Regeneration - Pat Barker
102. Downriver - Iain Sinclair
103. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
104. Wise Children - Angela Carter
105. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
106. Amongst Women - John McGahern
107. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
108. Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
109. Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
110. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
111. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
112. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
113. Like Life - Lorrie Moore
114. Possession - A.S. Byatt
115. The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
116. The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
117. A Disaffection - James Kelman
118. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
119. Moon Palace - Paul Auster
120. Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
121. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
122. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
123. The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
124. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
125. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
126. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
127. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
128. London Fields - Martin Amis
129. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
130. Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
131. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
132. The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
133. Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
134. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
135. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
136. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
137. Libra - Don DeLillo
138. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
139. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
140. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
141. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
142. The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
143. The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
144. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
145. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
146. The Pigeon - Patrick Süskind
147. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
148. Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
149. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
150. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
151. World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
152. Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
153. The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
154. Beloved - Toni Morrison
155. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
156. Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
157. Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
158. Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
159. The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
160. Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
161. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
162. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
163. Foe - J.M. Coetzee
164. The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
165. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
166. The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
167. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
168. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
169. The Cider House Rules - John Irving
170. A Maggot - John Fowles
171. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
172. Contact - Carl Sagan
173. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
174. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
175. Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
176. White Noise - Don DeLillo
177. Queer - William Burroughs
178. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
179. Legend - David Gemmell
180. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavi?
181. The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
182. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
183. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
184. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
185. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
186. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
187. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
188. Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
189. Neuromancer - William Gibson
190. Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
191. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
192. Shame - Salman Rushdie
193. Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
194. Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
195. La Brava - Elmore Leonard
196. Waterland - Graham Swift
197. The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
198. The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
199. The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
200. The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
201. If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
202. A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
203. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
204. Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
205. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
206. Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
207. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
208. The Newton Letter - John Banville
209. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
210. Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
211. The Names - Don DeLillo
212. Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
213. Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
214. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
215. July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
216. Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
217. Broken April - Ismail Kadare
218. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
219. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
220. Rites of Passage - William Golding
221. Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
222. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
223. City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
224. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
225. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
226. Smiley’s People - John Le Carré
227. Shikasta - Doris Lessing
228. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
229. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
230. The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
231. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
232. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
233. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
234. The World According to Garp - John Irving
235. Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
236. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
237. The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
238. Yes - Thomas Bernhard
239. The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
240. In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
241. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
242. Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
243. The Shining - Stephen King
244. Dispatches - Michael Herr
245. Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
246. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
247. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
248. The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
249. Ratner’s Star - Don DeLillo
250. The Public Burning - Robert Coover
251. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
252. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
253. Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
254. Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
255. Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
256. W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
257. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
258. Grimus - Salman Rushdie
259. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
260. Fateless - Imre Kertész
261. Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
262. High Rise - J.G. Ballard
263. Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
264. Dead Babies - Martin Amis
265. Correction - Thomas Bernhard
266. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
267. The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
268. Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
269. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
270. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
271. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
272. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
273. A Question of Power - Bessie Head
274. The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
275. The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
276. Crash - J.G. Ballard
277. The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
278. Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
279. The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
280. Sula - Toni Morrison
281. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
282. The Breast - Philip Roth
283. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
284. G - John Berger
285. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
286. House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
287. In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
288. The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
289. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
290. Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
291. The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
292. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
293. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
294. The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
295. The Ogre - Michael Tournier
296. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
297. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
298. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
299. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
300. Troubles - J.G. Farrell
301. Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
302. The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
303. Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
304. Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
305. Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
306. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
307. The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
308. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
309. Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
310. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
311. Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
312. Them - Joyce Carol Oates
313. A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
314. Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
315. Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
316. The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
317. Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
318. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
319. The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
320. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
321. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
322. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
323. The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
324. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
325. A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
326. The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
327. Chocky - John Wyndham
328. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
329. The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
330. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
331. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
332. Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
333. The Joke - Milan Kundera
334. No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
335. The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
336. A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
337. The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
338. Trawl - B.S. Johnson
339. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
340. The Magus - John Fowles
341. The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
342. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
343. Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
344. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
345. Things - Georges Perec
346. The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
347. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
348. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
349. Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
350. The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
351. Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
352. Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
353. Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
354. Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
355. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
356. Herzog - Saul Bellow
357. V. - Thomas Pynchon
358. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
359. The Graduate - Charles Webb
360. Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
361. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
362. The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
363. Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
364. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
365. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
366. The Collector - John Fowles
367. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
368. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
369. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
370. The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
371. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
372. Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
373. Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
374. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
375. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
376. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
377. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
378. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
379. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
380. Cat and Mouse - Günter Grass
381. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
382. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
383. The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
384. How It Is - Samuel Beckett
385. Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
386. The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
387. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
388. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
389. Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
390. Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
391. Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
392. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
393. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
394. Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
395. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
396. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
397. Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
398. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
399. The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
400. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
401. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
402. The Bitter Glass - Eilís Dillon
403. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
404. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
405. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
406. Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
407. The End of the Road - John Barth
408. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
409. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
410. Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
411. Voss - Patrick White
412. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
413. Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
414. Homo Faber - Max Frisch
415. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
416. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
417. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
418. The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber
419. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
420. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
421. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
422. The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
423. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
424. The Floating Opera - John Barth
425. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
426. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
427. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
428. A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
429. The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
430. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
431. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
432. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
433. The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
434. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
435. I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
436. Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
437. The Story of O - Pauline Réage
438. A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
439. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
440. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
441. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
442. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
443. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
444. Watt - Samuel Beckett
445. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
446. Junkie - William Burroughs
447. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
448. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
449. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
450. The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
451. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
452. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
453. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
454. The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
455. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
456. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
457. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
458. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
459. The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
460. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
461. The Rebel - Albert Camus
462. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
463. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
464. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
465. The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
466. The Third Man - Graham Greene
467. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
468. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
469. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
470. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
471. The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
472. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
473. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
474. The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
475. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
476. Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
477. The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
478. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
479. All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
480. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
481. Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
482. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
483. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
484. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
485. The Victim - Saul Bellow
486. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
487. If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
488. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
489. The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
490. The Plague - Albert Camus
491. Back - Henry Green
492. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
493. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
494. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
495. Animal Farm - George Orwell
496. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
497. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
498. Loving - Henry Green
499. Arcanum 17 - André Breton
500. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
501. The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
502. Transit - Anna Seghers
503. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
504. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
505. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
506. Caught - Henry Green
507. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
508. Embers - Sandor Marai
509. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
510. The Outsider - Albert Camus
511. In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
512. The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
513. The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
514. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
515. Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
516. The Hamlet - William Faulkner
517. Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
518. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
519. Native Son - Richard Wright
520. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
521. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
522. Party Going - Henry Green
523. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
524. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
525. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
526. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
527. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
528. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
529. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
530. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
531. After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
532. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
533. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
534. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
535. Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
536. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
537. U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
538. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
539. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
540. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
541. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
542. The Years - Virginia Woolf
543. In Parenthesis - David Jones
544. The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
545. Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
546. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
547. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
548. Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
549. The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
550. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
551. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
552. Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
553. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
554. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
555. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
556. Independent People - Halldór Laxness
557. Auto-da-Fé - Elias Canetti
558. The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
559. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
560. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
561. England Made Me - Graham Greene
562. Burmese Days - George Orwell
563. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
564. Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
565. Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
566. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
567. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
568. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
569. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
570. Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
571. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
572. Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
573. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
574. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
575. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
576. A Day Off - Storm Jameson
577. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
578. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
579. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
580. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
581. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
582. To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
583. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
584. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
585. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
586. The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
587. Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
588. The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
589. Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
590. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
591. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
592. Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
593. Passing - Nella Larsen
594. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
595. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
596. Living - Henry Green
597. The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
598. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
599. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
600. The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
601. Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
602. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
603. Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
604. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
605. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
606. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
607. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
608. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
609. The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
610. Quartet - Jean Rhys
611. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
612. Quicksand - Nella Larsen
613. Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
614. Nadja - André Breton
615. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
616. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
617. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
618. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
619. Amerika - Franz Kafka
620. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
621. Blindness - Henry Green
622. The Castle - Franz Kafka
623. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
624. The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
625. One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
626. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
627. The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
628. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
629. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
630. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
631. The Counterfeiters - André Gide
632. The Trial - Franz Kafka
633. The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
634. The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
635. Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
636. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
637. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
638. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
639. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
640. The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
641. Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
642. Cane - Jean Toomer
643. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
644. Amok - Stefan Zweig
645. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
646. The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
647. Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
648. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
649. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
650. Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
651. The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
652. Aaron’s Rod - D.H. Lawrence
653. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
654. Ulysses - James Joyce
655. The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
656. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
657. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
658. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
659. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
660. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
661. Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
662. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
663. The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
664. Summer - Edith Wharton
665. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
666. Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
667. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
668. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
669. Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
670. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
671. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
672. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
673. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
674. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
675. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
676. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
677. Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
678. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
679. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
680. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
681. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
682. The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
683. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
684. Fantômas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
685. Howards End - E.M. Forster
686. Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
687. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
688. Martin Eden - Jack London
689. Strait is the Gate - André Gide
690. Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
691. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
692. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
693. The Iron Heel - Jack London
694. The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
695. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
696. Mother - Maxim Gorky
697. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
698. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
699. Young Törless - Robert Musil
700. The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
701. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
702. Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
703. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
704. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
705. Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
706. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
707. The Ambassadors - Henry James
708. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
709. The Immoralist - André Gide
710. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
711. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
712. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
713. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
714. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
715. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
716. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
717.  
718. 1800s
719. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
720. The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
721. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
722. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
723. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
724. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
725. What Maisie Knew - Henry James
726. Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
727. Dracula - Bram Stoker
728. Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
729. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
730. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
731. Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
732. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
733. The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
734. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
735. Born in Exile - George Gissing
736. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
737. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
738. News from Nowhere - William Morris
739. New Grub Street - George Gissing
740. Gösta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
741. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
742. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
743. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
744. La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
745. By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
746. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
747. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
748. Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
749. Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
750. The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
751. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
752. She - H. Rider Haggard
753. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
754. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
755. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
756. King Solomon’s Mines - H. Rider Haggard
757. Germinal - Émile Zola
758. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
759. Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
760. Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
761. Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
762. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
763. A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
764. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
765. The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
766. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
767. Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
768. Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
769. Nana - Émile Zola
770. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
771. The Red Room - August Strindberg
772. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
773. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
774. Drunkard - Émile Zola
775. Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
776. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
777. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
778. The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
779. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
780. The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
781. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
782. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
783. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
784. Erewhon - Samuel Butler
785. Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
786. Middlemarch - George Eliot
787. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
788. King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
789. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
790. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
791. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
792. Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
793. Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
794. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
795. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
796. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
797. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
798. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
799. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
800. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
801. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
802. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
803. Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
804. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
805. The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
806. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
807. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
808. Silas Marner - George Eliot
809. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
810. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
811. Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
812. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
813. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
814. The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
815. Max Havelaar - Multatuli
816. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
817. Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
818. Adam Bede - George Eliot
819. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
820. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
821. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
822. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
823. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
824. Villette - Charlotte Brontë
825. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
826. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
827. The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
828. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
829. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
830. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
831. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
832. Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
833. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
834. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
835. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
836. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
837. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
838. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
839. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
840. La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
841. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
842. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
843. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
844. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
845. Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
846. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
847. Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
848. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
849. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
850. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
851. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
852. The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
853. Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
854. Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
855. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
856. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
857. The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
858. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
859. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
860. The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
861. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
862. The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
863. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
864. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
865. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
866. Persuasion - Jane Austen
867. Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
868. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
869. Emma - Jane Austen
870. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
871. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
872. The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
873. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
874. Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
875. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
876.  
877. 1700s
878. Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
879. The Nun - Denis Diderot
880. Camilla - Fanny Burney
881. The Monk - M.G. Lewis
882. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
883. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
884. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
885. The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
886. Justine - Marquis de Sade
887. Vathek - William Beckford
888. The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
889. Cecilia - Fanny Burney
890. Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
891. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
892. Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
893. Evelina - Fanny Burney
894. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
895. Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
896. The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
897. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
898. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
899. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
900. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
901. Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
902. Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
903. Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
904. Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
905. Candide - Voltaire
906. The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
907. Amelia - Henry Fielding
908. Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
909. Fanny Hill - John Cleland
910. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
911. Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
912. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
913. Pamela - Samuel Richardson
914. Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
915. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
916. Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
917. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
918. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
919. Roxana - Daniel Defoe
920. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
921. Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
922. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
923. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
924.  
925. Pre-1700
926. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
927. The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
928. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
929. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
930. The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
931. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
932. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
933. The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
934. The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
935. Aithiopika - Heliodorus
936. Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
937. Metamorphoses - Ovid
938. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel
Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
ISBN 1-84403-417-8

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