1001 Must Read Books

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun
Adiga, Aravind – The White Tiger
Ammaniti, Niccolo – I’m Not Scared
Banville, John – The Sea
Barbery, Muriel – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barnes, Julian – The Sense of an Ending
Bolano, Roberto – 2666
Byatt, A.S. – The Children’s Book
Cercas, Javier – Soldiers of Salamis
Coelho, Paulo – The Devil and Miss Prym
Desai, Kiran – The Inheritance of Loss
Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Egan, Jennifer – A Visit from the Goon Squad
Enquist, Per Olov – The Book about Blanche and Marie
Enright, Anne – The Gathering
Esterhazy, Peter – Celestial Harmonies
Eugenides, Jeffrey – The Marriage Plot
Faber, Michel – Under the Skin
Franck, Julia – The Blind Side of the Heart
Franzen, Jonathan – The Corrections
Franzen, Jonathan – Freedom
Harbach, Chad – The Art of Fielding
Hemon, Aleksandar – Nowhere Man
Hollinghurst, Alan – The Line of Beauty
Houellebecq, Michel – Platform
Hustvedt, Siri – What I Loved
Hyland, M.J. – Carry Me Down
Kadare, Ismail – Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Kadare, Ismail – The Successor
Kehlmann, Daniel – Measuring the World
Kelman, James – Kieron Smith, Boy
Krauss, Nicole – The History of Love
Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Namesake
Llosa, Mario Vargas – The Feast and the Goat
Marias, Javier – Your Face Tomorrow
Martel, Yann – Life of Pi
McEwan, Ian – Atonement
Meyer, Philipp – American Rust
Mitchell, David – Cloud Atlas
Moore, Lorrie – A Gate at the Stairs
Murakami, Haruki – 1Q84
Nemirovsky, Irene – Suite Francaise
Oz, Amos – A Tale of Love and Darkness
Pamuk, Orhan – Snow
Pierre, DBC – Vernon God Little
Pynchon, Thomas – Against the Day
Robinson, Marilynne – Home
Robinson, Roxana – Cost
Roth, Philip – The Human Stain
Roth, Philip – Nemesis
Safran Foer, Jonathan – Everything is Illuminated
Saramago, Jose – Cain
Schatzing, Frank – The Swarm
Sebald, W.G. – Austerlitz
Smith, Ali – There but for the
Smith, Zadie – White Teeth
Somoza, Jose Carlos – Lady Number Thirteen
Toibin, Colm – The Master
Vila-Matas, Enrique – Bartleby and Co.

Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua – Arrow of God
Acker, Kathy – Blood and Guts in High School
Ackroyd, Peter – Hawksmoor
Adams, Douglas – Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef – In the Heart of the Seas
Alegria, Ciro – Broad and Alien is the World
Algren, Nelson – The Man with the Golden Arm
Allain, Marcel and Souvestre, Pierre – Fantomas
Allende, Isabel – The House of the Spirits
Allende, Isabel – Of Love and Shadows
Amado, Jorge – Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Amado, Jorge – Tent of Miracles
Ambler, Eric – Cause for Alarm
Amis, Kingsley – Lucky Jim
Amis, Kingsley – The Old Devils
Amis, Martin – Money: A Suicide Note
Amis, Martin – London Fields
Anand, Mulk Raj – Untouchable
Anderson, Jessica – The Commandant
Andric, Ivo – The Bridge on the Drina
Andric, Ivo – Bosnian Chronicle
Andrzejewski, Jerzy – Ashes and Diamonds
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aragon, Louis – The Bells of Basel
Arenas, Reinaldo – Before the Night Falls
Arguedas, Jose Maria – Deep Rivers
Ariyoshi, Sawako – The Twilight Years
Arlen, Michael – The Green Hat
Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac – Foundation
Atwood, Margaret – Surfacing
Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace
Atxaga, Berbardo – Obabakoak
Auster, Paul – The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul – Moon Place
Azuela, Mariano – The Underdogs
Ba, Mariama – So Long a Letter
Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James – Giovanni’s Room
Ballard, J.G. – Crash
Ballard, J.G. – Empire of the Sun
Banks, Iain – The Wasp Factory
Banks, Iain – The Crow Road
Barbusse, Henri – The Inferno
Barbusse, Henri – Under Fire
Baricco, Alessandro – Silk
Barker, Pat – Regeneration
Barnes, Djuna – Nightwood
Barnes, Julian – Flaubert’s Parrot
Barth, John – The Floating Opera
Barth, John – Giles Goat-Boy
Barthelme, Donald – The Dead Father
Bartol, Vladimir – Alamut
Bassani, Giorgio – The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Bataille, Georges – Story of the Eye
Bataille, Georges – The Abbot C
Bataille, Georges – Blue of Noon
Becker, Jurek – Jacob the Liar
Beckett, Samuel – Murphy
Beckett, Samuel – Molloy
Beckett, Samuel – Malone Dies
Behan, Brendan – Borstal Boy
Bellow, Saul – Dangling Man
Bellow, Saul – Herzog
Bellow, Saul – Humboldt’s Gift
Bennett, Arnold – The Old Wives’Tale
Berger, John – G
Bernanos, Georges – Under Satan’s Sun
Bernhard, Thomas – Correction
Bernhard, Thomas – Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Bernhard, Thomas – Extinction
Blanchot, Maurice – Death Sentence
Bolano, Roberto – Savage Detectives
Boll, Heinrich – Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Boll, Heinrich – Group Portrait With Lady
Boll, Heinrich – The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Borges, Jorge Luis – Labyrinths
Borowski, Tadeusz – This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Bowen, Elizabeth – To the North
Bowen, Elizabeth – The Heat of the Day
Bowen, Elizabeth – Eva Trout
Boyle, T. Coraghessan – World’s End
Brautigan, Richard – In Watermelon Sugar
Brautigan, Richard – Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Breton, Andre – Nadja
Breton, Andre – Arcanum 17
Brink, Andre – A Dry White Season
Brittain, Vera – Testament of Youth
Broch, Hermann – The Death of Virgil
Broch, Hermann – The Guiltless
Buchan, John – The Thirty-Nine Steps
Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
Burgess, Anthony – Inside Mr. Enderby
Burroughs, Edgar Rice – Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, William – Junkie
Burroughs, William – The Naked Lunch
Butler, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh
Buzzati, Dino – The Tartar Steppe
Byatt, A.S. – The Virgin in the Garden
Cain, James M. – The Postman Always Rings Twice
Caldwell, Erskine – House in the Uplands
Calvino, Italo – The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities
Calvino, Italo – The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Calvino, Italo – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Camus, Albert – The Outsider
Camus, Albert – The Plague
Camus, Albert – The Rebel
Canetti, Elias – Auto-da-Fe
Capek, Karel – War with the Newts
Capote, Truman – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
Carey, Peter – Oscar and Lucinda
Carpentier, Alejo – Kingdom of This World
Carpentier, Alejo – The Lost Steps
Carter, Angela – Nights at the Circus
Cassola, Carlo – Bebo’s Girl
Catala, Victor – Solitude
Cather, Willa – The Professor’s House
Cela, Camilo Jose – Journey to the Alcarria
Cela, Camilo Jose – The Hive
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand – Journey to the End of the Night
Chandler, Raymond – The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond – The Long Good-Bye
Chang, Jung – Wild Swans
Chatwin, Bruce – On the Black Hill
Childers, Erskine – The Riddle of the Sands
Christie, Agatha – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Cioran, Emil – On the Heights of Despair
Clarke, Arthur C. – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Claus, Hugo – The Sorrow of Belgium
Cocteau, Jean – Les Enfants Terribles
Coe, Jonathan – What a Carve Up!
Coelho, Paulo – Veronika Decides to Die
Coetzee, J.M. – Dusklands
Coetzee, J.M. – In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J.M. – Waiting for the Barbarians
Coetzee, J.M. – The Life and Times of Michael K
Coetzee, J.M. – Disgrace
Cohen, Albert – Belle du Seigneur
Colette – Claudine’s House
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph – Nostromo
Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Agent
Coover, Robert – Pricksongs and Descants
Crace, Jim – Arcadia
cummings, e.e. – The Enormous Room
Cunningham, Michael – The Hours
Dabydeen, David – Disappearance
Dangarembga, Tsitsi – Nervous Conditions
Davies, Robertson – Fifth Business
Davis, Lydia – The End of the Story
de Beauvoir, Simone – The Mandarins
de Bernieres, Louis – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
de Botton, Alain – On Love
de Loo, Tessa – The Twins
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine – The Little Prince
Deliber, Miguel – The Heretic
DeLillo, Don – White Noise
DeLillo, Don – Mao II
DeLillo, Don – Underworld
Desai, Anita – Clear Light of Day
Desani, G.V. – All About H. Hatterr
di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi – The Leopard
Dick, Philip K. – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Didion, Joan – Play It as It Lays
Didion, Joan – Democracy
Dillon, Eilis – The Bitter Glass
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen) – Out of Africa
Doblin, Alfred – Berlin Alexanderplatz
Doctorow, E.L. – The Book of Daniel
Doctorow, E.L. – Ragtime
Dodge, Jim – Stone Junction
Dos Passos, John – U.S.A.
Douka, Maro – Fool’s Gold
Doxiadis, Apostolos – Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Drabble, Margaret – The Radiant Way
Drakulic, Slavenka – As If I am not There
Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie
du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
Duncker, Patricia – Hallucinating Foucault
Duras, Marguerite – The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Duras, Marguerite – The Vice-Consul
Duras, Marguerite – The Lover
Durrell, Lawrence – Justine
Durrenmatt, Friedrich – The Judge and His Hangman
Echenique, Alfredo Bryce – A World for Julius
Eco, Umberto – The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto – Foucalt’s Pendulum
El Saadawi, Nawal – Woman at Point Zero
Ellis, Bret Easton – American Psycho
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Ellroy, James – The Black Dahlia
Elsschot, Willem – Cheese
Endo, Shusaku – Silence
Endo, Shusaku – Deep River
Erdrich, Louise – Love Medicine
Esquivel, Laura – Like A Water for Chocolate
Eugenides, Jeffrey – The Virgin Suicides
Fakinou, Eugenia – Astradeni
Farrell, J.G. – The Siege of Krishnapur
Farrell, J.G. – The Singapore Grip
Faulkner, William – Absalom, Absalom!
Faulks, Sebastian – Birdsong
Ferrante, Elena – Troubling Love
Findley, Timothy – The Wars
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
Fleming, Ian – Casino Royale
Ford, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox – Parade’s End
Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View
Forster, E.M. – Howards End
Forster, E.M. – A Passage to India
Fowles, John – The Magus
Fowles, John – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Frame, Janet – Faces in the Water
Fredriksson, Marianne – Simon and the Oaks
Freud, Esther – Hideous Kinky
Frisch, Max – I’m Not Stiller
Frisch, Max – Homo Faber
Fuentes, Carlos – The Death of Artemio Cruz
Gaddis, William – The Recognitions
Gaite, Carmen Martin – The Back Room
Galeano, Eduardo – Memory of Fire
Galloway, Janice – The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Galsworthy, John – The Forsyte Saga
Gary, Romain – The Roots of Heaven
Gary, Romain – Promise at Dawn
Gemmell, David – Legend
Ghose, Zulfikar – The Triple Mirror of the Self
Ghosh, Amitav – The Shadow Lines
Gibbons, Stella – Cold Comfort Farm
Gibson, William – Neuromancer
Gide, Andre – The Immoralist
Gide, Andre – Strait is the Gate
Gide, Andre – The Counterfeiters
Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Gombrowicz, Witold – Ferdydurke
Gordimer, Nadine – Burger’s Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine – July’s People
Gorky, Maxim – Mother
Gorky, Maxim – The Artamonov Business
Goytisolo, Juan – Marks of Identity
Gracq, Julien – The Opposing Shore
Grass, Gunter – The Tin Drum
Grass, Gunter – Cat and Mouse
Grass, Gunter – Dog Years
Gray, Alasdair – Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Green, Henry – Blindness
Green, Henry – Living
Green, Henry – Loving
Green, Henry – Back
Greene, Graham – Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham – The Power and the Glory
Greene, Graham – The End of the Affair
Greene, Graham – The Quiet American
Greene, Graham – The Honorary Consul
Gupta, Sunetra – Memoirs of Rain
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan – Dirty Havana Trilogy
H.D. – Asphodel
Haasse, Hella – Forever a Stranger
Hall, Radclyffe – The Well of Loneliness
Hammett, Dashiell – The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell – The Thin Man
Hamsun, Knut – Growth of the Soil
Handke, Peter – The Left-Handed Woman
Handke, Peter – The Afternoon of a Writer
Hartley, L.P. – The Go-Between
Hasek, Jaroslav – The Good Soldier Svejk
Head, Bessie – A Question of Power
Hebert, Anne – The First Garden
Hedayat, Sadegh – The Blind Owl
Heinlein, Robert – Stranger in a Strange Land
Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea
Hemmerechts, Kristien – Margot and the Angels
Hempel, Amy – Reasons to Live
Herr, Michael – Dispatches
Hesse, Hermann – Sidhartha
Hesse, Hermann – Steppenwolf
Hesse, Hermann – The Glass Bead Game
Highsmith, Patricia – The Talented Mr. Ripley
Himes, Chester – Blind Man with a Pistol
Hines, Barry – A Kestrel for a Knave
Hodgson, William Hope – The House of the Borderland
Hoeg, Peter – Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Hofmann, Gert – The Parable of the Blind
Hollinghurst, Alan – The Swimming-Pool Library
Honchar, Oles – The Cathedral
Houellebecq, Michel – Whatever
Houellebecq, Michel – Elementary Particles
Hrabal, Bohumil – Closely Watched Trains
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous – Eyeless in Gaza
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera – Three Trapped Tigers
Irving, John – The Cider House Rules
Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany
Isherwood, Christopher – The Last of Mr. Norris
Isherwood, Christopher – Goodbye to Berlin
Ishiguro, Kazuo – A Pale View of Hills
Ishiguro, Kazuo – An artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo – The Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo – The Unconsoled
James, Henry – The Wings of the Dove
James, Henry – The Ambassadors
Jameson, Storm – A Day Off
Jansson, Tove – The Summer Book
Jelinek, Elfriede – The Piano Teacher
Jie, Zhang – Leaden Wings
Jimenez, Juan Ramon – Platero and I
Johnson, B.S. – House Mother Normal
Johnson, Uwe – Jahrestage
Jones, David – In Parenthesis
Jong, Erica – Fear of Flying
Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James – Ulysses
Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake
Junger, Ernst – The Storm of Steel
Junger, Ernst – The Glass Bees
Jung-rae, Jo – The Taebek Mountains
Kadare, Ismail – Broken April
Kafka, Franz – The Trial
Kafka, Franz – The Castle
Kafka, Franz – Amerika
Kawabata, Yasunari – Thousand Cranes
Kazantzakis, Nikos – Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis, Nikos – The Last Temptation of Christ
Kelman, James – The Busconductor Hines
Kelman, James – How Late It Was, How Late
Keneally, Thomas – Schindler’s Ark
Kennedy Toole, John – Confederacy of Dunces
Kennedy, A.L. – Looking for the Possible Dance
Kerouac, Jack – On the Road
Kertesz, Imre – Fateless
Kessey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kessey, Ken – Sometimes a Great Notion
Kincaid, Jamaica – Annie John
King, Stephen – The Shining
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
Kis, Danilo – Garden, Ashes
Klima, Ivan – Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
Koeppen, Wolfgang – The Hothouse
Koeppen, Wolfgang – Death in Rome
Konrad, Gyorgy – The Case Worker
Kosmac, Ciril – A Day in Spring
Kossmann, Alfred – Smell of Sadness
Kotzwinkle, William – The Fan Man
Kotzwinkle, William – The Midnight Examiner
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo – The Melancholy of Resistance
Krleza, Miroslav – On the Edge of Reason
Krleza, Miroslav – The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Kross, Jaan – Professor Martens’ Departure
Kundera, Milan – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kureishi, Hanif – The Buddha of Suburbia
Kyong-ni, Park – Land
Laforet, Carmen – Andrea
Lagerkvist, Par – Barabbas
Larsen, Nella – Quicksand
Larsen, Nella – Passing
Laurence, Margaret – The Diviners
Lawrence, D.H. – Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D.H. – The Rainbow
Lawrence, D.H. – Women in Love
Lawrence, D.H. – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Laxness, Halidor – Independent People
Laye, Camara – The Dark Child
Le Carre, John – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Le Carre, John – Smiley’s People
Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Dispossessed
Leavitt, David – Lost Language of Cranes
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Laurie – Cider With Rosie
Lem, Stanislaw – Solaris
Lenz, Siegfried – The German Lesson
Leonard, Elmore – LaBrava
Leonard, Elmore – Get Shorty
Lessing, Doris – The Grass is Singing
Lessing, Doris – The Golden Notebook
Levi, Carlo – Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Primo – If This is a Man
Levi, Primo – If Not Now, When?
Levi, Primo – The Drowned and the Saved
Lewis, Saunders – Monica
Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
Lewis, Wyndham – Tarr
Lewis, Wyndham – The Apes of God
Lindgren, Astrid – Pippi Longstocking
Linna, Vaino – The Unknown Soldier
Lispector, Clarice – The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector, Clarice – The Hour of the Star
Llosa, Mario Vargas – The Time of the Hero
Llosa, Mario Vargas – The War at the End of the World
Lobo Antunes, Antonio – Fado Alexandrino
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
Loos, Anita – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lovecraft, H.P. – At the Mountain of Madness
Lowry, Malcolm – Under the Volcano
MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Fall on Your Knees
MacInnes, Colin – Absolute Beginners
Mahfouz, Naguib – Midaq Alley
Mahfouz, Naguib – Miramar
Malouf, David – Remembering Babylon
Malraux, Andre – Man’s Fate
Mankell, Henning – Faceless Killers
Mann, Heinrich – Professor Unrat
Mann, Thomas – Buddenbrocks
Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice
Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas – Joseph and His Brothers
Mann, Thomas – Doctor Faustus
Manning, Frederic – Her Privates We
Marai, Sandor – Embers
Marias, Javier – All Souls
Markaris, Petros – The Late-Night News
Markson, David – Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Maron, Monika – Pavel’s Letters
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – No One Writes to the Colonel
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – Autumn of the Patriarch
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – Love in the Time of Cholera
Martinez, Tomas Eloy – Santa Evita
Martin-Santos, Luis – Time of Silence
Matesis, Pavlos – The Daughter
Mathews, Harry – Cigarettes
Maugham, William Somerset – Of Human Bondage
Maugham, William Somerset – The Razor’s Edge
Mauriac, Francois – Viper’s Tangle
McCabe, Patrick – The Butcher Boy
McCarthy, Cormac – Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac – All the Pretty Horses
McCoy, Horace – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
McEwan, Ian – The Cement Garden
McGahern, John – Amongst Women
Mendoza, Eduardo – A Light Comedy
Meri, Veijo – The Manila Rope
Merle, Robert – Day of the Dolphin
Michaels, Anne – Fugitive Pieces
Miller, Henry – Tropic of Cancer
Mishima, Yukio – The Sound of Waves
Mishima, Yukio – The Sea of Fertility
Mistry, Rohinton – A Fine Balance
Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
Mitford, Nancy – Love in a Cold Climate
Miyuki, Miyabe – Crossfire
Mofolo, Thomas – Chaka the Zulu
Montalban, Manuel Vasquez – Southern Seas
Moore, Alan and Gibbons, Dave – Watchmen
Moore, Lorrie – Anagrams
Moore, Lorrie – Like Life
Moravia, Alberto – The Time of Indifference
Moravia, Alberto – Disobedience
Moravia, Alberto – A Ghost at Noon
Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni – Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
Mphahlele, Ezekiel – Down Second Avenue
Mukherjee, Bharati – The Holder of the World
Mulisch, Harry – The Discovery of Heaven
Munro, Alice – Lives of Girls & Women
Munro, Alice – The Beggar Maid
Murakami, Haruki – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Ryu – Almost Transparent Blue
Murdoch, Iris – Under the Net
Murdoch, Iris – The Bell
Murdoch, Iris – A Severed Head
Murdoch, Iris – The Sea, The Sea
Murnane, Gerald – Inland
Musil, Robert – Young Torless
Musil, Robert – The Man without Qualities
Mutis, Alvaro – The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Nabokov, Vladimir – Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir – Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir – Ada
Naipaul, V.S. – In a Free State
Naipaul, V.S. – A Bend in the River
Naipaul, V.S. – Enigma of Arrival
Narayan, R.K. – The Guide
Nin, Anais – Delta of Venus
Nooteboom, Cees – Rituals
Nooteboom, Cees – All Souls Day
Nothomb, Amelie – Fear and Trembling
Oates, Joyce Carol – them
O’Brien, Edna – The Country Girls
O’Brien, Edna – Girl with Green Eyes
O’Brien, Flann – At Swim-Two-Birds
O’Brien, Flann – The Third Policeman
O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
O’Connor, Flannery – Wise Blood
O’Connor, Flannery – Everything That Rises Must Converge
Oe, Kenzaburo – Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Ondaatje, Michael – The English Patient
Onetti, Juan Carlos – The Shipyard
Orwell, George – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Orwell, George – Nineteen Eighty-Four
Osadchyi, Mykhaylo – Cataract
Oz, Amos – Black Box
Ozdamar, Emine Sevgi – Life is a Caravanserai
Paasilinna, Arto – The Year of the Hare
Pagnol, Marcel – Manon des Sources
Palmen, Connie – The Laws
Papini, Giovanni – Life of Christ
Paskov, Viktor – Ballad for Georg Henig
Pasolini, Pier Paolo – The Ragazzi
Pasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
Paton, Alan – Cry, the Beloved Country
Pavese, Cesare – The Harvesters
Pavese, Cesare – The Moon and the Bonfires
Pavic, Milorad – Dictionary of the Khazars
Paz, Octavio – The Labyrinth of Solitude
Peake, Mervyn – Titus Groan
Peake, Mervyn – Gormenghast
Pelevin, Victor – The Clay Machine-Gun
Pelevin, Victor – The Life of Insects
Perec, Georges – Things
Perec, Georges – A Void / Avoid
Perec, Georges – W, or the Memory of Childhood
Perec, Georges – Life: A User’s Manual
Perez-Reverte, Arturo – The Dumas Club
Pessoa, Fernando – The Book of Disquiet
Pirandello, Luigi – One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Plunkett, James – The Trusting and the Maimed
Poniatowska, Elena – Here’s to You, Jesusa!
Powell, Anthony – A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Padgett – Typical
Proulx, E. Annie – The Shipping News
Proust, Marcel – Remembrance of Things Past
Puig, Manuel – Heartbreak Tango
Puig, Manuel – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Puzo, Mario – The Godfather
Pym, Barbara – Excellent Women
Pym, Barbara – Quartet in Autumn
Pynchon, Thomas – V.
Pynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas – Gravity’s Rainbow
Queneau, Raymond – Exercises in Style
Radiguet, Raymond – The Devil in the Flesh
Ransmayr, Christoph – The Last World
Reage, Pauline – The Story of O
Rebreanu, Liviu – The Forest of the Hanged
Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys, Jean – Good Morning, Midnight
Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea
Rice, Anne – Interview with a Vampire
Richardson, Dorothy – Pilgrimage
Rilke, Rainer Maria – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rios, Julian – Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel
Robbe-Grillet, Alain – Jealousy
Rolfe, Frederick – Hadrian the Seventh
Rosa, Joao Guimaraes – The Devil to Pay in the Blacklands
Rose, Gillian – Love’s Work
Roth, Henry – Call it Sleep
Roth, Joseph – The Radetzky March
Roth, Philip – Portnoy’s Complaint
Roussel, Raymond – Impressions of Africa
Roussel, Raymond – Locus Solus
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
Roy, Gabrielle – The Tin Flute
Rulfo, Juan – The Burning Plain
Rushdie, Salman – Midnight’s Children
Rushdie, Salman – Shame
Rushdie, Salman – The Satanic Verses
Ruyslinck, Ward – The Deadbeats
Ryunosuke, Akutagawa – Rashomon
Saer, Juan Jose – The Witness
Sagan, Carl – Contact
Sagan, Francoise – Bonjour Tristesse
Salgari, Emilio – Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Salih, Tayeb – Seasons of Migrations to the North
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D. – Franny and Zooey
Sandel, Cora – Alberta and Jacob
Saramago, Jose – Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago, Jose – The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Saramago, Jose – The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Sartre, Jean-Paul – Nausea
Sayers, Dorothy L. – Murder must Advertise
Sayers, Dorothy L. – The Nine Tailors
Schlink, Bernhard – The Reader
Schnitzler, Arthur – None but the Brave
Schreber, Daniel P. – Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
Schultz, Bruno – The Street of Crocodiles
Sciascia, Leonardo – To Each His Own
Sebald, W.G. – Vertigo
Seghers, Anna – Transit
Selby Jr., Hubert – Requiem for a Dream
Selimovic, Mesa – Death and the Dervish
Selvon, Sam – The Lonely Londoners
Sembene, Ousmane – God’s Bits of Wood
Serge, Victor – The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Seth, Vikram – A Suitable Boy
Shahnoor, Shahan – Retreat without Song
She, Lao – Rickshaw Boy
Shields, Carol – The Stone Diaries
Shute, Nevil – A Town Like Alice
Sillitoe, Alan – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sinclair, May – Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
Singer, Isaac Bashevis – The Magician of Lublin
Singer, Isaac Bashevis – The Manor
Skvorecky, Josef – The Engineer of Human Souls
Slauerhoff, J.J. – The Forbidden Realm
Soljan, Antun – The Port
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich – Cancer Ward
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich – The First Circle
Soseki, Natsume – Kokoro
Spark, Muriel – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spark, Muriel – The Girl of Slender Means
Stead, Christina – The Man Who Loved Children
Stein, Gertrude – The Making of Americans
Stein, Gertrude – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
Stephens, James – The Charwoman’s Daughter
Strauss, Botho – Couples, Passerby
Strauss, Botho – The Young Man
Suskind, Patrick – Perfume
Suskind, Patrick – The Pigeon
Svevo, Italo – Zeno’s Conscience
Swift, Graham – Waterland
Szczypiorski, Andrzej – The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
Tabucchi, Antonio – Pereira Declares: A Testimony
Tagore, Rabindranath – Home and the World
Taktsis, Costas – The Third Wedding
Tanizaki, Junichiro – Some Prefer Nettles
Tartt, Donna – The Secret History
Taylor, Elizabeth – Blaming
Tharoor, Shashi – The Great Indian Novel
Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa – The River Between
Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa – Matigari
Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Thornburg, Newton – Cutter and Bone
Thu Huong, Duong – Paradise of the Blind
Thurber, James – The 13 Clocks
Timm, Uwe – The Invention of Curried Sausage
Timmermans, Felix – Pallieter
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings
Topol, Jachym – City Sister Silver
Tressell, Robert – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tsypkin, Leonid – Summer in Baden-Baden
Tunstrom, Goran – The Christmas Oratorio
Ugresic, Dubravka – The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Undset, Sigrid – Kristin Lavransdatter
Updike, John – Rabbit, Run
Updike, John – Rabbit Redux
Updike, John – Rabbit is Rich
Vallejo, Fernando – Our Lady of the Assassins
van Heerden, Etienne – Ancestral Voices
Vassilikos, Vassilis – Z
Vessas, Tarjei – The Birds
Vestdijk, Simon – The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
Vian, Boris – Froth on the Daydream
Vidal, Gore – Myra Breckinridge
Vilas, Xose Neira – Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Vittorini, Elio – Conversations in Sicily
Volpi, Jorge – In Search of Klingsor
Vonnegut, Kurt – Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice – The Colour Purple
Walker, Alice – Possessing the Secret of Joy
Wallace, David Foster – Infinite Jest
Walser, Martin – Halftime
Warner, Alan – Morvern Callar
Warner, Marina – Indigo
Warner, Sylvia Townsend – Summer Will Show
Wassmo, Herbjorg – The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Waterhouse, Keith – Billy Liar
Watson, Winifred – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Waugh, Evelyn – Decline and Fall
Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
Webb, Charles – The Graduate
Welty, Eudora – The Optimist’s Daughter
West, Nathanael – Miss Lonelyhearts
West, Rebecca – The Return of the Soldier
West, Rebecca – The Thinking Reed
Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence
White, Edmund – A Boy’s Own Story
White, Patrick – The Living and the Dead
White, Patrick – The Tree of Man
White, Patrick – Voss
White, T.H. – The Once and Future King
Williamson, Henry – Tarka the Otter
Wilson, Angus – No Laughing Matter
Wilson, Edmund – I Thought of Daisy
Winterson, Jeanette – Sexing the Cherry
Winterson, Jeanette – Written on the Body
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy – Insatiability
Wodehouse, P.G. – Thank you, Jeeves
Wolf, Christa – The Quest for Christa T.
Wolf, Christa – Patterns of Childhood
Wolfe, Thomas – Look Homeward, Angel
Wolfe, Tom – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfe, Tom – The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolkers, Jan – Back to Oegstgeest
Woolf, Virginia – Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia – To The Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia – Orlando
Woolf, Virginia – The Waves
Wright, Richard – Native Son
Wyndham, John – Day of the Triffids
Wyndham, John – The Midwich Cuckoos
Xianliang, Zhang – Half of Man is Woman
Yerofeev, Venedikt – Moscow Stations
Yoshimoto, Banana – Kitchen
Yourcenar, Marguerite – Memoirs of Hadrian
Zamyatin, Yevgeny – We
Zwagerman, Joost – Gimmick!
Zweig, Arnold – The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Zweig, Stefan – Amok
Zweig, Stefan – Chess Story

Alas, Clarin Leopoldo – The Regent’s Wife
Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane – Emma
Bazan, Emilia Pardo – The Manors of Ulloa
Bronte, Anne – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Butler, Samuel – Erewhon
Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis – Alice Though the Looking Glass
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Collins, Wilkie – The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie – The Moonstone
Conscience, Hendrick – The Lion of Flanders
Cooper, James Fenimore – Last of the Mohicans
Couperus, Louis – Eline Vere
D’Annunzio, Gabriele – The Child of Pleasure
de Balzac, Honore – Eugenie Grandet
de Balzac, Honore – Le Pere Goriot
de Balzac, Honore – Lost Illusions
de Lautreamont, Comte – Maldoror
de Maupassant, Guy – A Woman’s Life
de Maupassant, Guy – Bel-Ami
de Maupassant, Guy – Pierre and jean
De Roberto, Federico – The Viceroys
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles – Bleak House
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Diderot, Denis – Rameau’s Nephew
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Notes from the Underground
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Devils
Doyle, Sur Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte-Cristo
Eca de Queiros, Jose Maria – The Crime of Father Amado
Edgeworth, Maria – Castle Rackrent
Eliot, George – Adam Bede
Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George – Silas Marner
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave – Sentimental Education
Flaubert, Gustave – Bouvard and Pecuchet
Fontane, Theodor – Effi Briest
Fontane, Theodor – The Stechlin
France, Anatole – Thais
Galdos, Benito Perez – Compassion
Gardonyi, Geza – Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Gaskell, Elizabeth – Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth – North and South
Gide, Andre – Fruits of the Earth
Gissing, George – New Grub Street
Gogol, Nikolay – The Nose
Gogol, Nikolay – Dead Souls
Goncharov, – Oblomov
Grossmith, George and Weedon – Diary of a Nobody
Haggard, H. Rider – King Solomon’s Mines
Hamsun, Knut – Hunger
Hardy, Thomas – Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas – Jude the Obscure
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlett Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of Seven Gables
Hernandez, Jose – Martin Fierro
Hildebrand – Camera Obscura
Hoffmann, E.T.A. – The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hogg, James – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
Huysmans, Joris-Karl – Against the Grain
Huysmans, Joris-Karl – Down There
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – What Maisie Knew
Keller, Gottfried – Green Henry
Kingsley, Charles – The Water-Babies
Lagerlof, Selma – Gosta Berling’s Saga
Le Fanu, Sheridan – Uncle Silas
Le Fanu, Sheridan – In a Glass Darkly
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich – A Hero of Our Times
Leskov, Nicolai – The Enchanted Wanderer
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria – The posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria – Dom Casmurro
Manzoni, Alessandro – The Betrothed
Maturin, Charles Robert – Melmoth the Wanderer
Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick
Morris, William – News from Nowhere
Multatuli – Max Havelaar
Novalis – Henry of Ofterdingen
Pater, Walter – Marius the Epicurean
Poe, Edgar Allan – The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe, Edgar Allan – The Pit and the Pendulum
Prus, Boleslaw – Pharaoh
Pushkin, Alexander – Eugene Onegin
Sand, George – The Devil’s Pool
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino – Facundo
Scott, Sir Walter – Rob Roy
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Sienkiewicz, Henryk – Quo Vadis
Somerville and Ross – Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Stendhal – The Red and Black
Stendhal – The Charterhouse of Parma
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stifter, Adalbert – Indian Summer
Stoker, Bram – Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Strindberg, August – The Red Room
Strindberg, August – The People of Hemso
Strindberg, August – By the Open Sea
Svevo, Italo – As a Man Grows Older
Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo – The Kreutzer Sonata
Trollope, Anthony – Last Chronicle of Barset
Trollope, Anthony – Phineas Finn
Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
Turgenev, Ivan – King Lear of the Steppes
Turgenev, Ivan – Spring Torrents
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valera, Juan – Pepita Jimenez
van Eeden, Frederik – The Quest
Vazov, Ivan – Under the Yoke
Verga, Giovanni – The House by the Medlar Tree
Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
Verne, Jules – Around the World in Eighty Days
von Eichendorff, Joseph – The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – Elective Affinities
von Kleist, Heinrich – Michael Kohlhaas
Wallace, Lew – Ben-Hur
Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
Wells, H.G. – The Island of Dr Moreau
Wells, H.G. – The War of the Worlds
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary – Frankestein
Zola, Emile – Therese Raquin
Zola, Emile – Drunkard
Zola, Emile – Nana
Zola, Emile – Germinal
Zola, Emile – La Bete Humaine

Anonymus – The Thousand and One Nights
Anonymus – The Tale of Bamboo Cutter OR The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Anonymus – The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Apuleius, Lucius – The Golden Ass
Arbuthnot, J. , Gay J. , Parnell T., Pope A., Swift J. – Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Beckford, William – Vathek
Behn, Aphra – Oroonoko
Burney, Fanny – Evelina
Burney, Fanny – Camilla
Cheng’en, Wu – Monkey: A Journey to the West
Cleland, John – Fanny Hill
de Camoes, Luis Vaz – The Lusiad
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel – Don Quixote
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel – The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos – Dangerous Liaisons
de Montalvo, Garci Rodriguez – Amadis of Gaul
de Rojas, Fernando – La Celestina
de Sade, Marquis – The 120 Days of Sodom
de Sade, Marquis – Justine
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel – Moll Flanders
del Castillo, Bernal Diaz – The Conquest of New Spain
Deloney, Thomas – Thomas of Reading
Diderot, Denis – Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis – The Nun
Equiano, Olaudah – The Interesting Narrative
Fielding, Henry – Joseph Andrews
Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
Godwin, William – The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Goldsmith, Oliver – The Vicar of Wakefield
Guanzhong, Luo – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Haywood, Eliza – Love in Excess
Holderlin, Friedrich – Hyperion
Johnson, Samuel – Rasselas
Lennox, Charlotte – The Female Quixote
Lewis, M.G. – The Monk
Mackenzie, Henry – The Man of Feeling
Martorell, Joanot – Tirant lo Blanc
Moritz, Karl Philipp – Anton Reiser
Nai’an, Shi & Guanzhong, Luo – The Water Margin OR Outlaws of the Marsh
Nashe, Thomas – Unfortunate Traveller
Pioche de Laverne Marie-Madelaine, Comtesse de la Fayette – The Princess of Cleves
Rabelais, Francois – Gargantua and Pantagruel
Radcliffe, Ann – The Mysteries of Udolpho
Richardson, Samuel – Pamela
Richardson, Samuel – Clarissa
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – Julie; or, The New Eloise
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – Emile; or, On Education
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – Confessions
Shikibu, Murasaki – The Tale of Genji
Smollett, Tobias George – Peregrine Pickle
Smollett, Tobias George – Humphry Clinker
Sterne, Laurence – Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence – A Sentimental Journey
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Swift, Jonathan – A Modest Proposal
Voltaire – Candide
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – The Sorrows of Young Werther
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
von Grimmelshausen, Hans – The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Walpole, Horace – The Castle of Otranto
Xueqio, Cao – A Dream of Red Mansions (OR The Story of the Stone)