What I haven't read of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Submitted by dashforcover on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 02:17

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120 Days of Sodom, The – Marquis de Sade
13 Clocks, The – James Thurber
1977 – David Peace
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Abbot C, The – Georges Bataille
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
Absentee, The – Maria Edgeworth
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
Adventures of Augie March, The – Saul Bellow - slcolib
Adventures of Caleb Williams, The – William Godwin - online Gutenberg
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami - slcolib
Afternoon of a Writer, The – Peter Handke
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans - online several locations
Age of Innocence, The – Edith Wharton
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë - odaudio
Aithiopika – Heliodorus - online as An Aethiopian Romance
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Albigenses, The – Charles Robert Maturin - online
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood - odread
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Ambassadors, The – Henry James - own
Amelia – Henry Fielding - online Gutenberg
American Pastoral – Philip Roth - odaudio
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis - slcolib
Amerika – Franz Kafka - online: http://www.kafka.org/index.php?missingnowak
Amok – Stefan Zweig
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan - odread
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore - slcolib
Another World – Pat Barker - slcolib audiobook
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Apes of God, The – Wyndham Lewis
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
Artamonov Business, The – Maxim Gorky
Artist of the Floating World, An – Kazuo Ishiguro - slcolib
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill - slcolib
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft - online http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
Atonement – Ian McEwan - slcolib
Atrocity Exhibition, The – J.G. Ballard
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald - slcolib book and audiobook
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The – Gertrude Stein - slcolib
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez - slcolib
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis - own
Back – Henry Green
Beautiful Room is Empty, The – Edmund White
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Bell Jar, The – Sylvia Plath
Bell, The – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Bend in the River, A – V.S. Naipaul - odaudio
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
Bête Humaine, La – Émile Zola
Betrothed, The – Alessandro Manzoni
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Birds Fall Down, The – Rebecca West
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bitter Glass, The – Eilís Dillon
Black Dahlia, The – James Ellroy
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Black Prince, The – Iris Murdoch
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
Bleak House – Charles Dickens - own
Blind Assassin, The – Margaret Atwood
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Blindness – Henry Green
Blithedale Romance, The – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Bluest Eye, The – Toni Morrison
Body Artist, The – Don DeLillo
Bonfire of the Vanities, The – Tom Wolfe
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
Book of Daniel, The – E.L. Doctorow
Book of Evidence, The – John Banville
Book of Illusions, The – Paul Auster
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The – Milan Kundera
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Boy’s Own Story, A – Edmund White
Brava, La – Elmore Leonard
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - odaudio
Breast, The – Philip Roth
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Bridge on the Drina, The – Ivo Andric
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Brothers Karamazov, The – Fyodor Dostoevsky - own
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Buddha of Suburbia, The – Hanif Kureishi
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
Burmese Days – George Orwell
Bus Conductor Hines, The – James Kelman
Butcher Boy, The – Patrick McCabe
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Camilla – Fanny Burney
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Cane – Jean Toomer
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Case of Comrade Tulayev, The – Victor Serge
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Castle of Crossed Destinies, The – Italo Calvino
Castle of Otranto, The – Horace Walpole
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
Castle, The – Franz Kafka
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Caught – Henry Green
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
Cement Garden, The – Ian McEwan
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Charterhouse of Parma, The – Stendhal
Charwoman’s Daughter, The – James Stephens
Child in Time, The – Ian McEwan
Childermass, The – Wyndham Lewis
Chocky – John Wyndham
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
Cider House Rules, The – John Irving - odaudio
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Clay Machine-Gun, The – Victor Pelevin
Clockwork Orange, A – Anthony Burgess
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Collector, The – John Fowles
Color Purple, The – Alice Walker
Colour, The – Rose Tremain
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Comfort of Strangers, The – Ian McEwan
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Complicity – Iain Banks
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Contact – Carl Sagan
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Corrections, The – Jonathan Franzen
Counterfeiters, The – André Gide
Country Girls, The – Edna O’Brien
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Crash – J.G. Ballard
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
Crow Road, The – Iain Banks
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Crying of Lot 49, The – Thomas Pynchon
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Cubs and Other Stories, The – Mario Vargas Llosa
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The – Mark Haddon
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Dance to the Music of Time, A – Anthony Powell
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Day Off, A – Storm Jameson
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Dead Father, The – Donald Barthelme
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The – Leo Tolstoy - own
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
Devil and Miss Prym, The – Paulo Coelho
Devil in the Flesh, The – Raymond Radiguet
Devils, The – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
Diary of Jane Somers, The – Doris Lessing
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Disaffection, A – James Kelman
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
Discovery of Heaven, The – Harry Mulisch
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
Double, The – José Saramago
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Driver’s Seat, The – Muriel Spark
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Drowned and the Saved, The – Primo Levi
Drowned World, The – J.G. Ballard
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The – Tom Wolfe
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
Embers – Sandor Marai
Emigrants, The – W.G. Sebald
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
Enchanted Wanderer, The – Nicolai Leskov
End of the Affair, The – Graham Greene
End of the Road, The – John Barth
End of the Story, The – Lydia Davis
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Enfants Terribles, Les – Jean Cocteau
England Made Me – Graham Greene
English Patient, The – Michael Ondaatje - odaudio
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
Enormous Room, The – E.E. Cummings
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Evelina – Fanny Burney
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fan Man, The – William Kotzwinkle
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Feast of the Goat, The – Mario Vargos Llosa
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Female Quixote, The – Charlotte Lennox
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Fine Balance, A – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
First Circle, The – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Floating Opera, The – John Barth
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
Folding Star, The – Alan Hollinghurst
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Fox, The – D.H. Lawrence
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The – John Fowles
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
Fury – Salman Rushdie
G – John Berger
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The – Giorgio Bassani
Garden Party, The – Katherine Mansfield
Garden Where the Brass Band Played, The – Simon Vestdijk
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
German Lesson, The – Siegfried Lenz
Germinal – Émile Zola
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Ghost at Noon, A – Alberto Moravia
Ghost Road, The – Pat Barker
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
Girls of Slender Means, The – Muriel Spark
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Glass Bead Game, The – Herman Hesse
Glass Key, The – Dashiell Hammett
Glimpses of the Moon, The – Edith Wharton
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
Go-Between, The – L.P. Hartley
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
God of Small Things, The – Arundhati Roy
Golden Ass, The – Lucius Apuleius
Golden Bowl, The – Henry James
Golden Notebook, The – Doris Lessing
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
Good Soldier Švejk, The – Jaroslav Hašek
Good Soldier, The – Ford Madox Ford
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Graduate, The – Charles Webb
Grass is Singing, The – Doris Lessing
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Great Apes – Will Self
Green Hat, The – Michael Arlen
Green Man, The – Kingsley Amis
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
Ground Beneath Her Feet, The – Salman Rushdie
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift - own, netaudio
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Hamlet, The – William Faulkner
Hand of Ethelberta, The – Thomas Hardy
Handful of Dust, A – Evelyn Waugh
Handmaid’s Tale, The – Margaret Atwood
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
Heart of Redness, The – Zakes Mda
Heart of the Matter, The – Graham Greene
Heart So White, A – Javier Marias
Heat of the Day, The – Elizabeth Bowen
Heather Blazing, The – Colm Tóibín
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Herzog – Saul Bellow
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
History of the Siege of Lisbon, The – José Saramago
Home at the End of the World, A – Michael Cunningham
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
Honorary Consul, The – Graham Greene
Hour of the Star, The – Clarice Lispector
Hours, The – Michael Cunningham
House by the Medlar Tree, The – Giovanni Verga
House in Paris, The – Elizabeth Bowen
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
House of Doctor Dee, The – Peter Ackroyd
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Mirth, The – Edith Wharton - own, netaudio
House of the Spirits, The – Isabel Allende
House on the Borderland, The – William Hope Hodgson
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
How the Dead Live – Will Self
Human Stain, The – Philip Roth
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Idiot, The – Fyodor Dostoevsky
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Immoralist, The – André Gide
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
In Parenthesis – David Jones
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Indigo – Marina Warner
Inferno, The – Henri Barbusse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Information, The – Martin Amis
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
Interesting Narrative, The – Olaudah Equiano
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Invention of Curried Sausage, The – Uwe Timm
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (4X)
Invisible Man, The – H.G. Wells - own, netaudio
Iron Heel, The – Jack London
Island of Dr. Moreau, The – H.G. Wells
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott - own
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Joke, The – Milan Kundera
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne - own
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Judge and His Hangman, The – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Jungle, The – Upton Sinclair - odread, netaudio
Junkie – William Burroughs
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Kestrel for a Knave, A – Barry Hines
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson - own
Killer Inside Me, The – Jim Thompson
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard *
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Kreutzer Sonata, The – Leo Tolstoy
Labyrinth of Solitude, The – Octavio Paz
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Lambs of London, The – Peter Ackroyd
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
Land – Park Kyong-ni
Last Chronicle of Barset, The – Anthony Trollope
Last Days of Humanity, The – Karl Kraus
Last of Mr. Norris, The – Christopher Isherwood
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper - odread, netaudio
Last September, The – Elizabeth Bowen
Last Temptation of Christ, The – Nikos Kazantzákis
Left-Handed Woman, The – Peter Handke
Legend – David Gemmell
Leopard, The – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Libra – Don DeLillo
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The – Charles Dickens
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
Life and Times of Michael K, The – J.M. Coetzee
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
Life of Insects, The – Victor Pelevin
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
Light of Day, The – Graham Swift
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Little Prince, The – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Living – Henry Green
Living and the Dead, The – Patrick White
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
London Fields – Martin Amis
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Lonely Londoners, The – Sam Selvon
Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, The – Douglas Adams
Long Goodbye, The – Raymond Chandler
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The – Heinrich Böll
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
Lover, The – Marguerite Duras
Loving – Henry Green
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert - own, netaudio
Maggot, A – John Fowles
Magic Mountain, The – Thomas Mann
Magus, The – John Fowles
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis - own, netaudio
Making of Americans, The – Gertrude Stein
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Man Asleep, A – Georges Perec
Man of Feeling, The – Henry Mackenzie
Man With the Golden Arm, The – Nelson Algren
Man Without Qualities, The – Robert Musil
Manhattan Transfer – Dos Passos
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Marble Faun, The – Nathaniel Hawthorne, own
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
Martin Eden – Jack London
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Master and Margarita, The – Mikhail Bulgakov
Master of Ballantrae, The – Robert Louis Stevenson
Master of Petersburg, The – J.M. Coetzee
Master, The – Colm Tóibín
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
Mayor of Casterbridge, The – Thomas Hardy
Melancholy of Resistance, The – László Krasznahorkai
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Middlemarch – George Eliot - own
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight Examiner, The – William Kotzwinkle
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Midwich Cuckoos, The – John Wyndham
Mill on the Floss, The – George Eliot
Misérables, Les – Victor Hugo
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Modest Proposal, A – Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
Momento Mori – Muriel Spark
Monastery, The – Sir Walter Scott
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Monk, The – M.G. Lewis
Moon and the Bonfires, The – Cesare Pavese
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Moor’s Last Sigh, The – Salman Rushdie
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
Mother – Maxim Gorky
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf - odread
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Music of Chance, The – Paul Auster
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Mysteries of Udolpho, The – Ann Radcliffe
Nadja – André Breton
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Names, The – Don DeLillo
Nana – Émile Zola - own
Native Son – Richard Wright
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
New Grub Street – George Gissing
New York Trilogy, The – Paul Auster
News from Nowhere – William Morris
Newton Letter, The – John Banville
Nice and the Good, The – Iris Murdoch
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Nine Tailors, The – Dorothy L. Sayers
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Nose, The – Nikolay Gogol
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
Nun, The – Denis Diderot
Obedient Father, An – Akhil Sharma
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham - own
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Ogre, The – Michael Tournier
Old Devils, The – Kingsley Amis
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
Old Wives’ Tale, The – Arnold Bennett
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens - odaudio
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
On Love – Alain de Botton
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey - odaudio
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Opposing Shore, The – Julien Gracq
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Pale View of Hills, A – Kazuo Ishiguro
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Parable of the Blind, The – Gert Hofmann
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Party Going – Henry Green
Passage to India, A – E.M. Forster - odread
Passing – Nella Larsen
Passion According to G.H., The – Clarice Lispector
Passion of New Eve, The – Angela Carter
Passion, The – Jeanette Winterson
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Path to the Nest of Spiders, The – Italo Calvino
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
People of Hemsö, The – August Strindberg
Père Goriot, Le – Honoré de Balzac - own, netaudio
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Piano Teacher, The – Elfriede Jelinek
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Pigeon, The – Patrick Süskind
Pilgrim’s Progress, The – John Bunyan
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
Plague, The – Albert Camus
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Player of Games, The – Iain M. Banks
Plot Against America, The – Philip Roth
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
Plumed Serpent, The – D.H. Lawrence
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Poisonwood Bible, The – Barbara Kingsolver
Poor Mouth, The – Flann O’Brien
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Portrait of a Lady, The – Henry James - own
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A – James Joyce
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Postman Always Rings Twice, The – James M. Cain
Power and the Glory, The – Graham Greene
Prayer for Owen Meany, A – John Irving
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The – Muriel Spark
Princess of Clèves, The – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The – James Hogg
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Professor’s House, The – Willa Cather
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Public Burning, The – Robert Coover
Pursuit of Love, The – Nancy Mitford
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Queer – William Burroughs
Quest for Christa T., The – Christa Wolf
Question of Power, A – Bessie Head
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Quiet American, The – Graham Greene
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike - odread
Rabbit Redux – John Updike - odread
Rabbit, Run – John Updike - odread
Radetzky March, The – Joseph Roth
Radiant Way, The – Margaret Drabble
Ragazzi, The – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The – Robert Tressell
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Rainbow, The – D.H. Lawrence
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, The – Marguerite Duras
Razor’s Edge, The – William Somerset Maugham
Reader, The – Bernhard Schlink
Real Charlotte, The – Somerville and Ross
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
Rebel, The – Albert Camus
Recognitions, The – William Gaddis
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Red Queen, The – Margaret Drabble
Red Room, The – August Strindberg
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Reine Margot, La – Alexandre Dumas
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy - odaudio
Return of the Soldier, The – Rebecca West
Revenge for Love, The – Wyndham Lewis
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Riddle of the Sands, The – Erskine Childers
Rings of Saturn, The – W.G. Sebald
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
River Between, The – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Robber Bride, The – Margaret Atwood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe - own, netaudio
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Romantics, The – Pankaj Mishra
Room With a View, A – E.M. Forster - own, netaudio
Roots of Heaven, The – Romain Gary
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
Safety Net, The – Heinrich Böll
Satanic Verses, The – Salman Rushdie
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Scot’s Quair (Sunset Song), A – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sea of Fertility, The – Yukio Mishima
Sea, The – John Banville
Sea, The Sea, The – Iris Murdoch
Secret Agent, The – Joseph Conrad
Secret History, The – Donna Tartt
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Journey, A – Laurence Sterne
Severed Head, A – Iris Murdoch
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Shadow Line, The – Joseph Conrad
Shame – Salman Rushdie
She – H. Rider Haggard
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Shroud – John Banville
Siege of Krishnapur, The – J.G. Farrell
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Singapore Grip, The – J.G. Farrell
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg - odread
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Sorrow of Belgium, The – Hugo Claus
Sorrows of Young Werther, The – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sound and the Fury, The – William Faulkner
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The – John Le Carré
Stechlin, The – Theodore Fontane
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Stone Diaries, The – Carol Shields
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
Story of Lucy Gault, The – William Trevor
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Stranger, The – Albert Camus
Suitable Boy, A – Vikram Seth
Sula – Toni Morrison
Summer – Edith Wharton
Summer Book, The – Tove Jansson
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sun Also Rises, The – Ernest Hemingway
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
Swimming-Pool Library, The – Alan Hollinghurst
Taebek Mountains, The – Jo Jung-rae
Tale of a Tub, A – Jonathan Swift
Talented Mr. Ripley, The – Patricia Highsmith
Talk of the Town, The – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
Tartar Steppe, The – Dino Buzzati
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Temple of My Familiar, The – Alice Walker
Temptation of Saint Anthony, The – Gustave Flaubert
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The – Anne Brontë - own
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy - odaudio
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston - odread
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
Thin Man, The – Dashiell Hammett
Things – Georges Perec
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Things They Carried, The – Tim O’Brien
Thinking Reed, The – Rebecca West
Third Man, The – Graham Greene
Third Policeman, The – Flann O’Brien
Thirty-Nine Steps, The – John Buchan
Thousand and One Nights, The – Anonymous(vols. read: 1) - online
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Three Musketeers, The – Alexandre Dumas - own
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll - odread
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
Time of Indifference, The – Alberto Moravia
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Tin Drum, The – Günter Grass
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf - odread
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
Town Like Alice, A – Nevil Shute
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Transit – Anna Seghers
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson - odaudio
Trial, The – Franz Kafka - odaudio
Trick is to Keep Breathing, The – Janice Galloway
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne own
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Trusting and the Maimed, The – James Plunkett
Typical – Padgett Powell
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Ulysses – James Joyce
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The – Milan Kundera
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Unconsoled, The – Kazuo Ishiguro
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Unfortunate Traveller, The – Thomas Nashe
Unless – Carol Shields
Unnamable, The – Samuel Beckett
Untouchable, The – John Banville
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Vanishing Point – David Markson
Vathek – William Beckford
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Vicar of Wakefield, The – Oliver Goldsmith
Vice-Consul, The – Marguerite Duras
Victim, The – Saul Bellow
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Violent Bear it Away, The – Flannery O’Connor
Virgin in the Garden, The – A.S. Byatt
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Suicides, The – Jeffrey Eugenides
Void/Avoid, A – Georges Perec
Voss – Patrick White
Voyage Out, The – Virginia Woolf
W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Wasp Factory, The – Iain Banks
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Water-Babies, The – Charles Kingsley
Waterland – Graham Swift
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Waves, The – Virginia Woolf
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Well of Loneliness, The – Radclyffe Hall
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
White Noise – Don DeLillo
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Wild Boys, The – William Burroughs
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The – Haruki Murakami
Wings of the Dove, The – Henry James
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
Woman in White, The – Wilkie Collins
Woman’s Life, A – Guy de Maupassant
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Wonderful “O”, The – James Thurber
Woodlanders, The – Thomas Hardy
World According to Garp, The – John Irving
World of Love, A – Elizabeth Bowen
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The – José Saramago
Years, The – Virginia Woolf
Yellow Wallpaper, The – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
Young Törless – Robert Musil
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

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