1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die!!! (updated list - including all deletedbooks from previous editions)

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
Invisible by Paul Auster
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Cost: A Novel by Roxana Robinson
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Blind Side Of The Heart by Julia Franck
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
1. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
2. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee read 4/11
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Accidental by Ali Smith
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2666 by Roberto Bolano
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Sea – John Banville
The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
Lady Number Thirteen by Jose Carlos Somoza
The Successor by Ismail Kadare
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
-Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
1Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Soldiers of Salamis by Javer Cercas
I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi
Pavel’s Letters by Monika Maron
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Guitierrez
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
The Heretic by Miguel Deliber
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Crossfire by Miyabe Miyuki
3. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Information – Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
Our Lady of Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Deep River by Shusaku Endo
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
The Twins by Tessa de Loo
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Memoirs of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Laws by Connie Palmen
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
London Fields – Martin Amis
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Obabakoak by Bernando Atxaga
Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Last World by Christopher Ransmayr
The First Garden by Anne Herbert
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Black Box by Amos Oz All Souls by Javier Marias
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
All Souls by Javier Marias
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
World’s End by T.C. Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Foe – J.M. Coetzee (
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski
Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
4. Contact – Carl Sagan
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
5. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
6. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Young Man by Botho Strauss
Legend – David Gemmell
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Democracy by Joan Didion
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julian Rios
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Professor Martens’ Departure by Jaan Kross
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Shame – Salman Rushdie
The Witness by Juan Jose Saer
Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
7. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Couples, Passerby by Botho Strauss
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The War of the End of the World by Llosa
Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie
The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Wassmo
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Smell of Sadness by Kossman
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Southern Seas by Montalban
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Fool’s Gold by Douka
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
The Back Room by Gaite
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Requiem for a Dream by Selby
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
8. The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
The Wars by Findley
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
The Engineer of Human Souls by Skvorecky
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
Almost Transparent Blue by Rhu Murakami
Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
9. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
Woman at Point Zero by El Saadawi
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
The Year of the Hare by Paasilinna
The Commandant by Jessica Anderson
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Port by Soljan
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Twilight Years by Ariyoshi
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
Cataract by Osadchyi
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
A World for Julius by Echenique
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
Play It As it Lays by Joan Didion
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Here’s to You, Jesusa by Poniatowska
Season of Migration to the North by Salih
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
Moscow Stations by Erofeyev
The Case Worker by Konrad
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Jacob the Liar by Becker
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
10. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Cathedral by Honchar
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
Z by Vassilikos
Miramar by Mahfouz
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
To Each His Own by Sciascia
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Death and the Dervish by Selimovic
Things – Georges Perec
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
Garden, Ashes by Kis
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal
Back to Oegstgeest by Wolkers
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Three Trapped Tigers by Infante
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Dog Years by Gunter Grass
The Third Wedding by Taktsis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Time of the Hero by Llosa
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes
The Collector – John Fowles
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
-A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Time of Silence by Luis Martin Santos
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Vilos
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
No One Writes to the Colonel by Marquez
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
13. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller read 2008
The Shipyard by Onetti
God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene
Bebo’s Girl by Cassola
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien(
Halftime by Martin Walser
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
14. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Down Second Avenue by Mphahlele
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Deep Rivers by Arguedas
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Guide by Narayan
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Birds by Vesaas
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
The Deadbeats by Ruyslinck
The Manila Rope by Meri
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
15. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Glass Bees by Junger
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
16. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien & Watched the 2001 movie
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Rosa
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Burning Plain by Rulfo
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
The Unknown Soldier by Linna
The Sound of Waves by Mishima
Death in Rome by Koeppen
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
The Mandarins by de Beauvoir
17. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
A Day in Spring by Kosmac
The Dark Child by Laye
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Watt – Samuel Beckett
The Hothouse by Koeppen
The Lost Steps by Carpentier
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
A Thousand Cranes by Kawabata
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
18. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Hive by Cela
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
19. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Barabbas by Lagerkvist
The Guiltless by Broch
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
20. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber read 2009
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
21. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski
In the Heart of the Seas by Agnon
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzejewski
Journey to the Alcarria by Cela
Froth on the Daydream by Vian
Midaq Alley by Mahfouz
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
House in the Uplands by Caldwell
Back – Henry Green
Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Death of Virgil by Broch
Andrea by Laforet (2008, 2010)
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Bosnian Chronicle by Andric
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
22. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri ?movie in 2014? read 2010
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Loving – Henry Green
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Transit – Anna Seghers
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
23. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Chess Story by Zweig
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
The Outsider – Albert Camus
Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Harvesters by Parvese
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Broad and Alien Is the World by Alegria
The Man Who Loved Children by Stead
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Native Son – Richard Wright
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
Party Going – Henry Green
24. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
One the Edge of Reason by Krleza
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Alamut by Bartol
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
25. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Years – Virginia Woolf
26. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien & watched 1977 cartoon
The Blind Owl by Hedayat
Ferdydurke by Grombowicz
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
27. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell & watched 1939 film
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
War with the Newts by Capek
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Untouchable by Anand
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Bells of Basel by Aragon
On the Heights of Despair by Cioran
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
Man’s Fate by Malraux
Cheese by Elsschot
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010)
Vipers’ Tangle by Mauriac
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Forbidden Realm by Slauerhoff
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Krleza
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
Insatiability by Witkiwicz
Monica by Saunders Lewis
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Retreat without Song by Shahnour
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig
Amerika – Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Alberta and Jacob by Sandel
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
Under Satan’s Sun by Bernanos (PBS wish)
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence (avail PBS)
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello (PBS wish)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (avail PBS)
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein (PBS wish)
Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo (PBS wish)
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (avail PBS)
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (avail PBS)
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (avail PBS)
The Counterfeiters – André Gide (avail PBS)
*The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky (PBS wish)
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (avail PBS)
The New World by Welde Selasse ???????????????
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (avail PBS)
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen (PBS wish)
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (PBS wish)
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin (PBS wish)
*A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet (PBS wish)
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo (PBS wish)
Cane – Jean Toomer (PBS wish)
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley (avial PBS)
Amok – Stefan Zweig ????????????
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (PBS wish)
*The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
*The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
*Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
*Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Forest of the Hanged by Rebreanu ???????????
*The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
*Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
Claudine’s House by Colette (PBS wish)
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus ??????
28. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence read 2009
*Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
*Ulysses – James Joyce
Life of Christ by Papini (PBS wish)
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)mooched
*Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
*The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
*Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
*Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
The Storm of Steel by Junger (PBS wish)
*Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis (PBS wish)
*The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
*The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
*Summer – Edith Wharton
*Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
*The Home and the World by Tagore
Pallieter by Timmermans ????
*The Underdogs by Azuela
*Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
*A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
*Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Kindle0.99,PBS wish)
*The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
*The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
*29. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
*The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
*The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel (PBS wish)
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse mooched
*30. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Platero and I by Jimenez (PBS wish)
*The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
*Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
-Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens (Kindle 2.51, PBS wish)
*Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
*Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel (PBS wish)
*Howards End – E.M. Forster
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke (PBS wish)
*Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
*Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide (Amazon 2.99)
*A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
*Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
*The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
*The Iron Heel – Jack London
*The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
*The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
*Mother – Maxim Gorky (PBS wish)
*The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
*The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
*The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
Young Törless – Robert Musil (Kindle 11.99, PBS wish)
Solitude by Catala (PBS wish)
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann (PBS wish)
*The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
*Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
*Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe (avail PBS)
*The Way of All Flesh by Butler
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Schreber (PBS wish)
*31. The Call of the Wild by Jack London - reread 6/11
*The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
*The Golden Bowl – Henry James
*The Ambassadors – Henry James
-The Immoralist – André Gide
**The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
*Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
*The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann (PBS wish)
*Kim – Rudyard Kipling
None but the Brave by Schnitzler (Kindle 4.99, PBS wish)
*Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
*Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Salgari (Amazon 12.95, PBS wish)
*Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi (PBS wish)
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane (PBS wish)
*The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Dom Casmurro by de Assis (PBS wish)
As a Man Grows Older by Svevo (PBS wish)
*The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
*The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide (PBS wish)
*Pharoah by Prus
Compassion by Perez Galdos ???
*32. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
*What Maisie Knew – Henry James
*33. Dracula – Bram Stoker
*Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
*34. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
*35. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Viceroys by De Roberto (PBS wish)
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross Kindle 4.99, PBS wish)
*The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
*Born in Exile – George Gissing
*Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
66. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read 2010
*News from Nowhere – William Morris
*New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf (PBS wish)
*Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Down There by Huysmans (PBS wish)
*The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
*The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
*Thais by Anatole France
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola (PBS wish)
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*Hunger – Knut Hamsun
Eline Vere by Couperus (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*The Child of Pleasure by D’Annunzio
Under the Yoke by Vazov (PBS wish)
*The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
*Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés (Kindle 1.99, PBS wish)
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg ??
The Manors of Ulloa by Bazan (Amazon 1.97)
*The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
*She – H. Rider Haggard (Kindle 0.99,
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Reread 2010
The Quest by van Eeden (PBS wish)
*The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
*Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
*37. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Germinal – Émile Zola (avail PBS)
38. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain reread 2010
**Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
*Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
The Regent’s Wife by Alas ?
*Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
*The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
-A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
39. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
**Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis (Kindle 23.60,PBS wish)
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga (ordered PBS)
*The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
*Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
*Nana – Émile Zola
*The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
*The Red Room – August Strindberg
Martin Fierro by Hernandez (Kindle 4.95, PBS wish)
*Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
*40. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola (PBS wish)
The Crime of Father Amaro by de Queiros (PBS wish)
Pepita Jimenez by Valera (Kindle 2.99, PBS wish)
*Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
*Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
*The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
*The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
*Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov (PBS wish)
41. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne - reread 6/11
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu(Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
*Erewhon – Samuel Butler
*Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
*Middlemarch – George Eliot
42. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll - reread 6/11
*King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev (Rudin)
*He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
*War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
*Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
*Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont (Kindle 12.99, PBS wish)
*The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
*The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
*43. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
*Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
*The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
*44. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
*Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll reread 4/11
*Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
*Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
*Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
*The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
*Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
-Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
*Silas Marner – George Eliot
*Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli (PBS wish)
*On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
*Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
*The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
*The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
*46. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
*Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
47. Adam Bede – George Eliot read 2010
Indian Summer by Stifter (PBS wish)
*Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
*North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Green Henry by Keller (PBS wish)
*Hard Times – Charles Dickens
*Walden – Henry David Thoreau
*Bleak House – Charles Dickens
*Villette – Charlotte Brontë
*Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
*The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
*48. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
*49. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
*50. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
*Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
*Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
*The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
*Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
*Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (2006)
51. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë reread 5/11
*Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
*52. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
*The Devil’s Fool by George Sand
Facundo by Sarmiento (Kindle 12.99, PBS wish)
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas (PBS wish)
*53. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
*The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
*Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
*The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
*Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
*54. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
*Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
*A Hero for our Times by Lermontov
Camera Obscura by Nicolaas Beets, Hildebrand (Kindle 0.9)
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience (PBS wish)
*The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
*55. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol (Kindle. 1.99, PBS wish)
*Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
*Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
*Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
*56. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
-The Red and the Black – Stendhal
*The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
*57. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff (PBS wish)
*The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman (Kindle 12.99, PBS wish)
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin (PBS wish)
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin (Kindle 2.39, PBS wish)
*The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
*Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
*58. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
*Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
*Persuasion – Jane Austen
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth (Kindle 9.99, PBS wish)
*Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
*Emma – Jane Austen
*Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
*59. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
60. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen reread 5/20/11
Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist (Kindle 9.99, PBS wish)
*The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Kindle 7.16, PBS wish)
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*Henry of Ofterdingen by Novalis
*Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin(Kindle 9.60, PBS wish)
The Nun – Denis Diderot (Kindle 7.16, PBS wish)
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot(Kindle 12.99, PBS wish)
Camilla – Fanny Burney (Kindle 0.99, PBS wish)
*The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Kindle 3.26, PBS wish)
*The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
*The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin (Kindle 3.55, PBS wish)
A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin (Kindle 0.89, PBS wish)
-Justine – Marquis de Sade
*Vathek – William Beckford
Anton Reiser by Moritz (PBS wish)
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade (Kindle 0.89, PBS wish)
*Cecilia – Fanny Burney
*Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
65. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - read 4/11 watched movies x2
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (kindle 6.39, PBS wish)
*Evelina – Fanny Burney
*The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
*Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
*The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
*A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
*Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
*The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
*The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
*Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (PBS wish)
*Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
*Candide – Voltaire
*The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
*Amelia – Henry Fielding
*Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
*Fanny Hill – John Cleland
*Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
*Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
*Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
*Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope (PBS wish)
**Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
*A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
*61. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
*Roxana – Daniel Defoe
*Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
-Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
*62. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
*A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
-Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
*The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
*63. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
*The Adventurous Simplicissimus by von Grimmelshausen
-The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz del Castillo
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (PBS wish)
*Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
*The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Thomas of Reading by Deloney (PBS wish)
-The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly (PBS wish)
Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (kindle 2.99, PBS wish)
*The Lusiad by Vaz de Camoes
*Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
*The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Amadis of Gaul by de Montalvo (PBS wish)
*La Celestina by de Rojas
-Tirant lo Blanc by Martorell
The Water Margin by Nai’an (PBS wish)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong (Kindle 3.95, PBS wish)
67. The Tale of Gengi - 5/11
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (PBS wish)
*The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
Aithiopika – Heliodorus (PBS wish)
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton (PBS wish)
*Metamorphoses – Ovid
64. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Author Comments:

There are now three editions of the 1001 list, with 1294 titles on all three lists. Titles highlighted have been read.

Even though there is more than 1001 now I have read 67/1294

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1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die!!! (updated list - including all deletedbooks from previous editions)

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