Books to read from the lists of bests

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  • "Master Harold"...and the Boys – Athol Fugard
  • 1st To Die – James Patterson
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  • 800 Horsemen – Col Stringer
  • 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
  • A Bargain for Frances – Russell Hoban
  • A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  • A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  • A Child Called It – David Pelzer
  • A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  • A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
  • A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  • A Comedy of Justice – Robert Heinlein
  • A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
  • A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  • A Day Off – Storm Jameson
  • A Disaffection – James Kelman
  • A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  • A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
  • A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
  • A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
  • A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  • A Heart So White – Javier Marias
  • A History of English Speaking Peoples – Winston Churchill
  • A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  • A House Like a Lotus – Madeleine L’Engle
  • A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  • A Kiss for Little Bear – Else Holmelund Minarik
  • A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
  • A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
  • A Maggot – John Fowles
  • A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
  • A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  • A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  • A Primer of Freudian Psychology – Calvin Hall
  • A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  • A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
  • A Ring of Endless Light – Madeleine L’Engle
  • A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
  • A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  • A Scot’s Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
  • A Separate Peace – John Knowles
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) – Lemony Snickett
  • A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  • A Short History of a Small Place – T.R. Pearson
  • A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
  • A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  • A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • A Theory of Justice – John Rawls
  • A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  • A View from Nowhere – Thomas Nagel
  • A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
  • A Welsh Classical Dictionary – Peter C. Bartrum
  • A Widow for One Year – John Irving
  • A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
  • A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  • A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
  • Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
  • Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  • Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
  • Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Adam Bede – George Eliot
  • Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  • Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
  • After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
  • After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
  • Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  • Ain’t Got Time to Bleed – Jesse Ventura
  • Airport Planning – Charles Froesch & Walther Prokosch
  • Aithiopika – Heliodorus
  • Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
  • Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
  • All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  • All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
  • All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  • All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  • All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
  • All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein
  • All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
  • All Too Human – George Stephanopoulos
  • Almost French – Sarah Turnbull
  • Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
  • Amazing Grace – Jonathan Kozol
  • Amelia – Henry Fielding
  • American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  • American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  • American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  • American Rhapsody – Joe Eszterhas
  • Amerika – Franz Kafka
  • Amok – Stefan Zweig
  • Amongst Women – John McGahern
  • Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
  • An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
  • An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
  • An Unfortunate Woman – Richard Brautigan
  • Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  • Anarchy, State and Utopia – Robert Nozick
  • Ancient Evenings – Norman Mailer
  • And I Don’t Want to Live This Life – Deborah Spungen
  • And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  • Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor
  • Angels And Demons – Dan Brown
  • Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver
  • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  • Anne of Windy Poplars – L.M. Montgomery
  • Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
  • Another World – Pat Barker
  • Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
  • Antigone – Sophocles
  • Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories – Anton Chekhov
  • April Fools Day – Bryce Courtenay
  • Arcadia – Jim Crace
  • Arcanum 17 – André Breton
  • Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoirs of a Dublin Woman – Nuala O’Faolain
  • Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
  • Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  • Artemis Fowl (series) – Eoin Colfer
  • As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  • Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
  • At Dawn We Slept – Gordon W. Prange
  • At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
  • At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  • At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  • Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
  • Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons – Bill Watterson
  • August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  • Auntie Mame – Patrick Dennis
  • Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo – Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  • Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
  • Babar the King – Jean De Brunhoff
  • Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  • Back – Henry Green
  • Barrayar – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Basic Facts About the United Nations – UN Department of Public Information
  • Battle Cry of Freedom – James McPherson
  • Beach Music – Pat Conroy
  • Beezus and Ramona – Beverly Cleary
  • Beggars in Spain – Nancy Kress
  • Being Dead – Jim Crace
  • Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
  • Belinda – Anne Rice
  • Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
  • Beloved – Toni Morrison
  • Beneath the Wheel – Hermann Hesse
  • Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
  • Beowulf
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  • Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  • Beware the Fish! – Gordon Korman
  • Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  • Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  • Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
  • Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  • Billy Sunday and Other Poems – Carl Sandburg
  • Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
  • Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
  • Black Hawk Down – Mark Bowden
  • Black Hawk, Grey Falcon – Rebecca West
  • Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  • Blackberry Subway Jam – Robert Munsch & Michael Martchenko
  • Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  • Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  • Blindness – Henry Green
  • Blindness – Jose Saramago
  • Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
  • Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
  • Blow Up and Other Stories – Julio Cortazar
  • Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
  • Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  • Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
  • Borderliners – Peter Hoeg
  • Born in Exile – George Gissing
  • Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  • Boy – Roald Dahl
  • Boyz Rule – Felice Arena and Phil Kettle
  • Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  • Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason – Helen Fielding
  • Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  • Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  • Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
  • Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
  • Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  • Burmese Days – George Orwell
  • Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame – Charles Bukowski
  • Burr – Gore Vidal
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
  • By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
  • Cafe Scheherazade – Arnold Zable
  • Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
  • Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
  • Calvin and Hobbes – Bill Watterson
  • Camilla – Fanny Burney
  • Camp Concentration – Thomas M. Disch
  • Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • Candide – Voltaire
  • Cane – Jean Toomer
  • Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  • Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Captain Blood – Rafael Sabatini
  • Captain Horatio Hornblower – Cecil Scott Forester
  • Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space – Dav Pilkey
  • Cash – Johnny Cash
  • Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  • Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
  • Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
  • Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
  • Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  • Cathedral – Raymond Carver
  • Caucasia – Danzy Senna
  • Caught – Henry Green
  • Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
  • Cavedweller – Dorothy Allison
  • Cecilia – Fanny Burney
  • Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
  • Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
  • Chaos – James Gleick
  • Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness – Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  • Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth
  • Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
  • Chocky – John Wyndham
  • Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  • Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Chuang Tsu – Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (trans.)
  • Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  • Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  • City of God – E.L. Doctorow
  • City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  • City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  • Civility – Stephen L. Carter
  • Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
  • Clarence Darrow for the Defense – Irving Stone
  • Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
  • Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  • Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
  • Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  • Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  • Cold Mountain – Charles Frasier
  • Collected Poems – Maya Angelou
  • Collected Poems – William Dunbar
  • Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller
  • Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
  • Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  • Compassion Fatigue – Susan Moeller
  • Complicity – Iain Banks
  • Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  • Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  • Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Confessions – St. Augustine of Hippo
  • Conspiranoia – Devon Jackson
  • Contact – Carl Sagan
  • Correction – Thomas Bernhard
  • Coryat’s Crudities – Thomas Coryate
  • Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
  • Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Crash – J.G. Ballard
  • Creating Minds – Howard Gardner
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
  • Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
  • Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
  • Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
  • Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  • Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  • Cultural Politics of Everyday Life – John Shotter
  • Cunt – Inga Muscio
  • Curtain – Agatha Christie
  • Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  • D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths – Ingri & Edgar D’Aulaire
  • 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
  • Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • Dead Air – Iain Banks
  • Dead Babies – Martin Amis
  • Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
  • Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther
  • Death in Venice and Other Stories – Thomas Mann
  • Death is a Lonely Business – Ray Bradbury
  • Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
  • Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  • Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  • Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
  • Deltora Quest Series – Emily Rodda
  • Democracy and Distrust – John Hart Ely
  • Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Descent into Hell – Charles Williams
  • Desert Flower – Waris Dirie
  • Dhalgren – Samuel Delaney
  • Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
  • Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  • Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voight
  • Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
  • Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler
  • Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger
  • Disappearance – David Dabydeen
  • Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  • Discworld series – Terry Pratchett
  • Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
  • Dispatches – Michael Herr
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  • Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  • Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  • Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
  • Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
  • Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
  • Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson
  • Downriver – Iain Sinclair
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • Drawing of the Dark – Tim Powers
  • Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Drunkard – Émile Zola
  • Dubliners – James Joyce
  • Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dune – Frank Herbert
  • Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
  • Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess
  • Earthman’s Burden – Poul Anderson
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon – Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt
  • Easter, 1916 – William Butler Yeats
  • Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
  • Eight Cousins – Louisa May Alcott
  • Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
  • Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
  • Embers – Sandor Marai
  • Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Emily of New Moon – L.M. Montgomery
  • Emma – Jane Austen
  • Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
  • Empire Falls – Richard Russo
  • Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  • Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  • Endgame – Samuel Beckett
  • England Made Me – Graham Greene
  • Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
  • Eragon – Christopher Paolini
  • Erewhon – Samuel Butler
  • Escape from Colditz – P.R. Reid
  • Essays – Michel de Montaigne
  • Et Nox Facta Est – Victor Hugo
  • Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  • Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
  • Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
  • Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
  • Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
  • Evelina – Fanny Burney
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Tom Robbins
  • Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like – Jay Williams
  • Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  • Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
  • Excession – Iain M. Banks
  • Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  • Exodus – Leon Uris
  • Expecting Adam – Martha Beck
  • Experiments in Mass Communications – Carl I. Hovland
  • Exploring Social Psychology – David G. Myers
  • Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
  • Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  • Faith Singer – Rosie Scott
  • Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
  • Fanny Hill – John Cleland
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl
  • Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  • Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  • Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
  • Fargo, Rock City – Chuck Klosterman
  • Farnham’s Freehold – Robert Heinlein
  • Fateless – Imre Kertész
  • Fathers and Crows – William T. Vollman
  • Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
  • Faust – Johnann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  • Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
  • Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  • Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
  • Fences – August Wilson
  • Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  • Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  • 'Fighting' McKenzie Anzac Chaplain – Col Stringer
  • Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  • Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  • First Sorrow – Franz Kafka
  • Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
  • Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley
  • Flatland – Edwin A. Abbott
  • Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  • Flood – Andrew Vachss
  • Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Foe – J.M. Coetzee
  • 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
  • Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
  • Founding Brothers – Joseph J. Ellis
  • Fox in Sox – Dr. Seuss
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  • Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Fred and Edie – Jill Dawson
  • French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating – Mary Anne Cohen
  • Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle–Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
  • Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
  • Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  • Fury – Salman Rushdie
  • G – John Berger
  • Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
  • Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Germinal – Émile Zola
  • Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  • Getting the Love You Want, Guide for Couples – Harvelle Hendrix
  • Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & Bill Ury
  • Ghost Girl – Torey Hayden
  • Gideon’s Trumpet – Anthony Lewis
  • Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  • Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
  • Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
  • Girls In Love – Jacqueline Wilson
  • Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  • Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
  • Godric – Frederick Buechner
  • Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  • Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
  • Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  • Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
  • Goosebumps – R. L Stine
  • Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  • Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
  • Grace Notes – Bernard MacLaverty
  • Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  • Great Apes – Will Self
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • Green Shadows, White Whale – Ray Bradbury
  • Grendel – John Gardner
  • Grimus – Salman Rushdie
  • Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
  • Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
  • Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
  • Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  • Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
  • Half Magic – Edward Eager
  • Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  • Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  • Happenstance – Carol Shields
  • Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World – Haruki Murakami
  • Harold and Maude – Colin Higgins
  • Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
  • Hatcher’s Notebook – Julian Hatcher
  • Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  • He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
  • Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  • Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  • Henry V – William Shakespeare
  • Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  • Herland – Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
  • Herzog – Saul Bellow
  • Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
  • High Rise – J.G. Ballard
  • High Tide in Tuscon – Barbara Kingsolver
  • Historia Regum Britanniae – Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • Hocus Pocus – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  • Honeymoon in Purdah – Alison Wearing
  • Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
  • House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  • House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
  • House of Stairs – William Sleator
  • How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  • How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  • How the Dead Live – Will Self
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
  • Howards End – E.M. Forster
  • Human Scale Development – Manfred Max-Neef
  • Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  • Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
  • Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  • Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
  • I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
  • I Ching – Richard John Lynn (trans.)
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • I Sing the Body Electric! – Ray Bradbury
  • I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  • I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  • Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
  • 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
  • Illuminatus! – Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
  • Illusions – Richard Bach
  • Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
  • In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
  • In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • In Parenthesis – David Jones
  • In Search of Excellence – Tom Peters
  • In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  • In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
  • In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
  • In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
  • In the Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
  • In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
  • Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  • Indigo – Marina Warner
  • Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  • Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
  • Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
  • Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
  • Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • Irish Pedigrees – John O’Hart
  • Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
  • Island – Aldous Huxley
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
  • Islands – Dan Sleigh
  • It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
  • It’s a Magical World – Bill Watterson
  • Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  • Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  • Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  • Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
  • Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
  • Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Jazz – Toni Morrison
  • Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Jessica – Bryce Courtenay
  • Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
  • John Adams – David McCullough
  • Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
  • Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  • Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  • Julian – Gore Vidal
  • Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  • Junkie – William Burroughs
  • Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
  • Just and Unjust Wars – Michael Walzer
  • Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  • Justine – Marquis de Sade
  • Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
  • Kane And Abel – Jeffrey Archer
  • Katherine – Anya Seton
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  • Kentucky Straight – Chris Offutt
  • Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  • King Lear – William Shakespeare
  • King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
  • King Matt the First – Janusz Korczak
  • King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
  • Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  • Kipling Stories and Poems – Caroline Kipling (comp.)
  • Knowing God – J.I. Packer
  • Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  • Krik? Krak! – Edwidge Danticat
  • La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
  • La Brava – Elmore Leonard
  • La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
  • Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
  • Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore
  • Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  • Land – Park Kyong-ni
  • Last Call – Tim Powers
  • Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  • Le Morte D’Arthur – Thomas Mallory
  • Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
  • Leading Minds – Howard Gardner
  • Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  • Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Legend – David Gemmell
  • Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History – William Saffire (ed.)
  • Lenin’s Tomb – David Remnick
  • Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  • Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  • Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  • Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Libra – Don DeLillo
  • Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
  • Life and Death in Shanghai – Nien Cheng
  • Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  • Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  • Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain
  • Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
  • Like a Hole in the Head – Jen Banbury
  • Like Life – Lorrie Moore
  • Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  • Little House series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Living – Henry Green
  • Locked in the Cabinet – Robert Reich
  • Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • London Fields – Martin Amis
  • London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
  • Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
  • Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  • Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  • Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy
  • Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
  • Loosely Based – Storey Clayton
  • Lord Foul’s Bane – Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  • Lords and Ladies – Terry Pratchett
  • 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 Executioner – Irvin D. Yalo
  • Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
  • Loving – Henry Green
  • Lucid Dreaming – Stephen Laberge
  • Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
  • Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
  • Lying Awake – Mark Salzman
  • Lysistrata – Aristophanes
  • Machinery’s Handbook – Erik Oberg (ed.)
  • Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  • Magician – Raymond E. Feist
  • Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  • Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
  • Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
  • Man on Superman – George Bernard Shaw
  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
  • Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
  • Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  • Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  • Mao II – Don DeLillo
  • Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
  • Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
  • Marjorie Morningstar – Herman Wouk
  • Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
  • Martin Eden – Jack London
  • Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
  • Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  • Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
  • Mathematical Methods for Physicists – George B. Arfken
  • Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • Matilda – Roald Dahl
  • Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
  • Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
  • Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  • Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  • Memory of Fire: Genesis – Eduardo Galeano
  • Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
  • Metamorphoses – Ovid
  • Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  • Middlemarch – George Eliot
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berndt
  • Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  • Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
  • Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  • Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg
  • Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  • Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  • Molloy – Samuel Beckett
  • Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
  • Moon Palace – Paul Auster
  • Mort – Terry Pratchett
  • Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  • Mother – Maxim Gorky
  • Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Mountain Interval – Robert Frost
  • Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
  • Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
  • Mrs. Bridge – Evan S. Connell
  • Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle – Betty MacDonald
  • Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Murphy – Samuel Beckett
  • Music and Silence – Rose Tremain
  • My Century – Gunter Grass
  • My Family And Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
  • My Land, My People – the Dalai Lama
  • My Life in Christ – St. John of Kronstadt
  • My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
  • Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
  • Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
  • Nadja – André Breton
  • Naked in Death – J.D. Robb
  • Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
  • Nana – Émile Zola
  • Narcissus and Goldmund – Herman Hesse
  • 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
  • News from Nowhere – William Morris
  • Nicholas and Alexandra – Robert K. Massie
  • Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  • Night – Elie Wiesel
  • Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  • Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
  • Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  • Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
  • Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
  • No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre
  • No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  • No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (series) – Alexander McCall Smith
  • Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha – Mohandas Gandhi
  • North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  • Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  • Not Without My Daughter – Betty Mahmoody
  • Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Noughts And Crosses – Malorie Blackman
  • Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  • Now We are Six – A.A. Milne
  • Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
  • Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
  • Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  • Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  • Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  • 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 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish – Dr. Seuss
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  • One for the Money – Janet Evanovich
  • One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  • Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  • Orlando – Virginia Woolf
  • Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
  • Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
  • Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
  • Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  • Othello – William Shakespeare
  • Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  • Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  • Our Town – Thornton Wilder
  • Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  • Outlander series – Diana Gabaldon
  • Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Palm of the Hand Stories – Yusanari Kawabata
  • Pamela – Samuel Richardson
  • Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
  • Paradise Lost – John Milton
  • Party Going – Henry Green
  • Passing – Nella Larsen
  • Pastoralia – George Saunders
  • Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  • Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
  • Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
  • People of the Lie – M. Scott Peck
  • Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
  • Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
  • Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
  • Personal History – Katharine Graham
  • Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  • Petersburg – Andrei Bely
  • Phaedo – Plato
  • Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Steve Martin
  • Pieces of a Song – Diane di Prima
  • Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
  • Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  • Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
  • Planet of the Blind – Stephen Kuusisto
  • Platform – Michael Houellebecq
  • Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  • Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  • Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Point Counter Point – Aldous Huxley
  • Pop. 1280 – Jim Thompson
  • Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  • Possession – A.S. Byatt
  • Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
  • Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
  • Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  • Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
  • Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
  • Prufrock and Other Observations – T.S. Eliot
  • Purple America – Rick Moody
  • QB VII – Leon Uris
  • Quartet – Jean Rhys
  • Queer – William Burroughs
  • Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  • Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson
  • Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  • Rabbit Redux – John Updike
  • Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  • Rage – Steve Gerlach
  • Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  • Railroads of Nevada – David F. Myrick
  • Raising Demons – Shirley Jackson
  • Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
  • Random House Dictionary of the American Language – Jess Stein (ed.)
  • Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  • Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
  • Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
  • Ravelstein – Saul Bellow
  • Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read – Bernice Cullinan
  • Reagan: A Life in Letters – Ronald Reagan
  • Reasons and Persons – Derek Parfit
  • Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  • Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
  • Regeneration – Pat Barker
  • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
  • Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
  • Retribution – Jilliane Hoffman
  • Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  • Revelations of Divine Love – Julian of Norwich
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Revolt of the Cockroach People – Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Riders – Jilly Cooper
  • Rites of Passage – William Golding
  • Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  • Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
  • Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  • Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
  • Roots – Alex Haley
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
  • Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
  • Roxana – Daniel Defoe
  • Rules and Order (vol. 1 of Law, Legislation, and Liberty) – Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Run with the Horsemen – Ferrol Sams
  • Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot – Al Franken
  • Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
  • Sabriel – Garth Nix
  • San Manuel Bueno, Martir – Miguel de Unamuno
  • Saturday – Ian McEwan
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  • Scarecrow – Matthew Reilly
  • Schooling – Heather McGowan
  • Scientific Progress Goes Boink – Bill Watterson
  • Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
  • Screwjack – Hunter S. Thompson
  • Season of the Witch – James Leo Herlihy
  • Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • Secrets of the Great Pyramid – Peter Tompkins
  • 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
  • Set This House in Order – Matt Ruff
  • Sexing the Body – Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  • Shame – Salman Rushdie
  • Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
  • She – H. Rider Haggard
  • She's Come Undone – Wally Lamb
  • Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  • Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  • Shogun – James Clavell
  • Shroud – John Banville
  • Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  • Silas Marner – George Eliot
  • Silk – Alessandro Baricco
  • Silverlock – John Myers Myers
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  • Six Easy Pieces – Richard Feynman
  • Six Wars at a Time – Howard Shaff & Audrey Karl Shaff
  • Skinny Legs and All – Tom Robbins
  • Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
  • Small Island – Andrea Levy
  • Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
  • Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  • Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  • Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  • Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  • Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
  • Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  • Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  • Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience – William Blake
  • Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  • Sorrows and Rejoicings – Athol Fugard
  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
  • Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
  • Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
  • Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
  • Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
  • Steamboats and Modern Steam Launches – Bill Durham
  • Stephanie Plum (series) – Janet Evanovich
  • Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  • Stillwell and the American Experience in China – Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  • Stones from the River – Ursula Hegi
  • Stoneware and Porcelain – Daniel Rhodes
  • Stories – Katherine Mansfield
  • Story of My Life – Helen Keller
  • Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  • Strait is the Gate – André Gide
  • Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  • Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Sula – Toni Morrison
  • Summer – Edith Wharton
  • Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  • Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
  • Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Summer’s Lease – John Mortimer
  • Sunk Without Trace – Robert Birley
  • Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
  • Superfudge – Judy Blume
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
  • Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  • Surprised by Joy – C.S. Lewis
  • Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
  • Sybil Flora – Rheta Schreiber
  • Synchronicity – Carl Jung
  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Stanislaw Lem
  • Tales of the Night – Peter Hoeg
  • Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
  • Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
  • Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
  • Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Technology of Wine Making – Maynard Amerine
  • Tell No One – Harlan Coben
  • Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  • Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
  • Tevye’s Daughters – Shalom Aleichem
  • Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  • That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
  • The 12 Chairs – Ilya Ilf & Evgeni Petrov
  • The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
  • The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
  • The 42nd Parallel – John Dos Passos
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
  • The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
  • The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
  • The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  • The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  • The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  • The Age Of Reason – Thomas Paine
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
  • The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
  • The Allegory of Love – C.S. Lewis
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
  • The Ambassadors – Henry James
  • The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton
  • The Ancient Future Trilogy – Traci Harding
  • The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
  • The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
  • The Apology – Plato
  • The Art of Electronics – Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  • The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  • The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
  • The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman – Abbie Hoffman
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X & Alex Haley
  • The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  • The Background – Saki
  • The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  • The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
  • The Bible
  • The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  • The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
  • The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  • The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  • The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
  • The Blessing of Pan – Lord Dunsany
  • The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Bloody Sun – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
  • The Bone People – Keri Hulme
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  • The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
  • The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  • The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  • The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are – Alan Watts
  • The Breast – Philip Roth
  • The Brethren – Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
  • The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  • The Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
  • The Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simons
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  • The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
  • The Business of Fancydancing – Sherman Alexie
  • The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  • The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  • The Castle – Franz Kafka
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  • The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
  • The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  • The Chamber – John Grisham
  • The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
  • The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  • The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  • The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
  • The Chosen – Chaim Potok
  • The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  • The City of Gold and Lead – John Christopher
  • The Clan Of The Cave Bear – Jean M Auel
  • The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
  • The Closing of the American Mind – Alan Bloom
  • The Collector – John Fowles
  • The Color of Summer – Reinaldo Arenas
  • The Color of Water – James McBride
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • The Colour – Rose Tremain
  • The Colour Of Magic – Terry Pratchett
  • The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  • The Complaint; or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality – Edward Young
  • The Confusion – Neal Stephenson
  • The Conquest of America – Tzvetan Todorov
  • The Constitution of the United States of America – Constitutional Convention of 1787 et al.
  • The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  • The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  • The Counterfeiters – André Gide
  • The Country Bunny – DuBose Heyward
  • The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
  • The Covenant – James Michener
  • The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
  • The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  • The Crucible – Arthur Miller
  • The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  • The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Curse of Lono – Hunter S. Thompson
  • The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
  • The Day After Tomorrow – Allan Folsom
  • The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
  • The Dead Zone – Stephen King
  • The Death and Life of Superman – Roger Stern
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
  • The Demons – Heimito von Doderer
  • The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  • The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
  • The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
  • The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  • The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Double – José Saramago
  • The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
  • The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  • The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  • The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  • The Elements of Style – William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
  • The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  • The Enchanted Broccoli Forest – Mollie Katzen
  • The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
  • The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  • The End of the Road – John Barth
  • The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  • The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  • The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  • The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
  • The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
  • The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
  • The Federalist Papers – James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay
  • The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman
  • The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • The Fixer – Bernard Malamud
  • The Floating Opera – John Barth
  • The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
  • The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony – Henry Handel Richardson
  • The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  • The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
  • The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  • The Foxfire Book – Eliot Wigginton (ed.)
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  • The Future and its Enemies – Virigina Postrel
  • The Gameplayers of Zan – M. A. Foster
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  • The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  • The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  • The Gashleycrumb Tinies – Edward Gorey
  • The Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The German Ideology – Karl Marx
  • The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
  • The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
  • The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  • The Giver – Lois Lowry
  • The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
  • The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
  • The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  • The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  • The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
  • The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  • The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  • The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
  • The Good Rain – Timothy Egan
  • The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
  • The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  • The Graduate – Charles Webb
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
  • The Great American Novel – Philip Roth
  • The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  • The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
  • The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
  • The Hairy Ape – Eugene O’Neill
  • The Hamlet – William Faulkner
  • The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
  • The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
  • The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  • The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  • The Holy Sinner – Thomas Mann
  • The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  • The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis
  • The Hot Zone – Michael Crichton
  • The Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  • The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  • The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
  • The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
  • The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
  • The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
  • The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  • The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  • The Human Stain – Philip Roth
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  • The Ice Storm – Rick Moody
  • The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Iliad – Homer
  • The Immoralist – André Gide
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  • The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
  • The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
  • The Information – Martin Amis
  • The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
  • The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
  • The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
  • The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  • The Irish Princess – Amy J. Fetzer
  • The Iron Heel – Jack London
  • The Iron Horse – Henry B. Comstock
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  • The Joke – Milan Kundera
  • The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
  • The Joyous Season – Patrick Dennis
  • The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  • The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
  • The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  • The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
  • The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  • The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
  • The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
  • The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
  • The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
  • The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  • The Law – Frederic Bastiat
  • The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
  • The Leopard – Giuseppe di Lampedusa
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise – Peter Abelard & Betty Radice
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
  • The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
  • The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  • The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  • The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie
  • The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  • The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  • The Long Walk – Stephen King
  • The Loom of Language – Frederick Bodmer
  • The Lords of Discipline – Pat Conroy
  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
  • The Lover – Marguerite Duras
  • The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  • The Magic Pudding – Norman Lindsay
  • The Magus – John Fowles
  • The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
  • The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
  • The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  • The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  • The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
  • The Master – Colm Tóibín
  • The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  • The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  • The Memory Book – Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
  • The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
  • The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
  • The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  • The Missing Piece – Shel Silverstein
  • The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
  • The Monk – M.G. Lewis
  • The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
  • The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  • The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
  • The Mouse That Roared – Leonard Wibberly
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  • The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  • The Names – Don DeLillo
  • The New Encyclopaedia (1910) – H.C. O’Neill (ed.)
  • The Newton Letter – John Banville
  • The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
  • The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
  • The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
  • The Nun – Denis Diderot
  • The Obnoxious Jerks – Stephen Mane
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • The Ogre – Michael Tournier
  • The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  • The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  • The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
  • The Orestia – Aeschylus
  • The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
  • The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination – Jacob Bronowski
  • The Outline of History – H.G. Wells
  • The Outsider – Albert Camus
  • The Pact – Jodi Picoult
  • The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
  • The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
  • The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  • The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  • The Patchwork Girl of Oz – L. Frank Baum
  • The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
  • The Pearl – John Steinbeck
  • The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
  • The Petrified Forest – Robert E. Sherwood
  • The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  • The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  • The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  • The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Plague – Albert Camus
  • The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  • The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  • The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
  • The Poet – Michael Connelly
  • The Poetry of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
  • The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
  • The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
  • The Potato Factory – Bryce Courtenay
  • The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
  • The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  • The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
  • The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
  • The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
  • The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
  • The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  • The Public Burning – Robert Coover
  • The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  • The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  • The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  • The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  • The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
  • The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  • The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
  • The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
  • The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  • The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
  • The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  • The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
  • The Reawakening – Primo Levi
  • The Rebel – Albert Camus
  • The Reciprocating Aircraft Engine – Robert Dunston
  • The Recognitions – William Gaddis
  • The Red and the Black – Stendhal
  • The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
  • The Red Room – August Strindberg
  • The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
  • The Redemption Of Althalus – David Eddings
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry – Walter Pater
  • The Republic – Plato
  • The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  • The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
  • The Revenge of the Baby-Sat – Bill Watterson
  • The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  • The Riders – Tim Winton
  • The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
  • The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
  • The Road to Mecca – Athol Fugard
  • The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  • The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  • The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
  • The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
  • The Runner – Cynthia Voight
  • The Sacred Fount – Henry James
  • The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  • The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  • The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy Emmuska
  • The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  • The Sea – John Banville
  • The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
  • The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  • The Search for Delicious – Natalie Babbitt
  • The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  • The Secret Life Of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
  • The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
  • The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
  • The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
  • The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  • The Sleeping Lord – David Jones
  • The Sneetches and Other Stories – Dr. Seuss
  • The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois
  • The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  • The Spectator Bird – Wallace Stegner
  • The Spell of the Yukon – Robert Service
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
  • The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
  • The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  • The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
  • The Story of O – Pauline Réage
  • The Story Of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C. Vann Woodward
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Stranger – Albert Camus
  • The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
  • The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • The Sunflower – Simon Wiesenthal
  • The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  • The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
  • The System of the World – Neal Stephenson
  • The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
  • The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  • The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
  • The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
  • The Taste of Courage – Desmond Flower & James Reeves
  • The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Tempest – William Shakespeare
  • The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  • The Theory and Practice of Hell – Eugen Kogon
  • The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  • The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  • The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
  • The Third Man – Graham Greene
  • The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  • The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough
  • The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
  • The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  • The Ticket that Exploded – William S. Burroughs
  • The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  • The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  • The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Trial – Franz Kafka
  • The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  • The Truly Disadvantaged – William Julius Wilson
  • The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  • The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  • The Twits – Roald Dahl
  • The Ugly American – William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  • The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
  • The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  • The Untouchable – John Banville
  • The Urantia Book – Urantia Foundation
  • The Valley of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  • The Valley of Horses – Jean M. Auel
  • The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
  • The Victim – Saul Bellow
  • The View From Saturday – E.L. Konigsburg
  • The Village of Stepanchikovo – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  • The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  • The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
  • The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
  • The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  • The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
  • The Waves – Virginia Woolf
  • The Way Things Work – David Macauly
  • The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  • The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
  • The Whisper of the River – Ferrol Sams
  • The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
  • The Wind Cannot Read – Richard Mason
  • The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
  • The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  • The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  • The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
  • The Winter’s Tale – William Shakespeare
  • The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
  • The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • The Woman Who Walked Into Doors – Roddy Doyle
  • The Women's Room – Marilyn French
  • The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More – Roald Dahl
  • The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
  • The Wounded Land – Stephen R. Donaldson
  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  • The Years – Virginia Woolf
  • The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Zombie Survival Guide – Max Brooks
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • Them – Joyce Carol Oates
  • Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
  • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
  • Things – Georges Perec
  • Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  • This Perfect Day – Ira Levin
  • This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
  • Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
  • Thursbitch – Alan Garner
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
  • Timbuktu – Paul Auster
  • Time Enough for Love – Robert Heinlein
  • Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
  • Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  • Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
  • To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
  • To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  • To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
  • Tom Brown’s School Days – Thomas Hughes
  • Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  • Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
  • Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Norman Mailer
  • Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
  • Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  • Transit – Anna Seghers
  • Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
  • Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Tree In the Trail – Holling Clancy Holling
  • Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  • Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  • Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  • Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  • Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan
  • Tully – Paullina Simons
  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda
  • Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana
  • Typical – Padgett Powell
  • U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
  • Ulysses – James Joyce
  • Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures – Howard R. Garis
  • Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  • Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  • Under the Skin – Michel Faber
  • Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  • Underworld – Don DeLillo
  • Unholy Spirits – Gary North
  • Untouched by Human Hands – Robert Sheckley
  • V – Thomas Pynchon
  • Valis – Phillip K. Dick
  • Valley of Decision – Marcia Wallace
  • Vamps and Tramps – Camille Paglia
  • Vanishing Point – David Markson
  • Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vathek – William Beckford
  • Vecindarios Excentricos – Rosaria Ferre
  • Veil – George C. Chesbro
  • Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  • Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  • Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson
  • Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
  • Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  • Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  • Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
  • Voss – Patrick White
  • W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec
  • Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
  • Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
  • Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  • Waterland – Graham Swift
  • Watt – Samuel Beckett
  • We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Weapons of Chess – Bruce Pandolfini
  • Web of the Romulans – M.S. Murdock
  • Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut
  • What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  • What God Wants to Know – Bruce Larson
  • What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
  • What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  • What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  • What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child – Glenn Doman & David Melton
  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Love – Raymond Carver
  • Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold Kushner
  • When Hell Was in Session – Jeremiah Denton
  • When Rabbit Howls – Truddi Chase
  • When We Were Very Young – A.A. Milne
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
  • Where I’m Calling From – Raymond Carver
  • Where The Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
  • Whirlwind – James Clavell
  • White Noise – Don DeLillo
  • Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
  • Wicked – Gregory Maguire
  • Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  • Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  • Wild Swans – Jung Chang
  • Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Will You Please be Quiet, Please? – Raymond Carver
  • Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
  • William’s Doll – Charlotte Zolotow
  • Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
  • Wisdom Energy – Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  • Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
  • Wise Children – Angela Carter
  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  • Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  • Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  • Words Under the Words – Naomi Shihab Nye
  • World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  • Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
  • Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  • Year of the Griffen – Diana Wynne Jones
  • Yertle the Turtle – Dr. Seuss
  • Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  • Young Törless – Robert Musil
  • Youth – J.M. Coetzee
  • Yukon Ho! – Bill Watterson
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
  • Zen Buddhism – D.T. Suzuki
  • Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  • Zhaun Falun – Li Hongzhi

So, have you read all these books? :)