What I've read from "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by WB on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 10:03
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2000s
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday, Ian McEwan
- On Beauty, Zadie Smith
- Slow Man, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
- The Sea, John Banville
- The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
- The Master, Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point, David Markson
- The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Colour, Rose Tremain
- Thursbitch, Alan Garner
- The Light of Day, Graham Swift
- What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the _Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- Islands, Dan Sleigh
- Elizabeth Costello, John Maxwell Coetzee
- London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
- Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
- Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
- The Double, José Saramago
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Unless, Carol Shields
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- 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, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Dead Air, Iain Banks
- Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
- The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
- Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
- Austerlitz, Winfred Georg Maximilian Sebald
- Platform, Michael Houellebecq
- Schooling, Heather McGowan
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- 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
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
- An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
- The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda
- Under the Skin, Michel Faber
- Ignorance, Milan Kundera
- Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
- Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy
- City of God, Edgar Laurence 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
- Super-Cannes, James Graham Ballard
- House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
- Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
- Pastoralia, George Saunders
- 1900s
- Timbuktu, Paul Auster
- The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic
- Everything You Need, Alison Louise Kennedy
- Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
- Disgrace, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
- Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
- Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
- Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
- Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
- All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
- The Talk of the Town, Ardal O’Hanlon
- Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
- Another World, Pat Barker
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham
- Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
- Great Apes, Will Self
- Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
- Underworld, Don DeLillo
- Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
- The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- The Untouchable, John Banville
- Silk, Alessandro Baricco
- Cocaine Nights, James Graham 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
- The Information, Martin Amis
- The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
- Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
- The Rings of Saturn, Winfred Georg Maximilian Sebald
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
- The End of the Story, Lydia Davis
- Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
- The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
- Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
- Land, Park Kyong-ni
- The Master of Petersburg, John Maxwell 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
- Disappearance, David Dabydeen
- The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
- The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
- Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Looking for the Possible Dance, Alison Louise Kennedy
- 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 House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
- The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
- The Emigrants, Winfred Georg Maximilian Sebald
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar
- The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
- A Heart So White, Javier Marias
- Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
- Indigo, Marina Warner
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
- Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
- Jazz, Toni Morrison
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
- Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg
- The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
- Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
- The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín
- Asphodel, Hilda Doolittle
- Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
- Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
- Arcadia, Jim Crace
- Wild Swans, Jung Chang
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
- Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
- Mao II, Don DeLillo
- Typical, Padgett Powell
- Regeneration, Pat Barker
- Downriver, Iain Sinclair
- Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
- Wise Children, Angela Carter
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- Amongst Women, John McGahern
- Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
- Vertigo, Winfred Georg Maximilian Sebald
- Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
- The Music of Chance, Paul Auster
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
- A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
- Like Life, Lorrie Moore
- Possession, Antonia Susan Byatt
- The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
- The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
- A Disaffection, James Kelman
- Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
- Moon Palace, Paul Auster
- Billy Bathgate, Edgar Laurence Doctorow
- Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
- 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
- London Fields, Martin Amis
- The Book of Evidence, John Banville
- Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
- Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- 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
- Libra, Don DeLillo
- The Player of Games, Iain Menzies Banks
- Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
- The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
- The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke
- The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
- The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
- The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
- The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
- Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
- World’s End, Thomas Coraghessan Boyle
- Enigma of Arrival, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
- Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and David Gibbons
- The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
- Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt
- An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
- Foe, John Maxwell Coetzee
- The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi
- Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
- The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving
- A Maggot, John Fowles
- Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
- Contact, Carl Sagan
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
- White Noise, Don DeLillo
- Queer, William Burroughs
- Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
- Legend, David Gemmell
- Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavic
- The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago
- The Lover, Marguerite Duras
- Empire of the Sun, James Graham Ballard
- The Wasp Factory, Iain Menzies Banks
- Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
- Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
- Shame, Salman Rushdie
- Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
- Fools of Fortune, William Trevor
- La Brava, Elmore Leonard
- Waterland, Graham Swift
- The Life and Times of Michael K, John Maxwell Coetzee
- The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
- The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
- The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus
- If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
- A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
- 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
- Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
- The Names, Don DeLillo
- Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
- The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
- July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
- Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
- Broken April, Ismail Kadare
- Waiting for the Barbarians, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- Rites of Passage, William Golding
- Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
- Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
- Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
- Shikasta, Doris Lessing
- A Bend in the River, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
- 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
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
- The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
- The Singapore Grip, James Gordon Farrell
- Yes, Thomas Bernhard
- The Virgin in the Garden, Antonia Susan Byatt
- In the Heart of the Country, John Maxwell Coetzee
- The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
- Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin
- The Shining, Stephen King
- Dispatches, Michael Herr
- Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
- The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
- Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
- The Public Burning, Robert Coover
- Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice
- Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
- 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
- Grimus, Salman Rushdie
- The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
- Fateless, Imre Kertész
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
- High Rise, James Graham Ballard
- Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
- Dead Babies, Martin Amis
- Correction, Thomas Bernhard
- Ragtime, Edgar Laurence Doctorow
- The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
- Dusklands, John Maxwell Coetzee
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
- 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, James Gordon Farrell
- The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
- Crash, James Graham Ballard
- The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- The Breast, Philip Roth
- The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
- G, John Berger
- Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
- House Mother Normal, Bryan Stanley Johnson
- In A Free State, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- The Book of Daniel, Edgar Laurence Doctorow
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Stockton Thompson
- Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
- 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
- Mercier et Camier, Samuel Beckett
- Troubles, James Gordon Farrell
- Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
- The Atrocity Exhibition, James Graham 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
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- Ada, Vladimir Nabokov
- Them, Joyce Carol Oates
- A Void, Georges Perec
- Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
- Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
- The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
- Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
- Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- 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 Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf
- Chocky, John Wyndham
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
- The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
- The Joke, Milan Kundera
- No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
- The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
- A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
- The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
- Trawl, Bryan Stanley Johnson
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Magus, John Fowles
- The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
- Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Things, Georges Perec
- The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
- The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
- Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
- Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
- Albert Angelo, Bryan Stanley 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
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- The Collector, John Fowles
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
- The Drowned World, James Graham Ballard
- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
- Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
- Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- Franny and Zooey, Jerome David Salinger
- A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
- Faces in the Water, Janet Frame
- Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
- Cat and Mouse, Günter Grass
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor
- How It Is, Samuel Beckett
- Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
- The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
- Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary
- Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
- Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
- Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
- The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
- Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
- Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
- Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
- The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
- Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
- The End of the Road, John Barth
- The Once and Future King, Terence Hanbury White
- The Bell, Iris Murdoch
- Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Voss, Patrick White
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
- Homo Faber, Max Frisch
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
- Justine, Lawrence Durrell
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
- The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
- Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
- The Floating Opera, John Barth
- The Lord of the Rings, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
- The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett
- The Quiet American, Graham Greene
- The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis
- The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
- Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
- I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
- Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
- The Story of O, Pauline Réage
- A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
- The Go-Between, Leslie Poles Hartley
- The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
- The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
- Watt, Samuel Beckett
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
- Junkie, William Burroughs
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
- The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
- The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
- Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenal
- Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
- Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
- The Catcher in the Rye, Jerome David Salinger
- The Rebel, Albert Camus
- Molloy, Samuel Beckett
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
- The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz
- The Third Man, Graham Greene
- The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
- I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
- The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
- Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
- The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
- Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
- The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- All About H. Hatterr, Govindas Vishnoodas Desani
- Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
- Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
- The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
- Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
- 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
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- Back, Henry Green
- Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
- The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andric
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
- The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
- Loving, Henry Green
- Arcanum 17, André Breton
- Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
- The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
- Transit, Anna Seghers
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
- Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Caught, Henry Green
- The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
- Embers, Sandor Marai
- Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
- The Outsider, Albert Camus
- In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
- The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
- The Living and the Dead, Patrick White
- 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
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
- The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
- Party Going, Henry Green
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
- Coming Up for Air, George Orwell
- Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
- 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
- Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
- U.S.A., John Dos Passos
- Murphy, Samuel Beckett
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- The Years, Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis, David Jones
- The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
- To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
- Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
- At the Mountains of Madness, Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- Independent People, Halldór Laxness
- Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti
- The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
- The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me, Graham Greene
- Burmese Days, George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
- 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, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
- 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
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
- A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- To the North, Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
- The Waves, Virginia Woolf
- 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
- Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- 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
- Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
- Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
- The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
- Quartet, Jean Rhys
- Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
- Quicksand, Nella Larsen
- Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
- Nadja, André Breton
- Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
- Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson
- Amerika, Franz Kafka
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Blindness, Henry Green
- The Castle, Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
- The Plumed Serpent, David Herbert Lawrence
- One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
- The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters, André Gide
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
- The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
- The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
- We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
- A Passage to India, Edward Morgan Forster
- The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
- Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
- Cane, Jean Toomer
- Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
- Amok, Stefan Zweig
- The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
- The Enormous Room, Edward Estlin Cummings
- Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
- The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus
- Aaron’s Rod, David Herbert Lawrence
- Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- The Fox, David Herbert Lawrence
- Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
- Women in Love, David Herbert Lawrence
- Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
- Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
- The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
- Summer, Edith Wharton
- Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
- Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
- Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
- Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
- Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
- Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Sons and Lovers, David Herbert Lawrence
- Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
- The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End, Edward Morgan Forster
- Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden, Jack London
- Strait is the Gate, André Gide
- Tono-Bungay, Herbert George Wells
- The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
- A Room With a View, Edward Morgan Forster
- The Iron Heel, Jack London
- The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
- The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
- Mother, Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Young Törless, Robert Musil
- The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
- Where Angels Fear to Tread, Edward Morgan Forster
- Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
- Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
- The Golden Bowl, Henry James
- The Ambassadors, Henry James
- The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
- 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
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
- 1800s
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross
- The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
- The Awakening, Kate Chopin
- The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
- The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man, Herbert George Wells
- What Maisie Knew, Henry James
- Fruits of the Earth, André Gide
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Island of Dr. Moreau, Herbert George Wells
- The Time Machine, Herbert George Wells
- Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
- Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross
- The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Born in Exile, George Gissing
- Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- News from Nowhere, William Morris
- New Grub Street, George Gissing
- Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
- La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola
- By the Open Sea, August Strindberg
- Hunger, Knut Hamsun
- The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant
- Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés
- The People of Hemsö, August Strindberg
- The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
- She, Henry Rider Haggard
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Solomon’s Mines, Henry Rider Haggard
- Germinal, Émile Zola
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
- Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater
- Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
- A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
- Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
- Nana, Émile Zola
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Red Room, August Strindberg
- Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- The Drunkard, Émile Zola
- 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
- Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
- In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Erewhon, Samuel Butler
- Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
- King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
- He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
- Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
- Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
- The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- 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
- On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev
- Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
- The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Max Havelaar, Multatuli
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov
- Adam Bede, George Eliot
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hard Times, Charles Dickens
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Villette, Charlotte Brontë
- Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 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
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
- 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
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
- The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
- The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
- Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
- Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Red and the Black, Stendal
- The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
- Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
- The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
- Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
- The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
- Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
1700s
- Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin
- The Nun, Denis Diderot
- Camilla, Fanny Burney
- The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
- The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
- Justine, Marquis de Sade
- Vathek, William Beckford
- The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
- Cecilia, Fanny Burney
- Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 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
- Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
- Julie; or, the New Eloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 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
- Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, The Scriblerus Club
- Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
- A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
- Roxana, Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
- Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift
- Pre-1700
- Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
- The Princess of Clèves, Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, John Lyly
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
- The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
- The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
- Aithiopika, Heliodorus
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe, Chariton
- Metamorphoses, Ovid
- Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel
Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
ISBN 1-84403-417-8
The ones I've read are numbered.
The ones I have (and not read yet) are in bold.