1001 Books to Read Before You Die

1. Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe3. Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker4. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd5. The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd6. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd7. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency -Douglas Adams8. Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams9. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams10. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus11. Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev12. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott13. The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren14. Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre15. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende16. Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amando17. Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler18. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis19. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis20. The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis21. Dead Babies - Martin Amis22. The Information - Martin Amis23. London Fields - Martin Amis24. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis25. Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis26. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric27. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou28. The Thousand and One Nights - Anon29. The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius30. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - John Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift31. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen32. Foundation - Isaac Asimov33. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov34. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood35. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood36. Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood37. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood38. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood39. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood40. Emma - Jane Austen41. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen42. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen43. Persuasion - Jane Austen44. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen45. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen46. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster47. Moon Palace - Paul Auster48. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster49. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster50. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room)

51. Timbuktu - Paul Auster52. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin53. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin54. The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard55. Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard56. Crash - J. G. Ballard57. The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard58. Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard59. High Rise - J. G. Ballard60. Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard61. Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac62. Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac63. Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac64. Complicity - Iain Banks65. The Crow Road - Iain Banks66. Dead Air - Iain Banks67. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks68. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks69. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks 70. The Book of Evidence - John Banville71. The Newton Letter - John Banville72. The Sea - John Banville73. Shroud - John Banville74. The Untouchable - John Banville75. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse76. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse77. Silk - Alessandro Baricco78. Another World - Pat Barker79. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker80. Regeneration - Pat Barker81. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes82. Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes83. The End of the Road - John Barth84. The Floating Opera - John Barth85. Giles Goat-Boy - Joseph Barth86. Amateurs - Donald Barthelme87. Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Barthelme88. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme89. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani90. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille91. Blue of Noon - Georges Bataille92. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille93. How it is - Samuel Beckett94. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett95. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett96. Molloy - Samuel Beckett97. Murphy - Samuel Beckett98. The Unnameable - Samuel Beckett99. Watt - Samuel Beckett100.Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett101.Vathek - William Beckford102.Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan103.Oroonoko - Aphra Behn

104.The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow105.Dangling Man - Saul Bellow106.Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow107.Herzog - Saul Bellow108.Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow109.Seize the Day - Saul Bellow110.The Victim - Saul Bellow111.The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett112.G. - John Berger113.Concrete - Thomas Bernhard114.Correction - Thomas Bernhard115.Extinction - Thomas Bernhard116.Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard117.Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard118.Yes - Thomas Bernhard119.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres120.Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord - Louis de Bernieres121.Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot122.Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll123.Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Boll124.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll125.The Safety Net - Heinrich Boll126.Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges127.Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges128.On Love - Alain de Botton 129.Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen130.The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen131.The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen132.The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen133.To the North - Elizabeth Bowen134.A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen135.Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle136.World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle137.In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan138.Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan139.Threepenny Novel - Berlott Brecht140.Arcanum 17 - Andre Breton141.Nadja - Andre Breton142.Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain143.Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte144.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte145.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte146.Shirley - Charlotte Bronte147.Villette - Charlotte Bronte148.Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte149.The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan150.The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov151.The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan152.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess153.Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess154.Camilla - Fanny Burney155.Cecilia - Fanny Burney156.Evelina - Fanny Burney

157.Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs158.Junkie - William Burroughs159.The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs160.Queer - William Burroughs161.The Wild Boys - William Burroughs162.Erewhon - Samuel Butler163.The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati164.Possession - A. S. Byatt165.The Virgin in the Garden - A. S. Byatt166.The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain167.The Castles of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino168.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino169.Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino170.Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino171.The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino172.The Outsider - Albert Camus173.The Plague - Albert Camus174.The Rebel - Albert Camus175.Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti176.Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote177.In Cold Blood - Truman Capote178.Jack Maggs - Peter Carey179.Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey180.Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier181.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll182.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll183.Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter184.The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter185.Wise Children - Angela Carter186.The Professor’s House - Willa Cather187.Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine188.Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavendra189.The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler190.Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler191.The Long Good-bye - Raymond Chandler192.Wild Swans - Jung Chang193.Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton194.On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin195.The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers196.Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico197.The Awakening - Kate Chopin198.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie199.2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke200.The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus201.Fanny Hill - John Cleland202.Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau203.What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe204.The Devil and Miss Pym - Paulo Coelho205.Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho206.Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee207.Dusklands - J. M. Coetzee208.Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee209.Foe - J. M. Coetzee

210.In the Heart of the Country - J. M. Coetzee211.The Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee212.The Master of Petersburg - J. M. Coetzee213.Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee214.Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee215.Youth - J. M. Coetzee216.Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen217.The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins218.The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins219.Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad220.Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad221.Nostromo - Joseph Conrad222.The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad223.The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad224.Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper225.Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover226.The Public Burning - Robert Coover227.Arcadia - Jim Crace228.The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings229.A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham230.The Hours - Michael Cunningham231.Disappearance - David Dabydeen232.Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga 233.House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski234.The End of the Story - Lydia Davis235.Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe236.Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe237.Roxana - Daniel Defoe238.The Body Artist - Don DeLillo239.Libra - Don DeLillo240.Mao II - Don DeLillo241.The Names - Don DeLillo242.Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo243.Underworld - Don DeLillo244.White Noise - Don DeLillo245.All About H. Hatterr - G. V. Desani246.Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande247.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick248.Bleak House - Charles Dickens249.A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens250.David Copperfield - Charles Dickens251.Great Expectations - Charles Dickens252.Hard Times - Charles Dickens253.The Life and Adventures of Nicolas Nickleby - Charles Dickens254.Martin Chuzzelwit - Charles Dickens255.Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens256.Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens257.A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens258.Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot259.The Nun - Denis Diderot260.Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot261.The Bitter Glass - Ellis Dillon262.Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen

263.Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin264.Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow265.The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow266.City of God - E. L. Doctorow267.Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow268.Stone Junction - Jim Dodge269.The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky270.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky271.The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky272.The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky273.Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky274.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle275.The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle276.The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble277.The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble278.As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakulic279.Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser280.Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier281.The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas282.La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas283.The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas284.Hallucinating Foucault - Patricai Duncker285.The Lover - Marguerite Duras286.The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras287.The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras288.Justine - Lawrence Durrell289.The Judge and His Hangman - Friederich Durrenmatt290.Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco291.The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco292.The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth293.Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth294.Ormond - Maria Edgeworth295.Adam Bede - George Eliot296.Daniel Deronda - George Eliot297.Middlemarch - George Eliot298.The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot299.Silas Marner - George Eliot300.American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis301.Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis302.Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis303.Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 304.The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy305.The Interesting Narrative - Oloudah Equiano306.Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel 307.Celestial Harmonies - Peter Esterhazy308.Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides309.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides310.Under the Skin - Michel Faber311.The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell312.The Singapore Grip - J. G. Farrell313.Troubles - J. G. Farrell314.Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner315.Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner

316.The Hamlet - William Faulkner317.The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner318.Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks319.Amelia - Henry Fielding320.Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding321.Tom Jones - Henry Fielding322.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald323.Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald324.Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert325.Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert326.Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert327.The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert328.Casino Royale - Ian Fleming329.Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer330.Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane331.The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane332.The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford333.Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford334.Howard’s End - E. M. Forster335.A Passage to India - E. M. Forster336.A Room With a View - E. M. Forster337.Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster338.The Collector - John Fowles339.The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles340.A Maggot - John Fowles341.The Magus - John Fowles342.Faces in the Water - Janet Frame343.The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen344.Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud345.Homo Faber - Max Frisch346.I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch347.The Recognitions - William Gaddis348.Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdos349.Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico 350.The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway351.The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy352.Thursbitch - Alan Garner353.Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary354.The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary355.Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell356.Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell357.North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell358.Legend - David Gemmell359.A Scot’s Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon360.Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons361.Neuromancer - William Gibson362.The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide363.The Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide364.The Immoralist - Andre Gide365.Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide366.The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman367.Born in Exile - George Gissing368.New Grub Street - George Gissing

369.The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin370.Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe371.The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe372.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe373.Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol374.The Nose - Nikolay Gogol375.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden376.Lord of the Flies - William Golding 377.Rites of Passage - William Golding 378.The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith379.Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov380.Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer381.July’s People - Nadine Gordimer382.The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky383.Mother - Maxim Gorky384.The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq385.Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass386.The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass387.Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray388.Back - Henry Green389.Blindness - Henry Green390.Caught - Henry Green391.Living - Henry Green392.Loving - Henry Green393.Party Going - Henry Green394.Brighton Rock - Graham Greene395.The End of the Affair - Graham Greene396.England Made Me - Graham Greene397.The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene398.The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene399.The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene400.The Quiet American - Graham Greene401.The Third Man - Graham Greene402.Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith403.Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse404.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon405.King Solomon’s Mines - Rider H. Haggard406.She - Rider H. Haggard407.The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall408.Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton 409.The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett410.The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett411.Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett412.The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett413.Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun414.Hunger - Knut Hamsun415.The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke 416.Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke 417.The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke 418.Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy419.The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy420.Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy421.The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

422.Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy423.Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy424.The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy425.The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley426.The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek427.The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne428.The House of the Green Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne429.The Marble Fawn - Nathaniel Hawthorne430.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne431.Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood432.Asphodel - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)433.A Question of Power - Bessie Head434.Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein435.Aithiopika - Heliodorus436.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller437.A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway438.For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway439.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway440.The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway441.To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway442.Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon443.Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel444.Dispatches - Michael Herr445.The Glass Bead Came - Hermann Hesse446.Rosshalde - Hermann Hesse447.Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse448.Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse449.The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith450.Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Himes451.A Kestrel For a Knave - Barry Hines452.The House On the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson453.Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg454.The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann455.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg456.Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin457.The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst458.The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst459.Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq460.Platform - Michel Houellebecq461.Whatever - Michel Houellebecq462.The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo463.Les Miserables - Victor Hugo464.Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston465.What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt466.Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley467.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley468.Chrome Yellow - Aldous Huxley469.Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley470.Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans471.The Cider House Rules - John Irving472.A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving473.The World According to Garp - John Irving474.Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

475.The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood476.An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro477.Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro478.A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro479.Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro480.The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro481.The Ambassadors - Henry James482.The Golden Bowl - Henry James483.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James484.The Turn of the Screw - Henry James485.What Maisie Knew - Henry James486.The Wings of the Dove - Henry James487.A Day Off - Storm Jameson488.The Summer Book - Tove Jansson489.The Piano Teacher - Elfiede Jelinek490.Albert Angelo - B. S. Johnson491.House Mother Normal - B. S. Johnson492.Trawl - B. S. Johnson493.Rasselas - Samuel Johnson494.Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson495.In Parenthesis - David Jones496.Fear of Flying - Erica Jong497.Finnegans Wake - James Joyce498.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce499.Ulysses - James Joyce500.The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-Rae501.Broken April - Ismail Kadare502.Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare503.Amerika - Franz Kafka504.The Castle - Franz Kafka505.The Trial - Franz Kafka506.The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis507.The Busconductor Hines - James Kelman 508.A Dissaffection - James Kelman 509.How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman 510.Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally511.Everything You Need - A. L. Kennedy512.Looking for the Possible Dance - A. L. Kennedy513.On the Road - Jack Kerouac514.Fateless - Imre Kertesz515.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey516.Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey517.The Shining - Stephen King518.The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley519.The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver520.Kim - Rudyard Kipling 521.The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle522.The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle523.The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai524.The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus525.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera526.Ignorance - Milan Kundera527.The Joke - Milan Kundera

528.The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera529.The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi530.Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi531.Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi532.Land - Park Kyong-Ni 533.The Princess of Cleves - Comtesse de Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne La Fayette534.Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos535.Gosta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlof536.The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa537.Passing - Nella Larsen538.Quicksand - Nella Larsen539.Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont540.Aaron’s Road - D. H. Lawrence541.The Fox - D. H. Lawrence542.Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D. H. Lawrence543.The Plumed Serpent - D. H. Lawrence544.The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence545.Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence546.Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence547.Independent People - Halldor Laxness548.Smiley’s People - John Le Carre549.The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre550.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre551.In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu552.Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu553.Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt554.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee555.Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee556.Solaris - Stanislaw Lem557.The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox558.The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz559.City Primeval - Elmore Leonard560.Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard561.LaBrava - Elmore Leonard562.The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov563.The Diary of Jane Sommers - Doris Lessing564.The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing565.The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing566.Shikasta - Doris Lessing567.Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi568.If This is a Man - Primo Levi569.The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi570.If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi571.The Monk - M. G. Lewis572.Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis573.Main Street - Sinclair Lewis574.The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis575.The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis576.The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis577.Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis578.Tarr - Wyndham Lewis579.The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector580.The Passion According to G. H. - Clarice Lispector

581.The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa582.The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa583.The Iron Heel - Jack London584.Martin Eden - Jack London585.At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft586.Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry587.Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry588.Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly589.The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe590.They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy591.Amsterdam - Ian McEwan592.Atonement - Ian McEwan593.Black Dogs - Ian McEwan594.The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan595.The Child in Time - Ian McEwan596.The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan597.Enduring Love - Ian McEwan598.Saturday - Ian McEwan599.Amongst Women - John McGahern600.That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern601.Schooling - Heather McGowan602.Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes603.The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie604.Wild Harbour - Ian Macpherson605.Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann606.Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann607.Death in Venice - Thomas Mann608.Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann609.The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann610.Her Privates We - Frederic Manning611.The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield612.Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson613.The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni614.Embers - Sandor Marai615.A Heart So White - Javier Marias616.Vanishing Point - David Markson617.Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson618.Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez619.Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez620.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez621.Life of Pi - Yann Martel622.Cigarettes - Harry Mathews623.The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin 624.Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin625.Cakes and Ale - William Somerset Maugham626.Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham627.The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham628.Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant629.Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant630.A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant631.Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini632.The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda633.Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville

634.Moby Dick - Herman Melville635.Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels636.Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller637.Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller638.The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima639.The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra640.Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry641.A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry642.Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell643.Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell644.Love In a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford645.The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford646.Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons647.Anagrams - Lorrie Moore648.Like Life - Lorrie Moore649.Disobedience - Alberto Moravia650.A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia651.The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia652.News From Nowhere - William Morris653.Beloved - Toni Morrison 654.The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison 655.Jazz - Toni Morrison 656.Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison 657.Sula - Toni Morrison 658.The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch659.Max Havelaar - Multatuli 660.After the Quake - Haruki Murakami 661.Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami 662.Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami 663.The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami 664.The Bell - Iris Murdoch665.The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch666.The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch667.The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch668.A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch669.Under the Net - Iris Murdoch670.The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil 671.Young Torless - Robert Musil 672.Ada - Vladimir Nabokov 673.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 674.Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov 675.Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov 676.A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul677.Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul678.In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul679.The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe680.Delta of Venus - Anais Nin681.All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom682.Rituals - Cees Nooteboom683.Fear and Trembling - Amalie Nothomb684.Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates685.Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates686.Marya: A Life - Joyce Carol Oates

687.them - Joyce Carol Oates688.August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien689.The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien690.Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien691.In the Forest - Edna O’Brien692.At Swim - Two Birds - Flann O’Brien 693.The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien 694.The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien 695.The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien696.Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor697.The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor698.Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor699.Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe700.The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon701.The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje702.At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill703.Animal Farm - George Orwell704.Burmese Days - George Orwell705.Coming Up For Air - George Orwell706.Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell707.Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell708.Metamorphoses - Ovid709.Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Ozdamar710.Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol711.Choke - Chuck Palahniuk712.The Ragazzi - Pier Paolo Pasolini713.Manhattan Transfer - Dos Passos 714.USA - Dos Passos 715.Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak716.Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater717.Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton718.The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese719.Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic720.The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz721.Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace722.Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake 723.Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake 724.The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin725.The Clay Machine Gun - Victor Pelevin726.Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec727.A Man Asleep - Georges Perec728.Things - Georges Perec729.A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec730.W, Or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec731.One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello732.The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath733.The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett734.The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe 735.The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe 736.The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe 737.A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell738.Typical - Padgett Powell739.The Shipping News - Annie E. Proulx

740.Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust 741.The Godfather - Mario Puzo742.The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon743.Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon744.Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon745.V. - Thomas Pynchon746.Vineland - Thomas Pynchon747.Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau748.Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais749.The Mysteries of Udolopho - Ann Radcliffe750.The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet751.The Story of O - Pauline Reage752.All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque753.Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys754.Quartet - Jean Rhys755.Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys756.Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice757.Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson758.Clarissa - Samuel Richardson759.Pamela - Samuel Richardson760.Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet761.Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe762.Love’s Work - Gillian Rose763.Call it Sleep - Henry Roth764.The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth765.American Pastoral - Phillip Roth766.The Breast - Phillip Roth767.The Human Stain - Phillip Roth768.Operation Shylock - Phillip Roth769.The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth770.Portnoy’s Complaint - Phillip Roth771.Sabbath’s Theater - Phillip Roth772.Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau773.Emile, Or on Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau774.Julie: Or the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau775.Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau776.Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel777.Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel778.The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy779.Fury - Salman Rushdie780.Grimus - Salman Rushdie781.The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie782.Midnight’s Children -Salman Rushdie783.The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie784.The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie785.Shame - Salman Rushdie786.Rashoman - Akutagawa Ryunosuke787.Justine - Marquis de Sade788.The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade789.Contact - Carl Sagan790.Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan791.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery792.The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

793.Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger794.The Double - Jose Saramago795.The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago796.The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago797.Nausea - Jean-Paul Satre798.Pastoralia - George Saunders799.Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers800.The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers801.The Reader - Bernard Schlink802.Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott803.The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott804.Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott805.Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald806.The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald807.The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald808.Vertigo - W. G. Sebald809.Transit - Anna Seghers810.Great Apes - Will Self811.How the Dead Live - Will Self812.The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon813.The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge814.A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth815.An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma816.Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley817.The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields818.Unless - Carol Shields819.A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute820.Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz821.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe822.Downriver - Iain Sinclair823.London Orbital - Iain Sinclair824.Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair825.Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair826.The Jungle - Upton Sinclair827.Islands - Dan Sleigh828.On Beauty - Zadie Smith829.White Teeth - Zadie Smith830.Humphry Clinker - Tobias George Smollett831.Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett832.Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett833.Cancer Ward - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn834.The First Circle - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn835.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn836.The Real Charlotte - Somerville & Ross837.Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. - Somerville & Ross838.Kokoro - Natsume Soseki839.The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark840.The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark841.Memento Mori - Muriel Spark842.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark843.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein 844.The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein 845.Three Lives - Gertrude Stein

846.Cannery Row - John Steinbeck847.The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck848.Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck849.The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal 850.The Red and the Black - Stendhal 851.The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens852.Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson853.A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne854.Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne855.Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stephenson856.The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stephenson857.The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stephenson858.Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson859.Dracula - Bram Stoker860.Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly - Harriet Beecher Stowe861.By the Open Sea - August Strindberg862.The People of Hemso - August Strindberg863.The Red Room - August Strindberg864.Perfume - Patrick Suskind865.The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind866.Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo867.The Light of Day - Graham Swift 868.Waterland - Graham Swift 869.Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift 870.A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift 871.A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift 872.Declares Pereira: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi873.The Secret History - Donna Tartt874.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray875.Matigari - Ngugi wa Thiong’o876.Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong’o877.The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o878.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson879.The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson880.Walden - Henry David Thoreau 881.Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg882.The 13 Clocks - James Thurber883.The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber884.The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm885.The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin886.The Master - Colm Toibin887.The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien888.The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien889.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 890.The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy 891.The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy 892.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 893.Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole894.Cane - Jean Toomer895.City Sister Silver - Jachym Topol896.The Ogre - Michel Tournier897.The Colour - Rose Tremain898.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

899.Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor900.Fools of Fortune - William Trevor901.The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor902.Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope903.He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope904.The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope905.Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope906.Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin907.Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev908.King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev909.On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev910.Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev911.Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev912.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 913.Rabbit is Rich - John Updike914.Rabbit Redux - John Updike915.Rabbit, Run - John Updike916.The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga917.Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne918.Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne919.The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk920.Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal 921.In Sicily - Elio Vittorini922.Candide - Voltaire923.Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.924.Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.925.God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.926.Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.927.The Color Purple - Alice Walker928.Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker929.The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker930.Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace931.Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace932.The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole933.Morvern Callar - Alan Warner934.Indigo - Marina Warner935.After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner936.Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner937.Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse938.Fingersmith - Sarah Waters939.Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters940.Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day - Winfred Watson941.Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh942.A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh943.Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh944.Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh945.The Graduate - Chris Webb946.The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells947.The Island of Dr Moreau - H. G. Wells948.The Time Machine - H. G. Wells949.Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells950.The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells951.Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

952.Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West953.The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West954.Harriet Hume - Rebecca West955.The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West956.The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West957.The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 958.Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton 959.Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton 960.The Glimpse of the Moon - Edith Wharton 961.The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton 962.Summer - Edith Wharton 963.The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White964.A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White965.The Living and the Dead - Patrick White966.Voss - Patrick White967.The Once and Future King - T. H. White968.The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde969.Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson970.No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson971.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson972.The Passion - Jeanette Winterson973.Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson974.Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson975.Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse976.Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf977.The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf978.Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe979.The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe980.Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe981.Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf982.Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf983.Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf984.Night and Day - Virginia Woolf985.Orlando - Virginia Woolf986.To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf987.The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf988.The Waves - Virginia Woolf989.The Years - Virginia Woolf990.Native Son - Richard Wright991.Chocky - John Wyndham 992.Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 993.The Midwitch Cuckoos - John Wyndham 994.Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar995.We - Yevgeny Zamyatin996.La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola997.Drunkard - Emile Zola998.Germinal - Emile Zola999.Nana - Emile Zola1000.Therese Raquin - Emile Zola1001.Amok - Stefan Zweig