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The list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a list of authors and book titles in various editions of book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall.
A
[edit]- A. L. Kennedy, Everything You Need
- A. L. Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance
- A. S. Byatt, Possession
- A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
- Aesop. Aesop's Fables
- Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Alain de Botton, On Love
- Alan Moore, Watchmen
- Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Rashomon
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy
- Alan Garner, Thursbitch
- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
- Alan Stillitoe, Saturday Night and Saturday Morning
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library
- Alan Warner, Morvern Callar
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books
- Albert Moravia, Disobediance
- Albert Camus, The Outsider
- Aldous Huxley, Antic hay
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
- Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza
- Albert Camus, The Plague
- Albert Camus, The Rebel
- Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur
- Alberto Moravia, A Ghost at Noon
- Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference
- Alejo Carpentier, Kingdom of This World
- Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desisovich
- Alessandro Baricco, Silk
- Alessandro Mazoni, The Betrothed
- Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo
- Alexander Dumas, La Reine Margot
- Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
- Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy
- Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar
- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Amélie Nothomb, Fear and Trembling
- Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live
- Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
- Andre Breton, Arcanum 17
- Andre Breton, Nadja
- Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
- Andre Gide, Fruits of the Earth
- Andre Gide, The Immoralist
- Andre Gide, Strait is the Gate
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
- Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
- Angela Carter, Wise Children
- Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Anna Seghers, Transit
- Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
- Anonymous, One Thousand and One Nights
- Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby
- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time
- Anthony Trollope, Castle Richmond
- Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right
- Anthony Trollope, Last Chronicle of Barset
- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
- Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince
- Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares: A Testimony
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
- Apuleius, The Golden Ass
- Ardal O'Hanlon, The Talk of the Town
- Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- August Strindberg, By the Open Sea
- August Strindberg, The People of Hemsö
- August Strindberg, The Red Room
- Sir Author Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Sir Author Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
B
[edit]- B. S. Johnson, Albert Angelo
- B. S. Johnson, House Mother Normal
- B. S. Johnson, Trawl
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave
- Benito Perez Galdos, Fortunata and Jacinta
- Bernard Schlink, The Reader
- Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Novel
- Bessie Head, A Question of Power
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy
- Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
- Brett Easton Ellis, Glamorama
- Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
- Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill
C
[edit]- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- Carol Shields, Unless
- Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires
- Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day
- Cees Nooteboom, Rituals
- Chariton, Chaireas and Kallirhoe
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times
- Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
- Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
- Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
- Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
- Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses
- Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
- Charles Webb, The Graduate
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
- Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
- Charlotte Bronte, Villette
- Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol
- Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Christa Wolf, Patterns of Childhood
- Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T.
- Christopher Ihserwood, Goodbye to Berlin
- Christopher Ihserwood, The Last of Mr. Norris
- Chuck Palahnuiuk, Choke
- Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
- Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.
- Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners
- Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing
- Colm Tóibín, The Master
- Comte de Lautreamont, Maldoror
D
[edit]- D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod
- D. H. Lawrence, The Fox
- D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
- D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
- D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
- D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
- D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
- Dan Sleigh, Islands
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- David Markson, Vanishing Point
- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
- Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
- Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
- Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
- Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
- David Dabydeen, Disappearance
- David Gemmell, Legend
- David Jones, In Parenthesis
- David Leavitt, Lost Languages of Cranes
- David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven
- Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist
- Denis Diderot, The Nun
- Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
- Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe
- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
- Don DeLillo, Libra
- Don DeLillo, Mao II
- Don DeLillo, The Names
- Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star
- Don DeLillo, Underworld
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- Donald Barthelme, Amateurs
- Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
- Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- Doris Lessing, The Diary of Jane Somers
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing
- Doris Lessing, Shikasta
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
- Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors
- Dorothy Richardson, Pilgrimage
- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
- Dos Passos, U.S.A.
E
[edit]- E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
- E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room
- E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
- E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
- E. L. Doctorow, The City of God
- E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
- E. M. Forster, Howard's End
- E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
- E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
- E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Purloined Letter
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
- Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty
- Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story
- Edna O'Brien, August is a Wicked Month
- Edna O'Brien, Girl with Green Eyes
- Edna O'Brien, In the Forest
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innoncence
- Edith Wharton, Bunner Sisters
- Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Edith Wharton, Glimpses of the Moon
- Edith Wharton, The House of the Mirth
- Edith Wharton, Summer
- Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls
- Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
- Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
- Elio Vittorini, Conversations in Sicily
- Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess
- Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day
- Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
- Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
- Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
- Ellis Dillon, The Bitter Glass
- Elmore Leonard, City Primeval
- Elmore Leonard, LaBrava
- Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
- Emile Zola, Germinal
- Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
- Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine
- Emile Zola, Nana
- Emile Zola, Terese Raquin
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- Emine Ozdamar, Life is a Caravanserai
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
- Eric Ambler, Cause for Alarm
- Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
- Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
- Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
- Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
- Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
F
[edit]- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
- Flann O'Brien, The Poor Mouth
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
- Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Coverage
- Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
- Frances Burney, Camilla
- Frances Burney, Cecilia
- Frances Burney, Evelina
- François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
- Franz Kafka, Amerika
- Franz Kafka, The Castle
- Franz Kafka, The Trial
- Frederic Manning, Her Privates We
- Fredrich Hölderlin, Hyperion
- Fredrick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Judge and the Hangman
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
- Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
G
[edit]- G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr
- Gabriel García Márquez, Autumn of the Patriach
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- George Eliot, Adam Bede
- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
- George Gissing, Born in Exile
- George Gissing, New Grub Street
- George Orwell, 1984
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- George Orwell, Burmese Days
- George Orwell, Coming Up for Air
- George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- George & Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody
- George Saunders, Pastoralia
- Georges Bataille, The Abbot C
- Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon
- Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
- Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual
- Georges Perec, A Man Asleep
- Georges Perec, Things
- Georges Perec, A Void / Avoid
- Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
- Gert Hofmann, The Parable of the Blind
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
- Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
- Gillian Rose, Love's Work
- Giorgo Bassani, The Gardens of the Finzi-Continis
- Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros
- Giovanni Verga, The House by the Medlar Tree
- Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
- Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
- Graham Greene, England Made Me
- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American
- Graham Greene, The Third Man
- Graham Swift, The Light of Day
- Graham Swift, Waterland
- Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
- Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse
- Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
- Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
- Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
- Guy de Maupassant, The Master of Ballantrae
- Guy de Maupassant, A Woman's Life
H
[edit]- H. D., Asphodel
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
- H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
- H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
- H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
- Halidor Laxness, Independent People
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
- Hanif Kureishi, Gabriel's Gift
- Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harry Mathews, Cigarettes
- Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven
- Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Heather McGowan, Schooling
- Heliodorus, Aithiopika
- Hella Haasse, Forever a Stranger
- Henri Barbusse, The Inferno
- Henri Barbusse, Under Fire
- Heinrich Böll, Billiards at Half-Past Nine
- Heinrich Böll, Group Portrait With Lady
- Heinrich Böll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
- Heinrich Böll, The Safety Net
- Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- Henry Fielding, Ameilia
- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones
- Henry Green, Back
- Henry Green, Blindness
- Henry Green, Caught
- Henry Green, Living
- Henry Green, Loving
- Henry Green, Party Going
- Henry James, The Ambassadors
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
- Henry James, The Turn of Screw
- Henry James, What Maisie Knew
- Henry James, The Golden Bowl
- Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
- Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling
- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
- Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
- Henry Roth, Call it Sleep
- Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter
- Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
- Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
- Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Foretopman
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Herman Hesse, Rosshalde
- Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
- Honoré de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
- Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
- Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
- Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Horace Wapole, The Castle of Otranto
- Hugo Claus, The Sorrow of Belgium
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I
[edit]- Iain Banks, The Crow Road
- Iain Banks, Complicity
- Iain Banks, Dead Air
- Iain Banks, The Player of Games
- Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
- Iain Sinclair, Dining on Stones
- Iain Sinclair, Downriver
- Iain Sinclair, London Orbital
- Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
- Ian Macpherson, Wild Harbour
- Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
- Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden
- Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
- Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
- Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
- Ian McEwan, Saturday
- Imre Kertesz, Fearless
- Iris Murdoch, The Bell
- Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
- Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
- Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
- Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
- Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
- Ismail Kadare, Broken April
- Ismail Kadare, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
- Italo Svevo, Invisible Cities
- Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors
- Italo Calvino, The Path to the Nest of Spiders
- Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
- Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
- Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
- Ivan Turgenev, King Lear of the Steppes
- Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve
- Ivan Turgenev,Torrents of Spring
- Ivan Turgenev, Virgin Soil
- Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina
J
[edit]- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
- J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
- J. G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
- J. G. Ballard, Crash
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Word
- J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
- J. G. Ballard, High Rise
- J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
- J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
- J. G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip
- J. G. Farrell, Troubles
- J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- J. M. Coetzee, Dusklands
- J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
- J. M. Coetzee, Foe
- J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
- J. M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country
- J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man
- J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
- J. M. Coetzee, Youth
- J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hobbit
- J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
- Jáchym Topol, City Sister Silver
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- Jack London, The Iron Heel
- Jack London, Martin Eden
- James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
- James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain
- James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
- James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
- James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines
- James Kelman, A Disaffection
- James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
- James M. McCain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
- James Plunkett, The Trusting and the Maimed
- James Stephens, The Charwoman's Daughter
- James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
- James Thurber, The Wonderful "O"
- Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
- Jane Austen, Emma
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- Janet Frame, Faces in the Water
- Janice Galloway, The Trick is to Keep Breathing
- Jaroslav Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk
- Javier Marias, A Heart So White
- Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles
- Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys, Quartet
- Jean Toomer, Cane
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile; or, on Education
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie; or, the New Eloise
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary Walker
- Jean-Paul Satre, Nausea
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
- Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
- Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
- Jennifer Winterson, Written on the Body
- Jim Crace, Arcadia
- Jim Dodge. Stone Justice
- Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
- Jo Jung-rae, The Taebek Mountains
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- John Banville, The Book of Evidence
- John Banville, The Newton Letter
- John Banville, Shroud
- John Banville, The Sea
- John Banville, The Untouchable
- John Barth, The End of the Road
- John Barth, The Floating Opera
- John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
- John Berger, G
- John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill
- John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
- John Fowles, The Collector
- John Fowles, A Maggot
- John Fowles, The Magus
- John Galworthy, The Forsyte Saga
- John Irving, The Cider House Rules
- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
- John Irving, The World According to Garp
- John Kennedy Toole, Confederacy of Dunces
- John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- John le Carré, Smiley's People
- John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- John Lyly, Euphues
- John McGahern, Amongst Women
- John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
- John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
- John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
- John Updike, Rabbit, Run
- John Updike, Rabbit Redux
- John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids
- John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
- Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up!
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Illuminated
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Jonathan Swift, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
- Jorge Amado, Tent of Miracles
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labriynths
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain
- José Saramago, The Double
- José Saramago, The History of the Siege of London
- José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
- Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Joseph Roth, The Radetsky March
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
- John Wyndham, Chocky
- Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
- Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
- Joyce Carol Oates, Marya: A Life
- Joyce Carol Oates, them
- Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
- Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
- Jung Chang, Wild Swans
K
[edit]- Karl Krause, The Last Days of Humanity
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening
- Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party
- Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
- Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of the Hills
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
- Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar
- Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
- Kenzaburo Oe, Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
- Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
- Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
- Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
- Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil
- Knut Hamsun, Hunger
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse Five
L
[edit]- L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
- László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance
- Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
- Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
- Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy
- Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
- Lawrence Durrell, Justine
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scot's Quair (Sunset Song)
- Lorrie Moore, Like Life
- Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Louis de Bernières, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand
- Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
M
[edit]- M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine
- Malcolm Lowry, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
- Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas
- Marcel Pagnol, Manon des Sources
- Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Margaret Atwood, The Robber's Wife
- Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
- Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
- Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
- Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Marguerite Duras, The Lover
- Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
- Marguerite Duras, The Vice-Consul
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
- Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
- Maria Edgeworth, Ormond
- Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, The Princess of Cleves
- Marina Warner, Indigo
- Mario Puzo, The Godfather
- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Cubs and Other Stories
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mario Varas LLosa, The Feast of the Goat
- Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
- Marquis de Sade, Justine
- Martin Amis, Dead Babies
- Martin Amis, The Information
- Martin Amis, London Fields
- Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
- Matthew Lewis, The Monk
- Max Frisch, Homo Faber
- Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller
- Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence
- Maxim Gorky, The Artamonov Business
- Maxim Gorky, Mother
- May Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriet Frean
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- Michael Arlen, The Green Hat
- Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
- Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- Michael Herr, Dispatches
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
- Michel Faber, Under the Skin
- Michel Hourellebeq, Elementary Particles
- Michel Hourellebeq, Platform
- Michel Hourellebeq, Whatever
- Michel Tournier, The Ogre
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and the Margarita
- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Milan Kundera, Ignorance
- Milan Kundera, The Joke
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
- Multatuli, Max Havelaar
- Murial Spark, The Driver's Seat
- Murial Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
- Murial Spark, Memento Mori
- Murial Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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[edit]- Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
- Nadine Gordimer, July's People
- Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
- Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
- Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
- Nathanial Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
- Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
- Nathanial Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
- Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
- Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Nella Larson, Passing
- Nella Larson, Quicksand
- Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
- Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
- Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Matigari
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The River Between
- Nicolai Leskov, The Enchanted Wanderer
- Nikolay Gogol, Dead Souls
- Nikolay Gogol, The Nose
- Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
O
[edit]- Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Ovid. Metamorphoses
P
[edit]- P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves
- Padgett Powell, Typical
- Pankaj Mishra, The Romantics
- Park Kyong-ni, Land
- Pat Barker, Another World
- Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Pat Barker, Regeneration
- Patricia Dunker, Hallucinating Foucault
- Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square
- Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume
- Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon
- Patrick White, The Living and the Dead
- Patrick White, Voss
- Paul Auster, Moon Palace
- Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
- Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
- Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
- Paul Auster, Timbuktu
- Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
- Paul Gallico, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
- Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
- Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
- Pauline Réage, The Story of O
- Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
- Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee
- Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London
- Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
- Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
- Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies
- Peter Handke, The Afternoon of a Writer
- Peter Handke, Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
- Peter Handke, The Left-Handed Woman
- Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
- Peter Manson, Adjunct: An Undigest
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
- Philip Roth, The Breast
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
- Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
- Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
- Pier Paolo Pasonlini, The Ragazzi
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liasons
- Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
- Primo Levi, If Not Now, Then?
- Primo Levi, If This is Man
R
[edit]- Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
- Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style
- Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh
- Raymond Roussel, Impressions of Africa
- Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
- Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down
- Rebecca West, Harriet Hume
- Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
- Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed
- Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
- Richard Brautigan, Willard and His Bowling Trophies
- Richard Wright, Native Son
- Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants
- Robert Coover, The Public Burning
- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
- Robert Musil, Young Törless
- Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
- Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
- Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
- Romain Gary, Promises at Dawn
- Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
- Rose Tremain, The Colour
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim
- Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
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[edit]- Salman Rushdie, Fury
- Salman Rushdie, Grimus
- Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
- Salman Rushdie, Shame
- Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
- Samuel Beckett, How it Is
- Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
- Samuel Beckett, Mercier et Camier
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy
- Samuel Beckett, Murphy
- Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon
- Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Sarah Waters, Tripping the Velvet
- Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
- Saul Bellow, Dangling Man
- Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
- Saul Bellow, Herzog
- Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
- Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
- Saul Bellow, The Victim
- Sandor Marai, Embers
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
- Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berling's Saga
- Shashi Deshpande, Small Remedies
- Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly
- Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
- Siegfreid Lonz, The German Lesson
- Simon Vestdijk, The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
- Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
- Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved
- Slavenka Drakulic, As If I Am Not There
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
- Stefan Zweig, Amok
- Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
- Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Stephen King, The Shining
- Somerville and Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
- Somerville and Ross, The Real Charlotte
- Storm Jameson, A Day Off
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, After the Death of Don Juan
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show
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[edit]- T. C. Boyle, Drop City
- T. C. Boyle, World's End
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King
- Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
- Theodor Fontane, The Stechlin
- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
- Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
- Thomas Bernhard, Correction
- Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
- Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Tobias George Smollett, Roderick Random
- Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters
- Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew
- Thomas Bernhard, Yes
- Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
- Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta
- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
- Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders
- Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks
- Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
- Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- Thomas Pynchon, V.
- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
- Tobias George Smollett, Humphrey Clinker
- Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
- Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Toni Morrison, Jazz
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
- Toni Morrison, Sula
- Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
- Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
U
[edit]- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
- Uwe Johnson, Jahrestage
- Uwe Timm, The Invention of Curried Sausage
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[edit]- V. S. Naipaul, Enigma of Arrival
- V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
- Victor Pelevin, The Clay Machine-Gun
- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- Victor Pelevin, The Life of Insects
- Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
- Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
- Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
- Virginia Woolf, The Years
- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
- Voltaire, Candide
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[edit]- W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz
- W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants
- W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
- W. G. Sebald, Vertigo
- W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
- Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean
- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery
- Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
- Will Self, Great Apes
- Will Self, How the Dead Live
- Willa Cather, The Professor's House
- William Beckford, Vathek
- William Burroughs, Junkie
- William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch
- William Burroughs, Queer
- William Burroughs, The Wild Boys
- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
- William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
- William Faulkner, The Hamlet
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- William Gaddis, The Recognitions
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
- William Godwin, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- William Golding, Rites of Passage
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland
- William Kotzwinkle, The Fan Man
- William Kotzwinkle, The Midnight Examiner
- William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair
- William Morris, News from Nowhere
- William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- William Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
- William Trevor, Felicia's Journey
- William Trevor, Fools of Fortune
- William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
- Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God
- Wyndham Lewis, The Childermass
- Wyndham Lewis, The Revenge for Love
- Wyndham Lewis, Self Condemned
- Wyndham Lewis, Tarr
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[edit]- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
- Yukio Mishima, The Sea of Fertility
Z
[edit]- Zadie Smith, On Beauty
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness
- Zora Neale Huston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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