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100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
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- Abuela by Arthur Dorros
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel
- Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
- Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
- The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale by Lucia M. Gonzalez, retold by; illustrated by Lulu Delacre
- Bread and Jam For Frances by Russell Hoban; illustrated by Lillian Hoban
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.; illustrated by Eric Carle
- Bruno Munari’s Abc by Bruno Munari
- Buz by Richard Egielski
- Caps for Sale; A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
- The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss; illustrated by Crockett Johnson
- A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault; illustrated by Lois Ehlert
- Click, Clack, Moo : Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
- Come Along, Daisy! by Jane Simmons
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George by H. A. Rey
- Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
- Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
- Fire Truck by Peter Sís
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
- The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
- George and Martha by James Marshall
- Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
- Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack
- Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret W. Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd
- Gossie by Dunrea Olivier
- Grandfather'S Journey by Allen Say
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion; illustrated by Margaret Graham
- Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson Donald B. Johnson
- Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
- I Kissed the Baby! by Mary Murphy
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff
- It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folktale by Margot Zemach, retold and illustrated by
- John Henry by Julius Lester; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Julius by Angela Johnson; illustrated by Dav Pilkey
- Kitten’S First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
- Lilly’S Purple Plastic Purse by Henkes Kevin
- The Line-Up Book by Russo Marisabina
- The Little Red Hen: An Old Story by Margot Zemach.
- Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed. Young
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
- Mabela the Clever by Margaret Read MacDonald
- Machines at Work by Byron Barton
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Maisy Goes Swimming by Lucy Cousins
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
- Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia L. Burton
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
- Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry and James Marshall Allard
- Mr. Gumpy'S Outing by John Birmingham
- Mufaro'S Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe, retold and illustrated by
- Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
- My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
- No, David! by David Shannon
- Off to School, Baby Duck! by Amy Hest
- Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
- Olivia by Ian Falconer
- Owen by Kevin Henkes
- Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
- Pierre: A Cautionary Tale by Maurice Sendak
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
- The Random House Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of 386 Timeless Nursery Rhymes by Arnold Lobel
- Round Trip by Ann Jonas
- Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
- Spots, Feathers and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- The Stray Dog by Simont Marc
- Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
- Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
- The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
- Trashy Town by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf by John Scieszka
- Tuesday by David Wiesner
- Uptown by Collier Bryan
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky, adapted and illustrated by
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
- Yoko by Rosemary Wells
- Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa by Gerald McDermott, retold and illustrated by
BBC's Big Read
[edit]- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
CounterPunch's Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century
[edit]- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: a season in the wilderness
- Louis Adamic, Dynamite: a century of class violence in America 1830-1930
- Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA diary
- Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murry Silverstein, A Pattern Language: towns, building and construction
- Jack Anderson, Confessions of a Muckraker: the inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years
- Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil
- David Arora, Mushrooms Demystified: a guide to the fleshy fungi
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
- James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work
- Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies
- Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben
- B.A. Botkin, A Treasury of Mississippi River Folktales
- Jim Bouten, Ball Four
- Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais, Labor's Untold Story
- Marshall Bradley, Fern Bradley and Barbara Ellis, The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
- Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in the Twentieth Century
- Kathleen Brenzel, Western Garden Book
- David Brower, For the Earth's Sake
- Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: the psychoanalytical meaning of history
- Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
- E.H. Carr, What Is History?
- Allan Chase, The Legacy of Malthus
- Samuel B. Charters, The Country Blues
- Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians
- Andrew Cockburn, The Threat: inside the Soviet military machine
- Claud Cockburn, I Claud
- William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the great west
- Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking
- Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa
- Vine DeLoria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: an Indian manifesto
- Angie Debo, Geronimo: the man, his time, his place
- John Dower, War Without Mercy: race & power in the pacific war
- E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and The Irrational
- W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
- Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex
- William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition
- Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: the case for a feminist revolution
- MKF Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
- Henry Watson Fowler, Modern English Usage
- Roger Fry, Cezanne: a study of his development
- Northrop Frye, An Anatomy of Criticism: four essays
- Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Myles Horton, The Long Haul: an autobiography
- Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War
- Dan Georgakas, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
- Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
- Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades
- ECS Handy and Elizabeth Handy, Native Planters in Old Hawaii: their life, lore and environment
- Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
- Jane E. Harrison, Themis: a study in the social origins of Greek religion
- Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: good news and bad times
- Seymour Hersh, Kissinger: the Price of Power
- George Leonard Herter and Berte Herter, Bull Cook: Authentic Recipes and Practices
- Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: radical ideas during the English revolution
- William Hinton, Fanshen: a doumentary of revolution in a Chinese village
- Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
- Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada : an introduction to Canadian economic history
- CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- Gertrude Jekyll, Home and Garden
- Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
- Leroi Jones, Blues People: negro music in white America
- Walter Karp, The Politics of War
- Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 years at the movies
- John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- Alfred Kinsey et al., The Kinsey Reports on Human Sexual Behavior,
- Andrew Kopkind, The Thirty Years' War: dispatches and diversions of a radical journalist 1965-1994
- Frank Kofsky, Harry Truman and the War Scare of 1948: a successful campaign to deceive the nation
- John Fire Lame Deer, [[Seeker of Visions ]]
- RD Laing, The Divided Self
- Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations
- DH Lawrence, Etruscan Places
- Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book
- Godfrey Lehman, We The Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History
- Meridel Le Sueur, North Star Country
- Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the Eighteenth Century
- Albert Bates Lord, The Singer of Tales
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
- Fitzroy McLean, Eastern Approaches
- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: the invisible art
- Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade
- Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Fields: the story of migratory farm labor in California
- Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
- Dave Marsh, Heart of Rock and Soul: the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
- Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
- Peter Matthiessen, In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
- HL Mencken, Prejudices: a selection
- Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
- C. Wright Mills, Listen Yanqui
- Edwin Morse, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
- Robert Motherwell, Dada Documents and Manifestoes
- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
- Paul Oliver, Blues Fell This Morning: meaning in the blues
- The Editors, The Oxford English Dictionary
- Robert Palmer, Deep Blues
- Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds
- Kim Philby, My Silent War
- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
- Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
- Charles Ramsey and Harold Sleeper, Architectural Graphic Standards
- Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
- Edward Said, Orientalism
- G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and A Day: A Detention Diary
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil
- Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
- Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: foundations of a theory of personal conduct
- Ida Tarbell, The History of Standard Oil
- Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
- Bertha Thompson, Sister of the Road: an autobiography of Box Car Bertha
- EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film
- Robert Tench, Across the Forbidden Sands
- Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program
- Gordon Wasson, Soma: divine mushroom of immortality
- Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses
- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place
- Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station
- Geoffrey Wolfe, Black Sun: the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby
- Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: water, aridity and the growth of the American West
- Frances Yates, The Art of Memory
Daniel Burt's Literary 100
[edit]- William Shakespeare
- Dante Alighieri
- Homer
- Leo Tolstoy
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Charles Dickens
- James Joyce
- John Milton
- Virgil
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Sophocles
- William Faulkner
- Feodor Dostoevsky
- T.S. Eliot
- Marcel Proust
- Jane Austen
- George Eliot
- William Butler Yeats
- Alexander Pushkin
- Euripides
- John Donne
- Herman Melville
- John Keats
- Ovid
- Tu Fu
- William Blake
- Aeschylus
- Gustave Flaubert
- Franz Kafka
- Moliere
- William Wordsworth
- Aristophanes
- Thomas Mann
- Henrik Ibsen
- Anton Chekhov
- Henry James
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Walt Whitman
- Honore de Balzac
- Jonathan Swift
- Stendhal
- Thomas Hardy
- George Bernard Shaw
- Ernest Hemingway
- D. H. Lawrence
- Charles Baudelaire
- Samuel Beckett
- Virginia Woolf
- Alexander Pope
- Francois Rabelais
- Francesco Petrarch
- Emily Dickinson
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Henry Fielding
- Joseph Conrad
- Robert Browning
- Albert Camus
- Charlotte Bronte
- Emily Bronte
- Jean Racine
- Mark Twain
- August Strindberg
- Emile Zola
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Cao Xueqin
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Voltaire
- Laurence Sterne
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Eugene O'Neill
- Wallace Stevens
- Lord Byron (George Gordon)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Walter Scott
- Pablo Neruda
- Robert Musil
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Flannery O'Connor
- Catullus
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Theodore Dreiser
- Ralph Ellison
- Anthony Trollope
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Victor Hugo
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Daniel Defoe
- Gunter Grass
- Lu Xun
- E. M. Forster
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
- Richard Wright
- Gertrude Stein
- Zeami Motokiyo
- Oscar Wilde
Daniel Burt's Novel 100
[edit]- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
- Molloy by Samuel Beckett
- The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Petersburg by Andrei Bely
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- The Counterfeiters by André Gide
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
- Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- City of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
- The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
- Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
- Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
- A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- Cold Nights by Ba Jin
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson