1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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This list, in reverse chronological order comes from the book of the same name by Peter Boxall. It is not i be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It's a starting point, not th Answer!

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Enter your current age in this box: To complete this list, you need to read an average of 13 books/year if you're a western male 12 books/year if you're a western female Title 2000s 1 Never Let Me Go 2 Saturday 3 On Beauty 4 Slow Man 5 Adjunct: An Undigest 6 The Sea 7 The Red Queen 8 The Plot Against America 9 The Master 10 Vanishing Point 11 The Lambs of London 12 Dining on Stones 13 Cloud Atlas 14 Drop City 15 The Colour 16 Thursbitch 17 The Light of Day 18 What I Loved 19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 20 Islands 21 Elizabeth Costello 22 London Orbital 23 Family Matters 24 Fingersmith 25 The Double 26 Everything is Illuminated 27 Unless 28 Kafka on the Shore 29 The Story of Lucy Gault

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30 That They May Face the Rising Sun 31 In the Forest 32 Shroud 33 Middlesex 34 Youth 35 Dead Air 36 Nowhere Man 37 The Book of Illusions 38 Gabriel’s Gift 39 Austerlitz 40 Platform 41 Schooling 42 Atonement 43 The Corrections 44 Don’t Move 45 The Body Artist 46 Fury 47 At Swim, Two Boys 48 Choke 49 Life of Pi 50 The Feast of the Goat 51 An Obedient Father 52 The Devil and Miss Prym 53 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost 54 White Teeth 55 The Heart of Redness 56 Under the Skin 57 Ignorance 58 Nineteen Seventy Seven 59 Celestial Harmonies 60 City of God 61 How the Dead Live 62 The Human Stain 63 The Blind Assassin 64 After the Quake 65 Small Remedies 66 Super-Cannes 67 House of Leaves 68 Blonde 69 Pastoralia 1900s 70 Timbuktu 71 The Romantics 72 Cryptonomicon 73 As If I Am Not There 74 Everything You Need 75 Fear and Trembling 76 The Ground Beneath Her Feet 77 Disgrace 78 Sputnik Sweetheart 79 Elementary Particles 80 Intimacy 81 Amsterdam 82 Cloudsplitter 83 All Souls Day 84 The Talk of the Town

John Edna John Jeffrey J.M. Iain Aleksandar Paul Hanif W.G. Michael Heather Ian Jonathan Margaret Don Salman Jamie Chuck Yann Mario Akhil Paulo Ismail Zadie Zakes Michel Milan David Péter E.L. Will Philip Margaret Haruki Shashi J.G. Mark Z. Joyce George Paul Pankaj Neal Slavenka A.L. Amélie Salman J.M. Haruki Michel Hanif Ian Russell Cees Ardal

85 Tipping the Velvet 86 The Poisonwood Bible 87 Glamorama 88 Another World 89 The Hours 90 Veronika Decides to Die 91 Mason & Dixon 92 The God of Small Things 93 Memoirs of a Geisha 94 Great Apes 95 Enduring Love 96 Underworld 97 Jack Maggs 98 The Life of Insects 99 American Pastoral 100 The Untouchable 101 Silk 102 Cocaine Nights 103 Hallucinating Foucault 104 Fugitive Pieces 105 The Ghost Road 106 Forever a Stranger 107 Infinite Jest 108 The Clay Machine-Gun 109 Alias Grace 110 The Unconsoled 111 Morvern Callar 112 The Information 113 The Moor’s Last Sigh 114 Sabbath’s Theater 115 The Rings of Saturn 116 The Reader 117 A Fine Balance 118 Love’s Work 119 The End of the Story 120 Mr. Vertigo 121 The Folding Star 122 Whatever 123 Land 124 The Master of Petersburg 125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony 127 City Sister Silver 128 How Late It Was, How Late 129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 130 Felicia’s Journey 131 Disappearance 132 The Invention of Curried Sausage 133 The Shipping News 134 Trainspotting 135 Birdsong 136 Looking for the Possible Dance 137 Operation Shylock 138 Complicity 139 On Love 140 What a Carve Up!

Sarah Barbara Bret Easton Pat Michael Paulo Thomas Arundhati Arthur Will Ian Don Peter Victor Philip John Alessandro J.G. Patricia Anne Pat Hella David Foster Victor Margaret Kazuo Alan Martin Salman Philip W.G. Bernhard Rohinton Gillian Lydia Paul Alan Michel Park J.M. Haruki Antonio Jàchym James Louis William David Uwe E. Annie Irvine Sebastian A.L. Philip Iain Alain Jonathan

141 A Suitable Boy 142 The Stone Diaries 143 The Virgin Suicides 144 The House of Doctor Dee 145 The Robber Bride 146 The Emigrants 147 The Secret History 148 Life is a Caravanserai 149 The Discovery of Heaven 150 A Heart So White 151 Possessing the Secret of Joy 152 Indigo 153 The Crow Road 154 Written on the Body 155 Jazz 156 The English Patient 157 Smilla’s Sense of Snow 158 The Butcher Boy 159 Black Water 160 The Heather Blazing 161 Asphodel 162 Black Dogs 163 Hideous Kinky 164 Arcadia 165 Wild Swans 166 American Psycho 167 Time’s Arrow 168 Mao II 169 Typical 170 Regeneration 171 Downriver 172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord 173 Wise Children 174 Get Shorty 175 Amongst Women 176 Vineland 177 Vertigo 178 Stone Junction 179 The Music of Chance 180 The Things They Carried 181 A Home at the End of the World 182 Like Life 183 Possession 184 The Buddha of Suburbia 185 The Midnight Examiner 186 A Disaffection 187 Sexing the Cherry 188 Moon Palace 189 Billy Bathgate 190 Remains of the Day 191 The Melancholy of Resistance 192 The Temple of My Familiar 193 The Trick is to Keep Breathing 194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon 195 Like Water for Chocolate 196 A Prayer for Owen Meany

Vikram Carol Jeffrey Peter Margaret W.G. Donna Emine Harry Javier Alice Marina Iain Jeanette Toni Michael Peter Patrick Joyce Colm Hilda Ian Esther Jim Jung Bret Easton Martin Don Padgett Pat Iain Louis Angela Elmore John Thomas W.G. Jim Paul Tim Michael Lorrie A.S. Hanif William James Jeanette Paul E.L. Kazuo László Alice Janice José Laura John

197 London Fields 198 The Book of Evidence 199 Cat’s Eye 200 Foucault’s Pendulum 201 The Beautiful Room is Empty 202 Wittgenstein’s Mistress 203 The Satanic Verses 204 The Swimming-Pool Library 205 Oscar and Lucinda 206 Libra 207 The Player of Games 208 Nervous Conditions 209 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul 210 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 211 The Radiant Way 212 The Afternoon of a Writer 213 The Black Dahlia 214 The Passion 215 The Pigeon 216 The Child in Time 217 Cigarettes 218 The Bonfire of the Vanities 219 The New York Trilogy 220 World’s End 221 Enigma of Arrival 222 The Taebek Mountains 223 Beloved 224 Anagrams 225 Matigari 226 Marya 227 Watchmen 228 The Old Devils 229 Lost Language of Cranes 230 An Artist of the Floating World 231 Extinction 232 Foe 233 The Drowned and the Saved 234 Reasons to Live 235 The Parable of the Blind 236 Love in the Time of Cholera 237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 238 The Cider House Rules 239 A Maggot 240 Less Than Zero 241 Contact 242 The Handmaid’s Tale 243 Perfume 244 Old Masters 245 White Noise 246 Queer 247 Hawksmoor 248 Legend 249 Dictionary of the Khazars 250 The Bus Conductor Hines 251 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis 252 The Lover

Martin John Margaret Umberto Edmund David Salman Alan Peter Don Iain M. Tsitsi Douglas Douglas Margaret Peter James Jeanette Patrick Ian Harry Tom Paul T. Coraghessan V.S. Jo Toni Lorrie Ngugi wa Joyce Alan/David Kingsley David Kazuo Thomas J.M. Primo Amy Gert Gabriel Jeanette John John Bret Easton Carl Margaret Patrick Thomas Don William Peter David Milorad James José Marguerite

253 Empire of the Sun 254 The Wasp Factory 255 Nights at the Circus 256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 257 Blood and Guts in High School 258 Neuromancer 259 Flaubert’s Parrot 260 Money: A Suicide Note 261 Shame 262 Worstward Ho 263 Fools of Fortune 264 La Brava 265 Waterland 266 The Life and Times of Michael K 267 The Diary of Jane Somers 268 The Piano Teacher 269 The Sorrow of Belgium 270 If Not Now, When? 271 A Boy’s Own Story 272 The Color Purple 273 Wittgenstein’s Nephew 274 A Pale View of Hills 275 Schindler’s Ark 276 The House of the Spirits 277 The Newton Letter 278 On the Black Hill 279 Concrete 280 The Names 281 Rabbit is Rich 282 Lanark: A Life in Four Books 283 The Comfort of Strangers 284 July’s People 285 Summer in Baden-Baden 286 Broken April 287 Waiting for the Barbarians 288 Midnight’s Children 289 Rites of Passage 290 Rituals 291 Confederacy of Dunces 292 City Primeval 293 The Name of the Rose 294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 295 Smiley’s People 296 Shikasta 297 A Bend in the River 298 Burger’s Daughter 299 The Safety Net 300 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler 301 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 302 The Cement Garden 303 The World According to Garp 304 Life: A User’s Manual 305 The Sea, The Sea 306 The Singapore Grip 307 Yes 308 The Virgin in the Garden

J.G. Iain Angela Milan Kathy William Julian Martin Salman Samuel William Elmore Graham J.M. Doris Elfriede Hugo Primo Edmund Alice Thomas Kazuo Thomas Isabel John Bruce Thomas Don John Alasdair Ian Nadine Leonid Ismail J.M. Salman William Cees John Elmore Umberto Milan John Doris V.S. Nadine Heinrich Italo Douglas Ian John Georges Iris J.G. Thomas A.S.

309 In the Heart of the Country 310 The Passion of New Eve 311 Delta of Venus 312 The Shining 313 Dispatches 314 Petals of Blood 315 Song of Solomon 316 The Hour of the Star 317 The Left-Handed Woman 318 Ratner’s Star 319 The Public Burning 320 Interview With the Vampire 321 Cutter and Bone 322 Amateurs 323 Patterns of Childhood 324 Autumn of the Patriarch 325 W, or the Memory of childhood 326 A Dance to the Music of Time 327 Grimus 328 The Dead Father 329 Fateless 330 Willard and His Bowling Trophies 331 High Rise 332 Humboldt’s Gift 333 Dead Babies 334 Correction 335 Ragtime 336 The Fan Man 337 Dusklands 338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 339 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 340 Breakfast of Champions 341 Fear of Flying 342 A Question of Power 343 The Siege of Krishnapur 344 The Castle of Crossed Destinies 345 Crash 346 The Honorary Consul 347 Gravity’s Rainbow 348 The Black Prince 349 Sula 350 Invisible Cities 351 The Breast 352 The Summer Book 353 G 354 Surfacing 355 House Mother Normal 356 In A Free State 357 The Book of Daniel 358 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 359 Group Portrait With Lady 360 The Wild Boys 361 Rabbit Redux 362 The Sea of Fertility 363 The Driver’s Seat 364 The Ogre

J.M. Angela Anaïs Stephen Michael Ngugi wa Toni Clarice Peter Don Robert Anne Newton Donald Christa Gabriel Georges Anthony Salman Donald Imre Richard J.G. Saul Martin Thomas E.L. William J.M. Heinrich John Kurt Erica Bessie J.G. Italo J.G. Graham Thomas Iris Toni Italo Philip Tove John Margaret B.S. V.S. E.L. Hunter S. Heinrich William John Yukio Muriel Michael

365 The Bluest Eye 366 Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick 367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 368 Mercier et Camier 369 Troubles 370 Jahrestage 371 The Atrocity Exhibition 372 Tent of Miracles 373 Pricksongs and Descants 374 Blind Man With a Pistol 375 Slaughterhouse Five 376 The French Lieutenant’s Woman 377 The Green Man 378 Portnoy’s Complaint 379 The Godfather 380 Ada 381 Them 382 A Void/Avoid 383 Eva Trout 384 Myra Breckinridge 385 The Nice and the Good 386 Belle du Seigneur 387 Cancer Ward 388 The First Circle 389 2001: A Space Odyssey 390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 391 Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid 392 The German Lesson 393 In Watermelon Sugar 394 A Kestrel for a Knave 395 The Quest for Christa T. 396 Chocky 397 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 398 The Cubs and Other Stories 399 One Hundred Years of Solitude 400 The Master and Margarita 401 Pilgrimage 402 The Joke 403 No Laughing Matter 404 The Third Policeman 405 A Man Asleep 406 The Birds Fall Down 407 Trawl 408 In Cold Blood 409 The Magus 410 The Vice-Consul 411 Wide Sargasso Sea 412 Giles Goat-Boy 413 The Crying of Lot 49 414 Things 415 The River Between 416 August is a Wicked Month 417 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 418 Everything That Rises Must Converge 419 The Passion According to G.H. 420 Sometimes a Great Notion

Toni Peter Maya Samuel J.G. Uwe J.G. Jorge Robert Chester Kurt John Kingsley Philip Mario Vladimir Joyce Georges Elizabeth Gore Iris Albert Aleksandr Aleksandr Arthur C. Philip K. Malcolm Siegfried Richard Barry Christa John Tom Mario Gabriel Mikhail Dorothy Milan Angus Flann Georges Rebecca B.S. Truman John Marguerite Jean John Thomas Georges Ngugi wa Edna Kurt Flannery Clarice Ken

421 Come Back, Dr. Caligari 422 Albert Angelo 423 Arrow of God 424 The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein 425 Herzog 426 V. 427 Cat’s Cradle 428 The Graduate 429 Manon des Sources 430 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 431 The Girls of Slender Means 432 Inside Mr. Enderby 433 The Bell Jar 434 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 435 The Collector 436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 437 A Clockwork Orange 438 Pale Fire 439 The Drowned World 440 The Golden Notebook 441 Labyrinths 442 Girl With Green Eyes 443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 444 Stranger in a Strange Land 445 Franny and Zooey 446 A Severed Head 447 Faces in the Water 448 Solaris 449 Cat and Mouse 450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 451 Catch-22 452 The Violent Bear it Away 453 How It Is 454 Our Ancestors 455 The Country Girls 456 To Kill a Mockingbird 457 Rabbit, Run 458 Promise at Dawn 459 Cider With Rosie 460 Billy Liar 461 Naked Lunch 462 The Tin Drum 463 Absolute Beginners 464 Henderson the Rain King 465 Memento Mori 466 Billiards at Half-Past Nine 467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 468 The Leopard 469 Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring 470 A Town Like Alice 471 The Bitter Glass 472 Things Fall Apart 473 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 474 Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris 475 Borstal Boy 476 The End of the Road

Donald B.S. Chinua Marguerite Saul Thomas Kurt Charles Marcel John Muriel Anthony Sylvia Aleksandr John Ken Anthony Vladimir J.G. Doris Jorge Luis Edna Giorgio Robert J.D. Iris Janet Stanislaw Günter Muriel Joseph Flannery Samuel Italo Edna Harper John Romain Laurie Keith William Günter Colin Saul Muriel Heinrich Truman Giuseppe Kenzaburo Nevil Eilís Chinua Alan Paul Brendan John

477 The Once and Future King 478 The Bell 479 Jealousy 480 Voss 481 The Midwich Cuckoos 482 Blue Noon 483 Homo Faber 484 On the Road 485 Pnin 486 Doctor Zhivago 487 The Wonderful “O” 488 Justine 489 Giovanni’s Room 490 The Lonely Londoners 491 The Roots of Heaven 492 Seize the Day 493 The Floating Opera 494 The Lord of the Rings 495 The Talented Mr. Ripley 496 Lolita 497 A World of Love 498 The Trusting and the Maimed 499 The Quiet American 500 The Last Temptation of Christ 501 The Recognitions 502 The Ragazzi 503 Bonjour Tristesse 504 I’m Not Stiller 505 Self Condemned 506 The Story of O 507 A Ghost at Noon 508 Lord of the Flies 509 Under the Net 510 The Go-Between 511 The Long Goodbye 512 The Unnamable 513 Watt 514 Lucky Jim 515 Junkie 516 The Adventures of Augie March 517 Go Tell It on the Mountain 518 Casino Royale 519 The Judge and His Hangman 520 Invisible Man 521 The Old Man and the Sea 522 Wise Blood 523 The Killer Inside Me 524 Memoirs of Hadrian 525 Malone Dies 526 Day of the Triffids 527 Foundation 528 The Opposing Shore 529 The Catcher in the Rye 530 The Rebel 531 Molloy 532 The End of the Affair

T.H. Iris Alain Patrick John Georges Max Jack Vladimir Boris James Lawrence James Sam Romain Saul John J.R.R. Patricia Vladimir Elizabeth James Graham Nikos William Pier Paulo Françoise Max Wyndham Pauline Alberto William Iris L.P. Raymond Samuel Samuel Kingsley William Saul James Ian Friedrich Ralph Ernest Flannery Jim Marguerite Samuel John Isaac Julien J.D. Albert Samuel Graham

533 The Abbot C 534 The Labyrinth of Solitude 535 The Third Man 536 The 13 Clocks 537 Gormenghast 538 The Grass is Singing 539 I, Robot 540 The Moon and the Bonfires 541 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played 542 Love in a Cold Climate 543 The Case of Comrade Tulayev 544 The Heat of the Day 545 Kingdom of This World 546 The Man With the Golden Arm 547 Nineteen Eighty-Four 548 All About H. Hatterr 549 Disobedience 550 Death Sentence 551 The Heart of the Matter 552 Cry, the Beloved Country 553 Doctor Faustus 554 The Victim 555 Exercises in Style 556 If This Is a Man 557 Under the Volcano 558 The Path to the Nest of Spiders 559 The Plague 560 Back 561 Titus Groan 562 The Bridge on the Drina 563 Brideshead Revisited 564 Animal Farm 565 Cannery Row 566 The Pursuit of Love 567 Loving 568 Arcanum 17 569 Christ Stopped at Eboli 570 The Razor’s Edge 571 Transit 572 Ficciones 573 Dangling Man 574 The Little Prince 575 Caught 576 The Glass Bead Game 577 Embers 578 Go Down, Moses 579 The Outsider 580 In Sicily 581 The Poor Mouth 582 The Living and the Dead 583 Hangover Square 584 Between the Acts 585 The Hamlet 586 Farewell My Lovely 587 For Whom the Bell Tolls 588 Native Son

Georges Octavio Graham James Mervyn Doris Isaac Cesare Simon Nancy Victor Elizabeth Alejo Nelson George G.V. Alberto Maurice Graham Alan Thomas Saul Raymond Primo Malcolm Italo Albert Henry Mervyn Ivo Evelyn George John Nancy Henry André Carlo W. Somerset Anna Jorge Luis Saul Antoine Henry Herman Sandor William Albert Elio Flann Patrick Patrick Virginia William Raymond Ernest Richard

589 The Power and the Glory 590 The Tartar Steppe 591 Party Going 592 The Grapes of Wrath 593 Finnegans Wake 594 At Swim-Two-Birds 595 Coming Up for Air 596 Goodbye to Berlin 597 Tropic of Capricorn 598 Good Morning, Midnight 599 The Big Sleep 600 After the Death of Don Juan 601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 602 Nausea 603 Rebecca 604 Cause for Alarm 605 Brighton Rock 606 U.S.A. 607 Murphy 608 Of Mice and Men 609 Their Eyes Were Watching God 610 The Hobbit 611 The Years 612 In Parenthesis 613 The Revenge for Love 614 Out of Africa 615 To Have and Have Not 616 Summer Will Show 617 Eyeless in Gaza 618 The Thinking Reed 619 Gone With the Wind 620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying 621 Wild Harbour 622 Absalom, Absalom! 623 At the Mountains of Madness 624 Nightwood 625 Independent People 626 Auto-da-Fé 627 The Last of Mr. Norris 628 They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 629 The House in Paris 630 England Made Me 631 Burmese Days 632 The Nine Tailors 633 Threepenny Novel 634 Novel With Cocaine 635 The Postman Always Rings Twice 636 Tropic of Cancer 637 A Handful of Dust 638 Tender is the Night 639 Thank You, Jeeves 640 Call it Sleep 641 Miss Lonelyhearts 642 Murder Must Advertise 643 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 644 Testament of Youth

Graham Dino Henry John James Flann George Christopher Henry Jean Raymond Sylvie Winifred Jean-Paul Daphne Eric Graham John Samuel John Zora J.R.R. Virginia David Wyndham Isak Ernest Sylvia Aldous Rebecca Margaret George Ian William H.P. Djuna Halldór Elias Christopher Horace Elizabeth Graham George Dorothy L. Bertolt M. James M. Henry Evelyn F. Scott P.G. Henry Nathanael Dorothy L. Gertrude Vera

645 A Day Off 646 The Man Without Qualities 647 A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) 648 Journey to the End of the Night 649 Brave New World 650 Cold Comfort Farm 651 To the North 652 The Thin Man 653 The Radetzky March 654 The Waves 655 The Glass Key 656 Cakes and Ale 657 The Apes of God 658 Her Privates We 659 Vile Bodies 660 The Maltese Falcon 661 Hebdomeros 662 Passing 663 A Farewell to Arms 664 Red Harvest 665 Living 666 The Time of Indifference 667 All Quiet on the Western Front 668 Berlin Alexanderplatz 669 The Last September 670 Harriet Hume 671 The Sound and the Fury 672 Les Enfants Terribles 673 Look Homeward, Angel 674 Story of the Eye 675 Orlando 676 Lady Chatterley’s Lover 677 The Well of Loneliness 678 The Childermass 679 Quartet 680 Decline and Fall 681 Quicksand 682 Parade’s End 683 Nadja 684 Steppenwolf 685 Remembrance of Things Past 686 To The Lighthouse 687 Tarka the Otter 688 Amerika 689 The Sun Also Rises 690 Blindness 691 The Castle 692 The Good Soldier Švejk 693 The Plumed Serpent 694 One, None and a Hundred Thousand 695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 696 The Making of Americans 697 Manhattan Transfer 698 Mrs. Dalloway 699 The Great Gatsby 700 The Counterfeiters

Storm Robert Lewis Louis-Ferdinand Aldous Stella Elizabeth Dashiell Joseph Virginia Dashiell W. Somerset Wyndham Frederic Evelyn Dashiell Giorgio Nella Ernest Dashiell Henry Alberto Erich Maria Alfred Elizabeth Rebecca William Jean Thomas Georges Virginia D.H. Radclyffe Wyndham Jean Evelyn Nella Ford Madox André Herman Marcel Virginia Henry Franz Ernest Henry Franz Jaroslav D.H. Luigi Agatha Gertrude John Virginia F. Scott André

701 The Trial 702 The Artamonov Business 703 The Professor’s House 704 Billy Budd, Foretopman 705 The Green Hat 706 The Magic Mountain 707 We 708 A Passage to India 709 The Devil in the Flesh 710 Zeno’s Conscience 711 Cane 712 Antic Hay 713 Amok 714 The Garden Party 715 The Enormous Room 716 Jacob’s Room 717 Siddhartha 718 The Glimpses of the Moon 719 Life and Death of Harriett Frean 720 The Last Days of Humanity 721 Aaron’s Rod 722 Babbitt 723 Ulysses 724 The Fox 725 Crome Yellow 726 The Age of Innocence 727 Main Street 728 Women in Love 729 Night and Day 730 Tarr 731 The Return of the Soldier 732 The Shadow Line 733 Summer 734 Growth of the Soil 735 Bunner Sisters 736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 737 Under Fire 738 Rashomon 739 The Good Soldier 740 The Voyage Out 741 Of Human Bondage 742 The Rainbow 743 The Thirty-Nine Steps 744 Kokoro 745 Locus Solus 746 Rosshalde 747 Tarzan of the Apes 748 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 749 Sons and Lovers 750 Death in Venice 751 The Charwoman’s Daughter 752 Ethan Frome 753 Fantômas 754 Howards End 755 Impressions of Africa 756 Three Lives

Franz Maxim Willa Herman Michael Thomas Yevgeny E.M. Raymond Italo Jean Aldous Stefan Katherine E.E. Virginia Herman Edith May Karl D.H. Sinclair James D.H. Aldous Edith Sinclair D.H. Virginia Wyndham Rebecca Joseph Edith Knut Edith James Henri Akutagawa Ford Madox Virginia W. Somerset D.H. John Natsume Raymond Herman Edgar Robert D.H. Thomas James Edith Marcel/Pierre E.M. Raymond Gertrude

757 Martin Eden 758 Strait is the Gate 759 Tono-Bungay 760 The Inferno 761 A Room With a View 762 The Iron Heel 763 The Old Wives’ Tale 764 The House on the Borderland 765 Mother 766 The Secret Agent 767 The Jungle 768 Young Törless 769 The Forsyte Sage 770 The House of Mirth 771 Professor Unrat 772 Where Angels Fear to Tread 773 Nostromo 774 Hadrian the Seventh 775 The Golden Bowl 776 The Ambassadors 777 The Riddle of the Sands 778 The Immoralist 779 The Wings of the Dove 780 Heart of Darkness 781 The Hound of the Baskervilles 782 Buddenbrooks 783 Kim 784 Sister Carrie 785 Lord Jim 1800s 786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 787 The Stechlin 788 The Awakening 789 The Turn of the Screw 790 The War of the Worlds 791 The Invisible Man 792 What Maisie Knew 793 Fruits of the Earth 794 Dracula 795 Quo Vadis 796 The Island of Dr. Moreau 797 The Time Machine 798 Effi Briest 799 Jude the Obscure 800 The Real Charlotte 801 The Yellow Wallpaper 802 Born in Exile 803 Diary of a Nobody 804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 805 News from Nowhere 806 New Grub Street 807 Gösta Berling’s Saga 808 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 809 The Picture of Dorian Gray 810 The Kreutzer Sonata 811 La Bête Humaine

Jack André H.G. Henri E.M. Jack Arnold Arnold Maxim Joseph Upton Robert John Edith Heinrich E.M. Joseph Frederick Henry Henry Erskine André Henry Joseph Arthur Conan Thomas Rudyard Theodore Joseph Theodore Kate Henry H.G. H.G. Henry André Bram Henryk H.G. H.G. Theodore Thomas Charlotte George George & Weedon Arthur Conan William George Selma Thomas Oscar Leo Émile

812 By the Open Sea 813 Hunger 814 The Master of Ballantrae 815 Pierre and Jean 816 Fortunata and Jacinta 817 The People of Hemsö 818 The Woodlanders 819 She 820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 821 The Mayor of Casterbridge 822 Kidnapped 823 King Solomon’s Mines 824 Germinal 825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 826 Bel-Ami 827 Marius the Epicurean 828 Against the Grain 829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich 830 A Woman’s Life 831 Treasure Island 832 The House by the Medlar Tree 833 The Portrait of a Lady 834 Bouvard and Pécuchet 835 Ben-Hur 836 Nana 837 The Brothers Karamazov 838 The Red Room 839 Return of the Native 840 Anna Karenina 841 Drunkard 842 Virgin Soil 843 Daniel Deronda 844 The Hand of Ethelberta 845 The Temptation of Saint Anthony 846 Far from the Madding Crowd 847 The Enchanted Wanderer 848 Around the World in Eighty Days 849 In a Glass Darkly 850 The Devils 851 Erewhon 852 Spring Torrents 853 Middlemarch 854 Through the Looking Glass 855 King Lear of the Steppes 856 He Knew He Was Right 857 War and Peace 858 Sentimental Education 859 Phineas Finn 860 Maldoror 861 The Idiot 862 The Moonstone 863 Little Women 864 Thérèse Raquin 865 The Last Chronicle of Barset 866 Journey to the Centre of the Earth 867 Crime and Punishment

August Knut Robert Louis Guy Benito August Thomas H. Robert Louis Thomas Robert Louis H. Émile Mark Guy Walter Joris-Karl Leo Guy Robert Louis Giovanni Henry Gustave Lew Émile Fyodor August Thomas Leo Émile Ivan George Thomas Gustave Thomas Nicolai Jules Sheridan Fyodor Samuel Ivan George Lewis Ivan Anthony Leo Gustave Anthony Comte Fyodor Wilkie Louisa May Émile Anthony Jules Fyodor

868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 869 Our Mutual Friend 870 Uncle Silas 871 Notes from the Underground 872 The Water-Babies 873 Les Misérables 874 Fathers and Sons 875 Silas Marner 876 Great Expectations 877 On the Eve 878 Castle Richmond 879 The Mill on the Floss 880 The Woman in White 881 The Marble Faun 882 Max Havelaar 883 A Tale of Two Cities 884 Oblomovka 885 Adam Bede 886 Madame Bovary 887 North and South 888 Hard Times 889 Walden 890 Bleak House 891 Villette 892 Cranford 893 Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely 894 The Blithedale Romance 895 The House of the Seven Gables 896 Moby-Dick 897 The Scarlet Letter 898 David Copperfield 899 Shirley 900 Mary Barton 901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 902 Wuthering Heights 903 Agnes Grey 904 Jane Eyre 905 Vanity Fair 906 The Count of Monte-Cristo 907 La Reine Margot 908 The Three Musketeers 909 The Purloined Letter 910 Martin Chuzzlewit 911 The Pit and the Pendulum 912 Lost Illusions 913 A Christmas Carol 914 Dead Souls 915 The Charterhouse of Parma 916 The Fall of the House of Usher 917 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 918 Oliver Twist 919 The Nose 920 Le Père Goriot 921 Eugénie Grandet 922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 923 The Red and the Black

Lewis Charles Sheridan Fyodor Charles Victor Ivan George Charles Ivan Anthony George Wilkie Nathaniel Charles Ivan George Gustave Elizabeth Charles Henry David Charles Charlotte Elizabeth Harriet Nathaniel Nathaniel Herman Nathaniel Charles Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Emily Anne Charlotte William Makepeace Alexandre Alexandre Alexandre Edgar Allan Charles Edgar Allan Honoré Charles Nikolay Edgar Allan Charles Charles Nikolay Honoré Honoré Victor

924 The Betrothed 925 Last of the Mohicans 926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 927 The Albigenses 928 Melmoth the Wanderer 929 The Monastery 930 Ivanhoe 931 Frankenstein 932 Northanger Abbey 933 Persuasion 934 Ormond 935 Rob Roy 936 Emma 937 Mansfield Park 938 Pride and Prejudice 939 The Absentee 940 Sense and Sensibility 941 Elective Affinities 942 Castle Rackrent 1700s 943 Hyperion 944 The Nun 945 Camilla 946 The Monk 947 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship 948 The Mysteries of Udolpho 949 The Interesting Narrative 950 The Adventures of Caleb Williams 951 Justine 952 Vathek 953 The 120 Days of Sodom 954 Cecilia 955 Confessions 956 Dangerous Liaisons 957 Reveries of a Solitary Walker 958 Evelina 959 The Sorrows of Young Werther 960 Humphrey Clinker 961 The Man of Feeling 962 A Sentimental Journey 963 Tristram Shandy 964 The Vicar of Wakefield 965 The Castle of Otranto 966 Émile; or, On Education 967 Rameau’s Nephew 968 Julie; or, the New Eloise 969 Rasselas 970 Candide 971 The Female Quixote 972 Amelia 973 Peregrine Pickle 974 Fanny Hill 975 Tom Jones 976 Roderick Random 977 Clarissa 978 Pamela

Alessandro James James Charles Robert Charles Robert Sir Walter Sir Walter Mary Jane Jane Maria Sir Walter Jane Jane Jane Maria Jane Johann Wolfgang von Maria Friedrich Denis Fanny M.G. Johann Wolfgang von Ann Olaudah William Marquis William Marquis Fanny Jean-Jacques Pierre Jean-Jacques Fanny Johann Wolfgang von Tobias George Henry Laurence Laurence Oliver Horace Jean-Jacques Denis Jean-Jacques Samuel Charlotte Henry Tobias George John Henry Tobias George Samuel Samuel

979 Jacques the Fatalist 980 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus 981 Joseph Andrews 982 A Modest Proposal 983 Gulliver’s Travels 984 Roxana 985 Moll Flanders 986 Love in Excess 987 Robinson Crusoe 988 A Tale of a Tub Pre-1700 989 Oroonoko 990 The Princess of Clèves 991 The Pilgrim’s Progress 992 Don Quixote 993 The Unfortunate Traveller 994 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 995 Gargantua and Pantagruel 996 The Thousand and One Nights 997 The Golden Ass 998 Aithiopika 999 Chaireas and Kallirhoe 1000 Metamorphoses 1001 Aesop’s Fables

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Waters Kingsolver Ellis Barker Cunningham Coelho Pynchon Roy Golden Self McEwan DeLillo Carey Pelevin Roth Banville Baricco Ballard Duncker Michaels Barker Haasse Wallace Pelevin Atwood Ishiguro Warner Amis Rushdie Roth Sebald Schlink Mistry Rose Davis Auster Hollinghurst Houellebecq Kyong-ni Coetzee Murakami Tabucchi Topol Kelman de Bernieres Trevor Dabydeen Timm Proulx Welsh Faulks Kennedy Roth Banks de Botton Coe

Seth Shields Eugenides Ackroyd Atwood Sebald Tartt Özdamar Mulisch Marias Walker Warner Banks Winterson Morrison Ondaatje Høeg McCabe Carol Oates Tóibín Doolittle McEwan Freud Crace Chang Ellis Amis DeLillo Powell Barker Sinclair de Bernieres Carter Leonard McGahern Pynchon Sebald Dodge Auster O’Brien Cunningham Moore Byatt Kureishi Kotzwinkle Kelman Winterson Auster Doctorow Ishiguro Krasznahorkai Walker Galloway Saramago Esquivel Irving

Amis Banville Atwood Eco White Markson Rushdie Hollinghurst Carey DeLillo Banks Dangarembga Adams Adams Drabble Handke Ellroy Winterson Süskind McEwan Mathews Wolfe Auster Boyle Naipaul Jung-rae Morrison Moore Thiong'o Carol Oates Moore/Gibbons Amis Leavitt Ishiguro Bernhard Coetzee Levi Hempel Hofmann García Márquez Winterson Irving Fowles Ellis Sagan Atwood Süskind Bernhard DeLillo Burroughs Ackroyd Gemmell Pavic Kelman Saramago Duras

Ballard Banks Carter Kundera Acker Gibson Barnes Amis Rushdie Beckett Trevor Leonard Swift Coetzee Lessing Jelinek Claus Levi White Walker Bernhard Ishiguro Keneally Allende Banville Chatwin Bernhard DeLillo Updike Gray McEwan Gordimer Tsypkin Kadare Coetzee Rushdie Golding Nooteboom Kennedy Toole Leonard Eco Kundera Le Carré Lessing Naipaul Gordimer Böll Calvino Adams McEwan Irving Perec Murdoch Farrell Bernhard Byatt

Coetzee Carter Nin King Herr Thiong'o Morrison Lispector Handke DeLillo Coover Rice Thornburg Barthelme Wolf García Márquez Perec Powell Rushdie Barthelme Kertész Brautigan Ballard Bellow Amis Bernhard Doctorow Kotzwinkle Coetzee Böll Le Carré Vonnegut Jong Head Farrell Calvino Ballard Greene Pynchon Murdoch Morrison Calvino Roth Jansson Berger Atwood Johnson Naipaul Doctorow Thompson Böll Burroughs Updike Mishima Spark Tournier

Morrison Handke Angelou Beckett Farrell Johnson Ballard Amado Coover Hines Vonnegut Fowles Amis Roth Puzo Nabokov Carol Oates Perec Bowen Vidal Murdoch Cohen Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn Clarke Dick Lowry Lenz Brautigan Hines Wolf Wyndham Wolfe Vargas Llosa García Márquez Bulgakov Richardson Kundera Wilson O’Brien Perec West Johnson Capote Fowles Duras Rhys Barth Pynchon Perec Thiong’o O’Brien Vonnegut O’Connor Lispector Kesey

Bartholme Johnson Achebe Duras Bellow Pynchon Vonnegut Webb Pagnol Le Carré Spark Burgess Plath Solzhenitsyn Fowles Kesey Burgess Nabokov Ballard Lessing Borges O’Brien Bassani Heinlein Salinger Murdoch Frame Lem Grass Spark Heller O’Connor Beckett Calvino O’Brien Lee Updike Gary Lee Waterhouse Burroughs Grass MacInnes Bellow Spark Böll Capote Tomasi di Lampedusa Oe Shute Dillon Achebe Sillitoe Gallico Behan Barth

White Murdoch Robbe-Grillet White Wyndham Bataille Frisch Kerouac Nabokov Pasternak Thurber Durrell Baldwin Selvon Gary Bellow Barth Tolkien Highsmith Nabokov Bowen Plunkett Greene Kazantzákis Gaddis Pasolini Sagan Frisch Lewis Réage Moravia Golding Murdoch Hartley Chandler Beckett Beckett Amis Burroughs Bellow Baldwin Fleming Dürrenmatt Ellison Hemingway O’Connor Thompson Yourcenar Beckett Wyndham Asimov Gracq Salinger Camus Beckett Greene

Bataille Paz Greene Thurber Peake Lessing Asimov Pavese Vestdijk Mitford Serge Bowen Carpentier Algren Orwell Desani Moravia Blanchot Greene Paton Mann Bellow Queneau Levi Lowry Calvino Camus Green Peake Andrić Waugh Orwell Steinbeck Mitford Green Breton Levi Maugham Seghers Borges Bellow de Saint-Exupéry Green Hesse Marai Faulkner Camus Vittorini O’Brien White Hamilton Woolf Faulkner Chandler Hemingway Wright

Greene Buzzati Green Steinbeck Joyce O’Brien Orwell Isherwood Miller Rhys Chandler Townsend Warner Watson Sartre du Maurier Ambler Greene Dos Passos Beckett Steinbeck Neale Hurston Tolkien Woolf Jones Lewis Dineson Hemingway Townsend Warner Huxley West Mitchell Orwell MacPherson Faulkner Lovecraft Barnes Laxness Canetti Isherwood McCoy Bowen Greene Orwell Sayers Brecht Ageyev Cain Miller Waugh Fitzgerald Wodehouse Roth West Sayers Stein Brittain

Jameson Musil Grassic Gibbon Céline Huxley Gibbons Bowen Hammett Roth Woolf Hammett Maugham Lewis Manning Waugh Hammett de Chirico Larsen Hemingway Hammett Green Moravia Remarque Döblin Bowen West Faulkner Cocteau Wolfe Bataille Woolf Lawrence Hall Lewis Rhys Waugh Larsen Ford Breton Hesse Proust Woolf Williamson Kafka Hemingway Green Kafka Hašek Lawrence Pirandello Christie Stein Dos Passos Woolf Fitzgerald Gide

Kafka Gorky Cather Melville Arlen Mann Zamyatin Forster Radiguet Svevo Toomer Huxley Zweig Mansfield Cummings Woolf Hesse Wharton Sinclair Kraus Lawrence Lewis Joyce Lawrence Huxley Wharton Lewis Lawrence Woolf Lewis West Conrad Wharton Hamsen Wharton Joyce Barbusse Ryunosuke Ford Woolf Maugham Lawrence Buchan Soseki Roussel Hesse Rice Burroughs Tressell Lawrence Mann Stephens Wharton Allain/Souvestre Forster Roussel Stein

London Gide Wells Barbusse Forster London Bennett Bennett Gorky Conrad Sinclair Musil Galsworthy Wharton Mann Forster Conrad Rolfe James James Childers Gide James Conrad Doyle Mann Kipling Dreiser Conrad Somerville/Ross Fontane Chopin James Wells Wells James Gide Stoker Sienkiewicz Wells Wells Fontane Hardy Somerville/Ross Perkins Gilman Gissing Goldsmith Doyle Morris Gissing Lagerlöf Hardy Wilde Tolstoy Zola

Strindberg Hamsun Stevenson de Maupassant Pérez Galdés Strindberg Hardy Rider Haggard Stevenson Hardy Stevenson Rider Haggard Zola Twain de Maupassant Pater Huysmans Tolstoy de Maupassant Stevenson Verga James Flaubert Wallace Zola Dostoevsky Strindberg Hardy Tolstoy Zola Turgenev Eliot Hardy Flaubert Hardy Leskov Verne Le Fanu Dostoevsky Butler Turgenev Eliot Carroll Turgenev Trollope Tolstoy Flaubert Trollope de Lautréaumont Dostoevsky Collins Alcott Zola Trollope Verne Dostoevsky

Carroll Dickens Le Fanu Dostoevsky Kingsley Hugo Turgenev Eliot Dickens Turgenev Trollope Eliot Collins Hawthorne Multatuli Dickens Goncharov Eliot Flaubert Gaskell Dickens Thoreau Dickens Brontë Gaskell Beecher Stowe Hawthorne Hawthorne Melville Hawthorne Dickens Brontë Gaskell Brontë Brontë Brontë Brontë Thackeray Dumas Dumas Dumas Poe Dickens Poe de Balzac Dickens Gogol Stendhal Poe Dickens Dickens Gogol de Balzac de Balzac Hugo Stendhal

Manzoni Fenimore Cooper Hogg Maturin Maturin Scott Scott Shelley Austen Austen Edgeworth Scott Austen Austen Austen Edgeworth Austen Goethe Edgeworth Hölderlin Diderot Burney Lewis Goethe Radcliffe Equiano Godwin de Sade Beckford de Sade Burney Rousseau Choderlos de Laclos Rousseau Burney Goethe Smollett Mackenzie Sterne Sterne Goldsmith Walpole Rousseau Diderot Rousseau Johnson Voltaire Lennox Fielding Smollett Cleland Fielding Smollett Richardson Richardson

Diderot Arbuthnot et al. Fielding Swift Swift Defoe Defoe Haywood Defoe Swift Behn de Lafayatte Bunyan de Cervantes Saavedra Nashe Lyly Rabelais Anonymous Apuleius Heliodorus Chariton Ovid Aesopus

The Complete List In Alphabetical Order PRINT A-B The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren Read the Original Review

American Pastoral Philip Roth Read the Original Review

An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Read the Original Review

Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Read the Original Review

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume The Assistant Bernard Malamud Read the Original Review

At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien Atonement Ian McEwan Read the Original Review

Beloved

Toni Morrison Read the Original Review

The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood Read the Original Review

The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Read the Original Review

The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Read the Original Review

Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review

The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Read the Original Review C-D Call It Sleep Henry Roth Read the Original Review

Catch-22 Joseph Heller Read the Original Review

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Read the Original Review

A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Read the Original Review

The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron Read the Original Review

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Read the Original Review

The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review

A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell Read the Original Review

The Day of the Locust Nathanael West Read the Original Review

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Read the Original Review

Deliverance James Dickey Read the Original Review

Dog Soldiers Robert Stone Read the Original Review F-G Falconer John Cheever Read the Original Review

The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles Read the Original Review

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Read the Original Review

Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Read the Original Review

Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Read the Original Review

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Read the Original Review

Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Read the Original Review H-I A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Read the Original Review

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Read the Original Review

The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Herzog Saul Bellow Read the Original Review

Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson Read the Original Review

A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul Read the Original Review

I, Claudius Robert Graves Read the Original Review

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Read the Original Review

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Read the Original Review L-N Light in August William Faulkner Read the Original Review

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review

Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Read the Original Review

Loving Henry Green Read the Original Review

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis Read the Original Review

The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Read the Original Review

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis Read the Original Review

The Moviegoer Walker Percy Read the Original Review

Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William Burroughs Read the Original Review

Native Son Richard Wright Read the Original Review

Neuromancer William Gibson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Read the Original Review 1984 George Orwell Read the Original Review O-R On the Road Jack Kerouac Read the Original Review

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Read the Original Review

The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Read the Original Review

A Passage to India E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays Joan Didion Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Read the Original Review

Possession A.S. Byatt Read the Original Review

The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Read the Original Review

Rabbit, Run John Updike Read the Original Review

Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Read the Original Review

The Recognitions William Gaddis Read the Original Review

Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road Richard Yates S-T The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Read the Original Review

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Read the Original Review

Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Sportswriter Richard Ford Read the Original Review

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre Read the Original Review

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Read the Original Review

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Read the Original Review

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Read the Original Review

To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Read the Original Review

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Read the Original Review U-W Ubik Philip K. Dick Under the Net Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Read the Original Review

Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo Read the Original Review

White Teeth Zadie Smith Read the Original Review

Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhy

The top 100 books of all time

Full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 1 Wednesday May 8, 2002 Guardian Unlimited

Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Ch Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger. Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC). James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300). George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984 Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Oth Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500). Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian