«1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die»
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For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The featured works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others.Addictive, browsable, knowledgeable—1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die will be a boon companion for anyone who loves good writing and an inspiration for anyone who is just beginning to discover a love of books. Each entry is accompanied by an authoritative yet opinionated critical essay describing the importance and influence of the work in question. Also included are publishing history and career details about the authors, as well as reproductions of period dust jackets and book designs.

About the Author
Dr. Peter Boxall is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction and drama.
1. 2000s
2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Saturday – Ian McEwan
4. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
5. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
6. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
7. The Sea – John Banville
8. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
9. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
10. The Master – Colm Tóibín
11. Vanishing Point – David Markson
12. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
13. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
14. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
15. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
16. The Colour – Rose Tremain
17. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
18. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
19. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
21. Islands – Dan Sleigh
22. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
23. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
24. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
25. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
26. The Double – José Saramago
27. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
28. Unless – Carol Shields
29. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
30. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
31. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
32. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
33. Shroud – John Banville
34. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
35. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
36. Dead Air – Iain Banks
37. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
38. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
39. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
40. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
41. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
42. Schooling – Heather McGowan
43. Atonement – Ian McEwan
44. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
45. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
46. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
47. Fury – Salman Rushdie
48. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
49. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
52. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
53. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
54. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
55. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
56. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
58. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
59. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
60. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
61. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
62. How the Dead Live – Will Self
63. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
64. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
65. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
66. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
67. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
68. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
69. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
70. Pastoralia – George Saunders
71. 1900s
72. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
73. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
74. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
75. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
76. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
77. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
78. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
79. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
80. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
81. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
82. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
83. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
84. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
85. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
86. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
87. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
88. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
89. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
90. Another World – Pat Barker
91. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
92. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
93. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
94. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
95. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
96. Great Apes – Will Self
97. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
98. Underworld – Don DeLillo
99. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
100. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
101. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
102. The Untouchable – John Banville
103. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
104. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
105. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
106. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
107. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
108. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
109. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
110. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
111. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
112. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
113. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
114. The Information – Martin Amis
115. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
116. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
117. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
118. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
119. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
120. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
121. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
122. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
123. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
124. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
125. Land – Park Kyong-ni
126. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
127. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
128. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
129. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
130. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
131. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
132. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
133. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
134. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
135. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
136. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
137. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
138. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
139. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
140. Complicity – Iain Banks
141. On Love – Alain de Botton
142. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
143. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
144. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
145. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
146. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
147. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
148. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
149. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
150. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
151. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
152. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
153. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
154. Indigo – Marina Warner
155. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
156. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
157. Jazz – Toni Morrison
158. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
159. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
160. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
161. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
162. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
163. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
164. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
165. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
166. Arcadia – Jim Crace
167. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
168. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
169. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
170. Mao II – Don DeLillo
171. Typical – Padgett Powell
172. Regeneration – Pat Barker
173. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
174. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
175. Wise Children – Angela Carter
176. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
177. Amongst Women – John McGahern
178. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
179. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
180. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
181. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
182. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
183. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
184. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
185. Possession – A.S. Byatt
186. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
187. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
188. A Disaffection – James Kelman
189. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
190. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
191. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
192. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
193. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
194. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
195. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
196. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
197. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
198. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
199. London Fields – Martin Amis
200. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
201. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
202. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
203. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
204. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
205. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
206. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
207. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
208. Libra – Don DeLillo
209. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
210. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
211. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
212. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
213. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
214. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
215. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
216. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
217. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
218. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
219. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
220. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
221. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
222. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
223. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
224. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
225. Beloved – Toni Morrison
226. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
227. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
228. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
229. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
230. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
231. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
232. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
233. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
234. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
235. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
236. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
237. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
238. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
239. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
240. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
241. A Maggot – John Fowles
242. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
243. Contact – Carl Sagan
244. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
245. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
246. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
247. White Noise – Don DeLillo
248. Queer – William Burroughs
249. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
250. Legend – David Gemmell
251. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
252. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
253. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
254. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
255. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
256. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
257. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
258. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
259. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
260. Neuromancer – William Gibson
261. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
262. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
263. Shame – Salman Rushdie
264. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
265. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
266. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
267. Waterland – Graham Swift
268. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
269. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
270. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
271. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
272. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
273. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
274. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
275. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
276. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
277. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
278. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
279. The Newton Letter – John Banville
280. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
281. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
282. The Names – Don DeLillo
283. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
284. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
285. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
286. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
287. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
288. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
289. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
290. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
291. Rites of Passage – William Golding
292. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
293. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
294. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
295. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
296. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
297. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
298. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
299. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
300. Burger’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer
301. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
302. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
303. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
304. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
305. The World According to Garp – John Irving
306. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
307. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
308. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
309. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
310. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
311. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
312. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
313. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
314. The Shining – Stephen King
315. Dispatches – Michael Herr
316. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
317. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
318. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
319. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
320. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
321. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
322. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
323. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
324. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
325. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
326. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
327. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
328. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
329. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
330. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
331. Fateless – Imre Kertész
332. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
333. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
334. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
335. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
336. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
337. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
338. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
339. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
340. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
341. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
342. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
343. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
344. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
345. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
346. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
347. Crash – J.G. Ballard
348. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
349. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
350. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
351. Sula – Toni Morrison
352. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
353. The Breast – Philip Roth
354. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
355. G – John Berger
356. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
357. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
358. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
359. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
360. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
361. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
362. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
363. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
364. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
365. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
366. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
367. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
368. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
369. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
370. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
371. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
372. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
373. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
374. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
375. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
376. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
377. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
378. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
379. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
380. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
381. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
382. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
383. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
384. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
385. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
386. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
387. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
388. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
389. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
390. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
391. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
392. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
393. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
394. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
395. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
396. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
397. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
398. Chocky – John Wyndham
399. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
400. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
401. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
402. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
403. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
404. The Joke – Milan Kundera
405. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
406. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
407. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
408. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
409. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
410. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
411. The Magus – John Fowles
412. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
413. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
414. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
415. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
416. Things – Georges Perec
417. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
418. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
419. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
420. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
421. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
422. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
423. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
424. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
425. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
426. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
427. Herzog – Saul Bellow
428. V. – Thomas Pynchon
429. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
430. The Graduate – Charles Webb
431. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
432. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
433. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
434. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
435. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
436. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
437. The Collector – John Fowles
438. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
439. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
440. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
441. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
442. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
443. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
444. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
445. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
446. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
447. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
448. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
449. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
450. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
451. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
452. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
453. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
454. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
455. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
456. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
457. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
458. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
459. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
460. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
461. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
462. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
463. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
464. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
465. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
466. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
467. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
468. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
469. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
470. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
471. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
472. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
473. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
474. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
475. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
476. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
477. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
478. The End of the Road – John Barth
479. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
480. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
481. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
482. Voss – Patrick White
483. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
484. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
485. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
486. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
487. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
488. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
489. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
490. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
491. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
492. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
493. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
494. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
495. The Floating Opera – John Barth
496. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
497. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
498. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
499. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
500. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
501. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
502. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
503. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
504. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
505. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
506. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
507. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
508. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
509. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
510. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
511. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
512. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
513. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
514. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
515. Watt – Samuel Beckett
516. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
517. Junkie – William Burroughs
518. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
519. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
520. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
521. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
522. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
523. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
524. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
525. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
526. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
527. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
528. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
529. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
530. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
531. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
532. The Rebel – Albert Camus
533. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
534. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
535. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
536. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
537. The Third Man – Graham Greene
538. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
539. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
540. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
541. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
542. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
543. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
544. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
545. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
546. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
547. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
548. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
549. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
550. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
551. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
552. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
553. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
554. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
555. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
556. The Victim – Saul Bellow
557. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
558. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
559. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
560. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
561. The Plague – Albert Camus
562. Back – Henry Green
563. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
564. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
565. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
566. Animal Farm – George Orwell
567. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
568. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
569. Loving – Henry Green
570. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
571. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
572. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
573. Transit – Anna Seghers
574. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
575. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
576. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
577. Caught – Henry Green
578. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
579. Embers – Sandor Marai
580. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
581. The Outsider – Albert Camus
582. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
583. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
584. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
585. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
586. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
587. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
588. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
589. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
590. Native Son – Richard Wright
591. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
592. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
593. Party Going – Henry Green
594. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
595. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
596. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
597. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
598. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
599. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
600. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
601. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
602. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
603. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
604. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
605. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
606. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
607. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
608. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
609. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
610. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
611. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
612. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
613. The Years – Virginia Woolf
614. In Parenthesis – David Jones
615. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
616. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
617. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
618. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
619. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
620. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
621. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
622. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
623. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
624. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
625. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
626. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
627. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
628. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
629. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
630. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
631. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
632. England Made Me – Graham Greene
633. Burmese Days – George Orwell
634. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
635. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
636. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
637. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
638. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
639. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
640. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
641. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
642. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
643. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
644. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
645. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
646. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
647. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
648. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
649. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
650. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
651. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
652. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
653. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
654. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
655. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
656. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
657. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
658. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
659. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
660. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
661. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
662. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
663. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
664. Passing – Nella Larsen
665. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
666. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
667. Living – Henry Green
668. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
669. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
670. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
671. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
672. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
673. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
674. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
675. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
676. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
677. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
678. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
679. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
680. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
681. Quartet – Jean Rhys
682. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
683. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
684. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
685. Nadja – André Breton
686. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
687. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
688. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
689. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
690. Amerika – Franz Kafka
691. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
692. Blindness – Henry Green
693. The Castle – Franz Kafka
694. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
695. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
696. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
697. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
698. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
699. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
700. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
701. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
702. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
703. The Trial – Franz Kafka
704. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
705. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
706. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
707. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
708. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
709. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
710. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
711. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
712. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
713. Cane – Jean Toomer
714. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
715. Amok – Stefan Zweig
716. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
717. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
718. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
719. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
720. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
721. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
722. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
723. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
724. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
725. Ulysses – James Joyce
726. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
727. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
728. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
729. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
730. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
731. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
732. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
733. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
734. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
735. Summer – Edith Wharton
736. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
737. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
738. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
739. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
740. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
741. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
742. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
743. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
744. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
745. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
746. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
747. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
748. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
749. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
750. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
751. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
752. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
753. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
754. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
755. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
756. Howards End – E.M. Forster
757. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
758. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
759. Martin Eden – Jack London
760. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
761. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
762. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
763. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
764. The Iron Heel – Jack London
765. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
766. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
767. Mother – Maxim Gorky
768. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
769. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
770. Young Törless – Robert Musil
771. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
772. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
773. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
774. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
775. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
776. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
777. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
778. The Ambassadors – Henry James
779. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
780. The Immoralist – André Gide
781. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
782. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
783. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
784. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
785. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
786. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
787. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
788. 1800s
789. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. – Somerville and Ross
790. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
791. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
792. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
793. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
794. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
795. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
796. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
797. Dracula – Bram Stoker
798. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
799. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
800. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
801. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
802. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
803. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
804. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
805. Born in Exile – George Gissing
806. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
807. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
808. News from Nowhere – William Morris
809. New Grub Street – George Gissing
810. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
811. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
812. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
813. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
814. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
815. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
816. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
817. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
818. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
819. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
820. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
821. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
822. She – H. Rider Haggard
823. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
824. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
825. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
826. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
827. Germinal – Émile Zola
828. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
829. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
830. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
831. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
832. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
833. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
834. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
835. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
836. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
837. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
838. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
839. Nana – Émile Zola
840. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
841. The Red Room – August Strindberg
842. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
843. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
844. Drunkard – Émile Zola
845. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
846. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
847. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
848. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
849. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
850. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
851. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
852. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
853. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
854. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
855. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
856. Middlemarch – George Eliot
857. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
858. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
859. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
860. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
861. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
862. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
863. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
864. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
865. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
866. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
867. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
868. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
869. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
870. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
871. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
872. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
873. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
874. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
875. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
876. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
877. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
878. Silas Marner – George Eliot
879. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
880. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
881. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
882. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
883. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
884. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
885. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
886. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
887. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
888. Adam Bede – George Eliot
889. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
890. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
891. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
892. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
893. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
894. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
895. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
896. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
897. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
898. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
899. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
900. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
901. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
902. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
903. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
904. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
905. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
906. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
907. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
908. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
909. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
910. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
911. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
912. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
913. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
914. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
915. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
916. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
917. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
918. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
919. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
920. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
921. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
922. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
923. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
924. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
925. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
926. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
927. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
928. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
929. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
930. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
931. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
932. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
933. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
934. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
935. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
936. Persuasion – Jane Austen
937. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
938. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
939. Emma – Jane Austen
940. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
941. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
942. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
943. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
944. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
945. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
946. 1700s
947. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
948. The Nun – Denis Diderot
949. Camilla – Fanny Burney
950. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
951. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
952. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
953. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
954. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
955. Justine – Marquis de Sade
956. Vathek – William Beckford
957. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
958. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
959. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
960. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
961. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
962. Evelina – Fanny Burney
963. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
964. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
965. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
966. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
967. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
968. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
969. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
970. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
971. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
972. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
973. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
974. Candide – Voltaire
975. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
976. Amelia – Henry Fielding
977. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
978. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
979. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
980. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
981. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
982. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
983. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
984. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
985. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
986. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
987. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
988. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
989. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
990. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
991. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
992. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
993. Pre-1700
994. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
995. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
996. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
997. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
998. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
999. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
1000. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
1001. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1002. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
1003. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
1004. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1005. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1006. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus