1001 books to Read before you Die Challenge
Titles I have read, are highlighted in red:Pre-17001001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn1700s988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift979. Pamela – Samuel Richardson978. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson977. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland974. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett973. Amelia – Henry Fielding972. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox971. Candide – Voltaire970. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson969. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau968. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot967. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau966. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne963. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne962. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett960. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe959. Evelina – Fanny Burney958. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos956. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau955. Cecilia – Fanny Burney954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade953. Vathek – William Beckford952. Justine – Marquis de Sade951. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin950. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe948. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis946. Camilla – Fanny Burney945. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot944. The Nun – Denis Diderot943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin1800s942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen936. Emma – Jane Austen935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth933. Persuasion – Jane Austen932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert885. Adam Bede – George Eliot884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens875. Silas Marner – George Eliot874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll853. Middlemarch – George Eliot852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev841. Drunkard – Émile Zola840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy838. The Red Room – August Strindberg837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky836. Nana – Émile Zola835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain824. Germinal – Émile Zola823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 819. She – H. Rider Haggard818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf806. New Grub Street – George Gissing805. News from Nowhere – William Morris804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith802. Born in Exile – George Gissing801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz794. Dracula – Bram Stoker793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross1900s785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James778. The Immoralist – André Gide777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers776. The Ambassadors – Henry James775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy768. Young Törless – Robert Musil767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad765. Mother – Maxim Gorky764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett762. The Iron Heel – Jack London761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide757. Martin Eden – Jack London756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel754. Howards End – E.M. Forster753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen733. Summer – Edith Wharton732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence723. Ulysses – James Joyce722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield713. Amok – Stefan Zweig712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley711. Cane – Jean Toomer710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky701. The Trial – Franz Kafka700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek691. The Castle – Franz Kafka690. Blindness – Henry Green689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway688. Amerika – Franz Kafka687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse683. Nadja – André Breton682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh679. Quartet – Jean Rhys678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia665. Living – Henry Green664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway662. Passing – Nella Larsen661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers631. Burmese Days – George Orwell630. England Made Me – Graham Greene629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis612. In Parenthesis – David Jones611. The Years – Virginia Woolf610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck591. Party Going – Henry Green590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene588. Native Son – Richard Wright587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini579. The Outsider – Albert Camus578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner577. Embers – Sandor Marai576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse575. Caught – Henry Green574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges571. Transit – Anna Seghers570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton567. Loving – Henry Green566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck564. Animal Farm – George Orwell563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake560. Back – Henry Green559. The Plague – Albert Camus558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau554. The Victim – Saul Bellow553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber535. The Third Man – Graham Greene534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett530. The Rebel – Albert Camus529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow515. Junkie – William Burroughs514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis513. Watt – Samuel Beckett512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien493. The Floating Opera – John Barth492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham480. Voss – Patrick White479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White476. The End of the Road – John Barth475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey435. The Collector – John Fowles434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol428. The Graduate – Charles Webb427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut426. V. – Thomas Pynchon425. Herzog – Saul Bellow424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o414. Things – Georges Perec413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras409. The Magus – John Fowles408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson402. The Joke – Milan Kundera401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe396. Chocky – John Wyndham395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood353. G – John Berger352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson351. The Breast – Philip Roth350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino349. Sula – Toni Morrison348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene345. Crash – J.G. Ballard344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan329. Fateless – Imre Kertész328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell325. W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o313. Dispatches – Michael Herr312. The Shining – Stephen King311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec303. The World According to Garp – John Irving302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom289. Rites of Passage – William Golding288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike280. The Names – Don DeLillo279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin277. The Newton Letter – John Banville276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee265. Waterland – Graham Swift264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett261. Shame – Salman Rushdie260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes258. Neuromancer – William Gibson257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?248. Legend – David Gemmell247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd246. Queer – William Burroughs245. White Noise – Don DeLillo244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood241. Contact – Carl Sagan240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis239. A Maggot – John Fowles238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore223. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae222. Beloved – Toni Morrison221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks206. Libra – Don DeLillo205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville197. London Fields – Martin Amis196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson186. A Disaffection – James Kelman185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi183. Possession – A.S. Byatt182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon175. Amongst Women – John McGahern174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard173. Wise Children – Angela Carter172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair170. Regeneration – Pat Barker169. Typical – Padgett Powell168. Mao II – Don DeLillo167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang164. Arcadia – Jim Crace163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje155. Jazz – Toni Morrison154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks152. Indigo – Marina Warner151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe139. On Love – Alain de Botton138. Complicity – Iain Banks137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee123. Land – Park Kyong-ni122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie112. The Information – Martin Amis111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco100. The Untouchable – John Banville99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey96. Underworld – Don DeLillo95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan94. Great Apes – Will Self93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham88. Another World – Pat Barker87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster2000s69. Pastoralia – George Saunders68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth61. How the Dead Live – Will Self60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill46. Fury – Salman Rushdie45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen42. Atonement – Ian McEwan41. Schooling – Heather McGowan40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon35. Dead Air – Iain Banks34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides32. Shroud – John Banville31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami27. Unless – Carol Shields26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer25. The Double – José Saramago24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee20. Islands – Dan Sleigh19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner15. The Colour – Rose Tremain14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd10. Vanishing Point – David Markson9. The Master – Colm Tóibín8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble6. The Sea – John Banville5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith2. Saturday – Ian McEwan1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro