1001 Books

These are the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

The red-marked titles are books I have read, some of them I may have not reviewed, the rest with link, you can read my review by following the link.

Titles in blue italic are books I'm interested to read. I will keep updating the list.

2000s

1.            Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2.            Saturday – Ian McEwan
3.            On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4.            Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5.            Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6.            The Sea – John Banville
7.            The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8.            The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9.            The Master – Colm Tóibín
10.          Vanishing Point – David Markson
11.          The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12.          Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13.          Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14.          Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15.          The Colour – Rose Tremain
16.          Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17.          The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18.          What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19.          The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20.          Islands – Dan Sleigh
21.          Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22.          London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23.          Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24.          Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25.          The Double – José Saramago
26.          Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27.          Unless – Carol Shields
28.          Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29.          The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30.          That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31.          In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32.          Shroud – John Banville
33.          Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34.          Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35.          Dead Air – Iain Banks
36.          Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37.          The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38.          Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39.          Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40.          Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41.          Schooling – Heather McGowan
42.          Atonement – Ian McEwan
43.          The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44.          Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45.          The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46.          Fury – Salman Rushdie
47.          At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48.          Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49.          Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50.          The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51.          An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52.          The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53.          Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54.          White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55.          The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56.          Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57.          Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58.          Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59.          Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60.          City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61.          How the Dead Live – Will Self
62.          The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63.          The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64.          After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65.          Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66.          Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67.          House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68.          Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69.          Pastoralia – George Saunders

1900s
70.          Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71.          The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72.          Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73.          As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74.          Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75.          Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76.          The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77.          Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78.          Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79.          Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80.          Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81.          Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82.          Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83.          All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84.          The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85.          Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86.          The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87.          Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88.          Another World – Pat Barker
89.          The Hours – Michael Cunningham
90.          Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
91.          Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
92.          The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93.          Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
94.          Great Apes – Will Self
95.          Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
96.          Underworld – Don DeLillo
97.          Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
98.          The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
99.          American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100.        The Untouchable – John Banville
101.        Silk – Alessandro Baricco
102.        Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
103.        Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
104.        Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
105.        The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106.        Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107.        Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108.        The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
109.        Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110.        The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
111.        Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
112.        The Information – Martin Amis
113.        The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
114.        Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
115.        The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
116.        The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
117.        A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
118.        Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
119.        The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
120.        Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
121.        The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
122.        Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
123.        Land – Park Kyong-ni
124.        The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
125.        The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
126.        Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
127.        City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
128.        How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
129.        Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
130.        Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
131.        Disappearance – David Dabydeen
132.        The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
133.        The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134.        Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135.        Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
136.        Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
137.        Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
138.        Complicity – Iain Banks
139.        On Love – Alain de Botton
140.        What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
141.        A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142.        The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
143.        The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144.        The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145.        The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
146.        The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
147.        The Secret History – Donna Tartt
148.        Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
149.        The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
150.        A Heart So White – Javier Marias
151.        Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
152.        Indigo – Marina Warner
153.        The Crow Road – Iain Banks
154.        Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
155.        Jazz – Toni Morrison
156.        The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
157.        Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
158.        The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
159.        Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
160.        The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
161.        Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162.        Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
163.        Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
164.        Arcadia – Jim Crace
165.        Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166.        American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167.        Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
168.        Mao II – Don DeLillo
169.        Typical – Padgett Powell
170.        Regeneration – Pat Barker
171.        Downriver – Iain Sinclair
172.        Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
173.        Wise Children – Angela Carter
174.        Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
175.        Amongst Women – John McGahern
176.        Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
177.        Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
178.        Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
179.        The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
180.        The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
181.        A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
182.        Like Life – Lorrie Moore
183.        Possession – A.S. Byatt
184.        The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
185.        The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
186.        A Disaffection – James Kelman
187.        Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
188.        Moon Palace – Paul Auster
189.        Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
191.        The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
192.        The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
193.        The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
194.        The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
195.        Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196.        A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
197.        London Fields – Martin Amis
198.        The Book of Evidence – John Banville
199.        Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200.        Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
201.        The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
202.        Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
203.        The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
204.        The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205.        Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
206.        Libra – Don DeLillo
207.        The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
208.        Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
209.        The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210.        Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
211.        The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
212.        The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
213.        The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
214.        The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215.        The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
216.        The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
217.        Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
218.        The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
219.        The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
220.        World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221.        Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222.        The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
223.        Beloved – Toni Morrison
224.        Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
225.        Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226.        Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
227.        Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228.        The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
229.        Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
230.        An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
231.        Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
232.        Foe – J.M. Coetzee
233.        The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
234.        Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
235.        The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
237.        Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
238.        The Cider House Rules – John Irving
239.        A Maggot – John Fowles
240.        Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241.        Contact – Carl Sagan
242.        The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243.        Perfume – Patrick Süskind
244.        Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
245.        White Noise – Don DeLillo
246.        Queer – William Burroughs
247.        Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
248.        Legend – David Gemmell
249.        Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
250.        The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
251.        The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
252.        The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253.        Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254.        The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255.        Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
256.        The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
257.        Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
258.        Neuromancer – William Gibson
259.        Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
260.        Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
261.        Shame – Salman Rushdie
262.        Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
263.        Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
264.        La Brava – Elmore Leonard
265.        Waterland – Graham Swift
266.        The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
267.        The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
268.        The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
269.        The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
270.        If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
271.        A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
273.        Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
274.        A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
275.        Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
276.        The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
277.        The Newton Letter – John Banville
278.        On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
279.        Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
280.        The Names – Don DeLillo
281.        Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
282.        Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
283.        The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
284.        July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
285.        Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286.        Broken April – Ismail Kadare
287.        Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288.        Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
289.        Rites of Passage – William Golding
290.        Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
291.        Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
292.        City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
293.        The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
294.        The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
295.        Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
296.        Shikasta – Doris Lessing
297.        A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
298.        Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299.        The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
300.        If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
301.        The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
302.        The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303.        The World According to Garp – John Irving
304.        Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
305.        The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
306.        The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
307.        Yes – Thomas Bernhard
308.        The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
309.        In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
310.        The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
311.        Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312.        The Shining – Stephen King
313.        Dispatches – Michael Herr
314.        Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315.        Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
316.        The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
317.        The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
318.        Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
319.        The Public Burning – Robert Coover
320.        Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
321.        Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
322.        Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
323.        Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
324.        Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
325.        W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
326.        A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
327.        Grimus – Salman Rushdie
328.        The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
329.        Fateless – Imre Kertész
330.        Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
331.        High Rise – J.G. Ballard
332.        Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
333.        Dead Babies – Martin Amis
334.        Correction – Thomas Bernhard
335.        Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
336.        The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
337.        Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
338.        The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
339.        Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
340.        Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341.        Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
342.        A Question of Power – Bessie Head
343.        The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
344.        The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
345.        Crash – J.G. Ballard
346.        The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
347.        Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
348.        The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
349.        Sula – Toni Morrison
350.        Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
351.        The Breast – Philip Roth
352.        The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
353.        G – John Berger
354.        Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
355.        House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
356.        In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
357.        The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
358.        Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
359.        Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
360.        The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
361.        Rabbit Redux – John Updike
362.        The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
363.        The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
364.        The Ogre – Michael Tournier
365.        The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
366.        Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
367.        I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
368.        Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
369.        Troubles – J.G. Farrell
370.        Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
371.        The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
372.        Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
373.        Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
374.        Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
375.        Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376.        The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
377.        The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
378.        Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
379.        The Godfather – Mario Puzo
380.        Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
381.        Them – Joyce Carol Oates
382.        A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
383.        Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
384.        Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
385.        The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
386.        Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
387.        Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388.        The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389.        2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390.        Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
391.        Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
392.        The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
393.        In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
394.        A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
395.        The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
396.        Chocky – John Wyndham
397.        The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
398.        The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
399.        One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400.        The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
401.        Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
402.        The Joke – Milan Kundera
403.        No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
404.        The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
405.        A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
406.        The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
407.        Trawl – B.S. Johnson
409.        The Magus – John Fowles
410.        The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
411.        Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
412.        Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
413.        The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
414.        Things – Georges Perec
415.        The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416.        August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
417.        God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418.        Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
419.        The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
420.        Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
421.        Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
422.        Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
423.        Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
424.        The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
425.        Herzog – Saul Bellow
426.        V. – Thomas Pynchon
427.        Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428.        The Graduate – Charles Webb
429.        Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
430.        The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
431.        The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
432.        Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
433.        The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434.        One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435.        The Collector – John Fowles
436.        One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437.        A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438.        Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
439.        The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
440.        The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
441.        Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
442.        Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
443.        The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
444.        Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
445.        Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
446.        A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
447.        Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
448.        Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
449.        Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
450.        The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451.        Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
452.        The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
453.        How It Is – Samuel Beckett
454.        Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
455.        The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
457.        Rabbit, Run – John Updike
458.        Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
459.        Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460.        Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461.        Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
462.        The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
463.        Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
464.        Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
465.        Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
466.        Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
467.        Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
468.        The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469.        Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
470.        A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
471.        The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
472.        Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473.        Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
474.        Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
475.        Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
476.        The End of the Road – John Barth
477.        The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478.        The Bell – Iris Murdoch
479.        Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
480.        Voss – Patrick White
481.        The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
482.        Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
483.        Homo Faber – Max Frisch
484.        On the Road – Jack Kerouac
485.        Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
487.        The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
488.        Justine – Lawrence Durrell
489.        Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490.        The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491.        The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
492.        Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
493.        The Floating Opera – John Barth
494.        The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
495.        The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496.        Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
497.        A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
498.        The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
499.        The Quiet American – Graham Greene
500.        The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
501.        The Recognitions – William Gaddis
502.        The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
503.        Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
504.        I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
505.        Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
506.        The Story of O – Pauline Réage
507.        A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
509.        Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510.        The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
511.        The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
512.        The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
513.        Watt – Samuel Beckett
514.        Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
515.        Junkie – William Burroughs
516.        The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
517.        Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
518.        Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
519.        The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520.        Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
522.        Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523.        The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
524.        Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
525.        Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526.        Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527.        Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528.        The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
529.        The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
530.        The Rebel – Albert Camus
531.        Molloy – Samuel Beckett
532.        The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
533.        The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
534.        The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
535.        The Third Man – Graham Greene
536.        The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537.        Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538.        The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
539.        I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
540.        The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
541.        The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
542.        Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
543.        The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
544.        The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
545.        Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546.        The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
547.        Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
548.        All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
549.        Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
550.        Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
551.        The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
552.        Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553.        Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
554.        The Victim – Saul Bellow
555.        Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
556.        If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
557.        Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
558.        The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
559.        The Plague – Albert Camus
560.        Back – Henry Green
561.        Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
562.        The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
563.        Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564.        Animal Farm – George Orwell
565.        Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
566.        The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
567.        Loving – Henry Green
568.        Arcanum 17 – André Breton
569.        Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
570.        The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
571.        Transit – Anna Seghers
572.        Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
573.        Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
574.        The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575.        Caught – Henry Green
576.        The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
577.        Embers – Sandor Marai
578.        Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
579.        The Outsider – Albert Camus
580.        In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
581.        The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
582.        The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
583.        Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
584.        Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
585.        The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586.        Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
587.        For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588.        Native Son – Richard Wright
589.        The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
590.        The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
591.        Party Going – Henry Green
592.        The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593.        Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
594.        At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
595.        Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
596.        Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
597.        Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
598.        Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
599.        The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
600.        After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
601.        Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
602.        Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603.        Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
604.        Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
605.        Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
606.        U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
607.        Murphy – Samuel Beckett
609.        Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610.        The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
611.        The Years – Virginia Woolf
612.        In Parenthesis – David Jones
613.        The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
614.        Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
616.        Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
617.        Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
618.        The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
620.        Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
621.        Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
622.        Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623.        At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
624.        Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
625.        Independent People – Halldór Laxness
626.        Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
627.        The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
628.        They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
629.        The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
630.        England Made Me – Graham Greene
631.        Burmese Days – George Orwell
632.        The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
633.        Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
634.        Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
635.        The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
636.        Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
637.        A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638.        Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
639.        Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
640.        Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
641.        Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
642.        Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
643.        The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
644.        Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
645.        A Day Off – Storm Jameson
646.        The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
647.        A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648.        Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649.        Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650.        Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
651.        To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
652.        The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
653.        The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
654.        The Waves – Virginia Woolf
655.        The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
656.        Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
657.        The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
658.        Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
659.        Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
660.        The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
661.        Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
662.        Passing – Nella Larsen
663.        A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
664.        Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
665.        Living – Henry Green
666.        The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
667.        All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
668.        Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
669.        The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
670.        Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
671.        The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
672.        Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
673.        Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
674.        Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
675.        Orlando – Virginia Woolf
677.        The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
678.        The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
679.        Quartet – Jean Rhys
680.        Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
681.        Quicksand – Nella Larsen
682.        Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
683.        Nadja – André Breton
684.        Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
685.        Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
686.        To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
687.        Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
688.        Amerika – Franz Kafka
689.        The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
690.        Blindness – Henry Green
691.        The Castle – Franz Kafka
692.        The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
693.        The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
694.        One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
696.        The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
697.        Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
700.        The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701.        The Trial – Franz Kafka
702.        The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
703.        The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
704.        Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
705.        The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
706.        The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
707.        We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
708.        A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
709.        The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
710.        Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
711.        Cane – Jean Toomer
712.        Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
713.        Amok – Stefan Zweig
714.        The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
715.        The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
716.        Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
717.        Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
718.        The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
719.        Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
720.        The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
721.        Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
722.        Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
723.        Ulysses – James Joyce
724.        The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
725.        Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
726.        The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
727.        Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
728.        Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
729.        Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
730.        Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
731.        The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
732.        The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
733.        Summer – Edith Wharton
734.        Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
735.        Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
736.        A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
737.        Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
738.        Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739.        The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
740.        The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
741.        Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
742.        The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
743.        The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
744.        Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
745.        Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
746.        Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
747.        Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
748.        The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
749.        Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
750.        Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
751.        The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
752.        Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
753.        Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754.        Howards End – E.M. Forster
755.        Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
756.        Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
757.        Martin Eden – Jack London
758.        Strait is the Gate – André Gide
759.        Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
760.        The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
761.        A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
762.        The Iron Heel – Jack London
763.        The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
764.        The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
765.        Mother – Maxim Gorky
766.        The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767.        The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
768.        Young Törless – Robert Musil
769.        The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
770.        The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
771.        Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
772.        Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
773.        Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
774.        Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
775.        The Golden Bowl – Henry James
776.        The Ambassadors – Henry James
777.        The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
778.        The Immoralist – André Gide
779.        The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
781.        The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
782.        Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
783.        Kim – Rudyard Kipling
784.        Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
785.        Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

1800s

786.        Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
787.        The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
788.        The Awakening – Kate Chopin
789.        The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
790.        The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
791.        The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
792.        What Maisie Knew – Henry James
793.        Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
794.        Dracula – Bram Stoker
796.        The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
797.        The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
798.        Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
799.        Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
800.        The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
801.        The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802.        Born in Exile – George Gissing
803.        Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
805.        News from Nowhere – William Morris
806.        New Grub Street – George Gissing
807.        Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
808.        Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
810.        The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
811.        La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
812.        By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
813.        Hunger – Knut Hamsun
814.        The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
815.        Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
816.        Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
817.        The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
818.        The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
819.        She – H. Rider Haggard
821.        The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
822.        Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
823.        King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
824.        Germinal – Émile Zola
826.        Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
827.        Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
828.        Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
829.        The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
830.        A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
832.        The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
834.        Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
835.        Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
836.        Nana – Émile Zola
837.        The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
838.        The Red Room – August Strindberg
839.        Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
840.        Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
841.        Drunkard – Émile Zola
842.        Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
843.        Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
844.        The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
845.        The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
846.        Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
847.        The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
849.        In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
850.        The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
851.        Erewhon – Samuel Butler
852.        Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
853.        Middlemarch – George Eliot
854.        Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
855.        King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
856.        He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
857.        War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
858.        Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
859.        Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
860.        Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
861.        The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
862.        The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
863.        Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
865.        The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
866.        Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867.        Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
869.        Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
870.        Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
871.        Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
872.        The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
874.        Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
875.        Silas Marner – George Eliot
877.        On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
878.        Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
879.        The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
880.        The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
881.        The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
882.        Max Havelaar – Multatuli
884.        Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
885.        Adam Bede – George Eliot
887.        North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
888.        Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889.        Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890.        Bleak House – Charles Dickens
891.        Villette – Charlotte Brontë
892.        Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
894.        The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895.        The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896.        Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
898.        David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
899.        Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
900.        Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
901.        The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
903.        Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904.        Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905.        Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
907.        La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
909.        The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
910.        Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
911.        The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
912.        Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
914.        Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
915.        The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
916.        The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
917.        The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
919.        The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
920.        Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
921.        Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
923.        The Red and the Black – Stendhal
924.        The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
925.        Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
926.        The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
927.        The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
928.        Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
929.        The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
930.        Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931.        Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
932.        Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933.        Persuasion – Jane Austen
934.        Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
935.        Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
936.        Emma – Jane Austen
937.        Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
938.        Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
939.        The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
940.        Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
941.        Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942.        Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

1700s

943.        Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
944.        The Nun – Denis Diderot
945.        Camilla – Fanny Burney
946.        The Monk – M.G. Lewis
947.        Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948.        The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
949.        The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
950.        The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
951.        Justine – Marquis de Sade
952.        Vathek – William Beckford
953.        The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
954.        Cecilia – Fanny Burney
955.        Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956.        Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957.        Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958.        Evelina – Fanny Burney
959.        The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960.        Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
961.        The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
962.        A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
963.        Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
964.        The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
965.        The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
966.        Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967.        Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
968.        Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969.        Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
970.        Candide – Voltaire
971.        The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
972.        Amelia – Henry Fielding
973.        Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
974.        Fanny Hill – John Cleland
975.        Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
976.        Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
977.        Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
978.        Pamela – Samuel Richardson
979.        Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
980.        Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981.        Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
982.        A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
983.        Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
984.        Roxana – Daniel Defoe
985.        Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
986.        Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
988.        A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

989.        Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
990.        The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991.        The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
992.        Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993.        The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
994.        Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
995.        Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
996.        The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
997.        The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
998.        Aithiopika – Heliodorus
999.        Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
1000.     Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001.     Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus


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