Books for your Bucket List

Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending
Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Tree of Man – Patrick White
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac
Watt – Samuel Beckett
The Dark Child – Camara Laye
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
The Lost Steps – Alejo Capentier
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Inland – Gerald Murnane
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Obabakoak – Bernando Atxaga
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Gimmick! – Joost Zwagerman
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Paradise of the Blind – Duong Thu Huong
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Last World – Christopher Ransmayr
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The First Garden – Anne Herbert
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Information – Martin Amis
The Twins – Tessa de Loo
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll – Alvaro Mutis
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
The Triple Mirror of the Self – Zulfikar Ghose
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Dumas Club – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Memoirs of Rain – Sunetra Gupta
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
Astradeni – Eugenia Fakinou
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Laws – Connie Palmen
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
The Daughter – Pavlos Matesis
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Kitchen – Banana Yashimoto
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Black Box – Amos Oz
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
All Souls – Javier Marias
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Guiltless – Hermann Broch
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
Camera Obscura – Hildebrand
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing – Joseph von Eichendorff
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffman
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
Jonathan Franzen: Freedom
Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Green Henry – Gottfried Keller
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
See under the 1900s
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender – Dubravka Urgresic
In Search of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi
Pavel’s Letters – Monika Maron
Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano
Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Guitierrez
The Heretic – Miguel Deliber
Crossfire – Miyabe Miyuki
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Money to Burn – Ricardo Piglia
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
Margot and the Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Great Apes – Will Self
The Late-Night News – Petros Markaris
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
Our Lady of Assassins – Fernando Vallejo
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Deep River – Shusaku Endo
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light – Ivan Klima
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
The Quest – Frederik van Eeden
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
The Regent’s Wife – Clarin Leopoldo Alas
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crime of Father Amado – Jose Maria Eca de Quieros
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans von Girmmelshausen
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
Monkey: A Journey to the West – Wu Cheng’en
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Lusiad – Luis Vaz de Camoes
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
The Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
In The Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
The Plague – Albert Camus
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Journey to the Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vlan
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Loving – Henry Green
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caught – Henry Green
The Death of Virgil – Herman Broch
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Andrea – Carmen Laforet
Embers – Sandor Marai
The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andri?
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler (Alternate review.)
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Falling Man – Don DeLillo
The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Invisible – Paul Auster
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
American Rust – Philipp Meyer
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
Cost: A Novel – Roxana Robinson
The Sea – John Banville
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
Home – Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
Carry Me Down – M.J.Hyland
Kieron Smith, Boy – James Kelman
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Mother’s Milk – Edward St.Aubyn
The Gathering – Anne Enright
Vanishing Point – David Markson
Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
The Blind Side Of The Heart – Julia Franck
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Accidental – Ali Smith
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
The Colour – Rose Tremain
2666 – Roberto Bolano
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
Small Island – Andrea Levy
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless – Carol Shields
Lady Number Thirteen – Jose Carlos Somoza
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Successor – Ismail Kadare
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Soldiers of Salamis – Javer Cercas
Atonement – Ian McEwan
I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
Bartleby and Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
See under the 1900s
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
See under the 1900s
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
See under the 1900s
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Tirant lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Pharoah – Boleslaw Prus
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Claudine’s House – Colette
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
Pallieter – Felix Timmermans
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Platero and I – Juan Ramon Jiminez
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
Broad and Aliens is the World – Ciro Alegria
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
On the Edge of Reason – Miroslav Krleza
The Years – Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
The Breast – Philip Roth
A World for Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
Here’s to You, Jesusa – Elena Poniatowska
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
Seasons of Migrations to the North – Tayeb Salih
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Moscow Stations – Venedikt Yerofeev
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Jacob the Liar – Jurek Becker
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
The Cathedral – Oles Honchar
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Chocky – John Wyndham
Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Silence – Shusaku Endo
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
Dog Years – Gunter Grass
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Time of the Hero -Mario Vargas Llosa
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
Rickshaw Boy – Lao She
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
War with the Newts – Karel Capek
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
On the Heights of Despair – Emil Cioran
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
Cheese – Willem Elsschot
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vipers’ Tangle – Francois Mauriac
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
The Forbidden Realm – J.J.Slauerhoff
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
Insatiability – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Monica – Saunders Lewis
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnoor
Nadja – André Breton
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka
Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Cane – Jean Toomer
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Amok – Stefan Zweik
The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Time of Silence – Luis Martin-Santos
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Collector – John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Halftime – Martin Walser
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Down Second Avenue – Ezekiel Mphahlele
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Deep Rivers – Jose Maria Arguedas
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
The Guide – R.K.Narayan
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
The Manila Rope – Veijo Meri
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The New World – Henruy Walda-Sellasse
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Immoralist – André Gide
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness – Daniel P. Schreber
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
None but the Brave – Arthur Schnitzler
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Down There – Joris-Karl Huysmans
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
Thais – Anatole France
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggardc
The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio
Germinal – Émile Zola
Under the Yoke – Ivan Vazov
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Anton Reiser – Karl Phillip Moritz
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen
Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel – Julian Rios
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Professor Martens’ Departure – Jaan Kross
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Witness – Juan Jose Saer
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Fado Alexandrino – Antonio Lobo Antunes
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Christmas Oratorio – Goran Tunstrom
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
Baltasar and Blimunda – Jose Saramago
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Book of Diquiet – Fernando Pessoa
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Couples, Passerby – Botho Strauss
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
The War at the End of the World – Mario Vargas Llosa
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Leaden Wings – Zhang Jie
Waterland – Graham Swift
The House with the Blind Glass Windows – Herbjorg Wassmo
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
Smell of Sadness – Alfred Kossmann
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
Southern Seas – Manuel Vasquez Montalban
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
Fool’s Gold – Maro Douka
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Amelia – Henry Fielding
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
Metamorphoses – Ovid
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter – Anonymous
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
So Long a Letter – Mariama Ba
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
The Back Room – Carmen Martin Gaite
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
. Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
The Wars – Timothy Findley
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawai
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
The Commandant – Jessica Anderson
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
The Port – Antun Soljan
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Optimistrist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Ballad for Georg Henig – Viktor Paskov
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
Memory of Fire – Eduardo Galeano
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman – Andrzej Szczypiorski
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Ancestral Voices – Etienne van Heerden
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
Simon and the Oaks – Marianne Fredriksson
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Half of Man is Woman – Zhang Xianliang
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Love Medicine – Louise Erdich
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Young Man – Botho Strauss
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Democracy – Joan Didion
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
Lives of Girls & Women – Alice Munro
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Cataract – Mykhaylo Osadchyl
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

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