User:Auldhouse/sandbox/List of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a list of authors and book titles in various editions of book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall.

A

 * A. L. Kennedy, Everything You Need
 * A. L. Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance
 * A. S. Byatt, Possession
 * A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
 * Aesop. Aesop's Fables
 * Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
 * Alain de Botton, On Love
 * Alan Moore, Watchmen
 * Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father
 * Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Rashomon
 * Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy
 * Alan Garner, Thursbitch
 * Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
 * Alan Stillitoe, Saturday Night and Saturday Morning
 * Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
 * Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library
 * Alan Warner, Morvern Callar
 * Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books
 * Albert Moravia, Disobediance
 * Albert Camus, The Outsider
 * Aldous Huxley, Antic hay
 * Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
 * Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
 * Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza
 * Albert Camus, The Plague
 * Albert Camus, The Rebel
 * Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur
 * Alberto Moravia, A Ghost at Noon
 * Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference
 * Alejo Carpentier, Kingdom of This World
 * Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
 * Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
 * Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
 * Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Desisovich
 * Alessandro Baricco, Silk
 * Alessandro Mazoni, The Betrothed
 * Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo
 * Alexander Dumas, La Reine Margo t
 * Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers
 * Alice Walker, The Color Purple
 * Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy
 * Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar
 * Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
 * Amélie Nothomb, Fear and Trembling
 * Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live
 * Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
 * Andre Breton, Arcanum 17
 * Andre Breton, Nadja
 * Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
 * Andre Gide, Fruits of the Earth
 * Andre Gide, The Immoralist
 * Andre Gide, Strait is the Gate
 * Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
 * Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
 * Angela Carter, Wise Children
 * Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter
 * Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
 * Anna Seghers, Transit
 * Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
 * Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 * Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
 * Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
 * Anonymous, One Thousand and One Nights
 * Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby
 * Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time
 * Anthony Trollope, Castle Richmond
 * Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right
 * Anthony Trollope, Last Chronicle of Barset
 * Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
 * Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince
 * Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Declares: A Testimony
 * Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
 * Apuleius, The Golden Ass
 * Ardal O'Hanlon, The Talk of the Town
 * Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
 * Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
 * Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
 * August Strindberg, By the Open Sea
 * August Strindberg, The People of Hemsö
 * August Strindberg, The Red Room
 * Sir Author Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
 * Sir Author Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

B

 * B. S. Johnson, Albert Angelo
 * B. S. Johnson, House Mother Normal
 * B. S. Johnson, Trawl
 * Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
 * Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave
 * Benito Perez Galdos, Fortunata and Jacinta
 * Bernard Schlink, The Reader
 * Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Novel
 * Bessie Head, A Question of Power
 * Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
 * Bram Stoker, Dracula
 * Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy
 * Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
 * Brett Easton Ellis, Glamorama
 * Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
 * Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

C

 * Carl Sagan, Contact
 * Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
 * Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
 * Carol Shields, Unless
 * Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires
 * Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day
 * Cees Nooteboom, Rituals
 * Chariton, Chaireas and Kallirhoe
 * Charles Dickens, Bleak House
 * Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
 * Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
 * Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
 * Charles Dickens, Hard Times
 * Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
 * Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
 * Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
 * Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
 * Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
 * Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
 * Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses
 * Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
 * Charles Webb, The Graduate
 * Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
 * Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
 * Charlotte Bronte, Villette
 * Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
 * Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol
 * Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
 * Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
 * Christa Wolf, Patterns of Childhood
 * Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T.
 * Christopher Ihserwood, Goodbye to Berlin
 * Christopher Ihserwood, The Last of Mr. Norris
 * Chuck Palahnuiuk, Choke
 * Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
 * Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.
 * Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners
 * Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing
 * Colm Tóibín, The Master
 * Comte de Lautreamont, Maldoror

D

 * D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod
 * D. H. Lawrence, The Fox
 * D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
 * D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent
 * D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
 * D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
 * D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
 * Dan Sleigh, Islands
 * Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
 * Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
 * David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
 * David Markson, Vanishing Point
 * Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
 * Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key
 * Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
 * Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
 * Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
 * Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
 * David Dabydeen, Disappearance
 * David Gemmell, Legend
 * David Jones, In Parenthesis
 * David Leavitt, Lost Languages of Cranes
 * David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
 * David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
 * David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven
 * Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist
 * Denis Diderot, The Nun
 * Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
 * Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe
 * Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
 * Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
 * Don DeLillo, Libra
 * Don DeLillo, Mao II
 * Don DeLillo, The Names
 * Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star
 * Don DeLillo, Underworld
 * Don DeLillo, White Noise
 * Donald Barthelme, Amateurs
 * Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
 * Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father
 * Donna Tartt, The Secret History
 * Doris Lessing, The Diary of Jane Somers
 * Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
 * Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing
 * Doris Lessing, Shikasta
 * Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
 * Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors
 * Dorothy Richardson, Pilgrimage
 * Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
 * Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
 * Dos Passos, U.S.A.

E

 * E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
 * E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room
 * E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
 * E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
 * E. L. Doctorow, The City of God
 * E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
 * E. M. Forster, Howard's End
 * E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
 * E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
 * E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
 * Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
 * Edgar Allen Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
 * Edgar Allen Poe, The Purloined Letter
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
 * Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty
 * Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story
 * Edna O'Brien, August is a Wicked Month
 * Edna O'Brien, Girl with Green Eyes
 * Edna O'Brien, In the Forest
 * Edith Wharton, The Age of Innoncence
 * Edith Wharton, Bunner Sisters
 * Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
 * Edith Wharton, Glimpses of the Moon
 * Edith Wharton, The House of the Mirth
 * Edith Wharton, Summer
 * Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls
 * Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
 * Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
 * Elio Vittorini, Conversations in Sicily
 * Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess
 * Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
 * Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day
 * Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
 * Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September
 * Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
 * Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love
 * Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
 * Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
 * Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
 * Ellis Dillon, The Bitter Glass
 * Elmore Leonard, City Primeval
 * Elmore Leonard, LaBrava
 * Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
 * Emile Zola, Germinal
 * Emile Zola, L'Assommoir
 * Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine
 * Emile Zola, Nana
 * Emile Zola, Terese Raquin
 * Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
 * Emine Ozdamar, Life is a Caravanserai
 * Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
 * Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
 * Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
 * Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
 * Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
 * Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
 * Eric Ambler, Cause for Alarm
 * Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
 * Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky
 * Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
 * Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
 * Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
 * Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

F

 * F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
 * Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
 * Flann O'Brien, The Poor Mouth
 * Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
 * Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Coverage
 * Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
 * Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
 * Frances Burney, Camilla
 * Frances Burney, Cecilia
 * Frances Burney, Evelina
 * François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
 * Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
 * Franz Kafka, Amerika
 * Franz Kafka, The Castle
 * Franz Kafka, The Trial
 * Frederic Manning, Her Privates We
 * Fredrich Hölderlin, Hyperion
 * Fredrick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Judge and the Hangman
 * Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
 * Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

G

 * G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr
 * Gabriel García Márquez, Autumn of the Patriach
 * Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
 * Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
 * George Eliot, Adam Bede
 * George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
 * George Eliot, Middlemarch
 * George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
 * George Gissing, Born in Exile
 * George Gissing, New Grub Street
 * George Orwell, 1984
 * George Orwell, Animal Farm
 * George Orwell, Burmese Days
 * George Orwell, Coming Up for Air
 * George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
 * George & Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody
 * George Saunders, Pastoralia
 * Georges Bataille, The Abbot C
 * Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon
 * Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
 * Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual
 * Georges Perec, A Man Asleep
 * Georges Perec, Things
 * Georges Perec, A Void / Avoid
 * Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
 * Gert Hofmann, The Parable of the Blind
 * Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
 * Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
 * Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
 * Gillian Rose, Love's Work
 * Giorgo Bassani, The Gardens of the Finzi-Continis
 * Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros
 * Giovanni Verga, The House by the Medlar Tree
 * Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
 * Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
 * Graham Greene, England Made Me
 * Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
 * Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
 * Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul
 * Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
 * Graham Greene, The Quiet American
 * Graham Greene, The Third Man
 * Graham Swift, The Light of Day
 * Graham Swift, Waterland
 * Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
 * Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse
 * Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
 * Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet
 * Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
 * Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
 * Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
 * Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
 * Guy de Maupassant, The Master of Ballantrae
 * Guy de Maupassant, A Woman's Life

H

 * H. D., Asphodel
 * H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
 * H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
 * H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
 * H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
 * H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
 * H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
 * H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
 * H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
 * Halidor Laxness, Independent People
 * Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
 * Hanif Kureishi, Gabriel's Gift
 * Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy
 * Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * Harry Mathews, Cigarettes
 * Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven
 * Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
 * Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
 * Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
 * Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
 * Heather McGowan, Schooling
 * Heliodorus, Aithiopika
 * Hella Haasse, Forever a Stranger
 * Henri Barbusse, The Inferno
 * Henri Barbusse, Under Fire
 * Heinrich Böll, Billiards at Half-Past Nine
 * Heinrich Böll, Group Portrait With Lady
 * Heinrich Böll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
 * Heinrich Böll, The Safety Net
 * Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat
 * Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
 * Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 * Henry Fielding, Ameilia
 * Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
 * Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones
 * Henry Green, Back
 * Henry Green, Blindness
 * Henry Green, Caught
 * Henry Green, Living
 * Henry Green, Loving
 * Henry Green, Party Going
 * Henry James, The Ambassadors
 * Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
 * Henry James, The Turn of Screw
 * Henry James, What Maisie Knew
 * Henry James, The Golden Bowl
 * Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
 * Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling
 * Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
 * Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
 * Henry Roth, Call it Sleep
 * Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter
 * Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
 * Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
 * Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Foretopman
 * Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
 * Herman Hesse, Rosshalde
 * Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
 * Honoré de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
 * Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
 * Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
 * Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 * Horace Wapole, The Castle of Otranto
 * Hugo Claus, The Sorrow of Belgium
 * Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I

 * Iain Banks, The Crow Road
 * Iain Banks, Complicity
 * Iain Banks, Dead Air
 * Iain Banks, The Player of Games
 * Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
 * Iain Sinclair, Dining on Stones
 * Iain Sinclair, Downriver
 * Iain Sinclair, London Orbital
 * Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
 * Ian Macpherson, Wild Harbour
 * Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
 * Ian McEwan, Atonement
 * Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
 * Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden
 * Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
 * Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
 * Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
 * Ian McEwan, Saturday
 * Imre Kertesz, Fearless
 * Iris Murdoch, The Bell
 * Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
 * Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
 * Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
 * Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
 * Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
 * Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
 * Isaac Asimov, Foundation
 * Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
 * Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
 * Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
 * Ismail Kadare, Broken April
 * Ismail Kadare, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
 * Italo Svevo, Invisible Cities
 * Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies
 * Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
 * Italo Calvino, Our Ancestors
 * Italo Calvino, The Path to the Nest of Spiders
 * Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
 * Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
 * Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
 * Ivan Turgenev, King Lear of the Steppes
 * Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve
 * Ivan Turgenev,Torrents of Spring
 * Ivan Turgenev, Virgin Soil
 * Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina

J

 * J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
 * J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
 * J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
 * J. G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
 * J. G. Ballard, Crash
 * J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Word
 * J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
 * J. G. Ballard, High Rise
 * J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
 * J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
 * J. G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip
 * J. G. Farrell, Troubles
 * J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
 * J. M. Coetzee, Dusklands
 * J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
 * J. M. Coetzee, Foe
 * J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
 * J. M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country
 * J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man
 * J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
 * J. M. Coetzee, Youth
 * J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hobbit
 * J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
 * Jáchym Topol, City Sister Silver
 * Jack Kerouac, On the Road
 * Jack London, The Iron Heel
 * Jack London, Martin Eden
 * James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
 * James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain
 * James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
 * James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
 * James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
 * James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
 * James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 * James Joyce, Ulysses
 * James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines
 * James Kelman, A Disaffection
 * James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
 * James M. McCain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
 * James Plunkett, The Trusting and the Maimed
 * James Stephens, The Charwoman's Daughter
 * James Thurber, The 13 Clocks
 * James Thurber, The Wonderful "O"
 * Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
 * Jane Austen, Emma
 * Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
 * Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
 * Jane Austen, Persuasion
 * Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 * Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
 * Janet Frame, Faces in the Water
 * Janice Galloway, The Trick is to Keep Breathing
 * Jaroslav Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk
 * Javier Marias, A Heart So White
 * Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles
 * Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
 * Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
 * Jean Rhys, Quartet
 * Jean Toomer, Cane
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile; or, on Education
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie; or, the New Eloise
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary Walker
 * Jean-Paul Satre, Nausea
 * Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
 * Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
 * Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
 * Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
 * Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
 * Jennifer Winterson, Written on the Body
 * Jim Crace, Arcadia
 * Jim Dodge. Stone Justice
 * Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
 * Jo Jung-rae, The Taebek Mountains
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,  Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
 * John Banville, The Book of Evidence
 * John Banville, The Newton Letter
 * John Banville, Shroud
 * John Banville, The Sea
 * John Banville, The Untouchable
 * John Barth, The End of the Road
 * John Barth, The Floating Opera
 * John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
 * John Berger, G
 * John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps 
 * John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
 * John Cleland, Fanny Hill
 * John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
 * John Fowles, The Collector
 * John Fowles, A Maggot
 * John Fowles, The Magus
 * John Galworthy, The Forsyte Saga
 * John Irving, The Cider House Rules
 * John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
 * John Irving, The World According to Garp
 * John Kennedy Toole, Confederacy of Dunces
 * John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
 * John le Carré, Smiley's People
 * John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
 * John Lyly, Euphues
 * John McGahern, Amongst Women
 * John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
 * John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
 * John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
 * John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
 * John Updike, Rabbit, Run
 * John Updike, Rabbit Redux
 * John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids
 * John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
 * Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up!
 * Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
 * Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Illuminated
 * Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
 * Jonathan Swift, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
 * Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
 * Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
 * Jorge Amado, Tent of Miracles
 * Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
 * Jorge Luis Borges, Labriynths
 * Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against the Grain
 * José Saramago, The Double
 * José Saramago, The History of the Siege of London
 * José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
 * Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
 * Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
 * Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
 * Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
 * Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line
 * Joseph Heller, Catch-22
 * Joseph Roth, The Radetsky March
 * John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
 * John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
 * John Wyndham, Chocky
 * Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
 * Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
 * Joyce Carol Oates, Marya: A Life
 * Joyce Carol Oates, them
 * Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
 * Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
 * Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
 * Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
 * Jung Chang, Wild Swans

K

 * Karl Krause, The Last Days of Humanity
 * Kate Chopin, The Awakening
 * Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party
 * Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School
 * Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
 * Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of the Hills
 * Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
 * Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
 * Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
 * Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar
 * Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
 * Kenzaburo Oe, Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
 * Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
 * Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
 * Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
 * Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil
 * Knut Hamsun, Hunger
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse Five

L

 * L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
 * László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance
 * Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
 * Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
 * Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy
 * Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
 * Lawrence Durrell, Justine
 * Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
 * Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
 * Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
 * Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
 * Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden
 * Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
 * Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Scot's Quair (Sunset Song)
 * Lorrie Moore, Like Life
 * Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
 * Louis de Bernières, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
 * Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
 * Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
 * Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand
 * Lydia Davis, The End of the Story

M

 * M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine
 * Malcolm Lowry, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid
 * Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
 * Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas
 * Marcel Pagnol, Manon des Sources
 * Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
 * Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
 * Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
 * Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
 * Margaret Atwood, The Robber's Wife
 * Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
 * Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
 * Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen
 * Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move
 * Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
 * Marguerite Duras, The Lover
 * Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
 * Marguerite Duras, The Vice-Consul
 * Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
 * Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
 * Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
 * Maria Edgeworth, Ormond
 * Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, The Princess of Cleves
 * Marina Warner, Indigo
 * Mario Puzo, The Godfather
 * Mario Vargas Llosa, The Cubs and Other Stories
 * Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
 * Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
 * Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Mario Varas LLosa, The Feast of the Goat
 * Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
 * Marquis de Sade, Justine
 * Martin Amis, Dead Babies
 * Martin Amis, The Information
 * Martin Amis, London Fields
 * Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note
 * Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
 * Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
 * Matthew Lewis, The Monk
 * Max Frisch, Homo Faber
 * Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller
 * Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence
 * Maxim Gorky, The Artamonov Business
 * Maxim Gorky, Mother
 * May Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriet Frean
 * Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 * Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
 * Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
 * Michael Arlen, The Green Hat
 * Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
 * Michael Cunningham, The Hours
 * Michael Herr, Dispatches
 * Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
 * Michel Faber, Under the Skin
 * Michel Hourellebeq, Elementary Particles
 * Michel Hourellebeq, Platform
 * Michel Hourellebeq, Whatever
 * Michel Tournier, The Ogre
 * Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
 * Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and the Margarita
 * Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
 * Milan Kundera, Ignorance
 * Milan Kundera, The Joke
 * Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
 * Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
 * Multatuli, Max Havelaar
 * Murial Spark, The Driver's Seat
 * Murial Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
 * Murial Spark, Memento Mori
 * Murial Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

N

 * Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
 * Nadine Gordimer, July's People
 * Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
 * Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
 * Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
 * Nathanial Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
 * Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
 * Nathanial Hawthorne, The Marble Faun
 * Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
 * Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
 * Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
 * Nella Larson, Passing
 * Nella Larson, Quicksand
 * Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
 * Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
 * Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone
 * Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Matigari
 * Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
 * Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The River Between
 * Nicolai Leskov, The Enchanted Wanderer
 * Nikolay Gogol, Dead Souls
 * Nikolay Gogol, The Nose
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

O

 * Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
 * Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
 * Ovid. Metamorphoses

P

 * P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves
 * Padgett Powell, Typical
 * Pankaj Mishra, The Romantics
 * Park Kyong-ni, Land
 * Pat Barker, Another World
 * Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
 * Pat Barker, Regeneration
 * Patricia Dunker, Hallucinating Foucault
 * Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
 * Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square
 * Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
 * Patrick Süskind, Perfume
 * Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon
 * Patrick White, The Living and the Dead
 * Patrick White, Voss
 * Paul Auster, Moon Palace
 * Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
 * Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions
 * Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
 * Paul Auster, Timbuktu
 * Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
 * Paul Gallico, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
 * Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
 * Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
 * Pauline Réage, The Story of O
 * Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
 * Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee
 * Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London
 * Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
 * Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
 * Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies
 * Peter Handke, The Afternoon of a Writer
 * Peter Handke, Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
 * Peter Handke, The Left-Handed Woman
 * Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
 * Peter Manson, Adjunct: An Undigest
 * Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 * Philip Roth, American Pastoral
 * Philip Roth, The Breast
 * Philip Roth, The Human Stain
 * Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
 * Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
 * Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
 * Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
 * Pier Paolo Pasonlini, The Ragazzi
 * Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liasons
 * Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
 * Primo Levi, If Not Now, Then?
 * Primo Levi, If This is Man

R

 * Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
 * Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
 * Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
 * Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
 * Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style
 * Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh
 * Raymond Roussel, Impressions of Africa
 * Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
 * Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down
 * Rebecca West, Harriet Hume
 * Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
 * Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed
 * Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
 * Richard Brautigan, Willard and His Bowling Trophies
 * Richard Wright, Native Son
 * Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants
 * Robert Coover, The Public Burning
 * Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
 * Robert Musil, Young Törless
 * Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
 * Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
 * Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
 * Romain Gary, Promises at Dawn
 * Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
 * Rose Tremain, The Colour
 * Rudyard Kipling, Kim
 * Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter

S

 * Salman Rushdie, Fury
 * Salman Rushdie, Grimus
 * Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
 * Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
 * Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
 * Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
 * Salman Rushdie, Shame
 * Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
 * Samuel Beckett, How it Is
 * Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
 * Samuel Beckett, Mercier et Camier
 * Samuel Beckett, Molloy
 * Samuel Beckett, Murphy
 * Samuel Beckett, Watt
 * Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
 * Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
 * Samuel Butler, Erewhon
 * Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
 * Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
 * Samuel Richardson, Pamela
 * Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
 * Sarah Waters, Tripping the Velvet
 * Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
 * Saul Bellow, Dangling Man
 * Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
 * Saul Bellow, Herzog
 * Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
 * Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
 * Saul Bellow, The Victim
 * Sandor Marai, Embers
 * Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
 * Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
 * Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berling's Saga
 * Shashi Deshpande, Small Remedies
 * Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly
 * Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
 * Siegfreid Lonz, The German Lesson
 * Simon Vestdijk, The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
 * Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
 * Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
 * Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved
 * Slavenka Drakulic, As If I Am Not There
 * Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
 * Stefan Zweig, Amok
 * Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
 * Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
 * Stendhal, The Red and the Black
 * Stephen King, The Shining
 * Somerville and Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
 * Somerville and Ross, The Real Charlotte
 * Storm Jameson, A Day Off
 * Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner, After the Death of Don Juan
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show

T

 * T. C. Boyle, Drop City
 * T. C. Boyle, World's End
 * T. H. White, The Once and Future King
 * Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
 * Theodor Fontane, The Stechlin
 * Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
 * Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
 * Thomas Bernhard, Correction
 * Thomas Bernhard, Extinction
 * Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
 * Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
 * Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
 * Tobias George Smollett, Roderick Random
 * Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters
 * Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew
 * Thomas Bernhard, Yes
 * Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
 * Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta
 * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
 * Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
 * Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
 * Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
 * Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders
 * Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
 * Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks
 * Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
 * Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus
 * Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
 * Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
 * Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
 * Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
 * Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
 * Thomas Pynchon, V.
 * Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
 * Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
 * Tobias George Smollett, Humphrey Clinker
 * Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
 * Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
 * Toni Morrison, Beloved
 * Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
 * Toni Morrison, Jazz
 * Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
 * Toni Morrison, Sula
 * Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
 * Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
 * Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
 * Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

U

 * Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
 * Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
 * Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
 * Uwe Johnson, Jahrestage
 * Uwe Timm, The Invention of Curried Sausage

V

 * V. S. Naipaul, Enigma of Arrival
 * V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
 * Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
 * Victor Pelevin, The Clay Machine-Gun
 * Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
 * Victor Pelevin, The Life of Insects
 * Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev
 * Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
 * Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
 * Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
 * Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
 * Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
 * Virginia Woolf, Orlando
 * Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
 * Virginia Woolf, The Waves
 * Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
 * Virginia Woolf, The Years
 * Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
 * Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
 * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
 * Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
 * Voltaire, Candide

W

 * W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz
 * W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants
 * W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
 * W. G. Sebald, Vertigo
 * W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
 * Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean
 * Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
 * Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery
 * Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy
 * Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
 * Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
 * Will Self, Great Apes
 * Will Self, How the Dead Live
 * Willa Cather, The Professor's House
 * William Beckford, Vathek
 * William Burroughs, Junkie
 * William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch
 * William Burroughs, Queer
 * William Burroughs, The Wild Boys
 * William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
 * William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
 * William Faulkner, The Hamlet
 * William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
 * William Gaddis, The Recognitions
 * William Gibson, Neuromancer
 * William Godwin, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
 * William Golding, Lord of the Flies
 * William Golding, Rites of Passage
 * William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland
 * William Kotzwinkle, The Fan Man
 * William Kotzwinkle, The Midnight Examiner
 * William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair
 * William Morris, News from Nowhere
 * William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
 * William Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
 * William Trevor, Felicia's Journey
 * William Trevor, Fools of Fortune
 * William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
 * Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
 * Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God
 * Wyndham Lewis, The Childermass
 * Wyndham Lewis, The Revenge for Love
 * Wyndham Lewis, Self Condemned
 * Wyndham Lewis, Tarr

Y

 * Yann Martel, Life of Pi
 * Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
 * Yukio Mishima, The Sea of Fertility

Z

 * Zadie Smith, On Beauty
 * Zadie Smith, White Teeth
 * Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness
 * Zora Neale Huston, Their Eyes Were Watching God