Teaser Tuesday (December 8)

It's Teaser Tuesday! This is an event hosted by MizB at http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/ :

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share 2 teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoileers
• Make sure to include the title and author so others know what to put on their TBR list.

"She recounted the intimate details of her honey moon while sitting on the edge of Fraidy's bed, pleating the crocheted bedspread between her fingers. (Poor Fraidy was down with a summer cold.) Daisy told her dear old trusted school friends

everything - everything except the fact that she had sneezed just before Harold fell out the window, also that she had remained frozen on the bed for a minute or more afterward, her eyes staring at the ceiling, feeling herself already drifting toward the far end of this calamity."

-The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Mare MacDonald

I rather cheated and picked one of the books that I had chosen for the A to Z 2010 challenge and read it early- I'll amend the list later.

This is one of those epic books that recounts several tragic generations family who lives in semi-seclusion. I think this must be a branch of gothic literature.

The first half of the book is about the elopement of 18-year old James Piper with 12-going-on-13 year old Materia, their early marriage, and their daughters. A slow horror disguised as love develops through this half of the book with a foreshadowing that seems more like being beaten over the head rather than suggestion. After a heart-rending, terrifyingly, creepy scene in the middle of the book the horror calms and pretends to disappear for a bit. The second half of the book focuses on James' and Materia's three younger daughters, Mercedes, Frances, and Lilly, and their relationships.

It's tough to say anything about this book. What happens in the book is so horrible but the way that it is portrayed in a slow dreamy manner steeped in forgiveness makes it a tough pill to take. I like my tragedy to come with the anger that I feel it deserves. Anyways, this is a well-written book and worth reading, I just don't think that I'll be rereading it.

I also just finished reading We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and the two books are sort of sitting in my head. Together they remind me of The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield. But once again I'm getting my orders confused, The Thirteenth Tale was written more recently than either book.

Books of November

All Souls by Javier Marias

This is a beautiful, difficult, short book. Despite its short length I found that it took quite a bit longer to read than I would have suspected. I attribute part of this to how Marias's paragraphs rival Proust's in length, making it difficult to either stop or start again without reading back a few pages.

The unnamed narrator is a visiting professor at Oxford university for two years. He describes Oxford as a place where people do nothing and "where simply being is much more important than doing or even acting". The first chapter describes an individual who embodies these characteristics, Will, the porter to the building in which the narrator works:

"But the person who most clearly gave the lie to all these feigned attempts at activity, and who truly embodied the stasis or stability of the place, was Will, the ancient porter of the building... Will literally did not know what day it was and spent each morning in a different year, traveling backwards and forwards in time according to his desires or, more likely, quite independently of any conscious desire on his part."

The rest of the novel is similarly aimless and episodic such that each chapter could stand as a complete piece. The narrator has an affair with a married coworker and walks through Oxford visiting used bookstores looking for books of obscure authors. In that respect this book reminded me a bit of The Savage Detectives (or rather, I think The Savage Detectives reminds me of this book- All Souls was written first) in which some of the narrators spent a lot of time dreamily recounting authors of another generation.

I think this will be a book that I eventually buy and reread. It is an enjoyable read as long as I'm in the mood for a meandering story that isn't plot-driven. The descriptions are lovely and there is a lost dream-like atmosphere that I think would be perfect for a hot summer afternoon. At the same time, this is a difficult read due to the almost non-existent plot.

I think I remember someone once saying that the sign of a good book is that it makes you want to read more. In that respect, this is a good book. Not only do I want to read more of Marias's books but I also want to read those of Arthur Machen, one of the obscure authors that the narrator mentions. An old man, wandering with a three-legged dog, tells our narrator,

"Machen's horrors are very subtle. They depend in large part on the association of ideas. On the conjunction of ideas. On the capacity for bringing them together. You might never see the horror implicit in each of those ideas, and thus never in your whole life recognize the horror they contain. But you could live immersed in that horror if you were unfortunate enough always to make the right associations."

Now, don't you want to read one of his books in order to find out what that horror is? I've requested a book of Machen's from the library and so will hopefully be able to find out soon.

As for the book that I'm going to read next. I think that is likely to be Falling Man by Don DeLillo. I also think that I'm going to brave the crowds at the stores later this evening and look for my single book purchase of the month!

A to Z Challenge 2010

Everyone seems to be joining many lovely looking challenges and I've been trying to keep an eye out for when they start in order to get in on the 2010 challenge action but without much luck so far. I did however find one that is starting up which fits in perfectly with my goal: the A to Z Challenge. I am choosing the 26 book author-based option. In short, you read a book per letter where the author's name starts with (in most cases) the letter. Naturally the books that I've picked have come from the 1001 list. Here is a working copy of my list:

The House of the Spirits	Isabel	Allende
The Sea	John	Banville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Truman	Capote
The Mandarins	Simone	de Beauvoir
Like Water for Chocolate	Laura	Esquivel
The Magus	John	Fowles
Cold Comfort Farm	Stella	Gibbons
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark	Haddon
A Pale View of Hills	Kazuo	Ishiguro
The Storm of Steel	Ernst	Junger
The Fan Man	William	Kotzwinkle
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John	Le Carré
Your Face Tomorrow	Javier	Marias
Suite Francaise	Irene	Nemirovsky
The English Patient	Michael	Ondaatje
Snow	Orhan	Pamuk
Exercises in Style	Raymond	Queneau
Jealousy	Alain	Robbe-Grillet
The Reader	Bernhard	Schlink
The Master	Colm	Tóibín
Rabbit, Run	John	Updike
Bartleby and Co.	Enrique	Vila-Matas
Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn	Waugh
Half of Man is Woman	Zhang	Xianliang
Kitchen	Banana	Yoshimoto
Nana	Émile	Zola

Some of my letters are coming from articles rather than the names- de Beauvoir for example- but I'm hoping no one will be too picky about that. It's about the reading, right?

I'm hoping that there will be a chunkster challenge this year. I think a few of these books are fairly large (some of them are nice and short as well). There is nothing quite so exciting as a chunky book. Roller-coasters are overrated- I get my thrills from long reads.

Teaser Tuesday (November 24)

It's Teaser Tuesday! I'm copying these rules from MizB at http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/ who is hosting this event:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share 2 teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Make sure to include the title and author so others know what to put on their TBR list.

"I've also seen a photo of his death mask. When they made it, he had just renounced both age

and the passage of time but only the moment before he had been a man of fifty-eight."

-All Souls by Javier Marias

An Artist of the Floating World -Kazuo Ishiguro

I made a deal with myself during the summer, that every time I get a paycheck (once per month) I am allowed to buy one book as long as I read that book before I buy the next. This is how Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World landed on my bookshelf. I read Never Let me Go either late last year or early this year and have since read all of his books that I can get my hands on. I think that either The Remains of the Day or When we were Orphans is my favorite of his so far.

Aren't both of these covers beautiful? My copy is the same as the one on the right, but I like both quite a bit.

An Artist is a quick read, just a hair over 200 pages. While I was reading it I wanted to describe it as "superficially a japanese Remains of the Day" but then I realized that, in reality, superficially they don't actually resemble each other. Both take place during the post-war years, and involve men looking back over their lives and questioning the decisions that they made during the war years (I'm taking this to be the non-superficial resemblance). However the Remains takes place in Britain and the main character is an aging butler while An Artist takes place in Japan and the main character is a retired artist who's come to regret his patriotic stances during the war.

This is a really beautiful book and I don't want to describe too much of Ono's thoughts and remembrances of his career because I really can't do it justice. I definitely recommend this one.

I think it is odd that most of Ishiguro's books seem to take on the point of view of a character looking back over his or her life. Mr.Stevens, the butler from the Remains of the Day, Kathy is looking over her short life with Tommy and Ruth in Never Let Me Go, and I have a theory that The Unconsoled is also a narration of someone with dementia remembering their life. What I find odd though, is that Ishiguro is so young to be so familiar with this point of view. He is only 55 and would have been about 30 when he wrote An Artist. At any rate, I think he is one of my favorite authors.

I'm not sure what I will be reading next. I might just reach for the next book on my stack which appears to be All Souls by Javier Marias.

Happy reading!

A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza

I just finished A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza. This book follows Prullas, a formerly successful spanish playwright, during a post civil war summer. A quote on the cover of the book states that the author's style is evocative of this era. I realized while reading this that I have read painfully few examples of spanish literature that take place in Spain. I've read a few Marquez books and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano but the majority of these books take place in Mexico and Central America. So the setting of A Light Comedy is not one that I am familiar with. According to what I've read online, poverty and paranoia were prevalent during this era, which were portrayed convincingly in this book. Prullas is an obviously well-off individual, having married into a wealthy family. His easy life contrasts with those surrounding him including the house keeper who serves him, a young girl who is acting in one of his plays, and individuals at a shady bar that he visits late one night.

The start of the book is slow. Prullas observes as a close friend of his tries to direct one of his thriller-comedies, which are slowly becoming outdated. He travels between Barcelona and a seaside resort town where his family is spending the warmer months. Prullas alternates between being a doting father and husband and a philanderer who attempts to seduce almost all the attractive women he meets during the novel.

About half way through the novel a minor character is murdered and the story seems to evolve into a plot reminiscent of one of Prullas's plays. A Kafkaesque drama ensues where Prullas is the main murder suspect despite the lack of evidence.

One of the themes of the novel seems to be Prullas's treatment of women. He uses every single female character in the novel in one way or another, from servant to mistress. He never find himself guilty for initiating an affair with a woman who subsequently becomes mentally unstable and at the end of the novel is about to undergo a lobotomy. At one point he abandons a woman who, in order to save his life, was grievously wounded. Despite the fact that most of the other characters are aware of this behavior none of them seem to find it contemptible. However, I do believe that the author was aware of this behavior and tried to draw attention to it.

Library loot

I've seen posts like this in other book blogs. And I, for some reason, get ridiculously excited at the site of a stack of books. So this is my current library loot stack. It is a little deceiving because these weren't gathered in one go at the library but in several different trips and a few of these have been on the pile for quite awhile (there have been a few generations of books that have made it to the pile, been read, and then returned). My library (and I recognize how lucky I am for this) is a university library which seems to have just about any book that I could ask for- it is so much fun just to go into the stacks and get lost looking for books. As a drawback though, most covers are not quite as attractive as those that I see in other blogs.

The majority of these are books from the 1001 list:

All Souls -Javier Marias

The Lonely Londoners -Samuel Selvon

Falling Man -Don Delillo I'm looking forward to reading this, White Noise is a book that has stuck with me for many years. A few years ago there was a chemical spill in a nearby town that was reminiscent of White No

ise.

Hawksmoor -Peter Ackroyd

Empire of the Sun -J.G. Ballard

And two non-list books:

Sputnik Sweetheart -Haruki Murakami I've read several of his books and really enjoy his reading. An author who was introduced to me via the list. (See, it's a good starting point).

O Caledonia -Elspeth Barker I think this book was a recommendation on NPR ages ago. Just getting around to it, maybe now.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a "1001 Nonfiction books to read before you Die"? Or maybe just 100 or 101. I should read more nonfiction.

A Light Comedy is going alright. So far it is about a playwrite in Spain during the post-war era (and post-civil war era). I thought I'd end with this gem spoken by one of the characters in the book, a doctor... Those were different times:

"Smoking is good for the health: it calms the nerves and helps control blood pressure. I even smoke in the operating theatre." -Dorctor Mercadal, A Light Comedy (Eduardo Mendoza)

Editing to add the official "Library Loot" tag. Library Loot is hosted at A Striped Armchair and Reading Adventures.

The Club Dumas

The first book report! I feel like I'm back in fifth grade. Anyways... Book number 138 on my list is The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. At some point as I was trolling through amazon to figure out a bit of what the book is about I found a description which called it a "thinking man's thriller", which I believe to be a rather confusing label, but I prefer to label it as a literary thriller. The main character, Corso, is a book dealer who isn't afraid to pander to some of the unpleasant aspects of biblio-lust, and makes his money chasing down old manuscripts and books. There are two books central to the mystery- The Three Musketeers and a book of the author's own invention, The Nine Doors, a manual to summoning the devil. Both books fall into the main characters hands in the first few chapters. An acquaintance was found hanging from the strap of his own bathrobe in what appeared to be mysterious circumstances while in possession of a rare manuscript of a chapter from The Three Musketeers which subsequently fell into Corso's hands. This touches off an international chase in which characters from the book appear to be chasing after the hero and preventing him from fulfilling his obligations with respect to the second book, The Nine Doors.

This was a fun read, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had remembered more from The Three Musketeers which I seem to remember reading when I was 12 (it is back on the to be read list- reading The Club Dumas has cemented the realization that this distant memory doesn't fulfill the requirement of having read the book). The book is peppered with allusions to the adventures that the three heroes of the older novel as well as those of a few villains.

Perhaps the allusion to older literature is what makes this book a "thinking man's thriller", which would possibly make me not a thinking man (however, being a girl, I already doubted this assessment). At any rate, despite my lack of familiarity with the original novel I did enjoy this as a thriller, but I don't view it as much more than that, it was a fun book without much insight into a culture or with much character depth. I was additionally rather frustrated with a few of the characters and their supposed motivations (spoilers follow from this point). There were only two strong female characters in this book (but there were a total of maybe 5-6 main characters in all, so perhaps these two strong female characters is not a bad average), and I rather enjoyed Liana Taillefer who was devoted to maintaining the guise and memory of her favorite character from The Three Musketeers, Milady. She offered and enacted the opinion that the four main characters of the original novel (and the characters who echoed the originals in this novel) were not heroes but rather opportunistic misogynists. I adored Liana. The other strong female character was never given a name and was referred to at times as "the girl" and at other times as "Irene Adler" in reference to the Sherlock Holmes villain. (As I mentioned earlier, spoilers are coming, this is the second and final warning) The girl is the physical embodiment of a fallen angel and a compatriot of the devil who has fallen in love with the main character, Corso. And while I enjoy that she was able to deliver a good ass-kicking, I just did not understand her character or her relationship with Corso. It could be that I am just not attracted to older guys who spend their time cheating widows out of their property and traipse off in search of old manuscripts, but I just don't know what she saw in him. Ok, rant over, it is a personal issue.

At various times during the novel, Corso, amazed at the bizarre circumstances he appeared to be in would make allusions to the possibility that he himself was in a novel, moving as the author directed him to, which provided a bit of meta-amusement.

A fun read but not a book that will haunt me or stay with me for a long time (or make it to my favorites list). I am now starting to read A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza, which, at least judging from the cover, is neither light, nor a comedy.

Books read in 2009

1. The Beggar Maid .Alice Munro
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle- Shirley Jackson
3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Muriel Barbery
4. Fall on Your Knees . Ann-Marie MacDonald
5. All Souls .Javier Marias
6. An Artist of the Floating World .Kazuo Ishiguro
7. A Light Comedy .Eduardo Mendoza
8. The Dumas Club . Arturo Pérez-Reverte
9. The Cement Garden .Ian McEwan
10. Nervous Conditions .Tsitsi Dangarembga
11. The Black Dahlia .James Ellroy
12. The Shipping News . Annie Proulx
13. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . Haruki Murakami
14. Cloud Atlas .David Mitchell
15. All the Pretty Horses . Cormac McCarthy
16. The Unconsoled . Kazuo Ishiguro
17. The Remains of the Day . Kazuo Ishiguro
18. White Teeth . Zadie Smith
19. Under the Skin . Michel Faber
20. Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
21. What I Loved . Siri Hustvedt
22. The Accidental . Ali Smith
23. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian . Marina Lewycka
24. Mother's Milk . Edward S. Aubyn
25. The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Mohsin Hamid
26. Animal's People . Indra Sinha
27. The French Lieutenant's Woman .John Fowles
28. Nausea .Jean-Paul Sartre
29. Brighton Rock .Graham Greene
30. The Nine Tailors .Dorothy L. Sayers
31. War and Peace .Leo Tolstoy
32. Uncle Silas .Sheridan Le Fanu
33. Mansfield Park .Jane Austen
34. The Mysteries of Udolpho .Ann Radcliffe
35. Dangerous Liaisons .Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
36. The Angel's Game- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
37. Coraline- Neil Gaiman
38. The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
39. Death Rites- Alicia Giménez-Bartlett
40. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running a memoir- Haruki Murakami
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Steig Larsson
42. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County- Tiffany Baker
43. Empire Falls- Richard Russo

My progress on the list

Titles in bold are those which I've read

1. The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous
3. The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu
4. Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong
5. The Water Margin . Shi Nai'an & Luó Guànzhong
6. The Golden Ass . Lucius Apuleius
7. Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell
8. La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas
9. Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
10. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous
11. Gargantua and Pantagruel . François Rabelais
12. The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões
13. Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng'en
14. Unfortunate Traveller . Thomas Nashe
15. Thomas of Reading . Thomas Deloney
16. Don Quixote . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
17. The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
18. The Conquest of New Spain . Bernal Díaz del Castillo
19. The Adventurous Simplicissimus . Hans von Grimmelshausen
20. The Princess of Clèves . Comtesse de La Fayette
21. Oroonoko . Alphra Behn
22. Robinson Crusoe . Daniel Defoe
23. Love in Excess . Eliza Haywood
24. Moll Flanders . Daniel Defoe
25. Gulliver's Travels . Jonathan Swift
26. A Modest Proposal . Jonathan Swift
27. Joseph Andrews . Henry Fielding
28. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus . Arbuthnot, Gay, Parnell, Pope, Swift
29. Pamela . Samuel Richardson
30. Clarissa . Samuel Richardson
31. Tom Jones . Henry Fielding
32. Fanny Hill . John Cleland
33. Peregrine Pickle . Tobias George Smollett
34. The Female Quixote . Charlotte Lennox
35. Candide . Voltaire
36. Rasselas . Samuel Johnson
37. Julie; or The New Eloise . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
38. Émile; or, On Education . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
39. The Castle of Otranto . Horace Walpole
40. The Vicar of Wakefield . Oliver Goldsmith
41. Tristam Shandy . Laurence Sterne
42. A Sentimental Journey . Laurence Sterne
43. The Man of Feeling . Henry Mackenzie
44. Humphry Clinker . Tobias George Smollett
45. The Sorrows of Young Werther . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. Evelina . Fanny Burney
47. Reveries of a Solitary Walker . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48. Dangerous Liasons . Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
49. Confessions . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
50. The 120 Days of Sodom . Marquis de Sade
51. Anton Reiser . Karl Philipp Moritz
52. Vathek . William Beckford
53. Justine . Marquis de Sade
54. A Dream of Red Mansions . Cao Xueqin
55. The Adventures of Caleb Willams . William Godwin
56. The Interesting Narrative . Olaudah Equiano
57. The Mysteries of Udolpho . Ann Radcliffe
58. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. The Monk . M.G. Lewis
60. Camilla . Fanny Burney
61. Jacques the Fatalist . Denis Diderot
62. The Nun . Denis Diderot
63. Hyperion . Friedrich Hölderlin
64. Castle Rackrent . Maria Edgeworth
65. Henry of Ofterdingen . Novalis
66. Rameau's Nephew . Denis Diderot
67. Elective Affinities . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. Michael Kohlhaas . Heinrich von Kleist
69. Sense and Sensibility . Jane Austen
70. Pride and Prejudice . Jane Austen
71. Mansfield Park . Jane Austen
72. Emma . Jane Austen
73. Rob Roy . Sir Walter Scott
74. Frankenstein . Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
75. Ivanhoe . Sir Walter Scott
76. Melmoth the Wanderer . Charles Robert Maturin
77. The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr . E.T.A. Hoffmann
78. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . James Hogg
79. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing . Joseph von Eichendorff
80. Last of the Mohicans . James Fenimore Cooper
81. The Betrothed . Alessandro Manzoni
82. The Red and the Black . Stendhal
83. The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Victor Hugo
84. Eugene Onegin . Alexander Pushkin
85. Eugénie Grandet . Honoré de Balzac
86. La Père Goriot . Honoré de Balzac
87. The Nose . Nikolay Gogol
88. Oliver Twist . Charles Dickins
89. The Lion of Flanders . Hendrick Conscience
90. The Charterhouse of Parma . Stendhal
91. The Fall of the House of Usher . Edgar Allan Poe
92. Camera Obscura . Hildebrand
93. A Hero of Our Times . Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
94. Dead Souls . Nikolay Gogol
95. Lost Illusions . Honoré de Balzac
96. The Pit and the Pendulum . Edgar Allan Poe
97. The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
98. Facundo . Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
99. The Devil's Pool . George Sand
100. The Count of Monte Cristo . Alexandre Dumas
101. Jane Eyre . Charlotte Brontë
102. Vanity Fair . William Makepeace Thackeray
103. Wuthering Heights . Emily Brontë
104. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . Anne Brontë
105. David Copperfield . Charles Dickins
106. The Scarlet Letter . Nathaniel Hawthorne
107. Moby-Dick . Herman Melville
108. The House of the Seven Gables . Nathaniel Hawthorne
109. Uncle Tom's Cabin . Harriet Beecher Stowe
110. Cranford . Elizabeth Gaskell
111. Bleak House . Charles Dickins
112. Walden . Henry David Thoreau
113. Green Henry . Gottfried Keller
114. North and South . Elizabeth Gaskell
115. Madame Bovary . Gustave Flaubert
116. Indian Summer . Adalbert Stifter
117. Adam Bede . George Eliot
118. Oblomov . Ivan Goncharov
119. The Woman in White . Wilkie Collins
120. The Mill on the Floss . George Eliot
121. Max Havelaar . Multatuli
122. Great Expectations . Charles Dickins
123. Silas Marner . George Eliot
124. Fathers and Sons . Ivan Turgenev
125. Les Misérables . Victor Hugo
126. The Water-Babies . Charles Kingsley
127. Notes from the Underground . Fyodor Dostoevsky
128. Uncle Silas . Sheridan Le Fanu
129. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Lewis Carroll
130. Journey to the Center of the Earth . Jules Verne
131. Crime and Punishment . Fyodor Dostoevsky
132. Last Chronicle of Barset . Anthony Trollope
133. Thérèse Raquin . Émile Zola
134. The Moonstone . Wilkie Collins
135. Little Women . Louisa May Alcott
136. The Idiot . Fyodor Dostoevsky
137. Maldoror . Comte de Lautréamont
138. Phineas Finn . Anthony Trollope
139. Sentimental Education . Gustave Flaubert
140. War and Peace . Leo Tolstoy
141. King Lear of the Steppes . Ivan Turgenev
142. Alice Through the Looking Glass . Lewis Carroll
143. Middlemarch . George Eliot
144. Spring Torrents . Ivan Turgenev
145. Erewhon . Samuel Butler
146. The Devils . Fyodor Dostoevsky
147. In a Glass Darkly . Sheridan Le Fanu
148. Around the World in Eighty Days . Jules Verne
149. The Enchanted Wanderer . Nicolai Leskov
150. Far from the Madding Crowd . Thomas Hardy
151. Pepita Jimenéz . Juan Valera
152. The Crime of Father Amado . José Maria Eça de Queirós
153. Drunkard . Émile Zola
154. Anna Karenina . Leo Tolstoy
155. Martín Fierro . José Hernández
156. The Red Room . August Strindberg
157. Ben-Hur . Lew Wallace
158. Nana . Émile Zola
159. The Portrait of a Lady . Henry James
160. The House by the Medlar Tree . Giovanni Verga
161. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
162. Bouvard and Pécuchet . Gustave Flaubert
163. Treasure Island . Robert Louis Stevenson
164. A Woman's Life . Guy de Maupassant
165. The Death of Ivan Ilyich . Leo Tolstoy
166. Against the Grain . Joris-Karl Huysmans
167. The Regent's Wife . Clarín Leopoldo Alas
168. Bel-Ami . Guy de Maupassant
169. Marius the Epicurean . Walter Pater
170. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Mark Twain
171. Germinal . Émile Zola
172. King Solomon's Mines . H. Rider Haggard
173. The Quest . Frederik van Eeden
174. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Robert Louis Stevenson
175. The Manors of Ulloa . Emilia Pardo Bazán
176. The People of Hemsö . August Strindberg
177. Pierre and Jean . Guy de Maupassant
178. Under the Yoke . Ivan Vazov
179. The Child of Pleasure . Gabriele D'Annunzio
180. Eline Vere . Louis Couperus
181. Hunger . Knut Hamsun
182. By the Open Sea . August Strindberg
183. La Bête Humaine . Émile Zola
184. Thaïs . Anatole France
185. The Kreutzer Sonata . Leo Tolstoy
186. The Picture of Dorian Gray . Oscar Wilde
187. Down There . Joris-Karl Huysmans
188. Tess of the D'Ubervilles . Thomas Hardy
189. Gösta Berling's Saga . Selma Lagerlöf
190. New Grub Street . George Gissig
191. News from Nowhere . William Morris
192. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
193. The Diary of a Nobody . George & Weedon Grossmith
194. The Viceroys . Federico De Roberto
195. Jude the Obscure . Thomas Hardy
196. Effi Briest . Theodor Fontane
197. The Time Machine . H.G. Wells
198. The Island of Dr. Moreau . H.G. Wells
199. Quo Vadis . Henryk Sienkiewicz
200. Dracula . Bram Stoker
201. What Maisie Knew . Henry James
202. Compassion . Benito Pérez Galdós
203. Pharaoh . Boleslaw Prus
204. Fruits of the Earth . André Gide
205. The War of the Worlds . H.G. Wells
206. As a Man Grows Older . Italo Svevo
207. Dom Casmurro . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
208. The Awakening . Kate Chopin
209. The Stechlin . Theodor Fontane
210. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon . Géza Gárdonyi
211. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. . Somerville and Ross
212. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem . Emilio Salgari
213. Sister Carrie . Theodore Dreiser
214. None but the Brave . Arthur Schnitzler
215. Kim . Rudyard Kipling
216. Buddenbrooks . Thomas Mann
217. The Hound of the Baskervilles . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
218. Heart of Darkness . Joseph Conrad
219. The Wings of the Dove . Henry James
220. The Immoralist . André Gide
221. The Ambassadors . Henry James
222. The Riddle of the Sands . Erskine Childers
223. The Call of the Wild . Jack London
224. Memoirs of my Nervous Illness . Daniel P. Schreber
225. The Way of All Flesh . Samuel Butler
226. Hadrian the Seventh . Frederick Rolfe
227. Nostromo . Joseph Conrad
228. The House of Mirth . Edith Wharton
229. Professor Unrat . Heinrich Mann
230. Solitude . Víctor Català
231. Young Törless . Robert Musil
232. The Forsyte Saga . John Galsworthy
233. The Jungle . Upton Sinclair
234. The Secret Agent . Joseph Conrad
235. Mother . Maxim Gorky
236. The House on the Borderland . William Hope Hodgson
237. The Old Wives' Tale . Arnold Bennett
238. The Inferno . Henri Barbusse
239. A Room with a View . E.M. Forster
240. Strait is the Gate . André Gide
241. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Rainer Maria Rilke
242. Howards End . E.M. Forster
243. Impressions of Africa . Raymond Roussel
244. Fantômas . Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
245. Ethan Frome . Edith Wharton
246. The Charwoman's Daughter . James Stephens
247. Death in Venice . Thomas Mann
248. Sons and Lovers . D.H. Lawrence
249. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . Robert Tressell
250. Platero and I . Juan Ramón Jiménez
251. Tarzan of the Apes . Edgar Rice Burroughs
252. Locus Solas . Raymond Roussell
253. Kokoro . Natsume Soseki
254. The Thirty-Nine Steps . John Buchan
255. The Rainbow . D.H. Lawrence
256. Of Human Bondage . William Somerset Maugham
257. The Good Soldier . Ford Madox Ford
258. Rashomon . Akutagawa Ryunosuke
259. Under Fire . Henri Barbusse
260. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . James Joyce
261. The Underdogs . Mariano Azuela
262. Pallieter . Felix Timmermans
263. Home and the World . Rabindranath Tagore
264. Growth of the Soil . Knut Hamsun
265. The Return of the Soldier . Rebecca West
266. Tarr . Wyndham Lewis
267. The Storm of Steel . Ernst Jünger
268. Women in Love . D.H. Lawrence
269. Main Street . Sinclair Lewis
270. The Age of Innocence . Edith Wharton
271. Chrome Yellow . Aldous Huxley
272. Life of Christ . Giovanni Papini
273. Ulysses . James Joyce
274. Babbitt . Sinclair Lewis
275. Claudine's House . Colette
276. Life and Death of Harriett Frean . May Sinclair
277. The Forest of the Hanged . Liviu Rebreanu
278. Siddhartha . Hermann Hesse
279. The Enormous Room . E.E. Cummings
280. Kristin Lavransdatter . Sigrid Undset
281. Amok . Stefan Zweig
282. The Devil in the Flesh . Raymond Radiguet
283. Zeno's Conscience . Italo Svevo
284. A Passage to India . E.M. Forster
285. We . Yevgeny Zamyatin
286. The Magic Mountain . Thomas Mann
287. The Green Hat . Michael Arlen
288. The New World . Heruy Wäldä-Sellassé
289. The Professor's House . Willa Cather
290. The Artamonov Business . Maxim Gorky
291. The Trial . Franz Kafka
292. The Counterfeiters . André Gide
293. The Great Gatsby . F. Scott Fitzgerald
294. Mrs. Dalloway . Virginia Woolf
295. Chaka the Zulu . Thomas Mofolo
296. The Making of Americans . Gertrude Stein
297. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . Agatha Christie
298. One, None and a Hundred Thousand . Luigi Pirandello
299. Under Satan's Sun . Geroges Bernanos
300. The Good Soldier Svejk . Jaroslav Hasek
301. Alberta and Jacob . Cora Sandel
302. The Castle . Franz Kafka
303. Blindness . Henry Green
304. The Sun Also Rises . Ernest Hemingway
305. Amerika . Franz Kafka
306. The Case of Sergeant Grischa . Arnold Zweig
307. Tarka the Otter . Henry Williamson
308. To the Lighthouse . Virginia Woolf
309. Remembrance of Things Past . Marcel Proust
310. Steppenwolf . Hermann Hesse
311. Nadja . André Breton
312. Quicksand . Nella Larsen
313. Decline and Fall . Evelyn Waugh
314. Some Prefer Nettles : Junichiro Tanizaki
315. Parade's End . Ford Madox Ford
316. The Well of Loneliness . Radclyffe Hall
317. Lady Chatterley's Lover . D.H. Lawrence
318. Orlando . Virginia Woolf
319. Story of the Eye . Geroges Bataille
320. Retreat Without Song . Shahan Shahnoor
321. Les Enfants Terribles . Jean Cocteau
322. Berlin Alexanderplatz . Alfred Döblin
323. All Quiet on the Western Front . Erich Maria Remarque
324. The Time of Indifference . Alberto Moravia
325. Living . Henry Green
326. I Thought of Daisy . Edmund Wilson
327. Farewell to Arms . Ernest Hemingway
328. Passing . Nellas Larsen
329. Look Homeward, Angel . Thomas Wolfe
330. The Maltese Falcon . Dashiell Hammett
331. Her Privates We . Frederic Manning
332. The Apes of God . Wyndham Lewis
333. Monica . Saunders Lewis
334. Insatiability . Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
335. The Waves . Virginia Woolf
336. To the North . Elizabeth Bowen
337. The Thin Man . Dashiell Hammett
338. Journey to the End of the Night . Louis-Ferdinand Céline
339. The Return of Philip Latinowicz . Miroslav Krleza
340. The Radetzky March . Joseph Roth
341. The Forbidden Realm . J.J. Slauerhoff
342. Cold Comfort Farm . Stella Gibbons
343. Brave New World . Aldous Huxley
344. Vipers' Tangle . François Mauriac
345. The Man Without Qualities . Robert Musil
346. Cheese . Willem Elsschot
347. Man's Fate . André Malraux
348. A Day Off . Storm Jameson
349. Testament of Youth . Vera Brittain
350. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas . Gertrude Stein
351. Murder Must Advertise . Dorothy L. Sayers
352. Miss Lonelyhearts . Nathanael West
353. Call It Sleep . Henry Roth
354. The Street of Crocodiles . Bruno Schulz
355. Thank You, Jeeves . P.G. Wodehouse
356. Tender is the Night . F. Scott Fitzgerald
357. Tropic of Cancer . Henry Miller
358. The Postman Always Rings Twice . James M. Cain
359. On the Heights of Despair . Emil Cioran
360. The Bells of Basel . Louis Aragon
361. The Nine Taylors . Dorothy L. Sayers
362. Auto-da-Fé . Elias Canetti
363. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? . Horace McCoy
364. The Last of Mr. Norris . Christopher Isherwood
365. Untouchable . Mulk Raj Anand
366. Independent People . Halldór Laxness
367. Nightwood . Djuna Barnes
368. At the Mountains of Madness . H.P. Lovecraft
369. Absalom, Absalom! . William Faulkner
370. War with the Newts . Karel Capek
371. Keep the Aspidistra Flying . George Orwell
372. Gone with the Wind . Margaret Mitchell
373. The Thinking Reed . Rebecca West
374. Eyeless in Gaza . Aldous Huxley
375. Summer Will Show . Sylvia Townsend Warner
376. Rickshaw Boy . Lao She
377. Out of Africa . Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
378. In Parenthesis . David Jones
379. Ferdydurke . Witold Gombrowicz
380. The Blind Owl . Sadegh Hedayat
381. The Hobbit . J.R.R. Tolkien
382. Their Eyes Were Watching God . Zora Neale Hurston
383. Of Mice and Men . John Steinbeck
384. Murphy . Samuel Beckett
385. U.S.A. . John Dos Passos
386. Brighton Rock . Graham Greene
387. Cause for Alarm . Eric Ambler
388. Alamut . Vladimir Bartol
389. Rebecca . Daphne du Maurier
390. Nausea . Jean-Paul Sartre
391. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . Winifred Watson
392. On the Edge of Reason . Miroslav Krleza
393. The Big Sleep . Raymond Chandler
394. Goodbye to Berlin . Christopher Isherwood
395. The Grapes of Wrath . John Steinbeck
396. Good Morning, Midnight . Jean Rhys
397. At Swim-Two-Birds . Flann O'Brien
398. Finnegans Wake . James Joyce
399. Native Son . Richard Wright
400. The Tarter Steppe . Dino Buzzati
401. The Power and the Glory . Graham Greene
402. For Whom the Bell Tolls . Ernest Hemingway
403. The Man Who Loved Children . Christina Steed
404. Broad and Alien is the World . Ciro Alegría
405. The Living and the Dead . Patrick White
406. The Harvesters . Cesare Pavese
407. Conversations in Sicily . Elio Vittorini
408. The Outsider . Albert Camus
409. Embers . Sándor Márai
410. Chess Story . Stefan Zweig
411. The Glass Bead Game . Hermann Hesse
412. Joseph and His Brothers . Thomas Mann
413. The Little Prince . Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
414. Dangling Man . Saul Bellow
415. The Razor's Edge . William Somerset Maugham
416. Transit . Anna Seghers
417. Pippi Longstocking . Astrid Lindgren
418. Loving . Henry Green
419. Animal Farm . George Orwell
420. The Bridge on the Drina . Ivo Andric
421. Christ Stopped at Eboli . Carlo Levi
422. Arcanum 17 . André Breton
423. Brideshead Revisited . Evelyn Waugh
424. Bosnian Chronicle . Ivo Andric
425. The Tin Flute . Gabrielle Roy
426. Andrea . Carmen Laforet
427. The Death of Virgil . Hermann Broch
428. Titus Groan . Mervyn Peake
429. Zorba the Greek . Nikos Kazantzakis
430. Back . Henry Green
431. House in the Uplands . Erskine Caldwell
432. The Path to the Nest of Spiders . Italo Calvino
433. Under the Volcano . Malcolm Lowry
434. If This Is a Man . Primo Levi
435. Excercises in Style . Raymond Queneau
436. The Plague . Albert Camus
437. Doctor Faustus . Thomas Mann
438. Midaq Alley . Naguib Mahfouz
439. Froth on the Daydream . Boris Vian
440. Journey to the Alcarria . Camilo José Cela
441. Ashes and Diamonds . Jerzy Andrzejewski
442. Disobedience . Alberto Moravia
443. All About H. Hatterr . G.V. Desani
444. Cry, the Beloved Country . Alan Paton
445. In the Heart of the Seas . Shmuel Yosef Agnon
446. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman . Tadeusz Borowski
447. Death Sentence . Maurice Blanchot
448. Nineteen Eighty-Four . George Orwell
449. The Man with the Golden Arm . Nelson Algren
450. Kingdom of this World . Alejo Carpentier
451. The Heat of the Day . Elizabeth Bowen
452. Love in a Cold Climate . Nancy Mitford
453. The Case of Comrade Tulayev . Victor Serge
454. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played . Simon Vestdijk
455. I, Robot . Isaac Asimov
456. The Grass is Singing . Doris Lessing
457. A Town Like Alice . Nevil Shute
458. The Moon and the Bonfires . Cesare Pavese
459. Gormenghast . Mervyn Peake
460. The 13 Clocks . James Thurber
461. The Labyrinth of Solitude . Octavio Paz
462. The Abbott C . Georges Bataille
463. The Guiltless . Hermann Broch
464. Barabbas . Pär Lagerkvist
465. The End of the Affair . Graham Greene
466. Molloy . Samuel Beckett
467. The Rebel . Albert Camus
468. The Catcher in the Rye . J.D. Salinger
469. The Opposing Shore . Julien Gracq
470. Foundation . Isaac Asimov
471. Malone Dies . Samuel Beckett
472. Day of the Triffids . John Wyndham
473. Memoirs of Hadrian . Marguerite Yourcenar
474. The Hive . Camilo José Cela
475. Wise Blood . Flannery O'Connor
476. The Old Man and the Sea . Ernest Hemingway
477. Invisible Man . Ralph Ellison
478. The Judge and His Hangman . Friedrich Dürrenmatt
479. Excellent Women . Barbara Pym
480. A Thousand Cranes . Yasunari Kawabata
481. Go Tell It on the Mountain . James Baldwin
482. Casino Royale . Ian Fleming
483. Junkie . William Burroughs
484. Lucky Jim . Kingsley Amis
485. The Lost Steps . Alejo Carpentier
486. The Hothouse . Wolfgang Koeppen
487. The Long Good-Bye . Raymond Chandler
488. The Go-Between . L.P. Hartley
489. The Dark Child . Camara Laye
490. A Day in Spring . Ciril Kosmac
491. A Ghost at Noon . Alberto Moravia
492. The Story of O . Pauline Réage
493. Under the Net . Iris Murdoch
494. Lord of the Flies . William Golding
495. The Mandarins . Simone de Beauvoir
496. Bonjour Tristesse . Françoise Sagan
497. Death in Rome . Wolfgang Koeppen
498. The Sound of Waves . Yukio Mishima
499. The Unknown Soldier . Väinö Linna
500. I'm Not Stiller . Max Frisch
501. The Ragazzi . Pier Paolo Pasolini
502. The Recognitions . William Gaddis
503. The Burning Plain . Juan Rulfo
504. The Quiet American . Graham Greene
505. The Trusting and the Maimed . James Plunkett
506. The Tree of Man . Patrick White
507. The Last Temptation of Christ . Nikos Kazantzákis
508. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands . João Guimarães Rosa
509. Lolita . Vladimir Nabokov
510. The Talented Mr. Ripley . Patricia Highsmith
511. The Lord of the Rings . J.R.R. Tolkien
512. The Lonely Londoners . Sam Selvon
513. The Roots of Heaven . Romain Gary
514. The Floating Opera . John Barth
515. Giovanni's Room . James Baldwin
516. Justine . Lawrence Durrell
517. The Glass Bees . Ernst Jünger
518. Doctor Zhivago . Boris Pasternak
519. Pnin . Vladimir Nabokov
520. On the Road . Jack Kerouac
521. The Manila Rope . Veijo Meri
522. The Deadbeats . Ward Ruyslinck
523. Homo Faber . Max Frisch
524. Blue of Noon . Geroges Bataille
525. The Midwich Cuckoos . John Wyndham
526. Voss . Patrick White
527. Jealousy . Alain Robbe-Grillet
528. The Birds . Tarjei Vesaas
529. The Once and Future King . T.H. White
530. The Bell . Iris Murdoch
531. Borstal Boy . Brendan Behan
532. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon . Jorge Amado
533. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning . Alan Sillitoe
534. Things Fall Apart . Chinua Achebe
535. The Bitter Glass . Eilís Dillon
536. The Guide . R.K. Narayan
537. The Leopard . Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
538. Deep Rivers . José María Arguedas
539. Breakfast at Tiffany's . Truman Capote
540. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring . Kenzaburo Oe
541. Billiards at Half-Past Nine . Heinrich Böll
542. Down Second Avenue . Ezekiel Mphahlele
543. Cider With Rosie . Laurie Lee
544. The Tin Drum . Günter Grass
545. The Naked Lunch . William Burroughs
546. Billy Liar . Keith Waterhouse
547. Absolute Beginners . Colin MacInnes
548. Promise at Dawn . Romain Gary
549. Rabbit, Run . John Updike
550. To Kill a Mockingbird . Harper Lee
551. The Magician of Lublin . Isaac Bashevis Singer
552. Halftime . Martin Walser
553. The Country Girls . Edna O'Brien
554. Bebo's Girl . Carlo Cassola
555. God's Bit of Wood . Ousmane Sembène
556. The Shipyard . Juan Carlos Onetti
557. Catch-22 . Joseph Heller
558. Solaris . Stanislaw Lem
559. Cat and Mouse . G¨nter Grass
560. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Muriel Spark
561. A Severed Head . Iris Murdoch
562. Franny and Zooey . J.D. Salinger
563. No One Writes to the Colonel . Gabriel García Márquez
564. Faces in the Water . Janet Frame
565. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy . Xosé Neira Vilas
566. Stranger in a Strange Land . Robert Heinlein
567. Labyrinths . Jorge Luis Borges
568. The Golden Notebook . Doris Lessing
569. Time of Silence . Luis Martín-Santos
570. Pale Fire . Vladimir Nabokov
571. A Clockwork Orange . Anthony Burgess
572. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest . Ken Kesey
573. Girl With Green Eyes . Edna O'Brien
574. The Death of Artemio Cruz . Carlos Fuentes
575. The Time of the Hero . Mario Vargas Llosa
576. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . Giorgio Bassani
577. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
578. The Third Wedding . Costas Taktsis
579. Dog Years . Günter Grass
580. The Bell Jar . Sylvia Plath
581. Inside Mr. Enderby . Anthony Burgess
582. The Girls of Slender Means . Muriel Spark
583. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold . John Le Carré
584. Manon des Sources . Marcel Pagnol
585. The Graduate . Charles Webb
586. Cat's Cradle . Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
587. V. . Thomas Pynchon
588. Herzog . Saul Bellow
589. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein . Marguerite Duras
590. Arrow of God . Chinua Achebe
591. Three Trapped Tigers . Guillermo Cabrera Infante
592. Sometimes a Great Notion . Ken Kesey
593. The Passion According to G.H. . Clarice Lispector
594. Back to Oegstgeest . Jan Wolkers
595. Closely Watched Trains . Bohumil Hrabal
596. The River Between . Ngugi wa Thiong'o
597. Garden, Ashes . Danilo Kis
598. Everything That Rises Must Converge . Flannery O'Connor
599. Things . Georges Perec
600. In Cold Blood . Truman Capote
601. Death and the Dervish . Mesa Selimovic
602. Silence . Shusaku Endo
603. To Each His Own . Leonardo Sciascia
604. The Crying of Lot 49 . Thomas Pynchon
605. Giles Goat-Boy . John Barth
606. Marks of Identity . Juan Goytisolo
607. The Vice-Consul . Marguerite Duras
608. The Magus . John Fowles
609. The Master and Margarita . Mikhail Bulgakov
610. Wide Sargasso Sea . Jean Rhys
611. The Third Policeman . Flann O'Brien
612. Miramar . Naguib Mahfouz
613. Z . Vassilis Vassilikos
614. Pilgrimage . Dorothy Richardson
615. The Manor . Isaac Bashevis Singer
616. One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel García Márquez
617. No Laughing Matter . Angus Wilson
618. Days of the Dolphin . Robert Merle
619. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . Tom Wolfe
620. Eva Trout . Elizabeth Bowen
621. The Cathedral . Oles Honchar
622. A Kestral for a Knave . Barry Hines
623. In Watermelon Sugar . Richard Brautigan
624. The German Lesson . Siegfried Lenz
625. The Quest for Christa T. . Christa Wolf
626. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? . Philip K. Dick
627. 2001: A Space Odyssey . Arthur C. Clarke
628. Belle du Seigneur . Albert Cohen
629. Cancer Ward . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
630. Myra Breckinridge . Gore Vidal
631. The First Circle . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
632. A Void/Avoid . Georges Perec
633. Them . Joyce Carol Oates
634. Ada . Vladimir Nabokov
635. The Godfather . Mario Puzo
636. Portnoy's Complaint . Philip Roth
637. Jacob the Liar . Jurek Becker
638. The French Lieutenant's Woman . John Fowles
639. Slaughterhouse-five . Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
640. Blind Man With a Pistol . Chester Himes
641. Pricksongs and Descants . Robert Coover
642. Tent of Miracles . Jorge Armado
643. The Case Worker . György Konrád
644. Moscow Stations . Venedikt Yerofeev
645. Heartbreak Tango . Manuel Puig
646. Seasons of Migrations to the North . Tayeb Salih
647. Here's to You, Jesusa! . Elena Poniatowska
648. Fifth Business . Robertson Davies
649. Play It As It Lays . Joan Didion
650. Jahrestage . Uwe Johnson
651. A World for Julius . Alfredo Bryce Echenique
652. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . Maya Angelou
653. The Bluest Eyes . Toni Morrison
654. The Sea of Fertility . Yukio Mishima
655. Rabbit Redux . John Updike
656. Cataract . Mykhaylo Osadchyl
657. Group Portrait With Lady . Heinrich Böll
658. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Hunter S. Thompson
659. The Book of Daniel . E.L. Doctorow
660. Lives of Girls & Women . Alice Munro
661. House Mother Normal . B.S. Johnson
662. In a Free State . V.S. Naipal
663. Surfacing . Margaret Atwood
664. G . John Berger
665. The Summer Book . Tove Jansson
666. The Twilight Years . Sawako Ariyoshi
667. The Optimist's Daughter . Eudora Welty
668. Invisible Cities . Italo Calvino
669. Gravity's Rainbow . Thomas Pynchon
670. The Honorary Consul . Graham Greene
671. Crash . J.G. Ballard
672. The Castle of Crossed Destinies . Italo Calvino
673. The Siege of Krishnapur . J.G. Farrell
674. A Question of Power . Bessie Head
675. Fear of Flying . Erica Jong
676. The Dispossessed . Ursula K. Le Guin
677. The Diviners . Margaret Laurence
678. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum . Heinrich Böll
679. Dusklands . J.M. Coetzee
680. The Fan Man . William Kotzwinkle
681. The Port . Antun Soljan
682. Ragtime . E.L. Doctorow
683. The Commandant . Jessica Anderson
684. The Year of the Hare . Arto Paasilinna
685. Humboldt's Gift . Saul Bellow
686. Woman at Point Zero . Nawal El Saadawi
687. Willard and His Bowling Trophies . Richard Brautigan
688. Fateless . Imre Kertész
689. The Dead Father . Donald Barthelme
690. Correction . Thomas Bernhard
691. A Dance to the Music of Time . Anthony Powell
692. W, or the Memory of Childhood . Georges Perec
693. Autumn of the Patriarch . Gabriel García Márquez
694. Patterns of Childhood . Christa Wolf
695. Blaming . Elizabeth Taylor
696. Cutter and Bone . Newton Thornburg
697. Interview With the Vampire . Anne Rice
698. The Left-Handed Woman . Peter Handke
699. Kiss of the Spider Woman . Manuel Puig
700. Almost Transparent Blue . Ryu Murakami
701. In the Heart of the Country . J.M. Coetzee
702. The Engineer of the Human Soul . Josef Skvorecky
703. Quartet in Autumn . Barbara Pym
704. The Hour of the Star . Clarice Lispector
705. Song of Solomon . Toni Morrison
706. The Wars . Timothy Findley
707. Dispatches . Michael Herr
708. The Shining . Stephen King
709. Delta of Venus . Anaïs Nin
710. The Beggar Maid . Alice Munro
711. Requiem for a Dream . Hubert Selby Jr.
712. The Singapore Grip . J.G. Farrell
713. The Sea, The Sea . Iris Murdoch
714. Life: A User's Manual . Georges Perec
715. The Back Room . Carmen Martín Gaite
716. The Virgin in the Garden . A.S. Byatt
717. The Cement Garden . Ian McEwan
718. Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy . Douglas Adams
719. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler . Italo Calvino
720. So Long a Letter . Mariama Bâ
721. Burger's Daughter . Nadine Gordimer
722. A Bend in the River . V.S. Naipaul
723. A Dry White Season . André Brink
724. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting . Milan Kundera
725. Fool's Gold . Maro Douka
726. Smiley's People . John Le Carré
727. Southern Seas . Manuel Vásquez Montalbán
728. The Name of the Rose . Umberto Eco
729. Clear Light of Day . Anita Desai
730. Confederacy of Dunces . John Kennedy Toole
731. Rituals . Cees Nooteboom
732. Smell of Sadness . Alfred Kossmann
733. Broken April . Ismail Kadare
734. Midnight's Children . Salman Rushdie
735. Waiting for Barbarians . J.M. Coetzee
736. Summer in Baden-Baden . Leonid Tsypkin
737. The House with the Blind Glass Windows . Herbjørg Wassmo
738. Leaden Wings . Zhang Jie
739. The War at the End of the World . Mario Vargas Llosa
740. Lanark: A Life in Four Books . Alasdair Gray
741. Rabbit is Rich . John Updike
742. Couples, Passerby . Botho Strauss
743. July's People . Nadine Gordimer
744. On the Black Hill . Bruce Chatwin
745. The House of the Spirits . Isabel Allende
746. Schindler's Ark . Thomas Keneally
747. A Pale View of Hills . Kazuo Ishiguro
748. Wittgenstein's Nephew . Thomas Bernhard
749. The Color Purple . Alice Walker
750. A Boy's Own Story . Edmund White
751. If Not Now, When? . Primo Levi
752. The Book of Disquiet . Fernando Pessoa
753. Baltasar and Blimunda . José Saramago
754. The Sorrow of Belgium . Hugo Claus
755. The Piano Teacher . Elfriede Jelinek
756. The Life and Times of Michael K . J.M. Coetzee
757. Waterland . Graham Swift
758. LaBrava . Elmore Leonard
759. The Christmas Oratorio . Göran Tunström
760. Fado Alexandrino . António Lobo Antunes
761. The Witness . Juan José Saer
762. Shame . Salman Rushdie
763. Money: A Suicide Note . Martin Amis
764. Flaubert's Parrot . Julian Barnes
765. Professor Martens' Departure . Jaan Kross
766. Blood and Guts in High School . Kathy Acker
767. Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel . Julián Ríos
768. Nights at the Circus . Angela Carter
769. Neuromancer . William Gibson
770. The Wasp Factory . Iain Banks
771. Democracy . Joan Didion
772. The Lover . Marguerite Duras
773. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis . José Saramago
774. Empire of the Sun . J.G. Ballard
775. The Busconductor Hines . James Kelman
776. Dictionary of the Khazars . Milorad Pavic
777. The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Milan Kundera
778. Legend . David Gemmell
779. The Young Man . Botho Strauss
780. Love Medicine . Louise Erdrich
781. White Noise . Don DeLillo
782. Half of Man is Woman . Zhang Xianliang
783. Reasons to Live . Amy Hempel
784. The Handmaid's Tale . Margaret Atwood
785. Hawksmoor . Peter Ackroyd
786. Perfume . Patrick Süskind
787. Blood Meridian . Cormac McCarthy
788. Contact . Carl Sagan
789. Simon and the Oaks . Marianne Fredriksson
790. The Cider House Rules . John Irving
791. Annie John . Jamaica Kincaid
792. The Parable of the Blind . Gert Hofmann
793. Love in the Time of Cholera . Gabriel García Márquez
794. Ancestral Voices . Etienne van Heerden
795. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman . Andrzej Szczypiorski
796. The Drowned and the Saved . Primo Levi
797. Watchmen . Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
798. Extinction . Thomas Bernhard
799. An Artist of the Floating World . Kazuo Ishiguro
800. Memory of Fire . Eduardo Galeano
801. The Old Devils . Kingley Amis
802. Matigari . Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
803. Anagrams . Lorrie Moore
804. Lost Language of Cranes . David Leavitt
805. The Taebak Mountains . Jo Jung-rae
806. Ballad for Georg Henig . Viktor Pasokov
807. Enigma of Arrival . V.S. Naipaul
808. World's End . T. Coraghessan Boyle
809. The Pigeon . Patrick Süskind
810. Of Love and Shadows . Isabel Allende
811. Beloved . Toni Morrison
812. All Souls . Javier Marías
813. The New York Trilogy . Paul Auster
814. Black Box . Amos Oz
815. The Bonfire of the Vanities . Tom Wolfe
816. The Black Dahlia . James Ellroy
817. The Afternoon of a Writer . Peter Handke
818. The Radiant Way . Margaret Drabble
819. Kitchen . Banana Yoshimoto
820. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency . Douglas Adams
821. Cigarettes . Harry Mathews
822. Nervous Conditions . Tsitsi Dangarembga
823. The First Garden . Anne Hébert
824. The Last World . Christoph Ransmayr
825. Oscar and Lucinda . Peter Carey
826. The Swimming-Pool Library . Alan Hollinghurst
827. The Satanic Verses . Salman Rushdie
828. Wittgenstein's Mistress . David Markson
829. Paradise of the Blind . Duong Thu Huong
830. Foucault's Pendulum . Umberto Eco
831. Gimmick! . Joost Zwagerman
832. Obabakoak . Bernardo Atzaga
833. Inland . Gerald Murnane
834. A Prayer for Owen Meany . John Irving
835. Like Water for Chocolate . Laura Esquivel
836. The History of the Siege of Lisbon . José Saramago
837. The Trick is to Keep Breathing . Janice Galloway
838. The Great Indian Novel . Shashi Tharoor
839. The Melancholy of Resistance . László Krasznahorkai
840. The Remains of the Day . Kazuo Ishiguro
841. London Fields . Martin Amis
842. Moon Palace . Paul Auster
843. Sexing the Cherry . Jeanette Winterson
844. Like Life . Lorrie Moore
845. The Buddha of Suburbia . Hanif Kureishi
846. The Shadow Lines . Amitav Ghosh
847. The Midnight Examiner . William Kotzwinkle
848. The Things They Carried . Tim O'Brien
849. The Music of Chance . Paul Auster
850. Stone Junction . Jim Dodge
851. Amongst Women . John McGahern
852. Get Shorty . Elmore Leonard
853. The Daughter . Pavlos Matesis
854. Vertigo . W.G. Sebald
855. American Psycho . Bret Easton Ellis
856. The Laws . Connie Palman
857. Faceless Killers . Henning Mankell
858. Astradeni . Eugenia Fakinou
859. Regeneration . Pat Barker
860. Typical . Padgett Powell
861. Mao II . Don DeLillo
862. Wild Swans . Jung Chang
863. Arcadia . Jim Crace
864. Hideous Kinky . Esther Freud
865. Memoirs of Rain . Sunetra Gupta
866. Asphodel . H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
867. The Butcher Boy . Patrick McCabe
868. Smilla's Sense of Snow . Peter Høeg
869. The Dumas Club . Arturo Pérez-Reverte
870. Written on the Body . Jeanette Winterson
871. The Crow Road . Iain Banks
872. Indigo . Marina Warner
873. The English Patient . Michael Ondaatje
874. Posessing the Secret of Joy . Alice Walker
875. All the Pretty Horses . Cormac McCarthy
876. The Triple Mirror of the Self . Zulfikar Ghose
877. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture . Apostolos Doxiadis
878. The Discovery of Heaven . Harry Mulisch
879. Life is a Caravanserai . Emine Sevgi Özdamar
880. Before Night Falls . Reinaldo Arenas
881. The Secret History . Donna Tartt
882. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll . Álvaro Mutis
883. Remembering Babylon . David Malouf
884. The Holder of the World . Bharati Mukherjee
885. The Virgin Suicides . Jeffrey Eugenides
886. The Stone Diaries . Carol Shields
887. A Suitable Boy . Vikram Seth
888. What a Carve Up! . Jonathan Coe
889. On Love . Alain de Botton
890. The Twins . Tessa de Loo
891. Looking for the Possible Dance . A.L. Kennedy
892. Birdsong . Sebastian Faulks
893. The Shipping News . Annie Proulx
894. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light . Ivan Klima
895. The Invention of Curried Sausage . Uwe Timm
896. Disappearance . David Dabydeen
897. Deep River . Shusaku Endo
898. Felicia's Journey . William Trevor
899. Captain Corelli's Mandolin . Louis de Bernières
900. How Late It Was, How Late . James Kelman
901. City Sister Silver . Jáchym Topol
902. Pereira Declares: A Testimony . Antonio Tabucchi
903. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . Haruki Murakami
904. Our Lady of the Assassins . Fernando Vallejo
905. Land . Park Kyong-ni
906. Whatever . Michel Houellebecq
907. Troubling Love . Elena Ferrante
908. The Late-Night News . Petros Markaris
909. The End of the Story . Lydia Davis
910. Love's Work . Gillian Rose
911. A Fine Balance . Rohinton Mistry
912. The Reader . Bernhard Schlink
913. Santa Evita . Tomás Martínez
914. Morvern Caller . Alan Warner
915. The Unconsoled . Kazuo Ishiguro
916. Alias Grace . Margaret Atwood
917. The Clay Machine-Gun . Victor Pelevin
918. Infinite Jest . David Foster Wallace
919. Forever a Stranger . Hella Haasse
920. The Ghost Road . Pat Barker
921. Fugitive Pieces . Anne Michaels
922. Hallucinating Foucault . Patricia Duncker
923. A Light Comedy . Eduardo Mendoza
924. Fall on Your Knees . Ann-Marie MacDonald
925. Silk . Alessandro Baricco
926. The God of Small Things . Arundhati Roy
927. Margot and the Angels . Kristien Hemmerechts
928. The Life of Insects . Victor Pelevin
929. Money to Burn . Ricardo Piglia
930. Jack Maggs . Peter Carey
931. Underworld . Don DeLillo
932. Enduring Love . Ian McEwan
933. Crossfire . Miyabe Miyuki
934. The Poisonwood Bible . Barbara Kingsolver
935. Veronika Decides to Die . Paulo Coelho
936. The Hours . Michael Cunningham
937. All Souls Day . Cees Nooteboom
938. The Heretic . Miguel Deliber
939. Elementary Particles . Michel Houellebecq
940. The Talk of the Town . Ardal O'Hanlon
941. Dirty Havana Trilogy . Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
942. Savage Detectives . Roberto Bolaño
943. Disgrace . J.M. Coetzee
944. As If I Am Not There . Slavenka Drakulic
945. Pavel's Letters . Monika Moron
946. In Search of Klingsor . Jorge Volpi
947. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender . Dubravka Ugresic
948. Fear and Trembling . Amélie Nothomb
949. Bartleby and Co. . Enrique Vila-Matas
950. Celestial Harmonies . Péter Esterházy
951. Small Remedies . Shashi Deshpande
952. The Human Stain . Philip Roth
953. White Teeth . Zadie Smith
954. Under the Skin . Michel Faber
955. The Heart of Redness . Zakes Mda
956. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost . Ismail Kadare
957. The Devil and Miss Prym . Paulo Coelho
958. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay . Michael Chabon
959. The Feast of the Goat . Mario Vargas Llosa
960. I'm Not Scared . Niccolò Ammaniti
961. Soldiers of Salamis . Javier Cercas
962. Atonement . Ian McEwan
963. Austerlitz . W.G. Sebald
964. Life of Pi . Yann Martel
965. The Corrections . Jonathan Franzen
966. Platform . Michel Houellebecq
967. Snow . Orhan Pamuk
968. Nowhere Man . Aleksandar Hemon
969. Everything is Illuminated . Jonathan Safran Foer
970. Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
971. Islands . Dan Sleigh
972. The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri
973. Vernon God Little . DBC Pierre
974. The Successor . Ismail Kadare
975. Lady Number Thirteen . José Carlos Somoza
976. What I Loved . Siri Hustvedt
977. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . Mark Haddon
978. A Tale of Love and Darkness . Amos Oz
979. Your Face Tomorrow . Javier Marías
980. Cloud Atlas . David Mitchell
981. The Swarm . Frank Schätzing
982. Suite Française . Irène Némirovsky
983. The Master . Colm Tóibín
984. The Plot Against America . Philip Roth
985. The Book about Blanche and Marie . Per Olov Enquist
986. Small Island . Andrea Levy
987. 2666 . Roberto Bolaño
988. The Line of Beauty . Alan Hollinghurst
989. The Accidental . Ali Smith
990. The Sea . John Banville
991. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian . Marina Lewycka
992. Measuring the World . Daniel Kehlmann
993. Mother's Milk . Edward S. Aubyn
994. Carry Me Down . M.J. Hyland
995. Against the Day . Thomas Pynchon
996. The Inheritance of Loss . Kiran Desai
997. The Kindly Ones . Jonathan Littell
998. Half of a Yellow Sun . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
999. The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Mohsin Hamid
1000. Falling Man . Don DeLillo
1001. Animal's People . Indra Sinha

Starting 'er up!

You know who should be able to dictate everything that we read? Some experts who are quite possibly boosting book sales. At least sales of their books.

I'm just kidding. Anyways, I tend to be a little obsessive over things. One thing that I am obsessed with is reading books. And wouldn't it just be great to be able to read that entire list? I'm not saying that this list is the end-all list of all and the only books that should ever be read, but as others have said, it is a good starting point.

And so this blog is my attempt to chronicle my way through the list. A more user-friendly copy of the list can be found here. Additionally these bloggers are distributing a spreadsheet that allows tracking of one's progress through the list. I found that the spreadsheet that I originally downloaded did not run very well on my computer and I ended up making my own simpler version.

I'm going to be working on getting a copy of this list up here, once I figure out how to work a blog, which will track my progress. As of today I have currently read around 137 books on the list.

And currently I'm reading The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

The List in ABC order by title

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