Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die on Lists of Bests

1 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2 Saturday - Ian McEwan
3 On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4 Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee
5 Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6 The Sea - John Banville
7 The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8 The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9 The Master - Colm Toibin
10 Vanishing Point - David Markson
11 The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
12 Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
13 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
14 Drop City - T.C. Boyle
15 The Colour - Rose Tremain
16 Thursbitch - Alan Garner
17 The Light of Day - Graham Swift
18 What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
20 Islands - Dan Sleigh
21 Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
22 London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
23 Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24 Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
25 The Double - Jose Saramago
26 Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27 Unless - Carol Shields
28 Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
29 The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
30 That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
31 In the Forest - Edna O'Brien
32 Shroud - John Banville
33 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
34 Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II - J. M. Coetzee
35 Dead Air - Iain Banks
36 Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
37 The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
38 Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
39 Austerlitz - Winfried Georg Sebald
40 Platform - Michel Houellebecq
41 Schooling - Heather Mcgowan
42 Atonement - Ian McEwan
43 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
44 Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini
45 The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
46 Fury - Salman Rushdie
47 At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
48 Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50 The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
51 An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
52 The Devil and Miss Prym of Temptation - Paulo Coelho
53 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
54 White Teeth - Zadie Smith
55 The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
56 Under the Skin - Michel Faber
57 Ignorance - Milan Kundera
58 Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
59 Celestial Harmonies - Peter Esterhazy
60 City of God - E. L. Doctorow
61 How the Dead Live - Will Self
62 The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63 The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
64 After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami
65 Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
66 Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard
67 House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
68 Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
69 Pastoralia - George Saunders
70 Timbuktu - Paul Auster
71 The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
72 Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
73 As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakulic
74 Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
75 Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
76 The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
77 Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
78 Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
79 The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
80 Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
81 Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
82 Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
83 All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom
84 The Talk of the Town - Ardal O'Hanlon
85 Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
86 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
87 Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries) - Bret Easton Ellis
88 Another World - Pat Barker
89 The Hours - Michael Cunningham
90 Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
91 Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
92 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
93 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
94 Great Apes (Self, Will) - Will Self
95 Enduring Love - Ian Mcewan
96 Underworld - Don DeLillo
97 Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
98 The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
99 American Pastoral - Philip Roth
100 The Untouchable - John Banville
101 Silk - Alessandro Baricco
102 Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard
103 Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
104 Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
105 The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
106 Forever a Stranger and Other Stories - Hella S. Haasse
107 Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
108 Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
109 Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
110 Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
111 Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
112 The Information - Martin Amis
113 The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
114 Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
115 The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
116 The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
117 A Fine Balance - Mistry Rohinton
118 Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life - Gillian Rose
119 The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
120 Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
121 The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
122 Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
123 Land - Park Kyong-Ni
124 The Master of Petersburg - J. M. Coetzee
125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
127 City, Sister, Silver - Jachym Topol
128 How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
129 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
130 Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
131 Disappearance - David Dabydeen
132 The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
133 The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
134 Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
135 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
136 Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
137 Operation Shylock : A Confession - Philip Roth
138 Complicity - Iain Banks
139 On Love - Alain de Botton
140 What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
141 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
142 The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143 The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
144 The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
145 The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
146 The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald
147 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
148 Life Is a Caravanserai - Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
149 The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
150 Heart So White - Javier Marias
151 Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
152 Indigo - Marina Warner
153 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
154 Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
155 Jazz - Toni Morrison
156 The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157 Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
158 The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
159 Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
160 The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin
161 Asphodel - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162 Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
163 Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
164 Arcadia - Jim Crace
165 Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
166 American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167 Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
168 Mao II - Don DeLillo
169 Typical - Padgett Powell
170 Regeneration - Pat Barker
171 Downriver - Iain Sinclair
172 Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis De Bernieres
173 Wise Children - Angela Carter
174 Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
175 Amongst Women - John McGahern
176 Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
177 Vertigo - Winfried Georg Sebald
178 Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
179 The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
180 The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
181 A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
182 Like Life - Lorrie Moore
183 Possession: A Romance - A.S. Byatt
184 The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
185 The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
186 A Disaffection - James Kelman
187 Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188 Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189 Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow
190 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
191 The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
192 The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
193 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago
195 Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
196 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
197 London Fields - Martin Amis
198 The Book of Evidence - John Banville
199 Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
200 Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
201 Beautiful Room Is Empty - Edmund White
202 Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson
203 The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
204 Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
205 Oscar and Lucinda: - Peter Carey
206 Libra - Don DeLillo
207 The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
208 Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
209 Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
211 The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
212 Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
213 The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214 The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
215 The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind
216 The Child in Time - Ian Mcewan
217 Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
218 The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
219 The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
220 World's End - T.C. Boyle
221 The Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
222 The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-Rae
223 Beloved - Toni Morrison
224 Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
225 Matigari - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
226 Marya: A Life - Joyce Carol Oates
227 Watchmen - Alan Moore
228 Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
229 The Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
230 An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
231 Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
232 Foe - J. M. Coetzee
233 The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
234 Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
235 The Parable of the Blind - Christopher Hofmann
236 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
238 The Cider House Rules - John Irving
239 A Maggot - John Fowles
240 Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
241 Contact - Carl Sagan
242 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
243 Perfume - Patrick Suskind
244 Old Masters: A Comedy - Thomas Bernhard
245 White Noise - Don DeLillo
246 Queer - William S. Burroughs
247 Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
248 Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 1) - David Gemmell
249 Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
250 The Busconductor Hines - James Kelman
251 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago
252 The Lover - Marguerite Duras
253 Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard
254 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
255 Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
257 Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
258 Neuromancer - William Gibson
259 Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
260 Money - Martin Amis
261 Shame - Salman Rushdie
262 Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
263 Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
264 Elmore Leonard: La Brava; Cat Chaser; Split Images - Elmore Leonard
265 Waterland - Graham Swift
266 Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee
267 The Diaries of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
268 The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
269 The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
270 If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
271 A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White
272 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
273 Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship - Thomas Bernhard
274 A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
275 Schindlers Ark - Thomas Keneally
276 The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
277 The Newton Letter - John Banville
278 On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
279 Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
280 The Names - Don DeLillo
281 Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
282 Lanark: A Life in 4 Books - Alasdair Gray
283 The Comfort of Strangers - Ian Mcewan
284 July's People - Nadine Gordimer
285 Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
286 Broken April - Ismail Kadare
287 Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
288 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
289 Rites of Passage - William Golding
290 Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
291 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
292 City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit - Elmore Leonard
293 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
295 Smiley's People - John le Carre
296 Shikasta - Doris Lessing
297 A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
298 Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299 The Safety Net - Heinrich Boll
300 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
301 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
302 The Cement Garden - Ian Mcewan
303 The World According to Garp - John Irving
304 Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
305 The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
306 The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
307 Yes - Thomas Bernhard
308 The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
309 In the Heart of the Country - J. M. Coetzee
310 The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
311 Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
312 The Shining - Stephen King
313 Dispatches - Michael Herr
314 Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
315 Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
316 The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
317 Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
318 Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo
319 The Public Burning - Robert Coover
320 Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
321 Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
322 Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
323 Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
324 The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
325 W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
326 A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
327 Grimus - Salman Rushdie
328 The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
329 Fateless - Imre Kertesz
330 Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
331 High Rise - J.G. Ballard
332 Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
333 Dead Babies - Martin Amis
334 Correction - Thomas Bernhard
335 Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
336 The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
337 Dusklands - J. M. Coetzee
338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
339 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre
340 Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
341 Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
342 A Question of Power - Bessie Head
343 The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
344 The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
345 Crash - J. G. Ballard
346 Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
347 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348 The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349 Sula - Toni Morrison
350 Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
351 The Breast - Philip Roth
352 The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
353 G. - John Berger
354 Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
355 House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy - B. S. Johnson
356 In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul
357 The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow
358 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
359 Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Boll
360 The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead - William S. Burroughs
361 Rabbit Redux - John Updike
362 The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
363 The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
364 The Ogre - Michel Tournier
365 The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
366 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
368 Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
369 Troubles - J.G. Farrell
370 Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
371 The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
372 Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
373 Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions - Robert Coover
374 Blind Man with a Pistol - Chester Himes
375 Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
376 The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
377 The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
378 Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
379 The Godfather - Mario Puzo
380 Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
381 Them - Joyce Carol Oates
382 A Void (Verba Mundi) - Georges Perec
383 Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes - Elizabeth Bowen
384 Myra Breckinridge/Myron - Gore Vidal
385 The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
386 Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
387 Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
388 The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
389 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
391 Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
392 The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
393 In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
394 Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
395 The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
396 Chocky - John Wyndham
397 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
398 The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
399 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
400 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
401 Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
402 The Joke - Milan Kundera
403 No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
404 The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
405 A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
406 The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
407 Trawl - B. S. Johnson
408 In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
409 The Magus - John Fowles
410 Le Vice-Consul (Imaginaire Ser) - Marguerite Duras
411 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
412 Giles Goat Boy - John Barth
413 The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
414 Things - Georges Perec
415 The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
416 August Is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien
417 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
418 Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
419 The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
420 Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
421 Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Barthelme
422 Albert Angelo - B. S. Johnson
423 Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
424 Ravishing of Lol Stein - Marguerite Duras
425 Herzog - Saul Bellow
426 V. - Thomas Pynchon
427 Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
428 The Graduate - Charles Webb
429 Manon Des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
430 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
431 The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
432 Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
433 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
434 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
435 The Collector - John Fowles
436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
437 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
438 Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
439 The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
440 The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
441 Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings - Jorge Luis Borges
442 Girl with Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien
443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
444 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
445 Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
446 A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
447 Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
448 Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
449 Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
452 The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
453 How It Is - Samuel Beckett
454 Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
455 The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
456 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
457 Rabbit, Run - John Updike
458 Promise at Dawn: A Memoir - Romain Gary
459 Cider with Rosie - James Roose-Evans
460 Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
461 Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
462 The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
463 Absolute Beginners - Colin Macinnes
464 Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
465 Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
466 Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll
467 Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
468 The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburo Oe
470 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
471 Bitter Glass - Ellis Dillon
472 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
473 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
474 Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
475 Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
476 The End of the Road - John Barth
477 The Once and Future King - T. H. White
478 The Bell - Iris Murdoch
479 Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
480 Voss - Patrick White
481 Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
482 Blue of Noon - Georges Bataille
483 Homo Faber - Max Frisch
484 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
485 Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
486 Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487 Wonderful O - James Thurber
488 Justine (Alexandria Quartet) - Lawrence Durrell
489 Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
490 The Lonely Londoners - Samuel Selvon
491 The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
492 Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
493 Floating Opera - John Barth
494 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495 The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
496 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
497 A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
498 Trusting and the Maimed - J. Plunkett
499 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
500 The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
501 The Recognitions - William Gaddis
502 The Ragazzi - Pier Paolo Pasolini
503 Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
504 I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch
505 Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
506 Story of O - Pauline Reage
507 Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
508 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
509 Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
510 The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley
511 The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
512 The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
513 Watt - Samuel Beckett
514 Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
515 Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk - William S. Burroughs
516 The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
517 Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
518 Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
519 Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt
520 Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
521 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
522 Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
523 The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
524 Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
525 Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
526 The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
527 Foundation - Isaac Asimov
528 Opposing Shore - J. Gracq
529 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
530 The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt - Albert Camus
531 Molloy - Samuel Beckett
532 The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
533 L'ABBE C - Georges Bataille
534 The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre - Octavio Paz
535 The Third Man - Graham Greene
536 The Thirteen Clocks - James Thurber
537 Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
538 The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
539 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
540 The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
541 The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
542 Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
543 The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
544 The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
545 The Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
546 The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
547 Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
548 All About H. Hatterr - G. V. Desani
549 La Disubbidienza - Alberto Moravia
550 Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
551 The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
552 Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
553 Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
554 The Victim - Saul Bellow
555 Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
556 If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
557 Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
558 The Path to the Spiders' Nests - Italo Calvino
559 The Plague - Albert Camus
560 Back - Henry Green
561 Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
562 The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
563 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564 Animal Farm - George Orwell
565 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566 The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
567 Loving - Henry Green
568 Arcanum 17: With Apertures - Andre Breton
569 Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
570 The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
571 Transit. - Anna Seghers
572 Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
573 Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
574 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
575 Caught - Henry Green
576 The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
577 Embers - Sandor Marai
578 Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
579 The Outsider - Albert Camus
580 In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
581 The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life - Flann O'Brien
582 The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
583 Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
584 Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
585 The Hamlet - William Faulkner
586 Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
587 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
588 Native Son - Richard A. Wright
589 The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
590 The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
591 Party Going - Henry Green
592 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
593 Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
594 At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
595 Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
596 Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
597 Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
598 Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
599 The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
600 After the death of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner
601 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
602 Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
604 Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
605 Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
606 U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money - John Dos Passos
607 Murphy - Samuel Beckett
608 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
609 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
611 The Years - Virginia Woolf
612 In Parenthesis - David Jones
613 The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
614 Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
615 To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
616 Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
617 Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
618 The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
619 Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
621 Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
622 Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
623 At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
624 Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
625 Independent People - Halldor Laxness
626 Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti
627 The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
628 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
629 The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
630 England Made Me - Graham Greene
631 Burmese Days - George Orwell
632 The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
633 Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
634 Novel with Cocaine - M. Ageyev
635 The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
636 Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637 A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
638 Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
639 Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
640 Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
641 Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
642 Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
643 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
644 Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
645 A Day Off - Storm Jameson
646 The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
647 A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648 Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
649 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
650 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
651 To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
652 The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
653 The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
654 The Waves - Virginia Woolf
655 The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
656 Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
657 The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
658 Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
659 Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
660 The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
661 Hebdomeros - Giorgio De Chirico
662 Passing (Penguin Classics) - Nella Larsen
663 A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
664 Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
665 Living - Henry Green
666 The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
667 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
668 Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf - Alfred Doblin
669 The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
670 Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy - Rebecca West
671 The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
672 Jean Cocteau : Les Enfants terribles - Cocteau
673 Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
674 Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
675 Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf
676 Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
677 The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
678 Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
679 Quartet - Jean Rhys
680 Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
681 Quicksand - Nella Larsen
682 Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
683 Nadja - Andre Breton
684 Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
685 Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
686 To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
687 Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
688 Amerika - Franz Kafka
689 Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
690 Blindness - Henry Green
691 The Castle - Franz Kafka
692 The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
693 The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
694 One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
696 The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress - Gertrude Stein
697 Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
698 Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
700 The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
701 The Trial - Franz Kafka
702 The Artamonov business - Maksim Gorky
703 The Professor's House - Willa Cather
704 Billy Budd - Herman Melville
705 Green Hat - Michael Arlen
706 The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
707 We - Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
708 A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
709 The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
710 Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
711 Cane - Jean Toomer
712 Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
713 Amok - Stefan Zweig
714 The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
715 The Enormous Room - e. e. cummings
716 Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
717 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
718 The Glimpses Of The Moon - Edith Wharton
719 Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
720 Last Days of Mankind - Karl Kraus
721 Aaron's Rod - D. H. Lawrence
722 Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
723 Ulysses - James Joyce
724 The Fox - D. H. Lawrence
725 Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
726 The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
727 Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
728 Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
729 Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
730 Tarr: The 1918 Version - Wyndham Lewis
731 The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
732 The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
733 Summer - Edith Wharton
734 Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
735 Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
736 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
737 Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
738 Rashomon and Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
739 The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion - Ford Madox Ford
740 The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741 Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
742 The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
743 The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
744 Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
745 Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
746 Rosshalde - Hermann Hesse
747 Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
748 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
749 Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
750 Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
751 The Charwoman's Daughter - James Stephens
752 Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
753 Fantomas - Pierre Souvestre
754 Howards End - E. M. Forster
755 Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
756 Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
757 Martin Eden - Jack London
758 Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide
759 Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
760 The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
761 A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
762 Iron Heel - Jack London
763 The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
764 The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
765 Mother - Maxim Gorky
766 The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
767 The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
768 Young Torless - Robert Musil
769 The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
770 The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
771 Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
772 Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
773 Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
774 Hadrian the Seventh - Fr. Rolfe
775 The Golden Bowl - Henry James
776 The Ambassadors - Henry James
777 The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
778 The Immoralist - Andre Gide
779 The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
780 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
781 The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
782 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann
783 Kim - Rudyard Kipling
784 Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785 Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
786 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - E. Somerville
787 Der Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
788 The Awakening - Kate Chopin
789 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
790 The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
791 The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
792 What Maisie Knew - Henry James
793 The Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide
794 Bram Stoker's Dracula - Bram Stoker
795 Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
796 The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797 The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
798 Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane
799 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
800 The Real Charlotte - Edith Somerville
801 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802 Born in Exile - George Gissing
803 Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805 News From Nowhere - William Morris
806 New Grub Street - George Gissing
807 Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof
808 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
809 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
810 The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
811 La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola
812 By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
813 Hunger - Knut Hamsun
814 The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
815 Pierre et Jean - Guy de Maupassant
816 Fortunata y Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdos
817 The People of Hemso - August Strindberg
818 The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
819 She - H. Rider Haggard
820 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
821 The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
822 Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
823 King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
824 Germinal - Emile Zola
825 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
826 Bel Ami - Guy de Maupassant
827 Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas - Walter Pater
828 Against The Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
830 A Woman's Life - Guy De Maupassant
831 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
832 The House - Giovanni Verga
833 The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
834 Bouvard And Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
835 Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
836 Nana - Emile Zola
837 The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
838 The Red Room - August Strindberg
839 The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
840 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
841 Drunkard - Emile Zola
842 Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
843 Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
844 The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
845 The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
846 Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
847 The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales - Nikolai Leskov
848 Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
849 In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
850 The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
851 Erewhon - Samuel Butler
852 Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
853 Middlemarch - George Eliot
854 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
855 Rudin - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
856 He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
857 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
858 A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man - Gustave Flaubert
859 Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
860 Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
861 The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
862 The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
864 Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
865 The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866 Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
867 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
868 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869 Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
870 Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
871 Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
872 Water-Babies, The - Charles Kingsley
873 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
874 Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
875 Silas Marner - George Eliot
876 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
877 On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
878 Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879 The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
880 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
881 The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
882 Max Havelaar - Multatuli
883 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
884 Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
885 Adam Bede - George Eliot
886 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
887 North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
888 Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889 Walden - Henry David Thoreau
890 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
891 Villette - Charlotte Bronte
892 Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
894 The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
895 The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
896 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
897 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
898 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
899 Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
900 Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
901 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
902 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
903 Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
904 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
905 Vanity fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
907 La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
908 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909 The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
910 Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
911 The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
912 Lost Illusions - Honore De Balzac
913 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914 Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
915 The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
916 The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
917 The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
918 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
919 Nikolai Gogol's the Nose - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
920 Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
921 Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
922 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
923 The Red and the Black - Stendhal
924 The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi - Alessandro Manzoni
925 The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
927 Albigenses: A Romance - Charles Robert Maturin
928 Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
929 The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
930 Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
931 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
932 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
933 Persuasion - Jane Austen
934 Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
935 Rob Roy - Walter Scott
936 Emma - Jane Austen
937 Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
939 The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
940 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
941 Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942 Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
943 Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
944 The Nun - Denis Diderot
945 Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
946 Camilla - Fanny Burney
947 The Monk: A Romance - M. G. Lewis
948 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
949 The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
950 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
951 Caleb Williams - William Godwin
952 Justine - Marquis de Sade
953 Vathek - William Beckford
954 The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
955 Cecilia, Or Memoirs Of An Heiress - Fanny Burney
956 Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
957 Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
958 Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
959 Evelina - Fanny Burney
960 The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
961 Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
962 The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
963 A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
964 Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
965 The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
966 The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
967 Emile: Or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
968 Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works - Denis Diderot
969 La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise : Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
970 The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia - Samuel Johnson
971 Candide: Or, Optimism - Francois Voltaire
972 The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
973 Amelia - Henry Fielding
974 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
975 Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
976 Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
977 Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
978 Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady - Samuel Richardson
979 Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
980 Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus - Alexander Pope
981 Joseph Andrews/Shamela - Henry Fielding
982 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works - Jonathan Swift
983 Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
984 Roxana the Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
985 Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
986 Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
987 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
988 A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
989 Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave - Aphra Behn
990 The Princess of Cleves - Madame De Lafayette
991 The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
992 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
993 The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
994 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
995 Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
996 The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
997 The Golden Ass - Apuleius
998 Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance - Heliodorus
999 Chaereas and Callirhoe - Chariton
1000 Metamorphoses - Ovid
1001 Aesop's Fables - Aesopus