1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:36:28 +0000

Ok, ok, technically they’re the books in „1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die”, several editions, which brings us to a total list of about 1200 books.

Books I’ve read are in bold, books I started and never finished are in italics. There’s 3 or 4 on the list that I’ve read and barely recall… Yeah… For some it’s been awhile.

I’m starting to think of the 1001 Books list as a sort of internet meme, no?

Pre-1700

Aesop’s Fables – Aesop (c.4th BC)
Metamorphoses – Ovid (c.2-8 AD)
Chaireas And Kallirhoe – Chariton (c.200)
Aithiopika – Heliodorus (c.250)
The Golden Ass – Apuleius (c.260)
The Thousand And One Nights – Anonymous (c.850)
The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter – Anonymous (c.900)
The Tale Of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu (c.1000)
Water Margin – Shi Naian (c.1300)
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong (c.1300)
Tirant Lo Blanch – Marti Joan De Galba (1490)
La Celestina – Fernando De Rojas (1499)
Amadis Of Greece – Garci Rodriguez De Montalvo (1508)
The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes And His Fortunes And Adversities – Anonymous (1554)
Gargantua And Pantagruel – Francoise Rabelais (1532-64)
The Lusiads – Luis Camoes (1572)
Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit – John Lyly (1578)
Journey To The West – Cheng’en Wu (1592)
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe (1594)
Thomas Of Reading – Thomas Deloney (1599)
Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1605-15)
The Travels Of Persiles And Sigismunda – Miguel De Cervantes (1617)
The Truthful History Of The Conquest Of New Spain – Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1632)
The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen (1668)
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (1678-84)
The Princess Of Cleves – Comtesse De La Fayett (1678)
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn (1688)

1700s

A Tale Of A Tub – Jonathan Swift (1704)
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (1719)
Love In Excess – Eliza Haywood (1719)
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe (1722)
Roxana – Daniel Defoe (1724)
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (1726)
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift (1729)
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding (1742)
Memoirs Of Martinus Scriblerus – Various (c.1740)
Pamela – Samuel Richardson (1749)
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson (1749)
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett (1749)
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding (1749)
Fanny Hill – John Cleland (1749)
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett (1751)
Amelia – Henry Fielding (1751)
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox (1752)
Candide – Voltaire (1759)
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson (1759)
Julie Or The New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1760)
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot (1761-84)
Emile Or On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
The Castle Of Otranto – Horace Walpole (1765)
The Vicar Of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith (1766)
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Stern (1759-67)
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Stern (1768)
The Man Of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie (1771)
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett (1771)
The Sorrows Of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1774)
Evelina – Fanny Burney (1778)
Reveries Of A Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (1782)
Anton Reiser – Karl Philipp Moritz (1785)
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
Cecilia – Fanny Burney (1782)
The 120 Days Of Sodom – Marquis de Sade (1785)
Vathek – William Beckford (1786)
Dream Of The Red Chamber (The Story Of The Stone) – Cao Xueqin (1791)
Justine – Marquis De Sade (1791)
The Adventures Of Caleb Williams – William Godwin (1794)
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano (1794)
The Mysteries Of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (1794)
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1795-6)
The Monk – M G Lewis (1796)
Camilla – Fanny Burney (1796)
Jacques The Fatalist – Denis Diderot (1796)
The Nun – Denis Diderot (1796)
Hyperion – Friedrich Holderlin (1797-9)

1800s

Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth (1800)
Henry Von Ofterdingen (Unfinished) – Novalis (1802)
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1809)
Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich Von Kleist (1810)
Sense And Sensibility – Jane Austen (1811)
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth (1812)
Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen (1813)
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (1814)
Emma – Jane Austen (1816)
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott (1817)
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth (1817)
Persuasion – Jane Austen (1818)
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (1818)
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
The Life And Opinions Of The Tomcat Murr – E T A Hoffmann (1820)
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott (1820)
The Monastry – Sir Walter Scott (1820)
Melmoth The Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin (1820)
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin (1824)
The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner – James Hogg (1824)
Last Of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
Life Of A Good-For-Nothing – Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff (1826)
The Bethrothed – Alessandro Manzoni (1827)
The Red And The Black – Stendhal (1831)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo (1831)
Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin (1833)
Eugenie Grandet – Honore De Balzac (1834)
Le Pere Goriot – Honore De Balzac (1834-5)
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol (1836)
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (1838)
The Lion Of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience (1838)
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (1839)
The Fall Of The House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
Camera Obscura – Hildebrand (Nicolaas Beets) (1839)
The Charterhouse Of Parma – Stendhal (1839)
A Hero Of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol (1842)
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (1843)
Lost Illusions – Honore De Balzac (1843)
The Pit And The Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens (1844)
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (1844)
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1845)
Le Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas (1845)
The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (1845-6)
The Devil’s Pool – George Sand (1846)
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte (1847)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (1847)
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte (1848)
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell (1848)
Shirley – Charlotte Bronte (1849)
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (1850)
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Moby Dick – Herman Melville (1851)
The House Of The Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
Villette – Charlotte Bronte (1853)
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (1853)
Walden – David Henry Thoreau (1854)
Green Henry – Gottfried Keller (1854)
Hard Times – Charles Dickens (1854)
North And South – Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter (1857)
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (1857)
Adam Bede – George Eliot (1859)
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov (1859)
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (1859)
Max Havelaar – Multatuli (1860)
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860)
The Woman In White – Wilkie Collins (1860)
The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot (1860)
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope (1860)
On The Eve – Ivan Turgenev (1860)
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (1861)
Silas Marner – George Eliot (1861)
Fathers And Sons – Ivan Turgenev (1862)
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (1862)
The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley (1863)
Notes From The Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu (1864)
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (1865)
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)
Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth – Jules Verne (1866)
The Last Chronicle Barset – Anthony Trollope (1867)
Therese Raquin – Emile Zola (1867)
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (1868)
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (1868)
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868-9)
Maldoror – Comte De Lautreaumont (1868-9)
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope (1869)
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert (1869)
War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy (1869)
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope (1869)
King Lear Of The Steppes – Ivan Turgenev (1870)
Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll (1871)
Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez (1872)
Middlemarch – George Eliot (1872)
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev (1872)
Erewhon – Samuel Butler (1872)
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
In A Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
Around The World In Eighty Days – Jules Verne (1873)
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov (1873)
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (1874)
Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera Y Alcala-Galiano (1874)
The Sin Of Father Amado – Jose Maria De Eca De Queiroz (1876)
The Temptation Of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert (1874)
The Hand Of Ethelberga – Thomas Hardy (1876)
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (1876)
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev (1877)
Drunkard – Emile Zola (1877)
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Return Of The Native – Thomas Hardy (1878)
The Red Room – August Strindberg (1879)
The Brothers Karamzov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
Nan – Emile Zola (1880)
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace (1880)
Bouvard And Pecuchet – Gustave Flaubert (1881)
The Portrait Of A Lady – Henry James (1881)
The House By The Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga (1881)
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cuba – Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis (1881)
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
A Woman’s Life – Guy De Maupassant (1883)
The Regent’s Wife – Leopoldo Alas (1884)
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy (1884)
Against The Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans (1894)
Marius The Epicurean – Walter Pater (1885)
Bel-Ami – Guy De Maupassant (1885)
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (1885)
The Quest – Frederik van Eeden (1885)
Germinal – Emile Zola (1885)
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider Haggard (1885)
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Mayor Of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy (1886)
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Manors Of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan (1886)
She – H Rider Haggard (1887)
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy (1887)
The People Of Hemso – August Strindberg (1887)
Under The Yoke – Ivan Vazov (1888)
Fortunata And Jacinta – Benito Perez Galdes (1887)
Pierre And Jean – Guy De Maupassant (1888)
The Master Of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)
Eline Vere – Louis Couperus (1889)
Hunger – Knut Hamsun (1890)
By The Open Sea – August Strindberg (1890)
La Bete Humaine – Emile Zola (1890)
Thais – Anatole France (1890)
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy (1890)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (1891)
Down There – Joris-Karl Huysmans (1891)
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (1891)
Gosta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlof (1891)
New Grub Street – George Gissing (1891)
News From Nowhere – William Morris (1891)
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
Diary Of A Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith (1892)
Born In Exile – George Gissing (1892)
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto (1894)
The Real Charlotte – Somerville & Ross (1894)
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (1895)
Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane (1895)
The Time Machine – H G Wells (1895)
The Island Of Dr Moreau – H G Wells (1896)
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (1897)
Fruits Of The Earth – Andre Gide (1897)
What Maisie Knew – Henry James (1897)
Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos (1897)
Pharaoh – Boleslaw Prus (1897)
The Invisible Man – H G Wells (1897)
The War Of The Worlds – H G Wells (1898)
The Child Of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio (1898)
As A Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo (1898)
The Turn Of The Screw – Henry James (1898)
The Awakening – Kate Chopin (1899)
The Stechlin – Theodor Fontane (1899)
Some Experiences Of An Irish R M – Somerville & Ross (1899)
Eclipse Of The Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi (1899)
Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis (1899)

1900s

Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (1900)
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser (1900)
The Tiger Of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari (1900)
None But The Brave – Arthur Schnitzler (1901)
Kim – Rudyard Kipling (1901)
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann (1901)
The Hound Of The Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (1902)
The Wings Of The Dove – Henry James (1902)
The Immoralist – Andre Gide (1902)
The Riddle Of The Sands – Erskine Childers (1903)
Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness – Daniel Paul Schreber (1903)
The Ambassadors – Henry James (1903)
Call Of The Wild – Jack London (1903)
The Way Of All Flesh – Samuel Butler (1903)
The Golden Bowl – Henry James (1904)
Hadrian The Seventh – Frederick Rolfe (1904)
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (1904)
Solitude – Victor Catala (1905)
Where Angels Fear To Tread – E M Forster (1905)
Professor Unrat (The Blue Angel) – Heinrich Mann (1905)
The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton (1905)
The Forsythe Saga – John Galsworthy (1906)
Young Torless – Robert Musil (1906)
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (1906)
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad (1907)
Mother – Maxim Gorky (1907)
The House On The Borderland – William Hope Hodgson (1908)
The Old Wive’s Tale – Arnold Bennett (1908)
The Iron Heel – Jack London (1908)
A Room With A View – E M Forster (1908)
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse (1908)
Tono-Bungay – H G Wells (1908)
Strait Is The Gate – Andre Gide (1909)
Martin Eden – Jack London (1909)
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein (1909)
Impressions Of Africa – Raymond Roussel (1910)
The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke (1910)
Howards End – E M Forster (1910)
Fantomas – Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre (1911)
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (1911)
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens (1912)
Death In Venice – Thomas Mann (1912)
Sons And Lovers – D H Lawrence (1913)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell (1914)
Tarzan Of The Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse (1914)
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel (1914)
Platero And I – Juan Ramon Jimenez (1914)
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (1914)
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan (1915)
The Rainbow – D H Lawrence (1915)
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham (1915)
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf (1915)
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (1915)
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1915)
The Home And The World – Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
Pallieter – Felix Timmermans (1916)
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse (1916)
The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela (1916)
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – James Joyce (1916)
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton (1916)
Growth Of The Soil – Knut Hamsun (1917)
Summer – Edith Wharton (1917)
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad (1917)
The Return Of The Soldier – Rebecca West (1918)
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis (1919)
Night And Day – Virginia Woolf (1919)
Storm Of Steel – Ernst Junger (1920)
Women In Love – D H Lawrence (1920)
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis (1920)
The Age Of Innocence – Edith Wharton (1920)
The Life Of Christ – Giovanni Papini (1921)
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley (1921)
Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset (1922)
Claudine’s House – Colette (1922)
Forest Of The Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu (1922)
Ulysses – James Joyce (1922)
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis (1922)
Aaron’s Rod – D H Lawrence (1922)
The Last Days Of Humanity – Karl Kraus (1922)
Life And Death Of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair (1922)
The Glimpses Of The Moon – Edith Wharton (1922)
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (1922)
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf (1922)
The Enormous Room – E E Cummings (1922)
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield (1922)
Amok – Stefan Zweig (1922)
The Fox – D H Lawrence (1923)
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley (1923)
Cane – Jean Toomer (1923)
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Calvino (1923)
The Devil In The Flesh – Raymond Radiguet (1923)
A Passage To India – E M Forster (1924)
We – Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924)
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (1924)
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen (1924)
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (1924)
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (1925)
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky (1925)
Chaka The Zulu – Thomas Mofolo (1925)
The Trial – Franz Kafka (1925)
The Counterfeiters – Andre Gide (1925)
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (1925)
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos (1925)
The Making Of Americans – Gertrude Stein (1925)
New World – Heruy Welde Sellase (1925)
Under The Sun Of Satan – Georges Bernanos (1926)
Albert And Jacob – Cora Sandel (1926)
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (1926)
One, None And A Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello (1926)
The Plumed Serpent – D H Lawrence (1926)
The Good Soldier Svejk – Jaroslav Hasek (1926)
The Castle – Franz Kafka (1926)
Blindness – Henry Green (1926)
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (1926)
In Search Of Lost Time – Marcel Proust (1927)
The Case Of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig (1927)
Amerika – Franz Kafka (1927)
Tarka The Otter – Henry Williamson (1927)
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (1927)
Rememberance Of Things Past – Marcel Proust (1927)
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (1927)
Nadja – Andre Breton (1928)
Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki (1928)
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford (1928)
Quicksand – Nella Larsen (1928)
Decline And Fall – Evelyn Waugh (1928)
Quartet – Jean Rhys (1928)
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis (1928)
The Well Of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall (1928)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence (1928)
Orlando – Virginia Woolf (1928)
Story Of The Eye – Georges Bataille (1928)
Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnoor (1929)
I Thought Of Daisy – Edmund Wilson (1929)
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe (1929)
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau (1929)
The Sound And The Fury – William Faulkner (1929)
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West (1929)
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen (1929)
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Doblin (1929)
All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
The Time Of Indifference – Alberto Moravia (1929)
Living – Henry Green (1929)
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett (1929)
A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway (1929)
Passing – Nella Larsen (1929)
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico (1929)
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett (1929)
Monica – Saunders Lewis (1930)
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh (1930)
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning (1930)
Insatiability – Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1930)
The Apes Of God – Wyndham Lewis (1930)
Cakes And Ale – W Somerset Maugham (1930)
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett (1931)
The Waves – Virginia Woolf (1931)
The Forbidden Realm – J Slauerhoff (1932)
The Return Of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza (1932)
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth (1932)
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett (1932)
To The North – Elizabeth Bowen (1932)
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons (1932)
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (1932)
Journey To The End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1932)
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1932)
Viper’s Tangle – Francois Mauriac (1932)
Joseph And His Brothers – Thomas Mann (1933)
Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux (1933)
Cheese – Willem Elsschot (1933)
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil (1933)
A Day Off – Storm Jameson (1933)
Testament Of Youth – Vera Brittain (1933)
The Autobiography Of Alice B Toklas – Gertrude Stein (1933)
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L Sayers (1933)
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West (1933)
The Street Of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz (1934)
Call It Sleep – Henry Roth (1934)
Thank You, Jeeves – P G Wodehouse (1934)
Tender Is The Night – F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
A Handful Of Dust – Evelyn Waugh (1934)
Tropic Of Cancer – Henry Miller (1934)
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M Cain (1934)
Novel With Cocaine – M Ageyev (1934)
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht (1934)
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L Sayers (1934)
Burmese Days – George Orwell (1934)
On The Heights Of Despair – Emile Cioran (1934)
The Bells Of Basel – Louis Aragon (1934)
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand (1935)
England Made Me – Graham Greene (1935)
The House In Paris – Elizabeth Bowen (1935)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy (1935)
The Last Of Mr Norris – Christopher Isherwood (1935)
Auto-Da-Fe – Elias Canetti (1935)
Independent People – Halldor Laxness (1935)
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes (1935)
Rickshaw Boy – Lao She (1936)
War With The Newts – Karel Capek (1936)
At The Mountains Of Madness – H P Lovecraft (1936)
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner (1936)
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson (1936)
Keep The Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell (1936)
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (1936)
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West (1936)
Eyeless In Gaza – Aldous Huxley (1936)
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner (1936)
Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz (1937)
The Blind Owl – Sadeq Hedayat (1937)
To Have And Have Not – Ernest Hemingway (1937)
Out Of Africa – Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) (1937)
The Revenge Of Love – Wyndham Lewis (1937)
In Parenthesis – David Jones (1937)
The Years – Virginia Woolf (1937)
The Hobbit – J R R Tolkein (1937)
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck (1937)
On The Edge Of Reason – Miroslav Krleza (1938)
Alamut – Vladimir Bartol (1938)
Murphy – Samuel Beckett (1938)
USA – John Dos Passos (1938)
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene (1938)
Cause For Alarm – Eric Ambler (1938)
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (1938)
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day – Winifred Watson (1938)
After The Death Of Don Juan – Sylvia Townsend Warner (1938)
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (1939)
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys (1939)
Tropic Of Capricorn – Henry Miller (1939)
Goodbye To Berlin – Christopher Isherwood (1939)
Coming Up For Air – George Orwell (1939)
At Swim Two Birds – Flann O’Brien (1939)
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce (1939)
The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck (1939)
Party Going – Henry Green (1939)
The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead (1940)
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati (1940)
The Power And The Glory – Graham Greene (1940)
Native Son – Richard Wright (1940)
For Whom The Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway (1940)
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler (1940)
The Hamlet – William Faulkner (1940)
The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese (1941)
Broad And Alien Is The World – Ciro Alegria (1941)
Between The Acts – Virginia Woolf (1941)
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton (1941)
The Living And The Dead – Patrick White (1941)
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien (1941)
Conversations In Sicily – Elio Vittorini (1941)
Chess Story (The Royal Game) – Stefan Zweig (1942)
The Outsider – Albert Camus (1942)
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner (1942)
Embers – Sandor Marai (1942)
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse (1943)
Caught – Henry Green (1943)
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943)
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow (1944)
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
Transit – Anna Seghers (1944)
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham (1944)
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren (1944)
The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy (1945)
Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andric (1945)
Nada – Carmen Laforet (1945)
The Death Of Virgil – Hermann Broch (1945)
Christ Stopped At Eboli – Carlo Levi (1945)
Arcanum 17 – Andre Breton (1945)
Loving – Henry Green (1945)
The Pursuit Of Love – Nancy Mitford (1945)
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (1945)
Animal Farm – George Orwell (1945)
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (1945)
The Bridge Over The Drina – Ivo Andric (1945)
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (1946)
Back – Henry Green (1946)
A House In The Uplands – Erskine Caldwell (1946)
Zorba The Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)
Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz (1947)
Froth On The Daydream – Boris Vian (1947)
The Plague – Albert Camus (1947)
The Path Of The Nest Of Spiders – Italo Calvino (1947)
Under The Volcano – Malcolm Lowry (1947)
If This Is A Man – Primo Levi (1947)
Exercises In Style – Raymond Queneau (1947)
The Victim – Saul Bellow (1947)
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann (1947)
Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton (1948)
The Heart Of The Matter – Graham Greene (1948)
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot (1948)
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia (1948)
All About H Hatterr – G V Desani (1948)
This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski (1948)
In The Heart Of The Sea – Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1948)
Journey To Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela (1948)
Ashes And Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski (1948)
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (1949)
The Man With The Golden Arm – Nelson Algren (1949)
Kingdom Of This World – Alejo Carpentier (1949)
The Heat Of The Day – Elizabeth Bowen (1949)
The Case Of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge (1949)
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford (1949)
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute (1950)
The Guiltless – Hermann Broch (1950)
Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist (1950)
The Garden Where The Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk (1950)
The Moon And The Bonfires – Cesare Pavese (1950)
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (1950)
The Grass Is Singing – Doris Lessing (1950)
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (1950)
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber (1950)
The Third Man – Graham Greene (1950)
The Labyrinth Of Solitude – Octavio Paz (1950)
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille (1950)
The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela (1951)
The End Of The Affair – Graham Greene (1951)
Molloy – Samuel Beckett (1951)
The Rebel – Albert Camus (1951)
The Catcher In The Rye – J D Salinger (1951)
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq (1951)
Foundation – Isaac Asimov (1951)
Day Of The Triffids – John Wyndham (1951)
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett (1951)
Memoirs Of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)
Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym (1952)
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson (1952)
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor (1952)
The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (1952)
The Judge And His Hangman – Friedrich Durrenmatt (1952)
The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier (1953)
The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen (1953)
The Dark Child – Camara Laye (1953)
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming (1953)
Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Baldwin (1953)
The Adventures Of Augie March – Saul Bellow (1953)
Junkie – William Burroughs (1953)
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis (1953)
Watt – Samuel Beckett (1953)
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett (1953)
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler (1953)
The Go-Between – L P Hartley (1953)
The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna (1954)
The Sound Of Waves – Yukio Mishima (1954)
Death In Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen (1954)
A Day In Spring – Ciril Kosmac (1954)
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
Under The Net – Iris Murdoch (1954)
Lord Of The Flies – William Golding (1954)
A Ghost At Noon – Alberto Moravia (1954)
The Story Of O – Pauline Reage (1954)
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis (1954)
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch (1954)
Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan (1954)
The Lord Of The Rings – J R R Tolkein (1954-56)
The Tree Of Man – Patrick White (1955)
The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo (1955)
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini (1955)
The Recognitions – William Gaddis (1955)
The Last Temptation Of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis (1955)
The Quiet American – Graham Greene (1955)
The Trusting And The Maimed – James Plunkett (1955)
A World Of Love – Elizabeth Bowen (1955)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith (1955)
The Floating Opera – John Barth (1956)
Seize The Day – Saul Bellow (1956)
The Roots Of Heaven – Romain Gary (1956)
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956)
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin (1956)
The Devil To Pay In The Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1956)
The Manila Rope – Veijo Meri (1957)
The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger (1957)
The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas (1957)
The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck (1957)
Justine – Lawrence Durrell (1957)
The Wonderful O – James Thurber (1957)
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak (1957)
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov (1957)
On The Road – Jack Kerouac (1957)
Homo Faber – Max Frisch (1957)
Blue Of Noon – Georges Bataille (1957)
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham (1957)
Voss – Patrick White (1957)
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957)
The Bell – Iris Murdoch (1958)
The Once And Future King – T H White (1958)
The End Of The Road – John Barth (1958)
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan (1958)
Mrs ‘Arris Goes To Paris – Paul Gallico (1958)
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe (1958)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (1958)
The Bitter Glass – Eilis Dillon (1958)
Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe (1958)
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1958)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (1958)
The Guide – R K Narayan (1958)
Deep Rivers – Jose Maria Arguedas (1958)
Gabriela, Clove And Cinnamon – Jorge Amado (1958)
Down Second Avenue – Es’kia Mphahlele (1959)
Billiards At Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Boll (1959(
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark (1959)
Henderson The Rain King – Saul Bellow (1959)
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes (1959)
The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass (1959)
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs (1959)
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse (1959)
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee (1959)
Halftime: A Novel – Martin Walser (1960)
God’s Bits Of Wood – Ousmane Sembene (1960)
The Magician Of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer (1960)
Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola (1960)
Promise At Dawn – Romain Gary (1960)
Rabbit, Run – John Updike (1960)
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee (1960)
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien (1960)
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino (1960)
How It Is – Samuel Beckett (1960)
The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O’Connor (1960)
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (1961)
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (1961)
Cat And Mouse – Gunter Grass (1961)
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961)
Faces In The Water – Janet Frame (1961)
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch (1961)
Franny And Zooey – J D Salinger (1961)
Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (1961)
The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti (1961)
No One Writes To The Colonel – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1961)
Memoirs Of A Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas (1961)
The Time Of The Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)
The Death Of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes (1962)
Time Of Silence – Luis Martin-Santos (1962)
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani (1962)
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien (1962)
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges (1962)
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (1962)
The Drowned World – J G Ballard (1962)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962)
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Ken Kesey (1962)
The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis (1963)
Dog Years – Gunter Grass (1963)
The Collector – John Fowles (1963)
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1963)
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (1963)
Inside Mr Enderby – Anthony Burgess (1963)
The Girls Of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (1963)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – John Le Carre (1963)
Manon Des Sources – Marcel Pagnol (1963)
The Graduate – Charles Webb (1963)
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
V – Thomas Pynchon (1963)
Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1964)
Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis (1964)
Return To Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers (1964)
Herzog – Saul Bellow (1964)
The Ravishing Of Lol V Stein – Marguerite Duras (1964)
Arrow Of God – Chinua Achebe (1964)
Albert Angelo – B S Johnson (1964)
Come Back, Dr Caligari – Donald Barthelme (1964)
Sometimes A Great Notion – Ken Kesey (1964)
The Passion According To G H – Clarice Lispector (1964)
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal (1965)
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor (1965)
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
August Is A Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien (1965)
The River Between – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (1965)
Things – Georges Perec (1965)
Death And The Dervish – Mesa Selimovic (1966)
Silence – Shusaku Endo (1966)
Marks Of Identity – Juan Goytisolo (1966)
To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia (1966)
The Crying Of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (1966)
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth (1966)
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1966)
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras (1966)
The Magus – John Fowles (1966)
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (1966)
Trawl – B S Johnson (1966)
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West (1966)
Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz (1967)
Z – Vassilis Vassilikos (1967)
The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer (1967)
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec (1967)
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (1967)
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson (1967)
The Joke – Milan Kundera (1967)
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson (1967)
The Master And Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)
The Cubs And Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa (1967)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe (1968)
Chocky – John Wyndham (1968)
The Quest For Christa T – Christa Wolf (1968)
A Kestral For A Knave – Barry Hines (1968)
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan (1968)
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz (1968)
Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid – Malcolm Lowry (1968)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke (1968)
The First Circle – Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1968)
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1968)
Belle Du Seigneur – Albert Cohen (1968)
The Nice And The Good – Iris Murdoch (1968)
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal (1968)
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen (1968)
Cathedral – Oles Honchar (1968)
Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig (1969)
Moscow Stations – Venedikt Yerofeev (1969)
The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad (1969)
Seasons Of Migration To The North – Tayeb Salih (1969)
Here’s To You Jesus – Elena Poniatowska (1969)
Jacob The Liar – Jurek Becker (1969)
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec (1969)
Them – Joyce Carol Oates (1969)
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov (1969)
The Godfather – Mario Puzo (1969)
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth (1969)
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis (1969)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles (1969)
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1969)
Blind Man With A Pistol – Chester Himes (1969)
Pricksongs And Descants – Robert Coover (1969)
Tent Of Miracles – Jorge Amado (1969)
Fifth Business – Robertson Davies (1970)
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion (1970)
A World Of Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1970)
The Atrocity Exhibition – J G Ballard (1970)
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson (1970)
Troubles – J G Farrell (1970)
Mercier Et Camier – Samuel Beckett (1970)
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (1970)
Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick – Peter Handke (1970)
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison (1970)
The Ogre – Michel Tournier (1970)
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark (1970)
The Sea Of Fertility – Yukio Mishima (1970)
Rabbit Redux – John Updike (1971)
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs (1971)
Group Portrait With A Lady – Heinrich Boll (1971)
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson (1971)
The Book Of Daniel – E L Doctorow (1971)
In A Free State – V S Naipaul (1971)
House Mother Normal – B S Johnson (1971)
Cataract – Mykhailo Osadchy (1971)
Lives of Girls And Women – Alice Munro (1971)
The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi (1972)
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty (1972)
The Day Of The Dolphin – Robert Merle (1972)
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood (1972)
G – John Burger (1972)
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson (1972)
The Breast – Philip Roth (1972)
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (1972)
Sula – Toni Morrison (1973)
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch (1973)
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon (1973)
The Honourary Consul – Graham Greene (1973)
Crash – J G Ballard (1973)
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino (1973)
The Siege Of Krishnapur – J G Farrell (1973)
A Question Of Power – Bessie Head (1973)
Fear Of Flying – Erica Jong (1973)
Breakfast Of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1973)
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Distopia – Ursula Le Guin (1974)
The Diviners – Margaret Laurence (1974)
The Harbour – Antun Soljan (1974)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre (1974)
The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Boll (1974)
Dusklands – J M Coetzee (1974)
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle (1974)
The Year Of The Hare – Arto Paasilinna (1975)
The Commandant – Jessica Anderson (1975)
Woman At Point Zero – Nawal El-Sadaawi (1975)
Ragtime – E L Doctorow (1975)
Correction – Thomas Bernhard (1975)
Dead Babies – Martin Amis (1975)
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow (1975)
High Rise – J G Ballard (1975)
Willard And His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan (1975)
Fateless – Imre Kertesz (1975)
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme (1975)
Grimus – Salman Rushdie (1975)
A Dance To The Music Of Time – Anthony Powell (1975)
W, Or The Memory Of Childhood – Georges Perec (1975)
Autumn Of The Patriarch – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1975)
Kiss Of The Spiderwoman – Manuel Puig (1976)
Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami (1976)
Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor (1976)
Patterns Of Childhood – Christa Wolf (1976)
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme (1976)
Cutter And Bone – Newton Thornburg (1976)
Interview With A Vampire – Anne Rice (1976)
The Public Burning – Robert Coover (1976)
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo (1976)
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke (1976)
The Engineer Of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky (1977)
Quartet In Autumn – Barbara Pym (1977)
The Wars – Timothy Findley (1977)
The Hour Of The Star – Clarice Lispector (1977)
Song Of Solomon – Toni Morrison (1977)
Petals Of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (1977)
Dispatches – Michael Herr (1977)
The Shining – Stephen King (1977)
Delta Of Venus – Anais Nin (1977)
The Passion Of New Eve – Angela Carter (1977)
In The Heart Of The Country – J M Coetzee (1977)
Requiem For A Dream – Hubert Selby, Jr (1978)
The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro (1978)
The Back Room – Carmen Martin Gaite (1978)
The Virgin In The Garden – A S Byatt (1978)
Yes – Thomas Bernhard (1978)
The Singapore Grip – J G Farrell (1978)
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (1978)
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec (1978)
The World According To Garp – John Irving (1978)
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan (1978)
A Dry White Season – Andre Brink (1979)
So Long A Letter – Mariama Ba (1979)
Fool’s Gold – Maro Douka (1979)
Southern Seas – Manuel Vazquez Montalban (1979)
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979)
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino (1979)
The Safety Net – Heinrich Boll (1979)
Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer (1979)
A Bend In The River – V S Naipaul (1979)
Shikasta – Doris Lessing (1979)
Smiley’s People – John Le Carre (1979)
The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting – Milan Kundera (1979)
The Smell Of Sadness – Alfred Kossmann (1980)
Clear Light Of Day – Anita Desai (1980)
The Name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco (1980)
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard (1980)
Confederacy Of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (1980)
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom (1980)
Rites of Passage – William Golding (1980)
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (1980)
Waiting For The Barbarians – J M Coetzee (1980)
Broken April – Ismail Kadare (1980)
Leaden Wings – Zhang Jie (1981)
The War At The End Of The World – Mario Vargas Llosa (1981)
The House With The Blind Glass Windows – Herbjorg Wassmo (1981)
Couples, Passersby – Botho Strauss (1981)
Summer In Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin (1981)
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer (1981)
The Comfort Of Strangers – Ian McEwan (1981)
Lanark: A Life In Four Books – Alasdair Gray (1981)
Rabbit Is Rich – John Updike (1981)
Memory Of Fire – Eduardo Galeano (1982)
Baltasar and Blimunda – Jose Saramago (1982)
The Book Of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa (1982)
The Names – Don DeLillo (1982)
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard (1982)
On The Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin (1982)
The Newton Letter – John Banville (1982)
The House Of The Spirits – Isabel Allende (1982)
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (1982)
A Pale View Of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard (1982)
The Colour Purple – Alice Walker (1982)
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White (1982)
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi (1982)
Fado Alexandrino – Antonio Lobo Antunes (1983)
The Christmas Oratorio – Goran Tunstrom (1983)
The Witness – Juan Jose Saer (1983)
The Sorrow Of Belgium – Hugo Claus (1983)
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek (1983)
The Diary Of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing (1983)
The Life And Times Of Michael K – J M Coetzee (1983)
Waterland – Graham Swift (1983)
La Brava – Elmore Leonard (1983)
Fools Of Fortune – William Trevor (1983)
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett (1983)
Shame – Salman Rushdie (1983)
Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel – Julian Rios (1984)
Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich (1984)
The Young Man – Botho Strauss (1984)
Professor Marten’s Departure – Jaan Kross (1984)
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis (1984)
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes (1984)
Neuromancer – William Gibson (1984)
Blood And Guts In High School – Kathy Acker (1984)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being – Milan Kundera (1984)
Nights At The Circus – Angela Carter (1984)
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks (1984)
Empire Of The Sun – J G Ballard (1984)
The Lover – Marguerite Duras (1984)
The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis – Jose Saramago (1984)
The Busconductor Hines – James Kelman (1984)
Dictionary Of The Khazars – Milorad Pavic (1984)
Legend – David Gemmell (1984)
Half Of Man Is Woman – Zhang Xianliang (1985)
Simon And The Oaks – Marianne Fredriksson (1985)
Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (1985)
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd (1985)
Queer – William Burroughs (1985)
White Noise – Don DeLillo (1985)
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard (1985)
Perfume – Patrick Suskind (1985)
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1985)
Contact – Carl Sagan (1985)
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (1985)
A Maggot – John Fowles (1985)
The Cider House Rules – John Irving (1985)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeannette Winterson (1985)
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)
The Parable Of The Blind – Gert Hofmann (1985)
Reasons To Live – Amy Hempel (1985)
Ancestral Voices – Etienne van Heerden (1986)
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman – Andrzej Szczypiorski (1986)
The Drowned And The Saved – Primo Levi (1986)
Foe – J M Coetzee (1986)
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard (1986)
An Artist Of The Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Lost Language Of Cranes – David Leavitt (1986)
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis (1986)
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons (1986)
Marya: A Life – Joyce Carol Oates (1986)
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (1986)
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore (1986)
Of Love And Shadows – Isabel Allende (1987)
Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto (1987)
A Ballad For Georg Henych – Viktor Paskov (1987)
Black Box – Amos Oz (1987)
Beloved – Toni Morrison (1987)
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae (1987)
Enigma Of Arrival – V S Naipaul (1987)
World’s End – T Coraghessan Boyle (1987)
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster (1987)
The Bonfire Of The Vanities – Tom Wolfe (1987)
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews (1987)
The Child In Time – Ian McEwan (1987)
The Pigeon – Patrick Suskind (1987)
The Passion – Jeannette Winterson (1987)
The Black Dahalia – James Ellroy (1987)
The Afternoon Of A Writer – Peter Handke (1987)
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble (1987)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (1987)
Paradise Of The Blind – Ford Madox Ford (1988)
The Last World – Christoph Ransmayr (1988)
The First Garden – Anne Hebert (1988)
The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh (1988)
The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul – Douglas Adams (1988)
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
The Player Of Games – Iain Banks (1988)
Libra – Don DeLillo (1988)
Oscar And Lucinda – Peter Carey (1988)
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst (1988)
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie (1988)
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson (1988)
The Beautiful Room Is Empty – Edmund White (1988)
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco (1988)
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood (1988)
All Souls – Javier Marias (1989)
Inland – Gerald Murnane (1989)
Obabakoak – Bernardo Atxaga (1989)
Gimmick! – Joost Zwagerman (1989)
The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor (1990)
The Book of Evidence – John Banville (1989)
London Fields – Martin Amis (1989)
A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving (1989)
Like Water For Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (1989)
The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon – Jose Saramago (1989)
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway (1989)
The Temple Of My Familiar – Alice Walker (1989)
The Melancholy Of Resistance – Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1989)
Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Billy Bathgate – E L Doctorow (1989)
Moon Palace – Paul Auster (1989)
Sexing The Cherry – Jeannette Winterson (1989)
A Disaffection – James Kelman (1989)
The Daughter – Pavlos Matesis (1990)
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle (1990)
The Buddha Of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi (1990)
Possession – A S Byatt (1990)
Get Like Life – Lorrie Moore (1990)
A Home At The End Of The World – Michael Cunningham (1990)
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien (1990)
The Music Of Chance – Paul Auster (1990)
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge (1990)
Vertigo – W G Sebald (1990)
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon (1990)
Amongst Women – John McGahern (1990)
Shorty – Elmore Leonard (1990)
The Laws – Connie Palmen (1991)
Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell (1991)
Astradeni – Eugenia Fakinou (1991)
Wise Children – Angela Carter (1991)
Senor Vivo And The Coca Lord – Louis De Bernieres (1991)
Downriver – Iain Sinclair (1991)
Regeneration – Pat Barker (1991)
Typical – Padgett Powell (1991)
Mao II – Don DeLillo (1991)
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis (1991)
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
Wild Swans – Jung Chang (1991)
Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas (1992)
Uncle Petros And Goldbach’s Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis (1992)
Memoirs Of Rain – Sunetra Gupta (1992)
The Triple Mirror Of The Self – Zulfikar Ghose (1992)
The Club Dumas – Arturo Perez-Reverte (1992)
All The Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (1992)
Arcadia – Jim Crace (1992)
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud (1992)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan (1992)
Asphodel – H D (Hilda Doolittle) (1992)
The Heather Blazing – Colm Toibin (1992)
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe (1992)
Miss Smilla’s Sense Of Snow – Peter Hoeg (1992)
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (1992)
Jazz – Toni Morrison (1992)
Written On The Body – Jeannette Winterson (1992)
The Crow Road – Iain Banks (1992)
Indigo – Marina Warner (1992)
Possessing The Secret Of Joy – Alice Walker (1992)
A Heart So White – Javier Marias (1992)
The Discovery Of Heaven – Harry Mulisch (1992)
Life Is A Caravanserai – Emine Ozdamar (1992)
The Secret History – Donna Tartt (1992)
The Emigrants – W G Sebald (1992)
The Adventures And Misadventures Of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis (1993)
Deep River – Shusaku Endo (1993)
The Twins – Tessa de Loo (1993)
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf (1993)
Waiting For The Dark, Waiting For The Light – Ivan Klima (1993)
The Holder Of The World – Bharati Mukherjee (1993)
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood (1993)
The House Of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd (1993)
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (1993)
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (1993)
What A Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe (1993)
On Love – Alain de Botton (1993)
Complicity – Iain Banks (1993)
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth (1993)
Looking For The Possible Dance – A L Kennedy (1993)
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (1993)
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (1993)
The Shipping News – E Annie Proulx (1993)
The Invention Of The Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm (1993)
Disappearance – David Dabydeen (1993)
Our Lady Of The Assassins – Fernando Vallejo (1994)
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor (1994)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres (1994)
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman (1994)
City Sister Silver – Jachym Topol (1994)
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi (1994)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (1994)
The Master Of Petersburg – J M Coetzee (1994)
Land – Park Kyong-ni (1994)
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq (1994)
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst (1994)
Mr Vertigo – Paul Auster (REMOVED FROM 2ND EDITION)
Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez (1995)
Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante (1995)
Late-Night News – Petros Markaris (1995)
The End Of The Story – Lydia Davis (1995)
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose (1995)
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (1995)
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (1995)
The Rings Of Saturn – W G Sebald (1995)
Sabbath’s Theatre – Philip Roth (1995)
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie (1995)
The Information – Martin Amis (1995)
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner (1995)
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (1995)
Democracy – Joan Didion (1996)
A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza Ceballos (1996)
Fall On Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald (1996)
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (1996)
The Clay Machine Gun – Victor Pelevin (1996)
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (1996)
Forever A Stranger – Hella Haasse (1996)
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker (1996)
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels (1996)
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker (1996)
Silk – Alessandro Baricco (1996)
Money To Burn – Ricardo Piglia (1997)
Margot And The Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts (1997)
The Untouchable – John Banville (1997)
American Pastoral – Philip Roth (1997)
The Life Of Insects – Victor Pelevin (1997)
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey (1997)
Underworld – Don DeLillo (1997)
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (1997)
Great Apes – Will Self (1997)
Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden (1997)
The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997)
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (1997)
Crossfire – Miyuki Miyabe (1998)e
The Heretic – Miguel Delibes (1998)
The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano (1998)
Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Gutierrez (1998)
Veronika Decides To Die – Paulo Coelho (1998)
The Hours – Michael Cunningham (1998)
Another World – Pat Barker (1998)
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis (1998)
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
Tipping The Velvet – Sarah Waters (1998)
The Talk Of The Town – Ardal O’Hanlon (1998)
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom (1998)
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks (1998)
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (1998)
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi (1998)
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq (1998)
Pavel’s Letters – Monika Maron (1999)
The Museum Of Unconditional Surrender – Dubravka Ugresic (1999)
In Search Of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi (1999)
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (1999)
Disgrace – J M Coetzee (1999)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie (1999)
Fear And Trembling – Amelie Nothomb (1999)
Everything You Need – A L Kennedy (1999)
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic (1999)
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (1999)
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra (1999)
Timbuktu – Paul Auster (1999)

2000s

Bartleby And Co – Enrique Vila-Matas (2000)
Pastoralia – George Saunders (2000)
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates (2000)
House Of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski (2000)
Super-Cannes – J G Ballard (2000)
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande (2000)
After The Quake – Haruki Murakami (2000)
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (2000)
The Human Stain – Philip Roth (2000)
How The Dead Live – Will Self (2000)
City Of God – E L Doctorow (2000)
Celestial Harmonies – Peter Esterhazy (2000)
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace (2000)
Ignorance – Milan Kundera (2000)
Under The Skin – Michel Faber (2000)
The Heart Of Redness – Zakes Mda (2000)
White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000)
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare (2000)
The Devil And Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho (2000)
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma (2000)
The Feast Of The Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa (2000)
Soldiers Of Salamina – Javier Cercas (2001)
I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti (2001)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2001)
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (2001)
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill (2001)
Fury – Salman Rushdie (2001)
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo (2001)
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini (2001)
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Atonement – Ian McEwan (2001)
Schooling – Heather McGowan (2001)
Platform – Michel Houellebecq (2001)
Austerlitz – W G Sebald (2001)
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi (2001)
Snow – Orhan Pamuk (2002)
Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias (2002)
The Book Of Illusions – Paul Auster (2002)
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon (2002)
Dead Air – Iain Banks (2002)
Youth – J M Coetzee (2002)
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
Shroud – John Banville (2002)
In The Forest – Edna O’Brien (2002)
That They May Face The Rising Sun – John McGahern (2002)
The Story Of Lucy Gault – William Trevor (2002)
Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami (2002)
Unless – Carol Shields (2002)
Everything Is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)
The Double – Jose Saramago (2002)
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters (2002)
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry (2002)
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair (2002)
The Successor – Ismail Kadare (2003)
La Dama Numero Trece – Jose Carlos Somoza (2003)
A Tale Of Love And Darkness – Amos Oz (2003)
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
Vernon God Little – D B C Pierre (2003)
Elizabeth Costello – J M Coetzee (2003)
Islands – Dan Sleigh (2003)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – Mark Haddon (2003)
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt (2003)
The Light Of Day – Graham Swift (2003)
Thursbitch – Alan Garner (2003)
The Colour – Rose Tremain (2003)
Drop City – T Coraghessan Boyle (2004)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2004)
Dining On Stones – Iain Sinclair (2004)
The Lambs Of London – Peter Ackroyd (2004)
Vanishing Point – David Markson (2004)
The Master – Colm Toibin (2004)
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth (2004)
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble (2004)
Kavalier And Clay – Michael Chabon (2004)
The Line Of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
The Book About Blanche And Marie – Per Olov Enquist (2004)
The Swarm – Frank Schatzing (2004)
Small Island – Andrea Levy (2004)
2666 – Roberto Bolano (2004)
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky (2004)
The Sea – John Banville (2005)
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson (2005)
Slow Man – J M Coetzee (2005)
On Beauty – Zadie Smith (2005)
Saturday – Ian McEwan (2005)
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka (2005)
Measuring The World – Daniel Kehlmann (2005)
The Accidental – Ali Smith (2005)
History of Love – Nicole Krauss (2005)
Mother’s Milk – Edward St Aubyn (2006)
Against The Day – Thomas Pynchon (2006)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid (2006)
The Inheritance Of Loss – Kiran Desai (2006)
The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell (2006)
Carry Me Down – M J Hyland (2006)
Animal’s People – Indra Sinha (2007)
Falling Man – Don DeLillo (2007)
Half Of A Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (2007)
The Gathering – Anne Enright (2007)
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery (2008)
Cost: A Novel – Roxana Robinson (2008)
The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga (2008)
Home – Marilynne Robinson (2008)
Kieron Smith, Boy – James Kelman (2008)
The Children’s Book – A S Byatt (2009)
Invisible – Paul Auster (2009)
American Rust – Philipp Meyer (2009)
The Blind Side Of The Heart – Julia Franck (2009)
Cain – Jose Saramago (2009)
A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore (2009)
1Q84 – Haruki Murakami (2010)
Nemesis – Philip Roth (2010)
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen (2010)
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan (2010)
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes (2011)
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides (2011)
There but for the – Ali Smith (2011)
Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach (2011)

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