1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Picked by a team of International Critics and Literary Luminaries. Dr. Peter Boxall, editor. 2006 Edition. The books in green are the ones that I have already read.

My Reading Stats
- 2013: 34 of 1001 read (3.3%)
- 2014: 36 of 1001 read (3.6%)
- 2015: 46 of 1001 read (4.6%)
- 2016: 56 of 1001 read (5.6%)
- 2017: 57 of 1001 read (5.7%)
- 2018: 57 of 1001 read (5.7%)
- 2019: 57 of 1001 read (5.7%)
- 2020: 57 of 1001 read (5.7%)
- 2021: 57 of 1001 read (5.7%)
- 2022: 58 of 1001 read (5.8%)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday by Ian McEwan
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
The Sea by John Bonville
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Master by Colm Tobin
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Drop City by T. C. Boyle
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Thursbitch by Alan Garner
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Islands by Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
Family Matters by Rhinton Mistry
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Double by Jose Saramago
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless by Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murokami
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
In the Forest by Edna O’Brien
Shroud by John Banville
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J. M. Coetzee
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Nowhere Man by Alexsandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift by Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
Platform by Michael Houellebecq
Schooling by Heather McGowan
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move by Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Fury by Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
City of God by E. L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live by Will Self
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danelewski
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
As If I am Not There by Slavenka Drakulic
Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles by Michael Houelleberq
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
All Soul’s Day by Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town by Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Glamoroma by Bret Easton Ellis
Another World by Pat Barker
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Great Apes by Will Self
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Untouchable by John Banville
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
The Information by Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance by Mistry Rohinton
Love’s Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever by Michael Houellebecq
Land by Park Kyong-Ni
The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
City, Sister, Silver by Jachym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance by A. L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
Complicity by Iain Banks
On Love by Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Life Is a Caravanserai by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
A Heart so White by Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret Joy by Alice Walker
Indigo by Marina Warner
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
Asphodel by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Arcadia by Jim Crace
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
Mao II by Don DeLillo
Typical by Padgett Powell
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Downriver by Iain Sinclair
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis De Bernieres
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald
Stone Junction by Tim Dodge
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner by William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Libra by Don DeLillo
The Player of Games by Iain Banks
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Cigarettes by Harry Matthews
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
World’s End by T. C. Boyle
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
The Taebaek Mountains by Jo Jung-Rae
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Foe by J. M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hoffman
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Maggot by John Fowles
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 10) by David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
The Bus Conductor Hines by James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
La Brava by E. Leonard
Waterland by Graham Swift
Life and Times of Michal K by J. M. Coetzee
The Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Wittgenstien’s Nephew: A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Newton Letters by John Banville
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
The Names by Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden by Lenod Tsypkin
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage by William Golding
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit by Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughing and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People by John le Carre
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
The Shining by Stephen King
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star by Cloris Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star by Don DeLillo
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg
Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W, or the Memory of a Childhood by Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Grimus by Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Fateless by Imre Kertesz
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
High Rise by J. G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
Dead Babies by Martin Amis
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
Crash by J. G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Sula by Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Breast by Philip Roth
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
G. by John Berger
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy by B. S. Johnson
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Boll
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
The Ogre by Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier by Samuel Beckett
Troubles by J. G. Farrell
Jahrestage by Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The French Lieutentant’s Woman by John Fowles
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
A Void / Avoid by Georges Perec
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid by Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
Chocky by John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
The Joke by Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
Trawl by B. S. Johnson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Magus by John Fowles
The Vice-Consul by Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Giles Goat Boy by John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Things by Georges Perec
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G. H. by Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Albert Angelo by B. S. Johnson
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
Herzog by Saul Bellow
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate by Charles Webb
Manon Des Sources by Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Collector by John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Labyrinths: Selected Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O’Brien
The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
How It Is by Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Promise at Dawn: A Memoir by Romain Gary
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Absolute Beginners by Colin Macinnnes
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring by Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Bitter Glass by Ellis Dillon
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
The End of the Road by John Barth
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss by Patrick White
Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
Homo Faber: A Report by Max Frisch
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Wonderful O by James Thurber
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Floating Opera by John Barth
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
Trusting and the Maimed by J. Plunkett
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Rogazzi by Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Self Condemned by Wyndham Lewis
Story of O by Pauline Reage
A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Watt by Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk” by William S. Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Youreenar
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Share by Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Abbot C by Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Gormenghast by Meervyn Peake
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
1984 by George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
Disobedience by Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchat
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
The Victim by Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
The Plague by Albert Camus
Back by Henry Green
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Loving by Henry Green
Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Transit by Anna Seghers
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Caught by Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hess
Embers by Sándor Márai
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Outsider by Albert Camus
In Sicily by Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth by Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead by Patrick White
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet by William Faulkner
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Native Son by Richard A. Wright
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Party Going by Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Years by Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis by David Jones
Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Wild Harbour by Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Auto-da-fé by Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris by Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They! by Horace McCoy
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me by Graham Greene
Burmese Days by George Orwell
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
A Day Off by Storm Jameson
Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico
Passing by Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Living by Henry Green
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy by Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Childermass by Wyndham Lewis
Quartet by Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Parades End by Ford Madox Ford
Nadja by Andre Breton
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
Amerika by Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Blindness by Henry Green
The Castle by Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business by Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo
Cane by Jean Toomer
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
Amok by Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity by Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Tarr by by Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad
Summer by Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
The Thiry-Nine Steps by John Buchan
KoKoro by Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Sons and Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter by James Stephens
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Fantomas by Marcel Allain
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Impressions of Africa by Raymoned Roussel
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden by Jack London
Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
The Inferno by Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Iron Heel by Jack London
The Old Wive’s Tale by Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Mother by Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Young Torless by Robert Musil
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. O. Somerville
The Stechlin by Theodore Fontane
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
What Masie Knew by Henry James
The Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte by Edith Somerville
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile by George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere by William Morris
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Gosta Berling’s Saga by Selma Lagerlof
Tess of the D’ Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Perez Galdos
People of Hemso by August Strindberg
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
She by H. Rider Haggard
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Nana by Emile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room by August Strindberg
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard by Emile Zola
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Possessed – The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
One the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Villete by Charlotte Bronte
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Ann Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Agnes Grey by Ann Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
Le Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Albigenses by Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Elective Affinities by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Camilla by Fanny Burney
The Monk by M. G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Justine by Marquis de Sade
Vathek by William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Cecilia, or Memoirs of An Heiress by Fanny Burney
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker by Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling Henry MacKenzie
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy by Luarence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
Julie, or the New Eloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
Candide by Francois Voltaire
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
Amelia by Henry Fielding
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Jacqui the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave by Apra Behn
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus
Chaerras and Callirhoe by Chariton
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

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Picked by a team of International Critics and Literary Luminaries. Dr. Peter Boxall, editor. 2006 Edition. The books in green are the ones that I have already read.

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