Friday, February 6, 2009

The List


I have begun to incorporate (it’s not finished yet) the titles that were added to the list in the new edition of the book. The new books are the ones that are not numbered. The titles that were subtracted are asterixed.


    2000s

    Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
  1. *Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. *Saturday – Ian McEwan
    Falling Man by Don DeLillo
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
    The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  3. *On Beauty – Zadie Smith
    Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
  4. *Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
    Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
    Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
    Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
  5. *Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
  6. The Sea – John Banville
    The Accidental by Ali Smith
    The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
  7. *The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
    2666 by Roberto Bolano
    Small Island by Andrea Levy
    The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
  8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
  9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
  10. *Vanishing Point – David Markson
  11. *The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
  12. *Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
    Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
    The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
  13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  14. *Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  15. *The Colour – Rose Tremain
  16. *Thursbitch – Alan Garner
  17. *The Light of Day – Graham Swift
  18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
    Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias
    The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
    Lady Number Thirteen by Jose Carlos Somoza
    The Successor by Ismail Kadare
    A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
    Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
  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 – José Saramago
  26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
    Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  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 – 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 – W.G. Sebald
  40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
  41. *Schooling – Heather McGowan
  42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
    Soldiers of Salamis by Javer Cercas
    I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
  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 Vargos Llosa
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  51. *An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
  52. The Devil and Miss Prym – 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 – Péter Esterházy
  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 – 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 Saunder
    Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas


  70. 1990s

  71. *Timbuktu – Paul Auster
    The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic
    In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi
  72. *The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  73. *Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
    Pavel’s Letters by Monika Maron
  74. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  75. *Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
  76. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  77. *The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
  78. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
  79. *Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
    Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  80. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
    Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Guitierrez
  81. *Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
  82. *Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
  83. *Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
    The Heretic by Miguel Deliber
  84. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  85. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  86. *Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  87. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
    Crossfire by Miyabe Miyuki
  88. *Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
  89. *Another World – Pat Barker
  90. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  91. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  92. *Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  93. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  94. *Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  95. *Great Apes – Will Self
  96. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  97. Underworld – Don DeLillo
    Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia
  98. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  99. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  100. *American Pastoral – Philip Roth
    Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts
  101. *The Untouchable – John Banville
  102. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
    Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
    A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza
  103. *Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  104. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  105. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  106. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
  107. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
  108. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  109. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
  110. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
  111. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  112. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  113. *The Information – Martin Amis
  114. *The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
  115. *Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
  116. *The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
    Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
  117. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  118. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  119. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
  120. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  121. *Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
  122. *The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
    The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris
    Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
  123. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
  124. Land – Park Kyong-ni
    Our Lady of Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
  125. *The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
  126. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  127. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  128. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  129. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  130. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
  131. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
    Deep River by Shusaku Endo
  132. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
  133. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
    Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima
  134. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  135. *Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  136. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  137. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
  138. *Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  139. *Complicity – Iain Banks
    The Twins by Tessa de Loo
  140. On Love – Alain de Botton
  141. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  142. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  143. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  144. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
    The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
    Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
    The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll by Alvaro Mutis
  145. *The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
  146. *The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  147. *The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  148. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
    Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
  149. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  150. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  151. *A Heart So White – Javier Marias
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
    The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose
    All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  152. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  153. Indigo – Marina Warner
  154. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  155. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  156. *Jazz – Toni Morrison
  157. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
    The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  158. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  159. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  160. *Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  161. *The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  162. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  163. *Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
    Memoirs of Rain by Sunetra Gupta
  164. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
  165. Arcadia – Jim Crace
  166. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
    Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou
    Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
    The Laws by Connie Palmen
  167. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  168. *Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
  169. Mao II – Don DeLillo
  170. Typical – Padgett Powell
  171. Regeneration – Pat Barker
  172. *Downriver – Iain Sinclair
  173. *Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
  174. *Wise Children – Angela Carter
    The Daugther by Pavlos Matesis
  175. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  176. Amongst Women – John McGahern
  177. *Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  178. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  179. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  180. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
  181. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  182. *A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  183. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
  184. *Possession – A.S. Byatt
    The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
  185. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi


  186. 1980’s

  187. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
  188. *A Disaffection – James Kelman
  189. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  190. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
  191. *Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  192. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  193. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  194. *The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
    The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
  195. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  196. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  197. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  198. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
    Obabakoak by Bernando Atxaga
    Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman
  199. London Fields – Martin Amis
  200. *The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  201. *Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  202. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  203. *The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
    Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
  204. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  205. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  206. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  207. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
    The Last World by Christopher Ransmayr
  208. *Libra – Don DeLillo
    The First Garden by Anne Herbert
  209. *The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  210. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
  211. *The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  212. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
    Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  213. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
  214. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  215. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  216. *The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
  217. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  218. *The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  219. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  220. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
    Black Box by Amos Oz
    All Souls by Javier Marias
  221. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
    Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
  222. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  223. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
    The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov
  224. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  225. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  226. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  227. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  228. *Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
  229. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  230. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  231. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
    Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano
  232. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  233. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  234. *Foe – J.M. Coetzee
  235. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  236. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  237. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
    Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden
  238. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  239. *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
    Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
  240. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  241. *A Maggot – John Fowles
    Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson
  242. *Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  243. Contact – Carl Sagan
  244. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  245. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  246. *Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
    Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
  247. White Noise – Don DeLillo
  248. *Queer – William Burroughs
    Love Medicine by Louise Erdich
  249. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  250. Legend – David Gemmell
  251. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
    The Young Man by Botho Strauss
  252. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
  253. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  254. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
    Democracy by Joan Didion
  255. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  256. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  257. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  258. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
    Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julian Rios
  259. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
    Professor Martens’ Departure by Jaan Kross
  260. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  261. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  262. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
  263. Shame – Salman Rushdie
  264. *Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  265. *Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
    The Witness by Juan Jose Saer
    Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes
    The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom
  266. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
  267. Waterland – Graham Swift
  268. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
  269. *The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
  270. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  271. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
    Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago
    The Book of Diquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  272. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  273. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  274. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  275. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  276. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  277. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  278. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  279. *The Newton Letter – John Banville
  280. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
  281. *Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  282. *The Names – Don DeLillo
  283. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  284. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  285. *The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  286. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  287. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  288. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  289. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
  290. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  291. *Rites of Passage – William Golding
  292. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  293. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  294. *City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  295. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco


  296. 1970s

  297. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  298. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  299. *Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  300. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  301. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  302. *The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  303. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
  304. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  305. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  306. *The World According to Garp – John Irving
  307. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
  308. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  309. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  310. *Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  311. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  312. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
  313. *The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  314. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
  315. The Shining – Stephen King
  316. Dispatches – Michael Herr
  317. *Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  318. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  319. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  320. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
  321. *Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
  322. *The Public Burning – Robert Coover
  323. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  324. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  325. *Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
  326. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  327. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
  328. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
  329. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  330. *Grimus – Salman Rushdie
  331. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
  332. Fateless – Imre Kertész
  333. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
  334. *High Rise – J.G. Ballard
  335. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  336. *Dead Babies – Martin Amis
  337. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
  338. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  339. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
  340. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
  341. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
  342. *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
  343. *Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  344. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  345. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  346. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
  347. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  348. Crash – J.G. Ballard
  349. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  350. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  351. *The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
  352. *Sula – Toni Morrison
  353. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  354. *The Breast – Philip Roth
  355. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  356. G – John Berger
  357. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  358. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  359. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
  360. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
  361. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  362. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
  363. *The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
  364. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
  365. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
  366. *The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
  367. *The Ogre – Michael Tournier
  368. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison


  369. 1960s

  370. *Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
  371. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  372. *Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
  373. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  374. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
  375. *The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
  376. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  377. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
  378. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  379. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  380. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  381. *The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
  382. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  383. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
  384. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  385. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
  386. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
  387. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
  388. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
  389. *The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
  390. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
  391. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  392. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  393. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  394. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  395. *Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
  396. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
  397. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
  398. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  399. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  400. *Chocky – John Wyndham
  401. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  402. *The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  403. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  404. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  405. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  406. *The Joke – Milan Kundera
  407. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  408. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  409. *A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
  410. *The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
  411. *Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  412. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  413. The Magus – John Fowles
  414. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
  415. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  416. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  417. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  418. Things – Georges Perec
  419. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  420. *August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  421. *God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  422. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  423. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  424. *Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  425. *Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
  426. *Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  427. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  428. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  429. Herzog – Saul Bellow
  430. V. – Thomas Pynchon
  431. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  432. The Graduate – Charles Webb
  433. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  434. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
  435. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  436. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
  437. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  438. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  439. *The Collector – John Fowles
  440. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  441. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  442. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  443. *The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  444. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  445. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  446. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
  447. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  448. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  449. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  450. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  451. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  452. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  453. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
  454. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  455. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  456. *The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  457. *How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  458. *Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  459. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
  460. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  461. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  462. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary


  463. 1950s

  464. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  465. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  466. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  467. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  468. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
  469. *Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  470. *Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  471. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  472. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  473. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  474. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  475. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  476. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  477. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  478. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  479. *Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
  480. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  481. *The End of the Road – John Barth
  482. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  483. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  484. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  485. Voss – Patrick White
  486. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
  487. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  488. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  489. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  490. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  491. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  492. *The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  493. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  494. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  495. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  496. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
  497. *Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  498. The Floating Opera – John Barth
  499. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  500. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
  501. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  502. *A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  503. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  504. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  505. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  506. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
  507. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  508. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
  509. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  510. *Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
  511. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
  512. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
  513. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  514. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  515. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  516. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  517. *The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  518. *Watt – Samuel Beckett
  519. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
  520. Junkie – William Burroughs
  521. *The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  522. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  523. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  524. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  525. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  526. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  527. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
  528. *The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  529. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  530. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
  531. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  532. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  533. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
  534. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  535. The Rebel – Albert Camus
  536. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
  537. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  538. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
  539. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz


  540. 1940s

  541. *The Third Man – Graham Greene
  542. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
  543. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  544. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
  545. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  546. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  547. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  548. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
  549. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  550. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  551. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  552. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  553. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  554. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  555. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
  556. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  557. *The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  558. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  559. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  560. *The Victim – Saul Bellow
  561. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  562. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
  563. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  564. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
  565. The Plague – Albert Camus
  566. Back – Henry Green
  567. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
  568. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  569. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  570. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  571. *Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  572. *The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  573. Loving – Henry Green
  574. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
  575. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
  576. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
  577. Transit – Anna Seghers
  578. *Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  579. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
  580. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  581. *Caught – Henry Green
  582. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
  583. Embers – Sandor Marai
  584. *Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
  585. The Outsider – Albert Camus
  586. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  587. *The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
  588. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
  589. *Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  590. *Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  591. *The Hamlet – William Faulkner
  592. *Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
  593. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  594. Native Son – Richard Wright
  595. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
  596. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati


  597. 1930s

  598. *Party Going – Henry Green
  599. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  600. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  601. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  602. *Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  603. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  604. *Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  605. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
  606. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  607. *After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
  608. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  609. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
  610. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  611. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
  612. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  613. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
  614. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
  615. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  616. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  617. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  618. *The Years – Virginia Woolf
  619. In Parenthesis – David Jones
  620. *The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
  621. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  622. *To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  623. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  624. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
  625. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
  626. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  627. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  628. *Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  629. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  630. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  631. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
  632. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  633. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  634. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
  635. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
  636. *The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
  637. *England Made Me – Graham Greene
  638. *Burmese Days – George Orwell
  639. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  640. *Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
  641. *Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  642. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
  643. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  644. *A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  645. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  646. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  647. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
  648. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  649. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
  650. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  651. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
  652. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
  653. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  654. *A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  655. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  656. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  657. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  658. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  659. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  660. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  661. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
  662. *The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  663. *Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
  664. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
  665. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  666. *Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
  667. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett


  668. 1920s

  669. *Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  670. Passing – Nella Larsen
  671. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  672. *Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
  673. Living – Henry Green
  674. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  675. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  676. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  677. *The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  678. *Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
  679. *The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  680. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  681. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  682. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  683. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
  684. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
  685. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  686. *The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
  687. *Quartet – Jean Rhys
  688. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  689. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  690. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
  691. Nadja – André Breton
  692. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  693. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
  694. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  695. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
  696. Amerika – Franz Kafka
  697. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  698. Blindness – Henry Green
  699. The Castle – Franz Kafka
  700. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  701. *The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
  702. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  703. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  704. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
  705. *Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
  706. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  707. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  708. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
  709. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  710. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  711. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  712. *Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
  713. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  714. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  715. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  716. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  717. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  718. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  719. *Cane – Jean Toomer
  720. *Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
  721. Amok – Stefan Zweig
  722. *The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  723. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  724. *Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  725. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  726. *The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  727. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  728. *The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
  729. *Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
  730. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  731. Ulysses – James Joyce
  732. *The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  733. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
  734. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  735. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  736. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  737. 1910s

  738. *Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  739. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
  740. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  741. *The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
  742. *Summer – Edith Wharton
  743. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
  744. *Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
  745. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  746. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  747. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  748. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
  749. *The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
  750. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  751. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
  752. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
  753. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  754. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
  755. *Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
  756. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  757. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  758. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  759. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
  760. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  761. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  762. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  763. Howards End – E.M. Forster
  764. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
  765. 1900s

  766. *Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
  767. *Martin Eden – Jack London
  768. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
  769. *Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
  770. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
  771. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  772. *The Iron Heel – Jack London
  773. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  774. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  775. Mother – Maxim Gorky
  776. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  777. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  778. Young Törless – Robert Musil
  779. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
  780. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  781. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  782. *Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
  783. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  784. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
  785. *The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  786. The Ambassadors – Henry James
  787. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  788. The Immoralist – André Gide
  789. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  790. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  791. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  792. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
  793. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  794. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  795. *Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
  796. 1890s

  797. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
  798. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
  799. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  800. *The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  801. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
  802. *The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  803. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
  804. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
  805. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  806. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
  807. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  808. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  809. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
  810. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  811. *The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
  812. *The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  813. *Born in Exile – George Gissing
  814. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
  815. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  816. News from Nowhere – William Morris
  817. New Grub Street – George Gissing
  818. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
  819. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  820. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  821. 1880s

  822. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
  823. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
  824. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
  825. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
  826. *The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
  827. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
  828. *Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
  829. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
  830. *The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
  831. *She – H. Rider Haggard
  832. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  833. *The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  834. *Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
  835. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
  836. Germinal – Émile Zola
  837. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  838. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
  839. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
  840. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
  841. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  842. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
  843. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  844. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
  845. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  846. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
  847. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
  848. Nana – Émile Zola
  849. *The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  850. 1870s

  851. The Red Room – August Strindberg
  852. *Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
  853. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  854. Drunkard – Émile Zola
  855. *Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
  856. *Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
  857. *The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
  858. *The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
  859. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  860. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
  861. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
  862. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
  863. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  864. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
  865. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
  866. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  867. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  868. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
  869. 1860s

  870. *He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
  871. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  872. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
  873. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
  874. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
  875. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  876. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  877. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  878. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
  879. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
  880. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  881. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  882. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  883. *Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  884. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
  885. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  886. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
  887. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  888. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
  889. Silas Marner – George Eliot
  890. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  891. *On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
  892. *Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
  893. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  894. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  895. *The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  896. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
  897. 1850s

  898. *A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  899. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
  900. Adam Bede – George Eliot
  901. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  902. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
  903. *Hard Times – Charles Dickens
  904. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  905. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  906. *Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  907. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  908. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  909. *The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  910. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  911. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  912. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  913. 1840s

  914. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  915. *Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
  916. *Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
  917. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
  918. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  919. *Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
  920. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  921. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  922. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  923. *La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
  924. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  925. *The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  926. *Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
  927. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  928. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
  929. *A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  930. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
  931. 1830s

  932. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
  933. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  934. *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  935. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  936. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
  937. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
  938. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
  939. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  940. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
  941. 1820s

  942. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
  943. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  944. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
  945. *The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
  946. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
  947. *The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
  948. 1810s

  949. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
  950. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  951. *Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  952. *Persuasion – Jane Austen
  953. *Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
  954. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
  955. Emma – Jane Austen
  956. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  957. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  958. *The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
  959. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  960. 1800s

  961. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  962. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
  963. 1790s

  964. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
  965. The Nun – Denis Diderot
  966. Camilla – Fanny Burney
  967. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
  968. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  969. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
  970. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
  971. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
  972. Justine – Marquis de Sade
  973. 1780s

  974. Vathek – William Beckford
  975. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
  976. *Cecilia – Fanny Burney
  977. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  978. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  979. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  980. 1770s

  981. Evelina – Fanny Burney
  982. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  983. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
  984. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
  985. 1760s

  986. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
  987. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
  988. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
  989. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  990. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  991. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
  992. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  993. 1750s

  994. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
  995. Candide – Voltaire
  996. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
  997. *Amelia – Henry Fielding
  998. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
  999. 1740s

  1000. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
  1001. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  1002. *Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
  1003. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
  1004. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
  1005. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
  1006. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  1007. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
  1008. 1720s

  1009. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  1010. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  1011. *Roxana – Daniel Defoe
  1012. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  1013. 1710s

  1014. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
  1015. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  1016. 1700s

  1017. *A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
  1018. Pre-1700

  1019. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
  1020. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  1021. *The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  1022. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  1023. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
  1024. *Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
  1025. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
  1026. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
  1027. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
  1028. *Aithiopika – Heliodorus
  1029. *Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
  1030. *Metamorphoses – Ovid
  1031. *Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus