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Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency -Douglas Adams
Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amando
Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
Dead Babies - Martin Amis
The Information - Martin Amis
London Fields - Martin Amis
Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Thousand and One Nights - Anon
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - John Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Emma - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Moon Palace - Paul Auster
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room)
51. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
52. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
53. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
54. The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard
55. Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard
56. Crash - J. G. Ballard
57. The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard
58. Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard
59. High Rise - J. G. Ballard
60. Super-Cannes - J. G. Ballard
61. Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
62. Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac
63. Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
64. Complicity - Iain Banks
65. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
66. Dead Air - Iain Banks
67. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
68. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
69. Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
70. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
71. The Newton Letter - John Banville
72. The Sea - John Banville
73. Shroud - John Banville
74. The Untouchable - John Banville
75. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
76. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
77. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
78. Another World - Pat Barker
79. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
80. Regeneration - Pat Barker
81. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
82. Flaubert’s Parrot - Julian Barnes
83. The End of the Road - John Barth
84. The Floating Opera - John Barth
85. Giles Goat-Boy - Joseph Barth
86. Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
87. Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Barthelme
88. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
89. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
90. The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
91. Blue of Noon - Georges Bataille
92. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
93. How it is - Samuel Beckett
94. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
95. Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
96. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
97. Murphy - Samuel Beckett
98. The Unnameable - Samuel Beckett
99. Watt - Samuel Beckett
100.Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
101.Vathek - William Beckford
102.Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
103.Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
104.The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
105.Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
106.Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
107.Herzog - Saul Bellow
108.Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
109.Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
110.The Victim - Saul Bellow
111.The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett
112.G. - John Berger
113.Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
114.Correction - Thomas Bernhard
115.Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
116.Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
117.Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
118.Yes - Thomas Bernhard
119.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
120.Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord - Louis de Bernieres
121.Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
122.Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll
123.Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Boll
124.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
125.The Safety Net - Heinrich Boll
126.Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
127.Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
128.On Love - Alain de Botton
129.Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
130.The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
131.The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
132.The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
133.To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
134.A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
135.Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
136.World’s End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
137.In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
138.Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
139.Threepenny Novel - Berlott Brecht
140.Arcanum 17 - Andre Breton
141.Nadja - Andre Breton
142.Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
143.Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
144.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
145.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
146.Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
147.Villette - Charlotte Bronte
148.Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
149.The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
150.The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
151.The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
152.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
153.Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
154.Camilla - Fanny Burney
155.Cecilia - Fanny Burney
156.Evelina - Fanny Burney
157.Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
158.Junkie - William Burroughs
159.The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
160.Queer - William Burroughs
161.The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
162.Erewhon - Samuel Butler
163.The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
164.Possession - A. S. Byatt
165.The Virgin in the Garden - A. S. Byatt
166.The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
167.The Castles of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
168.If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
169.Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
170.Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
171.The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
172.The Outsider - Albert Camus
173.The Plague - Albert Camus
174.The Rebel - Albert Camus
175.Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti
176.Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
177.In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
178.Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
179.Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
180.Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
181.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
182.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
183.Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
184.The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
185.Wise Children - Angela Carter
186.The Professor’s House - Willa Cather
187.Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
188.Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavendra
189.The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
190.Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
191.The Long Good-bye - Raymond Chandler
192.Wild Swans - Jung Chang
193.Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
194.On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
195.The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
196.Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
197.The Awakening - Kate Chopin
198.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
199.2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
200.The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
201.Fanny Hill - John Cleland
202.Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
203.What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
204.The Devil and Miss Pym - Paulo Coelho
205.Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
206.Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
207.Dusklands - J. M. Coetzee
208.Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
209.Foe - J. M. Coetzee
210.In the Heart of the Country - J. M. Coetzee
211.The Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee
212.The Master of Petersburg - J. M. Coetzee
213.Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
214.Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee
215.Youth - J. M. Coetzee
216.Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
217.The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
218.The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
219.Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
220.Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
221.Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
222.The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
223.The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
224.Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
225.Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
226.The Public Burning - Robert Coover
227.Arcadia - Jim Crace
228.The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
229.A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
230.The Hours - Michael Cunningham
231.Disappearance - David Dabydeen
232.Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
233.House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
234.The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
235.Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
236.Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
237.Roxana - Daniel Defoe
238.The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
239.Libra - Don DeLillo
240.Mao II - Don DeLillo
241.The Names - Don DeLillo
242.Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo
243.Underworld - Don DeLillo
244.White Noise - Don DeLillo
245.All About H. Hatterr - G. V. Desani
246.Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
247.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
248.Bleak House - Charles Dickens
249.A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
250.David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
251.Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
252.Hard Times - Charles Dickens
253.The Life and Adventures of Nicolas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
254.Martin Chuzzelwit - Charles Dickens
255.Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
256.Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
257.A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
258.Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
259.The Nun - Denis Diderot
260.Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
261.The Bitter Glass - Ellis Dillon
262.Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
263.Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
264.Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow
265.The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow
266.City of God - E. L. Doctorow
267.Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
268.Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
269.The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
270.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
271.The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
272.The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
273.Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
274.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
275.The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
276.The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
277.The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
278.As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakulic
279.Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
280.Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
281.The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
282.La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
283.The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
284.Hallucinating Foucault - Patricai Duncker
285.The Lover - Marguerite Duras
286.The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
287.The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
288.Justine - Lawrence Durrell
289.The Judge and His Hangman - Friederich Durrenmatt
290.Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
291.The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
292.The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
293.Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
294.Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
295.Adam Bede - George Eliot
296.Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
297.Middlemarch - George Eliot
298.The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
299.Silas Marner - George Eliot
300.American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
301.Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
302.Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
303.Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
304.The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
305.The Interesting Narrative - Oloudah Equiano
306.Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
307.Celestial Harmonies - Peter Esterhazy
308.Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides
309.The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
310.Under the Skin - Michel Faber
311.The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
312.The Singapore Grip - J. G. Farrell
313.Troubles - J. G. Farrell
314.Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
315.Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
316.The Hamlet - William Faulkner
317.The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
318.Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
319.Amelia - Henry Fielding
320.Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
321.Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
322.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
323.Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
324.Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
325.Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
326.Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
327.The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
328.Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
329.Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
330.Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane
331.The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
332.The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
333.Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford
334.Howard’s End - E. M. Forster
335.A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
336.A Room With a View - E. M. Forster
337.Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
338.The Collector - John Fowles
339.The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles
340.A Maggot - John Fowles
341.The Magus - John Fowles
342.Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
343.The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
344.Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
345.Homo Faber - Max Frisch
346.I’m Not Stiller - Max Frisch
347.The Recognitions - William Gaddis
348.Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdos
349.Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
350.The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
351.The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
352.Thursbitch - Alan Garner
353.Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
354.The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
355.Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
356.Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
357.North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
358.Legend - David Gemmell
359.A Scot’s Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
360.Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
361.Neuromancer - William Gibson
362.The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
363.The Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide
364.The Immoralist - Andre Gide
365.Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide
366.The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
367.Born in Exile - George Gissing
368.New Grub Street - George Gissing
369.The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
370.Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
371.The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
372.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
373.Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
374.The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
375.Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
376.Lord of the Flies - William Golding
377.Rites of Passage - William Golding
378.The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
379.Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
380.Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
381.July’s People - Nadine Gordimer
382.The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
383.Mother - Maxim Gorky
384.The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
385.Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
386.The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
387.Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
388.Back - Henry Green
389.Blindness - Henry Green
390.Caught - Henry Green
391.Living - Henry Green
392.Loving - Henry Green
393.Party Going - Henry Green
394.Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
395.The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
396.England Made Me - Graham Greene
397.The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
398.The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
399.The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
400.The Quiet American - Graham Greene
401.The Third Man - Graham Greene
402.Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
403.Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
404.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
405.King Solomon’s Mines - Rider H. Haggard
406.She - Rider H. Haggard
407.The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
408.Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
409.The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
410.The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
411.Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
412.The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
413.Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
414.Hunger - Knut Hamsun
415.The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
416.Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
417.The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
418.Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
419.The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
420.Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
421.The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
422.Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
423.Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
424.The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
425.The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley
426.The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
427.The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
428.The House of the Green Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
429.The Marble Fawn - Nathaniel Hawthorne
430.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
431.Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
432.Asphodel - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
433.A Question of Power - Bessie Head
434.Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
435.Aithiopika - Heliodorus
436.Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
437.A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
438.For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
439.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
440.The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
441.To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
442.Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
443.Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
444.Dispatches - Michael Herr
445.The Glass Bead Came - Hermann Hesse
446.Rosshalde - Hermann Hesse
447.Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
448.Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
449.The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
450.Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Himes
451.A Kestrel For a Knave - Barry Hines
452.The House On the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
453.Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg
454.The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
455.The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
456.Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
457.The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
458.The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
459.Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
460.Platform - Michel Houellebecq
461.Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
462.The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
463.Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
464.Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
465.What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
466.Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
467.Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
468.Chrome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
469.Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
470.Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
471.The Cider House Rules - John Irving
472.A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
473.The World According to Garp - John Irving
474.Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
475.The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
476.An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
477.Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
478.A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
479.Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
480.The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
481.The Ambassadors - Henry James
482.The Golden Bowl - Henry James
483.The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
484.The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
485.What Maisie Knew - Henry James
486.The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
487.A Day Off - Storm Jameson
488.The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
489.The Piano Teacher - Elfiede Jelinek
490.Albert Angelo - B. S. Johnson
491.House Mother Normal - B. S. Johnson
492.Trawl - B. S. Johnson
493.Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
494.Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
495.In Parenthesis - David Jones
496.Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
497.Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
498.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
499.Ulysses - James Joyce
500.The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-Rae
501.Broken April - Ismail Kadare
502.Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
503.Amerika - Franz Kafka
504.The Castle - Franz Kafka
505.The Trial - Franz Kafka
506.The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
507.The Busconductor Hines - James Kelman
508.A Dissaffection - James Kelman
509.How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
510.Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
511.Everything You Need - A. L. Kennedy
512.Looking for the Possible Dance - A. L. Kennedy
513.On the Road - Jack Kerouac
514.Fateless - Imre Kertesz
515.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
516.Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
517.The Shining - Stephen King
518.The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
519.The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
520.Kim - Rudyard Kipling
521.The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
522.The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
523.The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
524.The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
525.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
526.Ignorance - Milan Kundera
527.The Joke - Milan Kundera
528.The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
529.The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
530.Gabriel’s Gift - Hanif Kureishi
531.Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
532.Land - Park Kyong-Ni
533.The Princess of Cleves - Comtesse de Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne La Fayette
534.Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
535.Gosta Berling’s Saga - Selma Lagerlof
536.The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
537.Passing - Nella Larsen
538.Quicksand - Nella Larsen
539.Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
540.Aaron’s Road - D. H. Lawrence
541.The Fox - D. H. Lawrence
542.Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D. H. Lawrence
543.The Plumed Serpent - D. H. Lawrence
544.The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
545.Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
546.Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
547.Independent People - Halldor Laxness
548.Smiley’s People - John Le Carre
549.The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
550.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
551.In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
552.Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
553.Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
554.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
555.Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
556.Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
557.The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
558.The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
559.City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
560.Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
561.LaBrava - Elmore Leonard
562.The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
563.The Diary of Jane Sommers - Doris Lessing
564.The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
565.The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
566.Shikasta - Doris Lessing
567.Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
568.If This is a Man - Primo Levi
569.The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
570.If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
571.The Monk - M. G. Lewis
572.Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
573.Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
574.The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
575.The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
576.The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
577.Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
578.Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
579.The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
580.The Passion According to G. H. - Clarice Lispector
581.The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
582.The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
583.The Iron Heel - Jack London
584.Martin Eden - Jack London
585.At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
586.Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
587.Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
588.Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
589.The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
590.They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Horace McCoy
591.Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
592.Atonement - Ian McEwan
593.Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
594.The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
595.The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
596.The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
597.Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
598.Saturday - Ian McEwan
599.Amongst Women - John McGahern
600.That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
601.Schooling - Heather McGowan
602.Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
603.The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
604.Wild Harbour - Ian Macpherson
605.Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
606.Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
607.Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
608.Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
609.The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
610.Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
611.The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
612.Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
613.The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
614.Embers - Sandor Marai
615.A Heart So White - Javier Marias
616.Vanishing Point - David Markson
617.Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
618.Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
619.Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
620.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
621.Life of Pi - Yann Martel
622.Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
623.The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
624.Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
625.Cakes and Ale - William Somerset Maugham
626.Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
627.The Razor’s Edge - William Somerset Maugham
628.Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
629.Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
630.A Woman’s Life - Guy de Maupassant
631.Don’t Move - Margaret Mazzantini
632.The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
633.Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
634.Moby Dick - Herman Melville
635.Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
636.Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
637.Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
638.The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
639.The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
640.Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
641.A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
642.Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
643.Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
644.Love In a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
645.The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
646.Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
647.Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
648.Like Life - Lorrie Moore
649.Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
650.A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
651.The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
652.News From Nowhere - William Morris
653.Beloved - Toni Morrison
654.The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
655.Jazz - Toni Morrison
656.Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
657.Sula - Toni Morrison
658.The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
659.Max Havelaar - Multatuli
660.After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
661.Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
662.Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
663.The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
664.The Bell - Iris Murdoch
665.The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
666.The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
667.The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
668.A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
669.Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
670.The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
671.Young Torless - Robert Musil
672.Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
673.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
674.Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
675.Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
676.A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
677.Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul
678.In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul
679.The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
680.Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
681.All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
682.Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
683.Fear and Trembling - Amalie Nothomb
684.Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
685.Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
686.Marya: A Life - Joyce Carol Oates
687.them - Joyce Carol Oates
688.August is a Wicked Month - Edna O’Brien
689.The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
690.Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O’Brien
691.In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
692.At Swim - Two Birds - Flann O’Brien
693.The Poor Mouth - Flann O’Brien
694.The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
695.The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
696.Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
697.The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
698.Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
699.Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
700.The Talk of the Town - Ardal O’Hanlon
701.The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
702.At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill
703.Animal Farm - George Orwell
704.Burmese Days - George Orwell
705.Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
706.Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
707.Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
708.Metamorphoses - Ovid
709.Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Ozdamar
710.Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
711.Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
712.The Ragazzi - Pier Paolo Pasolini
713.Manhattan Transfer - Dos Passos
714.USA - Dos Passos
715.Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
716.Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
717.Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
718.The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
719.Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
720.The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
721.Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
722.Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
723.Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
724.The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
725.The Clay Machine Gun - Victor Pelevin
726.Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
727.A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
728.Things - Georges Perec
729.A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
730.W, Or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
731.One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
732.The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
733.The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
734.The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
735.The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
736.The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
737.A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
738.Typical - Padgett Powell
739.The Shipping News - Annie E. Proulx
740.Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
741.The Godfather - Mario Puzo
742.The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
743.Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
744.Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
745.V. - Thomas Pynchon
746.Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
747.Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
748.Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
749.The Mysteries of Udolopho - Ann Radcliffe
750.The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
751.The Story of O - Pauline Reage
752.All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
753.Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
754.Quartet - Jean Rhys
755.Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
756.Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
757.Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
758.Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
759.Pamela - Samuel Richardson
760.Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
761.Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
762.Love’s Work - Gillian Rose
763.Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
764.The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
765.American Pastoral - Phillip Roth
766.The Breast - Phillip Roth
767.The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
768.Operation Shylock - Phillip Roth
769.The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
770.Portnoy’s Complaint - Phillip Roth
771.Sabbath’s Theater - Phillip Roth
772.Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
773.Emile, Or on Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
774.Julie: Or the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
775.Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
776.Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
777.Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
778.The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
779.Fury - Salman Rushdie
780.Grimus - Salman Rushdie
781.The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
782.Midnight’s Children -Salman Rushdie
783.The Moor’s Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
784.The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
785.Shame - Salman Rushdie
786.Rashoman - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
787.Justine - Marquis de Sade
788.The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
789.Contact - Carl Sagan
790.Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
791.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
792.The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
793.Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
794.The Double - Jose Saramago
795.The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago
796.The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago
797.Nausea - Jean-Paul Satre
798.Pastoralia - George Saunders
799.Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
800.The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
801.The Reader - Bernard Schlink
802.Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
803.The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
804.Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
805.Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
806.The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald
807.The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald
808.Vertigo - W. G. Sebald
809.Transit - Anna Seghers
810.Great Apes - Will Self
811.How the Dead Live - Will Self
812.The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
813.The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
814.A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
815.An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
816.Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
817.The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
818.Unless - Carol Shields
819.A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
820.Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
821.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
822.Downriver - Iain Sinclair
823.London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
824.Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
825.Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
826.The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
827.Islands - Dan Sleigh
828.On Beauty - Zadie Smith
829.White Teeth - Zadie Smith
830.Humphry Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
831.Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
832.Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
833.Cancer Ward - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
834.The First Circle - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
835.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
836.The Real Charlotte - Somerville & Ross
837.Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. - Somerville & Ross
838.Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
839.The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark
840.The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
841.Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
842.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
843.The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
844.The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
845.Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
846.Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
847.The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
848.Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
849.The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
850.The Red and the Black - Stendhal
851.The Charwoman’s Daughter - James Stephens
852.Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
853.A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
854.Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
855.Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stephenson
856.The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stephenson
857.The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stephenson
858.Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
859.Dracula - Bram Stoker
860.Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly - Harriet Beecher Stowe
861.By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
862.The People of Hemso - August Strindberg
863.The Red Room - August Strindberg
864.Perfume - Patrick Suskind
865.The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind
866.Zeno’s Conscience - Italo Svevo
867.The Light of Day - Graham Swift
868.Waterland - Graham Swift
869.Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
870.A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
871.A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
872.Declares Pereira: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
873.The Secret History - Donna Tartt
874.Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
875.Matigari - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
876.Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
877.The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
878.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
879.The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
880.Walden - Henry David Thoreau
881.Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
882.The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
883.The Wonderful “O” - James Thurber
884.The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
885.The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin
886.The Master - Colm Toibin
887.The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
888.The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
889.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
890.The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
891.The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
892.War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
893.Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
894.Cane - Jean Toomer
895.City Sister Silver - Jachym Topol
896.The Ogre - Michel Tournier
897.The Colour - Rose Tremain
898.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
899.Felicia’s Journey - William Trevor
900.Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
901.The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
902.Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
903.He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
904.The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
905.Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
906.Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
907.Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
908.King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
909.On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
910.Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
911.Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
912.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
913.Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
914.Rabbit Redux - John Updike
915.Rabbit, Run - John Updike
916.The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
917.Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
918.Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
919.The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
920.Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
921.In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
922.Candide - Voltaire
923.Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
924.Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
925.God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
926.Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
927.The Color Purple - Alice Walker
928.Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
929.The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
930.Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
931.Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
932.The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
933.Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
934.Indigo - Marina Warner
935.After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner
936.Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
937.Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
938.Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
939.Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
940.Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day - Winfred Watson
941.Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
942.A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
943.Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
944.Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
945.The Graduate - Chris Webb
946.The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
947.The Island of Dr Moreau - H. G. Wells
948.The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
949.Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells
950.The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
951.Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
952.Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
953.The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
954.Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
955.The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
956.The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
957.The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
958.Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
959.Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
960.The Glimpse of the Moon - Edith Wharton
961.The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
962.Summer - Edith Wharton
963.The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
964.A Boy’s Own Story - Edmund White
965.The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
966.Voss - Patrick White
967.The Once and Future King - T. H. White
968.The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
969.Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
970.No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
971.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
972.The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
973.Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
974.Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
975.Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
976.Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
977.The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
978.Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
979.The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
980.Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
981.Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
982.Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
983.Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
984.Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
985.Orlando - Virginia Woolf
986.To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
987.The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
988.The Waves - Virginia Woolf
989.The Years - Virginia Woolf
990.Native Son - Richard Wright
991.Chocky - John Wyndham
992.Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
993.The Midwitch Cuckoos - John Wyndham
994.Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
995.We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
996.La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola
997.Drunkard - Emile Zola
998.Germinal - Emile Zola
999.Nana - Emile Zola
1000.Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
1001.Amok - Stefan Zweig