The Greatest Novels, Ever.
(a purposefully incomplete & arbitrarily organized list)
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19th Century American
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark
Twain
2. Moby-Dick—Herman Melville
3. The Complete Tales—Edgar Allan Poe
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl—Harriet
Jacobs
5. The Squatter and the Don—María Amparo
Ruiz de Burton
6. The Awakening—Kate Chopin
7. Maggie, Girl of the Streets—Stephen Crane
8. The Red Badge of Courage—Stephen Crane
9. Autobiography—Black Hawk
10. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A
Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
—William Wells Brown
20th Century American
1. Naked Lunch—William Burroughs
2. Queer—William Burroughs
3. On the Road—Jack Kerouac
4. To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
5. Absalom, Absalom!—William Faulkner
6. Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
7. Lolita—Vladimir Nabokov
8. The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner
9. The Old Man and the Sea—Ernest
Hemingway
10. Beloved—Toni Morrison
11. The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Storyteller—Leslie Marmon Silko
13. In the Time of the Butterflies—Julia Alvarez
14. So Far From God—Ana Castillo
15. The Last of the Menu Girls—Denise Chavez
16. Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
17. The House on the Lagoon—Rosario Ferré
18. The Eagle’s Throne—Carlos Fuentes
19. A Handbook to Luck—Cristina García
20. The Sun Also Rises—Ernest Hemingway
21. The Woman Warrior—Maxine Hong
Kingston
22. Middle Passage—Charles Johnson
23. The Interpreter of Maladies (short stories)—
Jhumpa Lahiri
11. The Grandissimes—George Washington
Cable
12. Hobomok—Lydia Maria Child
13. Sister Carrie—Theodore Dreiser
14. Ramona—Helen Hunt Jackson
15. Daisy Miller—Henry James
16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. Up from Slavery—Booker T. Washington
18. Our Nig—Harriet E. Wilson
19. Life among the Paiutes—Sara Winnemucca
20. The Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton
24. Praisesong for the Widow—Paule Marshall
25. Mother Tongue—Demetria Martínez
26. The Crying of Lot 49—Thomas Pynchon
27. Bodega Dreams—Ernesto Quiñonez
28. And the Earth Did Not Devour Him—Tomas
Rivera
29. Song of the Water Saints—Nelly Rosario
30. The Jungle—Upton Sinclair
31. Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck
32. The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck
33. Down These Mean Streets—Piri Thomas
34. Cane—Jean Toomer
35. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and
Clay—Michael Chabon
36. The Road—Cormac McCarthy
37. Fight Club—Chuck Palahniuk
38. American Psycho—Bret Easton Ellis
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale
Hurston
40. The Virgin Suicides—Jeffrey Eugenides
41. One of Ours—Willa Cather
42. More Die of Heartbreak—Saul Bellow
43. All the Pretty Horses—Cormac McCarthy
44. Blood Meridian—Cormac McCarthy
45. Gravity's Rainbow—Thomas Pynchon
19th Century British
1. Great Expectations—Charles Dickens
2. Mrs. Dalloway—Virginia Woolf
3. To the Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf
4. Nostromo—Joseph Conrad
5. Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
6. Emma—Jane Austen
7. Sons and Lovers—DH Lawrence
8. Middlemarch—George Eliot
9. Mill on the Floss—George Eliot
10. Wuthering Heights—Emily Brontë
11. Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte
12. Prometheus Unbound—Percy Bysshe Shelley.
13. Frankenstein—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
14. Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Thomas Hardy
15. The Mayor of Casterbridge—Thomas Hardy
20th Century British
1. The Golden Notebook—Doris Lessing
2. Midnight's Children—Salman Rushdie
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce
4. The Good Soldier—Ford Madox Ford
5. The Return of the Soldier—Rebecca West
6. Women in Love—D. H. Lawrence
7. A Passage to India—E. M. Forster
8. Frost in May—Antonia White
9. The Quiet American—Graham Greene
10. 1984—George Orwell
11. A Clockwork Orange—Anthony Burgess
12. The White Hotel—D. M. Thomas
13. A Bend in the River—V. S. Naipaul
14. July’s People—Nadine Gordimer
15. The God of Small Things—Arundhati Roy
16. The Heat of the Day—Elizabeth Bowen
17. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner—Alan Sillitoe
18. Nights at the Circus—Angela Carter
19. The Country Girls—Edna O’Brien
20. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit—Jeanette Winterson
21. The Remains of the Day—Kazuo Ishiguro
22. Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
23. Lord Jim—Joseph Conrad
24. Nostromo—Joseph Conrad
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Latin America
1. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands—Joao
Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil
2. Collected Fictions—Jorge Luis Borges,
Argentina
3. Juan Rulfo—Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo,
Mexico
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude—
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia
5. Love in the Time of Cholera—Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, Colombia
Caribbean
1. Wide Sargasso Sea —Jean Rhys
2. Divina Trace— Robert Antoni
3. Rites of Passage—Kamau Brathwaite
4. Louisiana—Erna Brodber,
5. The Palace of the Peacock—Harris,
Wilson
6. Lucy—Kincaid, Jamaica
7. A Small Place—Kincaid, Jamaica
8. The Autobiography of My Mother—
Kincaid, Jamaica
9. In the Castle of My Skin—Lamming,
George
10. The Wine of Astonishment—Lovelace,
Earl
11. A Bend in the River—Naipaul, V.S.
12. The Enigma of Arrival—Naipaul, V.S.
13. Cambridge—Phillips, Caryl
14. Omeros—Walcott, Derek
Middle East
1. Thousand and One Nights—
India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500)
Africa
1. Season of Migration to the North—
Tayeb Salih, Sudan
2. Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe,
Nigeria
3. Nervous Conditions—Tsitsi
Dangarembga
4.
5.
6.
7.
Disgrace—J. M. Coetzee
Arrow of God—Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Anowa—Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born— Ayi
Kwei Armah, Ghana
8. A Dry White Season—André Brink, South
Africa
9. The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar— Syl
Cheney-Choker, Sierra Leone
10. Life and Times of Michael K—J.M. Coetzee,
South Africa
11. The Joys of Motherhood— Buchi Emecheta,
Nigeria
12. Maps—Nuruddin Farah, Somalia
13. The Blood Knot—Athol Fugard, South Africa
14. Burgher's Daughter—Nadine Gordimer, South
Africa
15. The Cairo Trilogy—Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
16. A Grain of Wheat—Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya
17. Butterfly Burning—Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwe
18. Children of Gebelawi—Naguib Mahfouz,
Egypt
Australia & New Zealand
1. The Bone People—Keri Hulme
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock—Lady Joan Weigall
Lindsay
3. The Book Thief—Markus Zusak
4. Seven Little Australians—Ethel Turner
5. My Brilliant Career—Miles Franklin
6. My Brother Jack—George Johnston
7. The Harp in the South—Ruth Park
8. The Man Who Loved Children—Christina
Stead
9. For the Term of His Natural Life—Marcus
Clarke
10. I Can Jump Puddles—Alan Marshall
11. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith—Thomas
Keneally
12. The Getting of Wisdom—Handel Richardson
13. The Power of One—Bryce Courtenay
14. True History of the Kelly Gang—Peter Carey
15. We of the Never Never—Jeannie/Aeneas Gunn
16. The Bodysurfers—Robert Drewe
17. Tirra Lirra By the River—Jessica Anderson
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Europe
1. Molloy—Samuel Beckett, Ireland
2. Malone Dies—Samuel Beckett, Ireland
3. The Unnamable—Samuel Beckett,
Ireland
4. Ulysses—James Joyce, Ireland
5. Gulliver's Travels—Jonathan Swift,
Ireland
6. Gypsy Ballads—Federico Garcia Lorca,
Spain
7. Blindness—Jose Saramago, Portugal
8. The Book of Disquiet—Fernando Pessoa,
Portugal
9. Confessions of Zeno—Italo Svevo, Italy
10. History—Elsa Morante, Italy
11. Zorba the Greek—Nikos Kazantzakis,
Greece
12. Foucault's Pendulum—Umberto Eco,
Italy
13. In the Name of the Rose—Umberto Eco,
Italy
14. The Good Soldier Svejk—Jaroslav Hasek,
Czech Republic
15. The Castle—Franz Kafka, Bohemia
16. The Complete Stories—Franz Kafka,
Bohemia
17. The Trial—Franz Kafka, Bohemia
18. Buddenbrooks—Thomas Mann,
Germany
19. Berlin Alexanderplatz—Alfred Doblin,
Germany
20. The Tin Drum—Gunter Grass, Germany
21. Faust—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Germany
22. The Magic Mountain—Thomas Mann,
Germany
23. The Man Without Qualities—Robert
Musil, Austria
24. Hunger—Knut Hamsun, Norway
25. Pippi Longstocking—Astrid Lindgren,
Sweden
26. Fairy Tales and Stories—Hans Christian
Andersen, Denmark
27. Independent People—Halldor K Laxness,
Iceland
28. Njaals Saga—Iceland, (c 1300)
29. Remembrance of Things Past—Marcel
Proust, France
30. The Stranger—Albert Camus, France
31. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master—
Denis Diderot, France
32. Journey to the End of the Night—LouisFerdinand Celine, France
33. Madame Bovary—Gustave Flaubert,
France
34. Memoirs of Hadrian—Marguerite
Yourcenar, France
35. Old Goriot—Honore de Balzac, France
36. The Red and the Black—Stendhal, France
37. A Sentimental Education—Gustave
Flaubert, France
Russia
1. Crime and Punishment—Fyodor M
Dostoyevsky
2. Dead Souls—Nikolai Gogol
3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other
Stories—Leo Tolstoy
4. Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy
5. Selected Stories—Anton P Chekhov
6. War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy
7. The Idiot—Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
8. The Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor M
Dostoyevsky
9. The Possessed—Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
10. The Master and Margarita—Mikhail
Bulgakov
11. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Science Fiction
1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy—
Douglas Adams
2. Non-Stop—Brian W Aldiss
3. Foundation—Isaac Asimov
4. The Blind Assassin—Margaret Atwood
5. The Handmaid's Tale—Margaret Atwood
6. In the Country of Last Things—Paul
Auster
7. The Drowned World—JG Ballard
8. Crash—JG Ballard
9. Millennium People—JG Ballard
10. The Wasp Factory—Iain Banks
11. Consider Phlebas—Iain M Banks
12. The Time Ships—Stephen Baxter
13. Darwin's Radio—Greg Bear
14. The Stars My Destination—Alfred Bester
15. Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
16. A Clockwork Orange—Anthony Burgess
17. A Princess of Mars—Edgar Rice
Burroughs
18. Kindred—Octavia Butler
19. The Baron in the Trees—Italo Calvino
20. Childhood's End—Arthur C Clarke
21. The Einstein Intersection—Samuel R
Delaney
22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—
Philip K Dick
23. The Man in the High Castle—Philip K
Dick
24. Neuromancer—William Gibson
25. The Forever War—Joe Haldeman
26. Stranger in a Strange Land—Robert A
Heinlein
27. Dune—Frank L Herbert
28. The Glass Bead Game—Herman Hesse
29. Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
30. Flowers for Algernon—Daniel Keyes
31. The Earthsea Series—Ursula Le Guin
32. The Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula Le
Guin
33. Solaris—Stanislaw Lem
34. Memoirs of a Survivor—Doris Lessing
35. The Monk—Matthew Lewis
36. A Voyage to Arcturus—David Lindsay
37. The Night Sessions—Ken Macleod
38. I Am Legend—Richard Matheson
39. Ascent—Jed Mercurio
40. Cloud Atlas—David Mitchell
41. Mother London—Michael Moorcock
42. Ringworld—Larry Niven
43. The Space Merchants—Pohl &
Kornbluth
44. Red Mars—Kim Stanley Robinson
45. Hyperion—Dan Simmons
46. Star Maker—Olaf Stapledon
47. Snow Crash—Neal Stephenson
48. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde—Robert Louis Stevenson
49. Sirens of Titan—Kurt Vonnegut
50. The Time Machine—HG Wells
51. The War of the Worlds—HG Wells
52. The Book of the New Sun—Gene Wolfe
53. Day of the Triffids—John Wyndham
54. The Midwich Cuckoos—John Wyndham
55. We—Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Fantasy
1.
2.
3.
4.
The Hobbit—JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings—JRR Tolkien
The Sword in the Stone—TH White
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone—JK Rowling
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—
Lewis Carroll
6. The Chronicles of Narnia—CS Lewis
7. His Dark Materials Trilogy—Pulman
8. Wheel of Time (series)—Robert Jordan
9. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the
Unbeliever (series)—Stephen R.
Donaldson
10. Neverwhere—Neil Gaiman
11. Percy Jackson and the Olympians—Rick
Riordan
12. The Phantom Tollbooth—Norton Juster
13. The Neverending Story—Michael Ende
14. Earthsea Cycle (series)—Ursula K. Le
Guin
15. The Princess Bride—William Goldman
16. Wicked—Gregory Maguire
17. The Wizard of Oz—
18. Redwall—Brian Jacques
19. A Song of Fire & Ice (series)—George
RR Martin
20. Malazan Book of the Fallen (series)—
Steven Erikson
21. The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller
Chronicles)—Patrick Rothfuss
22. The Darkness that Comes Before—R.
Scott Bakker
23. The Black Company (Books of the
North)—Glen Cook
24. The Way of Kings—Brandon Sanderson
25. The Red Wolf Conspiracy—Robert VS
Redick
26. Lies of Locke Lamora—Scott Lynch
27. The Blade Itself—Joe Abercrombie
28. Gormenghast—Mervyn Peake
29. The Farseer—Robin Hobb
30. Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy)—
C.S. Friedman
31. A Shadow in Summer—Daniel Abraham
32. The Etched City—K.J. Bishop
33. A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of
Shadows)—J. V. Jones
34. Acacia: The War With Mein—David
Anthony Durham
35. Elric of Melinbone—Michael Moorcock
36. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell—
Susanna Clarke
37. American Gods—Neil Gaiman
38. Abhorsen Trilogy—Garth Nix
39. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory,
Sorrow, and Thorn)—Tad Williams
40. Magician—Raymond Feist
41. The Dresden Files—Jim Butcher
42. Earthsea Cycle—Ursula Le Guin
43. Amber Chronicles—Roger Zelazny
44. Mistborn—Brandon Sanderson
45. The Warded Man—Peter V. Brett
46. Riddle of Stars—Patricia A. McKillip
47. The Dark Tower—Stephen King
48. A Kingdom of Thorn and Bone—Greg
Keyes
49. Tigana—Guy Gavriel Kay
50. The Seven Waters Trilogy—Juliet
Marillier
51. Mythago Wood—Robert Holdstock
52. The Way of Shadows (Night Angel
Trilogy)—Brent Weeks
53. Tales of the Otori—Lian Hearn
54. Heroes Die—Matthew Woodring Stover
55. Legend—David Gemmell
56. The Swan's War—Sean Russell
57. Elantris—Brandon Sanderson
58. Kushiel's Dart—Jacqueline Carey
59. Godless World trilogy—Brian Ruckley
60. The Sword, the Ring, and the Chalice—
Deborah Chester
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Crime
1. The Man with the Golden Arm—Nelson
Algren
2. Fantomas—Marcel Allain & Pierre
Souvestre
3. The Mask of Dimitrios—Eric Ambler
4. Epitaph for a Spy—Eric Ambler
5. The New York Trilogy—Paul Auster
6. Trent's Last Case—EC Bentley
7. The Poisoned Chocolates Case—Anthony
Berkeley
8. The Beast Must Die—Nicholas Blake
9. The Tin Roof Blowdown—James Lee Burke
10. The Thirty-Nine Steps—John Buchan
11. The Asphalt Jungle—WR Burnett
12. The Postman Always Rings Twice—James
Cain
13. Double Indemnity—James Cain
14. True History of the Ned Kelly Gang—Peter
Carey
15. The Hollow Man—John Dickson Carr
16. The Big Sleep—Raymond Chandler
17. The Long Goodbye—Raymond Chandler
18. The Riddle of the Sands—Erskine Childers
19. And Then There Were None—Agatha
Christie
20. The Mysterious Affair at Styles—Agatha
Christie
21. The Woman in White—Wilkie Collins
22. A Study in Scarlet—Arthur Conan Doyle
23. The Sign of Four—Arthur Conan Doyle
24. The Manchurian Candidate—Richard
Condon
25. The Secret Agent—Joseph Conrad
26. Postmortem—Patricia Cornwell
27. The Ipcress File—Len Deighton
28. Last Seen Wearing—Colin Dexter
29. Dead Lagoon—Michael Dibdin
30. My Cousin Rachel—Daphne du Maurier
31. The Pledge—Friedrich Durrenmatt
32. The Crime of Father Amado—José Maria
de Eça de Queiroz
33. LA Confidential—James Ellroy
34. Casino Royale—Ian Fleming
35. The Day of the Jackal—Frederick Forsyth
36. The Third Man—Graham Greene
37. A Time to Kill—John Grisham
38. Hangover Square—Patrick Hamilton
39. The Maltese Falcon—Dashiell Hammett
40. The Thin Man—Dashiell Hammett
41. Black Sunday—Thomas Harris
42. Tourist Season—Carl Hiaasen
43. The Friends of Eddie Coyle—George V
Higgins
44. Strangers on a Train—Patricia Highsmith
45. The Talented Mr. Ripley—Patricia
Highsmith
46. Silence of the Grave—Arnadur Indridason
47. Death at the President's Lodging—Michael
Innes
48. Cover Her Face—PD James
49. A Taste for Death—PD James
50. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late—Harry
Kemelman
51. The Constant Gardener—John le Carre
52. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—John le Carre
53. 52 Pick-up—Elmore Leonard
54. Motherless Brooklyn—Jonathan Lethem
55. The Bourne Identity—Robert Ludlum
56. Enduring Love—Ian McEwan
57. Sidetracked—Henning Mankell
58. Devil in a Blue Dress—Walter Mosley
59. The Great Impersonation—E Phillips
Oppenheim
60. The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent—
E Phillips Oppenheim
61. My Name is Red—Orhan Pamuk
62. Blacklist—Sara Paretsky
63. The Big Blowdown—George Pelecanos
64. Lush Life—Richard Price
65. The Godfather—Mario Puzo
66. Black and Blue—Ian Rankin
67. Live Flesh—Ruth Rendell
68. Dissolution—CJ Sansom
69. Murder Must Advertise—Dorothy Le
Sayers
70. The Madman of Bergerac—Georges
Simenon
71. The Laughing Policeman—Sjowall & Per
Wahloo
72. Gorky Park—Martin Cruz Smith
73. The League of Frightened Men—Rex Stout
74. The Secret History—Donna Tartt
75. The Daughter of Time—Josephine Tey
76. The Getaway—Jim Thompson
77. A Dark-Adapted Eye—Barbara Vine
78. The Four Just Men—Edgar Wallace
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Love
1. Anything by Jane Austen
2. Giovanni's Room—James Baldwin
3. Love for Lydia—HE Bates
4. More Die of Heartbreak—Saul Bellow
5. Lorna Doone—RD Blackmore
6. The Death of the Heart—Elizabeth Bowen
7. Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte
8. Vilette—Charlotte Bronte
9. Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
10. Look At Me—Anita Brookner
11. Rubyfruit Jungle—Rita Mae Brown
12. Possession—AS Byatt
13. Breakfast at Tiffany's—Truman Capote
14. Oscar and Lucinda—Peter Carey
15. A Month in the Country—JL Carr
16. Claudine a l'ecole—Sidonie-Gabrielle
Colette
17. Cheri—Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
18. The Princess of Cleves—Madame de
Lafayette
19. The Parasites—Daphne du Maurier
20. Rebecca—Daphne du Maurier
21. The Lover—Marguerite Duras
22. Daniel Deronda—George Eliot
23. The Mill on the Floss—George Eliot
24. Tender is the Night—F Scott Fitzgerald
25. The Blue Flower—Penelope Fitzgerald
26. Madame Bovary—Gustave Flaubert
27. The Good Soldier—Ford Madox Ford
28. A Room with a View—EM Forster
29. The French Lieutenant's Woman—John
Fowles
30. The Snow Goose—Paul Gallico
31. Strait is the Gate—Andre Gide
32. Sunset Song—Lewis Grassic Gibbon
33. Living—Henry Green
34. The End of the Affair—Graham Greene
35. The Well of Loneliness—Radclyffe Hall
36. The Woodlanders—Thomas Hardy
37. The Go-Between—LP Hartley
38. The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. The Transit of Venus—Shirley Hazzard
40. The Infamous Army—Georgette Heyer
41. Portrait of a Lady—Henry James
42. The Wings of the Dove—Henry James
43. The Piano Teacher—Elfriede Jelinek
44. The Far Pavillions—Mary Margaret Kaye
45. Moon over Africa—Pamela Kent
46. The Rainbow—DH Lawrence
47. Women in Love—DH Lawrence
48. The Echoing Grove—Rosamond Lehmann
49. The Weather in the Streets—Rosamond
Lehmann
50. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—Anita Loos
51. Zami—Audre Lorde
52. Foreign Affairs—Alison Lurie
53. Samarkand—Amin Maalouf
54. The Silent Duchess—Dacia Maraini
55. A Heart So White—Javier Marias
56. Of Human Bondage—Somerset Maugham
57. So Long, See you Tomorrow—William
Maxwell
58. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter—Carson
McCullers
59. The Child in Time—Ian McEwan
60. The Egoist—George Meredith
61. Tropic of Cancer—Henry Miller
62. Patience and Sarah—Isabel Miller
63. Love in a Cold Climate—Nancy Mitford
64. Arturo's Island—Elsa Morante
65. Norwegian Wood—Haruki Murakami
66. The Painter of Signs—RK Narayan
67. Delta of Venus—Anais Nin
68. All Souls Day—Cees Nooteboom
69. The English Patient—Michael Ondaatje
70. Doctor Zhivago—Boris Pasternak
71. Maurice Guest—Henry Handel
Richardson
72. Pamela—Samuel Richardson
73. Gilead—Marilynne Robinson
74. Bonjour Tristesse—Francoise Sagan
75. Ali and Nino—Kurban Said
76. Light Years—James Salter
77. The Reader—Benhardq Schlink
78. The Reluctant Orphan—Aara Seale
79. Enemies, a Love Story—Isaac Bashevis
Singer
80. At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and
Wept— Elizabeth Smart
81. I Capture the Castle—Dodie Smith
82. The Map of Love—Ahdaf Soueif
83. Waterland—Graham Swift
84. Diary of a Mad Old Man—Junichiro
Tanizaki
85. Music and Silence—Rose Tremain
86. First Love—Ivan Turgenev
87. East Lynne—Ellen Wood
88. Revolutionary Road—Richard Yates
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War
1.
2.
3.
4.
Empire of the Sun—JG Ballard
Death of a Hero—Richard Aldington
Master Georgie—Beryl Bainbridge
Darkness Falls from the Air—Nigel
Balchin
5. A Long Long Way—Sebastian Barry
6. Fair Stood the Wind for France—HE
Bates
7. The Savage Detectives—Roberto Bolano
8. The Sheltering Sky—Paul Bowles
9. When the Wind Blows—Raymond Briggs
10. Sharpe's Eagle—Bernard Cornwell
11. The History of Pompey the Little—Francis
Coventry
12. The Red Badge of Courage—Stephen
Crane
13. Bomber—Len Deighton
14. Three Soldiers—John Dos Passos
15. South Wind—Norman Douglas
16. Justine—Lawrence Durrell
17. The Bamboo Bed—William Eastlake
18. The Siege of Krishnapur—JG Farrell
19. Birdsong—Sebastian Faulks
20. Parade's End—Ford Madox Ford
21. The Ship—CS Forester
22. Flashman—George MacDonald Fraser
23. Cold Mountain—Charles Frazier
24. The Beach—Alex Garland
25. To The Ends of the Earth (trilogy)—
William Golding
26. Count Belisarius—Robert Graves
27. Life and Fate—Vassily Grossman
28. De Niro's Game—Rawi Hage
29. King Solomon's Mines—H Rider Haggard
30. She: A History of Adventure—H Rider
Haggard
31. The Slaves of Solitude—Patrick Hamilton
32. Covenant with Death—John Harris
33. Enigma—Robert Harris
34. The Good Soldier Svejk—Jaroslav Hasek
35. The Prisoner of Zenda—Anthony Hope
36. A High Wind in Jamaica—Richard
Hughes
37. Rasselas—Samuel Johnson
38. From Here to Eternity—James Jones
39. Andersonville—MacKinlay Kantor
40. Confederates—Thomas Keneally
41. Schindler's Ark—Thomas Keneally
42. Day—AL Kennedy
43. Darkness at Noon—Arthur Koestler
44. The Painted Bird—Jerzy Kosinski
45. If Not Now, When?—Primo Levi
46. The Guns of Navarone—Alistair MacLean
47. The Mark of Zorro—Johnston McCulley
48. Lonesome Dove—Larry McMurty
49. The Naked and the Dead—Norman Mailer
50. La Condition Humaine—Andre Malraux
51. Fortunes of War—Olivia Manning
52. The Children of the New Forest—
Frederick Marryat
53. Tales of the South Pacific—James
Michener
54. The Cruel Sea—Nicholas Monsarrat
55. History—Elsa Morante
56. Suite Francaise—Irene Nemirovsky
57. The Sorrow of War—Bao Ninh
58. Master and Commander—Patrick O'Brian
59. The Things They Carried—Tim O'Brien
60. The Scarlet Pimpernel—Baroness
Emmuska Orczy
61. Burmese Days—George Orwell
62. The Valley of Bones—Anthony Powell
63. The Soldier's Art—Anthony Powell
64. The Military Philosophers—Anthony
Powell
65. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands—Joao
Guimaraes Rosa
66. Sacaramouche—Rafael Sabatini
67. The Hunters—James Salter
68. The Rings of Saturn—WG Sebald
69. Austerlitz—WG Sebald
70. Black Beauty—Anna Sewell
71. The Young Lions—Irwin Shaw
72. A Town Like Alice—Nevil Shute
73. The Charterhouse—Parma by Stendhal
74. Cryptonomicon—Neil Stephenson
75. A Sentimental Journey—Lawrence Sterne
76. A Flag for Sunrise—Robert Stone
77. Sophie's Choice—William Styron
78. War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy
79. Williwaw—Gore Vidal
80. Put Out More Flags—Evelyn Waugh
81. Men at Arms—Evelyn Waugh
82. The Machine-Gunners—Robert Westall
83. Voss—Patrick White
84. The Virginian—Owen Wister
85. The Caine Mutiny—Herman Wouk
86. The Debacle—Emile Zola
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YA Novels
1. Carrie's War—Nina Bawden
2. The Mysterious Benedict Society—
Trenton Lee Stewart
3. The Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins
4. The Giver—Lois Lowry
5. Holes—Louis Sachar
6. The Outsiders—S.E. Hinton
7. The Book Thief—Markus Zusak
8. A Wrinkle in Time—Madeleine L'Engle
9. Uglies—Scott Westerfeld
10. Bridge to Terabithia—Katherine
Paterson
11. Matilda—Roald Dahl
12. Speak—Laurie Halse Anderson
13. Number the Stars—Lois Lowry
14. The Perks of Being a Wallflower—
Stephen Chbosky
15. Stargirl—Jerry Spinelli
16. Island of the Blue Dolphins—Scott
O'Dell
17. Charlotte's Web—E.B. White
18. Tuck Everlasting—Natalie Babbitt
19. Little Women—Louisa May Alcott
20. Looking for Alaska—John Green
21. Inkheart—Cornelia Funke
22. Artemis Fowl—Eoin Colfer
23. The City of Ember—Jeanne DuPrau
24. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants—
Ann Brashares
25. Graceling—Kristin Cashore
26. Anne of Green Gables—L.M.
Montgomery
27. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret—
Judy Blume
28. Hatchet—Gary Paulsen
29. The Secret Garden—Frances Hodgson
Burnett
30. The Westing Game—Ellen Raskin
31. Divergent—Veronica Roth
32. Coraline—Neil Gaiman
33. Just Listen—Sarah Dessen
34. A Great and Terrible Beauty—Libba
Bray
35. The Angel Experiment—James Patterson
36. A Little Princess—Frances Hodgson
Burnett
37. The Truth About Forever—Sarah Dessen
38. Princess Academy—Shannon Hale
39. Hush, Hush—Becca Fitzpatrick
40. Where the Red Fern Grows—Wilson
Rawls
41. Thirteen Reasons Why—Jay Asher
42. Walk Two Moons—Sharon Creech
43. Because of Winn-Dixie—Kate DiCamillo
44. Pippi Longstocking—Astrid Lindgren
45. Howl's Moving Castle—Diana Wynne
Jones
46. Watership Down—Richard Adams
47. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH—
Robert C. O'Brien
48. Black Beauty—Anna Sewell
49. The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian—Sherman Alexie
50. The Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth
George Speare
51. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry—Mildred
D. Taylor
52. Maniac Magee—Jerry Spinelli
53. The Graveyard Book—Neil Gaiman
54. A Separate Peace—John Knowles
Travel
55. Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe
56. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—
Mark Twain
57. Around the World in Eighty Days—Jules
Verne
58. Gulliver's Travels—Jonathan Swift
59. Kidnapped—Robert Louis Stevenson
60. Treasure Island—Robert Louis
Stevenson
61. Moby-Dick—Herman Melville
62. On the Road—Jack Kerouac
63. The African Queen—CS Forester
64. Invisible Cities—Italo Calvino
65. Deliverance—James Dickey
66. The Call of the Wild—Jack London
67. Everything is Illuminated—Jonathon
Safran Foer
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Central Asia & India
1. The Ramayana—Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC)
2. The Recognition of Sakuntala—Kalidasa, India, (c. 400)
3. Mahabharata—India, (c 500 BC)
4. The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan
5. The Mathnawi—Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273)
6. The Death of Vishnu: A Novel—Manil Suri
7. Clear Light of Day—Anita Desai
8. Jasmine—Bharati Mukherjee
9. Train to Pakistan—Khushwant Singh
10. Untouchable—Mulk Raj Anand
11. The House of Blue Mangoes: A Novel—David Davidar
12. Malgudi Days (Penguin Classics)—R. K. Narayan
13. The Inscrutable Americans—Anurag Mathur
Neglected Categories:
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Florida Lit
Southern Lit
African-American Lit
Hispanic-American Lit
Political Fiction
Nature Writing
Satire / Humor
Native American Lit
Women’s Lit
Women of Color
Religious Lit
Prize Winners
LGBT
and many more…
East Asia & Pacifica
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The Sound of the Mountain—Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Beauty and Saddness—Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories—Lu Xun, China
Monkey—Wu Ch'eng-en, China
Journey to the West— Wu Ch'eng-en, China
Silver Stallion—Junghyo Ahn, Korea
Graphic Novels
1. Asterix the Gaul—Rene Goscinny
2. Tintin in Tibet—Georges Remi Herge
3. The Crab with the Golden Claws—Georges Remi Herge
4. The Castafiore Emerald—Georges Remi Herge
5. The Principles of Uncertainty—Maira Kalman
6. Exit Wounds—Rutu Modan
7. Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm—Percy Carey, Ronald Wimberly
8. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier—Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill (illustrator)
9. Alice in Sunderland—Bryan Talbot
10. Blankets—Craig Thompson
11. Black Hole—Charles Burns
12. From Hell—Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
13. Ethel & Ernest—Raymond Briggs
14. Shortcomings—Adrian Tomine
15. It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken—Seth
16. Watchmen—Alan Moore
17. Bone—Jeff Smith
18. American Born Chinese—Gene Luen
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