Another made up challenge

After looking at the top books of 2014 as determined by the users of Goodreads, I decided to challenge myself to read five of the top books from any five categories.

So these are the books I'm reading:
1. Landline by Rainbow Rowell (Best Fiction) (1/28/2015) 4/5 stars
2. All the Light We Cannot See (Best Historical Fiction) (3/21/2015) 5/5 Stars
3. The Martian by Andy Weir  (Best Science Fiction) (1/2015) 4/5 stars
4. The Romanov Sisters (Best History/Biography)
5. We Were Liars (YA Fiction) (1/2015) 4/5 stars

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (4/8/2015) 4/5 stars

Updated TBR pile for 2015

2016 Version of my TBR list. (In progress)

These are books that I own, either paper copies or on my Kindle, that I have had for at least a year. This list always grows faster than I can read them, but I hope to make a good dent in 2016. I'm going back to crossing books off. It's so satisfying. :)

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

North and South by Gaskell

Law and Gospel by CFW Walther

Churchill by Paul Johnson

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther

Dead Souls by Gogol

The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

Immortal Wife by Irving Stone

The Great Shame by Thomas Keaneally

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

1491 by Charles C. Mann

The House of Morgan

The First Tycoon

The Fate of Africa

The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Courage and Consequence

Known and Unknown

Decision Points by George W. Bush

Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher

Theodore Rex (or any of the Teddy Roosevelt books by Morris)

Wodehouse: A Life

John Adams by David McCullough

Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana Preston

Don Quixote 
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Anything Goes by Theodore Dalrymple 
The Examined Life by ""
Second Opinion by  "   "
The Policeman and the Brothel by  "  "

The Economics of Freedom by Bastiat

Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

 The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katherine Green

Evelina by Fanny Burney

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Containment by Christian Cantrell

Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 The Oregon Trail: Sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain Life by Frances Parkman

A Journal of the Plague year by Daniel Defoe

Shoeless Joe by Kinsella
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Catherine the Great by Robert Massie

The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt

Nicholas and Alexandra by Massie

River of Doubt

The Things They Carried

The President and the Assasin

Lost States

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

Ethan Frome

Sixpence in Her Shoe

Faust by Goethe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch
Collapse by Jared Diamond
The Path to Tyranny by Michael Newton
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Happy Days Were Here Again by WF Buckley, Jr.
Never Dies the Dream by Margaret Landon
The Child From the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal
Women Pastors?
Heat by Bill Buford (1/3/2016)
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
Any Narnia aside from TLTWaTW
Land and Property Research in the United States
The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
Broke by Glenn Beck
Cowards by Glenn Beck
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn "
The Shadow Rising "
The Fires of Heaven "
Lord of Chaos " etc, etc, etc.
Dust by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
Trumps of Doom by "  "
Blood of Amber by  "  "
Signs of Chaos by    "  "
Knight of Shadows by "  "
Prince of Chaos  by  "  "
Agatha H and the Airship City
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Watership Down by Richard Adams
History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
No Name by Wilkie Collins
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Island of the Swans by Ciji Ware
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
Towards yesterday by Paul Jones
The Mine by John Heldt
Red Rising by Pierce Brown 
Ishmael, or in the Depths By Emma Southworth
Danielle Kidnapped by John Silviera
Daybreak by Ingolfsson
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Sea Beggars by Cecelia Holland
Beautiful Day by Elin Hildebrand
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Salt
Collapse by Jared Diamond
The Time Traveler's Guide to medieval England
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
A Voyage Long and Strange
The Good, the Bad, and the Mad
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
Gregor books 3,4,5
Angle of Repose
The Art Forger
An Army of Davids
Shadow Divers

Someone Knows My Name
All Quiet on the Western Front
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
The Murder of Helen Jewett

2015 Reading Challenges

It's that time again! For me, the time of the year when I pick the next year's reading challenges is reminiscent of a new school year or picking new classes. I love thinking about what I'm going to read next year! I don't let my challenges rule me, but I do let them nudge me sometimes. And most of the time the books are well worth it.

I don't know how much reading I'll do in 2015, since I am starting a new business in January, and have two sons getting married, but I am going to proceed with my challenges, and see how it ends up. I also have several ongoing challenges, including my Filling in the Gaps challenge, which ends in December 2015.

Here are the challenges I am doing this coming year:

-You read how many books?

-What's in a name?

-Cloak and dagger

-Vintage mystery

-Read it again Sam

-Mount TBR

-TBR Pile

I Love Library Books

-Eclectic Reader

 -Help from my friends

A little help from my friends 2015

This challenge is my challenge, for me. If anyone else wants to take part, that makes it more fun, but I'm going to do it.
So here's the challenge:
--In some way, get a list of book suggestions from your friends.
--From those suggestions choose between five and ten books that you will read in 2015.
--Make a list of the books that you will read and a few alternates. (I like some flexibility.)
--Copy the picture above, if you like, and post it on your blog. If you don't blog, join us anyway. Just let us know in the comments what you are reading and when you are done.
--Make a post on your blog where you will keep track of the books for this challenge, and link back to this post.
--Please post a comment below with  link to that blog post. Come back and post again when you've finished. Reviews aren't required but they're always fun!
--No book started before 1/1/2015 counts. Books can be used for other challenges.

I will do 10 again this year.

1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (1/20/2015)
2. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/28/2015)
3. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
4. Season of Saturdays by Michael Weinreb
5. A Little Book on Joy by Matthew Harrison, et al.
6. Margot by Jillian Cantor
7. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (11/22/63)
8. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg (1/22/2015)
9. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
10. Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Alternates:
1. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
2. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin
3. In the Woods by Tana French (3/3/2015)

2015 Eclectic reader

I love this challenge.

I'll be picking one book to fill each of these categories.

1. Retellings (of fairytale, legends or myth) Fairest by Marissa Meyer (1/31/2015)
   
2.  A book set in a country starting with the letter S Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson (1/18/2015) (A good chunk was set in Sweden, with some Switzerland thrown in for good measure.)
3.  PI Crime (fiction featuring a private investigator) Dead Irish by John Lescroart (2/20/2015)
4.  A novel published before you were born Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2/10/2015)
5. Contemporary romance Landline by Rainbow Rowell (1/28/2015)
6. Fiction for foodies The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (6/16/2015)
7. Microhistory (Non Fiction) Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King (1/9/2015)
8. Science Fiction set in space The Martian by Andy Weir (1/4/2015)
9. Sports (Fiction or Non fiction) Who Killed Hoosier Hysteria by Wendell Trogdon (2/8/2015)
10. Featuring diversity Persuasion, Captain Wentworth, and Cracklin' Corn Bread by Mary Jane Hathaway(1/14/2015)
11. Epistolary Fiction . Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock (1/25/2015)
12. Middle Grade/YA Adventure The Maze Runner by James Dashner (1/20/2015)

I Love Library Books

I'm so glad to have a library book challenge again this year!

I am going for the "just insert IV" level,  50 books.

1. Hope to Die by James Patterson (1/11/2015)
2. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (1/13/2015)
2  Persuasion, Captain Wentworth, and Cracklin' Corn Bread by Mary Jane Hathaway
4. The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (1/15/2015)
5. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (1/20/2015)
6. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fanny Flagg
7. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (1/25/2015)
8. Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock (1/25/2015)
9. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (1/27/2015)
10. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin (1/27/2015)
11.  Landline by Rainbow Rowell (1/28/2015)
12.  Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantock (2/1/2015)
13. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (2/3/2015)
14. . The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (2/3/2015)
15. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/2015)
16. Memory in Death by J.D. Robb (2/15/2015)
17. Some Luck by Jane Smiley (2/17/2015)
18. Dead Irish by John Lescroart (2/20/2015)
19.  In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen (2/21/2015)
20. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2/28/2015)
21. In the Woods by Tana French (3/3/2015)
22. Born in Death by J.D. Rob (3/15/2015)
23. Woman with a Gun by Phillip Margolin (3/28/2015)
24.  Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (4/8/2015)
25. Motive by Jonathan Kellerman (4/14/2015)
26. The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Fay (4/24/2015)
27. My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea (4/25/2015)
28. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/28/2015)
29. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (4/30/2015)
30.. Pretty Ugly by Kirker Butler (5/5/2015)
31 .The Likeness by Tana French (5/10/2015)

32. Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb (5/26/2015)
33. 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson (6/3/2015)

34. Gathering Prey by John Sandford (6/8/2015)
35. The Janus Stone by Ruth Galloway (6/9/2015)
36. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (6/12/2015)

37. Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye (6/14/2015)
38. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (6/16/2015)
39. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (2/26/2015)
40. Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez  (7/2/2015)
41. Astoria by Peter Stark (7/6/2015)
42. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (7/10/2015)
43. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (7/12/2015)
44. The Queen's Head by Edward Marston (7/14/2015)
45. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (7/16/2015)
46. Citizen's Creek by Lalita Tademy (7/29/2015)
47. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose (7/31/2015)
48. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (8/4/2015)
49. Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (8/8/2015)
50. Creation in Death by J.D. Robb (8/13/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)

2015 TBR Pile

This challenge. It makes me commit ahead of time. It makes me read things in spite of not being in the mood for them. And it is very good for me.

I will have my twelve books and two alternates--all books that I have had on my list for at least a year, and that I own--by the end of December.

1. Mrs. Dalloway  by Virginia Woolf (4/30/2015)
2. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
4. Dead Souls by Gogol
5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
6. The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
7. Anthem by Ayn Rand
8. Shift by Hugh Howey
9. The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan
10. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

Alternates:
1. The Things They Carried
2. Lost States

Mount TBR Challenge 2015

Never give up. That's what makes me join this challenge. Every year my TBR pile grows by more books than I manage to read, and I know 2015 will be no exception. Yet this challenge is valuable, because it gets me to read the books that I've been putting off, which are almost invariably GOOD. Something made me pick them up in the first place. And the books that I buy--whether physical copies or on Kindle--tend to be better quality books.

I am going to go for Pike's Peak, which is 12 books.
I should go for more. But I am starting a new business. Two of my sons are getting married. I just don't know how much meaty reading I will accomplish this year.

*Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2015. No ARCs (none), no library books. No rereads. . . Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.

*You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2014.  I will trust you all on that.

I will post my updated TBR list sometime this month. 

1. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King (1/9/2015) 
2. Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson (1/18/2015) 
3. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou (1/28/2015) 
4. Who Killed Hoosier Hysteria by Wendell Trogdon (2/8/2015) 
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (3/31/2015) 
6. Mrs. Dalloway  by Virginia Woolf (4/30/2015)
7. Stardust by Neil Gaiman (5/3/2015) 
8. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton 

Read it again 2015

This is another one that I did this year. I read different books for it than I had intended.

I vacillated over which level to sign up for, and decided on Deja Vu, which is four books.

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2/10/2015) 

2.  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (3/10/2015) 

3.  Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton (8/16/2015)

4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (9/4/2015)

Vintage mystery bingo

I have really enjoyed reading mysteries from the Golden Age of mysteries the past couple of years, but I think that this year I am going to explore the Silver Age. This challenge will be fun, which is my big requirement for this year.

Basically, I need to read mysteries published between 1960-1989 inclusive to achieve a BINGO.

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (1/15/2015) 1966  S2, E3, I4, I6, E6
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (2/3/2015) 1979  I2, L3, V5, E5, E6, R4
Dead Irish by John Lescroart (2/20/2015) 1989 I4, V5,  E5, E6,
The Queen's Head by Edward Marston (7/14/2015) 1988 I4, I6, L1, L3, E5, E6, R4

Cloak and Dagger Challenge

I love a good mystery. Or a thriller. Or a crime novel. They are my go-to relaxation read. Because of that I am giving myself leeway to read lots of them this year.

For this challenge, I am going for the Inspector Ian Rutledge level, that is 20 books. For the details of this challenge, see the challenge page linked above.

1. True Evil by Greg Iles (1/7/2015)
2. Hope to Die by James Patterson (1/11/2015)
3. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (1/15/2015)
4. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (1/25/2015)
5. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (2/3/2015)
6. Memory in Death by J.D. Robb (2/15/2015)
7. Dead Irish by John Lescroart (2/20/2015)
8. In the Woods by Tana French (3/3/2015)
9. Born in Death by J.D. Robb (3/15/2015)
10. Woman with a Gun by Phillip Margolin (3/28/2015)
11. A Cold and Broken Hallelujah by Tyler Dilts (4/3/2015)
12. Motive by Jonathan Kellerman (4/14/2015)
13. Gods of Gotham by Fay Lindsay (4/24/2015)
14. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (4/30/2015)
15. The Likeness by Tana French (5/10/2015)
16.  Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb (5/26/2015)
17. The 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson (6/3/2015)
18 Defending Jacob by William Landay (6/7/2015)
19. Gathering Prey by John Sandford (6/8/2015)
20. The Janus Stone by Ruth Galloway (6/9/2015)

21. Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye (6/14/2015)  
22.  The Queen's Head by Edward Marston (7/14/2015
23. Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (8/8/2015)
24. Creation in Death by J.D. Robb (8/13/2015) 

What's in a name 2015

A fairly easy, fun challenge.

The challenge runs from January to December. During this time you choose a book to read from each of the following categories (examples of books you could choose are in brackets): 

(I will add mine in blue as I finish them.)

• A word including ‘ing’ in it Leaving Time Jodi Picoult (1/13/2015)
• A colour The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (2/3/2015)
• A familial relation The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (6/12/2015)
• A body of water Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/28/2015)
• A city (Barcelona Shadows, Shanghai Girls, Under The Tripoli Sky)
• An animal The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/2015)

You read how many books? 2015

My first challenge for 2015 will be the one where I, again, keep track of my reading for the year.

I will be going for Level One, 100+ books.

1. The Martian by Andy Weir (1/4/2015)(Goodreads) (Eclectic)

2. True Evil by Greg Iles (1/7/2015) (Cloak and Dagger)

3. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King (1/9/2015) (Eclectic) (Century) (Mount TBR) (Non-Fiction)

4. Hope to Die by James Patterson (1/11/2015) (Cloak and Dagger) (Library)
5. Leaving Time Jodi Picoult (1/13/2015) (Library) (What's in a Name)
6. Persuasion, Captain Wentworth, and Cracklin' Corn Bread by Mary Jane Hathaway (1/14/2015) (Library) (Eclectic)
7. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (1/15/2015)(Library) (Vintage Mystery) (Cloak and Dagger)
8. Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson (1/18/2015) (Foodies) (Mount TBR) (Eclectic)
9. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (1/20/2015) (Friends) (Dystopia)(Library)(Eclectic)
10. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fanny Flagg (1/22/2015) (Friends) (Library) (Historical Fiction)
11. The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (1/25/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
12. Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock (1/25/2015) (Library) (Eclectic)
13. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (1/27/2015) (Library) (Goodreads)
14. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin (1/27/2015)(Foodies) (Library)(Friends)
15. Landline by Rainbow Rowell (1/28/2015) (Library) (Goodreads) (Eclectic)
16. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou (1/28/2015) (Mount TBR) (Century)
17. Fairest by Marissa Meyer (1/31/2015) (Eclectic)
18. Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantock (2/1/2015) (Library) (Century)
19. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (2/3/2015) (Library) (Vintage Mystery) (Historical Fiction) (Cloak and Dagger)
20. The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (2/3/2015) (Library) (Name)
21. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/2015) (Cloak and Dagger) (Library) (Name)
22. Who Killed Hoosier Hysteria by Wendell Trogdon (2/8/2015) (Eclectic) (Mount TBR)
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2/10/2015) (Eclectic) (Read it Again)
24. Memory in Death by J.D. Robb (2/15/2015) (Cloak and Dagger) (Library)
25. Some Luck by Jane Smiley (2/17/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction)
26. Dead Irish by John Lescroart (2/20/2015) (Library) (Vintage Mystery) (Cloak and Dagger) (Eclectic) 
27. In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen (2/21/2015) (Library)
28. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (2/26/2015)
29. Gilead by  Marilynne Robinson (2/28/2015) (Library) (Historical)
30. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (3/1/2015) (Dystopian)
31. In the Woods by Tana French (3/3/2015)(Library) (Friends) (Cloak and Dagger)
32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (3/10/2015)(Read it Again) (Century)
33. Born in Death by J.D. Robb (3/15/2015) (Library)
34. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (3/21/2015) (Historical Fiction) (Goodreads)
35. Woman with a Gun by Phillip Margolin (3/28/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
36. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (3/31/2015) (Historical Fiction) (Mount TBR)
37. Abandoned America by Matthew Christopher (3/31/2015)
38. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (4/3/2015)
39. A Cold and Broken Hallelujah by Tyler Dilts (4/3/2015) (Cloak and Dagger)
40. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (4/8/2015) (Historical Fiction) (Library)
41. Motive by Jonathan Kellerman (4/14/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
42. The Penderwicks by Jean Birdsall (4/14/2015)
43. A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner  (4/19/2015) (Historical Fiction)
44. The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Fay (4/24/2015)(Library) (Historical Fiction) (Cloak and Dagger)
45. My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea (4/25/2015) (Library) (Foodies)
46. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/28/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction) (Friends) (Name)
47. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (4/30/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
48. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf (4/30/2015) (TBR) (TBR Pile) (Gaps) (Century)
49. Stardust by Neil Gaiman (5/3/2015)
50. Pretty Ugly by Kirker Butler (5/5/2015) (Library)
51. The Likeness by Tana French (5/10/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
52. I Regret Nothing: A Memoir by Jen Lancaster (5/19/2015)
53. Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb (5/26/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
54. 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson (6/3/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
55. Defending Jacob by William Landay (6/7/2015) (Cloak and Dagger)
56. Gathering Prey by John Sandford (6/8/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
57. The Janus Stone by Ruth Galloway (6/9/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
58. The Husband's Secret  by Liane Moriarty (6/12/2015) (Library) (Name)
59. Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye (6/14/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger) (Historical Fiction)
60. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (Library) (Foodie) (Eclectic)
61. LadyLike by Rebekah Curtis and Rosie Adle
62. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (6/26/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction) (Friends)
63. Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez  (7/2/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction)
64. Astoria by Peter Stark (7/6/2015) (Library)
65. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (7/10/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction)
66. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (7/12/2015) (Library)
67. The Queen's Head by Edward Marston (7/14/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction) (Cloak and Dagger) (Vintage Mystery) (Century )
68. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (7/23/2015) (Library)
69. Citizen's Creek by Lalita Tademy (7/29/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction)
70. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose (7/31/2015) (Library)
71. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (8/4/2015) (Library) (Century)
72. Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (8/8/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger) (Historical Fiction) (Century)
73. Creation in Death by J.D. Robb (8/13/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
74. Henny Penny by Paul Galdone (8/16/2015) (Century)
75. Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton (8/16/2015) (Read it Again)
76. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber (8/16/2015) (Century)
77. Academy Street by Mary Costello (8/16/2015) (Library)
78. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (9/4/2015) (Read Again)
79. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (9/6/2015) (Library) (Dystopia)
80. Anthem by Ayn Rand (9/6/2015) (Dystopia)
81. The Murderer's Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman (9/10/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
82. The Gaugin Connection by Estelle Ryan (9/15/2015) (Cloak and Dagger)
83. Alert by James Patterson (9/18/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
84. Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford (9/19/2015) (Library)
85. Lock In by John Scalzi (9/23/2015) (Library)
86. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (9/29/2015) (Library) (Cloak and Dagger)
87. The Art of Procrastination by John Perry (9/30/2015) (Library)
88. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (10/2/2015) (Library) (Foodie)
89. The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand (10/3/2015) (Library)
90. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (10/12/2015)
91. The End is Nigh by John Joseph Adams (10/14/2015)
92. Tinseltown by William J. Mann (10/20/2015)
93. Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry (10/23/2015)
94. Saturn Run by John Sandford (10/28/2015) (Library)
95. Margot by Jillian Cantor (10/29/2015) (Library) (Historical Fiction) (Friends)
96. Career of Evil by Robert Grant (10/8/2015) (Cloak and Dagger)
97. The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell (11/18/2015) (Library)
98. A Free State by Tom Piazza (11/21/2015) (library) (Historical Fiction)
99. Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb (11/24/2015)
100. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire LeGrand (11/29/2015) (Library)
101. Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb (12/5/2015
102. Instructions by Neil Gaiman (12/5/2015)
103. The Crossing by Michael Connelly (12/16/2015)
104.The Complete English Poems by John Donne (12/16/2015) (Gaps)
105. Doc by Mary Doria Russell (12/18/2015) (Historical Fiction)
106. Make Me by Lee Child (12/22/2015)
107. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (12/29/2015) (Gaps)
108. The Territory by Tricia Fields (12/30/2015)
109. Winter by Marissa Meyer (12/31/2015) (Dystopia)
110. Kitchen Matrix by Mark Bittman (12/31/2015) (Foodie)

The challenge that never ends

3/6/2020 Update: Since I first posted this I have read about 30 more of these books. I had kind of forgotten this list. I was glad to revisit it and remind myself of some things I'd like to read. There have been a number of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die lists published. Someone went to the trouble of compiling all of them into one list of nearly 1300 books. I, of course, can't resist keeping track and trying to read more of these. As I begin, I have read 110 of them. There are books on the list that I am certain I am not going to read. I will strike through those books. The books I have read will be in blue. This list is very weighted toward the twentieth & twenty-first centuries. Certain authors seem over-represented. Yet this may still help me find some more good books to read. Compilation of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List compiled through the loving care of Arenel from Slightly Cultural, Most Thoughtful and Inevitably Irrelevant  Pre-1700 Aesop's Fables - Aesop (c.4th BC) Metamorphoses - Ovid (c.2-8 AD) Chaireas And Kallirhoe - Chariton (c.200) Aithiopika - Heliodorus (c.250) The Golden Ass - Apuleius (c.260) The Thousand And One Nights - Anonymous (c.850) The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous (c.900) The Tale Of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (c.1000) Water Margin - Shi Naian (c.1300) Romance Of The Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong (c.1300) Tirant Lo Blanch - Marti Joan De Galba (1490) La Celestina - Fernando De Rojas (1499) Amadis Of Greece - Garci Rodriguez De Montalvo (1508) The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes And His Fortunes And Adversities - Anonymous (1554) Gargantua And Pantagruel - Francoise Rabelais (1532-64) The Lusiads - Luis Camoes (1572) Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit - John Lyly (1578) Journey To The West - Cheng'en Wu (1592) The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe (1594) Thomas Of Reading - Thomas Deloney (1599) Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1605-15) The Travels Of Persiles And Sigismunda - Miguel De Cervantes (1617) The Truthful History Of The Conquest Of New Spain - Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1632) The Adventurous Simplicissimus - Hans Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen (1668) The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (1678-84) The Princess Of Cleves - Comtesse De La Fayett (1678) Oroonoko - Aphra Behn (1688) 1700s A Tale Of A Tub - Jonathan Swift (1704) Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719) Love In Excess - Eliza Haywood (1719) Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe (1722) Roxana - Daniel Defoe (1724) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726) A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift (1729) Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding (1742) Memoirs Of Martinus Scriblerus - Various (c.1740) Pamela - Samuel Richardson (1749) Clarissa - Samuel Richardson (1749) Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett (1749) Tom Jones - Henry Fielding (1749) Fanny Hill - John Cleland (1749) Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett (1751) Amelia - Henry Fielding (1751) The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox (1752) Candide - Voltaire (1759) Rasselas - Samuel Johnson (1759) Julie Or The New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1760) Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot (1761-84) Emile Or On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) The Castle Of Otranto - Horace Walpole (1765) The Vicar Of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith (1766) Tristram Shandy - Laurence Stern (1759-67) A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Stern (1768) The Man Of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie (1771) Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett (1771) The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1774) Evelina - Fanny Burney (1778) Reveries Of A Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782) Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos (1782) Anton Reiser - Karl Philipp Moritz (1785) Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782) Cecilia - Fanny Burney (1782) The 120 Days Of Sodom - Marquis de Sade (1785) Vathek - William Beckford (1786) Dream Of The Red Chamber (The Story Of The Stone) - Cao Xueqin (1791) Justine - Marquis De Sade (1791) The Adventures Of Caleb Williams - William Godwin (1794) The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano (1794) The Mysteries Of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe (1794) Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1795-6) The Monk - M G Lewis (1796) Camilla - Fanny Burney (1796) Jacques The Fatalist - Denis Diderot (1796) The Nun - Denis Diderot (1796) Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin (1797-9) 1800s Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth (1800) Henry Von Ofterdingen (Unfinished) - Novalis (1802) Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1809) Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich Von Kleist (1810) Sense And Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811) The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth (1812) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813) Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (1814) Emma - Jane Austen (1816) Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott (1817) Ormond - Maria Edgeworth (1817) Persuasion - Jane Austen (1818) Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1818) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) The Life And Opinions Of The Tomcat Murr - E T A Hoffmann (1820) Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1820) The Monastry - Sir Walter Scott (1820) Melmoth The Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin (1820) The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin (1824) The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner - James Hogg (1824) Last Of The Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (1826) Life Of A Good-For-Nothing - Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff (1826) The Bethrothed - Alessandro Manzoni (1827) The Red And The Black - Stendhal (1831) The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831) Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin (1833) Eugenie Grandet - Honore De Balzac (1834) Le Pere Goriot - Honore De Balzac (1834-5) The Nose - Nikolay Gogol (1836) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (1838) The Lion Of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience (1838) The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (1839) The Fall Of The House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Camera Obscura - Hildebrand (Nicolaas Beets) (1839) The Charterhouse Of Parma - Stendhal (1839) A Hero Of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov (1840) Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol (1842) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843) Lost Illusions - Honore De Balzac (1843) The Pit And The Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe (1843) Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens (1844) The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (1844) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844) Facundo - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1845) Le Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas (1845) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1845-6) The Devil's Pool - George Sand (1846) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1847) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847) Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte (1847) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847) The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte (1848) Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell (1848) Shirley - Charlotte Bronte (1849) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851) The House Of The Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852) Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) Villette - Charlotte Bronte (1853) Bleak House - Charles Dickens (1853) Walden - David Henry Thoreau (1854) Green Henry - Gottfried Keller (1854) Hard Times - Charles Dickens (1854) North And South - Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) Indian Summer - Adalbert Stifter (1857) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857) Adam Bede - George Eliot (1859) Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov (1859) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (1859) Max Havelaar - Multatuli (1860) The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860) The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins (1860) The Mill On The Floss - George Eliot (1860) Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope (1860) On The Eve - Ivan Turgenev (1860) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) Silas Marner - George Eliot (1861) Fathers And Sons - Ivan Turgenev (1862) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862) The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley (1863) Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864) Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu (1864) Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens (1865) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Jules Verne (1866) The Last Chronicle Barset - Anthony Trollope (1867) Therese Raquin - Emile Zola (1867) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (1868) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868-9) Maldoror - Comte De Lautreaumont (1868-9) Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope (1869) Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert (1869) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869) He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope (1869) King Lear Of The Steppes - Ivan Turgenev (1870) Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (1871) Martin Fierro - Jose Hernandez (1872) Middlemarch - George Eliot (1872) Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev (1872) Erewhon - Samuel Butler (1872) The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872) In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) Around The World In Eighty Days - Jules Verne (1873) The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov (1873) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (1874) Pepita Jimenez - Juan Valera Y Alcala-Galiano (1874) The Sin Of Father Amado - Jose Maria De Eca De Queiroz (1876) The Temptation Of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert (1874) The Hand Of Ethelberga - Thomas Hardy (1876) Daniel Deronda - George Eliot (1876) Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev (1877) Drunkard - Emile Zola (1877) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877) Return Of The Native - Thomas Hardy (1878) The Red Room - August Strindberg (1879) The Brothers Karamzov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880) Nan - Emile Zola (1880) Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace (1880) Bouvard And Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert (1881) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James (1881) The House By The Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga (1881) The Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cuba - Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis (1881) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) A Woman's Life - Guy De Maupassant (1883) The Regent's Wife - Leopoldo Alas (1884) The Death Of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (1884) Against The Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans (1894) Marius The Epicurean - Walter Pater (1885) Bel-Ami - Guy De Maupassant (1885) The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1885) The Quest - Frederik van Eeden (1885) Germinal - Emile Zola (1885) King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard (1885) Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) The Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (1886) The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) The Manors Of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazan (1886) She - H Rider Haggard (1887) The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy (1887) The People Of Hemso - August Strindberg (1887) Under The Yoke - Ivan Vazov (1888) Fortunata And Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdes (1887) Pierre And Jean - Guy De Maupassant (1888) The Master Of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson (1889) Eline Vere - Louis Couperus (1889) Hunger - Knut Hamsun (1890) By The Open Sea - August Strindberg (1890) La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola (1890) Thais - Anatole France (1890) The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (1890) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1891) Down There - Joris-Karl Huysmans (1891) Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (1891) Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof (1891) New Grub Street - George Gissing (1891) News From Nowhere - William Morris (1891) The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) Diary Of A Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith (1892) Born In Exile - George Gissing (1892) The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) The Viceroys - Federico De Roberto (1894) The Real Charlotte - Somerville & Ross (1894) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (1895) Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane (1895) The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895) The Island Of Dr Moreau - H G Wells (1896) Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896) Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897) Fruits Of The Earth - Andre Gide (1897) What Maisie Knew - Henry James (1897) Compassion - Benito Perez Galdos (1897) Pharaoh - Boleslaw Prus (1897) The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897) The War Of The Worlds - H G Wells (1898) The Child Of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio (1898) As A Man Grows Older - Italo Svevo (1898) The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James (1898) The Awakening - Kate Chopin (1899) The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane (1899) Some Experiences Of An Irish R M - Somerville & Ross (1899) Eclipse Of The Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi (1899) Dom Casmurro - Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis (1899) 1900s Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad (1900) Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (1900) The Tiger Of Mompracem - Emilio Salgari (1900) None But The Brave - Arthur Schnitzler (1901) Kim - Rudyard Kipling (1901) Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann (1901) The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1902) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James (1902) The Immoralist - Andre Gide (1902) The Riddle Of The Sands - Erskine Childers (1903) Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness - Daniel Paul Schreber (1903) The Ambassadors - Henry James (1903) Call Of The Wild - Jack London (1903) The Way Of All Flesh - Samuel Butler (1903) The Golden Bowl - Henry James (1904) Hadrian The Seventh - Frederick Rolfe (1904) Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (1904) Solitude - Victor Catala (1905) Where Angels Fear To Tread - E M Forster (1905) Professor Unrat (The Blue Angel) - Heinrich Mann (1905) The House Of Mirth - Edith Wharton (1905) The Forsythe Saga - John Galsworthy (1906) Young Torless - Robert Musil (1906) The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1906) The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (1907) Mother - Maxim Gorky (1907) The House On The Borderland - William Hope Hodgson (1908) The Old Wive's Tale - Arnold Bennett (1908) The Iron Heel - Jack London (1908) A Room With A View - E M Forster (1908) The Inferno - Henri Barbusse (1908) Tono-Bungay - H G Wells (1908) Strait Is The Gate - Andre Gide (1909) Martin Eden - Jack London (1909) Three Lives - Gertrude Stein (1909) Impressions Of Africa - Raymond Roussel (1910) The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke (1910) Howards End - E M Forster (1910) Fantomas - Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre (1911) Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (1911) The Charwoman's Daughter - James Stephens (1912) Death In Venice - Thomas Mann (1912) Sons And Lovers - D H Lawrence (1913) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell (1914) Tarzan Of The Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914) Rosshalde - Herman Hesse (1914) Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel (1914) Platero And I - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1914) Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (1914) The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (1915) The Rainbow - D H Lawrence (1915) Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham (1915) The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf (1915) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (1915) Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1915) The Home And The World - Rabindranath Tagore (1916) Pallieter - Felix Timmermans (1916) Under Fire - Henri Barbusse (1916) The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela (1916) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce (1916) Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton (1916) Growth Of The Soil - Knut Hamsun (1917) Summer - Edith Wharton (1917) The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad (1917) The Return Of The Soldier - Rebecca West (1918) Tarr - Wyndham Lewis (1919) Night And Day - Virginia Woolf (1919) Storm Of Steel - Ernst Junger (1920) Women In Love - D H Lawrence (1920) Main Street - Sinclair Lewis (1920) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) The Life Of Christ - Giovanni Papini (1921) Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (1921) Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (1922) Claudine's House - Colette (1922) Forest Of The Hanged - Liviu Rebreanu (1922) Ulysses - James Joyce (1922) Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (1922) Aaron's Rod - D H Lawrence (1922) The Last Days Of Humanity - Karl Kraus (1922) Life And Death Of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair (1922) The Glimpses Of The Moon - Edith Wharton (1922) Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (1922) Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf (1922) The Enormous Room - E E Cummings (1922) The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield (1922) Amok - Stefan Zweig (1922) The Fox - D H Lawrence (1923) Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley (1923) Cane - Jean Toomer (1923) Zeno's Conscience - Italo Calvino (1923) The Devil In The Flesh - Raymond Radiguet (1923) A Passage To India - E M Forster (1924) We - Yevgeny Zamiatin (1924) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (1924) The Green Hat - Michael Arlen (1924) Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville (1924) The Professor's House - Willa Cather (1925) The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky (1925) Chaka The Zulu - Thomas Mofolo (1925) The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925) The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide (1925) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925) Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos (1925) The Making Of Americans - Gertrude Stein (1925) New World - Heruy Welde Sellase (1925) Under The Sun Of Satan - Georges Bernanos (1926) Albert And Jacob - Cora Sandel (1926) The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926) One, None And A Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello (1926) The Plumed Serpent - D H Lawrence (1926) The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek (1926) The Castle - Franz Kafka (1926) Blindness - Henry Green (1926) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (1927) The Case Of Sergeant Grischa - Arnold Zweig (1927) Amerika - Franz Kafka (1927) Tarka The Otter - Henry Williamson (1927) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927) Rememberance Of Things Past - Marcel Proust (1927) Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse (1927) Nadja - Andre Breton (1928) Some Prefer Nettles - Junichiro Tanizaki (1928) Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford (1928) Quicksand - Nella Larsen (1928) Decline And Fall - Evelyn Waugh (1928) Quartet - Jean Rhys (1928) The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis (1928) The Well Of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall (1928) Lady Chatterley's Lover - D H Lawrence (1928) Orlando - Virginia Woolf (1928) Story Of The Eye - Georges Bataille (1928) Retreat Without Song - Shahan Shahnoor (1929) I Thought Of Daisy - Edmund Wilson (1929) Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe (1929) Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau (1929) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner (1929) Harriet Hume - Rebecca West (1929) The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen (1929) Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin (1929) All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1929) The Time Of Indifference - Alberto Moravia (1929) Living - Henry Green (1929) Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett (1929) A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929) Passing - Nella Larsen (1929) Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico (1929) The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1929) Monica - Saunders Lewis (1930) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh (1930) Her Privates We - Frederic Manning (1930) Insatiability - Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1930) The Apes Of God - Wyndham Lewis (1930) Cakes And Ale - W Somerset Maugham (1930) The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett (1931) The Waves - Virginia Woolf (1931) The Forbidden Realm - J Slauerhoff (1932) The Return Of Philip Latinowicz - Miroslav Krleza (1932) The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth (1932) The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett (1932) To The North - Elizabeth Bowen (1932) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (1932) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932) Journey To The End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1932) A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1932) Viper's Tangle - Francois Mauriac (1932) Joseph And His Brothers - Thomas Mann (1933) Man's Fate - Andre Malraux (1933) Cheese - Willem Elsschot (1933) The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil (1933) A Day Off - Storm Jameson (1933) Testament Of Youth - Vera Brittain (1933) The Autobiography Of Alice B Toklas - Gertrude Stein (1933) Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L Sayers (1933) Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West (1933) The Street Of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz (1934) Call It Sleep - Henry Roth (1934) Thank You, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse (1934) Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934) A Handful Of Dust - Evelyn Waugh (1934) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller (1934) The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain (1934) Novel With Cocaine - M Ageyev (1934) Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht (1934) The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers (1934) Burmese Days - George Orwell (1934) On The Heights Of Despair - Emile Cioran (1934) The Bells Of Basel - Louis Aragon (1934) Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand (1935) England Made Me - Graham Greene (1935) The House In Paris - Elizabeth Bowen (1935) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy (1935) The Last Of Mr Norris - Christopher Isherwood (1935) Auto-Da-Fe - Elias Canetti (1935) Independent People - Halldor Laxness (1935) Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (1935) Rickshaw Boy - Lao She (1936) War With The Newts - Karel Capek (1936) At The Mountains Of Madness - H P Lovecraft (1936) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (1936) Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson (1936) Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell (1936) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936) The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West (1936) Eyeless In Gaza - Aldous Huxley (1936) Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner (1936) Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz (1937) The Blind Owl - Sadeq Hedayat (1937) To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway (1937) Out Of Africa - Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) (1937) The Revenge Of Love - Wyndham Lewis (1937) In Parenthesis - David Jones (1937) The Years - Virginia Woolf (1937) The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein (1937) Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck (1937) On The Edge Of Reason - Miroslav Krleza (1938) Alamut - Vladimir Bartol (1938) Murphy - Samuel Beckett (1938) USA - John Dos Passos (1938) Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938) Cause For Alarm - Eric Ambler (1938) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (1938) Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (1938) Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - Winifred Watson (1938) After The Death Of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner (1938) The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (1939) Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys (1939) Tropic Of Capricorn - Henry Miller (1939) Goodbye To Berlin - Christopher Isherwood (1939) Coming Up For Air - George Orwell (1939) At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien (1939) Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (1939) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939) Party Going - Henry Green (1939) The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead (1940) The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (1940) The Power And The Glory - Graham Greene (1940) Native Son - Richard Wright (1940) For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940) Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler (1940) The Hamlet - William Faulkner (1940) The Harvesters - Cesare Pavese (1941) Broad And Alien Is The World - Ciro Alegria (1941) Between The Acts - Virginia Woolf (1941) Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton (1941) The Living And The Dead - Patrick White (1941) The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien (1941) Conversations In Sicily - Elio Vittorini (1941) Chess Story (The Royal Game) - Stefan Zweig (1942) The Outsider - Albert Camus (1942) Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner (1942) Embers - Sandor Marai (1942) The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse (1943) Caught - Henry Green (1943) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943) Dangling Man - Saul Bellow (1944) Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (1944) Transit - Anna Seghers (1944) The Razor's Edge - William Somerset Maugham (1944) Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (1944) The Tin Flute - Gabrielle Roy (1945) Bosnian Chronicle - Ivo Andric (1945) Nada - Carmen Laforet (1945) The Death Of Virgil - Hermann Broch (1945) Christ Stopped At Eboli - Carlo Levi (1945) Arcanum 17 - Andre Breton (1945) Loving - Henry Green (1945) The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford (1945) Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (1945) Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (1945) The Bridge Over The Drina - Ivo Andric (1945) Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (1946) Back - Henry Green (1946) A House In The Uplands - Erskine Caldwell (1946) Zorba The Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis (1946) Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz (1947) Froth On The Daydream - Boris Vian (1947) The Plague - Albert Camus (1947) The Path Of The Nest Of Spiders - Italo Calvino (1947) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry (1947) If This Is A Man - Primo Levi (1947) Exercises In Style - Raymond Queneau (1947) The Victim - Saul Bellow (1947) Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann (1947) Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton (1948) The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene (1948) Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot (1948) Disobedience - Alberto Moravia (1948) All About H Hatterr - G V Desani (1948) This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski (1948) In The Heart Of The Sea - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1948) Journey To Alcarria - Camilo Jose Cela (1948) Ashes And Diamonds - Jerzy Andrzejewski (1948) Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949) The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algren (1949) Kingdom Of This World - Alejo Carpentier (1949) The Heat Of The Day - Elizabeth Bowen (1949) The Case Of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge (1949) Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford (1949) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (1950) The Guiltless - Hermann Broch (1950) Barabbas - Par Lagerkvist (1950) The Garden Where The Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk (1950) The Moon And The Bonfires - Cesare Pavese (1950) I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (1950) The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing (1950) Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (1950) The 13 Clocks - James Thurber (1950) The Third Man - Graham Greene (1950) The Labyrinth Of Solitude - Octavio Paz (1950) The Abbot C - Georges Bataille (1950) The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela (1951) The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene (1951) Molloy - Samuel Beckett (1951) The Rebel - Albert Camus (1951) The Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger (1951) The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq (1951) Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951) Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham (1951) Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett (1951) Memoirs Of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar (1951) Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata (1952) Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (1952) The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson (1952) Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor (1952) The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952) The Judge And His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt (1952) The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier (1953) The Hothouse - Wolfgang Koeppen (1953) The Dark Child - Camara Laye (1953) Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (1953) Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin (1953) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow (1953) Junkie - William Burroughs (1953) Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (1953) Watt - Samuel Beckett (1953) The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett (1953) The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler (1953) The Go-Between - L P Hartley (1953) The Unknown Soldier - Vaino Linna (1954) The Sound Of Waves - Yukio Mishima (1954) Death In Rome - Wolfgang Koeppen (1954) A Day In Spring - Ciril Kosmac (1954) The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir (1954) Under The Net - Iris Murdoch (1954) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding (1954) A Ghost At Noon - Alberto Moravia (1954) The Story Of O - Pauline Reage (1954) Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis (1954) I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch (1954) Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan (1954) The Lord Of The Rings - J R R Tolkein (1954-56) The Tree Of Man - Patrick White (1955) The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo (1955) The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini (1955) The Recognitions - William Gaddis (1955) The Last Temptation Of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis (1955) The Quiet American - Graham Greene (1955) The Trusting And The Maimed - James Plunkett (1955) A World Of Love - Elizabeth Bowen (1955) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955) The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (1955) The Floating Opera - John Barth (1956) Seize The Day - Saul Bellow (1956) The Roots Of Heaven - Romain Gary (1956) The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1956) Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin (1956) The Devil To Pay In The Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1956) The Manila Rope - Veijo Meri (1957) The Glass Bees - Ernst Junger (1957) The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas (1957) The Deadbeats - Ward Ruyslinck (1957) Justine - Lawrence Durrell (1957) The Wonderful O - James Thurber (1957) Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (1957) Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov (1957) On The Road - Jack Kerouac (1957) Homo Faber - Max Frisch (1957) Blue Of Noon - Georges Bataille (1957) The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (1957) Voss - Patrick White (1957) Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957) The Bell - Iris Murdoch (1958) The Once And Future King - T H White (1958) The End Of The Road - John Barth (1958) Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan (1958) Mrs 'Arris Goes To Paris - Paul Gallico (1958) Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe (1958) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1958) The Bitter Glass - Eilis Dillon (1958) Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe (1958) The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1958) Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote (1958) The Guide - R K Narayan (1958) Deep Rivers - Jose Maria Arguedas (1958) Gabriela, Clove And Cinnamon - Jorge Amado (1958) Down Second Avenue - Es'kia Mphahlele (1959) Billiards At Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll (1959( Memento Mori - Muriel Spark (1959) Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow (1959) Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes (1959) The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (1959) Naked Lunch - William Burroughs (1959) Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse (1959) Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee (1959) Halftime: A Novel - Martin Walser (1960) God's Bits Of Wood - Ousmane Sembene (1960) The Magician Of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1960) Bebo's Girl - Carlo Cassola (1960) Promise At Dawn - Romain Gary (1960) Rabbit, Run - John Updike (1960) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960) The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien (1960) Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino (1960) How It Is - Samuel Beckett (1960) The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor (1960) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961) The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark (1961) Cat And Mouse - Gunter Grass (1961) Solaris - Stanislaw Lem (1961) Faces In The Water - Janet Frame (1961) A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch (1961) Franny And Zooey - J D Salinger (1961) Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein (1961) The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti (1961) No One Writes To The Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1961) Memoirs Of A Peasant Boy - Xose Neira Vilas (1961) The Time Of The Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa (1962) The Death Of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes (1962) Time Of Silence - Luis Martin-Santos (1962) The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani (1962) Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien (1962) Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges (1962) The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (1962) The Drowned World - J G Ballard (1962) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (1962) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962) One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) The Third Wedding - Costas Taktsis (1963) Dog Years - Gunter Grass (1963) The Collector - John Fowles (1963) One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1963) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963) Inside Mr Enderby - Anthony Burgess (1963) The Girls Of Slender Means - Muriel Spark (1963) The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carre (1963) Manon Des Sources - Marcel Pagnol (1963) The Graduate - Charles Webb (1963) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963) V - Thomas Pynchon (1963) Three Trapped Tigers - Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1964) Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis (1964) Return To Oegstgeest - Jan Wolkers (1964) Herzog - Saul Bellow (1964) The Ravishing Of Lol V Stein - Marguerite Duras (1964) Arrow Of God - Chinua Achebe (1964) Albert Angelo - B S Johnson (1964) Come Back, Dr Caligari - Donald Barthelme (1964) Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken Kesey (1964) The Passion According To G H - Clarice Lispector (1964) Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabal (1965) Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor (1965) God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (1965) August Is A Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien (1965) The River Between - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1965) Things - Georges Perec (1965) Death And The Dervish - Mesa Selimovic (1966) Silence - Shusaku Endo (1966) Marks Of Identity - Juan Goytisolo (1966) To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia (1966) The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (1966) Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth (1966) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (1966) The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras (1966) The Magus - John Fowles (1966) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (1966) Trawl - B S Johnson (1966) The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West (1966) Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz (1967) Z - Vassilis Vassilikos (1967) The Manor - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1967) A Man Asleep - Georges Perec (1967) The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien (1967) No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson (1967) The Joke - Milan Kundera (1967) Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson (1967) The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1967) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) The Cubs And Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa (1967) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe (1968) Chocky - John Wyndham (1968) The Quest For Christa T - Christa Wolf (1968) A Kestral For A Knave - Barry Hines (1968) In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan (1968) The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz (1968) Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid - Malcolm Lowry (1968) Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke (1968) The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1968) Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzheitsyn (1968) Belle Du Seigneur - Albert Cohen (1968) The Nice And The Good - Iris Murdoch (1968) Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal (1968) Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen (1968) Cathedral - Oles Honchar (1968) Heartbreak Tango - Manuel Puig (1969) Moscow Stations - Venedikt Yerofeev (1969) The Case Worker - Gyorgy Konrad (1969) Seasons Of Migration To The North - Tayeb Salih (1969) Here's To You Jesus - Elena Poniatowska (1969) Jacob The Liar - Jurek Becker (1969) A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec (1969) Them - Joyce Carol Oates (1969) Ada - Vladimir Nabokov (1969) The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969) Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth (1969) The Green Man - Kingsley Amis (1969) The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles (1969) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1969) Blind Man With A Pistol - Chester Himes (1969) Pricksongs And Descants - Robert Coover (1969) Tent Of Miracles - Jorge Amado (1969) Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (1970) Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion (1970) A World Of Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1970) The Atrocity Exhibition - J G Ballard (1970) Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson (1970) Troubles - J G Farrell (1970) Mercier Et Camier - Samuel Beckett (1970) I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (1970) Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick - Peter Handke (1970) The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (1970) The Ogre - Michel Tournier (1970) The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark (1970) The Sea Of Fertility - Yukio Mishima (1970) Rabbit Redux - John Updike (1971) The Wild Boys - William Burroughs (1971) Group Portrait With A Lady - Heinrich Boll (1971) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson (1971) The Book Of Daniel - E L Doctorow (1971) In A Free State - V S Naipaul (1971) House Mother Normal - B S Johnson (1971) Cataract - Mykhailo Osadchy (1971) Lives of Girls And Women - Alice Munro (1971) The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi (1972) The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty (1972) The Day Of The Dolphin - Robert Merle (1972) Surfacing - Margaret Atwood (1972) G - John Burger (1972) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (1972) The Breast - Philip Roth (1972) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (1972) Sula - Toni Morrison (1973) The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch (1973) Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (1973) The Honourary Consul - Graham Greene (1973) Crash - J G Ballard (1973) The Castle Of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino (1973) The Siege Of Krishnapur - J G Farrell (1973) A Question Of Power - Bessie Head (1973) Fear Of Flying - Erica Jong (1973) Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (1973) The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Distopia - Ursula Le Guin (1974) The Diviners - Margaret Laurence (1974) The Harbour - Antun Soljan (1974) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre (1974) The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll (1974) Dusklands - J M Coetzee (1974) The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle (1974) The Year Of The Hare - Arto Paasilinna (1975) The Commandant - Jessica Anderson (1975) Woman At Point Zero - Nawal El-Sadaawi (1975) Ragtime - E L Doctorow (1975) Correction - Thomas Bernhard (1975) Dead Babies - Martin Amis (1975) Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow (1975) High Rise - J G Ballard (1975) Willard And His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan (1975) Fateless - Imre Kertesz (1975) The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme (1975) Grimus - Salman Rushdie (1975) A Dance To The Music Of Time - Anthony Powell (1975) W, Or The Memory Of Childhood - Georges Perec (1975) Autumn Of The Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1975) Kiss Of The Spiderwoman - Manuel Puig (1976) Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami (1976) Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor (1976) Patterns Of Childhood - Christa Wolf (1976) Amateurs - Donald Barthelme (1976) Cutter And Bone - Newton Thornburg (1976) Interview With A Vampire - Anne Rice (1976) The Public Burning - Robert Coover (1976) Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo (1976) The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke (1976) The Engineer Of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky (1977) Quartet In Autumn - Barbara Pym (1977) The Wars - Timothy Findley (1977) The Hour Of The Star - Clarice Lispector (1977) Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison (1977) Petals Of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1977) Dispatches - Michael Herr (1977) The Shining - Stephen King (1977) Delta Of Venus - Anais Nin (1977) The Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter (1977) In The Heart Of The Country - J M Coetzee (1977) Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby, Jr (1978) The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro (1978) The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite (1978) The Virgin In The Garden - A S Byatt (1978) Yes - Thomas Bernhard (1978) The Singapore Grip - J G Farrell (1978) The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978) Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec (1978) The World According To Garp - John Irving (1978) The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan (1978) A Dry White Season - Andre Brink (1979) So Long A Letter - Mariama Ba (1979) Fool's Gold - Maro Douka (1979) Southern Seas - Manuel Vazquez Montalban (1979) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979) If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino (1979) The Safety Net - Heinrich Boll (1979) Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer (1979) A Bend In The River - V S Naipaul (1979) Shikasta - Doris Lessing (1979) Smiley's People - John Le Carre (1979) The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting - Milan Kundera (1979) The Smell Of Sadness - Alfred Kossmann (1980) Clear Light Of Day - Anita Desai (1980) The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco (1980) City Primeval - Elmore Leonard (1980) Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (1980) Rituals - Cees Nooteboom (1980) Rites of Passage - William Golding (1980) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1980) Waiting For The Barbarians - J M Coetzee (1980) Broken April - Ismail Kadare (1980) Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie (1981) The War At The End Of The World - Mario Vargas Llosa (1981) The House With The Blind Glass Windows - Herbjorg Wassmo (1981) Couples, Passersby - Botho Strauss (1981) Summer In Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin (1981) July's People - Nadine Gordimer (1981) The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan (1981) Lanark: A Life In Four Books - Alasdair Gray (1981) Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike (1981) Memory Of Fire - Eduardo Galeano (1982) Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago (1982) The Book Of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa (1982) The Names - Don DeLillo (1982) Concrete - Thomas Bernhard (1982) On The Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin (1982) The Newton Letter - John Banville (1982) The House Of The Spirits - Isabel Allende (1982) Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982) A Pale View Of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (1982) Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard (1982) The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (1982) A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White (1982) If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi (1982) Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes (1983) The Christmas Oratorio - Goran Tunstrom (1983) The Witness - Juan Jose Saer (1983) The Sorrow Of Belgium - Hugo Claus (1983) The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek (1983) The Diary Of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing (1983) The Life And Times Of Michael K - J M Coetzee (1983) Waterland - Graham Swift (1983) La Brava - Elmore Leonard (1983) Fools Of Fortune - William Trevor (1983) Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett (1983) Shame - Salman Rushdie (1983) Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios (1984) Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich (1984) The Young Man - Botho Strauss (1984) Professor Marten's Departure - Jaan Kross (1984) Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis (1984) Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes (1984) Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984) Blood And Guts In High School - Kathy Acker (1984) The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera (1984) Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter (1984) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (1984) Empire Of The Sun - J G Ballard (1984) The Lover - Marguerite Duras (1984) The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago (1984) The Busconductor Hines - James Kelman (1984) Dictionary Of The Khazars - Milorad Pavic (1984) Legend - David Gemmell (1984) Half Of Man Is Woman - Zhang Xianliang (1985) Simon And The Oaks - Marianne Fredriksson (1985) Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid (1985) Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (1985) Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd (1985) Queer - William Burroughs (1985) White Noise - Don DeLillo (1985) Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard (1985) Perfume - Patrick Suskind (1985) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985) Contact - Carl Sagan (1985) Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (1985) A Maggot - John Fowles (1985) The Cider House Rules - John Irving (1985) Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeannette Winterson (1985) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985) The Parable Of The Blind - Gert Hofmann (1985) Reasons To Live - Amy Hempel (1985) Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden (1986) The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman - Andrzej Szczypiorski (1986) The Drowned And The Saved - Primo Levi (1986) Foe - J M Coetzee (1986) Extinction - Thomas Bernhard (1986) An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) Lost Language Of Cranes - David Leavitt (1986) The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis (1986) Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons (1986) Marya: A Life - Joyce Carol Oates (1986) Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1986) Anagrams - Lorrie Moore (1986) Of Love And Shadows - Isabel Allende (1987) Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (1987) A Ballad For Georg Henych - Viktor Paskov (1987) Black Box - Amos Oz (1987) Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987) The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae (1987) Enigma Of Arrival - V S Naipaul (1987) World's End - T Coraghessan Boyle (1987) The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster (1987) The Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987) Cigarettes - Harry Mathews (1987) The Child In Time - Ian McEwan (1987) The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind (1987) The Passion - Jeannette Winterson (1987) The Black Dahalia - James Ellroy (1987) The Afternoon Of A Writer - Peter Handke (1987) The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble (1987) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (1987) Paradise Of The Blind - Ford Madox Ford (1988) The Last World - Christoph Ransmayr (1988) The First Garden - Anne Hebert (1988) The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh (1988) The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul - Douglas Adams (1988) Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988) The Player Of Games - Iain Banks (1988) Libra - Don DeLillo (1988) Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey (1988) The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst (1988) The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (1988) Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson (1988) The Beautiful Room Is Empty - Edmund White (1988) Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (1988) Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood (1988) All Souls - Javier Marias (1989) Inland - Gerald Murnane (1989) Obabakoak - Bernardo Atxaga (1989) Gimmick! - Joost Zwagerman (1989) The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor (1990) The Book of Evidence - John Banville (1989) London Fields - Martin Amis (1989) A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving (1989) Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (1989) The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon - Jose Saramago (1989) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (1989) The Temple Of My Familiar - Alice Walker (1989) The Melancholy Of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1989) Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) Billy Bathgate - E L Doctorow (1989) Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1989) Sexing The Cherry - Jeannette Winterson (1989) A Disaffection - James Kelman (1989) The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis (1990) The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle (1990) The Buddha Of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi (1990) Possession - A S Byatt (1990) Get Like Life - Lorrie Moore (1990) A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham (1990) The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (1990) The Music Of Chance - Paul Auster (1990) Stone Junction - Jim Dodge (1990) Vertigo - W G Sebald (1990) Vineland - Thomas Pynchon (1990) Amongst Women - John McGahern (1990) Shorty - Elmore Leonard (1990) The Laws - Connie Palmen (1991) Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell (1991) Astradeni - Eugenia Fakinou (1991) Wise Children - Angela Carter (1991) Senor Vivo And The Coca Lord - Louis De Bernieres (1991) Downriver - Iain Sinclair (1991) Regeneration - Pat Barker (1991) Typical - Padgett Powell (1991) Mao II - Don DeLillo (1991) Time's Arrow - Martin Amis (1991) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (1991) Wild Swans - Jung Chang (1991) Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas (1992) Uncle Petros And Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis (1992) Memoirs Of Rain - Sunetra Gupta (1992) The Triple Mirror Of The Self - Zulfikar Ghose (1992) The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte (1992) All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (1992) Arcadia - Jim Crace (1992) Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud (1992) Black Dogs - Ian McEwan (1992) Asphodel - 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