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 - H D (Hilda Doolittle) (1992) The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin (1992) Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates (1992) The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe (1992) Miss Smilla's Sense Of Snow - Peter Hoeg (1992) The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992) Jazz - Toni Morrison (1992) Written On The Body - Jeannette Winterson (1992) The Crow Road - Iain Banks (1992) Indigo - Marina Warner (1992) Possessing The Secret Of Joy - Alice Walker (1992) A Heart So White - Javier Marias (1992) The Discovery Of Heaven - Harry Mulisch (1992) Life Is A Caravanserai - Emine Ozdamar (1992) The Secret History - Donna Tartt (1992) The Emigrants - W G Sebald (1992) The Adventures And Misadventures Of Maqroll - Alvaro Mutis (1993) Deep River - Shusaku Endo (1993) The Twins - Tessa de Loo (1993) Remembering Babylon - David Malouf (1993) Waiting For The Dark, Waiting For The Light - Ivan Klima (1993) The Holder Of The World - Bharati Mukherjee (1993) The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (1993) The House Of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd (1993) The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides (1993) The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1993) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (1993) What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe (1993) On Love - Alain de Botton (1993) Complicity - Iain Banks (1993) Operation Shylock - Philip Roth (1993) Looking For The Possible Dance - A L Kennedy (1993) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (1993) Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh (1993) The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx (1993) The Invention Of The Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm (1993) Disappearance - David Dabydeen (1993) Our Lady Of The Assassins - Fernando Vallejo (1994) Felicia's Journey - William Trevor (1994) Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (1994) How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman (1994) City Sister Silver - Jachym Topol (1994) Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi (1994) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (1994) The Master Of Petersburg - J M Coetzee (1994) Land - Park Kyong-ni (1994) Whatever - Michel Houellebecq (1994) The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst (1994) Santa Evita - 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Kristien Hemmerechts (1997) The Untouchable - John Banville (1997) American Pastoral - Philip Roth (1997) The Life Of Insects - Victor Pelevin (1997) Jack Maggs - Peter Carey (1997) Underworld - Don DeLillo (1997) Enduring Love - Ian McEwan (1997) Great Apes - Will Self (1997) Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden (1997) The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997) Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon (1997) Crossfire - Miyuki Miyabe (1998)e The Heretic - Miguel Delibes (1998) The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano (1998) Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez (1998) Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho (1998) The Hours - Michael Cunningham (1998) Another World - Pat Barker (1998) Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis (1998) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (1998) Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters (1998) The Talk Of The Town - Ardal O'Hanlon (1998) All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom (1998) Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks (1998) Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (1998) Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi (1998) Elementary Particles - 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Review: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoy time travel books, so I grabbed this one when I saw it at the library. This is one of those books that I thought about when I wasn't reading it, and that I hated to see end. It was well-written and the concept of kalachakras--people who are born in the same time and same circumstances over and over again--was well fleshed out. The main character was was compelling, as were the situations that he lived through.

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Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a really freaky, disturbing book. Seriously. It is very good, but there were times when I just wanted it to be over, because there really is no option for a happy ending.

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