The list is starting to make me eager to open up a new account and assign that account to buy my 1001 book collection. I'm turning a quarter of a century sometime June and the book collection, well, still be incomplete by the time I turn 30. I have read, what?, like twenty titles already and less than ten books owned from the list.
2010 List:
Pre-1800
The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous
The Tale of the Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
The Water Margin - Shi Nai'an & Luo Guanzhong
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
Tirant lo Blanc - Joanot Martorell
La Celestina - Fernando de Rojas
Amadis of Gaul - Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes - Anonymous
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
The Lusiad - Luis Vaz de Camoes
Monkey: A Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
Thomas of Reading - Thomas Deloney
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The Adventurous Simplicissimus - Hans von Grimmelshausen
The Princess of Cleves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de la Fayette
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Dafoe
Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
Moll Flanders - Daniel Dafoe
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gray, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Pamela - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
Candide - Voltaire
Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Julie; or, The New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
Tristam Shandy - Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
Humphry Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evelina - Fanny Burney
Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
Anton Reiser - Karl Phillipp Mortiz
Vathek - William Backford
Justine - Marquis de Sade
A Dream of Red Mansions - Cao Xueqin
The Adventures of Cale Williams - William Godwin
The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
Wilhem Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Monk - M.G. Lewis
Camilla - Fanny Burney
Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
The Nun - Denis Diderot
Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin
1800's
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Henry of Ofterdingen - Novalis
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich von Kleist
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr - E.T.A. Hoffman
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing - Joseph von Eichendorff
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac
Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Lion of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience
The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Camera Obscura - Hildebrand
A Hero of Our Times - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Facundo - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
The Devil's Pool - George Sand
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Green Henry - Gottfried Keller
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Indian Summer - Adalbert Stifter
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
The Woman in White - Wilkie White
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Max Havelaar - Multatuli
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingley
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
King Lear of the Streppes - Ivan Turgenev
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
The Devil's - Fyodor Dostoevsky
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
Far from the Maddening World - Thomas Hardy
Pepita Jimenez - Juan Valera
The Crime of Father Amado - Jose Maria Eca de Quieros
Drunkard - Emile Zola
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Martin Fierro - Jose Hernandez
The Red Room - August Strindberg
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Nana - Emile Zola
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Regent's Wife - Clarin Leopoldo Alas
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Germinal - Emile Zola
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
The Quest - Frederik van Eeden
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Manors of Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazan
The People of Hemso - August Strindberg
Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Under the Yoke - Ivan Vazov
The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio
Eline Vere - Louis Couperus
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola
Thais - Anatole France
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Down There - Joris-Karl Huysmans
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof
New Grub Street - George Gissing
News from Nowhere - William Morris
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
The Viceroys - Federico De Roberto
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Dracula - Bram Stoker
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
Compassion - Benito Perez Galdos
Pharaoh - Boleslaw Prus
Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
As a Man Grows Older - Italo Svevo
Dom Casmurro - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi
Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. - Somerville and Ross
1900's
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem - Emilio Salgari
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
None but the Brave - Arthur Schnitzler
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Wings of a Dove - Henry James
The Immoralist - Andre Gide
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness - Daniel P. Schreber
The Way of all Flesh - Samuel Butler
Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
Solitude - Victor Catala
Young Torless - Robert Musil
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Mother - Maxim Gorky
The House on the Boderland - William Hope Hodgson
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
A Room with a View - E. M. Foster
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
Howards End - E. M. Foster
Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Charwoman's Daughter - James Stephens
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela
Pallieter - Felix Timmermans
Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
The Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
Life of Christ - Giovanni Papini
Ulysses - James Joyce
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Claudine's House - Colette
Life and Deaht of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
The Forest of the Hanged - Liviu Rebreanu
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Enourmous Room - e. e. cummings
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Amok - Stefan Zweig
The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
The New World - Heruy Walda-Sellasse
The Professor's House - Willa Carter
The Artomonov Business - Maxim Gorky
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Chaka the Zulu - Thomas Mofolo
The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
Under Satan's Sun - Georges Bernanos
The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
Alberta and Jacob - Cora Sandel
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Blindness - Henry Green
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Amerika - Franz Kafka
The Case of Sergeant Grischa - Arnold Zweig
Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Nadja - Andre Breton
Quicksand - Nella Larson
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Some Prefer Nettles - Junichiro Tanizaki
Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
Retreat Without Song - Shahan Shahnoor
Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
Living - Henry Green
I Thought of Daisy - Edmund Wilson
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Passing - Nella Larson
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
Monica - Saunders Lewis
Insatiability - Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
To The North - Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Return of Philip Latinowicz - Miroslav Krleza
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
The Forbidden Realm - J. J. Slaurhoff
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Vipers' Tangle - Francois Mauriac
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Cheese - Willem Elsschot
Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
A Day Off - Storm Jameson
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaneal West
Call it Sheep - Henry Roth
The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
On the Heights of Despair - Emil Cioran
The Bells of Basel - Louis Aragon
The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand
Independent People - Halldor Laxness
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
War with the Newts - Karel Capek
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rickshaw Boy - Lao She
Out of Afirca - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
In Parenthesis - David Jones
Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
The Hobbitt - J. R. R. Tolkien
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Murphy - Samuel Beckett
U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
Alamut - Vladimir Bartol
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
On the Edge of Reason - Miroslav Krleza
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Native Son - Richard Wright
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Broad and Alien is the World - Ciro Alegria
The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
The Harvesters - Cesare Pavese
Conversations in Sicily - Elio Vittorini
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Embers - Sandor Marai
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
Loving – Henry Green
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Bosnian Chronicle - Ive Andre
The Tin Flute - Gabrielle Roy
Andrea - Carmen Laforet
The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Back - Henry Green
House in the Uplands - Erskine Caldwell
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
The Plague – Albert Camus
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
Journey to the Alcarria - Camilo Jose Cela
Ashes and Diamonds - Jerzy Andrzejewski
Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
In the Heart of the Seas - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Guiltless - Hermann Broch
Barabbas - Par Lagerkvist
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
A Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Junkie – William Burroughs
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier
The Hothouse - Wolfgang Koeppen
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Dark Child - Camara Laye
A Day in Spring - Ciril Kosmac
A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
The Story of O - Pauline Reage
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Death in Rome - Wolfgang Koeppen
The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
The Unknown Soldier - Vaino Linna
I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
The Tree of Man - Patrick White
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
The Floating Opera – John Barth
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
The Glass Bees - Ernst Junger
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Manila Rope - Veijo Meri
The Deadbeats - Ward Ruyslinck
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
Blue of Noon - Georges Bataille
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Voss – Patrick White
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
The Guide - R. K. Narayan
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Deep Rivers - Jose Maria Arguedas
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Down Second Avenue - Ezekiel Mphahiele
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Halftime - Martin Walser
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
Bebo's Girl - Carlo Cassola
God's Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembene
The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Brodie - Muriel Spark
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
No One Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy - Xose Neira Vilas
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Time of Silence - Luis Martin-Santos
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carloes Fuentes
The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Third Wedding - Costas Taktsis
Dog Years - Gunter Grass
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Herzog – Saul Bellow
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
Three Trapped Tigers - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Back to Oegstgeest - Jan Wolkers
Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
Things - Georges Perec
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic
Silence - Shusaku Endo
To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
Marks of Identity - Juan Goytisolo
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
The Magus – John Fowles
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
Z - Vassilis Vassilikos
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Manor - Issac Bashevis Singer
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
Day of the Dolphin - Robert Merie
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
The Cathedral - Oles Honchar
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Jacob the Liar - Jurek Becker
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
The Case Worker - Gyorgy Konrad
Moscow Stations - Venedikt Yerofeev
Heartbreak Tango - Manuel Puig
Seasons of Migrations to the the North - Tayeb Salith
Here's to You, Jesusa! - Elena Poniatowska
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
Play I As it Lays - Joan Didion
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
A World for Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
Cataract - Mykhaylo Osadchyl
Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Boll
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
House Mother Normal - B. S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
G – John Berger
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
The Port - Antun Soljan
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Commandant - Jessica Anderson
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
Fateless – Imre Kertész
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor
Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
In the Heart of the Country - J. M. Coetzee
The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Shinning - Stephen King
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
The Singapore Grip - J. G. Farrell
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
The Virgin in the Garden - A. S. Byatt
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
A Dry White Season - Andre Brink
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Fool's Gold - Maro Douka
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
Smell of Sadness - Alfred Krossmann
Broken April - Ismall Kadare
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjorg Wassmo
Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie
The War at the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
Couples, Passerby - Botho Strauss
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
Waterland – Graham Swift
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
The Christmas in Oratorio - Goran Tunstrom
Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Witness - Juan Jose Saer
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Professor Martens' Departure - Jaan Kross
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Democracy - Joan Didion
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Year of the Death of Ricard Reis - José Saramago
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Legend – David Gemmell
The Young Man - Botho Strauss
Love Medicine - Louise Erdich
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Half of Man is Woman - Zhang Xianliang
Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Contact – Carl Sagan
Simon and the Oaks - Marianne Fredriksson
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman - Andrzej Szczypiorski
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory of Fire - Eudardo Galeano
The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Ballad for Georg Henig
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind
Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
Beloved - Toni Morrison
All Souls - Javier Marias
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Black Box - Amos Oz
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The First Garden - Anne Herbert
The Last World - Christoph Ransmayr
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
Paradise of the Blind - Duong Thu Huong
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Gimmick! - Joost Zwagerman
Obabakoak - Bernardo Atxaga
Inland - Gerald Murnane
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
London Fields – Martin Amis
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis
Vertigo - W. G. Sebald
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Laws - Connie Palmen
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
Astradeni - Eugenia Fakinou
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Typical - Padgett Powell
Mao II - Don DeLillo
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Arcadia - Jim Crace
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
Memoirs of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
Indigo - Marina Warner
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Triple Mirror of the Self - Zulfikar Ghose
Uncle Pretos and Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Alvaro Murtis
Remembering Babylon - Daid Malouf
The Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
On Love – Alain de Botton
The Twins - Tessa de Loo
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light - Ivan Klima
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Our Lady of the Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
Land – Park Kyong-ni
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Troubling Love - Elena Ferrante
The Late-Night News - Petros Markaris
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
A Light Comedy - Eduardo Mendoza
Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Margot and the Angels - Kristien Hemmerechts
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
Money to Burn - Ricardo Piglia
Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Crossfire - Miyabe Miyuki
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Heretic - Miguel Deliber
Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
Pavel's Letters - Monika Maron
In Search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Ugresic
Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
2000's
Bartleby and Co. - Enrique Vila-Matas
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Platform - Michel Houellebecq
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
The Successor - Ismail Kadare
Lady Number Thirteen - Jose Carlos Somoza
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
Your Face Tomorrow - Javier Marias
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Swarm - Frank Schatzing
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Master – Colm Tóibín
The Book about Blanch and Marie - Per Olov Enquist
2666 - Roberto Bolano
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
The Accidental - Ali Smith
Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
Measuring the World - Daniel Kelhmann
The Sea - John Banville
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Carry Me Down - M. J. Hyland
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Falling Man - Dan DeLillo
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Kieron Smith, Boy - James Kelman
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Cost - Roxanna Robinson
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
Invisible - Paul Auster
The Children's Book - A. S. Byatt
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