Below is a list of best ever books chosen by Peter Boxall and gathered in a book called 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. 1000 is a lot of reading though, a bit too much to be a New Year's resolution! But being realistic - if I'm lucky and live till I'm 80 that means I still have 50 years left. That gives 20 books a year - this sounds more feasible for a New Year's resolution.
So let it be - 20 books for this year, probably spread throughout the list for me to get a taste of different decades and their styles. Let the countdown begin!
- Ngozi Chimamanda: Half of a Yellow Sun (2007)
- Don DeLillo: Falling Man (2007)
- Indra Sinha: Animal's People (2007)
- M. J. Hyland: Carry Me Down (2006)
- Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones (2006)
- Kieran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
- Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2006)
- Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day (2006)
- Edward St Aubyn: Mother's Milk (2006)
- Ali Smith: The Accidental (2005)
- John Banville: The Sea (2005)
- Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World (2005)
- Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (2005)
- Irene Nemirovski: Suite Francaise (2004)
- Colm Toibin: The Master (2004)
- Roberto Bolano: 2666 (2004)
- Andrea Levy: Small Island (2004)
- Philip Roth: The Plot Against America (2004)
- Frank Schatzing: The Swarm (2004)
- Per Olov Enquist: The Book about Blanche and Marie (2004)
- Alan Hollinghurst: Line of Beautyb. 1948 (U.S.) (2004)
- Michael Chabon: Kavalier and Clay (2004)
- David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004)
- DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little (2003)
- Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved (2003)
- Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake (2003)
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2003)
- Amos Oz: A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003)
- Jose Carlos Somoza: La Dama numero trece (2003)
- Ismail Kadare: The Successor (2003)
- Dan Sleigh: Islands (2003)
- Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated (2002)
- Orhan Pamuk: Snow (2002)
- Aleksander Hemon: Nowhere Man (2002)
- Hauki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
- Javier Mar¡as: Your Face Tomorrow (2002)
- Niccolo Ammaniti: I'm Not Scared (2001)
- Ian McEwan: Atonement (2001)
- W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz (2001)
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections (2001)
- Michel Houellbecq: Platform (2001)
- Yann Martel: The Life of Pi (2001)
- Javier Cercas: Soldiers of Salamis (2001)
- Mario Vargas Llosa: The Feast of the Goat (2000)
- Enrique Vila-Matas: Bartleby and Co (2000)
- Michael Faber: Under the Skin (2000)
- Zadie Smith: White Teeth (2000)
- Philip Roth: The Human Stain (2000)
- Peter Esterhazy: Celestial Harmonies (2000)
- Paulo Coelho: The Devil and Miss Prym (2000)
- Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000)
- Zakes Mda: The Heart of Redness (2000)
- Shashi Deshpande: Small Remedies (2000)
- J.M Coetzee: Disgrace (1999)
- Jorge Volpi: In Search of Klingsor (1999)
- Amelie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling (1999)
- Dubrovka Ugresic: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1999)
- Slavenka Drakulic: As If I Am Not There (1999)
- Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters (1999)
- Pedro Juan Gutierrez: Dirty Havana Trilogy (1998)
- Roberto Bolano: Savage Detectives (1998)
- Cees Nooteboom: All Souls Day (1998)
- Miguel Deliber: The Heretic (1998)
- Michael Cunningham: The Hours (1998)
- Michel Houellbecq: Elementary Particles (1998)
- Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible (1998)
- Miyabe Miyuki: Crossfire (1998)
- Paulo Coelho: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
- Ardal O'Hanlon: The Talk of the Town (1998)
- Don DeLillo: Underworld (1997)
- Kristien Hemmerechts: Margot and the Angels (1997)
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997)
- Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (1997)
- Ricardo Piglia: Money to Burn (1997)
- Peter Carey: Jack Maggs (1997)
- Victor Pelevin: The Life of Insects (1997)
- Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace (1996)
- Alessandro Baricco: Silk (1996)
- Victor Pelevin: The Clay Machine-Gun (1996)
- Pat Barker: Ghost Road (1996)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fall on Your Knees (1996)
- David Foster Wallace: Infinte Jest (1996)
- Ann Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (1996)
- Hella Haasse: Forever a Stranger (1996)
- Eduardo Mendoza: A Light Comedy (1996)
- Patricia Dunker: Hallucinating Foucault (1996)
- Joan Didion: Democracy (1996)
- Gillian Rose: Love's Work (1995)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled (1995)
- Petros Markaris: The Late-Night News (1995)
- Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1995)
- Bernhard Schlink: The Reader (1995)
- Elena Ferrante: Troubling Love (1995)
- Lydia Davis: The End of the Story (1995)
- Alan Warner: Morvern Callar (1995)
- Tom s Eloy Mart¡nez: Santa Evita (1995)
- Fernando Vallejo: Our Lady of the Assassins (1994)
- Jachym Topol: City Sister Silver (1994)
- Antonio Tabucchi: Declares Pereira (1994)
- Kyung Lee Park: The Land (1994)
- Michel Houellbecq: Whatever (1994)
- Louis de Berniers: Captain Corelli's Mandarin (1994)
- James Kelman: How Late it Was, How Late (1994)
- Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)
- William Trevor: Felicia' s Journey (1994)
- Bharati Mukherjee: The Holder of the World (1993)
- Ivan Klima: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light (1993)
- David Malouf: Remembering Babylon (1993)
- Tessa de Loo: The Twins (1993)
- Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides (1993)
- Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong (1993)
- Uwe Timm: The Invention of Curried Sausage (1993)
- Shusaku Endo: Deep River (1993)
- Alan de Botton: On Love (1993)
- Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy (1993)
- Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries (1993)
- E. Annie Proulx: The Shippng News (1993)
- David Dabydeen: Disappearance (1993)
- A.L. Kennedy: Looking for the Possible Dance (1993)
- Ulvaro Mutis: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1993)
- Jonathan Coe: What a Carve Up! (1993)
- Arturo Perez Reverte: The Dumas Club (1992)
- Zulfikar Ghose: The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992)
- Marina Warner: Indigo (1992)
- Alice Walker: Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
- Donna Tartt: The Secret History (1992)
- Harry Mulisch: Discovery of Heaven (1992)
- HD: Asphodel (1992)
- Sunetra Gupta: Memoirs of Rain (1992)
- Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky (1992)
- Jim Crace: Arcadia (1992)
- Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992)
- Apostolos Doxiadis: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992)
- Emine Ozdamar: Life is a Caravanserai (1992)
- Michael Oondaatje: The English Patient (1992)
- Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy (1992)
- Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992)
- Iain Banks: The Crow Road (1992)
- Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls (1992)
- Padgett Powell: Typical (1991)
- Pat Barker: Regeneration (1991)
- Jung Chang: Wild Swans (1991)
- Eugenia Fakinou: Astradeni (1991)
- Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers (1991)
- Conny Palmen: The Laws (1991)
- Don DeLillo: Mao II (1991)
- Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho (1991)
- Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty (1990)
- John McGahern: Amongst Women (1990)
- William Kotzwinkle: The Midnight Examiner (1990)
- Lorrie Moore: Like Life (1990)
- Jim Dodge: Stone Junction (1990)
- W.G. Sebald: Vertigo (1990)
- Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
- Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried (1990)
- Pavlos Matesis: The Daughter (1990)
- Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines (1990)
- Paul Auster: The Music of Chance (1990)
- Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
- Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel (1989)
- Joost Zwagerman: Gimmick! (1989)
- Jose Saramago: History of the Seige of Lisbon (1989)
- Bernardo Atxaga: Obabakoak (1989)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day (1989)
- Gerald Murnane: Inland (1989)
- Martin Amis: London Fields (1989)
- Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry (1989)
- Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The Melacholy of Resistance (1989)
- Janice Galloway: The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989)
- Paul Auster: Moon Palace (1989)
- John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
- Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum (1988)
- Anne Hebert: The First Garden (1988)
- Christoph Ransmayer: The Last World (1988)
- Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library (1988)
- David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988)
- Duong Thu Huong: Paradise of the Blind (1988)
- Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
- Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses (1988)
- Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions (1988)
- Javier Marias: All Souls (1987)
- Tom Woolfe: Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
- V.S. Naipaul: Enigma of Arrival (1987)
- Amos Oz: Black Box (1987)
- Viktor Paskov: Ballad for Georg Henig (1987)
- Patrick Suskind: The Pigeon (1987)
- Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy (1987)
- Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen (1987)
- Jo Jung-Rae: Taebek Mountains (1987)
- Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
- Toni Morrisson: Beloved (1987)
- James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia (1987)
- Isabel Allende: Of Love and Shadows (1987)
- Peter Handke: The Afternoon of a Writer (1987)
- T. C. Boyle: World's End (1987)
- Margaret Drabble: The Radiant Way (1987)
- Harry Matthews: Cigarettes (1987)
- Alan Moore: Watchmen (1986)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
- Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Matigari (1986)
- Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils (1986)
- Lorrie Moore: Anagrams (1986)
- David Leavitt: Lost Language of Cranes (1986)
- Andrzej Szczypiorski: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (1986)
- Thomas Bernhard: Extinction (1986)
- Etienne van Heerden: Ancestral Voices (1986)
- Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor (1985)
- Gert Hofmann: The Parable of the Blind (1985)
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian (1985)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the time of Cholera (1985)
- Amy Hempel: Reasons to Live (1985)
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John (1985)
- Patrick Suskind: Perfume (1985)
- Carl Sagan: Contact (1985)
- Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985)
- John Irving: The Cider House Rules (1985)
- Marianne Frederiksson: Simon and the Oak Trees (1985)
- Xianliang Zhang: Half of Man is Woman (1985)
- Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (1984)
- Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
- William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
- David Gemmell: Legend (1984)
- Marguerite Duras: The Lover (1984)
- Jose Saramago: Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
- Jaan Kross: Professor Marten's Departure (1984)
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
- Kathy Acker: Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
- Botho Strauss: The Young Man (1984)
- Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine (1984)
- Martin Amis: Money (1984)
- Julian Rios: Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel (1984)
- Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)
- James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines (1984)
- Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars (1984)
- J.G. Ballard: The Empire of the Sun (1984)
- Elmore Leonard: La Brava (1983)
- Juan Jose Saer: The Witness (1983)
- Goran Tunstrom: The Christmas Oratorio (1983)
- Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium (1983)
- Graham Swift: Waterland (1983)
- Salman Rushdie: Shame (1983)
- Antonio Lobo Antunes: Fado Alexandrino (1983)
- Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher (1983)
- J.M Coetzee: The Life and Times of Michael K (1983)
- Isabelle Allende: The House of Spirits (1982)
- Thomas Bernhard: Wittgenstein's Nepew (1982)
- Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet (1982)
- Jose Saramago: Baltazar & Bleminda (1982)
- Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story (1982)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills (1982)
- Primo Levi: If Not Now, When? (1982)
- Alice Walker: The Color Purple (1982)
- Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Ark (1982)
- Bruce Chatwin: On the Black Hill (1982)
- Eduardo Galeano: Memory of Fire (1982)
- John Updike: Rabbit is Rich (1981)
- Botho Strauss: Couples, Passerby (1981)
- Nadine Gordimer: July's People (1981)
- Alisdair Gray: Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
- Herbjorg Wassmo: The House with the Blind Glass Windows (1981)
- Leonard Tsypkin: Summer in Baden Baden (1981)
- Mario Vargas Llosa: The War of the End of the World (1981)
- Jie Zhang: Leaden Wings (1981)
- Cees Nooteboom: Rituals (1980)
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)
- Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day (1980)
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (1980)
- John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Ismail Kadare: Broken April (1980)
- Alfred Kossmann: The Smell of Sadness (1980)
- J.M Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
- V.S Naipaul: A Bend in the River (1979)
- Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
- Nadine Gordimer: Burger's Daughter (1979)
- Manuel Vazquez Montalban: Southern Seas (1979)
- John Le Carre: Smiley's People (1979)
- Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
- Maro Douka: Fool's Gold (1979)
- Miriam Ba: So Long a Letter (1979)
- Douglas Adams: Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- Andre Brink: A Dry White Season (1979)
- Carmen Martin Gaite: The Back Room (1978)
- Iris Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea (1978)
- A.S. Byatt: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
- Georges Perec: Life: A User's Manual (1978)
- Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden (1978)
- Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid (1978)
- Hubert Selby: Requim for a Dream (1978)
- J.G. Farrell: The Singapore Grip (1978)
- Toni Morrisson: Song of Solomon (1977)
- Michael Herr: Dispatches (1977)
- Timothy Findley: The Wars (1977)
- Stephen King: The Shining (1977)
- Anais Nin: Delta of Venus (1977)
- Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star (1977)
- Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn (1977)
- J.M. Coetzee: In the Heart of the Country (1977)
- Josef Skvorecky: The Engineer of Human Souls (1977)
- Ann Rice: Interview With a Vampire (1976)
- Christa Wolf: Patterns of Childhood (1976)
- Elizabeth Taylor: Blaming (1976)
- Ryu Murakami: Almost Transparent Blue (1976)
- Newton Thornburg: Cutter and Bone (1976)
- Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1976)
- Peter Handke: The Left-Handed Woman (1976)
- Donald Barthelme: The Dead Father (1975)
- Thomas Bernhard: Correction (1975)
- Nawal El Sadaawi: Woman at Point Zero (1975)
- Georges Perec: W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)
- Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time (1975)
- Jessica Anderson: The Commandant (1975)
- Gabriel Garcia M rquez: Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
- E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime (1975)
- Richard Brautigan: Willard and his Bowling Trophies (1975)
- Imre Kertesz: Fateless (1975)
- Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift (1975)
- Arto Paasilinna: The Year of the Hare (1975)
- Heinrich Boll: Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974)
- Antun Soljan: The Port (1974)
- William Kotzwinkle: The Fan Man (1974)
- Ursula leGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)
- Margaret Laurence: The Diviners (1974)
- J.M. Coetzee: Dusklands (1974)
- Erica Jong: Fear of Flying (1973)
- Graham Greene: The Honorary Consul (1973)
- Bessie Head: A Question of Power (1973)
- Italo Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973)
- J.G Ballard: Crash (1973)
- Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
- J.G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
- Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (1972)
- Tove Jansson: The Summer Book (1972)
- Robert Merle: Day of the Dolphin (1972)
- Margaret Atwood: Surfacing (1972)
- Eudora Welty: The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
- Sawako Ariyoshi: The Twilight Years (1972)
- John Berger: G (1972)
- John Updike: Rabbit Redux (1971)
- B.S. Johnson: House Mother Normal (1971)
- V.S Naipaul: In a Free State (1971)
- Heinrich Boll: Group Portrait with a Lady (1971)
- Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
- Hunter S. Thomson: Fear and Loathing in las Vegas (1971)
- E.L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel (1971)
- Mykhailo Osadchy: Cataract (1971)
- Alfredo Bryce Echenique: A World for Julius (1970)
- Joan Didion: Play it as it Lays (1970)
- Toni Morrisson: The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Robertson Davies: Fifth Business (1970)
- Maya, Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970)
- Yukio Mishima: The Sea of Fertility (1970)
- Uwe Johnson: Jahrestage (1970)
- Philip Roth: Portnoy's Compaint (1969)
- Jurek Becker: Jacob the Liar (1969)
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
- Robert Coover: Pricksongs and Descants (1969)
- Elena Poniatowska: Here's to You, Jesusa!ÿÿ (1969)
- Georges Perec: A Voi/Avoid (1969)
- Tayeb Salih: Seasons of Migration to the North (1969)
- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
- Jorge Amado: Tent of Miracles (1969)
- Gyorgy Konrad: The Case Worker (1969)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Ada (1969)
- Chester Himes: Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
- Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969)
- Venedikt Yerofeev: Moscow Stations (1969)
- Manuel Puig: Heartbreak Tango (1969)
- Joyce Carol Oates: them (1969)
- Tom Woolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
- Oles Honchar: The Cathedral (1968)
- Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout (1968)
- Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? (1968)
- Richard Brautigan: In Watermelon Sugar (1968)
- Albert Cohen: Belle du Seigneur (1968)
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle (1968)
- Siegfried Lenz: The German Lesson (1968)
- Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 (1968)
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Cancer Ward (1968)
- Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge (1968)
- Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave (1968)
- Christa Wolf: The Quest for Christa T. (1968)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Manor (1967)
- Vassilis Vassilikos: Z (1967)
- Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage (1967)
- Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman (1967)
- Naguib Mahfouz: Miramar (1967)
- Angus Wilson: No Laughing Matter (1967)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 years of Solitude (1967)
- Leonardo Sciascia: To EachHis Own (1966)
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- John Barth: Giles Goat Boy (1966)
- Marguerite Duras: The Vice-Consul (1966)
- Juan Goytisolo: Marks of Identity (1966)
- Shusaku Endo: Silence (1966)
- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
- Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1966)
- Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)
- Mesa Selimovic: Death and the Dervish (1966)
- John Fowles: The Magus (1966)
- Bohumil Hrabal: Closely Watched Trains (1965)
- Flannery O'Connor: Everything that Rises must Converge (1965)
- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The River Between (1965)
- Georges Perec: Things (1965)
- Jan Wolkers: Back to Oegstgeest (1965)
- Danilo Kis: Garden, Ashes (1965)
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers (1964)
- Clarice Lispector: The Passion According to GH (1964)
- Marguerite Duras: The Ravishing of Lol V Stein (1964)
- Saul Bellow: Herzog (1964)
- Ken Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)
- Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God (1964)
- Charles Webb: The Graduate (1963)
- Marcel Pagnol: Manon des sources (1963)
- Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Thomas Pynchon: V (1963)
- Gunter Grass: Dog Years (1963)
- Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
- Costas Taktsis: The Third Wedding (1963)
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963)
- John Le Carre: The Spy who came in From the Cold (1963)
- Anthony Burgess: Inside Mr Enderby (1963)
- Silvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)
- Edna O'Brien: The Girl with Green Eyes (1962)
- Luis Martin Santos: Time of Silence (1962)
- Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
- Giorgio Bassani: The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis (1962)
- Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook (1962)
- Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths (1962)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (1962)
- Mario Vargas Llosa: The Time of the Hero (1962)
- Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
- Xose Neira Vilas: Memoirs of a Peasant Boy (1961)
- Janet Frame: Faces in the water (1961)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
- Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head (1961)
- Juan Carlos Onetti: The Shipyard (1961)
- J.D Salinger: Franny and Zooey (1961)
- Gunter Grass: Cat and Mouse (1961)
- Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
- Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
- Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)
- Stanislav Lem: Solaris (1961)
- John Updike: Rabbit, Run (1960)
- Carlo Cassola: Bebo's Girl (1960)
- Romain Gary: Promise at Dawn (1960)
- Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls (1960)
- Nelle Harper Lee: To Kill a Mocking Bird (1960)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of Lublin (1960)
- Ousmane Sembene: God's Bits of Wood (1960)
- Martin Walser: Halftime: A Novel (1960)
- Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum (1959)
- E'skia Mphahlele's: Down Second Avenue (1959)
- Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie (1959)
- Heinrich Boll: Billiards at Half Past Nine (1959)
- Colin MacInnes: Absolute Beginners (1959)
- Kieth Waterhouse: Billy Liar (1959)
- William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch (1959)
- Iris Murdoch: The Bell (1958)
- T.H. White: The Once and Future King (1958)
- Eilis Dillon: The Bitter Glass (1958)
- Giussepe di Lampedusa: The Leopard (1958)
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (1958)
- Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy (1958)
- Kenzaburo Oe: Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring (1958)
- Jorge Amado: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958)
- Jose Maria Arguedas: Deep Rivers (1958)
- R.K. Narayan: The Guide (1958)
- Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
- Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet: Jealousy (1957)
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957)
- Ward Ruyslinck: The Deadbeats (1957)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin (1957)
- Patrick White: Voss (1957)
- Lawrence Durrell: Justine (1957)
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
- Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds (1957)
- Ernst Junger: The Glass Bees (1957)
- John Wyndham: The Midwitch Cuckoos (1957)
- Veijo Meri: The Manila Rope (1957)
- Georges Bataille: The Blue of Noon (1957)
- Max Frisch: Homo Faber (1957)
- Sam Selvon: Lonely Londoners (1956)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1956)
- John Barth: The Floating Opera (1956)
- James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room (1956)
- Romain Gary: The Roots of Heaven (1956)
- Joao Guimaraes Rosa: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
- James Plunkett: The Trusting and the Maimed (1955)
- Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)
- Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
- Juan Rulfo: The Burning Plain (1955)
- Pier Paulo Pasolini: The Ragazzi (1955)
- William Gaddis: The Recognitions (1955)
- Graham Greene: The Quiet American (1955)
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)
- Patrick White: The Tree of Man (1955)
- Francoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
- Pauline Reage: The Story of O (1954)
- Alberto Moravia: A Ghost at Noon (1954)
- Iris Murdoch: Under the Net (1954)
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Mandarins (1954)
- Ciril Kosmac: A Day in Spring (1954)
- Wolfgang Koeppen: Death in Rome (1954)
- Yukio Mishima: The Sound of Waves (1954)
- Max Frisch: I'm Not Stiller (1954)
- Vaino Linna: The Unknown Soldier (1954)
- Hartley L.P.: The Go-Between (1953)
- Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)
- James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)
- Wolfgang Koeppen: The Hothouse (1953)
- William Burroughs: Junkie (1953)
- Alejo Carpentier: The Lost Steps (1953)
- Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (1953)
- Camara Laye: The Dark Child (1953)
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1953)
- Friedrich Duerrenmatt: The Judge and his Hangman (1952)
- Ernest Hemmingway: Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood (1952)
- Barbara Pym: Excellent women (1952)
- Yasunari Kawabata: A Thousand Cranes (1952)
- Ralph Ellisson: The Invisible Man (1952)
- Camilo Jose Cela: The Hive (1951)
- Albert Camus: The Rebel (1951)
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)
- Graham Greene: The End of the Affair (1951)
- Julien Gracq: The Opposing Shore (1951)
- Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies (1951)
- Samuel Beckett: Molloy (1951)
- Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
- J.D Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids (1951)
- James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks (1950)
- Par Lagerkvist: Barabbas (1950)
- Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
- Cesare Pavese: The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)
- Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast (1950)
- Isaac Asimov: I Robot (1950)
- Simon Vestdijk: The Garden Where the Brass Band Played (1950)
- Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice (1950)
- Georges Bataille: The Abbot C (1950)
- Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing (1950)
- Hermann Broch: The Guiltless (1950)
- Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day (1949)
- Nelson Algren: The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949)
- Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
- Alejo Carpentier: Kingdom of this World (1949)
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Alberto Moravia: Disobedience (1948)
- Jerzy Andrzejewski: Ashes and Diamonds (1948)
- Camilo Jose Cela: Journey to Alcarria (1948)
- Desani. G.V.: All About H. Hatterr (1948)
- Maurice Blanchot: Death Sentence (1948)
- Shmuel Yosef (Samuel) Agnon: In the Heart of the Sea (1948)
- Alan Paton: Cry the Beloved Country (1948)
- Tadeusz Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1948)
- Thomas Mann: Dr Faustus (1947)
- Primo Levi: If this is a Man (1947)
- Italo Calvino: The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947)
- Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style (1947)
- Boris Vian: Froth on the Daydream (1947)
- Albert Camus: The Plague (1947)
- Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (1947)
- Naguib Mahfouz: Midaq Alley (1947)
- Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek (1946)
- Erskine Caldwell: A House in the Uplands (1946)
- Henry Green: Back (1946)
- Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)
- Andre Breton: Arcanum 17 (1945)
- Carmen Laforet: Andrea (1945)
- Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945)
- Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)
- Ivo Andric: Bosnian Chronicle (1945)
- Henry Green: Loving (1945)
- Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil (1945)
- Ivo Andric: Na Drini Cuprija (1945)
- George Orwell: Animal Farm (1945)
- Gabrielle Roy: The Tin Flute (1945)
- Anna Seghers: Transit (1944)
- Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking (1944)
- Saul Bellow: Dangling Man (1944)
- W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge (1944)
- Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943)
- Antione De Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (1943)
- Stefan Zweig: Chess Story (Royal Game) (1942)
- Albert Camus: The Outsider (1942)
- S ndor M rai: Embers (1942)
- Elio Vittorini: In Sicily (1941)
- Ciro Alegria: Broad and Alien is the World (1941)
- Cesare Pavese: The Harvesters (1941)
- Patrick White: The Living and the Dead (1941)
- Ernest Hemmingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- James Joyce: Finnegans Wake (1940)
- Richard Wright: Native Son (1940)
- Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe (1940)
- Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
- Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)
- Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
- Jean Rhys: Good Morning Midnight (1939)
- Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
- Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
- John Dos Passos: USA (1938)
- Samuel Beckett: Murphy (1938)
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea (1938)
- Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (1938)
- Winnifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938)
- Vladimir Bartol: Alamut (1938)
- Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
- Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)
- Miroslav Krleza: On the Edge of Reason (1938)
- John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (1937)
- David Jones: In Parenthesis (1937)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)
- Sadeq Hedeyat: The Blind Owl (1937)
- Zora Neale Hurston: Thier Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
- Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (1937)
- Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke (1937)
- Sylvia Townsend Warner: Summer Will Show (1936)
- H.P. Lovecraft: At The Mountains of Madness (1936)
- Aldous Huxley: Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- Djuna Barnes: Nightwood (1936)
- Karel Capek: War with the Newts (1936)
- Rebecca West: The Thinking Reed (1936)
- Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind (1936)
- William Faulkner: Absalom Absalom! (1936)
- She Lao: Rickshaw Boy (1936)
- George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
- Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses Don't They (1935)
- Elias Canetti: Auto-da-F‚ (1935)
- Christopher Isherwood: The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)
- Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable (1935)
- Halldor Laxness: Independent People (1935)
- Henry Roth: Call it Sleep (1934)
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night (1934)
- Louis Aragon: The Bells of Basel (1934)
- Emile (Emil) Cioran: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
- P.G. Wodehouse: Thank You, Jeeves (1934)
- Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934)
- Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles (1934)
- Dorothy Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)
- Andre Malraux: Man's Fate (1933)
- Gertrude Stein: The Autoboigraphy of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
- Nathaniel West: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
- Storm Jameson: A Day Off (1933)
- Willem Elsschot: Cheese (1933)
- Robert Musil: The Man without Qualities (1933)
- Vera Brittain: A Testament of Youth (1933)
- Dorothy Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)
- Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers (1933)
- Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man (1932)
- Francois Mauriac: Viper's Tangle (1932)
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)
- Elizabeth Bowen: To the North (1932)
- Louis Ferdinand Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
- Joseph Roth: The Radetzky March (1932)
- Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
- Miroslav Krleza: The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932)
- J.J. Slauerhoff: The Forbidden Realm (1932)
- Viginia, Woolf: The Waves (1931)
- Wyndham Lewis: The Apes of God (1930)
- Stanislaw Witkiewicz: Insatiability (1930)
- Saunders Lewis: Monica (1930)
- Frederic Manning: Her Privates We (1930)
- Nella Larsen: Passing (1929)
- Alberto Moravia: The Time of Indifference (1929)
- Ernest Hemmingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- Jean Cocteau: Les Enfants Terribles (1929)
- Thomas Wolf: Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
- Henry Green: Living (1929)
- Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1929)
- Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Alfred D”blin: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
- Edmund Wilson: I Thought of Daisy (1929)
- Shahan Shahnoor: Retreat Without Song (1929)
- Nella Larsen: Quicksand (1928)
- Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall (1928)
- Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End (1928)
- Andre Breton: Nadja (1928)
- Viginia, Woolf: Orlando (1928)
- Radcliffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928)
- D.H Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928)
- Junichiro Tanizaki: Some Prefer Nettles (1928)
- Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye (1928)
- Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter (1927)
- Viginia, Woolf: To The Lighthouse (1927)
- Franz Kafka: Amerika (1927)
- Arnold Zweig: The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time (1927)
- Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf (1927)
- Franz Kafka: The Castle (1926)
- Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk (1926)
- Ernest Hemmingway: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- Cora Sandel: Alberta and Jacob (1926)
- Henry Green: Blindness (1926)
- Bernanos: Under Satan's Sun (1926)
- Luigi Pirandello: One, None and a Hundred Thousand (1926)
- Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- Willa Cather: The Professor's House (1925)
- Walda-sellase Heruy: The New World (1925)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
- Gertrude Stein: The Making of Americans (1925)
- Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925)
- Andre Gide: The Counterfeiters (1925)
- Viginia, Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- Thoms Mofolo: Chaka the Zulu (1925)
- Maxim Gorky: The Artomonov Business (1925)
- E.M. Forster: Passage to India (1924)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (1924)
- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (1924)
- Michael Arlen: The Green Hat (1924)
- Italo Svevo: Zeno's Conscience (1923)
- Raymond Radiguet: The Devil in the Flesh (1923)
- E E Cummings: The Enormous Room (1922)
- Liviu Rebreanu: The Forest and the Hanged (1922)
- Colette: Claudine's House (1922)
- Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter (1922)
- Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt (1922)
- Stefan Zweig: Amok (1922)
- Herman Hesse: Siddharta (1922)
- James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
- May Sinclair: Harriet Frean (1922)
- Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow (1921)
- Papini: The Life of Christ (1921)
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920)
- Sinclair Lewis: Main Street (1920)
- D.H Lawrence: Women in Love (1920)
- Ernst Junger: The Storm of Steel (1920)
- Wyndham Lewis: Tarr (1919)
- Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier (1918)
- Knut Hamsun: Growth of the Soil (1917)
- James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Mariano Azuela: The Underdogs (1916)
- Henri Barbusse: Under Fire (1916)
- Felix Timmermans: Pallieter (1916)
- Rabindranath Tagore: Home and the World (1916)
- D.H Lawrence: The Rainbow (1915)
- Ryunoske Akutagawa: Rashomon (1915)
- Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier (1915)
- John Buchan: The 39 Steps (1915)
- W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage (1915)
- Robert Tressell: The Ragged Tousered Philantrhopists (1914)
- Soseki Natsume: KoKoro (1914)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes (1914)
- Juan Ramon Jimanez: Platero and I (1914)
- Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus (1914)
- D.H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (1913)
- Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (1912)
- James Stephens: The Charwoman's Daughter (1912)
- Marcel and Pierre Souvestre Allain: Fant“mas (1911)
- Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (1911)
- E.M. Forster: Howards End (1910)
- Rainer Maria Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)
- Raymond Roussel: Impressions of Africa (1910)
- Andre Gide: Strait is the gate (1909)
- Willaim Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland (1908)
- Arnold Bennett: The Old Wive's Tale (1908)
- E.M. Forster: A Room with a View (1908)
- Henri Barbusse: The Inferno (1908)
- Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1907)
- Maxim Gorky: Mother (1907)
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)
- Robert Musil: Young Torless (1906)
- John Galsworthy: The Forsythe Saga (1906)
- Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (1905)
- Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)
- Victor Catal…: Solitude (1905)
- Fr. Rolfe: Hadrian the Seventh (1904)
- Joseph Conrad: Nostromo (1904)
- Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh (1903)
- Jack London: Call of the Wild (1903)
- Henry James: The Ambassadors (1903)
- Daniel P Schreber: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903)
- Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (1902)
- Arthur Conan Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
- Andre Gide: The Immoralist (1902)
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1902)
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim (1901)
- Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks (1901)
- Arthur Schnitzler: None but the Brave (1901)
- Salgari: The Tiger of Momopracem (1900)
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (1900)
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro (1899)
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening (1899)
- Theodor Fontane: The Stechlin (1899)
- Gardonyi. Geza: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (1899)
- Somerville and Ross: Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899)
- Italo Svevo: As a Man Grows Older (1898)
- Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Child of Pleasure (1898)
- H.G., Wells: The War of the Worlds (1898)
- Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
- Boleslaw Prus: The Pharaoh (1897)
- Andre Gide: The Fruits of the Earth (1897)
- Perez Galdos: Compassion (1897)
- Henry James: What Maisie Knew (1897)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis (1896)
- H.G., Wells: The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
- Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest (1895)
- Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure (1895)
- H.G., Wells: The Time Machine (1895)
- Federico De Roberto: The Viceroys (1894)
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
- George, et al, Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody (1892)
- Selma Lagerlof: Gosta Berlings Saga (1891)
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
- William Morris: News From Nowhere (1891)
- George Gissing: New Grub Street (1891)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans: Down There (1891)
- Oscar, Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
- Knut Hamsun: Hunger (1890)
- August Strindberg: By the Open Sea (1890)
- Anatole France: Tha‹s (1890)
- Emile Zola: La Bete Humaine (1890)
- Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata (1890)
- Louis Couperus: Eline Vere (1889)
- Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean (1888)
- Ivan Vazov: Under the Yoke (1888)
- August Strindberg: The People of Hemso (1887)
- Emilia Pardo Baz n: The Manors of Ulloa (1886)
- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines (1885)
- Emile Zola: Germinal (1885)
- Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
- Frederik van Eeden: The Quest (1885)
- Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean (1885)
- Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami (1885)
- J.K. Huysmans: Agains the Grain (1884)
- Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884)
- Clar¡n Leopoldo Alas: The Regent's Wife (1884)
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883)
- Guy de Maupassant: A Woman's Life (1883)
- Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pecuchet (1881)
- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba (1881)
- Giovanni Verga: The House by the Medlar Tree (1881)
- August Strindberg: The Red Room (1880)
- Emile Zola: Nana (1880)
- Wallace Lew: Ben-Hur (1880)
- Emile Zola: Drunkard (1877)
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1877)
- Jose Maria Eua de Queiros: The Crime of Father Amado (1876)
- Juan Valera: Pepita Jimenez (1874)
- Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
- Nikolai Leskov: The Enchanted Wanderer (1873)
- Sheridan LeFanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)
- George Eliot: Middlemarch (1872)
- Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)
- Ivan Turgenev: Spring Torrents (1872)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Devils (1872)
- Jose Hernandez: Mart¡n Fierro (1872)
- Lewis Carrol: Through the Looking Glass (1871)
- Ivan Turgenev: King Lear of the Steppes (1870)
- Comte de Lautr‚amont: Maldoror (1869)
- Gustav Flaubert: Sentimental Education (1869)
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (1869)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot (1869)
- Anthony Trollope: Phineas Finn (1869)
- Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
- Emile Zola: Therese Raquin (1867)
- Anthony Trollope: The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
- Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1866)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Lewis Carrol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (1864)
- Sheridan LeFanu: Uncle Silas (1864)
- Charles Kingsley: Water Babies (1863)
- Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (1862)
- Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862)
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)
- George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861)
- Multatuli: Max Havelaar (1860)
- Wilkie Collins: Woman in White (1860)
- George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- George Eliot: Adam Bede (1859)
- Ivan Goncahrov: Oblomovka (1859)
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857)
- Adalbert Stifter: Indian Summer (1857)
- Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1855)
- Gottfried Keller: Green Henry (1854)
- Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)
- Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1853)
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (1853)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1851)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (1850)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Anne Bronte: Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
- William Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1847)
- Charoltte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
- Georges Sand: The Devil's Pool (1846)
- Alexander Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo (1846)
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: Facundo (1845)
- Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1844)
- Honore Balzac: Lost Illusions (1843)
- Edgar Allen Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum (1843)
- Nikolay Gogol: Dead Souls (1842)
- Mikhail Yu Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time (1840)
- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
- Hildebrand: Camera obscura (1839)
- Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
- Hendrik Consience: The Lion of Flanders (1838)
- Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838)
- Nikolay Gogol: The Nose (1836)
- Honore Balzac: Le Pere Goriot (1835)
- Honore Balzac: Eu‚gnie Grandet (1834)
- Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (1833)
- Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
- Stendhal: The Red and the Black, (1831)
- Manzoni: The Betrothed (1827)
- James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff: The Life of a Good-for-Nothing (1826)
- Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
- Walter Scott: Ivanhoe (1820)
- Chalres Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1820)
- Mary Shelly: Frankenstein (1818)
- Walter Scott: Rob Roy (1817)
- Jane Austen: Emma (1816)
- Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (1814)
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas (1810)
- Johann Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)
- Denis Diderot: Rameau's Nephew (1805)
- Novalis: Henry Von Ofterdingen (unfinished) (1802)
- Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent (1800)
- Friedrich Holderlin: Hyperion (1797)
- Monk Lewis: The Monk (1796)
- Fanny Burney: Camilla (1796)
- Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist (1796)
- Diderot: The Nun (1796)
- Johann Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796)
- William Godwin: The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)
- Anne Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Oloudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative (1794)
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1791)
- Xueqin Cao: A Dream of Red Mansions (1791)
- William Beckford: Vathek (1786)
- Marquis de Sade: The 120 days of Sodom (1785)
- Karl Philipp Moritz: Anton Reiser (4 parts) (1785)
- Cholderlos De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions (1782)
- Fanny Burney: Evelina (1778)
- Johann Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
- Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling (1771)
- Tobias George Smollett: Humphry Clinker (1771)
- Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey (1768)
- Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1767)
- Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
- Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1765)
- Jean-Jacques Roussean: Emile, Or, On Education (1762)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Julie; or, the New Eloise (1760)
- Voltaire: Candide (1759)
- Samuel Johnson: Rasselas (1759)
- Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote (1752)
- Tobias George Smollett: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
- Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (1749)
- John Cleland: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill (1749)
- Samuel Richardson: Clarissa (1749)
- Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews (1742)
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1742)
- Arbuthnot, et al Pope: Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1742)
- Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (1729)
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Daniel DeFoe: Moll Flanders (1722)
- Eliza Haywood: Love in Excess (1719)
- Daniel DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Aphra Behn: Oroonoko (1688)
- La Fayette: Princesse de Cleves (1678)
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: The Adventurous Simplicissimus: Being the Description of the Life of a Strange Vagabond Named Melchoir Sternfels Von Fuchshaim (1668)
- Bernal Diaz del Castillo: The Conquest of New Spain (1632)
- Saavedra, Cervantes: The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617)
- Saavedra, Cervantes: Don Quixote (1615)
- Thomas Deloney: Thomas of Reading (1599)
- Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
- Chengen Wu: Monkey: A Journey to the West (1592)
- Luis Camoes: The Lusiads (1572)
- Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564)
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (1554)
- Garci Rodr¡guez de Montalvo: Amad¡s de Gaula (1508)
- Fernando de Rojas: Celestina (1499)
- Joanot - Galba, Mart¡ Joan de Martorell: Tirant Lo Blanc (1490)
- Lucius Apuleius: The Golden Ass (1469)
- Luo Guanzhong: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1300)
- Shi & Luo Guanzhong Nai'an: The Water Margin (1300)
- Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (1000)
- Yasunari Kawabata: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (900)
- 1001 Nights
That's a ...long list.
ReplyDeleteOK, now I'm curious, how many of the list have YOU read??
ReplyDeleteI did a quick count and it came out around 28-30. That means I'm already a year ahead in my challenge!
ReplyDeleteI have to admit though that some of them I was forced to read at school and some of them I resisted to read even though I was being forced...
wowwww!!! real woowww :):):)!!!!! brave girl! I guess 800 and 804 are a REAL challenge :) I hope they are already behind you :) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteYou really inspire me, Joanna! I've read a few, and have a few more on my bookshelf "to read" still! Can't wait to hear how you get on...
ReplyDeleteAnd those 2 are yours when I see you next.
I'm very very impressed...