Thursday 7 January 2010

Reading Challenge - 1001 Books to Read Before You Die

So far I've been going through the pile of unread books that have been gathering dust on my shelves and those recommended by you, that only kept the pile growing. Now the time has come to set myself a challenge.

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!

  1. Ngozi Chimamanda: Half of a Yellow Sun (2007)

  2. Don DeLillo: Falling Man (2007)

  3. Indra Sinha: Animal's People (2007)

  4. M. J. Hyland: Carry Me Down (2006)

  5. Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones (2006)

  6. Kieran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss (2006)

  7. Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2006)

  8. Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day (2006)

  9. Edward St Aubyn: Mother's Milk (2006)

  10. Ali Smith: The Accidental (2005)

  11. John Banville: The Sea (2005)

  12. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World (2005)

  13. Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (2005)

  14. Irene Nemirovski: Suite Francaise (2004)

  15. Colm Toibin: The Master (2004)

  16. Roberto Bolano: 2666 (2004)

  17. Andrea Levy: Small Island (2004)

  18. Philip Roth: The Plot Against America (2004)

  19. Frank Schatzing: The Swarm (2004)

  20. Per Olov Enquist: The Book about Blanche and Marie (2004)

  21. Alan Hollinghurst: Line of Beautyb. 1948 (U.S.) (2004)

  22. Michael Chabon: Kavalier and Clay (2004)

  23. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004)

  24. DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little (2003)

  25. Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved (2003)

  26. Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake (2003)

  27. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2003)

  28. Amos Oz: A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003)

  29. Jose Carlos Somoza: La Dama numero trece (2003)

  30. Ismail Kadare: The Successor (2003)

  31. Dan Sleigh: Islands (2003)

  32. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated (2002)

  33. Orhan Pamuk: Snow (2002)

  34. Aleksander Hemon: Nowhere Man (2002)

  35. Hauki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (2002)

  36. Javier Mar¡as: Your Face Tomorrow (2002)

  37. Niccolo Ammaniti: I'm Not Scared (2001)

  38. Ian McEwan: Atonement (2001)

  39. W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz (2001)

  40. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections (2001)

  41. Michel Houellbecq: Platform (2001)

  42. Yann Martel: The Life of Pi (2001)

  43. Javier Cercas: Soldiers of Salamis (2001)

  44. Mario Vargas Llosa: The Feast of the Goat (2000)

  45. Enrique Vila-Matas: Bartleby and Co (2000)

  46. Michael Faber: Under the Skin (2000)

  47. Zadie Smith: White Teeth (2000)

  48. Philip Roth: The Human Stain (2000)

  49. Peter Esterhazy: Celestial Harmonies (2000)

  50. Paulo Coelho: The Devil and Miss Prym (2000)

  51. Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000)

  52. Zakes Mda: The Heart of Redness (2000)

  53. Shashi Deshpande: Small Remedies (2000)

  54. J.M Coetzee: Disgrace (1999)

  55. Jorge Volpi: In Search of Klingsor (1999)

  56. Amelie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling (1999)

  57. Dubrovka Ugresic: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1999)

  58. Slavenka Drakulic: As If I Am Not There (1999)

  59. Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters (1999)

  60. Pedro Juan Gutierrez: Dirty Havana Trilogy (1998)

  61. Roberto Bolano: Savage Detectives (1998)

  62. Cees Nooteboom: All Souls Day (1998)

  63. Miguel Deliber: The Heretic (1998)

  64. Michael Cunningham: The Hours (1998)

  65. Michel Houellbecq: Elementary Particles (1998)

  66. Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible (1998)

  67. Miyabe Miyuki: Crossfire (1998)

  68. Paulo Coelho: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

  69. Ardal O'Hanlon: The Talk of the Town (1998)

  70. Don DeLillo: Underworld (1997)

  71. Kristien Hemmerechts: Margot and the Angels (1997)

  72. Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997)

  73. Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (1997)

  74. Ricardo Piglia: Money to Burn (1997)

  75. Peter Carey: Jack Maggs (1997)

  76. Victor Pelevin: The Life of Insects (1997)

  77. Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace (1996)

  78. Alessandro Baricco: Silk (1996)

  79. Victor Pelevin: The Clay Machine-Gun (1996)

  80. Pat Barker: Ghost Road (1996)

  81. Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fall on Your Knees (1996)

  82. David Foster Wallace: Infinte Jest (1996)

  83. Ann Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (1996)

  84. Hella Haasse: Forever a Stranger (1996)

  85. Eduardo Mendoza: A Light Comedy (1996)

  86. Patricia Dunker: Hallucinating Foucault (1996)

  87. Joan Didion: Democracy (1996)

  88. Gillian Rose: Love's Work (1995)

  89. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled (1995)

  90. Petros Markaris: The Late-Night News (1995)

  91. Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1995)

  92. Bernhard Schlink: The Reader (1995)

  93. Elena Ferrante: Troubling Love (1995)

  94. Lydia Davis: The End of the Story (1995)

  95. Alan Warner: Morvern Callar (1995)

  96. Tom s Eloy Mart¡nez: Santa Evita (1995)

  97. Fernando Vallejo: Our Lady of the Assassins (1994)

  98. Jachym Topol: City Sister Silver (1994)

  99. Antonio Tabucchi: Declares Pereira (1994)

  100. Kyung Lee Park: The Land (1994)

  101. Michel Houellbecq: Whatever (1994)

  102. Louis de Berniers: Captain Corelli's Mandarin (1994)

  103. James Kelman: How Late it Was, How Late (1994)

  104. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)

  105. William Trevor: Felicia' s Journey (1994)

  106. Bharati Mukherjee: The Holder of the World (1993)

  107. Ivan Klima: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light (1993)

  108. David Malouf: Remembering Babylon (1993)

  109. Tessa de Loo: The Twins (1993)

  110. Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides (1993)

  111. Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong (1993)

  112. Uwe Timm: The Invention of Curried Sausage (1993)

  113. Shusaku Endo: Deep River (1993)

  114. Alan de Botton: On Love (1993)

  115. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy (1993)

  116. Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries (1993)

  117. E. Annie Proulx: The Shippng News (1993)

  118. David Dabydeen: Disappearance (1993)

  119. A.L. Kennedy: Looking for the Possible Dance (1993)

  120. Ulvaro Mutis: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (1993)

  121. Jonathan Coe: What a Carve Up! (1993)

  122. Arturo Perez Reverte: The Dumas Club (1992)

  123. Zulfikar Ghose: The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992)

  124. Marina Warner: Indigo (1992)

  125. Alice Walker: Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

  126. Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses (1992)

  127. Donna Tartt: The Secret History (1992)

  128. Harry Mulisch: Discovery of Heaven (1992)

  129. HD: Asphodel (1992)

  130. Sunetra Gupta: Memoirs of Rain (1992)

  131. Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky (1992)

  132. Jim Crace: Arcadia (1992)

  133. Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992)

  134. Apostolos Doxiadis: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992)

  135. Emine Ozdamar: Life is a Caravanserai (1992)

  136. Michael Oondaatje: The English Patient (1992)

  137. Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy (1992)

  138. Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992)

  139. Iain Banks: The Crow Road (1992)

  140. Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls (1992)

  141. Padgett Powell: Typical (1991)

  142. Pat Barker: Regeneration (1991)

  143. Jung Chang: Wild Swans (1991)

  144. Eugenia Fakinou: Astradeni (1991)

  145. Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers (1991)

  146. Conny Palmen: The Laws (1991)

  147. Don DeLillo: Mao II (1991)

  148. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho (1991)

  149. Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty (1990)

  150. John McGahern: Amongst Women (1990)

  151. William Kotzwinkle: The Midnight Examiner (1990)

  152. Lorrie Moore: Like Life (1990)

  153. Jim Dodge: Stone Junction (1990)

  154. W.G. Sebald: Vertigo (1990)

  155. Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

  156. Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried (1990)

  157. Pavlos Matesis: The Daughter (1990)

  158. Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines (1990)

  159. Paul Auster: The Music of Chance (1990)

  160. Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate (1989)

  161. Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel (1989)

  162. Joost Zwagerman: Gimmick! (1989)

  163. Jose Saramago: History of the Seige of Lisbon (1989)

  164. Bernardo Atxaga: Obabakoak (1989)

  165. Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day (1989)

  166. Gerald Murnane: Inland (1989)

  167. Martin Amis: London Fields (1989)

  168. Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry (1989)

  169. Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The Melacholy of Resistance (1989)

  170. Janice Galloway: The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989)

  171. Paul Auster: Moon Palace (1989)

  172. John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

  173. Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum (1988)

  174. Anne Hebert: The First Garden (1988)

  175. Christoph Ransmayer: The Last World (1988)

  176. Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library (1988)

  177. David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988)

  178. Duong Thu Huong: Paradise of the Blind (1988)

  179. Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (1988)

  180. Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses (1988)

  181. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions (1988)

  182. Javier Marias: All Souls (1987)

  183. Tom Woolfe: Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

  184. V.S. Naipaul: Enigma of Arrival (1987)

  185. Amos Oz: Black Box (1987)

  186. Viktor Paskov: Ballad for Georg Henig (1987)

  187. Patrick Suskind: The Pigeon (1987)

  188. Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy (1987)

  189. Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen (1987)

  190. Jo Jung-Rae: Taebek Mountains (1987)

  191. Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

  192. Toni Morrisson: Beloved (1987)

  193. James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia (1987)

  194. Isabel Allende: Of Love and Shadows (1987)

  195. Peter Handke: The Afternoon of a Writer (1987)

  196. T. C. Boyle: World's End (1987)

  197. Margaret Drabble: The Radiant Way (1987)

  198. Harry Matthews: Cigarettes (1987)

  199. Alan Moore: Watchmen (1986)

  200. Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World (1986)

  201. Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved (1986)

  202. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Matigari (1986)

  203. Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils (1986)

  204. Lorrie Moore: Anagrams (1986)

  205. David Leavitt: Lost Language of Cranes (1986)

  206. Andrzej Szczypiorski: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (1986)

  207. Thomas Bernhard: Extinction (1986)

  208. Etienne van Heerden: Ancestral Voices (1986)

  209. Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor (1985)

  210. Gert Hofmann: The Parable of the Blind (1985)

  211. Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian (1985)

  212. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the time of Cholera (1985)

  213. Amy Hempel: Reasons to Live (1985)

  214. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

  215. Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John (1985)

  216. Patrick Suskind: Perfume (1985)

  217. Carl Sagan: Contact (1985)

  218. Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985)

  219. John Irving: The Cider House Rules (1985)

  220. Marianne Frederiksson: Simon and the Oak Trees (1985)

  221. Xianliang Zhang: Half of Man is Woman (1985)

  222. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (1984)

  223. Julian Barnes: Flaubert's Parrot (1984)

  224. William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)

  225. David Gemmell: Legend (1984)

  226. Marguerite Duras: The Lover (1984)

  227. Jose Saramago: Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)

  228. Jaan Kross: Professor Marten's Departure (1984)

  229. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

  230. Kathy Acker: Blood and Guts in High School (1984)

  231. Botho Strauss: The Young Man (1984)

  232. Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine (1984)

  233. Martin Amis: Money (1984)

  234. Julian Rios: Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel (1984)

  235. Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)

  236. James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines (1984)

  237. Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars (1984)

  238. J.G. Ballard: The Empire of the Sun (1984)

  239. Elmore Leonard: La Brava (1983)

  240. Juan Jose Saer: The Witness (1983)

  241. Goran Tunstrom: The Christmas Oratorio (1983)

  242. Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium (1983)

  243. Graham Swift: Waterland (1983)

  244. Salman Rushdie: Shame (1983)

  245. Antonio Lobo Antunes: Fado Alexandrino (1983)

  246. Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher (1983)

  247. J.M Coetzee: The Life and Times of Michael K (1983)

  248. Isabelle Allende: The House of Spirits (1982)

  249. Thomas Bernhard: Wittgenstein's Nepew (1982)

  250. Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet (1982)

  251. Jose Saramago: Baltazar & Bleminda (1982)

  252. Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story (1982)

  253. Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills (1982)

  254. Primo Levi: If Not Now, When? (1982)

  255. Alice Walker: The Color Purple (1982)

  256. Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Ark (1982)

  257. Bruce Chatwin: On the Black Hill (1982)

  258. Eduardo Galeano: Memory of Fire (1982)

  259. John Updike: Rabbit is Rich (1981)

  260. Botho Strauss: Couples, Passerby (1981)

  261. Nadine Gordimer: July's People (1981)

  262. Alisdair Gray: Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)

  263. Herbjorg Wassmo: The House with the Blind Glass Windows (1981)

  264. Leonard Tsypkin: Summer in Baden Baden (1981)

  265. Mario Vargas Llosa: The War of the End of the World (1981)

  266. Jie Zhang: Leaden Wings (1981)

  267. Cees Nooteboom: Rituals (1980)

  268. Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)

  269. Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day (1980)

  270. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (1980)

  271. John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

  272. Ismail Kadare: Broken April (1980)

  273. Alfred Kossmann: The Smell of Sadness (1980)

  274. J.M Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

  275. V.S Naipaul: A Bend in the River (1979)

  276. Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

  277. Nadine Gordimer: Burger's Daughter (1979)

  278. Manuel Vazquez Montalban: Southern Seas (1979)

  279. John Le Carre: Smiley's People (1979)

  280. Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)

  281. Maro Douka: Fool's Gold (1979)

  282. Miriam Ba: So Long a Letter (1979)

  283. Douglas Adams: Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

  284. Andre Brink: A Dry White Season (1979)

  285. Carmen Martin Gaite: The Back Room (1978)

  286. Iris Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea (1978)

  287. A.S. Byatt: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)

  288. Georges Perec: Life: A User's Manual (1978)

  289. Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden (1978)

  290. Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid (1978)

  291. Hubert Selby: Requim for a Dream (1978)

  292. J.G. Farrell: The Singapore Grip (1978)

  293. Toni Morrisson: Song of Solomon (1977)

  294. Michael Herr: Dispatches (1977)

  295. Timothy Findley: The Wars (1977)

  296. Stephen King: The Shining (1977)

  297. Anais Nin: Delta of Venus (1977)

  298. Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star (1977)

  299. Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn (1977)

  300. J.M. Coetzee: In the Heart of the Country (1977)

  301. Josef Skvorecky: The Engineer of Human Souls (1977)

  302. Ann Rice: Interview With a Vampire (1976)

  303. Christa Wolf: Patterns of Childhood (1976)

  304. Elizabeth Taylor: Blaming (1976)

  305. Ryu Murakami: Almost Transparent Blue (1976)

  306. Newton Thornburg: Cutter and Bone (1976)

  307. Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1976)

  308. Peter Handke: The Left-Handed Woman (1976)

  309. Donald Barthelme: The Dead Father (1975)

  310. Thomas Bernhard: Correction (1975)

  311. Nawal El Sadaawi: Woman at Point Zero (1975)

  312. Georges Perec: W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)

  313. Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time (1975)

  314. Jessica Anderson: The Commandant (1975)

  315. Gabriel Garcia M rquez: Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)

  316. E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime (1975)

  317. Richard Brautigan: Willard and his Bowling Trophies (1975)

  318. Imre Kertesz: Fateless (1975)

  319. Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift (1975)

  320. Arto Paasilinna: The Year of the Hare (1975)

  321. Heinrich Boll: Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1974)

  322. Antun Soljan: The Port (1974)

  323. William Kotzwinkle: The Fan Man (1974)

  324. Ursula leGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)

  325. Margaret Laurence: The Diviners (1974)

  326. J.M. Coetzee: Dusklands (1974)

  327. Erica Jong: Fear of Flying (1973)

  328. Graham Greene: The Honorary Consul (1973)

  329. Bessie Head: A Question of Power (1973)

  330. Italo Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973)

  331. J.G Ballard: Crash (1973)

  332. Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

  333. J.G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)

  334. Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (1972)

  335. Tove Jansson: The Summer Book (1972)

  336. Robert Merle: Day of the Dolphin (1972)

  337. Margaret Atwood: Surfacing (1972)

  338. Eudora Welty: The Optimist's Daughter (1972)

  339. Sawako Ariyoshi: The Twilight Years (1972)

  340. John Berger: G (1972)

  341. John Updike: Rabbit Redux (1971)

  342. B.S. Johnson: House Mother Normal (1971)

  343. V.S Naipaul: In a Free State (1971)

  344. Heinrich Boll: Group Portrait with a Lady (1971)

  345. Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women (1971)

  346. Hunter S. Thomson: Fear and Loathing in las Vegas (1971)

  347. E.L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel (1971)

  348. Mykhailo Osadchy: Cataract (1971)

  349. Alfredo Bryce Echenique: A World for Julius (1970)

  350. Joan Didion: Play it as it Lays (1970)

  351. Toni Morrisson: The Bluest Eye (1970)

  352. Robertson Davies: Fifth Business (1970)

  353. Maya, Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970)

  354. Yukio Mishima: The Sea of Fertility (1970)

  355. Uwe Johnson: Jahrestage (1970)

  356. Philip Roth: Portnoy's Compaint (1969)

  357. Jurek Becker: Jacob the Liar (1969)

  358. Kurt Vonnegut: The Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

  359. Robert Coover: Pricksongs and Descants (1969)

  360. Elena Poniatowska: Here's to You, Jesusa!ÿÿ (1969)

  361. Georges Perec: A Voi/Avoid (1969)

  362. Tayeb Salih: Seasons of Migration to the North (1969)

  363. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

  364. Jorge Amado: Tent of Miracles (1969)

  365. Gyorgy Konrad: The Case Worker (1969)

  366. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada (1969)

  367. Chester Himes: Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)

  368. Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969)

  369. Venedikt Yerofeev: Moscow Stations (1969)

  370. Manuel Puig: Heartbreak Tango (1969)

  371. Joyce Carol Oates: them (1969)

  372. Tom Woolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

  373. Oles Honchar: The Cathedral (1968)

  374. Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout (1968)

  375. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? (1968)

  376. Richard Brautigan: In Watermelon Sugar (1968)

  377. Albert Cohen: Belle du Seigneur (1968)

  378. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle (1968)

  379. Siegfried Lenz: The German Lesson (1968)

  380. Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 (1968)

  381. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Cancer Ward (1968)

  382. Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge (1968)

  383. Barry Hines: A Kestrel for a Knave (1968)

  384. Christa Wolf: The Quest for Christa T. (1968)

  385. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Manor (1967)

  386. Vassilis Vassilikos: Z (1967)

  387. Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage (1967)

  388. Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman (1967)

  389. Naguib Mahfouz: Miramar (1967)

  390. Angus Wilson: No Laughing Matter (1967)

  391. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 years of Solitude (1967)

  392. Leonardo Sciascia: To EachHis Own (1966)

  393. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

  394. John Barth: Giles Goat Boy (1966)

  395. Marguerite Duras: The Vice-Consul (1966)

  396. Juan Goytisolo: Marks of Identity (1966)

  397. Shusaku Endo: Silence (1966)

  398. Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

  399. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1966)

  400. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)

  401. Mesa Selimovic: Death and the Dervish (1966)

  402. John Fowles: The Magus (1966)

  403. Bohumil Hrabal: Closely Watched Trains (1965)

  404. Flannery O'Connor: Everything that Rises must Converge (1965)

  405. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The River Between (1965)

  406. Georges Perec: Things (1965)

  407. Jan Wolkers: Back to Oegstgeest (1965)

  408. Danilo Kis: Garden, Ashes (1965)

  409. Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers (1964)

  410. Clarice Lispector: The Passion According to GH (1964)

  411. Marguerite Duras: The Ravishing of Lol V Stein (1964)

  412. Saul Bellow: Herzog (1964)

  413. Ken Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)

  414. Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God (1964)

  415. Charles Webb: The Graduate (1963)

  416. Marcel Pagnol: Manon des sources (1963)

  417. Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle (1963)

  418. Thomas Pynchon: V (1963)

  419. Gunter Grass: Dog Years (1963)

  420. Muriel Spark: The Girls of Slender Means (1963)

  421. Costas Taktsis: The Third Wedding (1963)

  422. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963)

  423. John Le Carre: The Spy who came in From the Cold (1963)

  424. Anthony Burgess: Inside Mr Enderby (1963)

  425. Silvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)

  426. Edna O'Brien: The Girl with Green Eyes (1962)

  427. Luis Martin Santos: Time of Silence (1962)

  428. Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)

  429. Giorgio Bassani: The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis (1962)

  430. Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook (1962)

  431. Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths (1962)

  432. Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (1962)

  433. Mario Vargas Llosa: The Time of the Hero (1962)

  434. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

  435. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)

  436. Xose Neira Vilas: Memoirs of a Peasant Boy (1961)

  437. Janet Frame: Faces in the water (1961)

  438. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)

  439. Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head (1961)

  440. Juan Carlos Onetti: The Shipyard (1961)

  441. J.D Salinger: Franny and Zooey (1961)

  442. Gunter Grass: Cat and Mouse (1961)

  443. Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

  444. Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

  445. Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)

  446. Stanislav Lem: Solaris (1961)

  447. John Updike: Rabbit, Run (1960)

  448. Carlo Cassola: Bebo's Girl (1960)

  449. Romain Gary: Promise at Dawn (1960)

  450. Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls (1960)

  451. Nelle Harper Lee: To Kill a Mocking Bird (1960)

  452. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of Lublin (1960)

  453. Ousmane Sembene: God's Bits of Wood (1960)

  454. Martin Walser: Halftime: A Novel (1960)

  455. Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum (1959)

  456. E'skia Mphahlele's: Down Second Avenue (1959)

  457. Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie (1959)

  458. Heinrich Boll: Billiards at Half Past Nine (1959)

  459. Colin MacInnes: Absolute Beginners (1959)

  460. Kieth Waterhouse: Billy Liar (1959)

  461. William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch (1959)

  462. Iris Murdoch: The Bell (1958)

  463. T.H. White: The Once and Future King (1958)

  464. Eilis Dillon: The Bitter Glass (1958)

  465. Giussepe di Lampedusa: The Leopard (1958)

  466. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (1958)

  467. Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy (1958)

  468. Kenzaburo Oe: Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring (1958)

  469. Jorge Amado: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958)

  470. Jose Maria Arguedas: Deep Rivers (1958)

  471. R.K. Narayan: The Guide (1958)

  472. Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)

  473. Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)

  474. Alain Robbe-Grillet: Jealousy (1957)

  475. Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957)

  476. Ward Ruyslinck: The Deadbeats (1957)

  477. Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin (1957)

  478. Patrick White: Voss (1957)

  479. Lawrence Durrell: Justine (1957)

  480. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

  481. Tarjei Vesaas: The Birds (1957)

  482. Ernst Junger: The Glass Bees (1957)

  483. John Wyndham: The Midwitch Cuckoos (1957)

  484. Veijo Meri: The Manila Rope (1957)

  485. Georges Bataille: The Blue of Noon (1957)

  486. Max Frisch: Homo Faber (1957)

  487. Sam Selvon: Lonely Londoners (1956)

  488. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1956)

  489. John Barth: The Floating Opera (1956)

  490. James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room (1956)

  491. Romain Gary: The Roots of Heaven (1956)

  492. Joao Guimaraes Rosa: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)

  493. James Plunkett: The Trusting and the Maimed (1955)

  494. Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)

  495. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)

  496. Juan Rulfo: The Burning Plain (1955)

  497. Pier Paulo Pasolini: The Ragazzi (1955)

  498. William Gaddis: The Recognitions (1955)

  499. Graham Greene: The Quiet American (1955)

  500. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)

  501. Patrick White: The Tree of Man (1955)

  502. Francoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse (1954)

  503. Pauline Reage: The Story of O (1954)

  504. Alberto Moravia: A Ghost at Noon (1954)

  505. Iris Murdoch: Under the Net (1954)

  506. William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)

  507. Simone de Beauvoir: The Mandarins (1954)

  508. Ciril Kosmac: A Day in Spring (1954)

  509. Wolfgang Koeppen: Death in Rome (1954)

  510. Yukio Mishima: The Sound of Waves (1954)

  511. Max Frisch: I'm Not Stiller (1954)

  512. Vaino Linna: The Unknown Soldier (1954)

  513. Hartley L.P.: The Go-Between (1953)

  514. Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)

  515. James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953)

  516. Wolfgang Koeppen: The Hothouse (1953)

  517. William Burroughs: Junkie (1953)

  518. Alejo Carpentier: The Lost Steps (1953)

  519. Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (1953)

  520. Camara Laye: The Dark Child (1953)

  521. Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1953)

  522. Friedrich Duerrenmatt: The Judge and his Hangman (1952)

  523. Ernest Hemmingway: Old Man and the Sea (1952)

  524. Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood (1952)

  525. Barbara Pym: Excellent women (1952)

  526. Yasunari Kawabata: A Thousand Cranes (1952)

  527. Ralph Ellisson: The Invisible Man (1952)

  528. Camilo Jose Cela: The Hive (1951)

  529. Albert Camus: The Rebel (1951)

  530. Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)

  531. Graham Greene: The End of the Affair (1951)

  532. Julien Gracq: The Opposing Shore (1951)

  533. Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies (1951)

  534. Samuel Beckett: Molloy (1951)

  535. Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)

  536. J.D Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

  537. John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids (1951)

  538. James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks (1950)

  539. Par Lagerkvist: Barabbas (1950)

  540. Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

  541. Cesare Pavese: The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

  542. Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast (1950)

  543. Isaac Asimov: I Robot (1950)

  544. Simon Vestdijk: The Garden Where the Brass Band Played (1950)

  545. Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice (1950)

  546. Georges Bataille: The Abbot C (1950)

  547. Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing (1950)

  548. Hermann Broch: The Guiltless (1950)

  549. Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day (1949)

  550. Nelson Algren: The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

  551. Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949)

  552. Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate (1949)

  553. Alejo Carpentier: Kingdom of this World (1949)

  554. George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

  555. Alberto Moravia: Disobedience (1948)

  556. Jerzy Andrzejewski: Ashes and Diamonds (1948)

  557. Camilo Jose Cela: Journey to Alcarria (1948)

  558. Desani. G.V.: All About H. Hatterr (1948)

  559. Maurice Blanchot: Death Sentence (1948)

  560. Shmuel Yosef (Samuel) Agnon: In the Heart of the Sea (1948)

  561. Alan Paton: Cry the Beloved Country (1948)

  562. Tadeusz Borowski: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1948)

  563. Thomas Mann: Dr Faustus (1947)

  564. Primo Levi: If this is a Man (1947)

  565. Italo Calvino: The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947)

  566. Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style (1947)

  567. Boris Vian: Froth on the Daydream (1947)

  568. Albert Camus: The Plague (1947)

  569. Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano (1947)

  570. Naguib Mahfouz: Midaq Alley (1947)

  571. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek (1946)

  572. Erskine Caldwell: A House in the Uplands (1946)

  573. Henry Green: Back (1946)

  574. Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)

  575. Andre Breton: Arcanum 17 (1945)

  576. Carmen Laforet: Andrea (1945)

  577. Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945)

  578. Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)

  579. Ivo Andric: Bosnian Chronicle (1945)

  580. Henry Green: Loving (1945)

  581. Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil (1945)

  582. Ivo Andric: Na Drini Cuprija (1945)

  583. George Orwell: Animal Farm (1945)

  584. Gabrielle Roy: The Tin Flute (1945)

  585. Anna Seghers: Transit (1944)

  586. Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking (1944)

  587. Saul Bellow: Dangling Man (1944)

  588. W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge (1944)

  589. Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943)

  590. Antione De Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (1943)

  591. Stefan Zweig: Chess Story (Royal Game) (1942)

  592. Albert Camus: The Outsider (1942)

  593. S ndor M rai: Embers (1942)

  594. Elio Vittorini: In Sicily (1941)

  595. Ciro Alegria: Broad and Alien is the World (1941)

  596. Cesare Pavese: The Harvesters (1941)

  597. Patrick White: The Living and the Dead (1941)

  598. Ernest Hemmingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

  599. James Joyce: Finnegans Wake (1940)

  600. Richard Wright: Native Son (1940)

  601. Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe (1940)

  602. Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

  603. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)

  604. Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

  605. Jean Rhys: Good Morning Midnight (1939)

  606. Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)

  607. Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

  608. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

  609. John Dos Passos: USA (1938)

  610. Samuel Beckett: Murphy (1938)

  611. Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea (1938)

  612. Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (1938)

  613. Winnifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938)

  614. Vladimir Bartol: Alamut (1938)

  615. Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)

  616. Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)

  617. Miroslav Krleza: On the Edge of Reason (1938)

  618. John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (1937)

  619. David Jones: In Parenthesis (1937)

  620. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)

  621. Sadeq Hedeyat: The Blind Owl (1937)

  622. Zora Neale Hurston: Thier Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

  623. Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (1937)

  624. Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke (1937)

  625. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Summer Will Show (1936)

  626. H.P. Lovecraft: At The Mountains of Madness (1936)

  627. Aldous Huxley: Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

  628. Djuna Barnes: Nightwood (1936)

  629. Karel Capek: War with the Newts (1936)

  630. Rebecca West: The Thinking Reed (1936)

  631. Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind (1936)

  632. William Faulkner: Absalom Absalom! (1936)

  633. She Lao: Rickshaw Boy (1936)

  634. George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

  635. Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses Don't They (1935)

  636. Elias Canetti: Auto-da-F‚ (1935)

  637. Christopher Isherwood: The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)

  638. Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable (1935)

  639. Halldor Laxness: Independent People (1935)

  640. Henry Roth: Call it Sleep (1934)

  641. James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

  642. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night (1934)

  643. Louis Aragon: The Bells of Basel (1934)

  644. Emile (Emil) Cioran: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

  645. P.G. Wodehouse: Thank You, Jeeves (1934)

  646. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934)

  647. Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles (1934)

  648. Dorothy Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)

  649. Andre Malraux: Man's Fate (1933)

  650. Gertrude Stein: The Autoboigraphy of Alice B. Toklas (1933)

  651. Nathaniel West: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

  652. Storm Jameson: A Day Off (1933)

  653. Willem Elsschot: Cheese (1933)

  654. Robert Musil: The Man without Qualities (1933)

  655. Vera Brittain: A Testament of Youth (1933)

  656. Dorothy Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)

  657. Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers (1933)

  658. Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man (1932)

  659. Francois Mauriac: Viper's Tangle (1932)

  660. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)

  661. Elizabeth Bowen: To the North (1932)

  662. Louis Ferdinand Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)

  663. Joseph Roth: The Radetzky March (1932)

  664. Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

  665. Miroslav Krleza: The Return of Philip Latinowicz (1932)

  666. J.J. Slauerhoff: The Forbidden Realm (1932)

  667. Viginia, Woolf: The Waves (1931)

  668. Wyndham Lewis: The Apes of God (1930)

  669. Stanislaw Witkiewicz: Insatiability (1930)

  670. Saunders Lewis: Monica (1930)

  671. Frederic Manning: Her Privates We (1930)

  672. Nella Larsen: Passing (1929)

  673. Alberto Moravia: The Time of Indifference (1929)

  674. Ernest Hemmingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)

  675. Jean Cocteau: Les Enfants Terribles (1929)

  676. Thomas Wolf: Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

  677. Henry Green: Living (1929)

  678. Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1929)

  679. Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

  680. Alfred D”blin: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)

  681. Edmund Wilson: I Thought of Daisy (1929)

  682. Shahan Shahnoor: Retreat Without Song (1929)

  683. Nella Larsen: Quicksand (1928)

  684. Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall (1928)

  685. Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End (1928)

  686. Andre Breton: Nadja (1928)

  687. Viginia, Woolf: Orlando (1928)

  688. Radcliffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928)

  689. D.H Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover (1928)

  690. Junichiro Tanizaki: Some Prefer Nettles (1928)

  691. Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye (1928)

  692. Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter (1927)

  693. Viginia, Woolf: To The Lighthouse (1927)

  694. Franz Kafka: Amerika (1927)

  695. Arnold Zweig: The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)

  696. Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time (1927)

  697. Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf (1927)

  698. Franz Kafka: The Castle (1926)

  699. Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Svejk (1926)

  700. Ernest Hemmingway: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

  701. Cora Sandel: Alberta and Jacob (1926)

  702. Henry Green: Blindness (1926)

  703. Bernanos: Under Satan's Sun (1926)

  704. Luigi Pirandello: One, None and a Hundred Thousand (1926)

  705. Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

  706. Willa Cather: The Professor's House (1925)

  707. Walda-sellase Heruy: The New World (1925)

  708. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)

  709. Gertrude Stein: The Making of Americans (1925)

  710. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925)

  711. Andre Gide: The Counterfeiters (1925)

  712. Viginia, Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (1925)

  713. Thoms Mofolo: Chaka the Zulu (1925)

  714. Maxim Gorky: The Artomonov Business (1925)

  715. E.M. Forster: Passage to India (1924)

  716. Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (1924)

  717. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain (1924)

  718. Michael Arlen: The Green Hat (1924)

  719. Italo Svevo: Zeno's Conscience (1923)

  720. Raymond Radiguet: The Devil in the Flesh (1923)

  721. E E Cummings: The Enormous Room (1922)

  722. Liviu Rebreanu: The Forest and the Hanged (1922)

  723. Colette: Claudine's House (1922)

  724. Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter (1922)

  725. Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt (1922)

  726. Stefan Zweig: Amok (1922)

  727. Herman Hesse: Siddharta (1922)

  728. James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)

  729. May Sinclair: Harriet Frean (1922)

  730. Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow (1921)

  731. Papini: The Life of Christ (1921)

  732. Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920)

  733. Sinclair Lewis: Main Street (1920)

  734. D.H Lawrence: Women in Love (1920)

  735. Ernst Junger: The Storm of Steel (1920)

  736. Wyndham Lewis: Tarr (1919)

  737. Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier (1918)

  738. Knut Hamsun: Growth of the Soil (1917)

  739. James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

  740. Mariano Azuela: The Underdogs (1916)

  741. Henri Barbusse: Under Fire (1916)

  742. Felix Timmermans: Pallieter (1916)

  743. Rabindranath Tagore: Home and the World (1916)

  744. D.H Lawrence: The Rainbow (1915)

  745. Ryunoske Akutagawa: Rashomon (1915)

  746. Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier (1915)

  747. John Buchan: The 39 Steps (1915)

  748. W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage (1915)

  749. Robert Tressell: The Ragged Tousered Philantrhopists (1914)

  750. Soseki Natsume: KoKoro (1914)

  751. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes (1914)

  752. Juan Ramon Jimanez: Platero and I (1914)

  753. Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus (1914)

  754. D.H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (1913)

  755. Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (1912)

  756. James Stephens: The Charwoman's Daughter (1912)

  757. Marcel and Pierre Souvestre Allain: Fant“mas (1911)

  758. Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (1911)

  759. E.M. Forster: Howards End (1910)

  760. Rainer Maria Rilke: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)

  761. Raymond Roussel: Impressions of Africa (1910)

  762. Andre Gide: Strait is the gate (1909)

  763. Willaim Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland (1908)

  764. Arnold Bennett: The Old Wive's Tale (1908)

  765. E.M. Forster: A Room with a View (1908)

  766. Henri Barbusse: The Inferno (1908)

  767. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1907)

  768. Maxim Gorky: Mother (1907)

  769. Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)

  770. Robert Musil: Young Torless (1906)

  771. John Galsworthy: The Forsythe Saga (1906)

  772. Heinrich Mann: Professor Unrat (1905)

  773. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)

  774. Victor Catal…: Solitude (1905)

  775. Fr. Rolfe: Hadrian the Seventh (1904)

  776. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo (1904)

  777. Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh (1903)

  778. Jack London: Call of the Wild (1903)

  779. Henry James: The Ambassadors (1903)

  780. Daniel P Schreber: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903)

  781. Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands (1903)

  782. Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (1902)

  783. Arthur Conan Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

  784. Andre Gide: The Immoralist (1902)

  785. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1902)

  786. Rudyard Kipling: Kim (1901)

  787. Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks (1901)

  788. Arthur Schnitzler: None but the Brave (1901)

  789. Salgari: The Tiger of Momopracem (1900)

  790. Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (1900)

  791. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro (1899)

  792. Kate Chopin: The Awakening (1899)

  793. Theodor Fontane: The Stechlin (1899)

  794. Gardonyi. Geza: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (1899)

  795. Somerville and Ross: Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899)

  796. Italo Svevo: As a Man Grows Older (1898)

  797. Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Child of Pleasure (1898)

  798. H.G., Wells: The War of the Worlds (1898)

  799. Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)

  800. Boleslaw Prus: The Pharaoh (1897)

  801. Andre Gide: The Fruits of the Earth (1897)

  802. Perez Galdos: Compassion (1897)

  803. Henry James: What Maisie Knew (1897)

  804. Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis (1896)

  805. H.G., Wells: The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)

  806. Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest (1895)

  807. Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure (1895)

  808. H.G., Wells: The Time Machine (1895)

  809. Federico De Roberto: The Viceroys (1894)

  810. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

  811. George, et al, Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody (1892)

  812. Selma Lagerlof: Gosta Berlings Saga (1891)

  813. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)

  814. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1891)

  815. George Gissing: New Grub Street (1891)

  816. Joris-Karl Huysmans: Down There (1891)

  817. Oscar, Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

  818. Knut Hamsun: Hunger (1890)

  819. August Strindberg: By the Open Sea (1890)

  820. Anatole France: Tha‹s (1890)

  821. Emile Zola: La Bete Humaine (1890)

  822. Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata (1890)

  823. Louis Couperus: Eline Vere (1889)

  824. Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean (1888)

  825. Ivan Vazov: Under the Yoke (1888)

  826. August Strindberg: The People of Hemso (1887)

  827. Emilia Pardo Baz n: The Manors of Ulloa (1886)

  828. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

  829. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines (1885)

  830. Emile Zola: Germinal (1885)

  831. Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

  832. Frederik van Eeden: The Quest (1885)

  833. Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean (1885)

  834. Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami (1885)

  835. J.K. Huysmans: Agains the Grain (1884)

  836. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884)

  837. Clar¡n Leopoldo Alas: The Regent's Wife (1884)

  838. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883)

  839. Guy de Maupassant: A Woman's Life (1883)

  840. Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pecuchet (1881)

  841. Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

  842. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba (1881)

  843. Giovanni Verga: The House by the Medlar Tree (1881)

  844. August Strindberg: The Red Room (1880)

  845. Emile Zola: Nana (1880)

  846. Wallace Lew: Ben-Hur (1880)

  847. Emile Zola: Drunkard (1877)

  848. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1877)

  849. Jose Maria Eua de Queiros: The Crime of Father Amado (1876)

  850. Juan Valera: Pepita Jimenez (1874)

  851. Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

  852. Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

  853. Nikolai Leskov: The Enchanted Wanderer (1873)

  854. Sheridan LeFanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)

  855. George Eliot: Middlemarch (1872)

  856. Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)

  857. Ivan Turgenev: Spring Torrents (1872)

  858. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Devils (1872)

  859. Jose Hernandez: Mart¡n Fierro (1872)

  860. Lewis Carrol: Through the Looking Glass (1871)

  861. Ivan Turgenev: King Lear of the Steppes (1870)

  862. Comte de Lautr‚amont: Maldoror (1869)

  863. Gustav Flaubert: Sentimental Education (1869)

  864. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (1869)

  865. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot (1869)

  866. Anthony Trollope: Phineas Finn (1869)

  867. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)

  868. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)

  869. Emile Zola: Therese Raquin (1867)

  870. Anthony Trollope: The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

  871. Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1866)

  872. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)

  873. Lewis Carrol: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

  874. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (1864)

  875. Sheridan LeFanu: Uncle Silas (1864)

  876. Charles Kingsley: Water Babies (1863)

  877. Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (1862)

  878. Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862)

  879. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)

  880. George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861)

  881. Multatuli: Max Havelaar (1860)

  882. Wilkie Collins: Woman in White (1860)

  883. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

  884. George Eliot: Adam Bede (1859)

  885. Ivan Goncahrov: Oblomovka (1859)

  886. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857)

  887. Adalbert Stifter: Indian Summer (1857)

  888. Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1855)

  889. Gottfried Keller: Green Henry (1854)

  890. Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)

  891. Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1853)

  892. Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (1853)

  893. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

  894. Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1851)

  895. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

  896. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (1850)

  897. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850)

  898. Anne Bronte: Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

  899. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)

  900. William Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1847)

  901. Charoltte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)

  902. Georges Sand: The Devil's Pool (1846)

  903. Alexander Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo (1846)

  904. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: Facundo (1845)

  905. Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1844)

  906. Honore Balzac: Lost Illusions (1843)

  907. Edgar Allen Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum (1843)

  908. Nikolay Gogol: Dead Souls (1842)

  909. Mikhail Yu Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time (1840)

  910. Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)

  911. Hildebrand: Camera obscura (1839)

  912. Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

  913. Hendrik Consience: The Lion of Flanders (1838)

  914. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838)

  915. Nikolay Gogol: The Nose (1836)

  916. Honore Balzac: Le Pere Goriot (1835)

  917. Honore Balzac: Eu‚gnie Grandet (1834)

  918. Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (1833)

  919. Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)

  920. Stendhal: The Red and the Black, (1831)

  921. Manzoni: The Betrothed (1827)

  922. James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans (1826)

  923. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff: The Life of a Good-for-Nothing (1826)

  924. Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

  925. Walter Scott: Ivanhoe (1820)

  926. Chalres Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

  927. E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1820)

  928. Mary Shelly: Frankenstein (1818)

  929. Walter Scott: Rob Roy (1817)

  930. Jane Austen: Emma (1816)

  931. Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (1814)

  932. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

  933. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

  934. Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas (1810)

  935. Johann Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)

  936. Denis Diderot: Rameau's Nephew (1805)

  937. Novalis: Henry Von Ofterdingen (unfinished) (1802)

  938. Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent (1800)

  939. Friedrich Holderlin: Hyperion (1797)

  940. Monk Lewis: The Monk (1796)

  941. Fanny Burney: Camilla (1796)

  942. Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist (1796)

  943. Diderot: The Nun (1796)

  944. Johann Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796)

  945. William Godwin: The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)

  946. Anne Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

  947. Oloudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative (1794)

  948. Marquis de Sade: Justine (1791)

  949. Xueqin Cao: A Dream of Red Mansions (1791)

  950. William Beckford: Vathek (1786)

  951. Marquis de Sade: The 120 days of Sodom (1785)

  952. Karl Philipp Moritz: Anton Reiser (4 parts) (1785)

  953. Cholderlos De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons (1782)

  954. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782)

  955. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions (1782)

  956. Fanny Burney: Evelina (1778)

  957. Johann Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

  958. Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling (1771)

  959. Tobias George Smollett: Humphry Clinker (1771)

  960. Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey (1768)

  961. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1767)

  962. Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

  963. Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1765)

  964. Jean-Jacques Roussean: Emile, Or, On Education (1762)

  965. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Julie; or, the New Eloise (1760)

  966. Voltaire: Candide (1759)

  967. Samuel Johnson: Rasselas (1759)

  968. Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote (1752)

  969. Tobias George Smollett: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)

  970. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (1749)

  971. John Cleland: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill (1749)

  972. Samuel Richardson: Clarissa (1749)

  973. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews (1742)

  974. Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1742)

  975. Arbuthnot, et al Pope: Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1742)

  976. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (1729)

  977. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726)

  978. Daniel DeFoe: Moll Flanders (1722)

  979. Eliza Haywood: Love in Excess (1719)

  980. Daniel DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)

  981. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko (1688)

  982. La Fayette: Princesse de Cleves (1678)

  983. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: The Adventurous Simplicissimus: Being the Description of the Life of a Strange Vagabond Named Melchoir Sternfels Von Fuchshaim (1668)

  984. Bernal Diaz del Castillo: The Conquest of New Spain (1632)

  985. Saavedra, Cervantes: The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617)

  986. Saavedra, Cervantes: Don Quixote (1615)

  987. Thomas Deloney: Thomas of Reading (1599)

  988. Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)

  989. Chengen Wu: Monkey: A Journey to the West (1592)

  990. Luis Camoes: The Lusiads (1572)

  991. Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564)

  992. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (1554)

  993. Garci Rodr¡guez de Montalvo: Amad¡s de Gaula (1508)

  994. Fernando de Rojas: Celestina (1499)

  995. Joanot - Galba, Mart¡ Joan de Martorell: Tirant Lo Blanc (1490)

  996. Lucius Apuleius: The Golden Ass (1469)

  997. Luo Guanzhong: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1300)

  998. Shi & Luo Guanzhong Nai'an: The Water Margin (1300)

  999. Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (1000)

  1000. Yasunari Kawabata: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (900)

  1001. 1001 Nights

5 comments:

  1. OK, now I'm curious, how many of the list have YOU read??

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  2. I did a quick count and it came out around 28-30. That means I'm already a year ahead in my challenge!

    I 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...

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  3. wowwww!!! real woowww :):):)!!!!! brave girl! I guess 800 and 804 are a REAL challenge :) I hope they are already behind you :) Good luck!

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  4. You 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...

    And those 2 are yours when I see you next.

    I'm very very impressed...

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