Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Will anyone help me understand why this book is so popular? Why did they make a movie based on it? Why do you have to read this book in one seating? I simply can’t put my finger on it.

The story’s told by a nameless narrator and it centres on Holly Golightly – a young actress living in New York of early 40ties, constantly going out and charming rich men in order to find her place in the world, the place where she belongs. Until then she’s travelling. We don’t know much about the main characters, the narrator remains nameless, we only know he’s a writer still waiting to be discovered. We don’t know much about Holly’s past and future. Although the past is slowly revealed the main focus remains on the present – the unusual selection of people Holly attracts and their interests in staying close to her. All this in the light of the interesting and touching relationship between her and our narrator.

In a way it’s a sad story of a girl looking for her destiny not really knowing where it might be hiding. She compares herself to a wild animal or to a hawk whose nature doesn’t let him settle in one place, with one person.

And there’s the movie of course. With lovely Audrey Hepburn, with the beautiful Moon River song. I still don’t know why but both the book and the movie have charmed me so much that I think I’ll put the movie on this evening, just to hear the song again, just to live in that New York again. And would you believe that this whole story, all this charm, all this real and non-happy ending tale is covered on less than 100 pages? And I already miss it and I still don’t know why…

My rating: YYYYY

Yann Martel: Life of Pi

This is the second time I read this book. Since I read it for the first time a few years ago I only remembered that it was about an Indian boy stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean with a tiger as his only companion. Oh, and I also remembered I loved it.

It was a pleasure to go back to this book and read it again. The first part of it feels a little long at times, which is probably why I didn’t remember it at all but I guess in a way it gives you lots of insight into understanding what happened on that boat later on. The life of young Piscine, his experience as being the son of a zoo keeper, his religious interests and his life as an adult later on – in a way it is all linked to his time on the lifeboat.

Pi spent 227 days on that lifeboat after the ship that was taking him and his family to Canada sunk in the Pacific Ocean and he was the only one to survive. Well, not quite the only one. He had a company of a zebra, hyena, orangutan and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Pi only survived as he respected the tiger and taught him to respect him back.

Even though this book is classified as fantasy in some reviews don’t expect anything fantasy-like to happen like Pi getting friendly with the tiger, them becoming best friends or the animals talking. No, it’s all a very real story and every day on the boat teaches us something about the human and animal nature. Especially when in the end Pi tells another version of the story to the Japanese maritime officers who are investigating reasons for the ship sinking and who find it hard to believe the story with the animals on the boat.

A really special book, again, unique and original in the story it tells (even though Martel was initially accused of plagiarism by a Brazilian writer who claimed to have published a similar story over 10 years before). A great book to reach for and enjoy!

My rating: YYYYY

Vikas Swarup: Six Suspects

Given The White Tiger is one of few books that I gave 5 hearts to I eagerly reached for another book written by and Indian author. And it’s not any author, it’s the author of Q&A, the book which became the script base for the world’s famous Slumdog Millionaire movie. I didn’t read Q&A, I loved the movie though. The story was cleverly constructed, had a new and original idea behind it. Plus it was set in Indian reality which fascinates me a lot.

Six Suspects is Swarup’s second book and its story is equally surprising, fresh and original. It starts of with a murder of a film producer, a son of a minister who manages to get away with anything and everything that’s against the law. The story then goes back in time and looks at lives of six people who become suspects for this murder.

One is a tribal from Andaman Islands somewhere in the Bay of Bengal. One is a mobile phone thief who dreams of living a life of the rich. There is also a famous Bollywood actress, a state minister and father of the murdered Vicky Ray, a retired politician and womanizer and lastly, an American Wal-Mart forklift operator who travels to India to get married to his pen pal.

We follow the days in their lives leading up all of them being at Vicky Rai’s party where the crime was committed. It’s an interesting mixture of different parts of Indian life we get introduced to, from the poorest to the richest and most influential in the country. We get to see how money can buy everything and everyone. And when by the end, when you’re starting to think that justice will finally win we witness the process of finding the murderer and we wonder whether there is any hope left.

It’s a really enjoyable book, unique and refreshing. Sometimes slightly difficult to follow with the number of Indian names (especially the part about Vicky’s father) but nonetheless interesting and gripping. The ending is slightly surprising, feels a bit as if the author wanted to play a cheeky joke with the reader but it was a funny joke, definitely made me smile. I think it could follow the paths of Slumdog… if anyone made it into a movie.

My rating: YYYYY

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

I haven’t read anything by Virginia Woolf nor know much about her apart from what I saw in the movie version of this story. And even that was quite a long time ago.

This book is a uniquely written story, almost difficult to believe it was written by a man. It’s a story of three women each living in a different city and at different times – London of the 1920s, Los Angeles of the 40s and New York at the end of twentieth century. Even though they live in such different times they share similar dilemmas about lives they are living – kind of “is this really it?” feeling.

“There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined ... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.“

We meet Virginia Woolf as she’s living in Richmond writing her book and trying to recover her health. Clarissa is the new Mrs Dalloway from Woolf’s book, only living in New York and in new times, watching her friend slowly die of AIDS. And Laura Brown is a pregnant mother of one who’s trying hard to be a good housewife. Though that isn’t exactly who she feels she’d like to be.

I’ve read a few reviews around before reading the book and seen comments that crying over a cake which is not perfect or throwing a party to a dying friend is just pathetic but how true it is! I think it is a perfect picture of how weird and messed up woman’s nature can be sometimes. And that’s one of the reasons I find it hard to believe that it was written by a man.

Full of interesting characters, especially in the New York episodes, The Hours it interesting to read, it does makes you think about things you appreciate in your life. I truly enjoyed reading this book although I don’t think I would like to read it if I was feeling a bit down as I don’t think it would pick up the mood in any way!

My rating: YYYYY

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love

Despite a few critical reviews of this book I’ve seen and the bad reviews of the movie which I fortunately haven’t seen I approached this book with an open mind and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a novel based on a true story of a mentally ill told nicely by McEwan in an engaging and gripping way.

Saying anything about the plot of the book would most likely spoil the pleasure of reading it as it surprises you from the very first chapter. There were a few moments throughout the book where I thought “well this is a bit weird turn of events, why would he come up with this, it doesn’t make sense, it’s not realistic” but that was before I knew that it all was a true story and the fact that it all happened is even more shocking.

This will be a short review then as I won’t tell you much about the book. Suffice to say it shows how weird the human nature can be at times and how other people can make us screw our lives without our consent or consciousness. A great example of that it is life that writes the most shocking and surprising stories.

I really enjoyed reading this book and uncovering the story, I waited to find out what the next chapter will bring. There was one point where I thought “come on, move on, get on with the story” but that happened soon after so overall a good experience. Although, after reading a few reviews of the movie I wouldn’t recommend you watch it before reading the book. And if you watched the movie and didn’t like it I think it’s still worth reaching for the book. There seems to be a few crucial scenes missing in the movie which I think can make or break how you perceive the story McEwan tells us about here.

My rating: YYYYY

Edyta Szalek: A Dream of the Green Eyelids (Sen Zielonych Powiek)

Isn’t it a guilty pleasure to tuck yourself in a blanket on a sofa with a cup of nice tea on a pleasant evening with a good book. It is my guilty pleasure at least. And some books make you just re-fill that cup of tea until the sunrise the next morning. This is one of them.

The story is nice and engaging – it’s a story of a woman in her mid-thirties I’d say who is reasonably successful in her job in a clothes production company. A story that could probably describe the lives of most of us. But the story isn’t what’s the most important here. It’s the feelings and emotions that accompany it in every step of the way. That different point of view, the honesty of opinions and the strength to talk about things that are not always considered “normal” in public terms make it a distinctively nice read when compared to other books of that type (I mean women literature – though this term sounds a bit demeaning for this book).

I love books that you just can’t put away and that you reach for with a great sense of pleasure and excitement and this is definitely one of them. The only downside of it is that it ends and I am now worried the next book I read won’t be as exciting…

My rating: YYYYY

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

I am a bit disappointed I didn’t read this book earlier. Why didn’t anyone recommend it to me? Or did they and I just ignored them as it seems like one of those books that you have to read at school. I was never a big fan of “have-to’s” so maybe that’s why.

It was a really enjoyable experience to get this old edition of the book from my mom’s shelf (from 1974) with its brownish pages and the smell of dust adding to the experience of the times it describes. You can’t not like Raskolnikov as a character, despite the brutal crime he committed. Though I have to admit, killing two women with an axe seemed a bit comical to me. I suppose that could simply be due to all the more brutal crimes we’re used to seeing in movies and on TV nowadays.

The journey Raskolnikov goes on to after the crime is a brilliant description of human’s mind, an amazing journey through thoughts, emotions and feelings of one person put brilliantly and eloquently on paper. Dostoyevsky treats us to not only a great study of human nature but does it with a great dose of humour by bringing a whole variety of characters into play.

Raskolnikov’s punishment is long and exhausting. And you, as a reader, feel that exhaustion yourself and want to end it by giving yourself in, the sooner the better. Though there were many moments when I thought – why not just let it go and get away with it if no one has any evidence against me? Does that mean I have a murderer inside me?

My rating: YYYYY

Olga Tokarczuk: Pull Your Plough through the Bones of the Dead (Prowadz Swoj Plug Przez Kosci Umarlych)

For those who don’t know Olga, she’s a renowned Polish writer with her books translated to many languages, including English. She is a recipient of the most important Polish book prize – Nike.

Her latest book is about Janina Duszejko, an old lady living in a remote house at the Polish – Czech border. She would seem average – teaching kids English in the local school and looking after the local summer houses outside the season – if it wasn’t for her unique hobby. Janina feels passionate about two things – animals and astrology. In her opinion you can tell everyone’s future from the stars which she likes communicating to people around. To say the least, this doesn’t really make her many friends around, she’s rather considered to be a bit of an old weirdo. As she is a bit of a loner and leaves far away from what we would normally call a civilization, she also finds special interest in animals – dogs, deer, foxes, wolves – all live that surrounds her.

There is a crime in the book too – a series of mysterious murders that occur in this small village one after the other with all the clues leading to a conclusion that it is the animals that are taking revenge on people.

Janina is a bit too eccentric and a bit too passionate about what she thinks is right. And if you read this book assuming that was intentional it will bring an ironic smile on your face and let you enjoy her continuous monologues. If you take her seriously however, and this may actually be the way the author intended, then this character just seems a bit fake to me, with her looking at the world through astrology and putting animals above people and her feeling of being someone better than anyone else around her. If we do assume that it is indeed an ironic picture of such a person than this book is a pleasure to read – it’s quite slow paced but that’s not necessarily a negative in this case. The language is beautiful and the story is actually involving. And the ending is the icing on the cake.

But (there’s always a but), looking back at the pictures this book created in my imagination, despite the crime and the blood this book seems pretty colourless to me. I don’t know whether it’s because it’s winter when most of the action takes place or whether it’s just because that’s what life is like, it just left a dark, dull recollection in my memory of the place and people described in the book.

I did enjoy this book but I still wouldn’t say I am a fan of Tokarczuk. I liked the House of Day, House of Night by her the most so far and it is available in English so I recommend it. This one though less so, unless you read her previous books and know what to expect.

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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The most popular of Kundera’s novels is set during the Russian invasion on Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the beginnings of the communist regime in the country. In this light Kundera sets his characters – Thomas, a surgeon who chose not to work with the communists and ended up washing windows in Prague instead of treating his patients. Theresa, Tomas’ beloved wife and artistic photographer. Painter Sabina, Thomas’ lover. Franz, Sabina’s lover after her and Thomas’ ways went in different directions. All totally different but equally interesting.

Kundera plays with opposites here – soul and body, which for some people should be kept separate. Thomas treats sex and love as two separate things and for Theresa, brought up in a family where nudity was not a taboo up to the point where it become embarrassing and disgusting, even though she thinks love and sex should go together and suffers Thomas’ infidelities, she despises her body and rejects its existence.

The most important of the opposites Kundera debates here are the lightness and heaviness of being. Kundera says that we only live once and what happens in that life will never happen again. He enjoys the theory that we could live all the options of the choices we make in our lives to find out which of them turns out best. And then when we could relive our life we would know which choice to go for, which will be the best. But as that isn’t the case and our life happens only once it means it’s not meaningful at all (“einmal is keinmal”). And that’s the lightness and insignificance of it. And so to combat this insignificance we do things to add some “weight” to our lives – Thomas does it through sleeping with a number of women to leave something behind him, Sabina does it through her paintings but will it change anything?

"How can life ever be a good teacher if there is only one of them to be lived? How can one perform life when the dress rehearsal for life is life?"

Even though the novel has one main plot – the story of Thomas’ and Theresa’s life together, Kundera adds in many digressive stories on a side which only add to the enjoyment of the book. He talks a lot about communism and what it made of many intellectuals’ lives in Czechoslovakia at the time. Talks about love and its purity. He compares the love to pets to the human love and sees the first as something that is really pure as it is unconditional and with no expectations.

He also makes an elaborate discussion about kitsch and its importance especially in the world of politics but not only. He says that “brotherhood of all the people in the world can only be built on kitsch”. And whether you agree with it or not, he makes pretty strong arguments to support it.

There is also an interesting and funny debate over poo… But I won’t steal all the pleasure of reading this book for yourself.

Even though some of these subjects sound really heavy there is some lightness in the reading of this book that makes it really pleasant experience. And thus I truly recommend it.

My rating: YYYYY

Marian Keyes: Sushi for Beginners

Hi, I’m Ted. I work in the Ministry of Agriculture, writing reports on yearly sheep population growth. At least by day. By night I’m a stand-up comedian. I tell owl jokes in Dublin pubs and clubs in hope to finally find myself a girlfriend. My downstairs neighbour and good friend in our single’s misery is Ashling and it’s her that this book is really about. Her and Lisa. And maybe Clodagh (oh yeah, the beautiful Clodagh…).

So Lisa is a chief editor at Colleen, an Irish magazine. She got transferred here from London and I think considers Dublin to be hundred light years behind. She is a fashion freak and a workaholic, married to sexy Oliver (at least that’s what the ladies say…).

Ashling works as Lisa’s assistant, her Little Miss Fix-It. Her job is to photocopy, write, read, call and from time to time, when Lisa’s got a good day, attend the fashion and beauty events with her which she loves so much.

Clodagh is married to Mr Perfect (again, that’s what the girls say!). Has two kids, doesn’t need to work and is extremely pretty. She’s best friends with Ashling which only gives me hope to see her more often…

We all have our ups and downs, as do all the ladies mentioned. I quite enjoy listening to Ashling’s stories about her job, the articles she writes for the magazine and people she meets. All sounds really cool, maybe except for Lisa who can be a real b*tch. But hey, job’s a job. Until at some point it all falls apart. The reason? Yeah, men, women, relationships - as ever.

But it all ends well, as you would expect from such a book. I finally manage to feel happy again! (who would have thought). Homeless people get jobs, people get divorced and married. People screw up and fix things.

All over, I’d recommend you reach for this book and read more about us. It’s good fun, we won’t bore you here. We may just make you crave for sushi as the end result…

PS. And I think it’s the easy-read factor that I enjoyed the most reading this book, after (and before) the heavy ones from the challenge list! So if you're a woman and you're after something light this book is a good cboice. I give it 3 hearts as I don't think I'll remember the book for long - it's more of a time-nicely-spent thing. (Joanna)

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David Malouf: Remembering Babylon

I have to admit, this was the first book by an Australian I ever read. And, I’m pretty sure, the first one about Australia and its history too.

The story is about Gemmy, an English boy who at young age finds himself shipwrecked at the coast of Australia and gets adopted by a tribe of Aborigines and spends 16 years living with them. After that time, as the settlers start to inhabit the land, he encounters a group of white kids and goes with them back to their village. And that’s where Gemmy’s trying to regain his “whiteness”, ability to speak English again and fit in with the local society. It proves difficult, for both, Gemmy as well as those who decide to provide him with a place to sleep and a seat at their dinner table.

In the end things don’t end as we’d like them to – the smooth assimilation of two cultures isn’t easy and the question is whether anyone even makes an effort to make it happen or whether people just prefer to push through, whatever the cost.

There are a few interesting characters in the book. There is of course Gemmy himself and the kids that find him in the swamp. There is the schoolmaster, George Abbot, an Englishman who got send to Australia by his rich uncle, not exactly by his own choice. He tries to fit in and find himself a purpose but struggles terribly. Until he meets Leona, a girl his age who lives with her aunt in a house away from the village. Mrs Hutchinson and Leona are considered a bit crazy by the villagers as they live on their own and do not integrate with the rest of the society. But that’s exactly where Gemmy finds himself a shelter when everyone else gave up on him.

Interesting read, definitely a breadth of something new for me, very enjoyable and so I’ll give it 3 hearts for that.

But now I need something light, women’s literature maybe to get a bit of a rest from the challenge. But I’ll be back to it soon!

My rating: YYYYY

Paulo Coelho: The Devil and Miss Prym

It’s been a while since I last read something by Coelho. I was a great fan of his back at uni, when was it – 10 years ago, maybe more? I read most of his biggest books and was overwhelmed and inspired by them. Right up to the point I read another book of his not so long ago, I think it was Life: Selected Quotations (published in 2007) and I realized that either I got too old for Coelho or he’s just terribly patronizing!

This story is about a small village at the end of the world, Viscos, where just under 300 people live their lives harvesting what they grow in the fields, talking about weather and getting excited about every single tourist that visits their village. The old people, I should add, as all the young generation left Viscos for the hunger of real life, life where thing change and happen, unlike in this small town where every day is the same as another. All this peace of Viscos life is shaken though when one day a stranger comes to town with a plan to put the villagers to a test. A test that is meant to answer the question he’s been looking to answer since his life fell apart. A test to prove that all people are Evil inside and the Good doesn’t exist.

He promises the villagers, through the lips of Miss Prym, the only young person who stayed in Viscos, that they will receive 11 bars of gold if only they kill someone within a week. No matter who - old or sick, someone who will not be missed by anyone else. And all to allow the stranger to prove to himself that if you put people to a test the Evil will always win.

It is an interesting story, about how Good and Evil fight over every human being, about all the Evil that people do when they try to be good, about the choices people have and the way they can justify any choice they make, even if it isn’t right.

If only Coelho focused more on his characters in the story and not on reminding us his moralizing wisdoms all the time. You can tell a story and leave the listener (or reader in this case) to take it in his own way. Or you can give him your answer before he even digests the story. Which one do you prefer? Coelho goes for the latter which I find really patronizing and limiting in the way you could interpret this book.

Interesting story but I just don’t like the style – 2 hearts for the story though.

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J.M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians

It is truly incredible how Coetzee made this story so timeless that, even though written 30 years ago, you can see it repeating in the world around us over and over again.

The story is settled in a nameless town on the borders of some Empire and the main character who leads us through its history is the Magistrate whose name we never learn either. He reigns the town in piece and symbiosis with the surrounding tribes of native people – fishers, hunters who come to the town occasionally to exchange their worthless goods.

That is until the Empire starts its actions to find and defeat their enemies. The Magistrate has to face the arrival of Colonel Joll whose aim is to find those “barbarians” who are a threat to the Empire’s safety, especially when it comes to its frontier towns. The cruelty of the interrogations to the “barbarians” that are caught causes a mixture of feelings in Magistrate’s mind – a great disgust and hatred to people who can so cruelly hurt other innocent people and a determination to stay out of it and let the Empire do its work without saying a word to stop it. And that’s what starts bothering Magistrate’s mind when Joll finally leaves. Should he have done something to stop this instead of looking in the other direction?

He later engages in a pseudo-erotic relationship with one of the “barbarian” girls left behind by Joll’s army. Her father died during the interrogations, she was blinded and her ankles broken. The Magistrate lets her move into his room, massages her body every evening, tries to heal her broken ankles but never engages into anything more sexual, even though we learn about his liaisons with other young women from the garrison. The scary thought that comes to his mind at some point was whether this girl will one day remember his touch, his care and the time spent with him as vividly as she will always remember the soldiers interrogating her, blinding her eyes with fire and God knows what else. He does for a split moment consider hurting her just to leave his mark on her. Is the cruelty entrenched so hard in our nature or does witnessing it make us feel the power of it too? I think, despite all the scenes of cruelty shown by Joll and his supporters, this was the moment of the book that touched me most.

The power of Coetzee’s story is that it shows people on all sides of the conflict, shows the questions and doubts they have. It shows how incredibly easily human can find a reason for a war against so called “barbarians” and in effect quickly become a barbarian himself. How love can take different forms and how it can be distorted by our feeling of belonging to a different race. And how terribly easy it is to convince the crowds that the cruelty they are seeing is right. Doesn’t it all sound like the world that surrounds us now?

There were many little things in this book that I found fascinating, many characters that Coetzee doesn’t try to stereotype or caricature; they all have their good and weak sides. And the most eye opening moment is when in the end you find out how the “barbarians” finally defeat the Empire army…

It may be a bit hard to read the scenes of cruelty at times or cringe at the romantic liaisons of the old Magistrate, nevertheless, this is a book well worth reading and definitely worth being on the 1001 best books list.

My rating: YYYYY

Marsha Mehran: Pomegranate Soup

Even with all the great Christmas foods and treats reading this book made my mouth fill with saliva for all the foods which the book centres around.

The idea of the book is quite original – each chapter starts with a recipe for a Persian dish and evolves around cooking it by the three Iranian sisters who just opened a restaurant in a Ballinacroagh, little village in Ireland. The sisters escaped Iran during the 1979 revolution and moved to London first but their doomed past has found them there and made them move to the Country Mayo.

I was only born when the Iranian revolution started but it is interesting and indeed shocking to hear how Marsha describes it through the eyes of three young girls living there, having to look after one another in the absence of their parents.

I like the way Marsha describes a small Irish village and creates a number of unique and easily recognisable characters – an old Italian matron Estelle, Dervla – the town’s gossip guru, a priest with a comedian past and the town bully, Thomas McGuire. They all seem very real and you can almost see them while reading the book. As the book is set in the 80s, the acclimatisation of the three Iranian sisters to the local society is an interesting one to watch.

And the saying comes to mind – the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. And it not only applies to the Ballinacroagh residents but also to those reading this book. The only thing that I was unsure about in this book is the puffiness of the language – the book is full of words that are not commonly used in the day-to-day language and, I have to admit, often don’t exist in my English vocabulary. It annoyed me a little in the beginning but as the story went I learnt to accept it.

Tasty and uplifting story, definitely worth a read, especially to those food lovers amongst you or those who love the Irish countryside.

My rating: YYYYY

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