1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2008 List)

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1. The Thousand and One Nights . Anonymous
2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter . Anonymous
3. The Tale of Genji . Murasaki Shikibu
4. Romance of the Three Kingdoms . Luó Guànzhong
5. The Water Margin . Shi Nai’an & Luó Guànzhong
6. The Golden Ass . Lucius Apuleius
7. Tirant lo Blanc . Joanot Martorell
8. La Celestina . Fernando de Rojas
9. Amadis of Gaul . Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
10. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes . Anonymous
11. Gargantua and Pantagruel . François Rabelais
12. The Lusiad . Luís Vaz de Camões
13. Monkey: A Journey to the West . Wú Chéng’en
14. Unfortunate Traveller . Thomas Nashe
15. Thomas of Reading . Thomas Deloney
16. Don Quixote . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
17. The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda . Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
18. The Conquest of New Spain . Bernal Díaz del Castillo
19. The Adventurous Simplicissimus . Hans von Grimmelshausen
20. The Princess of Clèves . Comtesse de La Fayette
21. Oroonoko . Alphra Behn
22. Robinson Crusoe . Daniel Defoe
23. Love in Excess . Eliza Haywood
24. Moll Flanders . Daniel Defoe
25. Gulliver’s Travels . Jonathan Swift
26. A Modest Proposal . Jonathan Swift
27. Joseph Andrews . Henry Fielding
28. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus . Arbuthnot, Gay, Parnell, Pope, Swift
29. Pamela . Samuel Richardson
30. Clarissa . Samuel Richardson
31. Tom Jones . Henry Fielding
32. Fanny Hill . John Cleland
33. Peregrine Pickle . Tobias George Smollett
34. The Female Quixote . Charlotte Lennox
35. Candide . Voltaire
36. Rasselas . Samuel Johnson
37. Julie; or The New Eloise . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
38. Émile; or, On Education . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
39. The Castle of Otranto . Horace Walpole
40. The Vicar of Wakefield . Oliver Goldsmith
41. Tristam Shandy . Laurence Sterne
42. A Sentimental Journey . Laurence Sterne
43. The Man of Feeling . Henry Mackenzie
44. Humphry Clinker . Tobias George Smollett
45. The Sorrows of Young Werther . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. Evelina . Fanny Burney
47. Reveries of a Solitary Walker . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48. Dangerous Liasons . Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
49. Confessions . Jean-Jacques Rousseau
50. The 120 Days of Sodom . Marquis de Sade
51. Anton Reiser . Karl Philipp Moritz
52. Vathek . William Beckford
53. Justine . Marquis de Sade
54. A Dream of Red Mansions . Cao Xueqin
55. The Adventures of Caleb Willams . William Godwin
56. The Interesting Narrative . Olaudah Equiano
57. The Mysteries of Udolpho . Ann Radcliffe
58. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. The Monk . M.G. Lewis
60. Camilla . Fanny Burney
61. Jacques the Fatalist . Denis Diderot
62. The Nun . Denis Diderot
63. Hyperion . Friedrich Hölderlin
64. Castle Rackrent . Maria Edgeworth
65. Henry of Ofterdingen . Novalis
66. Rameau’s Nephew . Denis Diderot
67. Elective Affinities . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. Michael Kohlhaas . Heinrich von Kleist
69. Sense and Sensibility . Jane Austen
70. Pride and Prejudice . Jane Austen
71. Mansfield Park . Jane Austen
72. Emma . Jane Austen
73. Rob Roy . Sir Walter Scott
74. Frankenstein . Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
75. Ivanhoe . Sir Walter Scott
76. Melmoth the Wanderer . Charles Robert Maturin
77. The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr . E.T.A. Hoffmann
78. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . James Hogg
79. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing . Joseph von Eichendorff
80. Last of the Mohicans . James Fenimore Cooper
81. The Betrothed . Alessandro Manzoni
82. The Red and the Black . Stendhal
83. The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Victor Hugo
84. Eugene Onegin . Alexander Pushkin
85. Eugénie Grandet . Honoré de Balzac
86. La Père Goriot . Honoré de Balzac
87. The Nose . Nikolay Gogol
88. Oliver Twist . Charles Dickens
89. The Lion of Flanders . Hendrick Conscience
90. The Charterhouse of Parma . Stendhal
91. The Fall of the House of Usher . Edgar Allan Poe
92. Camera Obscura . Hildebrand
93. A Hero of Our Times . Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
94. Dead Souls . Nikolay Gogol
95. Lost Illusions . Honoré de Balzac
96. The Pit and the Pendulum . Edgar Allan Poe
97. The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
98. Facundo . Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
99. The Devil’s Pool . George Sand
100. The Count of Monte Cristo . Alexandre Dumas
101. Jane Eyre . Charlotte Brontë
102. Vanity Fair . William Makepeace Thackeray
103. Wuthering Heights . Emily Brontë
104. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . Anne Brontë
105. David Copperfield . Charles Dickens
106. The Scarlet Letter . Nathaniel Hawthorne
107. Moby-Dick . Herman Melville
108. The House of the Seven Gables . Nathaniel Hawthorne
109. Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Harriet Beecher Stowe
110. Cranford . Elizabeth Gaskell
111. Bleak House . Charles Dickens
112. Walden . Henry David Thoreau
113. Green Henry . Gottfried Keller
114. North and South . Elizabeth Gaskell
115. Madame Bovary . Gustave Flaubert
116. Indian Summer . Adalbert Stifter
117. Adam Bede . George Eliot
118. Oblomov . Ivan Goncharov
119. The Woman in White . Wilkie Collins
120. The Mill on the Floss . George Eliot
121. Max Havelaar . Multatuli
122. Great Expectations . Charles Dickens
123. Silas Marner . George Eliot
124. Fathers and Sons . Ivan Turgenev
125. Les Misérables . Victor Hugo
126. The Water-Babies . Charles Kingsley
127. Notes from the Underground . Fyodor Dostoevsky
128. Uncle Silas . Sheridan Le Fanu
129. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . Lewis Carroll
130. Journey to the Center of the Earth . Jules Verne
131. Crime and Punishment . Fyodor Dostoevsky
132. Last Chronicle of Barset . Anthony Trollope
133. Thérèse Raquin . Émile Zola
134. The Moonstone . Wilkie Collins
135. Little Women . Louisa May Alcott
136. The Idiot . Fyodor Dostoevsky
137. Maldoror . Comte de Lautréamont
138. Phineas Finn . Anthony Trollope
139. Sentimental Education . Gustave Flaubert
140. War and Peace . Leo Tolstoy
141. King Lear of the Steppes . Ivan Turgenev
142. Alice Through the Looking Glass . Lewis Carroll
143. Middlemarch . George Eliot
144. Spring Torrents . Ivan Turgenev
145. Erewhon . Samuel Butler
146. The Devils . Fyodor Dostoevsky
147. In a Glass Darkly . Sheridan Le Fanu
148. Around the World in Eighty Days . Jules Verne
149. The Enchanted Wanderer . Nicolai Leskov
150. Far from the Madding Crowd . Thomas Hardy
151. Pepita Jimenéz . Juan Valera
152. The Crime of Father Amado . José Maria Eça de Queirós
153. Drunkard . Émile Zola
154. Anna Karenina . Leo Tolstoy
155. Martín Fierro . José Hernández
156. The Red Room . August Strindberg
157. Ben-Hur . Lew Wallace
158. Nana . Émile Zola
159. The Portrait of a Lady . Henry James
160. The House by the Medlar Tree . Giovanni Verga
161. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
162. Bouvard and Pécuchet . Gustave Flaubert
163. Treasure Island . Robert Louis Stevenson
164. A Woman’s Life . Guy de Maupassant
165. The Death of Ivan Ilyich . Leo Tolstoy
166. Against the Grain . Joris-Karl Huysmans
167. The Regent’s Wife . Clarín Leopoldo Alas
168. Bel-Ami . Guy de Maupassant
169. Marius the Epicurean . Walter Pater
170. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Mark Twain
171. Germinal . Émile Zola
172. King Solomon’s Mines . H. Rider Haggard
173. The Quest . Frederik van Eeden
174. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Robert Louis Stevenson
175. The Manors of Ulloa . Emilia Pardo Bazán
176. The People of Hemsö . August Strindberg
177. Pierre and Jean . Guy de Maupassant
178. Under the Yoke . Ivan Vazov
179. The Child of Pleasure . Gabriele D’Annunzio
180. Eline Vere . Louis Couperus
181. Hunger . Knut Hamsun
182. By the Open Sea . August Strindberg
183. La Bête Humaine . Émile Zola
184. Thaïs . Anatole France
185. The Kreutzer Sonata . Leo Tolstoy
186. The Picture of Dorian Gray . Oscar Wilde
187. Down There . Joris-Karl Huysmans
188. Tess of the D’Ubervilles . Thomas Hardy
189. Gösta Berling’s Saga . Selma Lagerlöf
190. New Grub Street . George Gissig
191. News from Nowhere . William Morris
192. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
193. The Diary of a Nobody . George & Weedon Grossmith
194. The Viceroys . Federico De Roberto
195. Jude the Obscure . Thomas Hardy
196. Effi Briest . Theodor Fontane
197. The Time Machine . H.G. Wells
198. The Island of Dr. Moreau . H.G. Wells
199. Quo Vadis . Henryk Sienkiewicz
200. Dracula . Bram Stoker
201. What Maisie Knew . Henry James
202. Compassion . Benito Pérez Galdós
203. Pharaoh . Boleslaw Prus
204. Fruits of the Earth . André Gide
205. The War of the Worlds . H.G. Wells
206. As a Man Grows Older . Italo Svevo
207. Dom Casmurro . Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
208. The Awakening . Kate Chopin
209. The Stechlin . Theodor Fontane
210. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon . Géza Gárdonyi
211. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. . Somerville and Ross
212. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem . Emilio Salgari
213. Sister Carrie . Theodore Dreiser
214. None but the Brave . Arthur Schnitzler
215. Kim . Rudyard Kipling
216. Buddenbrooks . Thomas Mann
217. The Hound of the Baskervilles . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
218. Heart of Darkness . Joseph Conrad
219. The Wings of the Dove . Henry James
220. The Immoralist . André Gide
221. The Ambassadors . Henry James
222. The Riddle of the Sands . Erskine Childers
223. The Call of the Wild . Jack London
224. Memoirs of my Nervous Illness . Daniel P. Schreber
225. The Way of All Flesh . Samuel Butler
226. Hadrian the Seventh . Frederick Rolfe
227. Nostromo . Joseph Conrad
228. The House of Mirth . Edith Wharton
229. Professor Unrat . Heinrich Mann
230. Solitude . Víctor Català
231. Young Törless . Robert Musil
232. The Forsyte Saga . John Galsworthy
233. The Jungle . Upton Sinclair
234. The Secret Agent . Joseph Conrad
235. Mother . Maxim Gorky
236. The House on the Borderland . William Hope Hodgson
237. The Old Wives’ Tale . Arnold Bennett
238. The Inferno . Henri Barbusse
239. A Room with a View . E.M. Forster
240. Strait is the Gate . André Gide
241. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Rainer Maria Rilke
242. Howards End . E.M. Forster
243. Impressions of Africa . Raymond Roussel
244. Fantômas . Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
245. Ethan Frome . Edith Wharton
246. The Charwoman’s Daughter . James Stephens
247. Death in Venice . Thomas Mann
248. Sons and Lovers . D.H. Lawrence
249. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . Robert Tressell
250. Platero and I . Juan Ramón Jiménez
251. Tarzan of the Apes . Edgar Rice Burroughs
252. Locus Solas . Raymond Roussell
253. Kokoro . Natsume Soseki
254. The Thirty-Nine Steps . John Buchan
255. The Rainbow . D.H. Lawrence
256. Of Human Bondage . William Somerset Maugham
257. The Good Soldier . Ford Madox Ford
258. Rashomon . Akutagawa Ryunosuke
259. Under Fire . Henri Barbusse
260. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . James Joyce
261. The Underdogs . Mariano Azuela
262. Pallieter . Felix Timmermans
263. Home and the World . Rabindranath Tagore
264. Growth of the Soil . Knut Hamsun
265. The Return of the Soldier . Rebecca West
266. Tarr . Wyndham Lewis
267. The Storm of Steel . Ernst Jünger
268. Women in Love . D.H. Lawrence
269. Main Street . Sinclair Lewis
270. The Age of Innocence . Edith Wharton
271. Chrome Yellow . Aldous Huxley
272. Life of Christ . Giovanni Papini
273. Ulysses . James Joyce
274. Babbitt . Sinclair Lewis
275. Claudine’s House . Colette
276. Life and Death of Harriett Frean . May Sinclair
277. The Forest of the Hanged . Liviu Rebreanu
278. Siddhartha . Hermann Hesse
279. The Enormous Room . E.E. Cummings
280. Kristin Lavransdatter . Sigrid Undset
281. Amok . Stefan Zweig
282. The Devil in the Flesh . Raymond Radiguet
283. Zeno’s Conscience . Italo Svevo
284. A Passage to India . E.M. Forster
285. We . Yevgeny Zamyatin
286. The Magic Mountain . Thomas Mann
287. The Green Hat . Michael Arlen
288. The New World . Heruy Wäldä-Sellassé
289. The Professor’s House . Willa Cather
290. The Artamonov Business . Maxim Gorky
291. The Trial . Franz Kafka
292. The Counterfeiters . André Gide
293. The Great Gatsby . F. Scott Fitzgerald
294. Mrs. Dalloway . Virginia Woolf
295. Chaka the Zulu . Thomas Mofolo
296. The Making of Americans . Gertrude Stein
297. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . Agatha Christie
298. One, None and a Hundred Thousand . Luigi Pirandello
299. Under Satan’s Sun . Geroges Bernanos
300. The Good Soldier’s Svejk . Jaroslav Hasek
301. Alberta and Jacob . Cora Sandel
302. The Castle . Franz Kafka
303. Blindness . Henry Green
304. The Sun Also Rises . Ernest Hemingway
305. Amerika . Franz Kafka
306. The Case of Sergeant Grischa . Arnold Zweig
307. Tarka the Otter . Henry Williamson
308. To the Lighthouse . Virginia Woolf
309. Remembrance of Things Past . Marcel Proust
310. Steppenwolf . Hermann Hesse
311. Nadja . André Breton
312. Quicksand . Nella Larsen
313. Decline and Fall . Evelyn Waugh
314. Some Prefer Nettles : Junichiro Tanizaki
315. Parade’s End . Ford Madox Ford
316. The Well of Loneliness . Radclyffe Hall
317. Lady Chatterley’s Lover . D.H. Lawrence
318. Orlando . Virginia Woolf
319. Story of the Eye . Geroges Bataille
320. Retreat Without Song . Shahan Shahnoor
321. Les Enfants Terribles . Jean Cocteau
322. Berlin Alexanderplatz . Alfred Döblin
323. All Quiet on the Western Front . Erich Maria Remarque
324. The Time of Indifference . Alberto Moravia
325. Living . Henry Green
326. I Thought of Daisy . Edmund Wilson
327. Farewell to Arms . Ernest Hemingway
328. Passing . Nellas Larsen
329. Look Homeward, Angel . Thomas Wolfe
330. The Maltese Falcon . Dashiell Hammett
331. Her Privates We . Frederic Manning
332. The Apes of God . Wyndham Lewis
333. Monica . Saunders Lewis
334. Insatiability . Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
335. The Waves . Virginia Woolf
336. To the North . Elizabeth Bowen
337. The Thin Man . Dashiell Hammett
338. Journey to the End of the Night . Louis-Ferdinand Céline
339. The Return of Philip Latinowicz . Miroslav Krleza
340. The Radetzky March . Joseph Roth
341. The Forbidden Realm . J.J. Slauerhoff
342. Cold Comfort Farm . Stella Gibbons
343. Brave New World . Aldous Huxley
344. Vipers’ Tangle . François Mauriac
345. The Man Without Qualities . Robert Musil
346. Cheese . Willem Elsschot
347. Man’s Fate . André Malraux
348. A Day Off . Storm Jameson
349. Testament of Youth . Vera Brittain
350. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas . Gertrude Stein
351. Murder Must Advertise . Dorothy L. Sayers
352. Miss Lonelyhearts . Nathanael West
353. Call It Sleep . Henry Roth
354. The Street of Crocodiles . Bruno Schulz
355. Thank You, Jeeves . P.G. Wodehouse
356. Tender is the Night . F. Scott Fitzgerald
357. Tropic of Cancer . Henry Miller
358. The Postman Always Rings Twice . James M. Cain
359. On the Heights of Despair . Emil Cioran
360. The Bells of Basel . Louis Aragon
361. The Nine Taylors . Dorothy L. Sayers
362. Auto-da-Fé . Elias Canetti
363. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? . Horace McCoy
364. The Last of Mr. Norris . Christopher Isherwood
365. Untouchable . Mulk Raj Anand
366. Independent People . Halldór Laxness
367. Nightwood . Djuna Barnes
368. At the Mountains of Madness . H.P. Lovecraft
369. Absalom, Absalom! . William Faulkner
370. War with the Newts . Karel Capek
371. Keep the Aspidistra Flying . George Orwell
372. Gone with the Wind . Margaret Mitchell
373. The Thinking Reed . Rebecca West
374. Eyeless in Gaza . Aldous Huxley
375. Summer Will Show . Sylvia Townsend Warner
376. Rickshaw Boy . Lao She
377. Out of Africa . Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
378. In Parenthesis . David Jones
379. Ferdydurke . Witold Gombrowicz
380. The Blind Owl . Sadegh Hedayat
381. The Hobbit . J.R.R. Tolkien
382. Their Eyes Were Watching God . Zora Neale Hurston
383. Of Mice and Men . John Steinbeck
384. Murphy . Samuel Beckett
385. U.S.A. . John Dos Passos
386. Brighton Rock . Graham Greene
387. Cause for Alarm . Eric Ambler
388. Alamut . Vladimir Bartol
389. Rebecca . Daphne du Maurier
390. Nausea . Jean-Paul Sartre
391. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . Winifred Watson
392. On the Edge of Reason . Miroslav Krleza
393. The Big Sleep . Raymond Chandler
394. Goodbye to Berlin . Christopher Isherwood
395. The Grapes of Wrath . John Steinbeck
396. Good Morning, Midnight . Jean Rhys
397. At Swim-Two-Birds . Flann O’Brien
398. Finnegans Wake . James Joyce
399. Native Son . Richard Wright
400. The Tarter Steppe . Dino Buzzati
401. The Power and the Glory . Graham Greene
402. For Whom the Bell Tolls . Ernest Hemingway
403. The Man Who Loved Children . Christina Steed
404. Broad and Alien is the World . Ciro Alegría
405. The Living and the Dead . Patrick White
406. The Harvesters . Cesare Pavese
407. Conversations in Sicily . Elio Vittorini
408. The Outsider . Albert Camus
409. Embers . Sándor Márai
410. Chess Story . Stefan Zweig
411. The Glass Bead Game . Hermann Hesse
412. Joseph and His Brothers . Thomas Mann
413. The Little Prince . Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
414. Dangling Man . Saul Bellow
415. The Razor’s Edge . William Somerset Maugham
416. Transit . Anna Seghers
417. Pippi Longstocking . Astrid Lindgren
418. Loving . Henry Green
419. Animal Farm . George Orwell
420. The Bridge on the Drina . Ivo Andric
421. Christ Stopped at Eboli . Carlo Levi
422. Arcanum 17 . André Breton
423. Brideshead Revisited . Evelyn Waugh
424. Bosnian Chronicle . Ivo Andric
425. The Tin Flute . Gabrielle Roy
426. Andrea . Carmen Laforet
427. The Death of Virgil . Hermann Broch
428. Titus Groan . Mervyn Peake
429. Zorba the Greek . Nikos Kazantzakis
430. Back . Henry Green
431. House in the Uplands . Erskine Caldwell
432. The Path to the Nest of Spiders . Italo Calvino
433. Under the Volcano . Malcolm Lowry
434. If This Is a Man . Primo Levi
435. Excercises in Style . Raymond Queneau
436. The Plague . Albert Camus
437. Doctor Faustus . Thomas Mann
438. Midaq Alley . Naguib Mahfouz
439. Froth on the Daydream . Boris Vian
440. Journey to the Alcarria . Camilo José Cela
441. Ashes and Diamonds . Jerzy Andrzejewski
442. Disobedience . Alberto Moravia
443. All About H. Hatterr . G.V. Desani
444. Cry, the Beloved Country . Alan Paton
445. In the Heart of the Seas . Shmuel Yosef Agnon
446. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman . Tadeusz Borowski
447. Death Sentence . Maurice Blanchot
448. Nineteen Eighty-Four . George Orwell
449. The Man with the Golden Arm . Nelson Algren
450. Kingdom of this World . Alejo Carpentier
451. The Heat of the Day . Elizabeth Bowen
452. Love in a Cold Climate . Nancy Mitford
453. The Case of Comrade Tulayev . Victor Serge
454. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played . Simon Vestdijk
455. I, Robot . Isaac Asimov
456. The Grass is Singing . Doris Lessing
457. A Town Like Alice . Nevil Shute
458. The Moon and the Bonfires . Cesare Pavese
459. Gormenghast . Mervyn Peake
460. The 13 Clocks . James Thurber
461. The Labyrinth of Solitude . Octavio Paz
462. The Abbott C . Georges Bataille
463. The Guiltless . Hermann Broch
464. Barabbas . Pär Lagerkvist
465. The End of the Affair . Graham Greene
466. Molloy . Samuel Beckett
467. The Rebel . Albert Camus
468. The Catcher in the Rye . J.D. Salinger
469. The Opposing Shore . Julien Gracq
470. Foundation . Isaac Asimov
471. Malone Dies . Samuel Beckett
472. Day of the Triffids . John Wyndham
473. Memoirs of Hadrian . Marguerite Yourcenar
474. The Hive . Camilo José Cela
475. Wise Blood . Flannery O’Connor
476. The Old Man and the Sea . Ernest Hemingway
477. Invisible Man . Ralph Ellison
478. The Judge and His Hangman . Friedrich Dürrenmatt
479. Excellent Women . Barbara Pym
480. A Thousand Cranes . Yasunari Kawabata
481. Go Tell It on the Mountain . James Baldwin
482. Casino Royale . Ian Fleming
483. Junkie . William Burroughs
484. Lucky Jim . Kingsley Amis
485. The Lost Steps . Alejo Carpentier
486. The Hothouse . Wolfgang Koeppen
487. The Long Good-Bye . Raymond Chandler
488. The Go-Between . L.P. Hartley
489. The Dark Child . Camara Laye
490. A Day in Spring . Ciril Kosmac
491. A Ghost at Noon . Alberto Moravia
492. The Story of O . Pauline Réage
493. Under the Net . Iris Murdoch
494. Lord of the Flies . William Golding
495. The Mandarins . Simone de Beauvoir
496. Bonjour Tristesse . Françoise Sagan
497. Death in Rome . Wolfgang Koeppen
498. The Sound of Waves . Yukio Mishima
499. The Unknown Soldier . Väinö Linna
500. I’m Not Stiller . Max Frisch
501. The Ragazzi . Pier Paolo Pasolini
502. The Recognitions . William Gaddis
503. The Burning Plain . Juan Rulfo
504. The Quiet American . Graham Greene
505. The Trusting and the Maimed . James Plunkett
506. The Tree of Man . Patrick White
507. The Last Temptation of Christ . Nikos Kazantzákis
508. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands . João Guimarães Rosa
509. Lolita . Vladimir Nabokov
510. The Talented Mr. Ripley . Patricia Highsmith
511. The Lord of the Rings . J.R.R. Tolkien
512. The Lonely Londoners . Sam Selvon
513. The Roots of Heaven . Romain Gary
514. The Floating Opera . John Barth
515. Giovanni’s Room . James Baldwin
516. Justine . Lawrence Durrell
517. The Glass Bees . Ernst Jünger
518. Doctor Zhivago . Boris Pasternak
519. Pnin . Vladimir Nabokov
520. On the Road . Jack Kerouac
521. The Manila Rope . Veijo Meri
522. The Deadbeats . Ward Ruyslinck
523. Homo Faber . Max Frisch
524. Blue of Noon . Geroges Bataille
525. The Midwich Cuckoos . John Wyndham
526. Voss . Patrick White
527. Jealousy . Alain Robbe-Grillet
528. The Birds . Tarjei Vesaas
529. The Once and Future King . T.H. White
530. The Bell . Iris Murdoch
531. Borstal Boy . Brendan Behan
532. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon . Jorge Amado
533. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning . Alan Sillitoe
534. Things Fall Apart . Chinua Achebe
535. The Bitter Glass . Eilís Dillon
536. The Guide . R.K. Narayan
537. The Leopard . Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
538. Deep Rivers . José María Arguedas
539. Breakfast at Tiffany’s . Truman Capote
540. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring . Kenzaburo Oe
541. Billiards at Half-Past Nine . Heinrich Böll
542. Down Second Avenue . Ezekiel Mphahlele
543. Cider With Rosie . Laurie Lee
544. The Tin Drum . Günter Grass
545. The Naked Lunch . William Burroughs
546. Billy Liar . Keith Waterhouse
547. Absolute Beginners . Colin MacInnes
548. Promise at Dawn . Romain Gary
549. Rabbit, Run . John Updike
550. To Kill a Mockingbird . Harper Lee
551. The Magician of Lublin . Isaac Bashevis Singer
552. Halftime . Martin Walser
553. The Country Girls . Edna O’Brien
554. Bebo’s Girl . Carlo Cassola
555. God’s Bit of Wood . Ousmane Sembène
556. The Shipyard . Juan Carlos Onetti
557. Catch-22 . Joseph Heller
558. Solaris . Stanislaw Lem
559. Cat and Mouse . Gunter Grass
560. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Muriel Spark
561. A Severed Head . Iris Murdoch
562. Franny and Zooey . J.D. Salinger
563. No One Writes to the Colonel . Gabriel García Márquez
564. Faces in the Water . Janet Frame
565. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy . Xosé Neira Vilas
566. Stranger in a Strange Land . Robert Heinlein
567. Labyrinths . Jorge Luis Borges
568. The Golden Notebook . Doris Lessing
569. Time of Silence . Luis Martín-Santos
570. Pale Fire . Vladimir Nabokov
571. A Clockwork Orange . Anthony Burgess
572. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest . Ken Kesey
573. Girl With Green Eyes . Edna O’Brien
574. The Death of Artemio Cruz . Carlos Fuentes
575. The Time of the Hero . Mario Vargas Llosa
576. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . Giorgio Bassani
577. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
578. The Third Wedding . Costas Taktsis
579. Dog Years . Günter Grass
580. The Bell Jar . Sylvia Plath
581. Inside Mr. Enderby . Anthony Burgess
582. The Girls of Slender Means . Muriel Spark
583. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold . John Le Carré
584. Manon des Sources . Marcel Pagnol
585. The Graduate . Charles Webb
586. Cat’s Cradle . Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
587. V. . Thomas Pynchon
588. Herzog . Saul Bellow
589. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein . Marguerite Duras
590. Arrow of God . Chinua Achebe
591. Three Trapped Tigers . Guillermo Cabrera Infante
592. Sometimes a Great Notion . Ken Kesey
593. The Passion According to G.H. . Clarice Lispector
594. Back to Oegstgeest . Jan Wolkers
595. Closely Watched Trains . Bohumil Hrabal
596. The River Between . Ngugi wa Thiong’o
597. Garden, Ashes . Danilo Kis
598. Everything That Rises Must Converge . Flannery O’Connor
599. Things . Georges Perec
600. In Cold Blood . Truman Capote
601. Death and the Dervish . Mesa Selimovic
602. Silence . Shusaku Endo
603. To Each His Own . Leonardo Sciascia
604. The Crying of Lot 49 . Thomas Pynchon
605. Giles Goat-Boy . John Barth
606. Marks of Identity . Juan Goytisolo
607. The Vice-Consul . Marguerite Duras
608. The Magus . John Fowles
609. The Master and Margarita . Mikhail Bulgakov
610. Wide Sargasso Sea . Jean Rhys
611. The Third Policeman . Flann O’Brien
612. Miramar . Naguib Mahfouz
613. Z . Vassilis Vassilikos
614. Pilgrimage . Dorothy Richardson
615. The Manor . Isaac Bashevis Singer
616. One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel García Márquez
617. No Laughing Matter . Angus Wilson
618. Days of the Dolphin . Robert Merle
619. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test . Tom Wolfe
620. Eva Trout . Elizabeth Bowen
621. The Cathedral . Oles Honchar
622. A Kestral for a Knave . Barry Hines
623. In Watermelon Sugar . Richard Brautigan
624. The German Lesson . Siegfried Lenz
625. The Quest for Christa T. . Christa Wolf
626. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? . Philip K. Dick
627. 2001: A Space Odyssey . Arthur C. Clarke
628. Belle du Seigneur . Albert Cohen
629. Cancer Ward . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
630. Myra Breckinridge . Gore Vidal
631. The First Circle . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
632. A Void/Avoid . Georges Perec
633. Them . Joyce Carol Oates
634. Ada . Vladimir Nabokov
635. The Godfather . Mario Puzo
636. Portnoy’s Complaint . Philip Roth
637. Jacob the Liar . Jurek Becker
638. The French Lieutenant’s Woman . John Fowles
639. Slaughterhouse-five . Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
640. Blind Man With a Pistol . Chester Himes
641. Pricksongs and Descants . Robert Coover
642. Tent of Miracles . Jorge Armado
643. The Case Worker . György Konrád
644. Moscow Stations . Venedikt Yerofeev
645. Heartbreak Tango . Manuel Puig
646. Seasons of Migrations to the North . Tayeb Salih
647. Here’s to You, Jesusa! . Elena Poniatowska
648. Fifth Business . Robertson Davies
649. Play It As It Lays . Joan Didion
650. Jahrestage . Uwe Johnson
651. A World for Julius . Alfredo Bryce Echenique
652. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . Maya Angelou
653. The Bluest Eye . Toni Morrison
654. The Sea of Fertility . Yukio Mishima
655. Rabbit Redux . John Updike
656. Cataract . Mykhaylo Osadchyl
657. Group Portrait With Lady . Heinrich Böll
658. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Hunter S. Thompson
659. The Book of Daniel . E.L. Doctorow
660. Lives of Girls & Women . Alice Munro
661. House Mother Normal . B.S. Johnson
662. In a Free State . V.S. Naipal
663. Surfacing . Margaret Atwood
664. G . John Berger
665. The Summer Book . Tove Jansson
666. The Twilight Years . Sawako Ariyoshi
667. The Optimist’s Daughter . Eudora Welty
668. Invisible Cities . Italo Calvino
669. Gravity’s Rainbow . Thomas Pynchon
670. The Honorary Consul . Graham Greene
671. Crash . J.G. Ballard
672. The Castle of Crossed Destinies . Italo Calvino
673. The Siege of Krishnapur . J.G. Farrell
674. A Question of Power . Bessie Head
675. Fear of Flying . Erica Jong
676. The Dispossessed . Ursula K. Le Guin
677. The Diviners . Margaret Laurence
678. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum . Heinrich Böll
679. Dusklands . J.M. Coetzee
680. The Fan Man . William Kotzwinkle
681. The Port . Antun Soljan
682. Ragtime . E.L. Doctorow
683. The Commandant . Jessica Anderson
684. The Year of the Hare . Arto Paasilinna
685. Humboldt’s Gift . Saul Bellow
686. Woman at Point Zero . Nawal El Saadawi
687. Willard and His Bowling Trophies . Richard Brautigan
688. Fateless . Imre Kertész
689. The Dead Father . Donald Barthelme
690. Correction . Thomas Bernhard
691. A Dance to the Music of Time . Anthony Powell
692. W, or the Memory of Childhood . Georges Perec
693. Autumn of the Patriarch . Gabriel García Márquez
694. Patterns of Childhood . Christa Wolf
695. Blaming . Elizabeth Taylor
696. Cutter and Bone . Newton Thornburg
697. Interview With the Vampire . Anne Rice
698. The Left-Handed Woman . Peter Handke
699. Kiss of the Spider Woman . Manuel Puig
700. Almost Transparent Blue . Ryu Murakami
701. In the Heart of the Country . J.M. Coetzee
702. The Engineer of the Human Soul . Josef Skvorecky
703. Quartet in Autumn . Barbara Pym
704. The Hour of the Star . Clarice Lispector
705. Song of Solomon . Toni Morrison
706. The Wars . Timothy Findley
707. Dispatches . Michael Herr
708. The Shining . Stephen King
709. Delta of Venus . Anaïs Nin
710. The Beggar Maid . Alice Munro
711. Requiem for a Dream . Hubert Selby Jr.
712. The Singapore Grip . J.G. Farrell
713. The Sea, The Sea . Iris Murdoch
714. Life: A User’s Manual . Georges Perec
715. The Back Room . Carmen Martín Gaite
716. The Virgin in the Garden . A.S. Byatt
717. The Cement Garden . Ian McEwan
718. Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy . Douglas Adams
719. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler . Italo Calvino
720. So Long a Letter . Mariama Bâ
721. Burger’s Daughter . Nadine Gordimer
722. A Bend in the River . V.S. Naipaul
723. A Dry White Season . André Brink
724. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting . Milan Kundera
725. Fool’s Gold . Maro Douka
726. Smiley’s People . John Le Carré
727. Southern Seas . Manuel Vásquez Montalbán
728. The Name of the Rose . Umberto Eco
729. Clear Light of Day . Anita Desai
730. Confederacy of Dunces . John Kennedy Toole
731. Rituals . Cees Nooteboom
732. Smell of Sadness . Alfred Kossmann
733. Broken April . Ismail Kadare
734. Midnight’s Children . Salman Rushdie
735. Waiting for Barbarians . J.M. Coetzee
736. Summer in Baden-Baden . Leonid Tsypkin
737. The House with the Blind Glass Windows . Herbjørg Wassmo
738. Leaden Wings . Zhang Jie
739. The War at the End of the World . Mario Vargas Llosa
740. Lanark: A Life in Four Books . Alasdair Gray
741. Rabbit is Rich . John Updike
742. Couples, Passerby . Botho Strauss
743. July’s People . Nadine Gordimer
744. On the Black Hill . Bruce Chatwin
745. The House of the Spirits . Isabel Allende
746. Schindler’s Ark . Thomas Keneally
747. A Pale View of Hills . Kazuo Ishiguro
748. Wittgenstein’s Nephew . Thomas Bernhard
749. The Color Purple . Alice Walker
750. A Boy’s Own Story . Edmund White
751. If Not Now, When? . Primo Levi
752. The Book of Disquiet . Fernando Pessoa
753. Baltasar and Blimunda . José Saramago
754. The Sorrow of Belgium . Hugo Claus
755. The Piano Teacher . Elfriede Jelinek
756. The Life and Times of Michael K . J.M. Coetzee
757. Waterland . Graham Swift
758. LaBrava . Elmore Leonard
759. The Christmas Oratorio . Göran Tunström
760. Fado Alexandrino . António Lobo Antunes
761. The Witness . Juan José Saer
762. Shame . Salman Rushdie
763. Money: A Suicide Note . Martin Amis
764. Flaubert’s Parrot . Julian Barnes
765. Professor Martens’ Departure . Jaan Kross
766. Blood and Guts in High School . Kathy Acker
767. Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel . Julián Ríos
768. Nights at the Circus . Angela Carter
769. Neuromancer . William Gibson
770. The Wasp Factory . Iain Banks
771. Democracy . Joan Didion
772. The Lover . Marguerite Duras
773. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis . José Saramago
774. Empire of the Sun . J.G. Ballard
775. The Busconductor Hines . James Kelman
776. Dictionary of the Khazars . Milorad Pavic
777. The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Milan Kundera
778. Legend . David Gemmell
779. The Young Man . Botho Strauss
780. Love Medicine . Louise Erdrich
781. White Noise . Don DeLillo
782. Half of Man is Woman . Zhang Xianliang
783. Reasons to Live . Amy Hempel
784. The Handmaid’s Tale . Margaret Atwood
785. Hawksmoor . Peter Ackroyd
786. Perfume . Patrick Süskind
787. Blood Meridian . Cormac McCarthy
788. Contact . Carl Sagan
789. Simon and the Oaks . Marianne Fredriksson
790. The Cider House Rules . John Irving
791. Annie John . Jamaica Kincaid
792. The Parable of the Blind . Gert Hofmann
793. Love in the Time of Cholera . Gabriel García Márquez
794. Ancestral Voices . Etienne van Heerden
795. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman . Andrzej Szczypiorski
796. The Drowned and the Saved . Primo Levi
797. Watchmen . Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
798. Extinction . Thomas Bernhard
799. An Artist of the Floating World . Kazuo Ishiguro
800. Memory of Fire . Eduardo Galeano
801. The Old Devils . Kingley Amis
802. Matigari . Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
803. Anagrams . Lorrie Moore
804. Lost Language of Cranes . David Leavitt
805. The Taebak Mountains . Jo Jung-rae
806. Ballad for Georg Henig . Viktor Pasokov
807. Enigma of Arrival . V.S. Naipaul
808. World’s End . T. Coraghessan Boyle
809. The Pigeon . Patrick Süskind
810. Of Love and Shadows . Isabel Allende
811. Beloved . Toni Morrison
812. All Souls . Javier Marías
813. The New York Trilogy . Paul Auster
814. Black Box . Amos Oz
815. The Bonfire of the Vanities . Tom Wolfe
816. The Black Dahlia . James Ellroy
817. The Afternoon of a Writer . Peter Handke
818. The Radiant Way . Margaret Drabble
819. Kitchen . Banana Yoshimoto
820. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency . Douglas Adams
821. Cigarettes . Harry Mathews
822. Nervous Conditions . Tsitsi Dangarembga
823. The First Garden . Anne Hébert
824. The Last World . Christoph Ransmayr
825. Oscar and Lucinda . Peter Carey
826. The Swimming-Pool Library . Alan Hollinghurst
827. The Satanic Verses . Salman Rushdie
828. Wittgenstein’s Mistress . David Markson
829. Paradise of the Blind . Duong Thu Huong
830. Foucault’s Pendulum . Umberto Eco
831. Gimmick! . Joost Zwagerman
832. Obabakoak . Bernardo Atzaga
833. Inland . Gerald Murnane
834. A Prayer for Owen Meany . John Irving
835. Like Water for Chocolate . Laura Esquivel
836. The History of the Siege of Lisbon . José Saramago
837. The Trick is to Keep Breathing . Janice Galloway
838. The Great Indian Novel . Shashi Tharoor
839. The Melancholy of Resistance . László Krasznahorkai
840. The Remains of the Day . Kazuo Ishiguro
841. London Fields . Martin Amis
842. Moon Palace . Paul Auster
843. Sexing the Cherry . Jeanette Winterson
844. Like Life . Lorrie Moore
845. The Buddha of Suburbia . Hanif Kureishi
846. The Shadow Lines . Amitav Ghosh
847. The Midnight Examiner . William Kotzwinkle
848. The Things They Carried . Tim O’Brien
849. The Music of Chance . Paul Auster
850. Stone Junction . Jim Dodge
851. Amongst Women . John McGahern
852. Get Shorty . Elmore Leonard
853. The Daughter . Pavlos Matesis
854. Vertigo . W.G. Sebald
855. American Psycho . Bret Easton Ellis
856. The Laws . Connie Palman
857. Faceless Killers . Henning Mankell
858. Astradeni . Eugenia Fakinou
859. Regeneration . Pat Barker
860. Typical . Padgett Powell
861. Mao II . Don DeLillo
862. Wild Swans . Jung Chang
863. Arcadia . Jim Crace
864. Hideous Kinky . Esther Freud
865. Memoirs of Rain . Sunetra Gupta
866. Asphodel . H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
867. The Butcher Boy . Patrick McCabe
868. Smilla’s Sense of Snow . Peter Høeg
869. The Dumas Club . Arturo Pérez-Reverte
870. Written on the Body . Jeanette Winterson
871. The Crow Road . Iain Banks
872. Indigo . Marina Warner
873. The English Patient . Michael Ondaatje
874. Posessing the Secret of Joy . Alice Walker
875. All the Pretty Horses . Cormac McCarthy
876. The Triple Mirror of the Self . Zulfikar Ghose
877. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture . Apostolos Doxiadis
878. The Discovery of Heaven . Harry Mulisch
879. Life is a Caravanserai . Emine Sevgi Özdamar
880. Before Night Falls . Reinaldo Arenas
881. The Secret History . Donna Tartt
882. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll . Álvaro Mutis
883. Remembering Babylon . David Malouf
884. The Holder of the World . Bharati Mukherjee
885. The Virgin Suicides . Jeffrey Eugenides
886. The Stone Diaries . Carol Shields
887. A Suitable Boy . Vikram Seth
888. What a Carve Up! . Jonathan Coe
889. On Love . Alain de Botton
890. The Twins . Tessa de Loo
891. Looking for the Possible Dance . A.L. Kennedy
892. Birdsong . Sebastian Faulks
893. The Shipping News . Annie Proulx
894. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light . Ivan Klima
895. The Invention of Curried Sausage . Uwe Timm
896. Disappearance . David Dabydeen
897. Deep River . Shusaku Endo
898. Felicia’s Journey . William Trevor
899. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin . Louis de Bernières
900. How Late It Was, How Late . James Kelman
901. City Sister Silver . Jáchym Topol
902. Pereira Declares: A Testimony . Antonio Tabucchi
903. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle . Haruki Murakami
904. Our Lady of the Assassins . Fernando Vallejo
905. Land . Park Kyong-ni
906. Whatever . Michel Houellebecq
907. Troubling Love . Elena Ferrante
908. The Late-Night News . Petros Markaris
909. The End of the Story . Lydia Davis
910. Love’s Work . Gillian Rose
911. A Fine Balance . Rohinton Mistry
912. The Reader . Bernhard Schlink
913. Santa Evita . Tomás Martínez
914. Morvern Caller . Alan Warner
915. The Unconsoled . Kazuo Ishiguro
916. Alias Grace . Margaret Atwood
917. The Clay Machine-Gun . Victor Pelevin
918. Infinite Jest . David Foster Wallace
919. Forever a Stranger . Hella Haasse
920. The Ghost Road . Pat Barker
921. Fugitive Pieces . Anne Michaels
922. Hallucinating Foucault . Patricia Duncker
923. A Light Comedy . Eduardo Mendoza
924. Fall on Your Knees . Ann-Marie MacDonald
925. Silk . Alessandro Baricco
926. The God of Small Things . Arundhati Roy
927. Margot and the Angels . Kristien Hemmerechts
928. The Life of Insects . Victor Pelevin
929. Money to Burn . Ricardo Piglia
930. Jack Maggs . Peter Carey
931. Underworld . Don DeLillo
932. Enduring Love . Ian McEwan
933. Crossfire . Miyabe Miyuki
934. The Poisonwood Bible . Barbara Kingsolver
935. Veronika Decides to Die . Paulo Coelho
936. The Hours . Michael Cunningham
937. All Souls Day . Cees Nooteboom
938. The Heretic . Miguel Deliber
939. Elementary Particles . Michel Houellebecq
940. The Talk of the Town . Ardal O’Hanlon
941. Dirty Havana Trilogy . Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
942. Savage Detectives . Roberto Bolaño
943. Disgrace . J.M. Coetzee
944. As If I Am Not There . Slavenka Drakulic
945. Pavel’s Letters . Monika Moron
946. In Search of Klingsor . Jorge Volpi
947. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender . Dubravka Ugresic
948. Fear and Trembling . Amélie Nothomb
949. Bartleby and Co. . Enrique Vila-Matas
950. Celestial Harmonies . Péter Esterházy
951. Small Remedies . Shashi Deshpande
952. The Human Stain . Philip Roth
953. White Teeth . Zadie Smith
954. Under the Skin . Michel Faber
955. The Heart of Redness . Zakes Mda
956. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost . Ismail Kadare
957. The Devil and Miss Prym . Paulo Cohelo
958. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay . Michael Chabon
959. The Feast of the Goat . Mario Vargas Llosa
960. I’m Not Scared . Niccolò Ammaniti
961. Soldiers of Salamis . Javier Cercas
962. Atonement . Ian McEwan
963. Austerlitz . W.G. Sebald
964. Life of Pi . Yann Martel
965. The Corrections . Jonathan Franzen
966. Platform . Michel Houellebecq
967. Snow . Orhan Pamuk
968. Nowhere Man . Aleksandar Hemon
969. Everything is Illuminated . Jonathan Safran Foer
970. Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
971. Islands . Dan Sleigh
972. The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri
973. Vernon God Little . DBC Pierre
974. The Successor . Ismail Kadare
975. Lady Number Thirteen . José Carlos Somoza
976. What I Loved . Siri Hustvedt
977. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . Mark Haddon
978. A Tale of Love and Darkness . Amos Oz
979. Your Face Tomorrow . Javier Marías
980. Cloud Atlas . David Mitchell
981. The Swarm . Frank Schätzing
982. Suite Française . Irène Némirovsky
983. The Master . Colm Tóibín
984. The Plot Against America . Philip Roth
985. The Book about Blanche and Marie . Per Olov Enquist
986. Small Island . Andrea Levy
987. 2666 . Roberto Bolaño
988. The Line of Beauty . Alan Hollinghurst
989. The Accidental . Ali Smith
990. The Sea . John Banville
991. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian . Marina Lewycka
992. Measuring the World . Daniel Kehlmann
993. Mother’s Milk . Edward S. Aubyn
994. Carry Me Down . M.J. Hyland
995. Against the Day . Thomas Pynchon
996. The Inheritance of Loss . Kiran Desai
997. The Kindly Ones . Jonathan Littell
998. Half of a Yellow Sun . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
999. The Reluctant Fundamentalist . Mohsin Hamid
1000. Falling Man . Don DeLillo
1001. Animal’s People . Indra Sinha