And here it is! The 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list that I am trying to conquer! If you have a spare hour or so why not go through them all and see how many you have read? Or if you have a spare 20 years why not get the book from Amazon and try the challenge for yourself!
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Title |
Author | Publication Date | |
| 1001 Nights | various | 0 | |
| The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter | Kawabata, Yasunari | 900 | |
| The Tale of Genji | Shikibu, Murasaki | 1000 | |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Guanzhong, Luo | 1300 | |
| The Water Margin | Nai’an, Shi & Luo Guanzhong | 1300 | |
| The Golden Ass | Apuleius, Lucius | 1469 | |
| Tirant Lo Blanc | Martorell, Joanot – Galba, Mart¡ Joan de | 1490 | |
| Celestina | Rojas, Fernando de | 1499 | |
| Amad¡s de Gaula | Montalvo, Garci Rodr¡guez de | 1508 | |
| The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities | anon | 1554 | |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais, Francois | 1564 | |
| The Lusiads | Camoes, Luis | 1572 | |
| Monkey: A Journey to the West | Wu, Chengen | 1592 | |
| The Unfortunate Traveller | Nashe, Thomas | 1594 | |
| Thomas of Reading | Deloney, Thomas | 1599 | |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes, Saavedra, | 1615 | |
| The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda | Cervantes, Saavedra, | 1617 | |
| The Conquest of New Spain | Castillo, Bernal D¡az del | 1632 | |
| The Adventurous Simplicissimus | Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von | 1668 | |
| Princesse de Cleves | La Fayette, | 1678 | |
| Oroonoko | Behn, Aphra | 1688 | |
| Love in Excess | Haywood, Eliza | 1719 | |
| Robinson Crusoe | DeFoe, Daniel | 1719 | |
| Moll Flanders | DeFoe, Daniel | 1722 | |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 1726 | |
| A Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | 1729 | |
| Joseph Andrews | Fielding, Henry | 1742 | |
| Pamela | Richardson, Samuel | 1742 | |
| Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus | Pope, Arbuthnot, et al | 1742 | |
| Tom Jones | Fielding, Henry | 1749 | |
| Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: Fanny Hill | Cleland, John | 1749 | |
| Clarissa | Richardson, Samuel | 1749 | |
| The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Smollett, Tobias George | 1751 | |
| The Female Quixote | Lennox, Charlotte | 1752 | |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | |
| Rasselas | Johnson, Samuel | 1759 | |
| Julie; or, the New Eloise | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1760 | |
| Emile, Or, On Education | Roussean, Jean-Jacques | 1762 | |
| The Castle of Otranto | Walpole, Horace | 1765 | |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Goldsmith, Oliver | 1766 | |
| Tristram Shandy | Sterne, Laurence | 1767 | |
| A Sentimental Journey | Sterne, Laurence | 1768 | |
| The Man of Feeling | Mackenzie, Henry | 1771 | |
| Humphry Clinker | Smollett, Tobias George | 1771 | |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Goethe, Johann | 1774 | |
| Evelina | Burney, Fanny | 1778 | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Laclos, Cholderlos De | 1782 | |
| Reveries of a Solitary Walker | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1782 | |
| Confessions | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1782 | |
| The 120 days of Sodom | Sade, Marquis de | 1785 | |
| Anton Reiser (4 parts) | Moritz, Karl Philipp | 1785 | |
| Vathek | Beckford, William | 1786 | |
| Justine | Sade, Marquis de | 1791 | |
| A Dream of Red Mansions | Cao, Xueqin | 1791 | |
| The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Godwin, William | 1794 | |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | Radcliffe, Anne | 1794 | |
| The Interesting Narrative | Equiano, Oloudah | 1794 | |
| The Monk | Lewis, Monk | 1796 | |
| Camilla | Burney, Fanny | 1796 | |
| Jacques the Fatalist | Diderot | 1796 | |
| The Nun | Diderot | 1796 | |
| Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship | Goethe, Johann | 1796 | |
| Hyperion | Holderlin, Friedrich | 1797 | |
| Castle Rackrent | Edgeworth, Maria | 1800 | |
| Henry Von Ofterdingen (unfinished) | Novalis | 1802 | |
| Rameau’s Nephew | Diderot, Denis | 1805 | |
| Elective Affinities | Goethe, Johann | 1809 | |
| Michael Kohlhaas | von Kleist, Heinrich | 1810 | |
| Sense and Sensibility | Austen, Jane | 1811 | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane | 1813 | |
| Mansfield Park | Austen, Jane | 1814 | |
| Emma | Austen, Jane | 1816 | |
| Rob Roy | Scott, Walter | 1817 | |
| Frankenstein | Shelly, Mary | 1818 | |
| Ivanhoe | Scott, Walter | 1820 | |
| Melmoth the Wanderer | Maturin, Chalres | 1820 | |
| The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr | E.T.A. Hoffmann | 1820 | |
| The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | Hogg | 1824 | |
| Last of the Mohicans | Cooper, James Fenimore | 1826 | |
| The Life of a Good-for-Nothing | Freiherr von Eichendorff, Joseph | 1826 | |
| The Betrothed | Manzoni | 1827 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Hugo, Victor | 1831 | |
| The Red and the Black, | Stendhal | 1831 | |
| Eugene Onegin | Pushkin, Alexander | 1833 | |
| Eugnie Grandet | Balzac, Honore | 1834 | |
| Le Pere Goriot | Balzac, Honore | 1835 | |
| The Nose | Gogol, Nikolay | 1836 | |
| The Lion of Flanders | Consience, Hendrik | 1838 | |
| Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles | 1838 | |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 1839 | |
| Camera obscura | Hildebrand | 1839 | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Poe, Edgar Allen | 1839 | |
| A Hero of Our Time | Lermontov, Mikhail Yu | 1840 | |
| Dead Souls | Gogol, Nikolay | 1842 | |
| Lost Illusions | Balzac, Honore | 1843 | |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Poe, Edgar Allen | 1843 | |
| The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexander | 1844 | |
| Facundo | Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino | 1845 | |
| The Devil’s Pool | Sand, Georges | 1846 | |
| The Count of Monte-Cristo | Dumas, Alexander | 1846 | |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte, Emily | 1847 | |
| Vanity Fair | Thackeray, William | 1847 | |
| Jane Eyre | Bronte, Charoltte | 1847 | |
| Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Bronte, Anne | 1848 | |
| David Copperfield | Dickens, Charles | 1850 | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1850 | |
| Moby Dick | Melville, Herman | 1851 | |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1851 | |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | 1852 | |
| Bleak House | Dickens, Charles | 1853 | |
| Cranford | Gaskell, Elizabeth | 1853 | |
| Green Henry | Keller, Gottfried | 1854 | |
| Walden | Thoreau, Henry | 1854 | |
| North and South | Gaskell, Elizabeth | 1855 | |
| Madame Bovary | Flaubert, Gustave | 1857 | |
| Indian Summer | Stifter, Adalbert | 1857 | |
| Adam Bede | Eliot, George | 1859 | |
| Oblomovka | Goncahrov, Ivan | 1859 | |
| Max Havelaar | Multatuli | 1860 | |
| Woman in White | Collins, Wilkie | 1860 | |
| The Mill on the Floss | Eliot, George | 1860 | |
| Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles | 1861 | |
| Silas Marner | Eliot, George | 1861 | |
| Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | 1862 | |
| Fathers and Sons | Turgenev, Ivan | 1862 | |
| Water Babies | Kingsley, Charles | 1863 | |
| Notes from the Underground | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1864 | |
| Uncle Silas | LeFanu, Sheridan | 1864 | |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Carrol, Lewis | 1865 | |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Verne, Jules | 1866 | |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1866 | |
| Therese Raquin | Zola, Emile | 1867 | |
| The Last Chronicle of Barset | Trollope, Anthony | 1867 | |
| Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1868 | |
| The Moonstone | Collins, Wilkie | 1868 | |
| Maldoror | Lautramont, Comte de | 1869 | |
| Sentimental Education | Flaubert, Gustav | 1869 | |
| War and Peace | Tolstoy, Leo | 1869 | |
| The Idiot | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1869 | |
| Phineas Finn | Trollope, Anthony | 1869 | |
| King Lear of the Steppes | Turgenev, Ivan | 1870 | |
| Through the Looking Glass | Carrol, Lewis | 1871 | |
| In a Glass Darkly | LeFanu, Sheridan | 1872 | |
| Middlemarch | Eliot, George | 1872 | |
| Erewhon | Butler, Samuel | 1872 | |
| Spring Torrents | Turgenev, Ivan | 1872 | |
| The Devils | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1872 | |
| Mart¡n Fierro | Hern ndez, Jos | 1872 | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne, Jules | 1873 | |
| The Enchanted Wanderer | Leskov, Nikolai | 1873 | |
| Pepita Jimenez | Valera, Juan | 1874 | |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Hardy, Thomas | 1874 | |
| The Crime of Father Amado | Queir¢s, Jos Maria Ea de | 1876 | |
| Drunkard | Zola, Emile | 1877 | |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo | 1877 | |
| The Red Room | Strindberg, August | 1880 | |
| Nana | Zola, Emile | 1880 | |
| Ben-Hur | Lew, Wallace | 1880 | |
| Bouvard and Pecuchet | Flaubert, Gustave | 1881 | |
| The Portrait of a Lady | James, Henry | 1881 | |
| The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba | Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de | 1881 | |
| The House by the Medlar Tree | Verga, Giovanni | 1881 | |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1883 | |
| A Woman’s Life | Maupassant, Guy de | 1883 | |
| Agains the Grain | Huysmans, J.K. | 1884 | |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Tolstoy, Leo | 1884 | |
| The Regent’s Wife | Leopoldo Alas, Clar¡n | 1884 | |
| King Solomon’s Mines | Haggard, Rider | 1885 | |
| Germinal | Zola, Emile | 1885 | |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 1885 | |
| The Quest | Eeden, Frederik van | 1885 | |
| Marius the Epicurean | Pater, Walter | 1885 | |
| Bel-Ami | Maupassant, Guy de | 1885 | |
| The Manors of Ulloa | Baz n, Emilia Pardo | 1886 | |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1886 | |
| The People of Hemso | Strindberg, August | 1887 | |
| Pierre et Jean | Maupassant, Guy de | 1888 | |
| Under the Yoke | Vazov, Ivan | 1888 | |
| Eline Vere | Couperus, Louis | 1889 | |
| Hunger | Hamsun, Knut | 1890 | |
| By the Open Sea | Strindberg, August | 1890 | |
| Thas | France, Anatole | 1890 | |
| La Bete Humaine | Zola, Emile | 1890 | |
| The Kreutzer Sonata | Tolstoy, Leo | 1890 | |
| Gosta Berlings Saga | Lagerlof, Selma | 1891 | |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Hardy, Thomas | 1891 | |
| News From Nowhere | Morris, William | 1891 | |
| New Grub Street | Gissing, George | 1891 | |
| Down There | Huysmans, Joris-Karl | 1891 | |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde, Oscar, | 1891 | |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 1892 | |
| Diary of a Nobody | Grossmith, George, et al, | 1892 | |
| The Viceroys | Roberto, Federico De | 1894 | |
| Effi Briest | Fontane, Theodor | 1895 | |
| Jude the Obscure | Hardy, Thomas | 1895 | |
| The Time Machine | Wells, H.G., | 1895 | |
| Quo Vadis | Sienkiewicz, Henryk | 1896 | |
| The Island of Dr Moreau | Wells, H.G., | 1896 | |
| Dracula | Stoker, Bram | 1897 | |
| The Pharaoh | Prus, Boleslaw | 1897 | |
| The Fruits of the Earth | Gide, Andre | 1897 | |
| Compassion | Perez Galdos | 1897 | |
| What Maisie Knew | James, Henry | 1897 | |
| As a Man Grows Older | Svevo, Italo | 1898 | |
| The Child of Pleasure | D’Annunzio, Gabriele | 1898 | |
| The War of the Worlds | Wells, H.G., | 1898 | |
| Dom Casmurro | Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de | 1899 | |
| The Awakening | Chopin, Kate | 1899 | |
| The Stechlin | Fontane, Theodor | 1899 | |
| Eclipse of the Crescent Moon | Gardonyi. Geza | 1899 | |
| Some Experiences of an Irish RM | Somerville and Ross | 1899 | |
| The Tiger of Momopracem | Salgari | 1900 | |
| Sister Carrie | Dreiser, Theodore | 1900 | |
| Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | 1900 | |
| Buddenbrooks | Mann, Thomas | 1901 | |
| None but the Brave | Schnitzler, Arthur | 1901 | |
| The Wings of the Dove | James, Henry | 1902 | |
| Hound of the Baskervilles | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 1902 | |
| The Immoralist | Gide, Andre | 1902 | |
| Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | 1902 | |
| The Way of All Flesh | Butler, Samuel | 1903 | |
| Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 1903 | |
| The Ambassadors | James, Henry | 1903 | |
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness | Schreber, Daniel P | 1903 | |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Childers, Erskine | 1903 | |
| Hadrian the Seventh | Rolfe, Fr. | 1904 | |
| Nostromo | Conrad, Joseph | 1904 | |
| Professor Unrat | Mann, Heinrich | 1905 | |
| The House of Mirth | Wharton, Edith | 1905 | |
| Solitude | Victor Catal | 1905 | |
| The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton | 1906 | |
| Young Torless | Musil, Robert | 1906 | |
| The Forsythe Saga | Galsworthy, John | 1906 | |
| The Secret Agent | Conrad, Joseph | 1907 | |
| Mother | Gorky, Maxim | 1907 | |
| The House on the Borderland | Hodgson, Willaim Hope | 1908 | |
| The Old Wive’s Tale | Bennett, Arnold | 1908 | |
| A Room with a View | Forster, E.M. | 1908 | |
| The Inferno | Barbusse, Henri | 1908 | |
| Strait is the gate | Gide, Andre | 1909 | |
| Howards End | Forster, E.M. | 1910 | |
| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | Rilke, Rainer Maria | 1910 | |
| Impressions of Africa | Roussel, Raymond | 1910 | |
| Fantmas | Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre | 1911 | |
| Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith | 1911 | |
| Death in Venice | Mann, Thomas | 1912 | |
| The Charwoman’s Daughter | Stephens, James | 1912 | |
| Sons and Lovers | Lawrence, D.H | 1913 | |
| The Ragged Tousered Philantrhopists | Tressell, Robert | 1914 | |
| KoKoro | Natsume, Soseki | 1914 | |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Rice Burroughs, Edgar | 1914 | |
| Platero and I | Jimnez, Juan Ram¢n | 1914 | |
| Locus Solus | Roussel, Raymond | 1914 | |
| The Rainbow | Lawrence, D.H | 1915 | |
| Rashomon | Akutagawa, Ryunoske | 1915 | |
| The Good Soldier | Ford, Ford Madox | 1915 | |
| The 39 Steps | Buchan, John | 1915 | |
| Of Human Bondage | Maugham, W. Somerset | 1915 | |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | 1916 | |
| The Underdogs | Azuela, Mariano | 1916 | |
| Under Fire | Barbusse, Henri | 1916 | |
| Pallieter | Timmermans, Felix | 1916 | |
| Home and the World | Tagore, Rabindranath | 1916 | |
| Growth of the Soil | Hamsun, Knut | 1917 | |
| The Return of the Soldier | West, Rebecca | 1918 | |
| Tarr | Lewis, Wyndham | 1919 | |
| The Age of Innocence | Wharton, Edith | 1920 | |
| Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair | 1920 | |
| Women in Love | Lawrence, D.H | 1920 | |
| The Storm of Steel | Junger, Ernst | 1920 | |
| Crome Yellow | Huxley, Aldous | 1921 | |
| The Life of Christ | Papini | 1921 | |
| The Enormous Room | Cummings, E E | 1922 | |
| The Forest and the Hanged | Rebreanu, Liviu | 1922 | |
| Claudine’s House | Colette | 1922 | |
| Kristin Lavransdatter | Undset, Sigrid | 1922 | |
| Babbitt | Lewis, Sinclair | 1922 | |
| Amok | Zweig, Stefan | 1922 | |
| Siddharta | Hesse, Herman | 1922 | |
| Ulysses | Joyce, James | 1922 | |
| Harriet Frean | Sinclair, May | 1922 | |
| Zeno’s Conscience | Svevo, Italo | 1923 | |
| The Devil in the Flesh | Radiguet, Raymond | 1923 | |
| Passage to India | Forster, E.M. | 1924 | |
| We | Zamyatin, Yevgeny | 1924 | |
| The Magic Mountain | Mann, Thomas | 1924 | |
| The Green Hat | Arlen, Michael | 1924 | |
| The Professor’s House | Cather, Willa | 1925 | |
| The New World | Heruy, Walda-sellase | 1925 | |
| The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | 1925 | |
| The Making of Americans | Stein, Gertrude | 1925 | |
| The Trial | Kafka, Franz | 1925 | |
| The Counterfeiters | Gide, Andre | 1925 | |
| Mrs Dalloway | Woolf, Viginia, | 1925 | |
| Chaka the Zulu | Mofolo, Thoms | 1925 | |
| The Artomonov Business | Gorky, Maxim | 1925 | |
| The Castle | Kafka, Franz | 1926 | |
| The Good Soldier Svejk | Hasek, Jaroslav | 1926 | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Hemmingway, Ernest | 1926 | |
| Alberta and Jacob | Sandel, Cora | 1926 | |
| Blindness | Green, Henry | 1926 | |
| Under Satan’s Sun | Bernanos | 1926 | |
| One, None and a Hundred Thousand | Pirandello, Luigi | 1926 | |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Christie, Agatha | 1926 | |
| Tarka the Otter | Williamson, Henry | 1927 | |
| To The Lighthouse | Woolf, Viginia, | 1927 | |
| Amerika | Kafka, Franz | 1927 | |
| The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Zweig, Arnold | 1927 | |
| In Search of Lost Time | Proust, Marcel | 1927 | |
| Steppenwolf | Hesse, Herman | 1927 | |
| Quicksand | Larsen, Nella | 1928 | |
| Decline and Fall | Waugh, Evelyn | 1928 | |
| Parade’s End | Ford, Ford Madox | 1928 | |
| Nadja | Breton, Andre | 1928 | |
| Orlando | Woolf, Viginia, | 1928 | |
| The Well of Loneliness | Hall, Radcliffe | 1928 | |
| Lady Chatterly’s Lover | Lawrence, D.H | 1928 | |
| Some Prefer Nettles | Tanizaki, Junichiro | 1928 | |
| Story of the Eye | Bataille, Georges | 1928 | |
| Passing | Larsen, Nella | 1929 | |
| The Time of Indifference | Moravia, Alberto | 1929 | |
| A Farewell to Arms | Hemmingway, Ernest | 1929 | |
| Les Enfants Terribles | Cocteau, Jean | 1929 | |
| Look Homeward, Angel | Wolf, Thomas | 1929 | |
| Living | Green, Henry | 1929 | |
| The Maltese Falcon | Hammett, Dashiell | 1929 | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Remarque, Erich Maria | 1929 | |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Dblin, Alfred | 1929 | |
| I Thought of Daisy | Wilson, Edmund | 1929 | |
| Retreat Without Song | Shahnoor, Shahan | 1929 | |
| The Apes of God | Lewis, Wyndham | 1930 | |
| Insatiability | Witkiewicz, Stanislaw | 1930 | |
| Monica | Lewis, Saunders | 1930 | |
| Her Privates We | Manning, Frederic | 1930 | |
| The Waves | Woolf, Viginia, | 1931 | |
| The Thin Man | Hammett, Dashiell | 1932 | |
| Viper’s Tangle | Mauriac, Francois | 1932 | |
| Brave New World | Huxley, Aldous | 1932 | |
| To the North | Bowen, Elizabeth | 1932 | |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Celine, Louis Ferdinand | 1932 | |
| The Radetzky March | Roth, Joseph | 1932 | |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Gibbons, Stella | 1932 | |
| The Return of Philip Latinowicz | Krleza, Miroslav | 1932 | |
| The Forbidden Realm | Slauerhoff, J.J. | 1932 | |
| Man’s Fate | Malraux, Andre | 1933 | |
| The Autoboigraphy of Alice B. Toklas | Stein, Gertrude | 1933 | |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | West, Nathaniel | 1933 | |
| A Day Off | Jameson, Storm | 1933 | |
| Cheese | Elsschot, Willem | 1933 | |
| The Man without Qualities | Musil, Robert | 1933 | |
| A Testament of Youth | Brittain, Vera | 1933 | |
| Murder Must Advertise | Sayers, Dorothy | 1933 | |
| Joseph and His Brothers | Mann, Thomas | 1933 | |
| Call it Sleep | Roth, Henry | 1934 | |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Cain, James M. | 1934 | |
| Tender is the Night | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | 1934 | |
| The Bells of Basel | Aragon, Louis | 1934 | |
| On the Heights of Despair | Cioran, Emile (Emil) | 1934 | |
| Thank You, Jeeves | Wodehouse, P.G. | 1934 | |
| Tropic of Cancer | Miller, Henry | 1934 | |
| The Street of Crocodiles | Schulz, Bruno | 1934 | |
| The Nine Tailors | Sayers, Dorothy | 1934 | |
| They Shoot Horses Don’t They | McCoy, Horace | 1935 | |
| Auto-da-F | Canetti, Elias | 1935 | |
| The Last of Mr. Norris | Isherwood, Christopher | 1935 | |
| Untouchable | Anand, Mulk Raj | 1935 | |
| Independent People | Laxness, Halldor | 1935 | |
| Summer Will Show | Warner, Sylvia Townsend | 1936 | |
| At The Mountains of Madness | Lovecraft, H.P. | 1936 | |
| Eyeless in Gaza | Huxley, Aldous | 1936 | |
| Nightwood | Barnes, Djuna | 1936 | |
| War with the Newts | Capek, Karel | 1936 | |
| The Thinking Reed | West, Rebecca | 1936 | |
| Gone With the Wind | Mitchell, Margaret | 1936 | |
| Absalom Absalom! | Faulkner, William | 1936 | |
| Rickshaw Boy | Lao, She | 1936 | |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Orwell, George | 1936 | |
| Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck, John | 1937 | |
| In Parenthesis | Jones, David | 1937 | |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 1937 | |
| The Blind Owl | Hedeyat, Sadeq | 1937 | |
| Thier Eyes Were Watching God | Hurston, Zora Neale | 1937 | |
| Out of Africa | Blixen, Karen | 1937 | |
| Ferdydurke | Gombrowicz, Witold | 1937 | |
| USA | Passos, John Dos | 1938 | |
| Murphy | Beckett, Samuel | 1938 | |
| Nausea | Sartre, Jean-Paul | 1938 | |
| Cause for Alarm | Ambler, Eric | 1938 | |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Watson, Winnifred | 1938 | |
| Alamut | Bartol, Vladimir | 1938 | |
| Rebecca | Du Maurier, Daphne | 1938 | |
| Brighton Rock | Greene, Graham | 1938 | |
| On the Edge of Reason | Krleza, Miroslav | 1938 | |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | O’Brien, Flann | 1939 | |
| Good Morning Midnight | Rhys, Jean | 1939 | |
| The Big Sleep | Chandler, Raymond | 1939 | |
| Goodbye to Berlin | Isherwood, Christopher | 1939 | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 1939 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemmingway, Ernest | 1940 | |
| Finnegans Wake | Joyce, James | 1940 | |
| Native Son | Wright, Richard | 1940 | |
| The Tartar Steppe | Buzzati, Dino | 1940 | |
| The Man Who Loved Children | Stead, Christina | 1940 | |
| The Power and the Glory | Greene, Graham | 1940 | |
| In Sicily | Vittorini, Elio | 1941 | |
| Broad and Alien is the World | Alegria, Ciro | 1941 | |
| The Harvesters | Pavese, Cesare | 1941 | |
| The Living and the Dead | White, Patrick | 1941 | |
| Chess Story (Royal Game) | Zweig, Stefan | 1942 | |
| The Outsider | Camus, Albert | 1942 | |
| Embers | M rai, S ndor | 1942 | |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hesse, Herman | 1943 | |
| The Little Prince | Saint-Exupery, Antione De | 1943 | |
| Transit | Seghers, Anna | 1944 | |
| Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 1944 | |
| Dangling Man | Bellow, Saul | 1944 | |
| The Razor’s Edge | Maugham, W. Somerset | 1944 | |
| Arcanum 17 | Breton, Andre | 1945 | |
| Andrea | Laforet, Carmen | 1945 | |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Levi, Carlo | 1945 | |
| Brideshead Revisited | Waugh, Evelyn | 1945 | |
| Bosnian Chronicle | Andric, Ivo | 1945 | |
| Loving | Green, Henry | 1945 | |
| The Death of Virgil | Broch, Hermann | 1945 | |
| Na Drini Cuprija | Andric, Ivo | 1945 | |
| Animal Farm | Orwell, George | 1945 | |
| The Tin Flute | Roy, Gabrielle | 1945 | |
| Zorba the Greek | Kazantzakis, Nikos | 1946 | |
| A House in the Uplands | Caldwell, Erskine | 1946 | |
| Back | Green, Henry | 1946 | |
| Titus Groan | Peake, Mervyn | 1946 | |
| Dr Faustus | Mann, Thomas | 1947 | |
| If this is a Man | Levi, Primo | 1947 | |
| The Path to the Nest of Spiders | Calvino, Italo | 1947 | |
| Exercises in Style | Queneau, Raymond | 1947 | |
| Froth on the Daydream | Vian, Boris | 1947 | |
| The Plague | Camus, Albert | 1947 | |
| Under the Volcano | Lowry, Malcolm | 1947 | |
| Midaq Alley | Mahfouz, Naguib | 1947 | |
| Disobedience | Moravia, Alberto | 1948 | |
| Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzejewski, Jerzy | 1948 | |
| Journey to Alcarria | Cela, Camilo Jos | 1948 | |
| All About H. Hatterr | Desani. G.V. | 1948 | |
| Death Sentence | Blanchot, Maurice | 1948 | |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (Samuel) | 1948 | |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Paton, Alan | 1948 | |
| This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen | Borowski, Tadeusz | 1948 | |
| The Heat of the Day | Bowen, Elizabeth | 1949 | |
| The Man with the Golden Arm | Algren, Nelson | 1949 | |
| The Case of Comrade Tulayev | Serge, Victor | 1949 | |
| Love in a Cold Climate | Mitford, Nancy | 1949 | |
| Kingdom of this World | Carpentier, Alejo | 1949 | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Orwell, George | 1949 | |
| The Thirteen Clocks | Thurber, James | 1950 | |
| Barabbas | Lagerkvist, Par | 1950 | |
| The Labyrinth of Solitude | Paz, Octavio | 1950 | |
| The Moon and the Bonfire | Pavese, Cesare | 1950 | |
| Gormenghast | Peake, Mervyn | 1950 | |
| I Robot | Asimov, Isaac | 1950 | |
| The Garden Where the Brass Band Played | Vestdijk, Simon | 1950 | |
| A Town Like Alice | Shute, Nevil | 1950 | |
| The Abbot C | Bataille, Georges | 1950 | |
| The Grass is Singing | Lessing, Doris | 1950 | |
| The Guiltless | Broch, Hermann | 1950 | |
| The Hive | Cela, Camilo Jos | 1951 | |
| The Rebel | Camus, Albert | 1951 | |
| Foundation | Asimov, Isaac | 1951 | |
| The End of the Affair | Greene, Graham | 1951 | |
| The Opposing Shore | Gracq, Julien | 1951 | |
| Malone Dies | Beckett, Samuel | 1951 | |
| Molloy | Beckett, Samuel | 1951 | |
| Memoirs of Hadrian | Yourcenar, Marguerite | 1951 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J.D | 1951 | |
| Day of the Triffids | Wyndham, John | 1951 | |
| The Judge and his Hangman | Duerrenmatt, Friedrich | 1952 | |
| Old Man and the Sea | Hemmingway, Ernest | 1952 | |
| Wise Blood | O’Connor, Flannery | 1952 | |
| Excellent women | Pym, Barbara | 1952 | |
| A Thousand Cranes | Kawabata, Yasunari | 1952 | |
| The Invisible Man | Ellisson, Ralph | 1952 | |
| The Go-Between | Hartley L.P. | 1953 | |
| The Long Goodbye | Chandler, Raymond | 1953 | |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | Baldwin, James | 1953 | |
| The Hothouse | Koeppen, Wolfgang | 1953 | |
| Junkie | Burroughs, William | 1953 | |
| The Lost Steps | Carpentier, Alejo | 1953 | |
| Casino Royale | Fleming, Ian | 1953 | |
| The Dark Child | Laye, Camara | 1953 | |
| Lucky Jim | Amis, Kingsley | 1953 | |
| Bonjour Tristesse | Sagan, Francoise | 1954 | |
| The Story of O | Reage, Pauline | 1954 | |
| A Ghost at Noon | Moravia, Alberto | 1954 | |
| Under the Net | Murdoch, Iris | 1954 | |
| Lord of the Flies | Golding, William | 1954 | |
| The Mandarins | de Beauvoir, Simone | 1954 | |
| A Day in Spring | Kosmac, Ciril | 1954 | |
| Death in Rome | Koeppen, Wolfgang | 1954 | |
| The Sound of Waves | Mishima, Yukio | 1954 | |
| I’m Not Stiller | Frisch, Max | 1954 | |
| The Unknown Soldier | Linna, Vaino | 1954 | |
| The Trusting and the Maimed | Plunkett, James | 1955 | |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Kazantz kis, Nikos | 1955 | |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Highsmith, Patricia | 1955 | |
| The Burning Plain | Rulfo, Juan | 1955 | |
| The Ragazzi | Pasolini, Pier Paulo | 1955 | |
| The Recognitions | Gaddis, William | 1955 | |
| The Quiet American | Greene, Graham | 1955 | |
| Lolita | Nabokov, Vladimir | 1955 | |
| The Tree of Man | White, Patrick | 1955 | |
| Lonely Londoners | Selvon, Sam | 1956 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 1956 | |
| The Floating Opera | Barth, John | 1956 | |
| Giovanni’s Room | Baldwin, James | 1956 | |
| The Roots of Heaven | Gary, Romain | 1956 | |
| The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | Rosa, Joao Guimaraes | 1956 | |
| Jealousy | Robbe-Grillet, Alain | 1957 | |
| On the Road | Kerouac, Jack | 1957 | |
| The Deadbeats | Ruyslinck, Ward | 1957 | |
| Pnin | Nabokov, Vladimir | 1957 | |
| Voss | White, Patrick | 1957 | |
| Justine | Durrell, Lawrence | 1957 | |
| Doctor Zhivago | Pasternak, Boris | 1957 | |
| The Birds | Vesaas, Tarjei | 1957 | |
| The Glass Bees | Junger, Ernst | 1957 | |
| The Midwitch Cuckoos | Wyndham, John | 1957 | |
| The Manila Rope | Meri, Veijo | 1957 | |
| The Blue of Noon | Bataille, Georges | 1957 | |
| Homo Faber | Frisch, Max | 1957 | |
| The Bell | Murdoch, Iris | 1958 | |
| The Once and Future King | White, T.H. | 1958 | |
| The Bitter Glass | Dillon, Eilis | 1958 | |
| The Leopard | Lampedusa, Giussepe di | 1958 | |
| Things Fall Apart | Achebe, Chinua | 1958 | |
| Borstal Boy | Behan, Brendan | 1958 | |
| Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring | Oe, Kenzaburo | 1958 | |
| Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon | Amado, Jorge | 1958 | |
| Deep Rivers | Arguedas, Jos Mar¡a | 1958 | |
| The Guide | Narayan, R.K. | 1958 | |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Capote, Truman | 1958 | |
| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Sillitoe, Alan | 1958 | |
| The Tin Drum | Grass, Gunter | 1959 | |
| Down Second Avenue | Mphahlele’s, E’skia | 1959 | |
| Cider with Rosie | Lee, Laurie | 1959 | |
| Billiards at Half Past Nine | Boll, Heinrich | 1959 | |
| Absolute Beginners | MacInnes, Colin | 1959 | |
| Billy Liar | Waterhouse, Kieth | 1959 | |
| The Naked Lunch | Burroughs, William | 1959 | |
| Rabbit, Run | Updike, John | 1960 | |
| Bebo’s Girl | Cassola, Carlo | 1960 | |
| Promise at Dawn | Gary, Romain | 1960 | |
| The Country Girls | O’Brien, Edna | 1960 | |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee, Nelle | 1960 | |
| The Magician of Lublin | Singer, Isaac Bashevis | 1960 | |
| God’s Bits of Wood | Sembene, Ousmane | 1960 | |
| Halftime: A Novel | Walser, Martin | 1960 | |
| Memoirs of a Peasant Boy | Vilas, Xos Neira | 1961 | |
| Faces in the water | Frame, Janet | 1961 | |
| No One Writes to the Colonel | Garcia Marquez. Gabriel | 1961 | |
| A Severed Head | Murdoch, Iris | 1961 | |
| The Shipyard | Onetti, Juan Carlos | 1961 | |
| Franny and Zooey | Salinger, J.D | 1961 | |
| Cat and Mouse | Grass, Gunter | 1961 | |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Spark, Muriel | 1961 | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Heinlein, Robert | 1961 | |
| Catch-22 | Heller, Joseph | 1961 | |
| Solaris | Lem, Stanislav | 1961 | |
| The Girl with Green Eyes | O’Brien, Edna | 1962 | |
| Time of Silence | Santos, Luis Martin | 1962 | |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz | Fuentes, Carlos | 1962 | |
| The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis | Bassani, Giorgio | 1962 | |
| The Golden Notebook | Lessing, Doris | 1962 | |
| Labyrinths | Borges, Jorge Luis | 1962 | |
| Pale Fire | Nabokov, Vladimir | 1962 | |
| The Time of the Hero | Vargas Llosa, Mario | 1962 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Kesey, Ken | 1962 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Burgess, Anthony | 1962 | |
| The Graduate | Webb, Charles | 1963 | |
| Manon des sources | Pagnol, Marcel | 1963 | |
| Cat’s Cradle | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1963 | |
| V | Pynchon, Thomas | 1963 | |
| Dog Years | Grass, Gunter | 1963 | |
| The Girls of Slender Means | Spark, Muriel | 1963 | |
| The Third Wedding | Taktsis, Costas | 1963 | |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | 1963 | |
| The Spy who came in From the Cold | Le Carre, John | 1963 | |
| Inside Mr Enderby | Burgess, Anthony | 1963 | |
| The Bell Jar | Plath, Silvia | 1963 | |
| Three Trapped Tigers | Infante, Guillermo Cabrera | 1964 | |
| The Passion According to GH | Lispector, Clarice | 1964 | |
| The Ravishing of Lol V Stein | Duras, Marguerite | 1964 | |
| Herzog | Bellow, Saul | 1964 | |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Kesey, Ken | 1964 | |
| Arrow of God | Achebe, Chinua | 1964 | |
| Closely Watched Trains | Hrabal, Bohumil | 1965 | |
| Everything that Rises must Converge | O’Connor, Flannery | 1965 | |
| The River Between | Ngugi Wa Thiong’o | 1965 | |
| Things | Perec, Georges | 1965 | |
| Back to Oegstgeest | Wolkers, Jan | 1965 | |
| Garden, Ashes | Kis, Danilo | 1965 | |
| To EachHis Own | Sciascia, Leonardo | 1966 | |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Rhys, Jean | 1966 | |
| Giles Goat Boy | Barth, John | 1966 | |
| The Vice-Consul | Duras, Marguerite | 1966 | |
| Marks of Identity | Goytisolo, Juan | 1966 | |
| Silence | Endo, Shusaku | 1966 | |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | Pynchon, Thomas | 1966 | |
| The Master and Margarita | Bulgakov, Mikhail | 1966 | |
| In Cold Blood | Capote, Truman | 1966 | |
| Death and the Dervish | Selimovic, Mesa | 1966 | |
| The Magus | Fowles, John | 1966 | |
| The Manor | Singer, Isaac Bashevis | 1967 | |
| Z | Vassilikos, Vassilis | 1967 | |
| Pilgrimage | Richardson, Dorothy | 1967 | |
| The Third Policeman | O’Brien, Flann | 1967 | |
| Miramar | Mahfouz, Naguib | 1967 | |
| No Laughing Matter | Wilson, Angus | 1967 | |
| 100 years of Solitude | Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | 1967 | |
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Woolfe, Tom | 1968 | |
| The Cathedral | Honchar, Oles | 1968 | |
| Eva Trout | Bowen, Elizabeth | 1968 | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? | Dick, Philip K. | 1968 | |
| In Watermelon Sugar | Brautigan, Richard | 1968 | |
| Belle du Seigneur | Cohen, Albert | 1968 | |
| The First Circle | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | 1968 | |
| The German Lesson | Lenz, Siegfried | 1968 | |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey | Clarke, Arthur C. | 1968 | |
| The Cancer Ward | Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | 1968 | |
| Myra Breckinridge | Vidal, Gore | 1968 | |
| A Kestrel for a Knave | Hines, Barry | 1968 | |
| The Quest for Christa T. | Wolf, Christa | 1968 | |
| Portnoy’s Compaint | Roth, Philip | 1969 | |
| Jacob the Liar | Becker, Jurek | 1969 | |
| The Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut, Kurt | 1969 | |
| Pricksongs and Descants | Coover, Robert | 1969 | |
| Here’s to You, Jesusa!ÿÿ | Poniatowska, Elena | 1969 | |
| A Voi/Avoid | Perec, Georges | 1969 | |
| Seasons of Migration to the North | Salih, Tayeb | 1969 | |
| The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Fowles, John | 1969 | |
| Tent of Miracles | Amado, Jorge | 1969 | |
| The Case Worker | Konrad, Gyorgy | 1969 | |
| Ada | Nabokov, Vladimir | 1969 | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol | Himes, Chester | 1969 | |
| The Godfather | Puzo, Mario | 1969 | |
| Moscow Stations | Yerofeev, Venedikt | 1969 | |
| Heartbreak Tango | Manuel Puig | 1969 | |
| them | Oates, Joyce Carol | 1969 | |
| A World for Julius | Echenique, Alfredo Bryce | 1970 | |
| Play it as it Lays | Didion, Joan | 1970 | |
| The Bluest Eye | Morrisson, Toni | 1970 | |
| Fifth Business | Davies, Robertson | 1970 | |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya, | 1970 | |
| The Sea of Fertility | Mishima, Yukio | 1970 | |
| Jahrestage | Johnson, Uwe | 1970 | |
| Rabbit Redux | Updike, John | 1971 | |
| House Mother Normal | Johnson, B.S. | 1971 | |
| In a Free State | Naipaul, V.S | 1971 | |
| Group Portrait with a Lady | Boll, Heinrich | 1971 | |
| Lives of Girls and Women | Munro, Alice | 1971 | |
| Fear and Loathing in las Vegas | Thomson, Hunter S. | 1971 | |
| The Book of Daniel | Doctorow, E.L. | 1971 | |
| Cataract | Osadchy, Mykhailo | 1971 | |
| Invisible Cities | Calvino, Italo | 1972 | |
| The Summer Book | Jansson, Tove | 1972 | |
| Day of the Dolphin | Merle, Robert | 1972 | |
| Surfacing | Atwood, Margaret | 1972 | |
| The Optimist’s Daughter | Welty, Eudora | 1972 | |
| The Twilight Years | Ariyoshi, Sawako | 1972 | |
| G | Berger, John | 1972 | |
| Fear of Flying | Jong, Erica | 1973 | |
| The Honorary Consul | Greene, Graham | 1973 | |
| A Question of Power | Head, Bessie | 1973 | |
| The Castle of Crossed Destinies | Calvino, Italo | 1973 | |
| Crash | Ballard, J.G | 1973 | |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | Pynchon, Thomas | 1973 | |
| The Siege of Krishnapur | Farrell, J.G. | 1973 | |
| Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | Boll, Heinrich | 1974 | |
| The Port | Soljan, Antun | 1974 | |
| The Fan Man | Kotzwinkle, William | 1974 | |
| The Dispossessed | leGuin, Ursula | 1974 | |
| The Diviners | Laurence, Margaret | 1974 | |
| Dusklands | Coetzee, J.M. | 1974 | |
| The Dead Father | Barthelme, Donald | 1975 | |
| Correction | Bernhard, Thomas | 1975 | |
| Woman at Point Zero | El Sadaawi, Nawal | 1975 | |
| W, or the Memory of Childhood | Perec, Georges | 1975 | |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Powell, Anthony | 1975 | |
| The Commandant | Anderson, Jessica | 1975 | |
| Autumn of the Patriarch | Garcia M rquez, Gabriel | 1975 | |
| Ragtime | Doctorow, E.L. | 1975 | |
| Willard and his Bowling Trophies | Brautigan, Richard | 1975 | |
| Fateless | Kertesz, Imre | 1975 | |
| Humboldt’s Gift | Bellow, Saul | 1975 | |
| The Year of the Hare | Paasilinna, Arto | 1975 | |
| Interview With a Vampire | Rice, Ann | 1976 | |
| Patterns of Childhood | Wolf, Christa | 1976 | |
| Blaming | Taylor, Elizabeth | 1976 | |
| Almost Transparent Blue | Murakami, Ryu | 1976 | |
| Cutter and Bone | Thornburg, Newton | 1976 | |
| Kiss of the Spiderwoman | Puig, Manuel | 1976 | |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Handke, Peter | 1976 | |
| Song of Solomon | Morrisson, Toni | 1977 | |
| Dispatches | Herr, Michael | 1977 | |
| The Wars | Findley, Timothy | 1977 | |
| The Shining | King, Stephen | 1977 | |
| Delta of Venus | Nin, Anais | 1977 | |
| The Hour of the Star | Lispector, Clarice | 1977 | |
| Quartet in Autumn | Pym, Barbara | 1977 | |
| In the Heart of the Country | Coetzee, J.M. | 1977 | |
| The Engineer of Human Souls | Skvorecky, Josef | 1977 | |
| The Back Room | Gaite, Carmen Mart¡n | 1978 | |
| The Sea, The Sea | Murdoch, Iris | 1978 | |
| The Virgin in the Garden | Byatt, A.S. | 1978 | |
| Life: A User’s Manual | Perec, Georges | 1978 | |
| The Cement Garden | McEwan, Ian | 1978 | |
| The Beggar Maid | Munro, Alice | 1978 | |
| Requim for a Dream | Selby, Hubert | 1978 | |
| The Singapore Grip | Farrell, J.G. | 1978 | |
| A Bend in the River | Naipaul, V.S | 1979 | |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Kundera, Milan | 1979 | |
| Burger’s Daughter | Gordimer, Nadine | 1979 | |
| Southern Seas | V zquez Montalb n, Manuel | 1979 | |
| Smiley’s People | Le Carre, John | 1979 | |
| If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Calvino, Italo | 1979 | |
| Fool’s Gold | Douka, Maro | 1979 | |
| So Long a Letter | Ba, Miriam | 1979 | |
| Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy | Adams, Douglas | 1979 | |
| A Dry White Season | Brink, Andre | 1979 | |
| Rituals | Nooteboom, Cees | 1980 | |
| The Name of the Rose | Eco, Umberto | 1980 | |
| Clear Light of Day | Desai, Anita | 1980 | |
| Midnight’s Children | Rushdie, Salman | 1980 | |
| Confederacy of Dunces | Kennedy Toole, John | 1980 | |
| Broken April | Kadare, Ismail | 1980 | |
| The Smell of Sadness | Kossmann, Alfred | 1980 | |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | Coetzee, J.M | 1980 | |
| Rabbit is Rich | Updike, John | 1981 | |
| Couples, Passerby | Strauss, Botho | 1981 | |
| July’s People | Gordimer, Nadine | 1981 | |
| Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Gray, Alisdair | 1981 | |
| The House with the Blind Glass Windows | Wassmo, Herbjorg | 1981 | |
| Summer in Baden Baden | Tsypkin, Leonard | 1981 | |
| The War of the End of the World | Vargas Llosa, Mario | 1981 | |
| Leaden Wings | Zhang, Jie | 1981 | |
| The House of Spirits | Allende, Isabelle | 1982 | |
| Wittgenstein’s Nepew | Bernhard, Thomas | 1982 | |
| The Book of Disquiet | Pessoa, Fernando | 1982 | |
| Baltazar & Bleminda | Saramago, Jose | 1982 | |
| A Boy’s Own Story | White, Edmund | 1982 | |
| A Pale View of Hills | Ishiguro, Kazuo | 1982 | |
| If Not Now, When? | Levi, Primo | 1982 | |
| The Color Purple | Walker, Alice | 1982 | |
| Schindler’s Ark | Keneally, Thomas | 1982 | |
| On the Black Hill | Chatwin, Bruce | 1982 | |
| Memory of Fire | Galeano, Eduardo | 1982 | |
| La Brava | Leonard, Elmore | 1983 | |
| The Witness | Saer, Juan Jos | 1983 | |
| The Christmas Oratorio | Tunstrom, Goran | 1983 | |
| The Sorrow of Belgium | Claus, Hugo | 1983 | |
| Waterland | Swift, Graham | 1983 | |
| Shame | Rushdie, Salman | 1983 | |
| Fado Alexandrino | Antunes, Antonio Lobo | 1983 | |
| The Piano Teacher | Jelinek, Elfriede | 1983 | |
| The Life and Times of Michael K | Coetzee, J.M | 1983 | |
| Nights at the Circus | Carter, Angela | 1984 | |
| Flaubert’s Parrot | Barnes, Julian | 1984 | |
| Neuromancer | Gibson, William | 1984 | |
| Legend | Gemmell, David | 1984 | |
| The Lover | Duras, Marguerite | 1984 | |
| Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis | Saramago, Jose | 1984 | |
| Professor Marten’s Departure | Kross, Jaan | 1984 | |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Kundera, Milan | 1984 | |
| Blood and Guts in High School | Acker, Kathy | 1984 | |
| The Young Man | Strauss, Botho | 1984 | |
| Love Medicine | Erdrich, Louise | 1984 | |
| Money | Amis, Martin | 1984 | |
| Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel | R¡os, Juli n | 1984 | |
| The Wasp Factory | Banks, Iain | 1984 | |
| The Busconductor Hines | Kelman, James | 1984 | |
| Dictionary of the Khazars | Pavic, Milorad | 1984 | |
| The Empire of the Sun | Ballard, J.G. | 1984 | |
| Hawksmoor | Ackroyd, Peter | 1985 | |
| The Parable of the Blind | Hofmann, Gert | 1985 | |
| Blood Meridian | McCarthy, Cormac | 1985 | |
| Love in the time of Cholera | Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | 1985 | |
| Reasons to Live | Hempel, Amy | 1985 | |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Atwood, Margaret | 1985 | |
| Annie John | Kincaid, Jamaica | 1985 | |
| Perfume | Suskind, Patrick | 1985 | |
| Contact | Sagan, Carl | 1985 | |
| White Noise | DeLillo, Don | 1985 | |
| The Cider House Rules | Irving, John | 1985 | |
| Simon and the Oak Trees | Frederiksson, Marianne | 1985 | |
| Half of Man is Woman | Zhang, Xianliang | 1985 | |
| Watchmen | Moore, Alan | 1986 | |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Ishiguro, Kazuo | 1986 | |
| The Drowned and the Saved | Levi, Primo | 1986 | |
| Matigari | Ngugi Wa Thiong’o | 1986 | |
| The Old Devils | Amis, Kingsley | 1986 | |
| Anagrams | Moore, Lorrie | 1986 | |
| Lost Language of Cranes | Leavitt, David | 1986 | |
| The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman | Szczypiorski, Andrzej | 1986 | |
| Extinction | Bernhard, Thomas | 1986 | |
| Ancestral Voices | van Heerden, Etienne | 1986 | |
| All Souls | Mar¡as, Javier | 1987 | |
| Bonfire of the Vanities | Woolfe, Tom | 1987 | |
| Enigma of Arrival | Naipaul, V.S. | 1987 | |
| Black Box | Oz, Amos | 1987 | |
| Ballad for Georg Henig | Paskov, Viktor | 1987 | |
| The Pigeon | Suskind, Patrick | 1987 | |
| The New York Trilogy | Auster, Paul | 1987 | |
| Kitchen | Yoshimoto, Banana | 1987 | |
| Taebek Mountains | Jung-Rae, Jo | 1987 | |
| Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | Adams, Douglas | 1987 | |
| Beloved | Morrisson, Toni | 1987 | |
| The Black Dahlia | Ellroy, James | 1987 | |
| Of Love and Shadows | Allende, Isabel | 1987 | |
| The Afternoon of a Writer | Handke, Peter | 1987 | |
| World’s End | Boyle, T. C. | 1987 | |
| The Radiant Way | Drabble, Margaret | 1987 | |
| Cigarettes | Matthews, Harry | 1987 | |
| Foucault’s Pendulum | Eco, Umberto | 1988 | |
| The First Garden | Hebert, Anne | 1988 | |
| The Last World | Ransmayer, Christoph | 1988 | |
| The Swimming Pool Library | Hollinghurst, Alan | 1988 | |
| Wittgenstein’s Mistress | Markson, David | 1988 | |
| Paradise of the Blind | Huong, Duong Thu | 1988 | |
| Oscar and Lucinda | Carey, Peter | 1988 | |
| Satanic Verses | Rushdie, Salman | 1988 | |
| Nervous Conditions | Dangarembga, Tsitsi | 1988 | |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Esquivel, Laura | 1989 | |
| The Great Indian Novel | Tharoor, Shashi | 1989 | |
| Gimmick! | Zwagerman, Joost | 1989 | |
| History of the Seige of Lisbon | Saramago, Jose | 1989 | |
| Obabakoak | Atxaga, Bernardo | 1989 | |
| Remains of the Day | Ishiguro, Kazuo | 1989 | |
| Inland | Murnane, Gerald | 1989 | |
| London Fields | Amis, Martin | 1989 | |
| Sexing the Cherry | Winterson, Jeanette | 1989 | |
| The Melacholy of Resistance | Krasznahorkai, L szl¢ | 1989 | |
| The Trick is to Keep Breathing | Galloway, Janice | 1989 | |
| Moon Palace | Auster, Paul | 1989 | |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving, John | 1989 | |
| Get Shorty | Leonard, Elmore | 1990 | |
| Amongst Women | McGahern, John | 1990 | |
| The Midnight Examiner | Kotzwinkle, William | 1990 | |
| Like Life | Moore, Lorrie | 1990 | |
| Stone Junction | Dodge, Jim | 1990 | |
| Vertigo | Sebald, W.G. | 1990 | |
| The Buddha of Suburbia | Kureishi, Hanif | 1990 | |
| The Things They Carried | O’Brien, Tim | 1990 | |
| The Daughter | Matesis, Pavlos | 1990 | |
| The Shadow Lines | Ghosh, Amitav | 1990 | |
| The Music of Chance | Auster, Paul | 1990 | |
| Typical | Powell, Padgett | 1991 | |
| Regeneration | Barker, Pat | 1991 | |
| Wild Swans | Chang, Jung | 1991 | |
| Astradeni | Fakinou, Eugenia | 1991 | |
| Faceless Killers | Mankell, Henning | 1991 | |
| The Laws | Palmen, Conny | 1991 | |
| Mao II | DeLillo, Don | 1991 | |
| American Psycho | Easton Ellis, Bret | 1991 | |
| The Dumas Club | Reverte, Arturo Prez | 1992 | |
| The Triple Mirror of the Self | Ghose, Zulfikar | 1992 | |
| Indigo | Warner, Marina | 1992 | |
| Possessing the Secret of Joy | Walker, Alice | 1992 | |
| All the Pretty Horses | McCarthy, Cormac | 1992 | |
| The Secret History | Tartt, Donna | 1992 | |
| Discovery of Heaven | Mulisch, Harry | 1992 | |
| Asphodel | HD | 1992 | |
| Memoirs of Rain | Gupta, Sunetra | 1992 | |
| Hideous Kinky | Freud, Esther | 1992 | |
| Arcadia | Crace, Jim | 1992 | |
| Written on the Body | Winterson, Jeanette | 1992 | |
| Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture | Doxiadis, Apostolos | 1992 | |
| Life is a Caravanserai | Ozdamar, Emine | 1992 | |
| The English Patient | Oondaatje, Michael | 1992 | |
| The Butcher Boy | McCabe, Patrick | 1992 | |
| Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow | Hoeg, Peter | 1992 | |
| The Crow Road | Banks, Iain | 1992 | |
| Before Night Falls | Arenas, Reinaldo | 1992 | |
| The Holder of the World | Mukherjee, Bharati | 1993 | |
| Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light | Klima, Ivan | 1993 | |
| Remembering Babylon | Malouf, David | 1993 | |
| The Twins | Loo, Tessa de | 1993 | |
| The Virgin Suicides | Eugenides, Jeffrey | 1993 | |
| Birdsong | Faulks, Sebastian | 1993 | |
| The Invention of Curried Sausage | Timm, Uwe | 1993 | |
| Deep River | Endo, Shusaku | 1993 | |
| On Love | Botton, Alan de | 1993 | |
| A Suitable Boy | Seth, Vikram | 1993 | |
| The Stone Diaries | Shields, Carol | 1993 | |
| The Shippng News | Proulx, E. Annie | 1993 | |
| Disappearance | Dabydeen, David | 1993 | |
| Looking for the Possible Dance | Kennedy, A.L. | 1993 | |
| The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll | Mutis, µlvaro | 1993 | |
| What a Carve Up! | Coe, Jonathan | 1993 | |
| Our Lady of the Assassins | Vallejo, Fernando | 1994 | |
| City Sister Silver | Topol, Jachym | 1994 | |
| Declares Pereira | Tabucchi, Antonio | 1994 | |
| The Land | Park, Kyung Lee | 1994 | |
| Whatever | Houellbecq, Michel | 1994 | |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandarin | Berniers, Louis de | 1994 | |
| How Late it Was, How Late | Kelman, James | 1994 | |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Murakami, Haruki | 1994 | |
| Felicia’ s Journey | Trevor, William | 1994 | |
| Love’s Work | Rose, Gillian | 1995 | |
| The Unconsoled | Ishiguro, Kazuo | 1995 | |
| The Late-Night News | Markaris, Petros | 1995 | |
| A Fine Balance | Mistry, Rohinton | 1995 | |
| The Reader | Schlink, Bernhard | 1995 | |
| Troubling Love | Ferrante, Elena | 1995 | |
| The End of the Story | Davis, Lydia | 1995 | |
| Morvern Callar | Warner, Alan | 1995 | |
| Santa Evita | Mart¡nez, Tom s Eloy | 1995 | |
| Alias Grace | Atwood, Margaret | 1996 | |
| Silk | Baricco, Alessandro | 1996 | |
| The Clay Machine-Gun | Pelevin, Victor | 1996 | |
| Ghost Road | Barker, Pat | 1996 | |
| Fall on Your Knees | MacDonald, Ann-Marie | 1996 | |
| Infinte Jest | Foster Wallace, David | 1996 | |
| Fugitive Pieces | Michaels, Ann | 1996 | |
| Forever a Stranger | Haasse, Hella | 1996 | |
| A Light Comedy | Mendoza, Eduardo | 1996 | |
| Hallucinating Foucault | Dunker, Patricia | 1996 | |
| Democracy | Didion, Joan | 1996 | |
| Underworld | DeLillo, Don | 1997 | |
| Margot and the Angels | Hemmerechts, Kristien | 1997 | |
| The God of Small Things | Roy, Arundhati | 1997 | |
| Enduring Love | McEwan, Ian | 1997 | |
| Money to Burn | Ricardo Piglia | 1997 | |
| Jack Maggs | Carey, Peter | 1997 | |
| The Life of Insects | Pelevin, Victor | 1997 | |
| Dirty Havana Trilogy | Gutirrez, Pedro Juan | 1998 | |
| Savage Detectives | Bolano, Roberto | 1998 | |
| All Souls Day | Nooteboom, Cees | 1998 | |
| The Heretic | Deliber, Miguel | 1998 | |
| The Hours | Cunningham, Michael | 1998 | |
| Elementary Particles | Houellbecq, Michel | 1998 | |
| Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver, Barbara | 1998 | |
| Crossfire | Miyuki, Miyabe | 1998 | |
| Veronika Decides to Die | Coelho, Paulo | 1998 | |
| The Talk of the Town | O’Hanlon, Ardal | 1998 | |
| Disgrace | Coetzee, J.M | 1999 | |
| In Search of Klingsor | Volpi, Jorge | 1999 | |
| Fear and Trembling | Nothomb, Amelie | 1999 | |
| The Museum of Unconditional Surrender | Ugresic, Dubrovka | 1999 | |
| As If I Am Not There | Drakulic, Slavenka | 1999 | |
| Pavel’s Letters | Maron, Monika | 1999 | |
| The Feast of the Goat | Vargas Llosa, Mario | 2000 | |
| Bartleby and Co | Vila-Matas, Enrique | 2000 | |
| Under the Skin | Faber, Michael | 2000 | |
| White Teeth | Smith, Zadie | 2000 | |
| The Human Stain | Roth, Philip | 2000 | |
| Celestial Harmonies | Esterhazy, Peter | 2000 | |
| The Devil and Miss Prym | Coelho, Paulo | 2000 | |
| Spring Flowers, Spring Frost | Kadare, Ismail | 2000 | |
| The Heart of Redness | Mda, Zakes | 2000 | |
| Small Remedies | Deshpande, Shashi | 2000 | |
| I’m Not Scared | Ammaniti, Niccolo | 2001 | |
| Atonement | McEwan, Ian | 2001 | |
| Austerlitz | Sebald, W.G. | 2001 | |
| The Corrections | Franzen, Jonathan | 2001 | |
| Platform | Houellbecq, Michel | 2001 | |
| The Life of Pi | Martel, Yan | 2001 | |
| Soldiers of Salamis | Cercas, Javier | 2001 | |
| Everything is Illuminated | Safran Foer, Jonathan | 2002 | |
| Snow | Pamuk, Orhan | 2002 | |
| Nowhere Man | Hemon, Aleksander | 2002 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | Murakami, Hauki | 2002 | |
| Your Face Tomorrow | Mar¡as, Javier | 2002 | |
| Vernon God Little | Pierre, DBC | 2003 | |
| What I Loved | Hustvedt, Siri | 2003 | |
| The Namesake | Lahiri, Jhumpa | 2003 | |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Haddon, Mark | 2003 | |
| A Tale of Love and Darkness | Oz, Amos | 2003 | |
| La Dama numero trece | Somoza, Jose Carlos | 2003 | |
| The Successor | Kadare, Ismail | 2003 | |
| Islands | Sleigh, Dan | 2003 | |
| Suite Francaise | Nemirovski, Irene | 2004 | |
| The Master | Toibin, Colm | 2004 | |
| 2666 | Bolano, Roberto | 2004 | |
| Small Island | Levy, Andrea | 2004 | |
| The Plot Against America | Roth, Philip | 2004 | |
| The Swarm | Schatzing, Frank | 2004 | |
| The Book about Blanche and Marie | Enquist, Per Olov | 2004 | |
| Line of Beautyb. 1948 (U.S.) | Hollinghurst, Alan | 2004 | |
| Kavalier and Clay | Chabon, Michael | 2004 | |
| Cloud Atlas | Mitchell, David | 2004 | |
| The Accidental | Smith, Ali | 2005 | |
| The Sea | Banville, John | 2005 | |
| Measuring the World | Kehlmann, Daniel | 2005 | |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Lewycka, Marina | 2005 | |
| Carry Me Down | Hyland, M. J. | 2006 | |
| The Kindly Ones | Littell, Jonathan | 2006 | |
| The Inheritance of Loss | Desai, Kieran | 2006 | |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamid, Mohsin | 2006 | |
| Against the Day | Pynchon, Thomas | 2006 | |
| Mother’s Milk | St Aubyn, Edward | 2006 | |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda, Ngozi | 2007 | |
| Falling Man | DeLillo, Don | 2007 | |
| Animal’s People | Sinha, Indra | 2007 | |
Gosh, I’ve only read 10 of the books. Are you planing to read all these books during your life? Big commitment
Yep! I have read about 40 of them so far and hopefully will read them all before I take the big dirt nap!
You should have another column there to score them out of 10 of something
Funny you should say that, I have been thinking about starting to add a score out of 10 on each review. May have to add a column to note it as well
Good list. But it would be a hard slog to battle through some of those old ones. And why no poetry?
It is going to be hard to get through them all! There is no poetry as I think there is a seperate one for that and this is just novels.
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Funny, I have this book too and have thought about this challenge. I have a number of those 1001 books, one of my other favourites is the Albums You Must Hear one, I think I have heard about 500 from that and own about a quarter maybe? The books challenge isn’t so easy of course. I think I’ve maybe read close to 100? I know a few years ago I was sitting on 50…
Anyway, good luck with this, it is an epic task in every sense of the word.
You should try it too! I reckon it is going to take me about 30 years to read them all!
I am at about 50 now, so 5% of the way through, but am gonna keep going. Thanks for the comment
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I’m surprised that you haven’t got ‘The Alexandria Quartet’ by Lawrence Durrell on your list. I’ve read it 5 times and plan to read it again, it’s such a wonderful book.
Unfortunately I didn’t create the list so it’s out of my hands
Where did you get this list?
Ah, forget my above question. I think this is a really great porject, I might try some of the above books as well! I’ve read Frankenstein, but I think thats it. I’m only in high school now, which means I can get a head start!