Sunday, June 3, 2007

1001 Book to Read Before You Die

1. Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
2. Falling Man – Don DeLillo
3. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
4. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
6. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
7. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
8. Carry Me Down – M.J. Hyland
9. Mother’s Milk Edward – St Aubyn
10. Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
11. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
12. The Sea – John Banville
13. The Accidental – Ali Smith
14. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
15. 2666 – Roberto Bolano
16. Small Island – Andrea Levy
17. The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
18. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
19. The Master – Colm Tóibín
20. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky +/-

21. The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
22. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
23. Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias
24. A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
26. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
27. Lady Number Thirteen – Jose Carlos Somoza
28. The Successor – Ismail Kadare
29. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
30. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
31. Islands – Dan Sleigh
32. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
33. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
34. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
35. Snow – Orhan Pamuk
36. Platform – Michel Houellebecq
37. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
38. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Atonement – Ian McEwan
41. Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas
42. I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
43. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa
44. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier; Clay – Michael Chabon
45. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
46. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
47. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
48. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
49. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
50. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
51. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
52. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
53. Bartleby and Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas
54. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
55. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender – Dubravka Ugresic
56. In Search of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi
57. Pavel’s Letters – Monika Moron
58. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
59. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
60. Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano
61. Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Gutierrez
62. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
63. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
64. The Heretic – Miguel Delibes
65. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
66. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
67. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
68. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
69. Crossfire – Miyuki Miyabe
70. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
71. Underworld – Don DeLillo
72. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
73. Money to Burn – Ricardo Piglia
74. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
75. Margot and the Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts
76. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
77. Silk Alessandro – Baricco
78. Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
79. A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza
80. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
81. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
82. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
83. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
84. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
85. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
86. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
87. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
88. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
89. Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
90. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
91. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
92. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
93. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
94. The Late-Night News – Petros Markaris
95. Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante
96. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
97. Land – Park Kyung-ni
98. Our Lady of Assassins – Fernando Vallejo
99. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
100. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
101. City Sister Silver – Jáchym Topol
102. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
103. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
104. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
105. Deep River – Shusaku Endo
106. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
107. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
108. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light – Ivan Klima
109. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
110. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
111. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
112. The Twins – Tessa de Loo
113. On Love – Alain de Botton
114. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
115. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
116. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
117. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
118. The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee
119. Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
120. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis
121. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
122. Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas
123. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
124. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
125. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis
126. The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar – Ghose
127. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
128. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
129. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
130. Indigo – Marina Warner
131. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
132. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
133. The Dumas Club – Arturo Perez-Reverte
134. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
135. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
136. Asphodel – Hilda Doolittle
137. Memoirs of Rain – Sunetra Gupta
138. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
139. Arcadia – Jim Crace

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

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