Read Before You Die- Books from the 2000's

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Full List

• 2000s
  Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  Saturday - Ian McEwan
  On Beauty - Zadie Smith
  Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
  Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
  The Sea - John Banville
  The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
  The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
  The Master - Colm TĂłibĂ­n
  Vanishing Point - David Markson
  The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
  Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
  Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
  The Colour - Rose Tremain
  Thursbitch - Alan Garner
  The Light of Day - Graham Swift
  What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
  Islands - Dan Sleigh
  Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
  London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
  Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
  Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
  The Double - José Saramago
  Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  Unless - Carol Shields
  Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
  That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
  In the Forest - Edna O'Brien
  Shroud - John Banville
  Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  Youth - J.M. Coetzee
  Dead Air - Iain Banks
  Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
  The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
  Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
  Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
  Platform - Michael Houellebecq
  Schooling - Heather McGowan
  Atonement - Ian McEwan
  The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini
  The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
  Fury - Salman Rushdie
  At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
  Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
  Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
  An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
  The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
  Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
  White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda
  Under the Skin - Michel Faber
  Ignorance - Milan Kundera
  Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace
  Celestial Harmonies - Péter Esterházy
  City of God - E.L. Doctorow
  How the Dead Live - Will Self
  The Human Stain - Philip Roth
  The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
  After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
  Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande
  Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
  House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
  Pastoralia - George Saunders
  
  1900s
  Timbuktu - Paul Auster
  The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra
  Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakuli?
  Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy
  Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
  The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
  Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
  Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
  Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
  Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
  Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
  All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
  The Talk of the Town - Ardal O'Hanlon
  Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
  The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
  Another World - Pat Barker
  The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
  Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
  The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  Great Apes - Will Self
  Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
  Underworld - Don DeLillo
  Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
  The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
  American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  The Untouchable - John Banville
  Silk - Alessandro Baricco
  Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard
  Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
  Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
  The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
  Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse
  Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
  The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin
  Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
  The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
  Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
  The Information - Martin Amis
  The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
  Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
  The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
  The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
  A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  Love's Work - Gillian Rose
  The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
  Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
  The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
  Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
  Land - Park Kyong-ni
  The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi
  City Sister Silver - JĂ chym Topol
  How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
  Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
  Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
  Disappearance - David Dabydeen
  The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm
  The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
  Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
  Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy
  Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
  Complicity - Iain Banks
  On Love - Alain de Botton
  What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
  A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
  The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
  The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
  The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
  The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
  The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Ă–zdamar
  The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
  A Heart So White - Javier Marias
  Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
  Indigo - Marina Warner
  The Crow Road - Iain Banks
  Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
  Jazz - Toni Morrison
  The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
  The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
  Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
  The Heather Blazing - Colm TĂłibĂ­n
  Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
  Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
  Arcadia - Jim Crace
  Wild Swans - Jung Chang
  American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
  Mao II - Don DeLillo
  Typical - Padgett Powell
  Regeneration - Pat Barker
  Downriver - Iain Sinclair
  Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
  Wise Children - Angela Carter
  Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
  Amongst Women - John McGahern
  Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
  Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
  Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
  The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
  The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
  A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
  Like Life - Lorrie Moore
  Possession - A.S. Byatt
  The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
  The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle
  A Disaffection - James Kelman
  Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
  Moon Palace - Paul Auster
  Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
  Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
  The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
  The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
  The History of the Siege of Lisbon - José Saramago
  Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  London Fields - Martin Amis
  The Book of Evidence - John Banville
  Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
  Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
  The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White
  Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson
  The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
  The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
  Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
  Libra - Don DeLillo
  The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
  Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
  The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
  The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
  The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke
  The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
  The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
  The Pigeon - Patrick SĂĽskind
  The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
  Cigarettes - Harry Mathews
  The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
  The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
  World's End - T. Coraghessan Boyle
  Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
  The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae
  Beloved - Toni Morrison
  Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
  Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  Marya - Joyce Carol Oates
  Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
  Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
  An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
  Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
  Foe - J.M. Coetzee
  The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
  Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
  The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann
  Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
  Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
  The Cider House Rules - John Irving
  A Maggot - John Fowles
  Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
  Contact - Carl Sagan
  The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  Perfume - Patrick SĂĽskind
  Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
  White Noise - Don DeLillo
  Queer - William Burroughs
  Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
  Legend - David Gemmell
  Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavi?
  The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman
  The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
  The Lover - Marguerite Duras
  Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
  The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
  The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
  Neuromancer - William Gibson
  Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
  Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
  Shame - Salman Rushdie
  Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett
  Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
  La Brava - Elmore Leonard
  Waterland - Graham Swift
  The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
  The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
  The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
  The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus
  If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
  A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White
  The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
  A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
  Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
  The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
  The Newton Letter - John Banville
  On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
  Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
  The Names - Don DeLillo
  Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
  Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
  The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
  July's People - Nadine Gordimer
  Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin
  Broken April - Ismail Kadare
  Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
  Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  Rites of Passage - William Golding
  Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
  Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
  The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
  Smiley's People - John Le Carré
  Shikasta - Doris Lessing
  A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
  Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
  If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
  The World According to Garp - John Irving
  Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
  The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
  The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
  Yes - Thomas Bernhard
  The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
  In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee
  The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
  Delta of Venus - AnaĂŻs Nin
  The Shining - Stephen King
  Dispatches - Michael Herr
  Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
  The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke
  Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo
  The Public Burning - Robert Coover
  Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
  Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
  Amateurs - Donald Barthelme
  Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf
  Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
  W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec
  A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
  Grimus - Salman Rushdie
  The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
  Fateless - Imre Kertész
  Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
  High Rise - J.G. Ballard
  Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
  Dead Babies - Martin Amis
  Correction - Thomas Bernhard
  Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
  The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
  Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré
  Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
  A Question of Power - Bessie Head
  The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
  The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
  Crash - J.G. Ballard
  The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
  Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
  Sula - Toni Morrison
  Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
  The Breast - Philip Roth
  The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
  G - John Berger
  Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
  House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
  In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
  The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
  Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Böll
  The Wild Boys - William Burroughs
  Rabbit Redux - John Updike
  The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
  The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
  The Ogre - Michael Tournier
  The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke
  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
  Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett
  Troubles - J.G. Farrell
  Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson
  The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
  Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado
  Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover
  Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines
  Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
  The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
  Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
  The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  Ada - Vladimir Nabokov
  Them - Joyce Carol Oates
  A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec
  Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
  Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
  The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
  Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen
  Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry
  The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz
  In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
  A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
  The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf
  Chocky - John Wyndham
  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
  The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa
  One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
  The Joke - Milan Kundera
  No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
  The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
  A Man Asleep - Georges Perec
  The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West
  Trawl - B.S. Johnson
  In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  The Magus - John Fowles
  The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras
  Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth
  The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  Things - Georges Perec
  The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien
  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
  Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
  The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector
  Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
  Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme
  Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson
  Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
  The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras
  Herzog - Saul Bellow
  V. - Thomas Pynchon
  Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  The Graduate - Charles Webb
  Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol
  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
  The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
  Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess
  The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  The Collector - John Fowles
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
  The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
  The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
  Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani
  Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
  A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
  Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
  Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
  Cat and Mouse - GĂĽnter Grass
  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
  Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor
  How It Is - Samuel Beckett
  Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino
  The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary
  Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
  Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
  Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
  The Tin Drum - GĂĽnter Grass
  Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
  Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
  Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
  Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Böll
  Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe
  A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  The Bitter Glass - EilĂ­s Dillon
  Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
  Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
  Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
  The End of the Road - John Barth
  The Once and Future King - T.H. White
  The Bell - Iris Murdoch
  Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
  Voss - Patrick White
  The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
  Blue Noon - Georges Bataille
  Homo Faber - Max Frisch
  On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
  Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  The Wonderful "O" - James Thurber
  Justine - Lawrence Durrell
  Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
  The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
  The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary
  Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
  The Floating Opera - John Barth
  The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
  Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
  The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett
  The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzákis
  The Recognitions - William Gaddis
  The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini
  Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
  I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch
  Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis
  The Story of O - Pauline RĂ©age
  A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia
  Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
  The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
  The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
  The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
  Watt - Samuel Beckett
  Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
  Junkie - William Burroughs
  The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
  Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
  Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich DĂĽrrenmatt
  Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
  The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
  Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
  Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
  The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  The Rebel - Albert Camus
  Molloy - Samuel Beckett
  The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
  The Abbot C - Georges Bataille
  The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
  The Third Man - Graham Greene
  The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
  Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
  The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
  I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
  The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk
  Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
  The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
  The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
  Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier
  The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
  Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
  Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
  Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot
  The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
  Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
  Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
  The Victim - Saul Bellow
  Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
  If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
  Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
  The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
  The Plague - Albert Camus
  Back - Henry Green
  Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
  The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri?
  Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  Animal Farm - George Orwell
  Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
  Loving - Henry Green
  Arcanum 17 - André Breton
  Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
  The Razor's Edge - William Somerset Maugham
  Transit - Anna Seghers
  Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
  Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
  The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  Caught - Henry Green
  The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
  Embers - Sandor Marai
  Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
  The Outsider - Albert Camus
  In Sicily - Elio Vittorini
  The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien
  The Living and the Dead - Patrick White
  Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
  Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
  The Hamlet - William Faulkner
  Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
  For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  Native Son - Richard Wright
  The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
  The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati
  Party Going - Henry Green
  The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
  At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
  Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
  Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
  Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
  Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
  The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner
  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
  Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler
  Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  U.S.A. - John Dos Passos
  Murphy - Samuel Beckett
  Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  The Years - Virginia Woolf
  In Parenthesis - David Jones
  The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis
  Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
  Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
  Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
  The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
  Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
  Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson
  Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
  At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
  Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
  Independent People - HalldĂłr Laxness
  Auto-da-FĂ© - Elias Canetti
  The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood
  They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
  The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
  England Made Me - Graham Greene
  Burmese Days - George Orwell
  The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
  Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
  Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev
  The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
  Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
  Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
  Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
  Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
  Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
  A Day Off - Storm Jameson
  The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line
  Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
  The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
  The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
  The Waves - Virginia Woolf
  The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
  Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham
  The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
  Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
  Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
  The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico
  Passing - Nella Larsen
  A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
  Living - Henry Green
  The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
  All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
  The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
  Harriet Hume - Rebecca West
  The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau
  Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
  Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
  Orlando - Virginia Woolf
  Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
  The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis
  Quartet - Jean Rhys
  Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
  Quicksand - Nella Larsen
  Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
  Nadja - André Breton
  Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
  Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
  Amerika - Franz Kafka
  The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  Blindness - Henry Green
  The Castle - Franz Kafka
  The Good Soldier %u0160vejk - Jaroslav Ha%u0161ek
  The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence
  One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein
  Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
  Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The Counterfeiters - André Gide
  The Trial - Franz Kafka
  The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky
  The Professor's House - Willa Cather
  Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
  The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
  The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
  A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
  Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo
  Cane - Jean Toomer
  Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
  Amok - Stefan Zweig
  The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
  The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
  Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
  Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
  The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
  Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
  The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus
  Aaron's Rod - D.H. Lawrence
  Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
  Ulysses - James Joyce
  The Fox - D.H. Lawrence
  Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
  The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
  Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
  Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
  Tarr - Wyndham Lewis
  The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
  The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
  Summer - Edith Wharton
  Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen
  Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
  Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
  Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
  The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
  The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
  Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
  Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
  Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
  Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
  Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
  Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
  The Charwoman's Daughter - James Stephens
  Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  FantĂ´mas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  Howards End - E.M. Forster
  Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
  Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
  Martin Eden - Jack London
  Strait is the Gate - André Gide
  Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells
  The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
  A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
  The Iron Heel - Jack London
  The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
  The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
  Mother - Maxim Gorky
  The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
  The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
  Young Törless - Robert Musil
  The Forsyte Sage - John Galsworthy
  The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
  Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
  Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
  Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe
  The Golden Bowl - Henry James
  The Ambassadors - Henry James
  The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
  The Immoralist - André Gide
  The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
  Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
  Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  
  1800s
  Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross
  The Stechlin - Theodore Fontane
  The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
  The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
  What Maisie Knew - Henry James
  Fruits of the Earth - André Gide
  Dracula - Bram Stoker
  Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
  The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
  The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane
  Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross
  The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  Born in Exile - George Gissing
  Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  News from Nowhere - William Morris
  New Grub Street - George Gissing
  Gösta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlöf
  Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
  La Bête Humaine - Émile Zola
  By the Open Sea - August Strindberg
  Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
  Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
  Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdés
  The People of Hemsö - August Strindberg
  The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
  She - H. Rider Haggard
  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
  Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
  King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
  Germinal - Émile Zola
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
  Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
  Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
  The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
  A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
  Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga
  The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  Bouvard and PĂ©cuchet - Gustave Flaubert
  Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
  Nana - Émile Zola
  The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  The Red Room - August Strindberg
  Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
  Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  Drunkard - Émile Zola
  Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev
  Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
  The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
  Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov
  Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
  In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
  The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Erewhon - Samuel Butler
  Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
  Middlemarch - George Eliot
  Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
  King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev
  He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
  War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
  Maldoror - Comte de Lautréaumont
  The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
  Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola
  The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
  Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
  Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
  Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
  Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
  Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
  Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
  Silas Marner - George Eliot
  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
  Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
  The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
  The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Max Havelaar - Multatuli
  A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov
  Adam Bede - George Eliot
  Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
  Hard Times - Charles Dickens
  Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  Villette - Charlotte Brontë
  Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
  The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
  Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
  Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
  Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas
  The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
  Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
  The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
  Lost Illusions - Honoré de Balzac
  A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  Dead Souls - Nikolay Gogol
  The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
  The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
  Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  The Nose - Nikolay Gogol
  Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
  Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
  Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
  The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
  Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
  The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
  Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  Persuasion - Jane Austen
  Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
  Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
  Emma - Jane Austen
  Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
  Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
  
  1700s
  Hyperion - Friedrich Hölderlin
  The Nun - Denis Diderot
  Camilla - Fanny Burney
  The Monk - M.G. Lewis
  Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
  The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
  The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
  Justine - Marquis de Sade
  Vathek - William Beckford
  The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
  Cecilia - Fanny Burney
  Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Evelina - Fanny Burney
  The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Humphrey Clinker - Tobias George Smollett
  The Man of Feeling - Henry Mackenzie
  A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
  Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
  The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
  Émile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
  Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
  Candide - Voltaire
  The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
  Amelia - Henry Fielding
  Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
  Fanny Hill - John Cleland
  Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett
  Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
  Pamela - Samuel Richardson
  Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
  Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
  Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
  A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
  Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  Roxana - Daniel Defoe
  Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
  Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
  Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
  
  Pre-1700
  Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
  The Princess of Clèves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
  The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
  Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
  Gargantua and Pantagruel - Françoise Rabelais
  The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
  The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
  Aithiopika - Heliodorus
  Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
  Metamorphoses - Ovid
  Aesop's Fables - Aesopus
  
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  1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel
  Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall
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