divulgences from the depths of new york

I’ve collected a list of recommended titles and those I only half appreciated on the first read, hoping to offer them my full attention with another run.  Admittedly, this is heavy on the classics, perhaps Irish authors, and probably contains a goodly amount of contemporary holes. If something worthwhile is missing, please suggest it for the manifesto.  Good thing I’m relatively young…I really want to get to all of these before I die.  

2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

84, Charring Cross Rd – Helene Hanff

A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul

A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes – Stephen W. Hawking

A Briefer History of Time – Stephen W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell

A Day Off – Storm Jameson

A Disaffection – James Kelman

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia

A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh

A Heart So White – Javier Marias

A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov

A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

A Kiss Before Dying – Ira Levin

A Maggot – John Fowles

A Man Asleep – Georges Perec

A Man of the People – Chinua Achebe

A Million Little Pieces – James Frey

A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

A Question of Power – Bessie Head

A Room With a View – E.M. Forster

A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne

A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch

A Simple Plan – Scott Smith*

A Spy in the House of Love – Anaïs Nin

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf – John Muir

A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec

A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami

A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant

A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen

Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence

Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes

Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway

Ada – Vladimir Nabokov

Adam Bede – George Eliot

Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson

Adventures of a Young Man – Ernest Hemingway

Æneid – Virgil*

Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner

After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans

Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

Aithiopika – Heliodorus

Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom

Amateurs – Donald Barthelme

Amelia – Henry Fielding

American Pastoral – Philip Roth

Amerika – Franz Kafka

Amok – Stefan Zweig

Amongst Women – John McGahern

Amsterdam – Ian McEwan

An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma

Anagrams – Lorrie Moore

Analects – Confucious

Anarchy State and Utopia – Robert Nozick

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie*

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Angels & Demons – Dan Brown

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Animal Liberation – Peter Singer

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Another World – Pat Barker

Anthills of the Savannah – Chinua Achebe

Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley

Antiquities of the Jews – Josephus

Apt Pupil – Stephen King*

Arcadia – Jim Crace

Arcanum 17 – André Breton

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe

Art of War – Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner*

As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?

Asimov’s Chronology of Science & Discovery – Isaac Asimov

Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare – Isaac Asimov

Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: Vol. I: The Old Testament – Isaac Asimov

Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: Vol. II: The New Testament – Isaac Asimov

Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien

At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

Atheism: The Case Against God – George H. Smith

Atheist Universe – David Mills

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Atonement – Ian McEwan

August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien

Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti

Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis

Back – Henry Green

Bag of Bones – Stephen King*

Bare Bones – Kathy Reichs*

Beautiful Losers – Leonard Cohen*

Being and Becoming – Myrna Loy

Being Dead – Jim Crace

Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant

Belinda – Anne Rice

Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace

Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin

Between Silences – Ha Jin

Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf

Beware Soul Brother – Chinua Achebe

Beyond Armageddon Edited – Walter M Miller Jr.

Beyond Personality – C.S. Lewis

Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll

Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow

Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville

Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

Black Dogs – Ian McEwan

Black House – Stephen King & Peter Straub

Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines

Blindness – Henry Green

Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker

Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed – Laurence Gardner

Blue Noon – Georges Bataille

Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow – David Stenn

Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

Born in Exile – George Gissing

Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan

Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

Broken April – Ismail Kadare

Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann

Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton

Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer

Burmese Days – George Orwell

Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham

Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

Camilla – Fanny Burney

Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Candide – Voltaire

Cane – Jean Toomer

Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

Cannibals and Missionaries – Mary McCarthy

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres

Carrie – Stephen King*

Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope

Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Cathedral Folk – Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov

Cato’s Letters – John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon

Caught – Henry Green

Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler

Cecilia – Fanny Burney

Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy

Centesimus Annus – John Paul II

Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

Chike and the River – Chinua Achebe

Children of the Albatross – Anaïs Nin

Chocky – John Wyndham

Choke – Chuck Palahniuk

Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi

Christian Behavior – C.S. Lewis

Christine – Stephen King

Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chronicles of My Exile – Martín Luis Guzmán

Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee

Cigarettes – Harry Mathews

Cities of the Interior – Anaïs Nin

City of God – E.L. Doctorow

City Primeval – Elmore Leonard

City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol

Clarissa – Samuel Richardson

Close Range: Wyoming Stories – Annie Proulx

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

Cloudstreet – Tim Winton

Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Collages – Anaïs Nin

Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme

Coming Up for Air – George Orwell

Complicity – Iain Banks

Concrete – Thomas Bernhard

Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions – St. Augustine

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – Chuck Barris

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister – Gregory Maguire

Contact – Carl Sagan

Correction – Thomas Bernhard

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

Crash – J.G. Ballard

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant

Crito – Plato*

Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley

Cross Bones – Kathy Reichs

Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study – Anaïs Nin

Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami

Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Dangling Man – Saul Bellow

Daniel Deronda – George Eliot

Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

Dead Air – Iain Banks

Dead Babies – Martin Amis

Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol

Deadly Decisions – Kathy Reichs

Deadly Illusions: Jean Harlow and the Murder of Paul Bern – Samuel Marx

Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs

Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie

Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot

Deception Point – Dan Brown

Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

Déjà Dead – Kathy Reichs

Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin

Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville

Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith

Diary: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk

Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?

Did Jesus Exist? – G. A. Wells

Digital Fortress – Dan Brown

Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

Disappearance – David Dabydeen

Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee

Disobedience – Alberto Moravia

Dispatches – Michael Herr

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

Dolores Claiborne – Stephen King*

Don Quixote of the Mancha – Miguel de Cervantes*

Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini

Double Indemnity – James M. Caine

Down To A Soundless Sea: Stories – Thomas Steinbeck

Downriver – Iain Sinclair

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

Drunkard – Émile Zola

Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee

Economic History of Australia – Edward Shann

Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt

Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane

Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq

Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho

Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee

Embers – Sandor Marai

Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emma – Jane Austen

Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard

Enduring Love – Ian McEwan

Enemy Mine – Barry Longyear

England Made Me – Graham Greene

Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul

Erewhon – Samuel Butler

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly

Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen

Evelina – Fanny Burney

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor

Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy

Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau

Exit to Eden – Anne Rice

Extinction – Thomas Bernhard

Extraterrestrial Civilizations – Isaac Asimov

Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley

Faces in the Water – Janet Frame

Facing Shadows – Ha Jin

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Faith Singer – Rosie Scott

Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry

Fanny Hill – John Cleland

Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler

Fatal Flaws: What Evolutionists Don’t Want You to Know – Hank Hanegraaff

Fatal Voyage – Kathy Reichs

Fateless – Imre Kertész

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb

Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor

Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

Finnegans Wake – James Joyce

Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes

Flying Fingers – Adora Svitak, Joyce Svitak

Foe – J.M. Coetzee

Fools of Fortune – William Trevor

For I Am A Jealous People! – Lester Del Rey

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse

Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley*

Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

Fred and Edie – Jill Dawson

Free to Choose, a Personal Statement – Milton and Rose Friedman

Fruits of Solitude – William Penn*

Fruits of the Earth – André Gide

Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels

Fury – Salman Rushdie

G – John Berger

Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi

Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais

Germinal – Émile Zola

Gertrude – Hermann Hesse

Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard

Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth

Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier

Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien

Girls at War, and Other Stories – Chinua Achebe

Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History – Stephen W. Hawking

God Save the Mark: A Novel – Donald E. Westlake*

Godless: The Church of Liberalism – Ann Coulter

Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys

Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood

Goodbye, Columbus – Phillip Roth

Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf

Grace Notes – Bernard MacLaverty

Grave Secrets – Kathy Reichs

Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon

Great Apes – Will Self

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway

Grimus – Salman Rushdie

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant

Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll

Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe

Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker

Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton

Hard Times – Charles Dickens

Hard-Boiled Wonderland – Haruki Murakami

Harlow: An Intimate Portrait – Irving Shulman

Harriet Hume – Rebecca West

Haunted: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk

Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico

Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow

Henry and June – Anaïs Nin

Her Privates We – Frederic Manning

Herself Surprised – Joyce Carey

Herzog – Saul Bellow

Hey Nostradamus! – Douglas Coupland

Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

High Fidelity – Nick Horn

High Rise – J.G. Ballard

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

Holy Blood, Holy Grail – Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

Homo Faber – Max Frisch

Hotel World – Ali Smith

House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson

House of Incest – Anaïs Nin

House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson

How It Is – Samuel Beckett

How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman

How the Dead Live – Will Self

Howards End – E.M. Forster

Human Action – Ludwig von Mises

Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow

Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett

Hunger – Knut Hamsun

Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch

If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

If This Is a Man – Primo Levi

Ignorance – Milan Kundera

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things – Gilbert Sorrentino

Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel

In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul

In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

In Her Shoes – Jennifer Weiner*

In Parenthesis – David Jones

In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

In Sicily – Elio Vittorini

In the Forest – Edna O’Brien

In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee

In the Pond – Ha Jin

In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

Independent People – Halldór Laxness

Indigo – Marina Warner

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace

Inside Mr. Ender– – Anthony Burgess

Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice

Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi

Intruder in the Dust – William Faulkner

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov

Is God a Creationist? Edited – Roland Mushat Frye

Islands – Dan Sleigh

Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Jack Maggs – Peter Carey

Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot

Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson

Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier*

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Jaws – Peter Benchley*

Jazz – Toni Morrison

Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet

Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding

Journey – Cecilia Meireles

Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

July’s People – Nadine Gordimer

Junkie – William Burroughs

Justine – Lawrence Durrell

Justine – Marquis de Sade

Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

Kim – Rudyard Kipling

King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev

King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier

Kokoro – Natsume Soseki

La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

La Brava – Elmore Leonard

La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas

Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges

Ladders of Fire – Anaïs Nin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray

Land – Park Kyong-ni

Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

Legend – David Gemmell

Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

Libra – Don DeLillo

Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair

Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Life, the Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams*

Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

Light in August – William Faulkner*

Like Life – Lorrie Moore

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Lives – Plutarch*

Living – Henry Green

Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

London Fields – Martin Amis

London Orbital – Iain Sinclair

Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe

Looking for a Miracle – Joe Nickell

Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac

Lost in the Light – Vladimir Chernozemsky

Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt

Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford

Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

Love’s Work – Gillian Rose

Loving – Henry Green

Loving Frank – Nancy Horan

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

Lulla – Chuck Palahniuk

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets – Stephen Crane*

Main Street – Sinclair Lewis

Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont

Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett

Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos

Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol

Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

Mao II – Don DeLillo

Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater

Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

Martin Eden – Jack London

Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

Marya – Joyce Carol Oates

Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon

Matchstick Men – Eric Garcia

Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Max Havelaar – Multatuli

Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler

Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin

Memento Mori – Muriel Spark

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift

Memoirs of Pancho Villa – Martín Luis Guzmán

Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

Metamorphoses – Ovid

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Misery – Stephen King

Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

Molloy – Samuel Beckett

Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs

Money – Martin Amis

Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis

Moon Palace – Paul Auster

Morvern Callar – Alan Warner

Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams*

Mother – Maxim Gorky

Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster

Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor

Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers

Murphy – Samuel Beckett

Music and Silence – Rose Tremain

My First Summer in the Sierra – John Muir*

My Friend Leonard – James Frey

Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal

Mystery Guest – Gregoire Bouillier

Nadja – André Breton

Naked Lunch – William Burroughs

Nana – Émile Zola

Native Son – Richard Wright

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga

Neuromancer – William Gibson

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

New Grub Street – George Gissing

News from Nowhere – William Morris

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf

Nightmare Abbey – Thomas Love Peacock

Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

Nightwood – Djuna Barnes

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace

No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson

No Longer At Ease – Chinua Achebe

North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman

Nostromo – Joseph Conrad

Not By Design – Victor J. Stenger

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev

Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon

Nowhere to Go – Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov

Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov

Ocean of Words – Ha Jin

Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Off Magazine Street – Ronald Everett Capps

Old Man – William Faulkner

Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

On Beauty – Zadie Smith

On Liberty – John Stuart Hill

On Love – Alain de Botton

On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin

On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello

Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

Orlando – Virginia Woolf

Ormond – Maria Edgeworth

Oroonoko – Aphra Behn

Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

Pamela – Samuel Richardson

Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford

Party Going – Henry Green

Passing – Nella Larsen

Pastoralia – George Saunders

Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf

Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett

Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi

Perfume – Patrick Süskind

Persuasion – Jane Austen

Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Phædo – Plato*

Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope

Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant

Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson

Platform – Michael Houellebecq

Platinum Girl: The Life and Legends of Jean Harlow – Eve Golden

Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe

Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

Poetic Works – Cecilia Meireles

Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker

Possession – A.S. Byatt

Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann

Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary

Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel

Quartet – Jean Rhys

Queer – William Burroughs

Quicksand – Nella Larsen

Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz

Rabbit is Rich – John Updike

Rabbit Redux – John Updike

Rabbit, Run – John Updike

Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow

Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot

Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Rasselas – Samuel Johnson

Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo

Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett

Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke

Regeneration – Pat Barker

Religio Medici – Sir Thomas Browne*

Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella

Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Riders – Jilly Cooper

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King*

Rites of Passage – William Golding

Rituals – Cees Nooteboom

Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett

Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner – F.X. Toole

Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

Rosshalde – Herman Hesse

Roxana – Daniel Defoe

Rum Punch – Elmore Leonard

Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth

Sanctuary – William Faulkner*

Saturday – Ian McEwan

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe

Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally

Schooling – Heather McGowan

Scoop – Evelyn Waugh

Second Chance – Jane Green

Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

Seduction of the Minotaur – Anaïs Nin

See Jane Run – Joy Fielding

Seize the Day – Saul Bellow

Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert

Serenade – James M. Caine

Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

Shame – Salman Rushdie

She – H. Rider Haggard

Shikasta – Doris Lessing

Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

Shroud – John Banville

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

Silas Marner – George Eliot

Silk – Alessandro Baricco

Sinful Woman – James M. Caine

Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Sliver – Ira Levin*

Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

Smiley’s People – John Le Carré

Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams*

Solar Barque – Anaïs Nin

Solaris – Stanislaw Lem

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey

Son of Rosemary – Ira Levin*

Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron

Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis

Space Trilogy: Perelandra – C.S. Lewis

Space Trilogy: That Hideous Strength – C.S. Lewis

Spotted Horses – William Faulkner

Spring – Mikhail Lermontov

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare

Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

Stone Junction – Jim Dodge

Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille

Strait is the Gate – André Gide

Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

Sula – Toni Morrison

Summa Theologica – Thomas Aquinas

Summer – Edith Wharton

Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin

Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner

Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

Surely You are Joking Mr. Fineman (sp)

Surfacing – Margaret Atwood

Sybil – Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber

Sylvia and Ted: A Novel – Emma Tennant

Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson

Tarr – Wyndham Lewis

Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

Test of the Twins – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman*

Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain

Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern

The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

The 13 Clocks – James Thurber

The Abbot C – Georges Bataille

The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth

The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke

The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Ambassadors – Henry James

The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis

The Apology of Sacrates – Plato*

The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky

The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin*

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

The Bear – William Faulkner

The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White

The Bell – Iris Murdoch

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni

The BFG – Roald Dahl

The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West

The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil’s Biblical Roots – T. J. Wray and Gregory Mobley

The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon

The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy

The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch

The Black Sheep – Honere de Balzac

The Blank Slate – Steven Pinker

The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

The Body – Stephen King*

The Body Artist – Don DeLillo

The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow

The Book of Evidence – John Banville

The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryl Bainbridge

The Boys From Brazil – Ira Levin*

The Breast – Philip Roth

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?

The Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller*

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi

The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman

The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe

The Calculus of Consent – James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

The Case for Christianity – C.S. Lewis

The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge

The Castle – Franz Kafka

The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino

The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal

The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens

The Child in Time – Ian McEwan

The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis

The Cider House Rules – John Irving

The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel

The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin

The Club Dumas – Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Collector – John Fowles

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Colour – Rose Tremain

The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan

The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Counterfeiters – André Gide

The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien

The Crow Road – Iain Banks

The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon

The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

The Dangerous Summer – Ernest Hemingway

The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme

The Dead Zone – Stephen King

The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon

The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho

The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet

The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Diary of Anais Nin – Anais Nin

The Diary of Ellen Rimbaur: My Life At Rose Red – Ridley Pearson*

The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing

The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri*

The Double – José Saramago

The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark

The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard

The Eagle and the Serpent – Martín Luis Guzmán

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery

The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami

The Embezzler – James M. Caine

The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald

The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

The End of the Road – John Barth

The End of the Story – Lydia Davis

The End of the World – Haruki Murakami

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings

The Epic of Gilgamesh Translated – N. K. Sandars

The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle

The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox

The Films of Jean Harlow – Michael Conway and Mark Ricci

The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

The Floating Opera – John Barth

The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

The Forgotten Planet – Murray Leinster*

The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy

The Four-Chambered Heart – Anaïs Nin

The Fox – D.H. Lawrence

The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

The Garden of Eden – Ernest Hemingway

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani

The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk

The Gate House – Nelson DeMille

The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

The Ghost Road – Pat Barker

The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larsson

The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark

The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse

The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett

The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton

The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius

The Golden Bowl – Henry James

The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek

The Gospel According to The Son – Norman Mailer

The Graduate – Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Greatest Story Ever Told – Fulton Oursler*

The Green Hat – Michael Arlen

The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

The Hamlet – William Faulkner

The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hillhouse – Shirley Jackson

The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene

The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen

The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín

The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

The Horses Mouth – Joyce Carey

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector

The Hours – Michael Cunningham

The House – the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga

The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen

The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd

The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende

The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson

The Human Stain – Philip Roth

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Immoralist – André Gide

The Inferno – Henri Barbusse

The Information – Martin Amis

The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano

The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm

The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

The Iron Heel – Jack London

The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells

The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth – Thomas Jefferson

The Jesus Legend – G. A. Wells

The Joke – Milan Kundera

The Journal of John Woolman – John Woolman*

The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson

The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy

The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz

The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd

The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope

The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus

The Last Man – Mary Shelley

The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood

The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen

The Law – Frederic Bastiat

The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke

The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickle– – Charles Dickens

The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee

The Life of George Herbert – Izaak Walton*

The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin

The Life of John Donne – Izaak Walton*

The Light of Day – Graham Swift

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Living and the Dead – Patrick White

The Lodger – Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll

The Lover – Marguerite Duras

The Machinery of Freedom – David Friedman

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

The Magnificent Amberson’s – Booth Tarkington

The Magus – John Fowles

The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie

The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren

The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil

The Manchurian Candidate – Richard Condon

The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

The Master – Colm Tóibín

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee

The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Mezzanine – Nicholson Baker

The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle

The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott

The Monk – M.G. Lewis

The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese

The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck*

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

The Moses Mystery: The African Origins of the Jewish People – Gary Greenberg

The Murder of Bob Crane – Robert Graysmith

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

The Music of Chance – Paul Auster

The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Gaston Leroux

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

The Names – Don DeLillo

The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Bashô

The New Atlantis – Sir Francis Bacon*

The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

The Newton Letter – John Banville

The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers

The Nose – Nikolay Gogol

The Nun – Denis Diderot

The Odyssey – Homer*

The Ogre – Michael Tournier

The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett

The Once and Future King – T.H. White

The Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl Popper

The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq

The Orchid Thief – Susan Orlean

The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

The Outsider – Albert Camus

The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton

The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter van Tilburg Clark

The Oxford Companion to the Bible – Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan (editors)

The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann

The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector

The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter

The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino

The Pearl – John Steinbeck*

The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg

The Periodic Table – Primo Levi

The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

The Plot Against America – Philip Roth

The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien

The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

The Portrait of Jennie – Robert Nathan

The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain

The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark

The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

The Professor’s House – Willa Cather

The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
The Public Burning – Robert Coover

The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe

The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford

The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf

The Quiet American – Graham Greene

The Rabbit Books – John Updike

The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth

The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble

The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell

The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence

The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras

The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham

The Reader – Bernhard Schlink

The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross

The Rebel – Albert Camus

The Recognitions – William Gaddis

The Red and the Black – Stendhal

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane*

The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

The Red Room – August Strindberg

The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross

The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams*

The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis

The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers

The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire: Volume I – John Toland

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire: Volume II – John Toland

The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The Road to Serfdom – Freidrich Hayek

The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood

The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra

The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary

The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll

The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sea – John Banville

The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima

The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch

The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad

The Shadow of the Leader – Martín Luis Guzmán

The Shack – William Young

The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx

The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell

The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell

The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré

The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane

The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin

The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth – John Muir*

The Story of O – Pauline Réage

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon

The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati

The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker

The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë

The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West

The Third Man – Graham Greene

The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia

The Tin Drum – Günter Grass

The Tomb of God and the Solution to a 2000 Year Old Mystery –Andrews and Schellenberger

The Torrents of Spring – Ernest Hemingway

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway

The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

The Turner Diaries – Andrew MacDonald

The Two Treatises of Government – John Locke

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

The Uncalled – Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe

The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett

The Untouchable – John Banville

The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith

The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras

The Victim – Saul Bellow

The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley

The Waves – Virginia Woolf

The Way We Live Now – by Anthony Trollope

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall

The Widows of Eastwick – John Updike

The Wild Boys – William Burroughs

The Wild Palms – William Faulkner

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

The Wings of the Dove – Henry James

The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck*

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

The Women’s Room – Marilyn French

The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber

The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

The World According to Garp – John Irving

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago

The Years – Virginia Woolf

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yosemite – John Muir*

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Them – Joyce Carol Oates

Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy

They Were Expendable – W. L. White

Things – Georges Perec

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Thinner – Richard Bachman

This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Three Lives – Gertrude Stein

Three Men in a Boat – Jerome Jerome

Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht

Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll

Thursbitch – Alan Garner

Timbuktu – Paul Auster

Time of the Twins – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman*

Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré

Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

To Be A Pilgrim – Joyce Carey

To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

To Hell and Back – Audie Murphy

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

Today is Tonight – Jean Harlow

Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck*

Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Transit – Anna Seghers

Travels in Alaska – John Muir*

Trawl – B.S. Johnson

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne

Troilus And Crisyde – Geoffrey Chaucer

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

Troubles – J.G. Farrell

True at First Light – Ernest Hemingway

Twenty-Four Years After – R. H. Dana, Jr.*

Two Years Before the Mast – R. H. Dana, Jr.*

Typical – Padgett Powell

U.S.A. – John Dos Passos

Ulysses – James Joyce

Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Under a Glass Bell – Anaïs Nin

Under Fire – Henri Barbusse

Under the Net – Iris Murdoch

Under the Red Flag – Ha Jin

Under the Skin – Michel Faber

Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

Underworld – Don DeLillo

Unless – Carol Shields

Unsolved Mysteries of Science: A Mind-Expanding Journey through a Universe of Big Bangs, Particle Waves, and Other Perplexing Concepts – John Malone

V. – Thomas Pynchon

Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann

Vanishing Point – David Markson

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Vathek – William Beckford

Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

Vertigo – W.G. Sebald

Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh

Villette – Charlotte Brontë

Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev

Visions – Cecilia Meireles

Voss – Patrick White

W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec

Waiting – Ha Jin*

Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

War of the Twins – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman*

Wars of the Jews – Josephus

Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

Waterland – Graham Swift

Watt – Samuel Beckett

We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt

What Is Atheism?: A Short Introduction – Douglas E. Krueger

What Maisie Knew – Henry James

Whatever – Michel Houellebecq

Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster

White Noise – Don DeLillo

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Who Goes There? – John W. Campbell, Jr.

Who’s Afraid of Schrödinger’s Cat? – Ian Marshall & Danah Zohar

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson

Wild Swans – Jung Chang

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan

Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Winter of Artifice – Anaïs Nin

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath – Kate Moses

Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

Wise Children – Angela Carter

Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson

Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

World Without End – Ken Follett

World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle

Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett

Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Yes – Thomas Bernhard

Young Törless – Robert Musil

Youth – J.M. Coetzee

Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

Zodiac – Robert Graysmith
First Love  – Ivan Turgenev