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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die -- Recommended books from the 1900s

January 10, 5:29 PMBook ExaminerMichelle Kerns
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For the books recommended in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die from the 2000s,go here. For the 1800s, the 1700s, and the pre-1700s, direct your attention here.

The section devoted to the 1900s is the largest in the book, and no wonder -- take a look at the great books that came forth in that century:

  1. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
  1. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
  1. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  1. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
  1. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
  1. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
  1. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
  1. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
  1. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
  1. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
  1. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
  1. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
  1. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
  1. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
  1. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
  1. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
  1. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  1. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
  1. Another World – Pat Barker
  1. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
  1. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
  1. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
  1. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  1. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  1. Great Apes – Will Self
  1. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
  1. Underworld – Don DeLillo
  1. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
  1. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
  1. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
  1. The Untouchable – John Banville
  1. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
  1. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  1. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
  1. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
  1. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
  1. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
  1. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  1. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
  1. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
  1. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
  1. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
  1. The Information – Martin Amis
  1. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
  1. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
  1. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
  1. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  1. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  1. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
  1. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
  1. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
  1. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
  1. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
  1. Land – Park Kyong-ni
  1. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  1. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
  1. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
  1. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
  1. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
  1. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
  1. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
  1. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
  1. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  1. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
  1. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  1. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
  1. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
  1. Complicity – Iain Banks
  1. On Love – Alain de Botton
  1. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
  1. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  1. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
  1. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  1. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
  1. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
  1. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
  1. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  1. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
  1. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
  1. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
  1. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  1. Indigo – Marina Warner
  1. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  1. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
  1. Jazz – Toni Morrison
  1. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  1. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
  1. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
  1. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
  1. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
  1. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  1. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
  1. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
  1. Arcadia – Jim Crace
  1. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
  1. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  1. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
  1. Mao II – Don DeLillo
  1. Typical – Padgett Powell
  1. Regeneration – Pat Barker
  1. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
  1. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
  1. Wise Children – Angela Carter
  1. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
  1. Amongst Women – John McGahern
  1. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
  1. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
  1. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
  1. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
  1. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  1. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
  1. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
  1. Possession – A.S. Byatt
  1. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
  1. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
  1. A Disaffection – James Kelman
  1. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
  1. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
  1. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
  1. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  1. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  1. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  1. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
  1. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
  1. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
  1. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  1. London Fields – Martin Amis
  1. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
  1. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  1. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  1. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
  1. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
  1. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
  1. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
  1. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
  1. Libra – Don DeLillo
  1. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
  1. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
  1. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  1. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  1. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
  1. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
  1. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  1. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
  1. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
  1. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
  1. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
  1. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  1. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
  1. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  1. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
  1. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
  1. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  1. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
  1. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  1. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
  1. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  1. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
  1. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
  1. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
  1. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
  1. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
  1. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
  1. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
  1. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
  1. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
  1. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  1. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  1. A Maggot – John Fowles
  1. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  1. Contact – Carl Sagan
  1. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  1. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  1. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
  1. White Noise – Don DeLillo
  1. Queer – William Burroughs
  1. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  1. Legend – David Gemmell
  1. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
  1. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
  1. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
  1. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
  1. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
  1. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  1. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  1. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
  1. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  1. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
  1. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
  1. Shame – Salman Rushdie
  1. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
  1. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
  1. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
  1. Waterland – Graham Swift
  1. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
  1. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
  1. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  1. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
  1. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
  1. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
  1. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  1. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
  1. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
  1. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  1. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  1. The Newton Letter – John Banville
  1. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
  1. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
  1. The Names – Don DeLillo
  1. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
  1. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
  1. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
  1. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
  1. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
  1. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
  1. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
  1. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  1. Rites of Passage – William Golding
  1. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
  1. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  1. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
  1. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  1. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
  1. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
  1. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
  1. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
  1. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
  1. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  1. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
  1. The World According to Garp – John Irving
  1. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
  1. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
  1. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
  1. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
  1. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
  1. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
  1. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
  1. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
  1. The Shining – Stephen King
  1. Dispatches – Michael Herr
  1. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
  1. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
  1. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
  1. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
  1. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
  1. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
  1. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  1. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
  1. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
  1. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
  1. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
  1. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
  1. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
  1. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
  1. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
  1. Fateless – Imre Kertész
  1. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
  1. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
  1. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
  1. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
  1. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
  1. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
  1. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
  1. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
  1. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
  1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
  1. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  1. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
  1. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
  1. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
  1. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
  1. Crash – J.G. Ballard
  1. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
  1. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
  1. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
  1. Sula – Toni Morrison
  1. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
  1. The Breast – Philip Roth
  1. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
  1. G – John Berger
  1. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  1. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
  1. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
  1. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
  1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  1. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
  1. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
  1. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
  1. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
  1. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
  1. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
  1. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  1. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
  1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  1. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
  1. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
  1. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
  1. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
  1. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
  1. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
  1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
  1. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  1. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
  1. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
  1. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
  1. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
  1. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  1. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
  1. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
  1. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
  1. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
  1. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
  1. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  1. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  1. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
  1. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
  1. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
  1. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
  1. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
  1. Chocky – John Wyndham
  1. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  1. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  1. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  1. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
  1. The Joke – Milan Kundera
  1. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
  1. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  1. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
  1. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
  1. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
  1. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  1. The Magus – John Fowles
  1. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
  1. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  1. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
  1. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  1. Things – Georges Perec
  1. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  1. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
  1. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  1. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  1. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
  1. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  1. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
  1. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
  1. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
  1. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
  1. Herzog – Saul Bellow
  1. V. – Thomas Pynchon
  1. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  1. The Graduate – Charles Webb
  1. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
  1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
  1. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
  1. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
  1. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  1. The Collector – John Fowles
  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  1. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  1. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
  1. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
  1. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  1. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
  1. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
  1. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
  1. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  1. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  1. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
  1. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
  1. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  1. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
  1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  1. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  1. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
  1. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
  1. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
  1. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  1. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
  1. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
  1. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  1. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
  1. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  1. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
  1. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
  1. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
  1. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
  1. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
  1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  1. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  1. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
  1. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  1. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
  1. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
  1. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
  1. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
  1. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
  1. The End of the Road – John Barth
  1. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  1. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
  1. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
  1. Voss – Patrick White
  1. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
  1. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
  1. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
  1. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  1. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
  1. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  1. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
  1. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
  1. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  1. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
  1. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
  1. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
  1. The Floating Opera – John Barth
  1. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  1. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
  1. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  1. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
  1. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  1. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  1. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
  1. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
  1. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
  1. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
  1. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
  1. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
  1. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
  1. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  1. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  1. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
  1. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  1. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
  1. Watt – Samuel Beckett
  1. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
  1. Junkie – William Burroughs
  1. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
  1. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
  1. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
  1. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  1. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  1. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  1. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
  1. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
  1. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
  1. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
  1. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  1. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  1. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
  1. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  1. The Rebel – Albert Camus
  1. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
  1. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  1. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
  1. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
  1. The Third Man – Graham Greene
  1. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
  1. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
  1. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
  1. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  1. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
  1. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
  1. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
  1. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
  1. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
  1. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
  1. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  1. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
  1. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
  1. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
  1. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  1. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  1. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
  1. The Victim – Saul Bellow
  1. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
  1. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
  1. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
  1. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
  1. The Plague – Albert Camus
  1. Back – Henry Green
  1. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
  1. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
  1. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  1. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  1. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  1. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  1. Loving – Henry Green
  1. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
  1. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
  1. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
  1. Transit – Anna Seghers
  1. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
  1. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
  1. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  1. Caught – Henry Green
  1. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
  1. Embers – Sandor Marai
  1. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
  1. The Outsider – Albert Camus
  1. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
  1. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
  1. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
  1. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
  1. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  1. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
  1. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
  1. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  1. Native Son – Richard Wright
  1. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
  1. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
  1. Party Going – Henry Green
  1. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  1. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
  1. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
  1. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
  1. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
  1. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
  1. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
  1. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  1. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
  1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  1. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
  1. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
  1. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
  1. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
  1. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
  1. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
  1. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  1. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  1. The Years – Virginia Woolf
  1. In Parenthesis – David Jones
  1. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
  1. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
  1. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  1. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  1. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
  1. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
  1. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  1. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
  1. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  1. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  1. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
  1. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
  1. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
  1. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
  1. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
  1. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. England Made Me – Graham Greene
  1. Burmese Days – George Orwell
  1. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  1. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
  1. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
  1. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
  1. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
  1. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
  1. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  1. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
  1. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
  1. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
  1. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
  1. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  1. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
  1. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
  1. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
  1. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  1. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  1. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  1. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
  1. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
  1. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
  1. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  1. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
  1. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
  1. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
  1. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
  1. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  1. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
  1. Passing – Nella Larsen
  1. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  1. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
  1. Living – Henry Green
  1. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
  1. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
  1. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
  1. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
  1. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  1. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
  1. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
  1. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
  1. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
  1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
  1. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  1. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
  1. Quartet – Jean Rhys
  1. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
  1. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
  1. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
  1. Nadja – André Breton
  1. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
  1. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
  1. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  1. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
  1. Amerika – Franz Kafka
  1. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  1. Blindness – Henry Green
  1. The Castle – Franz Kafka
  1. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
  1. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
  1. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
  1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  1. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
  1. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
  1. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  1. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  1. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
  1. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  1. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
  1. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
  1. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
  1. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
  1. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  1. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  1. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  1. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
  1. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
  1. Cane – Jean Toomer
  1. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
  1. Amok – Stefan Zweig
  1. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
  1. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
  1. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
  1. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  1. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
  1. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
  1. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
  1. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
  1. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
  1. Ulysses – James Joyce
  1. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
  1. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
  1. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
  1. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
  1. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
  1. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
  1. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
  1. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
  1. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
  1. Summer – Edith Wharton
  1. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
  1. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
  1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
  1. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
  1. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  1. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
  1. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
  1. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  1. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
  1. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
  1. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
  1. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
  1. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
  1. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  1. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
  1. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
  1. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
  1. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
  1. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  1. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  1. Howards End – E.M. Forster
  1. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
  1. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
  1. Martin Eden – Jack London
  1. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
  1. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
  1. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
  1. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
  1. The Iron Heel – Jack London
  1. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
  1. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
  1. Mother – Maxim Gorky
  1. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  1. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  1. Young Törless – Robert Musil
  1. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
  1. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
  1. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
  1. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
  1. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
  1. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
  1. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
  1. The Ambassadors – Henry James
  1. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
  1. The Immoralist – André Gide
  1. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
  1. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  1. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  1. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
  1. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  1. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
  1. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
 
 

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