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There are now three editions of the 1001 list , with 1294 titles on all three lists. Titles in bold have been read. Dates in parentheses are book editions of the 1001 list. Information in brackets is author nationality, language, book award.

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History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
There but for the by Ali Smith
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Cain by Jose Saramago
Nemesis by Philip Roth
1Q84 Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2010) [France, French]
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (2010) [UK, English]
Invisible by Paul Auster (2010) [USA, English]
American Rust by Philipp Meyer (2010) [USA, English]
Cost: A Novel by Roxana Robinson (2010) [USA, English]
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2010) [India/Australia, English, Booker]
Home by Marilynne Robinson (2010) [USA, English, Orange]
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman (2010) [UK, English]
The Gathering by Anne Enright (2010) [Ireland, English, Booker]
The Blind Side Of The Heart by Julia Franck (2010) [Germany, German]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2010) [USA/Dominican, English, Pulitzer]
Animal's People by Indra Sinha (2008) [UK/India, English]
Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2008) [Pakistan, English]
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008, 2010) [Nigeria, English, Orange]
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2008) [USA/France, French]
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (2008, 2010) [India, English, Booker]
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland (2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn (2008, 2010) [UK/South Africa, English]
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (2008) [UK, English]
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2006) [Japan/UK, English]
Saturday - Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (2006) [UK, English]
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]
Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson (2006) [UK, English]
The Accidental by Ali Smith (2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2008, 2010) [UK, English, Booker]
2666 by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]
Small Island by Andrea Levy [UK, English, Orange]
The Sea - John Banville (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English, Booker]
The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble (2006) [UK, English]
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth [USA, English]
The Master - Colm Toibin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (2008, 2010) [Russia/France, French]
The Swarm by Frank Schatzing (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Vanishing Point - David Markson (2006)
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd (2006)
Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair (2006)
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/English]
Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (2008, 2010) [Israel, Hebrew]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon [UK/English]
Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle (2006)
The Colour - Rose Tremain (2006)
Thursbitch - Alan Garner (2006)
The Light of Day - Graham Swift (2006)
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/English]
Lady Number Thirteen by Jose Carlos Somoza (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Successor by Ismail Kadare (2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (2008, 2010) [Booker]
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 2010) [India/USA, English]
Islands - Dan Sleigh [South Africa, English]
Unless - Carol Shields (2006) [US/Canada, English]
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]
London Orbital - Iain Sinclair (2006)
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry (2006)
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (2006)
The Double - Jose Saramago (2006) [Portugal, Portuguese]
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor (2006)
That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern (2006)
In the Forest - Edna O'Brien (2006)
Shroud - John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (2006) [USA, English Pulitzer]
Youth - J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]
Dead Air - Iain Banks (2006)
Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon (2006, 2008, 2010) [Yugoslavia, English]
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (2008, 2010) [Turkey, Turkish, Nobel]
Platform - Michael Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini (2006)
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]
Fury - Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]
At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill (2006)
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (2006)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Booker]
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]
Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi (2006) [UK, English]
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Schooling - Heather McGowan (2006)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Soldiers of Salamis by Javer Cercas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (2008, 2010) [Italian]
The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa (2006, 2008, 2010) [ Peru, Spanish, Nobel]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon [US, English, Pulitzer]
An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma (2006)
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]
The Heart of Redness - Zakes Mda [South Africa]
Under the Skin - Michel Faber (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia/Netherlands, English]
White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
City of God - E.L. Doctorow (2006) [USA, English]
How the Dead Live - Will Self (2006)
The Human Stain - Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English, Booker]
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami (2006) [Japan, Japanese]
Small Remedies - Shashi Deshpande [India, English]
Ignorance - Milan Kundera (2006) [Czech/France, Czech]
Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace (2006)
Celestial Harmonies - Peter Esterhazy (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]
Bartleby and Co . by Enrique Vila-Matas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard (2006)
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (2006) [USA, English]
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates (2006) [USA, English]
Pastoralia - George Saunders (2006) [USA, English]
Everything You Need - A.L. Kennedy (2006)
Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium/Japan, French]
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Urgresic (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Timbuktu - Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]
The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra (2006) [India]
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (2006) [USA, English]
As If I Am Not There - Slavenka Drakulic (2006, 2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English, Booker]
Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Guitierrez (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]
The Talk of the Town - Ardal O'Hanlon (2006, 2008, 2010)
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami (2006) [Japan, Japanese]
Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Heretic by Miguel Delibes (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi (2006) [UK, English]
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English, Booker]
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks (2006) [USA, English]
All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010) [Netherlands, Dutch]
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters (2006)
Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis (2006) [USA, English]
Another World - Pat Barker (2006)
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English, Pulitzer]
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Crossfire by Miyabe Miyuki (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (2006) [USA, English]
Great Apes - Will Self (2006)
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Underworld - Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Jack Maggs - Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Margot and the Angels by Kristien Hemmerechts (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon (2006) [USA, English]
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English, Booker]
American Pastoral - Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]
The Untouchable - John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]
Silk - Alessandro Baricco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
A Light Comedy by Eduardo Mendoza (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Cocaine Nights - J.G. Ballard (2006)
Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker (2006, 2008, 2010)
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Orange]
The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)
Forever a Stranger - Hella Haasse (2006, 2008, 2010)
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
The Information - Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]
Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]
The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald (2006) [Germany, German]
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (2006, 2008, 2010) [India/Canada, English]
Love's Work - Gillian Rose (2006, 2008, 2010)
The End of the Story - Lydia Davis (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Late-Night News by Petros Markaris (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster (2006) [USA, English]
The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst (2006)
Whatever - Michel Houellebecq (2006, 2008, 2010)
Land - Park Kyong-ni (2006, 2008, 2010)
Our Lady of Assassins by Fernando Vallejo (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Antonio Tabucchi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
City Sister Silver - Jachym Topol (2006, 2008, 2010)
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres (2006, 2008, 2010)
Felicia's Journey - William Trevor (2006, 2008, 2010)
Deep River by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
Disappearance - David Dabydeen (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Invention of Curried Sausage - Uwe Timm (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima (2008, 2010)
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx (2006, 2008, 2010)
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh (2006)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (2006, 2008, 2010)
Looking for the Possible Dance - A.L. Kennedy (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Twins by Tessa de Loo (2008, 2010)
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]
Complicity - Iain Banks (2006)
On Love - Alain de Botton (2006, 2008, 2010) [Switzerland, French]
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English]
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (2006, 2008, 2010) [US/Canada, English, Pulitzer]
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (2008, 2010) [USA/India, English]
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd (2006)
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English]
The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald (2006) [Germany, German]
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (2006, 2008, 2010)
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]
Life is a Caravanserai - Emine Ozdamar (2006, 2008, 2010) [Turkey, Turkish]
The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch (2006, 2008, 2010)
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
The Triple Mirror of the Self by Zulfikar Ghose (2008, 2010) [USA/India, English]
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
A Heart So White - Javier Marias (2006) [Spain, Spanish]
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Jazz - Toni Morrison (2006) [USA, English]
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English, Booker]
Indigo - Marina Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Crow Road - Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe (2006, 2008, 2010)
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates (2006) [USA, English]
The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin (2006)
Asphodel - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (2006, 2008, 2010)
Memoirs of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud (2006, 2008, 2010)
Arcadia - Jim Crace (2006, 2008, 2010)
Wild Swans - Jung Chang (2006, 2008, 2010)
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]
Mao II - Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Typical - Padgett Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)
Regeneration - Pat Barker (2006, 2008, 2010)
Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
The Laws by Connie Palmen (2008, 2010)
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (2006, 2008, 2010)
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon (2006) [USA, English]
Vertigo - W.G. Sebald (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Downriver - Iain Sinclair (2006)
The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres (2006)
Wise Children - Angela Carter (2006)
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Amongst Women - John McGahern (2006, 2008, 2010)
Stone Junction - Jim Dodge (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Midnight Examiner - William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (2008, 2010) [India, English]
Possession - A.S. Byatt (2006)
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham (2006)
Like Life - Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
A Disaffection - James Kelman (2006)
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Moon Palace - Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
London Fields - Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow (2006) [USA, English]
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]
The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (2008, 2010) [India, English]
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker (2006) [USA, English]
The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK-Scotland, English]
The History of the Siege of Lisbon - Jose Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (2006, 2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Inland by Gerald Murnane (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Obabakoak by Bernando Atxaga (2008, 2010)
Gimmick! by Joost Zwagerman (2008, 2010)
The Book of Evidence - John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood (2006) [Canada, English]
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (2008, 2010)
The Beautiful Room is Empty - Edmund White (2006)
Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst (2006, 2008, 2010)
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English, Booker]
The Last World by Christopher Ransmayr (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
The First Garden by Anne Herbert (2008, 2010) [Canada, French]
Libra - Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]
The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks (2006)
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]
Cigarettes by Harry Mathews (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams (2006)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (2008, 2010)
The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Afternoon of a Writer - Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson (2006)
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
Black Box by Amos Oz [Israel, Hebrew]
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
All Souls by Javier Marias (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Beloved - Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish
The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
World's End by T.C. Boyle (2006, 2008, 2010)
Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]
The Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov (2008, 2010) [Bulgaria, Bulgarian]
The Taebek Mountains - Jo Jung-rae [South Korea, Korean]
Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Anagrams - Lorrie Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)
Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2006, 2008, 2010) [Kenya, Kikuyu]
The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano (2008, 2010) [Uruguay, Spanish]
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Marya - Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons (2006, 2008, 2010)
Foe - J.M. Coetzee (2006) [South Africa/Australia, English]
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Szczypiorski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden (2008, 2010) [South Africa, Afrikaans]
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
The Parable of the Blind - Gert Hofmann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (2008, 2010)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (2006)
The Cider House Rules - John Irving (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
A Maggot - John Fowles (2006)
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (2006)
Contact - Carl Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Perfume - Patrick Suskind (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Queer - William Burroughs (2006)
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang (2008, 2010) [China]
Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]
White Noise - Don DeLillo (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Young Man by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Legend - David Gemmell (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech/France, Czech]
Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bus Conductor Hines - James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago (2006, 2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
The Lover - Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]
Democracy by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (2006, 2008, 2010)
Neuromancer - William Gibson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter (2006, 2008, 2010)
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel by Julian Rios (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker (2006, 2008, 2010)
Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross (2008, 2010)
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Shame - Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
The Witness by Juan Jose Saer (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett (2006)
Fools of Fortune - William Trevor (2006)
La Brava - Elmore Leonard (2006, 2008, 2010)
Waterland - Graham Swift (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English, Booker]
The Diary of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing (2006) [UK, English, Nobel]
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Color Purple - Alice Walker (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan/UK, English]
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (2006, 2008, 2010)
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende (2006, 2008, 2010) [Chile, Spanish]
The Newton Letter - John Banville (2006) [Ireland, English]
On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan (2006) [UK, English]
July's People - Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]
Couples, Passerby by Botho Strauss (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Concrete - Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]
The Names - Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray (2006, 2008, 2010)
The War of the End of the World by Llosa (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]
Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie (2008, 2010) [China]
The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Wassmo (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
Rites of Passage - William Golding (2006)
Broken April - Ismail Kadare (2006, 2008, 2010) [Albania, Albanian]
Smell of Sadness by Kossman (2008, 2010)
Rituals - Cees Nooteboom (2006, 2008, 2010) [Netherlands, Dutch]
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (2006, 2008, 2010)
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (2008, 2010) [India, English]
City Primeval - Elmore Leonard (2006)
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Southern Seas by Montalban (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Smiley's People - John Le Carre(2006, 2008, 2010)
Fool's Gold by Douka (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech/France, Czech]
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink (2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]
Shikasta - Doris Lessing (2006) [UK, English, Nobel]
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]
Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (2008, 2010) [Senegal, French]
The Safety Net - Heinrich Boll (2006) [Germany, German]
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Yes - Thomas Bernhard (2006) [Austria, German]
The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Back Room by Gaite (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The World According to Garp - John Irving (2006) [USA, English]
Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Booker]
The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)
Requiem for a Dream by Selby (2008, 2010)
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter (2006)
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Shining - Stephen King (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Dispatches - Michael Herr (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Wars by Findley (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
Petals of Blood - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2006)
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)
The Engineer of Human Souls by Skvorecky (2008, 2010) [Czech/Canada, Czech]
In the Heart of the Country - J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo (2006) [USA, English]
The Public Burning - Robert Coover (2006)
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice (2006, 2008, 2010)
Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg (2006, 2008, 2010)
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor (2008, 2010)
Amateurs - Donald Barthelme (2006)
Patterns of Childhood - Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
W, or the Memory of Childhood - Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell (2006, 2008, 2010)
Dead Babies - Martin Amis (2006) [UK, English]
Correction - Thomas Bernhard (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Grimus - Salman Rushdie (2006) [UK/India, English]
The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme (2006, 2008, 2010)
Fateless - Imre Kertesz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian, Nobel]
Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)
Woman at Point Zero by El Saadawi (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]
High Rise - J.G. Ballard (2006)
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]
The Year of the Hare by Paasilinna (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]
The Commandant by Jessica Anderson (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Port by Soljan (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]
The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle (2006, 2008, 2010)
Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Australia, English]
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2008, 2010)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre (2006)
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006) [USA, English]
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Question of Power - Bessie Head (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa/Botswana, English]
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]
Crash - J.G. Ballard (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch (2006) [UK, English]
Sula - Toni Morrison (2006) [USA, English]
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Twilight Years by Ariyoshi (2008, 2010)
The Breast - Philip Roth (2006) [USA, English]
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (2006, 2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]
G - John Berger (2006, 2008, 2010)
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010)
In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul (2006, 2008, 2010) [Trinidad, English]
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Group Portrait With Lady - Heinrich Boll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Cataract by Osadchyi (2008, 2010)
The Wild Boys - William Burroughs (2006)
Rabbit Redux - John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark (2006)
The Ogre - Michael Tournier (2006)
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (2006, 2008, 2010)
Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke (2006) [Austria, German]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (2006, 2008, 2010)
A World for Julius by Echenique (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]
Mercier et Camier - Samuel Beckett (2006)
Troubles - J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage - Uwe Johnson (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Play It As it Lays by Joan Didion (2008, 2010)
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
Here's to You, Jesusa by Poniatowska (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
Season of Migration to the North by Salih (2008, 2010) [Sudan, Arabic]
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
Moscow Stations by Erofeyev (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Case Worker by Konrad (2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]
The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard (2006)
Tent of Miracles - Jorge Amado (2006, 2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover (2006, 2008, 2010)
Blind Man With a Pistol - Chester Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Green Man - Kingsley Amis (2006) [UK, English]
Jacob the Liar by Becker (2008, 2010)
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Godfather - Mario Puzo (2006, 2008, 2010)
Ada - Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
Them - Joyce Carol Oates (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Void/Avoid - Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The First Circle - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal (2006, 2008, 2010)
Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch (2006) [UK, English]
Belle du Seigneur - Albert Cohen (2006, 2008, 2010) [Greece/Switzerland, French]
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (2006, 2008, 2010)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf (2006, 2008, 2010)
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid - Malcolm Lowry (2006)
The German Lesson - Siegfried Lenz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Cathedral by Honchar (2008, 2010)
Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle (2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]
No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Chocky - John Wyndham (2006)
The Cubs and Other Stories - Mario Vargas Llosa (2006) [Peru, Spanish]
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2006, 2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010) [Poland, Yiddish]
Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Joke - Milan Kundera (2006)
Z by Vassilikos (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
Miramar by Mahfouz (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
A Man Asleep - Georges Perec (2006) [France, French]
The Birds Fall Down - Rebecca West (2006)
Trawl - B.S. Johnson (2006)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Magus - John Fowles (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Vice-Consul - Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]
Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Giles Goat-Boy - John Barth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
To Each His Own by Sciascia (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Silence by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
Death and the Dervish by Selimovic (2008, 2010)
Things - Georges Perec (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien (2006)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut (2006) [USA, English]
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)
Garden, Ashes by Kis (2008, 2010)
The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2006, 2008, 2010) [Kenya, English]
Closely Watched Trains by Hrabal (2008, 2010)
Back to Oegstgeest by Wolkers (2008, 2010)
The Passion According to G.H. - Clarice Lispector (2006, 2008, 2010)
Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010)
Three Trapped Tigers by Infante (2008, 2010) [Cuba, Spanish]
Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Bartholme (2006)
Albert Angelo - B.S. Johnson (2006)
Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Nigeria, English]
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras (2006, 2008, 2010) [Vietnam/France, French]
Herzog - Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]
V. - Thomas Pynchon (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Graduate - Charles Webb (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Inside Mr. Enderby - Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Dog Years by Gunter Grass (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Third Wedding by Taktsis (2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Time of the Hero by Llosa (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
The Collector - John Fowles (2006)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
Time of Silence by Luis Martin Santos (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard (2006)
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Nobel]
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (2006, 2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein (2006, 2008, 2010)
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Vilos (2008, 2010)
Faces in the Water - Janet Frame (2006, 2008, 2010) [New Zealand, English]
No One Writes to the Colonel by Marquez (2008, 2010) [Colombia, Spanish]
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem (2006, 2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Shipyard by Onetti (2008, 2010) [Uruguay, Spanish]
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene (2008, 2010) [Senegal, French]
Bebo's Girl by Cassola (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor (2006) [USA, English]
How It Is - Samuel Beckett (2006)
Our Ancestors - Italo Calvino (2006) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]
The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien(2006, 2008, 2010)
Halftime by Martin Walser (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2008, 2010) [Poland, Yiddish]
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Rabbit, Run - John Updike (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Promise at Dawn - Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010) [Lithuania/France, French]
Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse (2006, 2008, 2010)
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee (2006, 2008, 2010)
Down Second Avenue by Mphahlele (2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark (2006) [UK, English]
Billiards at Half-Past Nine - Heinrich Boll (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring - Kenzaburo Oe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Deep Rivers by Arguedas (2008, 2010) [Peru, Spanish]
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Guide by Narayan (2008, 2010) [India, English]
The Bitter Glass - Eilis Dillon (2006, 2008, 2010)
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (2006, 2008, 2010)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe (2006, 2008, 2010)
Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amada (2008, 2010)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico (2006)
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bell - Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The End of the Road - John Barth (2006) [USA, English]
The Once and Future King - T.H. White (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
The Birds by Vesaas (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Voss - Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)
Blue Noon - Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Homo Faber - Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]
The Deadbeats by Ruyslinck (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Dutch]
The Manila Rope by Meri (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]
On the Road - Jack Kerouac (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Glass Bees by Junger (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Wonderful "O" - James Thurber (2006)
Justine - Lawrence Durrell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]
The Floating Opera - John Barth (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary (2006, 2008, 2010) [Lithuania/France, French]
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (2006, 2008, 2010)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Rosa (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis (2006, 2008, 2010) [Greece, Greek]
The Tree of Man by Patrick White (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Quiet American - Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Burning Plain by Rulfo (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
The Recognitions - William Gaddis (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Ragazzi - Pier Paulo Pasolini (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]
Self Condemned - Wyndham Lewis (2006)
The Unknown Soldier by Linna (2008, 2010) [Finland, Finnish]
The Sound of Waves by Mishima (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Death in Rome by Koeppen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Mandarins by de Beauvoir (2008, 2010) [France, French]
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (2006, 2008, 2010)
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Story of O - Pauline Reage (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
A Ghost at Noon - Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
A Day in Spring by Kosmac (2008, 2010)
The Dark Child by Laye (2008, 2010) [Guinea, French]
The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett (2006)
Watt - Samuel Beckett (2006)
The Hothouse by Koeppen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Lost Steps by Carpentier (2008, 2010) [Cuba/Switzerland, Spanish]
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Junkie - William Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (2006, 2008, 2010)
*The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Thousand Cranes by Kawabata (2008, 2010)
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (2008, 2010)
The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt (2006, 2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Hive by Cela (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson (2006)
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, French]
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (2006, 2008, 2010)
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
Foundation - Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Rebel - Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]
Molloy - Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Barabbas by Lagerkvist (2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
The Guiltless by Broch (2008, 2010) [Austria/US, German]
The Abbot C - Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
The Third Man - Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]
The 13 Clocks - James Thurber (2006, 2008, 2010)
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/Australia, English]
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English, Nobel]
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played - Simon Vestdijk (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
Kingdom of This World - Alejo Carpentier (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Man With the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren (2006, 2008, 2010)
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
Death Sentence - Maurice Blanchot (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
In the Heart of the Seas by Agnon (2008, 2010) [Israel, Hebrew]
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton (2006, 2008, 2010) [South Africa, English]
All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani (2006, 2008, 2010) [India/Kenya, English]
Disobedience - Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzejewski (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Journey to the Alcarria by Cela (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Froth on the Daydream by Vian (2008, 2010) [France, French]
Midaq Alley by Mahfouz (2008, 2010) [Egypt, Arabic]
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Plague - Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]
The Victim - Saul Bellow (2006) [Canada/USA, English]
Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
If This Is a Man - Primo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino (2006, 2008, 2010) [Cuba/Italy, Italian]
House in the Uplands by Caldwell (2008, 2010)
Back - Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis (2008, 2010)
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Death of Virgil by Broch (2008, 2010) [Austria/US, German]
Andrea by Laforet (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (2008, 2010) [Canada, English]
Bosnian Chronicle by Andric (2008, 2010) [Serbo-Croatia, Bosnian]
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)
Arcanum 17 - Andre Breton (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andri? (2006, 2008, 2010)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (2006) [USA, English]
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford (2006)
Loving - Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (2008, 2010)
Transit - Anna Seghers (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Razor's Edge - William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges (2006) [Argentina, Spanish]
Dangling Man - Saul Bellow (2006, 2008, 2010) [Canada/USA, English]
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Caught - Henry Green (2006)
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Chess Story by Zweig (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Embers - Sandor Marai (2006, 2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]
Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]
The Outsider - Albert Camus (2006, 2008, 2010) [Algeria/France, French]
Conversations in Sicily - Elio Vittorini (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Harvesters by Pavese (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien (2006)
The Living and the Dead - Patrick White (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Broad and Alien Is the World by Alegria (2008, 2010) [Spain/Peru, Spanish]
The Man Who Loved Children by Stead (2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton (2006)
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]
The Hamlet - William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler (2006)
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Native Son - Richard Wright (2006, 2008, 2010)
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien (2006, 2008, 2010)
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (2006)
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys (2006, 2008, 2010)
Party Going - Henry Green (2006)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Coming Up for Air - George Orwell (2006) [UK/India, English]
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (2006, 2008, 2010)
On the Edge of Reason by Krleza (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]
After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvie Townsend Warner (2006)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (2006, 2008, 2010)
Alamut by Bartol (2008, 2010)
Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler (2006, 2008, 2010)
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
U.S.A. - John Dos Passos (2006, 2008, 2010)
Murphy - Samuel Beckett (2006, 2008, 2010)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Years - Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Blind Owl by Hedayat (2008, 2010)
Ferdydurke by Grombowicz (2008, 2010)
In Parenthesis - David Jones (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Revenge for Love - Wyndham Lewis (2006)
Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) (2006, 2008, 2010)
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She (2008, 2010)
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway (2006) [USA, English]
Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner (2006, 2008, 2010)
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/India, English]
War with the Newts by Capek (2008, 2010)
Wild Harbour - Ian MacPherson (2006)
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft (2006, 2008, 2010)
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes (2006, 2008, 2010)
Independent People - Halldor Laxness (2006, 2008, 2010) [Iceland, Icelandic]
Untouchable by Anand (2008, 2010) [India, English]
The Last of Mr. Norris - Christopher Isherwood (2006, 2008, 2010)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy (2006, 2008, 2010)
Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK/Austria, German]
The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
England Made Me - Graham Greene (2006) [UK, English]
Burmese Days - George Orwell (2006) [UK/India, English]
The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Bells of Basel by Aragon (2008, 2010) [France, French]
On the Heights of Despair by Cioran (2008, 2010)
Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht (2006)
Novel With Cocaine - M. Ageyev (2006)
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain (2006, 2008, 2010)
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh (2006)
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Call it Sleep - Henry Roth (2006, 2008, 2010)
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West (2006, 2008, 2010)
Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (2006, 2008, 2010)
A Day Off - Storm Jameson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Man's Fate by Malraux (2008, 2010) [France, French]
Cheese by Elsschot (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria/Germany, German]
Vipers' Tangle by Mauriac (2008, 2010) [France, French]
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Forbidden Realm by Slauerhoff (2008, 2010)
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Krleza (2008, 2010) [Croatia, Croatian]
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2006)
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
To the North - Elizabeth Bowen (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Waves - Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Insatiability by Witkiwicz (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Monica by Saunders Lewis (2008, 2010)
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett (2006) [USA, English]
Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham (2006)
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
Her Privates We - Frederic Manning (2006, 2008, 2010) [Australia, English]
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh (2006)
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe (2006, 2008, 2010)
Hebdomeros - Giorgio de Chirico (2006)
Passing - Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010)
I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson (2008, 2010)
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett (2006) [USA, English]
Living - Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque [Germany, German]
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany/France, German]
The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen (2006)
Harriet Hume - Rebecca West (2006)
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (2006) [USA, English]
Les Enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Retreat without Song by Shahnour (2008, 2010)
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Orlando - Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall (2006, 2008, 2010)
Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)
Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese}
The Childermass - Wyndham Lewis (2006)
Quartet - Jean Rhys (2006)
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh (2006, 2008, 2010)
Quicksand - Nella Larsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Nadja - Andre Breton (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust(2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Amerika - Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Blindness - Henry Green (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Castle - Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]
Alberta and Jacob by Sandel (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek (2006, 2008, 2010)
Under Satan's Sun by Bernanos (2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Plumed Serpent - D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]
One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Chaka the Zulu by Mofolo (2008, 2010) [South Africa, Sesotho]
Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos (2006)
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Trial - Franz Kafka (2006, 2008, 2010) [Czech, German]
The Artamonov Business - Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Professor's House - Willa Cather (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English}
The New World by Welde Selasse (2008, 2010)
Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville (2006) [USA, English]
The Green Hat - Michael Arlen (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo (2006, 2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Cane - Jean Toomer (2006)
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley (2006)
Amok - Stefan Zweig (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield (2006)
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings (2006, 2008, 2010)
Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Forest of the Hanged by Rebreanu (2008, 2010)
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)
Claudine's House by Colette (2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Last Days of Humanity - Karl Kraus (2006)
Aaron's Rod - D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
Ulysses - James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]
Life of Christ by Papini (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Fox - D.H. Lawrence (2006) [UK, English]
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English, Pulitzer]
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Night and Day - Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]
Tarr - Wyndham Lewis (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad (2006) [Poland/UK, English]
Summer - Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsen (2006, 2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
The Home and the World by Tagore (2008, 2010) [India, Bengali]
Pallieter by Timmermans (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Dutch]
The Underdogs by Azuela (2008, 2010) [Mexico, Spanish]
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton (2006) [USA, English]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (2006, 2008, 2010) [Ireland, English]
Under Fire - Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Rashomon - Akutagawa Ryunosuke (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf (2006) [UK, English]
Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (2006, 2008, 2010)
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki (2006, 2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Rosshalde - Herman Hesse (2006) [Germany, German]
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (2006, 2008, 2010)
Platero and I by Jimenez (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell (2006, 2008, 2010)
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Charwoman's Daughter - James Stephens (2006, 2008, 2010)
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Howards End - E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rilke (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein (2006)
Martin Eden - Jack London (2006)
Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster (2006, 2008, 2010)
Tono-Bungay - H.G. Wells (2006)
The Inferno - Henri Barbusse (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Iron Heel - Jack London (2006)
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett (2006, 2008, 2010)
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson (2006, 2008, 2010)
Mother - Maxim Gorky (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (2006, 2008, 2010)
Young Torless - Robert Musil (2006, 2008, 2010) [Austria/Germany, German]
Solitude by Catala (2008, 2010)
Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA, English]
Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster (2006)
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe (2006, 2008, 2010) [Belgium, French]
The Way of All Flesh by Butler (2008, 2010)
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Schreber (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2008, 2010)
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Golden Bowl - Henry James (2006) [USA/UK, English]
The Ambassadors - Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]
The Immoralist - Andre Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010)
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Kim - Rudyard Kipling (2006, 2008, 2010) [India, English]
None but the Brave by Schnitzler (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad (2006)
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (2006, 2008, 2010)
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Salgari (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Somerville and Ross (2006, 2008, 2010)
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Gardonyi (2008, 2010) [Hungary, Hungarian]
The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Awakening - Kate Chopin (2006, 2008, 2010)
Dom Casmurro by de Assis (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
As a Man Grows Older by Svevo (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (2006) [USA/UK, English]
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Pharoah by Prus (2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
Compassion by Perez Galdos (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (2006)
What Maisie Knew - Henry James (2006, 2008, 2010) [USA/UK, English]
Dracula - Bram Stoker (2006, 2008, 2010)
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz (2006, 2008, 2010) [Poland, Polish]
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (2006, 2008, 2010)
Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane (2006, 2008, 2010)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
The Viceroys by De Roberto (2008, 2010) [Italy, Italian]
The Real Charlotte - Somerville and Ross (2006)
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006)
Born in Exile - George Gissing (2006)
Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK-Scotland, English]
News from Nowhere - William Morris (2006, 2008, 2010)
New Grub Street - George Gissing (2006, 2008, 2010)
Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof (2006, 2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (2006, 2008, 2010) [UK, English]
Down There by Huysmans (2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (2006, 2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Thais by Anatole France (2008, 2010) [France, French]
La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
By the Open Sea - st (2006, 2008, 2010)
Hunger - Knut Hamsun (2006, 2008, 2010) [Norway, Norwegian]
Eline Vere by Couperus (2008, 2010)
The Child of Pleasure by D'Annunzio (2008, 2010)
Under the Yoke by Vazov (2008, 2010) [Bulgaria, Bulgarian]
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)
Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Perez Galdes (2006) [Spain, Spanish]
The People of Hemso - August Strindberg (2006, 2008, 2010) [Sweden, Swedish]
The Manors of Ulloa by Bazan (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]
She - H. Rider Haggard (2006)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (2006, 2008, 2010)
The Quest by van Eeden (2008, 2010)
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (2006)
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard (2006, 2008, 2010)
Germinal - Emile Zola (2006, 2008, 2010) [France, French]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Marius the Epicurean - Walter Pater
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant [France, French]
The Regent's Wife by Leopoldo Alas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Against the Grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans [France, French]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant [France, French]
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert [France, French]
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis (2008, 2010) [Brazil, Portuguese]
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni Verga [Italy, Italian]
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James [USA/UK, English]
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Nana - Emile Zola [France, French]
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (2006) [Russia, Russian]
The Red Room - August Strindberg [Sweden, Swedish]
Martin Fierro by Hernandez (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]
Drunkard - Emile Zola [France, French]
The Crime of Father Amaro by de Queiros (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
Pepita Jimenez by Valera (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Virgin Soil - Ivan Turgenev (2006) [Russia, Russian]
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot (2006)
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy (2006) [UK, English]
The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert (2006) [France, French]
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [UK, English]
The Enchanted Wanderer - Nicolai Leskov [Russia, Russian]
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne [France, French]
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes - Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope (2006)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [Russia, Russian]
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert [France, French]
Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
Maldoror - Comte de Lautreaumont [France/Uruguay, French]
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Therese Raquin - Emile Zola [France, French]
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne [France, French]
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky [Russia, Russian]
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev [Russia, Russian]
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [UK, English]
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006)
Max Havelaar - Multatuli
On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev (2006) [Russia, Russian]
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope (2006)
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov [Russia, Russian]
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Indian Summer by Stifter (2008, 2010) [Austria, German]
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [France, French]
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell [UK, English]
Green Henry by Keller (2008, 2010) [Swiss, German]
Hard Times - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
Walden - Henry David Thoreau [USA, English]
Bleak House - Charles Dickens [UK, English]
Villette - Charlotte Bronte (2006) [UK, English]
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell [UK, English]
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006) [USA, English]
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne [USA, English]
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville [USA, English]
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne [USA, English]dick
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [UK, English]
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte (2006) [UK, English]
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell (2006) [UK, English]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte [UK, English]
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [UK, English]
Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte (2006) [UK, English]
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [UK, English]
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [UK/India, English]
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [France, French]
The Devil's Fool by George Sand (2008, 2010) [France, French]
Facundo by Sarmiento (2008, 2010) [Argentina, Spanish]
La Reine Margot - Alexandre Dumas (2006) [France, French]
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [France, French]
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (2006) [USA, English]
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe [USA, English]
Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac [France, French]
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol [Ukraine, Russian]
A Hero for our Times by Lermontov (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
Camera Obscura by Hildebrand (2008, 2010)
The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal [France, French]
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience (2008, 2010) [Belgium, Flemish]
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (2006) [UK, English]
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [UK, English]
The Nose - Nikolay Gogol [Ukraine, Russian]
Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac [France, French]
Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac [France, French]
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (2008, 2010) [Russia, Russian]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo [France, French]
The Red and the Black - Stendhal [France, French]
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni [Italy, Italian]
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The L ife of a Good-for-Nothing by von Eichendorff (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Hoffman (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin (2006)
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott (2006)
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (2006)
Persuasion - Jane Austen (2006)
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth (2006)
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Emma - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Michael Kohlhaas by von Kleist (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth (2006)
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot [France, French]
Henry of Ofterdingen by Novalis (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Hyperion - Friedrich Holderlin [Germany, German]
The Nun - Denis Diderot [France, French]
Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot [France, French]
Camilla - Fanny Burney
The Monk - M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin
A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin (2008, 2010)
Justine - Marquis de Sade [France, French]
Vathek - William Beckford [UK, French]
Anton Reiser by Moritz (2008, 2010)
The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade [France, French]
Cecilia - Fanny Burney (2006)
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos [France, French]
Reveries of a Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]
Evelina - Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Germany, German]
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
Emile; or, On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]
Julie; or, the New Eloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Switzerland/France, French]
Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Candide - Voltaire [France, French]
The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
Amelia - Henry Fielding (2006)
Peregrine Pickle - Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Roderick Random - Tobias George Smollett (2006)
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Pamela - Samuel Richardson
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 (2006)
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift (2006)
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
The Princess of Cleves - Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette [France, French]
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (2006)
The Adventurous Simplicissimus by von Grimmelshausen (2008, 2010) [Germany, German]
The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz del Castillo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [Spain, Spanish]
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius
Thomas of Reading by Deloney (2008, 2010)
The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly (2006)
Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (2008, 2010) [China]
The Lusiad by Vaz de Camoes (2008, 2010) [Portugal, Portuguese]
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francoise Rabelais [France, French]
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Amadis of Gaul by de Montalvo (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
La Celestina by de Rojas (2008, 2010) [Spain, Spanish]
Tirant lo Blanc by Martorell (2008, 2010)
The Water Margin by Nai'an (2008, 2010)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong (2008, 2010)
The Tale of Gengi (2008, 2010) [Japan, Japanese]
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (2008, 2010)
The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous [Arabic]
Aithiopika - Heliodorus (2006)
Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton (2006)
Metamorphoses - Ovid (2006)
Aesop's Fables - Aesopus (2006)

palinode

May 12, 2008 at 7:50 pm * Reply

Thanks for posting this list! I made a quick count and I'm up to 237 books so far. I think my days of reading voraciously are pretty much behind me, but there are a few here I've always wanted to get to.

Dan

May 12, 2008 at 8:17 pm * Reply

Great list, I've read around 70 already +/-. I'm just wondering what kept the following off the list...

Catch-22
Snow Falling on Cedars
Cold Mountain
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Dune
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Odyssey
Anything by Sophocles
Anything by Aeschylus
Anything by Shakespeare
(granted these are plays, but it is what it is)

I'll let you know others as I think of them...

Ginny

December 13, 2011 at 10:58 am * Reply

As I understand it, only novels are included in the list. Sophocles, Aeschylus and Shakespeare are therefore out - I think the title is misleading - it should be 1001 Novels you should... etc.
The majority of the novels come from the Anglo-Saxon world and so it is intended mostly for those readers -
If the list has been compiled by critics from the Latin (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and so on) tradition a very different list would have emerged.
Rob

August 22, 2012 at 7:13 pm * Reply

Smilla's Sense of Snow is on the list.
Rob

August 22, 2012 at 7:16 pm * Reply

Catch-22 is also on the list.

May 12, 2008 at 8:26 pm * Reply

Cool Hand Luke
Anything by John MacDonald
At least one by Carl Hiaasen

Erica

May 12, 2008 at 9:08 pm * Reply

I just have to let you know that you will not be disappointed by The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It's one of my favorite books and I've read it a dozen times.

Richard

May 12, 2008 at 9:34 pm * Reply

I am surprised that more of, or a number of, authors aren't here: Heinlein, Clark, McCullogh, Dick. Heinlein and Clarke changed society and the way we look at things; they equaled Verne in creativity. Some interesting ones are, though [Doctrow]
As it is, I've read 88 of the 1001-but the other 10,000 or so that I've read aren't as 'classy' as this list, I guess.

doug

May 13, 2008 at 4:28 am * Reply

think i've read about a fifth of this lot.

i really need to get into henry james i think.

not enough conrad. pynchon is a terrible old fraud.

thought the secret history was a bit so so myself.

just read the line of beauty by alan hollinghurst. - lovely book.

paolho coelho is on here ! - he's just appalling! ! trite, banal truisms dressed up with some new age hokum. absolutely sickening.

thought the wind up bird chronicle or norwegian wood were better murakamis than the ones on here.

i agree that there whould be some homer and some shakespeare. i enjoyed the histories too.

May 13, 2008 at 4:31 am * Reply

also i think carson mccullers is a pretty shocking omission.. but there you go..

bplatt

May 13, 2008 at 6:37 am * Reply

Also missing from the 2000s: The Persian Bride by James Buchan and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, both fine reads that will endure, I think.

OldStacks

May 13, 2008 at 6:52 am * Reply

Nothing on the list by Michener? Or did I just miss his name?

Mjohnson

May 13, 2008 at 9:29 am * Reply

I've managed 61. It's an ambitious list. I'll add that I don't rate J.G. Ballard. I'd miss him out if I were you. Save your time for better authors.

I see Doug likes Norweigan Wood, just finished it and I enjoyed it more than Kafka on the shore, so maybe swap those.

Enjoy.

Bill

May 13, 2008 at 12:13 pm * Reply

Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of the Great War," "Refiner's Fire," and any of his several collections of short stories are some of the most satifying, provoking, and enjoyable things I've ever read. And I'm always reading.

dario

May 13, 2008 at 1:51 pm * Reply

There is a typo in the # 441. Labyrinths - Jorg Luis Borges
It must be Jorge.

meto-buthub

May 13, 2008 at 3:30 pm * Reply

no shakespear, greek tragities, nothing chinease (Genji and Monkey King off the top) where is has christian andersen, Goethe and the german romantics? why not Sir Qawain nor any middle english narrative? The list is nice though, but seriously lacking in a lot of good literature. Where is Guy Vanderhaeghe, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Marcel Proust? Why is "The Shining" on this list. Wait, reading the list, i forgot what the list was about.
So books to read before death. There is not to very little from non christian and non Enlightenment thought in this list. This list is badly biased and Eurocentric. Nice, but centric.

nat

May 13, 2008 at 4:34 pm * Reply

I know that the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and that The Scarlet Letter are known as a classic, but i frankly thought that they were the worst books i have ever read! I even got so angry with The Bell Jar that several times i threw it onto the couch!
I am surprised that it has The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, but not some of her other books, which were really great.
The Catcher in the Rye and The Secret (by Donna Tart) were some of my favorites.
But i have only read 37 of these books, but I am still young (only 18). And i have read a lot and enjoy it, but not those books. I have heard of a lot of them, or seen movies based on the books. But I cant wait to read more books on the list!! It shall be rathe challengin since i live in Belgium, but I shall try!!

Rebekah

April 5, 2010 at 12:13 pm * Reply

This is to Nat, because you are so young i can understand why you might be frustrated with novels such as the Bell Jar and The Scarlett Letter, these are novels about life experiences that you have yet to face. Some advice would be to wait a few years, and go back to these novels when you are in your mid to late 20s and then you might understand them.

Sandra Gulland

May 14, 2008 at 5:56 am * Reply

It's a wonderful list to look through. I've read 120, started (and abandoned) quite a few, and others I've read several times over. However, given my age, I must read 49 a year to finish--I don't think so! Especially not with all the wonderful books coming out all the time. The list has made me consider picking up some of the classics and adding them to my TBR pile. There are some I long to reread, as well.

Michael Critz

May 14, 2008 at 11:34 am * Reply

Read: 31/1001

My recommendations:
Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
Anything by Virgil
Anything by Shakespeare (!!!!)

Basically... the list needs a serious beefing-up in the pre-1700 section.

Madelein

May 21, 2008 at 11:58 am * Reply

To Bill: "A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR" is a book I want to almost say is one of the best book I have read, this is saying a lot, i to am always reading, never forgot this book and highly recomend it, do not be fooled by the title, I am a woman.

Don Vaillancourt

May 22, 2008 at 8:11 am * Reply

Wow, I'm impressed, this is a very good list. I'm planning to start Moby Dick in the next few weeks.

I have seen the movie version of some of those titles. Can that count for 1/2 a point?

Ginger

May 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm * Reply

I've read a lot of these. Some were not my cup of tea, others were boring and then there were the ones that have stayed with me.

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdock is one of the latter. It was not what I expected; however I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible was one of the worst books I've read. I just wanted to throw it against the wall. (I didn't)

It is an interesting list and while I've read over 100 of them there are some on there that I know I won't ever read and others that interest me.

Good Luck.

Julz

May 26, 2008 at 11:14 am * Reply

Nothing on the list by:
Boris Vian, Hubert Selby Jr, William T. Vollmann, Andre Malraux, Antoine De St Exupery, Jean Giono, Stefan Zweig, Hoderlin, Petrone, Woody Guthrie, Percival Everett, Aaaron Appelfeld, Robert Mc Liam Wilson, Witold Gombrowisz........

slorion

June 3, 2008 at 5:10 am * Reply

Frank Herbert ... the Dune serie is easily one of the SF masterpieces. I am surprised you skipped that one.

Also missing fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman which is very entertaining.

As another comment pointed out, this list is very light on non European/American litterature. At least a couple of books from different cultures would help expand horizons.

Dave

June 6, 2008 at 3:22 am * Reply

A very nice list that I am happy to say I have been exposed to a few so far in my roughly 30 years. However, while this list is really long I do notice a lack of Speculative literature influence within the 1900s especially. While contemporary, speculative literature often is ground in the commonality of the human condition, something that continues to attract me to the genre.

Elisabeth

June 8, 2008 at 9:08 am * Reply

FAR too many 1900s and later, but I've read 46 in full and about half of another 3, (most of which come from 1700s and 1800s) which makes me 4.5% well-read!!!! I own a good couple of dozen more of them, so I could even make it to 6% or so!!!

Steve

June 21, 2008 at 8:22 pm * Reply

Herodotus' History? Surely?

Arukiyomi

July 9, 2008 at 11:18 am * Reply

If you are interested, you can get an interactive spreadsheet for this list from Arukiyomi's blog at

http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books

happy reading!

Robyn

October 21, 2009 at 9:33 pm * Reply

http://1001booksproj.blogspot.com/

Phil

December 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm * Reply

TWO titles by de Sade?? APPALLING at even one!

Add The Lovely Bones and The Time Traveler's Wife for the 20th Century

Rob

August 6, 2012 at 11:02 am * Reply

Totally agree about de Sade, also The Lovely Bones is an excellence book. I would add White Oleander as well.
- Rob
  
  August 13, 2012 at 3:29 pm * Reply
  
  *excellent

OdetteO

April 5, 2010 at 1:35 pm * Reply

I can't thank you enough for listing all the books from the different editions, as well as dates to indicate which editions they are from. It's a great resource!

Chris

August 2, 2010 at 12:59 pm * Reply

I'm wondering why I don't see a single novel by any of these amazing authors:
Dan Brown
Clive Cussler
Ken Follett
Brad Meltzer
Eoin Colfer
Chris D'Lacey
J.K. Rowling
James Clavell
Herman Wouk
David Baldacci
W.E.B. Griffin
Irving Stone

Dan Brown I can sorta understand but... Pillars of the Earth (Follett)??? THAt book should definitely be up there!

Karen Lon

December 20, 2010 at 11:47 am * Reply

I've looked at the list online (don't know what version is being cited), in 2006 edition, and 2010 edition. Too hard for me to figure out what has been added and subtracted between first and last. Is there any way to find out. Would be interesting to know criteria for making such decisions.

Have ended up claiming that if something I read was on any of the lists, it counted.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

February 1, 2011 at 6:52 am * Reply

What a beautiful list... and I love the bookshelves background. Very cosy
Just wanted to suggest you add my site under #1085 since you didn't put a link there - it's just The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn online, free to download and read: http://adventuresofhuckleberryfinn.org

Thanks for this list

Logos

August 4, 2011 at 10:12 pm * Reply

Burn this list! How can anyone who is well read not put Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'? That's quite sad...

Magician

October 15, 2011 at 4:16 am * Reply

Wonderful site. Plenty of useful info here. I am sending it to a few buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And naturally, thanks on your effort!
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October 17, 2011 at 9:38 am * Reply

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February 2, 2012 at 7:42 am * Reply

hey there Michelle... thought you'd be interested in knowing that we're hoping to launch this

http://1001booksapp.com

at the end of the month.
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Ciaran

April 2, 2012 at 5:47 am * Reply

Ok where is Five People you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.

Alex in Leeds

May 15, 2012 at 6:42 am * Reply

Aha! This is exactly what I was after. Many thanks for putting it together.

joseph

September 30, 2012 at 10:28 am * Reply

The 2012 edition is due out tomorrow (Oct. 1), yay! any chance we'll be seeing the new books added to the masterlist on this site? I sure hope so!

3m

October 3, 2012 at 3:58 pm * Reply

Hi, Joseph!!!

Yes, I'll be updating this list but I can't give a timeframe. Hopefully soon!
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September 30, 2012 at 10:30 am * Reply

any chance you'll be posting the new books from the 2012 edition? really excited about it!

September 30, 2012 at 10:31 am * Reply

any chance you'll be adding the new books from the 2012 edition? any way I could find out what they are?

September 30, 2012 at 10:41 am * Reply

any chance you'll be adding the new titles from the 2012 edition? So excited!

lkbarr

October 12, 2012 at 11:18 am * Reply

Everyone always says Shakespeare or Homer, but Shakespeare is drama and Homer is poetry. These are all fiction.

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