The 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die book by Peter Boxall was first published in 2006. Since then the list has been revised with a few changes. The most changes were made in the 2008 edition. The total number of books that have been included in all the editions now totals 1,305. The list below includes all 1,305 books.
I have indicated those books that I have read in Blue whilst all those I haven’t read are in black.
My list was compiled from a spreadsheet available from a link on a GoodReads list.
I have read 259 books from the list so far (March 2023).
Pre-18th Century
- Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
- The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter – Anonymous
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
- The Golden Ass – Apuleius
- Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
- The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
- Don Quixote – Cervantes
- The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Cervantes
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
- Monkey: Journey to the West – Wu Cheng’en
- Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney
- The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong
- Aithiopika – Heliodorus
- The Princess of Clèves – Madame de La Fayette
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
- Tirant lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell
- The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an
- The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
- Metamorphoses – Ovid
- Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
- Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas
- The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
- The Lusiad – Luís Vaz de Camões
- The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans von Grimmelshausen
18th Century
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – John Arbuthnot
- Vathek – William Beckford
- Camilla – Fanny Burney
- Evelina – Fanny Burney
- Cecilia – Fanny Burney
- Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Fanny Hill – John Cleland
- Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- Roxana – Daniel Defoe
- Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
- The Nun – Denis Diderot
- The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
- Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
- Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
- Amelia – Henry Fielding
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
- The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
- Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
- Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
- Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
- The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
- The Monk – Matthew Lewis
- The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
- Anton Reiser – Karl Philipp Moritz
- The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
- Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
- Pamela – Samuel Richardson
- Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Justine – Marquis de Sade
- The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
- Humphry Clinker – Tobias Smollett
- Peregrine Pickle – Tobias Smollett
- Roderick Random – Tobias Smollett
- A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
- Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
- A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
- Candide – Voltaire
- The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
- A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin
19th Century
- The Regent’s Wife – Leopoldo Alas
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
- Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
- Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
- The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
- Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
- Villette – Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Erewhon – Samuel Butler
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience
- Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
- The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio
- The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Hard Times – Charles Dickens
- Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
- Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
- The Crime of Father Amaro – José Maria de Eça de Queirós
- Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
- Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
- The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
- Adam Bede – George Eliot
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
- Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
- Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
- Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
- Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane
- The Stechlin – Theodor Fontane
- Thais – Anatole France
- Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
- North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
- New Grub Street – George Gissing
- Born in Exile – George Gissing
- Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
- The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
- Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov
- Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
- Hunger – Knut Hamsun
- Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
- The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
- The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
- The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez
- Camera Obscura – Hildebrand
- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffman
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- Against Nature (À rebours) – Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Damned (Là-Bas) – Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
- What Maisie Knew – Henry James
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- Green Henry – Gottfried Keller
- The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
- Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
- Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
- In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
- Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
- A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Lermontov
- The Enchanted Wanderer – Nikolai Leskov
- Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
- Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
- The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
- A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
- Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
- Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- News from Nowhere – William Morris
- Max Havelaar – Multatuli
- Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis
- Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
- Fortunata y Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdós
- Compassion – Benito Pérez Galdós
- The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
- Pharoah – Boleslaw Prus
- Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
- King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
- She – H. Rider Haggard
- The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
- Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
- The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
- The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
- The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
- The Red and the Black – Stendhal
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
- The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
- The Red Room – August Strindberg
- As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
- The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
- The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
- Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
- He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
- Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
- King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
- Spring Torrents – Turgenev Ivan
- On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
- Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera
- The Quest – Frederik van Eeden
- Under the Yoke – Ivan Vazov
- The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
- Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
- The Life of a Good-for-Nothing – Joseph von Eichendorff
- Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
- Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
- The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
- The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- L’Assommoir (aka Drunkard) – Émile Zola
- Germinal – Émile Zola
- La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
- Nana – Émile Zola
- Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
20th Century
- Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
- Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
- The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
- Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
- In The Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Broad and Alien is the World – Ciro Alegria
- The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
- Fantômas – Marcel Allain
- The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
- Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
- Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
- Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
- Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
- The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
- The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
- London Fields – Martin Amis
- Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
- Dead Babies – Martin Amis
- The Information – Martin Amis
- Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
- Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
- The Commandant – Jessica Anderson
- The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andrić
- Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andrić
- Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Fado Alexandrino – Antonio Lobo Antunes
- The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon
- Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas
- Deep Rivers – José María Arguedas
- The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi
- The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
- Obabakoak – Bernardo Atxaga
- Moon Palace – Paul Auster
- The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
- Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
- Timbuktu – Paul Auster
- The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
- The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela
- So Long a Letter – Mariama Ba
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
- Crash – J.G. Ballard
- Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
- Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
- High Rise – J.G. Ballard
- The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
- The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
- The Crow Road – Iain Banks
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Complicity – Iain Banks
- The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
- Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
- The Book of Evidence – John Banville
- The Newton Letter – John Banville
- The Untouchable – John Banville
- Hell (L’Enfer) – Henri Barbusse
- Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
- Silk – Alessandro Baricco
- Regeneration – Pat Barker
- Another World – Pat Barker
- The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
- Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
- Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
- Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
- The Floating Opera – John Barth
- The End of the Road – John Barth
- The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
- Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
- Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Barthelme
- Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
- Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille
- Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
- The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
- The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
- Jacob the Liar – Jurek Becker
- Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
- Molloy – Samuel Beckett
- Murphy – Samuel Beckett
- How It Is – Samuel Beckett
- Mercier and Camier – Samuel Beckett
- The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
- Watt – Samuel Beckett
- Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
- Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
- Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
- Herzog – Saul Bellow
- Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
- Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
- Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
- The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- The Victim – Saul Bellow
- The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
- G – John Berger
- Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos
- Correction – Thomas Bernhard
- Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
- Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
- Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
- Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
- Yes – Thomas Bernhard
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
- Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernières
- Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
- Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
- Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
- The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
- Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
- Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski
- Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
- The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
- To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
- A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
- The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
- The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
- World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
- Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
- Arcanum 17 – André Breton
- Nadja – André Breton
- A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
- Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
- The Death of Virgil – Hermann Broch
- The Guiltless – Hermann Broch
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
- Junkie – William Burroughs
- Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
- Queer – William Burroughs
- The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
- The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
- The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
- The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
- Possession – A.S. Byatt
- The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
- House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell
- If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
- Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
- The Outsider – Albert Camus
- The Plague – Albert Camus
- The Rebel – Albert Camus
- Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
- War with the Newts – Karel Capek
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
- Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
- Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
- The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier
- Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
- The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
- Wise Children – Angela Carter
- Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola
- Solitude – Victor Catala
- The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
- Journey to the Alcarria – Cela Camilo Jose
- The Hive – Camilo José Cela
- Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
- Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
- Wild Swans – Jung Chang
- On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
- The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
- The Taebaek Mountains – Cho Jung Rae
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
- On the Heights of Despair – Emil Cioran
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
- The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
- Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
- What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
- Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
- Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
- Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
- In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
- The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
- Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
- Foe – J.M. Coetzee
- The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
- Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
- Claudine’s House – Colette
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
- Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
- The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
- Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
- The Public Burning – Robert Coover
- Arcadia – Jim Crace
- The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
- The Hours – Michael Cunningham
- A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
- Disappearance – David Dabydeen
- Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
- The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
- On Love – Alain de Botton
- Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
- The Heretic – Miguel Delibes
- Mao II – Don DeLillo
- Underworld – Don DeLillo
- White Noise – Don DeLillo
- Libra – Don DeLillo
- Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
- The Names – Don DeLillo
- Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai
- All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
- Democracy – Joan Didion
- Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
- The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
- Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
- Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
- Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
- The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
- Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
- Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
- Asphodel – Hilda Doolittle
- U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
- Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
- Fool’s Gold – Maro Douka
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
- As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
- Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
- The Lover – Marguerite Duras
- The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
- The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
- Justine – Lawrence Durrell
- The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- A World for Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique
- Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
- Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El-Saadawi
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
- Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
- Cheese – Willem Elsschot
- Deep River – Shusaku Endo
- Silence – Shusaku Endo
- Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
- Moscow Stations – Venedikt Erofeyev
- Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Astradeni – Eugenia Fakinou
- The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
- The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
- Troubles – J.G. Farrell
- Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
- Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
- The Hamlet – William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante
- The Wars – Timothy Findley
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
- Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
- The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
- A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
- Howards End – E.M. Forster
- Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
- The Magus – John Fowles
- A Maggot – John Fowles
- The Collector – John Fowles
- Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
- Simon and the Oaks – Marianne Fredriksson
- Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
- Homo Faber – Max Frisch
- I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
- The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes
- The Recognitions – William Gaddis
- The Back Room – Carmen Martin Gaite
- Memory of Fire – Eduardo Galeano
- Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
- The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
- Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
- No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel García Márquez
- Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
- The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
- Legend – David Gemmell
- The Triple Mirror of the Self – Zulfikar Ghose
- The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Strait is the Gate – André Gide
- The Counterfeiters – André Gide
- The Immoralist – André Gide
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Rites of Passage – William Golding
- Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
- Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
- July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
- Mother – Maxim Gorky
- The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
- Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
- The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
- Dog Years – Günter Grass
- Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
- The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
- Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
- Back – Henry Green
- Blindness – Henry Green
- Living – Henry Green
- Loving – Henry Green
- Caught – Henry Green
- Party Going – Henry Green
- Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
- The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
- The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
- The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- England Made Me – Graham Greene
- The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
- The Third Man – Graham Greene
- Memoirs of Rain – Sunetra Gupta
- Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
- Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
- The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
- Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
- The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
- The Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
- Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun
- The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
- The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
- Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
- The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
- The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
- A Question of Power – Bessie Head
- The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
- Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
- Margot and the Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts
- Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
- The First Garden – Anne Herbert
- Dispatches – Michael Herr
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
- The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
- Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
- The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
- Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Himes
- A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
- The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
- Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
- The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
- The Swimming Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
- The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
- The Cathedral – Oles Honchar
- Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
- Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
- Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
- Paradise of the Blind – Duong Thu Huong
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
- Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
- Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
- Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- The Cider House Rules – John Irving
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
- The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
- A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
- An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguroo
- The Ambassadors – Henry James
- The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
- The Golden Bowl – Henry James
- A Day Off – Storm Jameson
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
- Leaden Wings – Jie Zhang
- Platero and I – Juan Ramón Jiménez
- House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
- Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
- Trawl – B.S. Johnson
- Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
- In Parenthesis – David Jones
- Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger
- The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
- Broken April – Ismail Kadare
- Amerika – Franz Kafka
- The Castle – Franz Kafka
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
- The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
- Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzákis
- How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
- The Busconductor Hines – James Kelman
- A Disaffection – James Kelman
- Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
- Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
- Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
- Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Fateless – Imre Kertész
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
- Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid
- The Shining – Stephen King
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
- Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis
- Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light – Ivan Klima
- Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen
- The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen
- The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad
- A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac
- Smell of Sadness – Alfred Kossmann
- The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
- The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
- The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
- The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
- On the Edge of Reason – Miroslav Krleza
- The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza
- Professor Martens’ Departure – Jaan Kross
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- The Joke – Milan Kundera
- The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
- Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
- Land – Park Kyung-ni
- Andrea – Carmen Laforet
- Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
- Passing – Nella Larsen
- Quicksand – Nella Larsen
- The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
- The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
- Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
- Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
- The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
- The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
- Independent People – Halldór Laxness
- The Dark Child – Camara Laye
- Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
- The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
- Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
- The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
- Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
- La Brava – Elmore Leonard
- City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
- The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
- The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
- Shikasta – Doris Lessing
- The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
- Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
- If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
- If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
- The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
- Monica – Saunders Lewis
- Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
- Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
- Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
- The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
- Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
- The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
- The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
- Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
- The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
- The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
- The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
- The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa
- The War of the End of the World – Mario Vargas Llosa
- Martin Eden – Jack London
- The Iron Heel – Jack London
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- The Twins – Tessa de Loo
- At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
- Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
- Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
- Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
- Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
- Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz
- Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
- Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
- Man’s Fate – André Malraux
- Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
- Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
- Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
- Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
- Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
- The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
- Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
- Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
- The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
- Embers – Sandor Marai
- A Heart So White – Javier Marias
- All Souls – Javier Marias
- The Late-Night News – Petros Markaris
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
- Pavel’s Letters – Monika Maron
- Time of Silence – Luis Martín-Santos
- Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
- The Daughter – Pavlos Matesis
- Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
- Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
- Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
- Vipers’ Tangle – Francois Mauriac
- The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
- All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
- The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
- Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
- Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
- The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
- The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
- Amongst Women – John McGahern
- Billy Budd, Sailor – Herman Melville
- A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza
- The Manila Rope – Veijo Meri
- Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
- Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
- Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
- The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
- The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
- The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
- The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
- Crossfire – Miyuki Miyabe
- Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo
- Southern Seas – Manuel Vazquez Montalban
- Watchmen – Alan Moore
- Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
- Like Life – Lorrie Moore
- A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
- Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
- The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye -Toni Morrison
- Jazz – Toni Morrison
- Sula – Toni Morrison
- Down Second Avenue – Es’kia Mphahlele
- The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee
- The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
- Lives of Girls and Women – Alice Munro
- The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
- Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami
- A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
- The Bell – Iris Murdoch
- The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
- The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
- Inland – Gerald Murnane
- The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
- Young Törless – Robert Musil
- The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis
- Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
- A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
- Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
- In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
- The Guide – R.K. Narayan
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
- All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
- Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
- Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
- The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
- August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
- Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
- At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
- The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
- The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
- Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
- The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
- The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
- Them – Joyce Carol Oates
- Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
- Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
- Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- Burmese Days – George Orwell
- Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
- Cataract – Mykhailo Osadchyi
- Black Box – Amos Oz
- Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
- The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna
- Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
- The Laws – Connie Palmen
- Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini
- Ballad for Georg Henig – Viktor Paskov
- The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
- The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese
- Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
- The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
- Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
- Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
- The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
- The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
- A Void – Georges Perec
- Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
- Things: A Story of the Sixties – Georges Perec
- W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
- A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
- The Dumas Club – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
- Money to Burn – Ricardo Piglia
- One, No One and One Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
- Here’s to You, Jesusa – Elena Poniatowska
- A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
- Typical – Padgett Powell
- The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
- Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
- Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig
- Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
- Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
- Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
- V. – Thomas Pynchon
- Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
- Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
- Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
- The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
- The Last World – Christoph Ransmayr
- The Story of O – Pauline Réage
- The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
- Quartet – Jean Rhys
- Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
- Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel – Julian Rios
- Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – João Guimarães Rosa
- Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
- Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
- The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- American Pastoral – Philip Roth
- Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
- Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
- The Breast – Philip Roth
- Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
- Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
- The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Shame – Salman Rushdie
- The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
- Grimus – Salman Rushdie
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
- The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
- The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck
- Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Witness – Juan José Saer
- Contact – Carl Sagan
- Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
- Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
- Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
- Baltasar and Blimunda – José Saramago
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
- Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
- Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
- Lieutenant Gustl (aka None but the Brave) – Arthur Schnitzler
- Memoirs of my Nervous Illness – Daniel Paul Schreber
- The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
- To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia
- Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
- The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
- The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
- Transit – Anna Seghers
- Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr.
- Great Apes – Will Self
- Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic
- The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
- God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnour
- Rickshaw Boy – Lao She
- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
- Downriver – Iain Sinclair
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
- The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Škvorecký
- The Forbidden Realm – Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
- The Port – Antun Šoljan
- Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The First Circle – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
- The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
- The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
- The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
- The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
- Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
- The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- Couples, Passerby – Botho Strauss
- The Young Man – Botho Strauss
- Perfume – Patrick Süskind
- The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
- Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
- Waterland – Graham Swift
- The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman – Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
- The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
- The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis
- Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor
- The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
- Matigari – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- The River Between – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Petals of Blood – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
- The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
- Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
- The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
- The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
- The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
- Pallieter – Felix Timmermans
- The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Cane – Jean Toomer
- City Sister Silver – Jáchym Topol
- The Ogre – Michael Tournier
- Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
- Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
- Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
- Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
- The Christmas Oratorio – Goran Tunstrom
- The Museum of Unconditional Surrender – Dubravka Ugresic
- Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset
- Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
- Rabbit Redux – John Updike
- Rabbit, Run – John Updike
- Our Lady of the Assassins – Fernando Vallejo
- Ancestral Voices – Etienne van Heerden
- The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
- Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
- The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
- Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
- Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
- Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xosé Neira Vilas
- Conversations In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
- In Search of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
- Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- Halftime – Martin Walser
- Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
- Indigo – Marina Warner
- The House with the Blind Glass Windows – Herbjorg Wassmo
- Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
- Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
- A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
- Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
- The Graduate – Charles Webb
- The New World – Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase
- Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
- Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
- The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
- The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
- Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
- The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
- Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
- Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
- Summer – Edith Wharton
- The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
- A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
- The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
- The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
- Voss – Patrick White
- The Tree of Man – Patrick White
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
- No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
- I Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson
- Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
- Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
- The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
- Insatiability – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
- Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
- Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
- The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
- Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
- Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- Orlando – Virginia Woolf
- The Waves – Virginia Woolf
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
- Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
- Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
- The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
- The Years – Virginia Woolf
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
- The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
- Chocky – John Wyndham
- Half of Man is Woman – Zhang Xianliang
- Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
- Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
- We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Gimmick! – Joost Zwagerman
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig
- Amok – Stefan Zweig
- Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
21st Century
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
- I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
- Invisible – Paul Auster
- Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
- Dead Air – Iain Banks
- Shroud – John Banville
- The Sea – John Banville
- Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
- The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
- 2666 – Roberto Bolaño
- Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt
- Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
- The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
- Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Youth – J.M. Coetzee
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
- Falling Man – Don DeLillo
- The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
- Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
- City of God – E.L. Doctorow
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
- The Gathering – Anne Enright
- Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Under the Skin – Michel Faber
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Blind Side of the Heart – Julia Franck
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
- Thursbitch – Alan Garner
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
- The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
- Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
- The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
- Platform – Michel Houellebecq
- What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
- Carry Me Down – M.J. Hyland
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
- The Successor – Ismail Kadare
- Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
- Kieron Smith, boy – James Kelman
- The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
- Ignorance – Milan Kundera
- Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
- The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Small Island -Andrea Levy
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
- The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
- The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
- Schooling – Heather McGowan
- The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
- American Rust – Philipp Meyer
- Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
- After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
- Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
- In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
- At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
- Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
- A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
- Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
- Snow – Orhan Pamuk
- Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
- Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
- Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
- Home – Marilynne Robinson
- Cost – Roxana Robinson
- The Human Stain – Philip Roth
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- Nemesis – Philip Roth
- Fury – Salman Rushdie
- The Double – José Saramago
- Cain – José Saramago
- Pastoralia – George Saunders
- The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
- Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
- How the Dead Live – Will Self
- An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
- Unless – Carol Shields
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
- Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
- Islands – Dan Sleigh
- The Accidental – Ali Smith
- There But For The – Ali Smith
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Lady Number Thirteen – José Carlos Somoza
- Mother’s Milk – Edward St Aubyn
- The Light of Day – Graham Swift
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- The Colour – Rose Tremain
- The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
- Bartleby and Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas
- Fingersmith – Sarah Waters