2006 Original Book List (1900s)

1900s	Author First Name	Author Last Name
Arrow of God	Chinua	Achebe
Things Fall Apart	Chinua	Achebe
Blood and Guts in High School	Kathy	Acker
The House of Doctor Dee	Peter	Ackroyd
Hawksmoor	Peter	Ackroyd
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul	Douglas	Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency	Douglas	Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas	Adams
Novel With Cocaine	M.	Ageyev
The Man With the Golden Arm	Nelson	Algren
Fantômas	Marcel, Pierre	Allain & Souvestre
The House of the Spirits	Isabel	Allende
Tent of Miracles	Jorge	Amado
Cause for Alarm	Eric	Ambler
The Information	Martin	Amis
Time’s Arrow	Martin	Amis
London Fields	Martin	Amis
The Old Devils	Kingsley	Amis
Money: A Suicide Note	Martin	Amis
Dead Babies	Martin	Amis
The Green Man	Kingsley	Amis
Lucky Jim	Kingsley	Amis
The Bridge on the Drina	Ivo	Andri
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya	Angelou
The Green Hat	Michael	Arlen
Foundation	Isaac	Asimov
I, Robot	Isaac	Asimov
Alias Grace	Margaret	Atwood
The Robber Bride	Margaret	Atwood
Cat’s Eye	Margaret	Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret	Atwood
Surfacing	Margaret	Atwood
Timbuktu	Paul	Auster
Mr. Vertigo	Paul	Auster
The Music of Chance	Paul	Auster
Moon Palace	Paul	Auster
The New York Trilogy	Paul	Auster
Giovanni’s Room	James	Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain	James	Baldwin
Cocaine Nights	J.G.	Ballard
Empire of the Sun	J.G.	Ballard
High Rise	J.G.	Ballard
Crash	J.G.	Ballard
The Atrocity Exhibition	J.G.	Ballard
The Drowned World	J.G.	Ballard
Cloudsplitter	Russell	Banks
Complicity	Iain	Banks
The Crow Road	Iain	Banks
The Player of Games	Iain M.	Banks
The Wasp Factory	Iain	Banks
The Untouchable	John	Banville
The Book of Evidence	John	Banville
The Newton Letter	John	Banville
Under Fire	Henri	Barbusse
The Inferno	Henri	Barbusse
Silk	Alessandro	Baricco
Another World	Pat	Barker
The Ghost Road	Pat	Barker
Regeneration	Pat	Barker
Flaubert’s Parrot	Julian	Barnes
Nightwood	Djuna	Barnes
Giles Goat-Boy	John	Barth
The End of the Road	John	Barth
The Floating Opera	John	Barth
Amateurs	Donald	Barthelme
The Dead Father	Donald	Barthelme
Come Back, Dr. Caligari	Donald	Bartholme
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Giorgio	Bassani
Blue Noon	Georges	Bataille
The Abbot C	Georges	Bataille
Story of the Eye	Georges	Bataille
Worstward Ho	Samuel	Beckett
Mercier et Camier	Samuel	Beckett
How It Is	Samuel	Beckett
The Unnamable	Samuel	Beckett
Watt	Samuel	Beckett
Malone Dies	Samuel	Beckett
Molloy	Samuel	Beckett
Murphy	Samuel	Beckett
Borstal Boy	Brendan	Behan
Humboldt’s Gift	Saul	Bellow
Herzog	Saul	Bellow
Henderson the Rain King	Saul	Bellow
Seize the Day	Saul	Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March	Saul	Bellow
The Victim	Saul	Bellow
Dangling Man	Saul	Bellow
The Old Wives’ Tale	Arnold	Bennett
G	John	Berger
Extinction	Thomas	Bernhard
Old Masters	Thomas	Bernhard
Wittgenstein’s Nephew	Thomas	Bernhard
Concrete	Thomas	Bernhard
Yes	Thomas	Bernhard
Correction	Thomas	Bernhard
Death Sentence	Maurice	Blanchot
The Safety Net	Heinrich	Böll
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum	Heinrich	Böll
Group Portrait With Lady	Heinrich	Böll
Billiards at Half-Past Nine	Heinrich	Böll
Labyrinths	Jorg Luis	Borges
Ficciones	Jorge Luis	Borges
Eva Trout	Elizabeth	Bowen
A World of Love	Elizabeth	Bowen
The Heat of the Day	Elizabeth	Bowen
The House in Paris	Elizabeth	Bowen
To the North	Elizabeth	Bowen
The Last September	Elizabeth	Bowen
World’s End	T. Coraghessan	Boyle
Willard and His Bowling Trophies	Richard	Brautiga
In Watermelon Sugar	Richard	Brautigan
Threepenny Novel	Bertolt	Brecht
Arcanum 17	André	Breton
Nadja	André	Breton
Testament of Youth	Vera	Brittain
The Thirty-Nine Steps	John	Buchan
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail	Bulgakov
Inside Mr. Enderby	Anthony	Burgess
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony	Burgess
Queer	William	Burroughs
The Wild Boys	William	Burroughs
Naked Lunch	William	Burroughs
Junkie	William	Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice	Burroughs
The Tartar Steppe	Dino	Buzzati
Possession	A.S.	Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden	A.S.	Byatt
The Postman Always Rings Twice	James M.	Cain
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler	Italo	Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies	Italo	Calvino
Invisible Cities	Italo	Calvino
Our Ancestors	Italo	Calvino
The Path to the Nest of Spiders	Italo	Calvino
The Rebel	Albert	Camus
The Plague	Albert	Camus
The Outsider	Albert	Camus
Auto-da-Fé	Elias	Canetti
In Cold Blood	Truman	Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Truman	Capote
Jack Maggs	Peter	Carey
Oscar and Lucinda	Peter	Carey
Kingdom of This World	Alejo	Carpentier
Wise Children	Angela	Carter
Nights at the Circus	Angela	Carter
The Passion of New Eve	Angela	Carter
The Professor’s House	Willa	Cather
Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand	Céline
The Long Goodbye	Raymond	Chandler
Farewell My Lovely	Raymond	Chandler
The Big Sleep	Raymond	Chandler
Wild Swans	Jung	Chang
On the Black Hill	Bruce	Chatwin
The Riddle of the Sands	Erskine	Childers
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Agatha	Christie
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
The Master of Petersburg	J.M.	Coetzee
Foe	J.M.	Coetzee
The Life and Times of Michael K	J.M.	Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians	J.M.	Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country	J.M.	Coetzee
Dusklands	J.M.	Coetzee
Belle du Seigneur	Albert	Cohen
The Shadow Line	Joseph	Conrad
The Secret Agent	Joseph	Conrad
Nostromo	Joseph	Conrad
Heart of Darkness	Joseph	Conrad
Lord Jim	Joseph	Conrad
The Public Burning	Robert	Coover
Pricksongs and Descants	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
The End of the Story	Lydia	Davis
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin	Louis	de Bernieres
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord	Louis	de Bernieres
On Love	Alain	de Botton
Hebdomeros	Giorgio	de Chirico
The Little Prince	Antoine	de Saint-Exupéry
Underworld	Don	DeLillo
Mao II	Don	DeLillo
Libra	Don	DeLillo
White Noise	Don	DeLillo
The Names	Don	DeLillo
Ratner’s Star	Don	DeLillo
All About H. Hatterr	G.V.	Desani
The Leopard	Giuseppe Tomasi	di Lampedusa
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K.	Dick
The Bitter Glass	Eilís	Dillon
Out of Africa	Isak	Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Berlin Alexanderplatz	Alfred	Döblin
Billy Bathgate	E.L.	Doctorow
Ragtime	E.L.	Doctorow
The Book of Daniel	E.L.	Doctorow
Stone Junction	Jim	Dodge
Asphodel	H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)	Doolittle
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan	Doyle
The Radiant Way	Margaret	Drabble
As If I Am Not There	Slavenka	Drakuli
Sister Carrie	Theodore	Dreiser
Rebecca	Daphne	du Maurier
Hallucinating Foucault	Patricia	Duncker
The Lover	Marguerite	Duras
The Vice-Consul	Marguerite	Duras
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein	Marguerite	Duras
Justine	Lawrence	Durrell
The Judge and His Hangman	Friedrich	Dürrenmatt
Foucault’s Pendulum	Umberto	Eco
The Name of the Rose	Umberto	Eco
Glamorama	Bret Easton	Ellis
American Psycho	Bret Easton	Ellis
Less Than Zero	Bret Easton	Ellis
Invisible Man	Ralph	Ellison
The Black Dahlia	James	Ellroy
Like Water for Chocolate	Laura	Esquivel
The Virgin Suicides	Jeffrey	Eugenides
The Singapore Grip	J.G.	Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur	J.G.	Farrell
Troubles	J.G.	Farrell
Go Down, Moses	William	Faulkner
The Hamlet	William	Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!	William	Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury	William	Faulkner
Birdsong	Sebastian	Faulks
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
Howards End	E.M.	Forster
A Room With a View	E.M.	Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread	E.M.	Forster
A Maggot	John	Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman	John	Fowles
The Magus	John	Fowles
The Collector	John	Fowles
Faces in the Water	Janet	Frame
Hideous Kinky	Esther	Freud
Homo Faber	Max	Frisch
I’m Not Stiller	Max	Frisch
The Recognitions	William	Gaddis
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris	Paul	Gallico
The Trick is to Keep Breathing	Janice	Galloway
The Forsyte Sage	John	Galsworthy
Promise at Dawn	Romain	Gary
The Roots of Heaven	Romain	Gary
Legend	David	Gemmell
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song)	Lewis Grassic	Gibbon
Cold Comfort Farm	Stella	Gibbons
Neuromancer	William	Gibson
The Counterfeiters	André	Gide
Strait is the Gate	André	Gide
The Immoralist	André	Gide
Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur	Golden
Rites of Passage	William	Golding
Lord of the Flies	William	Golding
July’s People	Nadine	Gordimer
Burger’s Daughter	Nadine	Gordimer
The Artamonov Business	Maxim	Gorky
Mother	Maxim	Gorky
The Opposing Shore	Julien	Gracq
Cat and Mouse	Günter	Grass
The Tin Drum	Günter	Grass
Lanark: A Life in Four Books	Alasdair	Gray
Back	Henry	Green
Loving	Henry	Green
Caught	Henry	Green
Party Going	Henry	Green
Living	Henry	Green
Blindness	Henry	Green
The Honorary Consul	Graham	Greene
The Quiet American	Graham	Greene
The End of the Affair	Graham	Greene
The Third Man	Graham	Greene
The Heart of the Matter	Graham	Greene
The Power and the Glory	Graham	Greene
Brighton Rock	Graham	Greene
England Made Me	Graham	Greene
Forever a Stranger	Hella	Haasse
The Well of Loneliness	Radclyffe	Hall
Hangover Square	Patrick	Hamilton
The Thin Man	Dashiell	Hammett
The Glass Key	Dashiell	Hammett
The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell	Hammett
Red Harvest	Dashiell	Hammett
Growth of the Soil	Knut	Hamsen
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
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert	Heinlein
Catch-22	Joseph	Heller
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest	Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest	Hemingway
To Have and Have Not	Ernest	Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest	Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest	Hemingway
Reasons to Live	Amy	Hempel
Dispatches	Michael	Herr
The Glass Bead Game	Herman	Hesse
Steppenwolf	Herman	Hesse
Siddhartha	Herman	Hesse
Rosshalde	Herman	Hesse
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia	Highsmith
Blind Man With a Pistol	Chester	Hines
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 Folding Star	Alan	Hollinghurst
The Swimming-Pool Library	Alan	Hollinghurst
Elementary Particles	Michel	Houellebecq
Whatever	Michel	Houellebecq
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale	Hurston
Eyeless in Gaza	Aldous	Huxley
Brave New World	Aldous	Huxley
Antic Hay	Aldous	Huxley
Crome Yellow	Aldous	Huxley
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
The Unconsoled	Kazuo	Ishiguro
Remains of the Day	Kazuo	Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World	Kazuo	Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills	Kazuo	Ishiguro
The Golden Bowl	Henry	James
The Ambassadors	Henry	James
The Wings of the Dove	Henry	James
A Day Off	Storm	Jameson
The Summer Book	Tove	Jansson
The Piano Teacher	Elfriede	Jelinek
House Mother Normal	B.S.	Johnson
Jahrestage	Uwe	Johnson
Trawl	B.S.	Johnson
Albert Angelo	B.S.	Johnson
In Parenthesis	David	Jones
Fear of Flying	Erica	Jong
Finnegans Wake	James	Joyce
Ulysses	James	Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James	Joyce
The Taebek Mountains	Jo	Jung-rae
Broken April	Ismail	Kadare
Amerika	Franz	Kafka
The Castle	Franz	Kafka
The Trial	Franz	Kafka
The Last Temptation of Christ	Nikos	Kazantzákis
How Late It Was, How Late	James	Kelman
A Disaffection	James	Kelman
The Bus Conductor Hines	James	Kelman
Schindler’s Ark	Thomas	Keneally
Everything You Need	A.L.	Kennedy
Looking for the Possible Dance	A.L.	Kennedy
On the Road	Jack	Kerouac
Fateless	Imre	Kertész
Sometimes a Great Notion	Ken	Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken	Kesey
The Shining	Stephen	King
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara	Kingsolver
Kim	Rudyard	Kipling
The Midnight Examiner	William	Kotzwinkle
The Fan Man	William	Kotzwinkle
The Melancholy of Resistance	László	Krasznahorkai
The Last Days of Humanity	Karl	Kraus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan	Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	Milan	Kundera
The Joke	Milan	Kundera
Intimacy	Hanif	Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia	Hanif	Kureishi
Land	Park	Kyong-ni
Passing	Nella	Larsen
Quicksand	Nella	Larsen
Lady Chatterley’s Lover	D.H.	Lawrence
The Plumed Serpent	D.H.	Lawrence
Aaron’s Rod	D.H.	Lawrence
The Fox	D.H.	Lawrence
Women in Love	D.H.	Lawrence
The Rainbow	D.H.	Lawrence
Sons and Lovers	D.H.	Lawrence
Independent People	Halldór	Laxness
Smiley’s People	John	Le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	John	Le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John	Le Carré
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 Diary of Jane Somers	Doris	Lessing
Shikasta	Doris	Lessing
The Golden Notebook	Doris	Lessing
The Grass is Singing	Doris	Lessing
The Drowned and the Saved	Primo	Levi
If Not Now, When?	Primo	Levi
If This Is a Man	Primo	Levi
Christ Stopped at Eboli	Carlo	Levi
Self Condemned	Wyndham	Lewis
The Revenge for Love	Wyndham	Lewis
The Apes of God	Wyndham	Lewis
The Childermass	Wyndham	Lewis
Babbitt	Sinclair	Lewis
Main Street	Sinclair	Lewis
Tarr	Wyndham	Lewis
The Hour of the Star	Clarice	Lispector
The Passion According to G.H.	Clarice	Lispector
The Cubs and Other Stories	Mario Vargas	Llosa
Martin Eden	Jack	London
The Iron Heel	Jack	London
At the Mountains of Madness	H.P.	Lovecraft
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid	Malcolm	Lowry
Under the Volcano	Malcolm	Lowry
Absolute Beginners	Colin	MacInnes
Wild Harbour	Ian	MacPherson
Doctor Faustus	Thomas	Mann
The Magic Mountain	Thomas	Mann
Death in Venice	Thomas	Mann
Professor Unrat	Heinrich	Mann
Buddenbrooks	Thomas	Mann
Her Privates We	Frederic	Manning
The Garden Party	Katherine	Mansfield
Embers	Sandor	Marai
A Heart So White	Javier	Marias
Wittgenstein’s Mistress	David	Markson
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García	Márquez
Autumn of the Patriarch	Gabriel García	Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García	Márquez
Cigarettes	Harry	Mathews
The Razor’s Edge	William Somerset	Maugham
Cakes and Ale	W. Somerset	Maugham
Of Human Bondage	William Somerset	Maugham
The Butcher Boy	Patrick	McCabe
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	Horace	McCoy
Amsterdam	Ian	McEwan
Enduring Love	Ian	McEwan
Black Dogs	Ian	McEwan
The Child in Time	Ian	McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers	Ian	McEwan
The Cement Garden	Ian	McEwan
Amongst Women	John	McGahern
Billy Budd, Foretopman	Herman	Melville
Fugitive Pieces	Anne	Michaels
Tropic of Capricorn	Henry	Miller
Tropic of Cancer	Henry	Miller
The Sea of Fertility	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
Like Life	Lorrie	Moore
Anagrams	Lorrie	Moore
Watchmen	Alan, David	Moore & Gibbons
A Ghost at Noon	Alberto	Moravia
Disobedience	Alberto	Moravia
The Time of Indifference	Alberto	Moravia
Jazz	Toni	Morrison
Beloved	Toni	Morrison
Song of Solomon	Toni	Morrison
Sula	Toni	Morrison
The Bluest Eye	Toni	Morrison
The Discovery of Heaven	Harry	Mulisch
Sputnik Sweetheart	Haruki	Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	Haruki	Murakami
The Sea, The Sea	Iris	Murdoch
The Black Prince	Iris	Murdoch
The Nice and the Good	Iris	Murdoch
A Severed Head	Iris	Murdoch
The Bell	Iris	Murdoch
Under the Net	Iris	Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities	Robert	Musil
Young Törless	Robert	Musil
Ada	Vladimir	Nabokov
Pale Fire	Vladimir	Nabokov
Pnin	Vladimir	Nabokov
Lolita	Vladimir	Nabokov
Enigma of Arrival	V.S.	Naipaul
A Bend in the River	V.S.	Naipaul
In A Free State	V.S.	Naipaul
Delta of Venus	Anaïs	Nin
All Souls Day	Cees	Nooteboom
Rituals	Cees	Nooteboom
Fear and Trembling	Amélie	Nothomb
The Things They Carried	Tim	O’Brien
The Third Policeman	Flann	O’Brien
August is a Wicked Month	Edna	O’Brien
Girl With Green Eyes	Edna	O’Brien
The Country Girls	Edna	O’Brien
The Poor Mouth	Flann	O’Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds	Flann	O’Brien
Everything That Rises Must Converge	Flannery	O’Connor
The Violent Bear it Away	Flannery	O’Connor
Wise Blood	Flannery	O’Connor
The Talk of the Town	Ardal	O’Hanlon
Black Water	Joyce Carol	Oates
Marya	Joyce Carol	Oates
Them	Joyce Carol	Oates
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring	Kenzaburo	Oe
The English Patient	Michael	Ondaatje
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George	Orwell
Animal Farm	George	Orwell
Coming Up for Air	George	Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying	George	Orwell
Burmese Days	George	Orwell
Life is a Caravanserai	Emine	Özdamar
Manon des Sources	Marcel	Pagnol
The Ragazzi	Pier Paulo	Pasolini
U.S.A.	John Dos	Passos
Manhattan Transfer	John Dos	Passos
Doctor Zhivago	Boris	Pasternak
Cry, the Beloved Country	Alan	Paton
The Moon and the Bonfires	Cesare	Pavese
Dictionary of the Khazars	Milorad	Pavi
The Labyrinth of Solitude	Octavio	Paz
Gormenghast	Mervyn	Peake
Titus Groan	Mervyn	Peake
The Life of Insects	Victor	Pelevin
The Clay Machine-Gun	Victor	Pelevin
Life: A User’s Manual	Georges	Perec
W, or the Memory of Childhood	Georges	Perec
A Void/Avoid	Georges	Perec
A Man Asleep	Georges	Perec
Things	Georges	Perec
One, None and a Hundred Thousand	Luigi	Pirandello
The Bell Jar	Sylvia	Plath
The Trusting and the Maimed	James	Plunkett
Typical	Padgett	Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony	Powell
The Shipping News	E. Annie	Proulx
Remembrance of Things Past	Marcel	Proust
The Godfather	Mario	Puzo
Mason & Dixon	Thomas	Pynchon
Vineland	Thomas	Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow	Thomas	Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas	Pynchon
V.	Thomas	Pynchon
Exercises in Style	Raymond	Queneau
The Devil in the Flesh	Raymond	Radiguet
The Story of O	Pauline	Réage
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria	Remarque
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean	Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight	Jean	Rhys
Quartet	Jean	Rhys
Interview With the Vampire	Anne	Rice
Pilgrimage	Dorothy	Richardson
Jealousy	Alain	Robbe-Grillet
Hadrian the Seventh	Frederick	Rolfe
Love’s Work	Gillian	Rose
American Pastoral	Philip	Roth
Sabbath’s Theater	Philip	Roth
Operation Shylock	Philip	Roth
The Breast	Philip	Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint	Philip	Roth
Call it Sleep	Henry	Roth
The Radetzky March	Joseph	Roth
Locus Solus	Raymond	Roussel
Impressions of Africa	Raymond	Roussel
The God of Small Things	Arundhati	Roy
The Ground Beneath Her Feet	Salman	Rushdie
The Moor’s Last Sigh	Salman	Rushdie
The Satanic Verses	Salman	Rushdie
Shame	Salman	Rushdie
Midnight’s Children	Salman	Rushdie
Grimus	Salman	Rushdie
Rashomon	Akutagawa	Ryunosuke
Contact	Carl	Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse	Françoise	Sagan
Franny and Zooey	J.D.	Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D.	Salinger
The History of the Siege of Lisbon	José	Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis	José	Saramago
Nausea	Jean-Paul	Sartre
The Nine Tailors	Dorothy L.	Sayers
Murder Must Advertise	Dorothy L.	Sayers
The Reader	Bernhard	Schlink
The Rings of Saturn	W.G.	Sebald
The Emigrants	W.G.	Sebald
Vertigo	W.G.	Sebald
Transit	Anna	Seghers
Great Apes	Will	Self
The Lonely Londoners	Sam	Selvon
The Case of Comrade Tulayev	Victor	Serge
A Suitable Boy	Vikram	Seth
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
Cancer Ward	Aleksandr Isayevich	Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle	Aleksandr Isayevich	Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Isayevich	Solzhenitsyn
Kokoro	Natsume	Soseki
The Driver’s Seat	Muriel	Spark
The Girls of Slender Means	Muriel	Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel	Spark
Memento Mori	Muriel	Spark
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	Gertrude	Stein
The Making of Americans	Gertrude	Stein
Three Lives	Gertrude	Stein
Cannery Row	John	Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath	John	Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men	John	Steinbeck
The Charwoman’s Daughter	James	Stephens
Cryptonomicon	Neal	Stephenson
The Pigeon	Patrick	Süskind
Perfume	Patrick	Süskind
Zeno’s Conscience	Italo	Svevo
Waterland	Graham	Swift
Pereira Declares: A Testimony	Antonio	Tabucchi
The Secret History	Donna	Tartt
Matigari	Ngugi Wa	Thiong’o
Petals of Blood	Ngugi Wa	Thiong’o
The River Between	Ngugi wa	Thiong’o
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S.	Thompson
The Killer Inside Me	Jim	Thompson
Cutter and Bone	Newton	Thornburg
The Wonderful “O”	James	Thurber
The 13 Clocks	James	Thurber
The Invention of Curried Sausage	Uwe	Timm
The Heather Blazing	Colm	Tóibín
The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R.	Tolkien
The Hobbit	J.R.R.	Tolkien
Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy	Toole
Cane	Jean	Toomer
City Sister Silver	Jàchym	Topol
The Ogre	Michael	Tournier
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists	Robert	Tressell
Felicia’s Journey	William	Trevor
Fools of Fortune	William	Trevor
Summer in Baden-Baden	Leonid	Tsypkin
Rabbit is Rich	John	Updike
Rabbit Redux	John	Updike
Rabbit, Run	John	Updike
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played	Simon	Vestdijk
Myra Breckinridge	Gore	Vidal
In Sicily	Elio	Vittorini
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater	Kurt	Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle	Kurt	Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt	Vonnegut, Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt	Vonnegut, Jr.
Possessing the Secret of Joy	Alice	Walker
The Temple of My Familiar	Alice	Walker
The Color Purple	Alice	Walker
Infinite Jest	David Foster	Wallace
Morvern Callar	Alan	Warner
Indigo	Marina	Warner
After the Death of Don Juan	Sylvie Townsend	Warner
Summer Will Show	Sylvia Townsend	Warner
Billy Liar	Keith	Waterhouse
Tipping the Velvet	Sarah	Waters
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	Winifred	Watson
Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn	Waugh
A Handful of Dust	Evelyn	Waugh
Vile Bodies	Evelyn	Waugh
Decline and Fall	Evelyn	Waugh
The Graduate	Charles	Webb
Tono-Bungay	H.G.	Wells
Trainspotting	Irvine	Welsh
The Birds Fall Down	Rebecca	West
The Thinking Reed	Rebecca	West
Miss Lonelyhearts	Nathanael	West
Harriet Hume	Rebecca	West
The Return of the Soldier	Rebecca	West
The Glimpses of the Moon	Edith	Wharton
The Age of Innocence	Edith	Wharton
Summer	Edith	Wharton
Bunner Sisters	Edith	Wharton
Ethan Frome	Edith	Wharton
The House of Mirth	Edith	Wharton
The Beautiful Room is Empty	Edmund	White
A Boy’s Own Story	Edmund	White
The Once and Future King	T.H.	White
Voss	Patrick	White
The Living and the Dead	Patrick	White
Tarka the Otter	Henry	Williamson
No Laughing Matter	Angus	Wilson
Written on the Body	Jeanette	Winterson
Sexing the Cherry	Jeanette	Winterson
The Passion	Jeanette	Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette	Winterson
Thank You, Jeeves	P.G.	Wodehouse
Patterns of Childhood	Christa	Wolf
The Quest for Christa T.	Christa	Wolf
The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom	Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	Tom	Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel	Thomas	Wolfe
Between the Acts	Virginia	Woolf
The Years	Virginia	Woolf
The Waves	Virginia	Woolf
Orlando	Virginia	Woolf
To The Lighthouse	Virginia	Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia	Woolf
Jacob’s Room	Virginia	Woolf
Night and Day	Virginia	Woolf
The Voyage Out	Virginia	Woolf
Native Son	Richard	Wright
Chocky	John	Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos	John	Wyndham
Day of the Triffids	John	Wyndham
Memoirs of Hadrian	Marguerite	Yourcenar
We	Yevgeny	Zamyatin
Amok	Stefan	Zweig