the UrbanSpaceman MENU 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die In 2006, Peter Boxall produced the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I've no idea if I will ever succeed in reading them all before I die but this page is track such progress as I make. I've also decided to try to read the books on a number of other lists - see List Central for more information. Read BBC means "Read BBC", so the the book is not registered on BC/has no proper journal entry. Number of 1001 books read: 135 The books are not numbered actually in 1001BYMRBYD. The numbers below represent their order in the book which is approximately chronological. Pre-1700s 1 - Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus 2 - Metamorphoses, Ovid 3 - Chaireas and Kallirhoe, Chariton 4 - Aithiopika, Heliodorus 5 - The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius 6 - The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous 7 - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais 8 - Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, John Lyly 9 - The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe 10 - Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 11 - The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan 12 - The Princess of Clèves, Marie, Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 13 - Oroonoko, Aphra Behn 1700s 14 - A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift 15 - Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 16 - Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood 17 - Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe 18 - Roxana, Daniel Defoe 19 - 20 - A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift 21 - Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding 22 - Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, J Arbuthnot, J Gay, T Parnell, A Pope, J Swift 23 - Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot 24 - Pamela, Samuel Richardson 25 - Clarissa, Samuel Richardson 26 - Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett 27 - Tom Jones, Henry Fielding 28 - Fanny Hill, John Cleland 29 - Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett 30 - Amelia, Henry Fielding 31 - The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox 32 - Candide, Voltaire 33 - Rasselas, Samuel Johnson 34 - Julie; or, the New Eloise, Jean, Jacques Rousseau 35 - Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot 36 - Émile; or, On Education, Jean, Jacques Rousseau 37 - The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole 38 - The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith 39 - Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne 40 - A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne 41 - The Man of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie 42 - Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett 43 - The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 44 - Evelina, Fanny Burney 45 - Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean, Jacques Rousseau 46 - Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 47 - Confessions, Jean, Jacques Rousseau 48 - Cecilia, Fanny Burney 49 - The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade 50 - Vathek, William Beckford 51 - Justine, Marquis de Sade 52 - The Adventures of Caleb Williams, William Godwin 53 - The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano 54 - The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe 55 - Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 56 - 57 - Camilla, Fanny Burney 58 - The Nun, Denis Diderot 59 - Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin 1800s 60 - Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth 61 - Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 62 - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 63 - The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth 64 - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 65 - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 66 - Emma, Jane Austen 67 - Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott 68 - Ormond, Maria Edgeworth 69 - Persuasion, Jane Austen 70 - Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen 71 - Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 72 - Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott 73 - The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott 74 - Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin 75 - The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin 76 - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg 77 - Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper 78 - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni 79 - The Red and the Black, Stendhal 80 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo 81 - Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac 82 - Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac 83 - The Nose, Nikolay Gogol 84 - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 85 - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens 86 - 87 - The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal 88 - Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol 89 - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 90 - Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac 91 - The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe 92 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens 93 - The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe 94 - The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 95 - La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas 96 - The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 97 - Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 98 - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 99 - Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë 100 - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 101 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë 102 - Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell 103 - Shirley, Charlotte Brontë 104 - David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 105 - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 106 - Moby-Dick, Herman Melville 107 - The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne 108 - The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne 109 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely, Harriet Beecher Stowe 110 - Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell 111 - Villette, Charlotte Brontë 112 - Bleak House, Charles Dickens 113 - Walden, Henry David Thoreau 114 - Hard Times, Charles Dickens 115 - North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell 116 - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 117 - Adam Bede, George Eliot 118 - Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov 119 - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 120 - Max Havelaar, Multatuli 121 - The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne 122 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins 123 - The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot 124 - Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope 126 - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 127 - Silas Marner, George Eliot 128 - Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev 129 - Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 130 - The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley 131 - Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky 132 - Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu 133 - Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens 134 - 135 - Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 136 - 137 - The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope 138 - Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola 139 - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 140 - The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins 141 - The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 142 - Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont 143 - Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope 144 - Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert 145 - War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 146 - He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope 147 - King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev 148 - Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll 149 - Middlemarch, George Eliot 150 - Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev 151 - Erewhon, Samuel Butler 152 - The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky 153 - In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu 154 - 155 - The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov 156 - Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 157 - The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert 158 - The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy 159 - Daniel Deronda, George Eliot 160 - Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev 161 - Drunkard, Émile Zola 162 - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 163 - The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy 164 - The Red Room, August Strindberg 165 - The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 166 - Nana, Émile Zola 167 - Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace 168 - Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert 169 - The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James 170 - The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga 171 - Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 172 - A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant 173 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy 174 - Against the Grain, Joris, Karl Huysmans 175 - Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater 176 - Bel, Ami, Guy de Maupassant 177 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 178 - Germinal, Émile Zola 179 - King Solomon’s Mines, H Rider Haggard 180 - Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson 181 - The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 182 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson 183 - She, H Rider Haggard 184 - The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy 185 - The People of Hemsö, August Strindberg 186 - Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés 187 - Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant 188 - The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson 189 - Hunger, Knut Hamsun 190 - By the Open Sea, August Strindberg 191 - La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola 192 - The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy 193 - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 194 - 195 - Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf 196 - New Grub Street, George Gissing 197 - News from Nowhere, William Morris 198 - 199 - Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith 200 - Born in Exile, George Gissing 201 - The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 202 - The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross 203 - Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy 204 - Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane 205 - 206 - 207 - Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz 208 - Dracula, Bram Stoker 209 - Fruits of the Earth, André Gide 210 - What Maisie Knew, Henry James 211 - 212 - 213 - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 214 - The Awakening, Kate Chopin 215 - The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane 216 - Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross 1900s 217 - Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad 218 - Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser 219 - Kim, Rudyard Kipling 220 - Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann 221 - 222 - 223 - The Wings of the Dove, Henry James 224 - The Immoralist, André Gide 225 - 226 - The Ambassadors, Henry James 227 - The Golden Bowl, Henry James 228 - Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe 229 - Nostromo, Joseph Conrad 230 - Where Angels Fear to Tread, E M Forster 231 - Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann 232 - The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton 233 - The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy 234 - Young Törless, Robert Musil 235 - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 236 - The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad 237 - Mother, Maxim Gorky 238 - The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson 239 - The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett 240 - The Iron Heel, Jack London 241 - A Room With a View, E M Forster 242 - The Inferno, Henri Barbusse 243 - Tono-Bungay, H G Wells 244 - Strait is the Gate, André Gide 245 - Martin Eden, Jack London 246 - Three Lives, Gertrude Stein 247 - Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel 248 - Howards End, E M Forster 249 - Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre 250 - Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton 251 - The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens 252 - Death in Venice, Thomas Mann 253 - Sons and Lovers, D H Lawrence 254 - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 255 - Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs 256 - Rosshalde, Herman Hesse 257 - Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel 258 - Kokoro, Natsume Soseki 259 - The Thirty, Nine Steps, John Buchan 260 - The Rainbow, D H Lawrence 261 - Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham 262 - The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf 263 - The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford 264 - Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke 265 - Under Fire, Henri Barbusse 266 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 267 - Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton 268 - Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen 269 - Summer, Edith Wharton 270 - The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad 271 - The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West 272 - Tarr, Wyndham Lewis 273 - Night and Day, Virginia Woolf 274 - Women in Love, D H Lawrence 275 - Main Street, Sinclair Lewis 276 - The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton 277 - Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley 278 - The Fox, D H Lawrence 279 - Ulysses, James Joyce 280 - Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 281 - Aaron’s Rod, D H Lawrence 282 - The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus 283 - Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair 284 - The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton 285 - Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 286 - Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf 287 - The Enormous Room, E E Cummings 288 - The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield 289 - Amok, Stefan Zweig 290 - Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley 291 - Cane, Jean Toomer 292 - Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo 293 - The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet 294 - 295 - We, Yevgeny Zamyatin 296 - The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann 297 - The Green Hat, Michael Arlen 298 - Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville 299 - The Professor’s House, Willa Cather 300 - The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky 301 - 302 - The Counterfeiters, André Gide 303 - 304 - Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 305 - Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos 306 - The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein 307 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie 308 - One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello 309 - The Plumed Serpent, D H Lawrence 310 - The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek 311 - 312 - Blindness, Henry Green 313 - The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 314 - Amerika, Franz Kafka 315 - Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson 316 - To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf 317 - Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust 318 - Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse 319 - Nadja, André Breton 320 - Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford 321 - Quicksand, Nella Larsen 322 - Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh 323 - Quartet, Jean Rhys 324 - The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis 325 - The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall 326 - Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D H Lawrence 327 - Orlando, Virginia Woolf 328 - Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille 329 - Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe 330 - Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau 331 - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner 332 - Harriet Hume, Rebecca West 333 - The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen 334 - Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin 335 - All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 336 - The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia 337 - Living, Henry Green 338 - Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett 339 - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 340 - Passing, Nella Larsen 341 - Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico 342 - 343 - Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh 344 - Her Privates We, Frederic Manning 345 - The Apes of God, Wyndham Lewis 346 - Cakes and Ale, W Somerset Maugham 347 - The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett 348 - The Waves, Virginia Woolf 349 - The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth 350 - The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett 351 - To the North, Elizabeth Bowen 352 - Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 353 - 354 - Journey to the End of the Night, Louis, Ferdinand Céline 355 - A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon 356 - The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil 357 - A Day Off, Storm Jameson 358 - Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain 359 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein 360 - Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L Sayers 361 - Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West 362 - Call it Sleep, Henry Roth 363 - Thank You, Jeeves, P G Wodehouse 364 - Tender is the Night, F Scott Fitzgerald 365 - 366 - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller 367 - The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M Cain 368 - Novel With Cocaine, M Ageyev 369 - Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht 370 - The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L Sayers 371 - Burmese Days, George Orwell 372 - England Made Me, Graham Greene 373 - The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen 374 - They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy 375 - The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood 376 - Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti 377 - Independent People, Halldór Laxness 378 - Nightwood, Djuna Barnes 379 - 380 - Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner 381 - Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson 382 - Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell 383 - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 384 - The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West 385 - Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley 386 - Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner 387 - To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway 388 - Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) 389 - The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis 390 - In Parenthesis, David Jones 391 - The Years, Virginia Woolf 392 - 393 - Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 394 - Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 395 - Murphy, Samuel Beckett 396 - U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos 397 - Brighton Rock, Graham Greene 398 - Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler 399 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 400 - Nausea, Jean, Paul Sartre 401 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson 402 - After the Death of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Warner 403 - 404 - Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys 405 - Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller 406 - Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood 407 - Coming Up for Air, George Orwell 408 - At Swim, Two Birds, Flann O’Brien 409 - Finnegans Wake, James Joyce 410 - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 411 - Party Going, Henry Green 412 - The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati 413 - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene 414 - Native Son, Richard Wright 415 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway 416 - 417 - The Hamlet, William Faulkner 418 - Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf 419 - Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton 420 - The Living and the Dead, Patrick White 421 - The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien 422 - In Sicily, Elio Vittorini 423 - The Outsider, Albert Camus 424 - Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner 425 - Embers, Sandor Marai 426 - 427 - Caught, Henry Green 428 - 429 - Dangling Man, Saul Bellow 430 - 431 - Transit, Anna Seghers 432 - The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham 433 - Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi 434 - Arcanum 17, André Breton 435 - Loving, Henry Green 436 - The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford 437 - Cannery Row, John Steinbeck 438 - 439 - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 440 - The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andri? 441 - 442 - Back, Henry Green 443 - The Plague, Albert Camus 444 - The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino 445 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry 446 - 447 - Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau 448 - The Victim, Saul Bellow 449 - Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann 450 - Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton 451 - T 452 - Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot 453 - Disobedience, Alberto Moravia 454 - All About H. Hatterr, G V Desani 455 - 456 - The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren 457 - Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier 458 - The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen 459 - The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge 460 - Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford 461 - The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk 462 - The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese 463 - 464 - The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing 465 - 466 - 467 - The Third Man, Graham Greene 468 - The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz 469 - The Abbot C, Georges Bataille 470 - The End of the Affair, Graham Greene 471 - Molloy, Samuel Beckett 472 - The Rebel, Albert Camus 473- 474 - The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq 475 - 476 - 477 - Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett 478 - Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar 479 - The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson 480 - Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor 481 - 482 - Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 483 - The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt 484 - 485 - Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin 486 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 487 - Junkie, William Burroughs 488 - 489 - Watt, Samuel Beckett 490 - The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett 491 - 492 - The Go-Between, L P Hartley 493 - Under the Net, Iris Murdoch 494 - 495 - A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia 496 - The Story of O, Pauline Réage 497 - Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis 498 - I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch 499 - Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan 500 - The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini 501 - The Recognitions, William Gaddis 502 - The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis 503 - 504 - The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett 505 - A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen 506 - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 507 - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith 508 - 509 - The Floating Opera, John Barth 510 - Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 511 - The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary 512 - The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon 513 - Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin 514 - Justine, Lawrence Durrell 515 - 516 - Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 517 - Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov 518 - 519 - Homo Faber, Max Frisch 520 - Blue Noon, Georges Bataille 521 - 522 - Voss, Patrick White 523 - Jealousy, Alain Robbe, Grillet 524 - The Bell, Iris Murdoch 525 - 526 - The End of the Road, John Barth 527 - Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan 528 - Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico 529 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe 530 - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 531 - The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon 532 - A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 533 - Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe 534 - The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 535 - Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote 536 - Billiards at Half, Past Nine, Heinrich Böll 537 - Memento Mori, Muriel Spark 538 - Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow 539 - Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes 540 - The Tin Drum, Günter Grass 541 - Naked Lunch, William Burroughs 542 - Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse. Read June 2006. 543 - Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee 544 - Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary 545 - Rabbit, Run, John Updike 546 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 547 - The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien 548 - 549 - How It Is, Samuel Beckett 550 - The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor 551 - 552 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark 553 - Cat and Mouse, Günter Grass 554 - del>Solaris, Stanislaw Lem. Read BBC. 555 - Faces in the Water, Janet Frame 556 - A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch 557 - Franny and Zooey, J D Salinger 558 - 559 - The Garden of the Finzi, Continis, Giorgio Bassani 560 - Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien 561 - 562 - The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing 563 - 564 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov 565 - 566 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey 567 - 568 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 569 - The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 570 - Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess 571 - The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark 572 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré 573 - Manon des Sources, Marcel Pagnol 574 - The Graduate, Charles Webb 575 - 576 - V., Thomas Pynchon 577 - Herzog, Saul Bellow 578 - The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras 579 - Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe 580 - Albert Angelo, B S Johnson 581 - Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme 582 - Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey 583 - The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector 584 - Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor 585 - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut 586 - August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien 587 - The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o 588 - Things, Georges Perec 589 - The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 590 - 591 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys 592 - The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras 593 - 594 - In Cold Blood, Truman Capote 595 - Trawl, B S Johnson 596 - The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West 597 - A Man Asleep, Georges Perec 598 - The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien 599 - No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson 600 - 601 - Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson 602 - The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 603 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 604 - The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa 605 - 606 - 607 - The Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf 608 - A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines 609 - In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan 610 - The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz 611 - Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, Malcolm Lowry 612 - 613 - 614 - The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 615 - Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 616 - Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen 617 - The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch 618 - Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal 619 - Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen 620 - A Void/Avoid, Georges Perec 621 - Them, Joyce Carol Oates 622 - 623 - The Godfather, Mario Puzo 624 - Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth 625 - The Green Man, Kingsley Amis 626 - The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles 627 - 628 - Blind Man With a Pistol, Chester Hines 629 - Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover 630 - Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado 631 - 632 - Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson 633 - Troubles, J G Farrell 634 - Mercier et Camier, Samuel Beckett 635 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou 636 - Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke 637 - The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison 638 - The Ogre, Michael Tournier 639 - The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark 640 - The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima 641 - Rabbit Redux, John Updike 642 - The Wild Boys, William Burroughs 643 - Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll 644 - 645 - The Book of Daniel, E L Doctorow 646 - In A Free State, V S Naipaul 647 - House Mother Normal, B S Johnson 648 - Surfacing, Margaret Atwood 649 - G, John Berger 650 - The Summer Book, Tove Jansson 651 - The Breast, Philip Roth 652 - 653 - Sula, Toni Morrison 654 - The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch 655 - 656 - The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene 657 - Crash, J G Ballard 658 - 659 - The Siege of Krishnapur, J G Farrell 660 - A Question of Power, Bessie Head 661 - 662 - 663 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré 664 - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll 665 - Dusklands, J M Coetzee 666 - The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle 667 - Ragtime, E L Doctorow 668 - Correction, Thomas Bernhard 669 - Dead Babies, Martin Amis 670 - Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow 671 - 672 - Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan 673 - Fateless, Imre Kertész 674 - The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme 675 - Grimus, Salman Rushdie 676 - A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell 677 - W, or the Memory of childhood, Georges Perec 678 - Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez 679 - Patterns of Childhood, Christa Wolf 680 - Amateurs, Donald Barthelme 681 - Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg 682 - 683 - The Public Burning, Robert Coover 684 - Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo 685 - The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke 686 - The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 687 - Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 688 - Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 689 - Dispatches, Michael Herr 690 - The Shining, Stephen King 691 - Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin 692 - The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter 693 - In the Heart of the Country, J M Coetzee 694 - The Virgin in the Garden, A S Byatt 695 - Yes, Thomas Bernhard 696 - The Singapore Grip, J G Farrell 697 - The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch 698 - Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec 699 - The World According to Garp, John Irving 700 - The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan 701 - 702 - 703 - The Safety Net, Heinrich Böll 704 - Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer 705 - A Bend in the River, V S Naipaul 706 - Shikasta, Doris Lessing 707 - Smiley’s People, John Le Carré 708 - 709 - 710 - City Primeval, Elmore Leonard 711 - 712 - Rituals, Cees Nooteboom 713 - Rites of Passage, William Golding 714 - Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie 715 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J M Coetzee 716 - Broken April, Ismail Kadare 717 - Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin 718 - July’s People, Nadine Gordimer 719 - 720 - Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray 721 - Rabbit is Rich, John Updike 722 - The Names, Don DeLillo 723 - Concrete, Thomas Bernhard 724 - On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin 725 - The Newton Letter, John Banville 726 - The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende 727 - Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally 728 - 729 - Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard 730 - The Color Purple, Alice Walker 731 - A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White 732 - 733 - The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus 734 - The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek 735 - The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing 736 - The Life and Times of Michael K, J M Coetzee 737 - Waterland, Graham Swift 738 - La Brava, Elmore Leonard 739 - Fools of Fortune, William Trevor 740 - Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett 741 - Shame, Salman Rushdie 742 - Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis 743 - Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes 744 - 745 - Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker 746 - 747 - 748 - 749 - Empire of the Sun, J G Ballard 750 - The Lover, Marguerite Duras 751 - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago 752 - The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman 753 - Dictionary of the Khazar, Milorad Pavic 754 - Legend, David Gemmell 755 - 756 - Queer, William Burroughs 757 - White Noise, Don DeLillo 758 - Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard 759 - 760 - 761 - 762 - Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis 763 - A Maggot, John Fowles 764 - The Cider House Rules, John Irving 765 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson 766 - 767 - The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann 768 - Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel 769 - The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi 770 - Foe, J M Coetzee 771 - Extinction, Thomas Bernhard 772 - An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 773 - Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt 774 - The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis 775 - Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons 776 - Marya, Joyce Carol Oates 777 - Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 778 - Anagrams, Lorrie Moore 779 - Beloved, Toni Morrison 780 - The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung, rae 781 - Enigma of Arrival, V S Naipaul 782 - World’s End, T Coraghessan Boyle 783 - 784 - 785 - Cigarettes, Harry Mathews 786 - The Child in Time, Ian McEwan 787 - The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind 788 - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson 789 - The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy 790 - The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke 791 - The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble 792 - 793 - 794 - Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga 795 - 796 - Libra, Don DeLillo 797 - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey 798 - The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst 799 - The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 800 - Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson 801 - The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White 802 - 803 - Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood 804 - The Book of Evidence, John Banville 805 - London Fields, Martin Amis 806 - A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 807 - Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel 808 - The History of the Siege of Lisbon, José Saramago 809 - The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway 810 - The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker 811 - The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai 812 - A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro 813 - Billy Bathgate, E L Doctorow 814 - Moon Palace, Paul Auster 815 - 816 - A Disaffection, James Kelman 817 - The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle 818 - The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi 819 - Possession, A S Byatt 820 - Like Life, Lorrie Moore 821 - A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham 822 - The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien 823 - The Music of Chance, Paul Auster 824 - Stone Junction, Jim Dodge 825 - Vertigo, W G Sebald 826 - Vineland, Thomas Pynchon 827 - Amongst Women, John McGahern 828 - Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard 829 - 830 - Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres 831 - Downriver, Iain Sinclair 832 - Regeneration, Pat Barker 833 - Typical, Padgett Powell 834 - Mao II, Don DeLillo 835 - Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis 836 - American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 837 - 838 - Arcadia, Jim Crace 839 - Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud 840 - Black Dogs, Ian McEwan 841 - Asphodel, H D (Hilda Doolittle) 842 - The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín 843 - Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates 844 - The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe 845 - 846 - The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 847 - Jazz, Toni Morrison 848 - 849 - 850 - Indigo, Marina Warner 851 - Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker 852 - A Heart So White, Javier Marias 853 - The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch 854 - Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar 855 - The Secret History, Donna Tartt 856 - The Emigrants, W G Sebald 857 - The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood 858 - The House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd 859 - 860 - The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields 861 - A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 862 - What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe 863 - On Love, Alain de Botton 864 - 865 - Operation Shylock, Philip Roth 866 - Looking for the Possible Dance, A L Kennedy 867 - Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 868 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 869 - The Shipping News, E Annie Proulx 870 - The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm 871 - Disappearance, David Dabydeen 872 - Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor 873 - 874 - How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman 875 - City Sister Silver, Jàchym Topol 876 - Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi 877 - 878 - The Master of Petersburg, J M Coetzee 879 - Land, Park Kyong, ni 880 - Whatever, Michel Houellebecq 881 - The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst 882 - Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster 883 - The End of the Story, Lydia Davis 884 - Love’s Work, Gillian Rose 885 - A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 886 - The Reader, Bernhard Schlink 887 - The Rings of Saturn, W G Sebald 888 - Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth 889 - The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie 890 - 891 - Morvern Callar, Alan Warner 892 - The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro 893 - Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 894 - The Clay Machine, Gun, Victor Pelevin 895 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 896 - Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse 897 - The Ghost Road, Pat Barker 898 - Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels 899 - Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker 900 - Cocaine Nights, J G Ballard 901 - Silk, Alessandro Baricco 902 - The Untouchable, John Banville 903 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth 904 - The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin 905 - Jack Maggs, Peter Carey 906 - Underworld, Don DeLillo 907 - Enduring Love, Ian McEwan 908 - Great Apes, Will Self 909 - Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden 910 - 911 - Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon 912 - Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho 913 - The Hours, Michael Cunningham 914 - Another World, Pat Barker 915 - Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis 916 - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 917 - Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters 918 - The Talk of the Town, Ardal O’Hanlon 919 - All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom 920 - Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks 921 - 922 - Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi 923 - Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq 924 - 925 - 926 - The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie 927 - Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb 928 - Everything You Need, A L Kennedy 929 - As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic 930 - Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson 931 - The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra 932 - Timbuktu, Paul Auster 2000s 933 - Pastoralia, George Saunders 934 - Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates 935 - House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski 936 - 937 - Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande 938 - After the Quake, Haruki Murakami 939 - 940 - The Human Stain, Philip Roth 941 - How the Dead Live, Will Self 942 - City of God, E L Doctorow 943 - Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy 944 - Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace 945 - Ignorance, Milan Kundera 946 - Under the Skin, Michel Faber 947 - The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda 948 - White Teeth, Zadie Smith 949 - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare 950 - The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho 951 - An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma 952 - The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa 953 - 954 - 955 - At Swim-Two Boys, Jamie O’Neill 956 - Fury, Salman Rushdie 957 - The Body Artist, Don DeLillo 958 - Don’t Move, Margaret Mazzantini 959 - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 960 - 961 - Schooling, Heather McGowan 962 - Platform, Michael Houellebecq 963 - Austerlitz, W G Sebald 964 - Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi 965 - The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster 966 - Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon 967 - 968 - Youth, J M Coetzee 969 - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 970 - Shroud, John Banville 971 - In the Forest, Edna O’Brien 972 - That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern 973 - The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor 974 - 975 - Unless, Carol Shields 976 - Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer 977 - The Double, José Saramago 978 - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 979 - Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry 980 - 981 - Elizabeth Costello, J M Coetzee 982 - Islands, Dan Sleigh 983 - |