Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert 1000 novels everyone must Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn read: the definitive list The Polygots by William Gerhardie Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol theguardian.com, Friday 23 January 2009 Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 10.23 EST The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel McCutcheon) of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene decade and in any language. Originally published in Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and self, state of the nation, science fiction and The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first Guareschi time in a single list. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Comedy Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Money by Martin Amis I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal The Information by Martin Amis The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Barnes Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the The Castle by Franz Kafka Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor Howarth Bashford Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Molloy by Samuel Beckett The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow René Lesage The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Changing Places by David Lodge Queen Lucia by EF Benson Nice Work by David Lodge The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd England, Their England by AG Macdonell The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen Illywhacker by Peter Carey Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by A Season in Sinji by JL Carr W Somerset Maugham The Harpole Report by JL Carr Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary Puckoon by Spike Milligan The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Charade by John Mortimer The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer Just William by Richmal Crompton Under the Net by Iris Murdoch The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot La Disparition by Georges Perec A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy Les Revenentes by Georges Perec The Commitments by Roddy Doyle La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec Ennui by Maria Edgeworth My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett Cheese by Willem Elsschot A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym Caprice by Ronald Firbank Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler The Westminster Alice by Saki Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler The Unbearable Bassington by Saki Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Great Apes by Will Self Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke Moo by Jane Smiley The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Greenmantle by John Buchan Tobias Smollett The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain Smollett Double Indemnity by James M Cain The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Smollett The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Smollett The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark Chase The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie by Laurence Sterne The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie White Man Falling by Mike Stocks The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Handley Cross by RS Surtees The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Penrod by Booth Tarkington A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle Thackeray The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut The Ipcress File by Len Deighton Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Ratking by Michael Dibdin Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Vendetta by Michael Dibdin The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Tono Bungay by HG Wells An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse The Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse Queiroz Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse LA Confidential by James Ellroy Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory Crime Sanctuary by William Faulkner Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Black and Blue by Ian Rankin Goldfinger by Ian Fleming The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming Exit Music by Ian Rankin The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene Dissolution by CJ Sansom The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers The Third Man by Graham Greene Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon The King of Torts by John Grisham The Blue Room by Georges Simenon Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett Wahloo The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout Fatherland by Robert Harris Perfume by Patrick Suskind Black Sunday by Thomas Harris The Secret History by Donna Tartt Red Dragon by Thomas Harris The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen The Getaway by Jim Thompson The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household Native Son by Richard Wright Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indridason Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes Family and self Cover Her Face by PD James A Taste for Death by PD James Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman The Face of Another by Kobo Abe Misery by Stephen King Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson Kim by Rudyard Kipling Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Constant Gardener by John le Carre Epileptic by David B Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard The Crow Road by Iain Banks Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett Cop Hater by Ed McBain A Legacy by Sybille Bedford No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Herzog by Saul Bellow Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow Sidetracked by Henning Mankell The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley G by John Berger The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim Extinction by Thomas Bernhard The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles Oppenheim Any Human Heart by William Boyd My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky Evelina by Fanny Burney Blacklist by Sara Paretsky The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace The Outsider by Albert Camus The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos Wise Children by Angela Carter Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos The Professor's House by Willa Cather Lush Life by Richard Price The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever The Godfather by Mario Puzo The Awakening by Kate Chopin V by Thomas Pynchon Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Being Dead by Jim Crace Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro Quarantine by Jim Crace The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Roxana by Daniel Defoe A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul Great Expectations by Charles Dickens At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe My New York Diary by Julie Doucet The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Millstone by Margaret Drabble The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Silence by Shusaku Endo The Good Companions by JB Priestley The Gathering by Anne Enright The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner A Married Man by Piers Paul Read The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson The Sportswriter by Richard Ford The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Howards End by EM Forster Richardson Spies by Michael Frayn Call it Sleep by Henry Roth Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques The Man of Property by John Galsworthy Rousseau Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Immoralist by Andre Gide The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Unless by Carol Shields Hunger by Knut Hamsun We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley The Three Sisters by May Sinclair The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse Isaac Bashevis Singer Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier On Beauty by Zadie Smith Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Ambassadors by Henry James Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield Washington Square by Henry James Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington The Unfortunates by BS Johnson Angel by Elizabeth Taylor A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson Joyce The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin Ulysses by James Joyce The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Good Behaviour by Molly Keane Townsend Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal Death in Summer by William Trevor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee The Color Purple by Alice Walker Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Ware How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn Morvern Callar by Alan Warner Martin Eden by Jack London The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Frost in May by Antonia White Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz The Tree of Man by Patrick White The Assistant by Bernard Malamud The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette The Chateau by William Maxwell Winterson The Rector's Daughter by FM Mayor I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Love Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen by WH Hudson Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Emma by Jane Austen Hurston Persuasion by Jane Austen Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani The Wings of the Dove by Henry James Love for Lydia by HE Bates The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Vilette by Charlotte Bronte Kundera Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Look At Me by Anita Brookner Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown Francois Choderlos de Laclos Possession by AS Byatt Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote The Rainbow by DH Lawrence Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Women in Love by DH Lawrence A Month in the Country by JL Carr The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann My Antonia by Willa Cather The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann A Lost Lady by Willa Cather Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Zami by Audre Lorde Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad Samarkand by Amin Maalouf The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette Death in Venice by Thomas Mann The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier A Heart So White by Javier Marias The Lover by Marguerite Duras Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Adam Bede by George Eliot Marquez Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Atonement by Ian McEwan Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald The Child in Time by Ian McEwan The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Egoist by George Meredith Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller A Room with a View by EM Forster Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang by Vladimir Nabokov Goethe The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan Living by Henry Green Delta of Venus by Anais Nin The End of the Affair by Graham Greene All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson The Go-Between by LP Hartley Pamela by Samuel Richardson The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Clarissa by Samuel Richardson The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Gilead by Marilynne Robinson A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Ali and Nino by Kurban Said Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found Light Years by James Salter There by Lewis Carroll A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter The Reader by Benhardq Schlink The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Love Story by Eric Segal Michael Chabon Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke Elizabeth Smart Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski Waterland by Graham Swift Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Music and Silence by Rose Tremain Dick First Love by Ivan Turgenev The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Under the Skin by Michel Faber The Graduate by Charles Webb The Magus by John Fowles The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Passion by Jeanette Winterson Red Shift by Alan Garner East Lynne by Ellen Wood Neuromancer by William Gibson Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Lord of the Flies by William Golding Science fiction and fantasy The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Light by M John Harrison The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Hawthorne Adams Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss Dune by Frank L Herbert Foundation by Isaac Asimov The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster Sinner by James Hogg The Drowned World by JG Ballard Atomised by Michel Houellebecq Crash by JG Ballard Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Millennium People by JG Ballard The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Weaveworld by Clive Barker The Children of Men by PD James Darkmans by Nicola Barker After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear The Trial by Franz Kafka Vathek by William Beckford Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester The Shining by Stephen King Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Solaris by Stanislaw Lem The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess The Monk by Matthew Lewis A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay Naked Lunch by William Burroughs The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod Kindred by Octavia Butler Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel Erewhon by Samuel Butler Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino I Am Legend by Richard Matheson The Influence by Ramsey Campbell Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham Ascent by Jed Mercurio We by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Scar by China Mieville Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller State of the nation A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Mother London by Michael Moorcock Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe News from Nowhere by William Morris Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe Beloved by Toni Morrison London Fields by Martin Amis The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac Ringworld by Larry Niven They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy Vurt by Jeff Noon A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Famished Road by Ben Okri Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock Room at the Top by John Braine Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake A Dry White Season by Andre Brink The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Kornbluth Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell The Prestige by Christopher Priest The Plague by Albert Camus His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Disgrace by JM Coetzee Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Microserfs by Douglas Coupland Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Rowling Underworld by Don DeLillo Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie White Noise by Don DeLillo The Female Man by Joanna Russ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Air by Geoff Ryman Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Blindness by Jose Saramago Hard Times by Charles Dickens How the Dead Live by Will Self Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Hyperion by Dan Simmons Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow Louis Stevenson Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Dracula by Bram Stoker The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Insult by Rupert Thomson USA by John Dos Passos The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Middlemarch by George Eliot Twain Silas Marner by George Eliot Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner Independence Day by Richard Ford Affinity by Sarah Waters A Passage to India by EM Forster The Time Machine by HG Wells The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The War of the Worlds by HG Wells The Recognitions by William Gaddis The Sword in the Stone by TH White Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Odd Women by George Gissing Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham New Grub Street by George Gissing July's People by Nadine Gordimer This Sporting Life by David Storey Mother by Maxim Gorky The Red Room by August Stringberg Lanark by Alastair Gray The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines Tressell The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope South Riding by Winifred Holtby The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Couples by John Updike Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare Z by Vassilis Vassilikos How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Passing by Nella Larsen The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Germinal by Emile Zola Main Street by Sinclair Lewis La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes The Group by Mary McCarthy War and travel Amongst Women by John McGahern The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant Regeneration by Pat Barker A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul Carrie's War by Nina Bawden McTeague by Frank Norris The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano Personality by Andrew O'Hagan The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Animal Farm by George Orwell An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti GB84 by David Peace One of Ours by Willa Cather Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell Celine Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad American Pastoral 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