1001 eReads

589. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2009-12-03T20:02:00.004+10:00

eBook source: Free from MobileRead (LRF)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
This is a novella that on the surface appears to be a children's story but which covers themes which can be appreciated by adults. All I knew about this story prior to reading it, I learnt from an xkcd comic. I'm surprised that I had never heard of the story earlier because it really is very charming, although I probably would have enjoyed its simple narrative style more when I was a child. On the other hand, I might have been upset at the ending at that time and I probably would not have understood the significance of some of the chapters. My favourite chapter is the one with the fox.

About the eBook
This eBook includes the illustrations (which are essential to this story). It's a pity that most eInk devices only do greyscale at present because many of the illustrations are in colour. This is the translation from French by Katherine Woods, which is out of copyright in Australia, however I believe it is still in copyright in the US.

eBooks read so far: 9

Strategy for tackling the list

2009-11-26T19:04:00.002+10:00

The 1001 list is a moving target - there have already been at least a couple of editions of the 1001 book, with some changes to the list, and a new edition is expected in March next year. Even at my current enthusiastic rate it will take over six years to read my way through the entire list, and it's bound to change again before then.

Many of the older books on the list are considered to be 'classics'. These are the books that are likely to remain on the 1001 list indefinitely. These books are in the public domain, making it easy to find them in eBook form thanks to the work of Project Gutenberg and other digitisation projects. These are the books that I will read first.

As I get closer to my goal, I will move towards the more modern works. Hopefully I'll be able to borrow these from my local library (as the eBook lending program expands), or purchase them as eBooks from one of the online bookstores. My hope is that over the next few years libraries and online book stores will expand their catalogues of eBooks, and that eBook prices will drop as they become more popular. This way I should be able to get through a chunk of the still in copyright part of the list without breaking the bank.

I expect that a small group of books will remain which are not available in eBook form when I come to read them. I will hope that they may eventually be published in e-form as eBooks become ubiquitous.

883. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

2009-11-26T17:58:00.002+10:00

eBook source: Free from epubbooks (ePub)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
This is a mystery novel which is notable for being an example of a Victorian-era 'sensation novel'. It was also a bit different in the narrative style, being told from the perspective of several characters through statements and journal entries. I liked this - it helped me to relate to the main characters. After the last couple of books I wasn't sure whether to expect the unexpected, but in this case I was relieved that the story didn't stray too far from where I thought it would go. The story was compelling enough to keep me up reading far too late into the early hours of the morning for a couple of nights.

The bad guy in this book really got under my skin - chauvinistic, cruel, controlling and manipulative. I spent much of the book hoping that the story would take an unpredictable turn and that someone (preferably one of the ladies who were so mistreated by him) would kill him. As with many nineteenth century novels that I have read, I was frustrated because if the characters had communicated openly from the outset and weren't so reserved, restrained or bound by manners, they would never have tolerated Sir Scumbag's behaviour, and would also have avoided most of the dramas and troubles that arose throughout the story.

About the eBook
This was the first eBook I've read that has included linked footnotes. I didn't work out that I could follow them until the last one, but once I did, it was very easy to jump to the notes and back to the text that referenced them using the navigation buttons on the Sony reader.

I thought that I might have had an incomplete eBook when I reached the end because the last line was "let Marian end our Story." which I thought meant that she was about to contribute some concluding remarks, but there was nothing further. However I checked a scan of the book on Google Books and it turns out that this is really how it ends.

eBooks read so far: 8

774. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

2009-11-18T19:59:00.002+10:00

eBook source: Free from Mobile Read (Sony LRF)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
I thought I'd follow up with another Edith Wharton novel, since Ethan Frome was so short. The House of Mirth follows social-butterfly Lily Bart as she struggles to find her place in the changing scene of turn-of-the-century New York society. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and narrative, but was slightly surprised when the plot started to deviate from the path that I thought it would take at the start of the novel. I enjoyed reading this book very much but it left me feeling a bit grim: perhaps it's best to avoid Wharton's works if you are a fan of cliche happy endings.

About the eBook
The novel was originally published in 1905 with illustrations, and it would have been an added bonus if these were included in the eBook (but it certainly doesn't need them - it's a great read).

eBooks read so far: 7

757. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

2009-11-16T18:38:00.002+10:00

eBook source: Free from Mobile Read (Sony LRF)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
This is a very sober novella set in turn-of-the-century rural Massachusetts. Winter is somewhat of a novelty to me, living as I do in subtropical Australia, so I loved the descriptions of the bleak, oppressive winter in a sleepy town. Winter dominates the story like a character in its own right, and in mood I was reminded of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (my favourite source of mental imagery for deep winter). From the beginning of the story, we know that the title character bears a tragic past, but when the story finally reaches its ironic end, it is truly heartbreaking.

About the eBook
Another high quality eBook from the Mobile Read forums.

eBooks read so far: 6

976. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

2009-11-12T19:38:00.006+10:00

eBook source: Free from Mobile Read (Sony LRF)

Read on: computer screen using Calibre viewer

Thoughts
I chose to read this work next because I have been slogging my way through the Tale of Genji all week and thought that a short, satirical piece would be a nice diversion. Swift describes the work as

A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

This is a short story rather than a book (only around 17 pages long). Intellectually I can appreciate the value of the work as social commentary through satire, however I didn't find it amusing and I would not normally choose to read something that makes light of eating infants regardless of its motivations. I found some spellings of words in this work quaint (like publick), however overall it was not an enjoyable read. At least it was a quick one.

About the eBook
Because it was so short, I read it on screen rather than on a dedicated eBook device. There are several free versions of this book available online, and all of the ones that I found were based on the Project Gutenberg text. ManyBooks provides this eBook in a lot of different formats, however the Project Gutenberg information and legal/copyright information is up front in their ePub version, which means having to page through all of that information (which is longer than the work itself) before getting to the real content. I chose to read the MobileRead eBook because it put all of that additional text at the end instead.

eBooks read so far: 5

978. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

2009-11-10T17:41:00.006+10:00

eBook source: Free from epubbooks (ePub)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
I was familiar with the story, and expected this to be a bit preachy, but instead found it to be a very engaging read. Although Moll Flanders would have been considered to be a very wicked woman by the standards of her time, she is presented sympathetically as a victim of the circumstances of her life. The story is told in Moll's own voice, so her exploits are described matter of factly, and it gives an insight into what life might have been like for someone in her situation.

Moll's financial situation seems to drive her actions throughout her adult life, and much of the book describes how she acquires money (either through securing husbands/lovers as a means of support or by her own industry). Sometimes I find it difficult to convert how much sums of money mentioned in older works would be worth in today's terms (also I have difficulty with the pounds, shillings, guineas etc because I'm used to dollars). However, this book frequently outlined the price of goods, and even included a breakdown of the costs associated with birthing a child (with various options for levels of service), which made it easy for me to get a feel for the worth of the money (and also put into perspective some of the incomes that I've read in other works such as those by Austen).

About the eBook
I encountered a page error when I tried to read this book on the Sony Pocket reader. I have come across this before with large eBooks (the Sony readers have limits on the size of each chapter). To get around it, I used to Calibre to convert it to lit format, removed the book from my library, added the lit version back to the library and then converted it to ePub. After that I had no trouble and this roundtrip did not seem to cause any harm to the formatting of the eBook.

eBooks read so far: 4

Guardian 1000 novels everyone must read

2009-11-08T20:09:00.001+10:00

Here's another list of 1000 must-read novels, from the Guardian (UK).

860. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll

2009-11-08T16:23:00.001+10:00

eBook source: Free from eBooks Gratuits (as Mobipocket, eReader, PDF or Word)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
'Through the Looking Glass' is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and at only 88 pages this is one of the shortest eBooks from the list. This book contains two of my favourite Carroll verses: 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Walrus and the Carpenter'.

About the eBook
This eBook is nicely formatted, and contains illustrations, however the illustrations in this book are smaller than those in Wonderland. I downloaded the Mobipocket version from eBooks Gratuits and converted it to ePub using Calibre.

eBooks read so far: 3

873. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

2009-11-07T15:31:00.000+10:00

eBook source: Free from eBooks Gratuits (as Mobipocket, eReader, PDF or Word)

Read on: Sony PRS-300

Thoughts
I read the Alice stories countless times as a child, so I wanted to see how this would go as an eBook. I was surprised at how short the book is - at less than 160 pages, it didn't take as long to read as I'd remembered, but the volume that I had as a child included Through the Looking Glass as well, which I recommend as a follow up to this book.

About the eBook
I first read the ePub from Project Gutenberg, but it doesn't include illustrations and the formatting is terrible on the Sony Pocket Reader (verses such as Old Father William are displayed as fixed-width blocks that extend off the 5" screen even at the smallest text size, and hence, are unreadable).

In order to read the verses and see the illustrations on the Sony Reader, I downloaded the Mobipocket version from eBooks Gratuits and converted it to ePub using Calibre. It is identified as the 1865 edition, and it includes the illustrations by John Tenniel.

There is another excellent Mobipocket version available from the MobileRead Forums (which includes an introduction that is missing from the Gratuits version), however the image quality is not quite as good.

The epubbooks reproduction of the 1916 abridged 'Alice in Wonderland' is lovely (and includes different illustrations).

eBooks read so far: 2

816. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

2009-11-05T19:53:00.000+10:00

eBook source: Free from Feedbooks (as ePub, Mobipocket or PDF)

Read on: Sony PRS-300 (also partially read previously on Nintendo DS in 100 classic book collection)

Thoughts
I enjoyed the parts of the book that focused on Dorian, particularly as he becomes more paranoid towards the end. I didn't like Dorian's friend Lord Henry. There is quite a lot of dialogue between these characters at parties and other social gatherings that I found tiresome. Little wonder our antihero takes up the life he does - I would have been bored silly at such events, but I suppose that Lord Henry would likewise have considered me to be very dull (or at least lacking in wit).

I was surprised to see some expressions that I thought were modern were used in the 1890s. (like describing somewhere as a 'hole of a place'), and also that one of the characters says 'heaps of time'. I had always thought that this was an Australian turn of phrase.

About the eBook
The ePub eBook was well formatted (I particularly liked the chapter headings), although I would have preferred if it contained just the novel itself (it included a brief biography of the author as introduction and some ebook recommendations as end matter).

eBooks read so far: 1

Introduction to 1001 Ebooks You Must Read

2009-11-05T19:41:00.006+10:00

This blog has been inspired by 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

It will chronicle my attempt to read the books from the list as eBooks.

Here is the list:

1. Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
2. Falling Man – Don DeLillo
3. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
4. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
6. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
7. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
8. Carry Me Down – M.J. Hyland
9. Mother’s Milk Edward – St Aubyn
10. Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
11. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
12. The Sea – John Banville
13. The Accidental – Ali Smith
14. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
15. 2666 – Roberto Bolano
16. Small Island – Andrea Levy
17. The Book about Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
18. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
19. The Master – Colm Tóibín
20. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
21. The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
22. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
23. Your Face Tomorrow – Javier Marias
24. A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
26. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
27. Lady Number Thirteen – Jose Carlos Somoza
28. The Successor – Ismail Kadare
29. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
30. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
31. Islands – Dan Sleigh
32. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
33. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
34. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
35. Snow – Orhan Pamuk
36. Platform – Michel Houellebecq
37. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
38. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Atonement – Ian McEwan
41. Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas
42. I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
43. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargas Llosa
44. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier; Clay – Michael Chabon
45. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
46. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
47. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
48. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
49. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
50. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
51. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
52. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
53. Bartleby and Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas
1900s:
54. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
55. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender – Dubravka Ugresic
56. In Search of Klingsor – Jorge Volpi
57. Pavel’s Letters – Monika Moron
58. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
59. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
60. Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano
61. Dirty Havana Trilogy – Pedro Juan Gutierrez
62. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
63. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
64. The Heretic – Miguel Delibes
65. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
66. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
67. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
68. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
69. Crossfire – Miyuki Miyabe
70. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
71. Underworld – Don DeLillo
72. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
73. Money to Burn – Ricardo Piglia
74. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
75. Margot and the Angels – Kristien Hemmerechts
76. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
77. Silk Alessandro – Baricco
78. Fall on Your Knees – Ann-Marie MacDonald
79. A Light Comedy – Eduardo Mendoza
80. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
81. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
82. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
83. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
84. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
85. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
86. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
87. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
88. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
89. Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
90. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
91. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
92. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
93. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
94. The Late-Night News – Petros Markaris
95. Troubling Love – Elena Ferrante
96. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
97. Land – Park Kyung-ni
98. Our Lady of Assassins – Fernando Vallejo
99. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
100. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
101. City Sister Silver – Jáchym Topol
102. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
103. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
104. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
105. Deep River – Shusaku Endo
106. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
107. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
108. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light – Ivan Klima
109. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
110. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
111. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
112. The Twins – Tessa de Loo
113. On Love – Alain de Botton
114. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
115. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
116. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
117. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
118. The Holder of the World – Bharati Mukherjee
119. Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
120. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis
121. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
122. Before Night Falls – Reinaldo Arenas
123. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
124. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
125. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture – Apostolos Doxiadis
126. The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar – Ghose
127. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
128. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
129. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
130. Indigo – Marina Warner
131. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
132. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
133. The Dumas Club – Arturo Perez-Reverte
134. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
135. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
136. Asphodel – Hilda Doolittle
137. Memoirs of Rain – Sunetra Gupta
138. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
139. Arcadia – Jim Crace
140. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
141. Mao II – Don DeLillo
142. Typical – Padgett Powell
143. Regeneration – Pat Barker
144. Astradeni – Eugenia Fakinou
145. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
146. The Laws – Connie Palmen
147. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
148. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
149. The Daughter – Pavlos Matesis
150. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
151. Amongst Women – John McGahern
152. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
153. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
154. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
155. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
156. The Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh
157. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
158. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
159. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
160. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
161. London Fields – Martin Amis
162. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
163. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
164. The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
165. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
166. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
167. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
168. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
169. Inland – Gerald Murnane
170. Obabakoak – Bernardo Atxaga
171. Gimmick! – Joost Zwagerman
172. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
173. Paradise of the Blind – Duong Thu Huong
174. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
175. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
176. The Swimming Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
177. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
178. The Last World – Christoph Ransmayr
179. The First Garden – Anne Herbert
180. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
181. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
182. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
183. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
184. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
185. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
186. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
187. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
188. Black Box – Amos Oz
189. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
190. All Souls – Javier Marias
191. Beloved – Toni Morrison
192. Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
193. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
194. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
195. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
196. Ballad for Georg Henig – Viktor Paskov
197. The Taebaek Mountains – Jung Rae Cho
198. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
199. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
200. Matigari – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
201. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
202. Memory of Fire – Eduardo Galeano
203. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
204. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
205. Watchmen – Alan Moore
206. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
207. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman – Andrzej Szczypiorski
208. Ancestral Voices – Etienne van Heerden
209. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
210. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
211. Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid
212. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
213. Simon and the Oaks – Marianne Fredriksson
214. Contact – Carl Sagan
215. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
216. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
217. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
218. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
219. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
220. Half of Man is Woman – Zhang Xianliang
221. White Noise – Don DeLillo
222. Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
223. The Young Man – Botho Strauss
224. Legend – David Gemmell
225. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
226. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
227. The Busconductor Hines – James Kelman
228. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
229. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
230. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
231. Democracy – Joan Didion
232. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
233. Neuromancer – William Gibson
234. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
235. Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel – Julian Rios
236. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
237. Professor Martens’ Departure – Jaan Kross
238. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
239. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
240. Shame – Salman Rushdie
241. The Witness – Juan Jose Saer
242. Fado Alexandrino – Antonio Lobo Antunes
243. The Christmas Oratorio – Goran Tunstrom
244. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
245. Waterland – Graham Swift
246. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
247. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
248. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
249. Baltasar and Blimunda – Jose Saramago
250. The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
251. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
252. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
253. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
254. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
255. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
256. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
257. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
258. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
259. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
260. Couples, Passerby – Botho Strauss
261. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
262. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
263. The War of the End of the World – Mario Vargas Llosa
264. Leaden Wings – Zhang Jie
265. The House with the Blind Glass Windows – Herbjorg Wassmo
266. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
267. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
268. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
269. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
270. Smell of Sadness – Alfred Kossmann
271. Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
272. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
273. Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai
274. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
275. Southern Seas – Manuel Vazquez Montalban
276. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
277. Fool’s Gold – Maro Douka
278. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
279. A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
280. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
281. Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
282. So Long a Letter – Mariama Ba
283. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
284. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
285. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
286. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
287. The Back Room – Carmen Martin Gaite
288. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
289. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
290. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
291. Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr.
292. The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro
293. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
294. The Shining – Stephen King
295. Dispatches – Michael Herr
296. The Wars – Timothy Findley
297. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
298. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
299. Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
300. The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky
301. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
302. Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami
303. Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig
304. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
305. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
306. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
307. Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor
308. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
309. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
310. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
311. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
312. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
313. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
314. Fateless – Imre Kertész
315. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
316. Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi
317. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
318. The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna
319. The Commandant – Jessica Anderson
320. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
321. The Port – Antun Šoljan
322. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
323. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
324. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
325. The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
326. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
327. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
328. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
329. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
330. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
331. Crash – J.G. Ballard
332. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
333. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
334. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
335. The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
336. The Twilight Years – Sawako Ariyoshi
337. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
338. G – John Berger
339. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
340. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
341. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
342. Lives of Girls and Women – Alice Munro
343. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
344. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
345. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
346. Cataract – Mykhailo Osadchyi
347. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
348. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
349. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
350. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
351. A World for Julius – Alfredo Bryce Echenique
352. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
353. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
354. Fifth Business – Robertson Davies
355. Here’s to You, Jesusa – Elena Poniatowska
356. Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
357. Heartbreak Tango – Manuel Puig
358. Moscow Stations – Venedikt Erofeyev
359. The Case Worker – Gyorgy Konrad
360. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
361. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
362. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Himes
363. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
364. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
365. Jacob the Liar – Jurek Becker
366. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
367. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
368. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
369. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
370. A Void – Georges Perec
371. The First Circle – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
372. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
373. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
374. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
375. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
376. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
377. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
378. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
379. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
380. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
381. The Cathedral – Oles Honchar
382. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
383. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
384. Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
385. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
386. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
387. The Manor – Isaac Bashevis Singer
388. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
389. Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
390. Miramar – Naguib Mahfouz
391. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
392. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
393. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
394. The Magus – John Fowles
395. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
396. Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
397. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
398. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
399. To Each His Own – Leonardo Sciascia
400. Silence – Shusaku Endo
401. Death and the Dervish – Mesa Selimovic
402. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
403. Things: A Story of the Sixties – Georges Perec
404. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
405. Garden, Ashes – Danilo Kis
406. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
407. Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
408. Back to Oegstgeest – Jan Wolkers
409. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
410. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
411. Three Trapped Tigers – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
412. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
413. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
414. Herzog – Saul Bellow
415. V. – Thomas Pynchon
416. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
417. The Graduate – Charles Webb
418. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
419. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
420. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
421. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
422. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
423. Dog Years – Gunter Grass
424. The Third Wedding – Costas Taktsis
425. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
426. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
427. The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa
428. The Death of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes
429. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
430. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
431. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
432. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
433. Time of Silence – Luis Martin Santos
434. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
435. Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
436. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
437. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy – Xose Neira Vilas
438. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
439. No One Writes to the Colonel – Gabriel García Márquez
440. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
441. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
442. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
443. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
444. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
445. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
446. The Shipyard – Juan Carlos Onetti
447. God’s Bits of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
448. Bebo’s Girl – Carlo Cassola
449. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
450. Halftime – Martin Walser
451. The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
452. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
453. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
454. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
455. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
456. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
457. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
458. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460. Down Second Avenue – Es’kia Mphahlele
461. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
462. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
463. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
464. Deep Rivers – Jose Maria Arguedas
465. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
466. The Guide – R.K. Narayan
467. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
468. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
469. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
470. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
471. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
472. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
473. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
474. The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas
475. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
476. Voss – Patrick White
477. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
478. Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille
479. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
480. The Deadbeats – Ward Ruyslinck
481. The Manila Rope – Veijo Meri
482. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
483. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
484. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
485. The Glass Bees – Ernst Junger
486. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
487. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
488. The Floating Opera – John Barth
489. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
492. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
493. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
494. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa
495. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
496. The Tree of Man – Patrick White
497. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
498. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
499. The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo
500. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
501. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
502. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
503. The Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
504. The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
505. Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen
506. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
507. The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
511. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
512. A Day in Spring – Ciril Kosmac
513. The Dark Child – Camara Laye
514. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
515. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
516. The Hothouse – Wolfgang Koeppen
517. The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier
518. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
519. Junkie – William Burroughs
520. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
521. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
522. A Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
523. Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
524. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
525. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
526. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
527. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
528. The Hive – Camilo Jose Cela
529. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
530. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
531. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
532. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
533. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
534. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
535. The Rebel – Albert Camus
536. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
537. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
538. Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist
539. The Guiltless – Hermann Broch
540. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
541. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
542. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
543. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
544. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
545. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
546. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
547. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
548. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
549. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
550. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
551. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
552. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
553. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
554. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
555. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
556. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski
557. In The Heart of the Seas – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
558. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
559. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
560. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
561. Ashes and Diamonds – Jerzy Andrzejewski
562. Journey to the Alcarria – Camilo Jose Cela
563. Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
564. Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz
565. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
566. The Plague – Albert Camus
567. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
568. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
569. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
570. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
571. House in the Uplands – Erskine Caldwell
572. Back – Henry Green
573. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzákis
574. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
575. The Death of Virgil – Hermann Broch
576. Andrea - Carmen Laforet
577. The Tin Flute – Gabrielle Roy
578. Bosnian Chronicle – Ivo Andrić
579. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
580. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
581. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
582. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andrić
583. Animal Farm – George Orwell
584. Loving – Henry Green
585. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
586. Transit – Anna Seghers
587. The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
588. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
589. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry details
590. Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
591. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
592. Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
593. Embers – Sandor Marai
594. The Outsider – Albert Camus
595. Conversations In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
596. The Harvesters – Cesare Pavese
597. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
598. Broad and Alien is the World – Ciro Alegria
599. The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
600. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
601. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
602. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
603. Native Son – Richard Wright
604. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
605. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
606. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
607. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
608. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
609. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
610. On the Edge of Reason – Miroslav Krleza
611. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
612. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
613. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
614. Alamut – Vladimir Bartol
615. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
616. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
617. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
618. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
619. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
620. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
621. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
622. The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
623. Ferdydurke – Witold Gombrowicz
624. In Parenthesis – David Jones
625. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
626. Rickshaw Boy – Lao She
627. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
628. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
629. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
630. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
631. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
632. War with the Newts – Karel Capek
633. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
634. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
635. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
636. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
637. Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
638. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
639. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
640. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
641. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
642. The Bells of Basel – Louis Aragon
643. On the Heights of Despair – Emil Cioran
644. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
645. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
646. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
647. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
648. The Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
649. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
650. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
651. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
652. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
653. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
654. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
655. Man’s Fate – André Malraux
656. Cheese Willem – Elsschot
657. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
658. Vipers’ Tangle – Francois Mauriac
659. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
660. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
661. The Forbidden Realm – J. Slauerhoff
662. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
663. The Return of Philip Latinowicz – Miroslav Krleza
664. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
665. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
666. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
667. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
668. Insatiability – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
669. Monica – Saunders Lewis
670. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
671. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
672. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
674. Passing – Nella Larsen
675. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
676. I Thought of Daisy – Edmund Wilson
677. Living – Henry Green
678. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
679. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
680. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
681. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
682. Retreat Without Song – Shahan Shahnur
683. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
684. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
685. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
686. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
687. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
688. Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki
689. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
690. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
691. Nadja – André Breton
692. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
693. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
694. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
695. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
696. The Case of Sergeant Grischa – Arnold Zweig
697. Amerika – Franz Kafka
698. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
699. Blindness – Henry Green
700. The Castle – Franz Kafka
701. Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
702. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
703. Under Satan’s Sun – Georges Bernanos
704. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
705. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
706. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
707. Chaka the Zulu – Thomas Mofolo
708. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
709. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
710. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
711. The Trial – Franz Kafka
712. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
713. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
714. The New World – Henry Walda-Sellasse
715. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
716. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
717. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
718. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
719. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
720. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
721. Amok – Stefan Zweig
722. Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset
723. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
724. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
725. The Forest of the Hanged – Liviu Rebreanu
726. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
727. Claudine’s House – Colette
728. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
729. Ulysses – James Joyce
730. Life of Christ – Giovanni Papini
731. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
732. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
733. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
734. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
735. The Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger
736. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
737. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
738. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun
739. The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
740. Pallieter – Felix Timmermans
741. The Underdogs – Mariano Azuela
742. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
743. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
744. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
745. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
746. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
747. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
748. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
749. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
750. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
751. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
752. Platero and I – Juan Ramon Jimenez
753. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
754. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
755. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
756. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
757. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton details
758. Fantômas – Marcel Allain
759. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
760. Howards End – E.M. Forster
761. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
762. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
763. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
764. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
765. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
766. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
767. Mother – Maxim Gorky
768. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
769. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
770. The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
771. Young Törless – Robert Musil
772. Solitude – Victor Catala
773. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
774. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton details
775. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
776. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
777. The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
778. Memoirs of my Nervous Illness – Daniel Paul Schreber
779. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
780. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
781. The Ambassadors – Henry James
782. The Immoralist – André Gide
783. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
784. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
785. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
786. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
787. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
788. None but the Brave – Arthur Schnitzler
789. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
790. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari
1800s:
791. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
792. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon – Geza Gardonyi
793. The Stechlin – Theodor Fontane
794. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
795. Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
796. As a Man Grows Older – Italo Svevo
797. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
798. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
799. Pharoah – Boleslaw Prus
800. Compassion – Benito Perez Galdos
801. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
802. Dracula – Bram Stoker
803. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
804. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
805. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
806. Effi Briest – Theodor Fontane
807. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
808. The Viceroys – Federico De Roberto
809. Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
810. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
811. News from Nowhere – William Morris
812. New Grub Street – George Gissing
813. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
814. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
815. Down There – Joris-Karl Huysmans
816. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde details
817. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
818. Thais – Anatole France
819. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
820. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
821. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
822. Eline Vere – Louis Couperus
823. The Child of Pleasure – Gabriele D’Annunzio
824. Under the Yoke – Ivan Vazov
825. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
826. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
827. The Manors of Ulloa – Emilia Pardo Bazan
828. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
829. The Quest – Frederik van Eeden
830. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
831. Germinal – Émile Zola
832. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
833. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
834. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
835. The Regent’s Wife – Leopoldo Alas
836. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
837. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
838. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
839. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
840. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
841. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
842. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
843. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
844. Nana – Émile Zola
845. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
846. The Red Room – August Strindberg
847. Martin Fierro – Jose Hernandez
848. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
849. Drunkard – Émile Zola
850. The Crime of Father Axmaro – Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
851. Pepita Jimenez – Juan Valera
852. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
853. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nikolai Leskov
854. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
855. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
856. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
857. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
858. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
859. Middlemarch – George Eliot
860. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll details
861. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
862. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
864. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
865. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
866. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
867. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
868. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
869. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
870. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
871. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
873. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll details
874. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
875. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
876. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
877. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
878. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
879. Silas Marner – George Eliot
880. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
881. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
882. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
883. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins details
884. Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
886. Indian Summer – Adalbert Stifter
887. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
888. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
889. Green Henry – Gottfried Keller
890. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
891. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
894. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
896. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
897. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
898. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
899. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
900. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
901. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
902. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
903. The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
904. Facundo – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
905. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
906. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
907. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
908 Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
909. A Hero of Our Times – Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
910. Camera Obscura – Hildebrand
911. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
912. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
913. The Lion of Flanders – Hendrik Conscience
914. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
915. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
916. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
917. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
918. Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin
919. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
920. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
921. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
922. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
923. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing – Joseph von Eichendorff
924. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
925. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. Hoffman
926. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
927. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
928. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
929. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
930. Emma – Jane Austen
931. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
932. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
933. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
934. Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
935. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
936. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
937. Henry of Ofterdingen – Novalis
938. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
1700s:
939. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
940. The Nun – Denis Diderot
941. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
942. Camilla – Fanny Burney
943. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
944. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
945. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
946. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
947. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
948. A Dream of Red Mansions – Cao Xueqin
949. Justine – Marquis de Sade
950. Vathek – William Thomas Beckford
951. Anton Reiser – Karl Philipp Moritz
952. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
953. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
954. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
955. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956. Evelina – Fanny Burney
957. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
958. Humphry Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
959. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
960. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
961. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
962. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
963. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
964. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
965. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
966. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
967. Candide – Voltaire
968. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
969. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
970. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
971. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
972. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
973. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
974. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – John Arbuthnot
975. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
976. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift details
977. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
978. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe details
979. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
980. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Pre-1700s:
981. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
982. The Princess of Clèves – Madame de La Fayette
983. The Adventurous Simplicissimus – Hans von Grimmelshausen
984. The Conquest of New Spain – Bernal Diaz del Castillo
985. The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
986. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
987. Thomas of Reading – Thomas Deloney
988. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
989. Monkey: Journey to the West – Wu Cheng’en
990. The Lusiad – Luis Vaz de Camoes
991. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
992. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
993. Amadis of Gaul – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
994. La Celestina – Fernando de Rojas
995. Tirant lo Blanc – Joanot Martorell
996. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
997. The Water Margin – Shi Nai’an
998. Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Luo Guanzhong
999. The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
1000. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter –
1001. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous