"1001 Books to Read Before You Die" That Have Survived 4 Rounds of Culling

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1. Looking for the Possible Dance (A.L. Kennedy)

2. The Virgin in the Garden (A.S. Byatt)

3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)

4. On Love (Alain De Botton)

5. Jealousy (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

6. The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst)

7. Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)

8. Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)

9. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)

10. Morvern Callar (Alan Warner)

11. Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Alasdair Gray)

12. The Outsider (Albert Camus)

13. The Plague (Albert Camus)

14. The Rebel (Albert Camus)

15. Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur) (Albert Cohen)

16. Contempt (Alberto Moravia)

17. Disobedience (Alberto Moravia)

18. The Time of Indifference (Alberto Moravia)

19. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

20. Crome Yellow (Aldous Huxley)

21. Eyeless in Gaza (Aldous Huxley)

22. The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier)

23. Nowhere Man (Aleksandar Hemon)

24. In the First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

25. Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

27. Silk (Alessandro Baricco)

28. The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)

29. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerius (Alexander Pope)

30. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

31. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)

32. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)

33. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

34. Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker)

35. Fear and Trembling (Amélie Nothomb)

36. Reasons to Live (Amy Hempel)

37. Delta of Venus (Anaïs Nin)

38. Arcanum 17 (André Breton)

39. Nadja (André Breton)

40. Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)

41. The Counterfeiters (André Gide)

42. Fruits of the Earth (André Gide)

43. Strait Is the Gate (André Gide)

44. The Immoralist (André Gide)

45. No Laughing Matter (Angus Wilson)

46. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe)

47. Transit (Anna Seghers)

48. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)

49. Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)

50. Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice)

51. The Shipping News (Annie Proux)

52. The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)

53. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

54. Inside Mr Enderby (Anthony Burgess)

55. A Dance to the Music of Time (Anthony Powell)

56. Phineas Finn (Anthony Trollope)

57. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Anthony Trollope)

58. The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)

59. Pereira Declares: A Testimony (Antonio Tabucchi)

60. Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)

61. The Golden Ass (Apuleius)

62. The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)

63. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)

64. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

65. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)

66. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)

67. By the Open Sea (August Strindberg)

68. The People of Hemsö (August Strindberg)

69. The Red Room (August Strindberg)

70. House Mother Normal (B.S. Johnson)

71. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

72. A Kestrel for a Knave (Barry Hines)

73. The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)

74. A Question of Power (Bessie Head)

75. Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

76. Dracula (Bram Stoker)

77. Borstal Boy (Brendan Behan)

78. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)

79. On the Black Hill (Bruce Chatwin)

80. Contact (Carl Sagan)

81. Christ Stopped at Eboli (Carlo Levi)

82. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

83. All Souls' Day (Cees Nooteboom)

84. Rituals (Cees Nooteboom)

85. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

86. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

87. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

88. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

89. The Moon and the Bonfires (Cesare Pavese)

90. The Water-Babies (Charles Kingsley)

91. Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Maturin)

92. The Graduate (Charles Webb)

93. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

94. The Female Quixote (Charlotte Lennox)

95. Blind Man With a Pistol (Chester Himes)

96. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

97. Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)

98. Patterns of Childhood (Christa Wolf)

99. The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)

100. Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Christopher Isherwood)

101. Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)

102. The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)

103. The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector)

104. Absolute Beginners (Colin Macinnes)

105. The Master (Colm Tóibín)

106. Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)

107. Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)

108. Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)

109. The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)

110. Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)

111. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

112. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)

113. Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)

114. The Maltese Falcon (Dasheill Hammett)

115. The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)

116. Disappearance (David Dabydeen)

117. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)

118. Legend (David Gemmell)

119. In Parenthesis (David Jones)

120. The Lost Language of Cranes (David Leavitt)

121. Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)

122. Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)

123. Rameau's Nephew (Denis Diderot)

124. The Nun (Denis Diderot)

125. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

126. The Tartar Steppe (Dino Buzzati)

127. Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)

128. The Dead Father (Donald Barthelme)

129. Mao II (Don Delillo)

130. Underworld (Don Delillo)

131. White Noise (Don Delillo)

132. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)

133. The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)

134. The Grass Is Singing (Doris Lessing)

135. Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy L. Sayers)

136. The Nine Tailors (Dorothy L. Sayers)

137. Pilgrimage (Dorothy Richardson)

138. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adam)

139. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)

140. The Enormous Room (E. E. Cummings)

141. Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)

142. The Book of Daniel (E.L. Doctorow)

143. A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)

144. A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)

145. Howards End (E.M. Forster)

146. The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)

147. The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allan Poe)

148. Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

149. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. (Edith Somerville & Martín Ross)

150. Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)

151. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

152. The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)

153. A Boy's Own Story (Edmund White)

154. Girl With Green Eyes (Edna O'Brien)

155. The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien)

156. The Bitter Glass (Eilís Dillon)

157. The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)

158. Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti)

159. Conversations in Sicily (Elio Vittorini)

160. Love in Excess (Eliza Haywood)

161. Eva Trout (Elizabeth Bowen)

162. The Heat of the Day (Elizabeth Bowen)

163. To the North (Elizabeth Bowen)

164. Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)

165. North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)

166. Get Shorty (Elmore Leonard)

167. La Brava (Elmore Leonard)

168. Germinal (Émile Zola)

169. La Bête Humaine (The Beast Within) (Émile Zola)

170. L'assomoir (The Drinking Den/The Dram Shop/Drunkard) (Émile Zola)

171. Nana (Émile Zola)

172. Thérèse Raquin (Émile Zola)

173. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

174. Life Is a Caravanserai (Emine Özdamar)

175. Cause for Alarm (Eric Ambler)

176. Fear of Flying (Erica Jong)

177. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria)

178. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

179. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

180. The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

181. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

182. The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)

183. Hideous Kinky (Esther Freud)

184. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

185. Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)

186. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

187. Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

188. At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)

189. The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)

190. Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O'Connor)

191. Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor)

192. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)

193. Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford)

194. Camilla (Frances Burney)

195. Evelina (Frances Burney)

196. Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)

197. Bonjour Tristesse (Françoise Sagan)

198. Amerika (Franz Kafka)

199. The Castle (Franz Kafka)

200. The Trial (Franz Kafka)

201. Her Privates We (Frederic Manning)

202. Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe)

203. The Judge and His Hangman (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)

204. Hyperion (Friedrich Hölderlin)

205. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

206. Devils (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

207. Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

208. The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

209. All About H. Hatterr (G.V. Desani)

210. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)

211. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)

212. The Autumn of the Patriarch (Gabriel García Márquez)

213. Adam Bede (George Eliot)

214. Middlemarch (George Eliot)

215. The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)

216. Silas Marner (George Eliot)

217. New Grub Street (George Gissing)

218. The Diary of a Nobody (George Grossmith)

219. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)

220. Animal Farm (George Orwell)

221. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)

222. Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)

223. The Abbot C (Georges Bataille)

224. Blue of Noon (Georges Bataille)

225. Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)

226. Things: A Story of the Sixties (Georges Perec)

227. W, or the Memory of Childhood (Georges Pérec)

228. A Void (Georges Perec, Tr. Gilbert Adair)

229. The Parable of the Blind (Gert Hoffman)

230. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)

231. The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)

232. Love's Work (Gillian Rose)

233. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Giorgio Bassani)

234. The House by the Medlar Tree (Giovanni Verga)

235. The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)

236. Myra Breckinridge (Gore Vidal)

237. Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)

238. The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)

239. The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)

240. The Quiet American (Graham Greene)

241. The Honorary Consul (Graham Greene)

242. Waterland (Graham Swift)

243. The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)

244. Cat and Mouse (Günter Grass)

245. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

246. Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)

247. Bouvard and Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert)

248. A Woman's Life (Guy De Maupassant)

249. Bel-Ami (Guy De Maupassant)

250. Pierre and Jean (Guy De Maupassant)

251. King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)

252. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)

253. The Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells)

254. The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)

255. The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)

256. Independent People (Halldór Laxness)

257. The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi)

258. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

259. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

260. Cigarettes (Harry Matthews)

261. The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)

262. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

263. Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)

264. Group Portrait With Lady (Heinrich Böll)

265. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)

266. Professor Unrat/The Blue Angel (Heinrich Mann)

267. Forever a Stranger (Hella Haasse)

268. The Inferno (Henri Barbusse)

269. Under Fire (Henri Barbusse)

270. Walden (Henry David Thoreau)

271. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)

272. Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)

273. Blindness (Henry Green)

274. Living (Henry Green)

275. Loving (Henry Green)

276. Back (Henry Green)

277. The Ambassadors (Henry James)

278. The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)

279. The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)

280. What Maisie Knew (Henry James)

281. The Man of Feeling (Henry Mackenzie)

282. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)

283. Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)

284. Tarka the Otter (Henry Williamson)

285. Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)

286. The Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse)

287. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

288. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

289. Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)

290. Asphodel (Hilda Doolittle)

291. Eugénie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)

292. Le Père Goriot (Old Goriot) (Honoré De Balzac)

293. Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)

294. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Horace McCoy)

295. The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)

296. The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus)

297. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)

298. The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

299. The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)

300. Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)

301. Atonement (Ian McEwan)

302. The Cement Garden (Ian McEwan)

303. Fatelessness (Imre Kertész)

304. The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)

305. The Bell (Iris Murdoch)

306. A Severed Head (Iris Murdoch)

307. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)

308. The Sea, the Sea (Irish Murdoch)

309. Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

310. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)

311. Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)

312. Broken April (Ismail Kadare)

313. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Ismail Kadare)

314. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)

315. The Path to the Nest of Spiders (Italo Calvino)

316. Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)

317. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino)

318. Confessions of Zeno (Italo Svevo)

319. Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)

320. King Lear of the Steppes (Ivan Turgenev)

321. Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

322. Spring Torrents (Ivan Turgenev)

323. The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andrić)

324. In a Glass Darkly (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)

325. Uncle Silas (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)

326. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

327. Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)

328. Crash (J.G. Ballard)

329. Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard)

330. The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)

331. The Singapore Grip (J.G. Farrell)

332. Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)

333. Dusklands (J.M. Coetzee)

334. In the Heart of the Country (J.M. Coetzee)

335. Life and Times of Michael K (J.M. Coetzee)

336. Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)

337. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

338. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

339. City Sister Silver (Jáchym Topol)

340. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

341. Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)

342. Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)

343. The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)

344. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)

345. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)

346. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

347. Ulysses (James Joyce)

348. Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)

349. How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman)

350. The Busconductor Hines (James Kelman)

351. The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)

352. The Trusting and the Maimed (James Plunkett)

353. The Charwoman's Daughter (James Stephens)

354. The 13 Clocks (James Thurber)

355. Faces in the Water (Janet Frame)

356. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (Janice Galloway)

357. Emma (Jane Austen)

358. Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)

359. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

360. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

361. The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)

362. Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Cocteau)

363. Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Rhys)

364. Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

365. Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)

366. Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)

367. Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

368. Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

369. Émile, or on Education (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

370. Julie; Or, the New Eloise (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

371. Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre, Trans. Robert Baldick)

372. The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)

373. Arcadia (Jim Crace)

374. Stone Junction (Jim Dodge)

375. Taebaek Sanmaek (Taebaek Mountain Range) (Jo Jung-Rae)

376. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

377. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

378. Elective Affinities (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

379. The Sea (John Banville)

380. Giles Goat-Boy (John Barth)

381. The Floating Opera (John Barth)

382. G (John Berger)

383. The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)

384. Fanny Hill (John Cleland)

385. U.S.A. Trilogy (John Dos Passos)

386. The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)

387. The Magus (John Fowles)

388. The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)

389. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

390. The Cider House Rules (John Irving)

391. A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

392. Smiley's People (John Le Carré)

393. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John Le Carré)

394. Amongst Women (John McGahern)

395. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

396. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

397. Rabbit, Run (John Updike)

398. Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike)

399. Rabbit Redux (John Updike)

400. The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)

401. The Midwich Cuckoos (John Wyndham)

402. What a Carve Up! (Jonathan Coe)

403. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)

404. Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)

405. A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)

406. Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)

407. Tent of Miracles (Jorge Amado)

408. Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)

409. A Rebours (Against Nature/Against the Grain) (Joris-Karl Huysmans)

410. The History of the Siege of Lisbon (José Saramago)

411. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (José Saramago)

412. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

413. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

414. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)

415. The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)

416. The Radetzky March (Joseph Roth)

417. Them (Joyce Carol Oates)

418. Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)

419. Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)

420. Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)

421. The Opposing Shore (Julien Gracq)

422. Wild Swans (Jung Chang)

423. The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

424. Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)

425. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)

426. A Pale View of Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro)

427. An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)

428. The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)

429. Billy Liar (Keith Waterhouse)

430. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)

431. Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)

432. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Kenzaburō Ōe)

433. Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)

434. The Old Devils (Kingsley Amis)

435. Growth of the Soil (Knut Hamsun)

436. Hunger (Knut Hamsun)

437. Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

438. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

439. The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley)

440. The Melancholy of Resistance (László Krasznahorkai)

441. Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)

442. A Sentimental Journey (Laurence Sterne)

443. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)

444. Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee)

445. Justine (Lawrence Durrell)

446. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

447. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

448. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)

449. The Kreutzer Sonata & Other Stories (Leo Tolstoy)

450. Summer in Baden-Baden (Leonid Tsypkin)

451. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

452. Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

453. Ben-Hur (Lew Wallace)

454. Anagrams (Lorrie Moore)

455. Like Life (Lorrie Moore)

456. Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernières)

457. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

458. Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

459. One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Luigi Pirandello)

460. The End of the Story (Lydia Davis)

461. The Princesse De Clèves (Madame De Lafayette)

462. Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)

463. Fantômas (Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre)

464. Manon Des Sources (Marcel Pagnol)

465. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)

466. Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)

467. Surfacing (Margaret Atwood)

468. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

469. The Radiant Way (Margaret Drabble)

470. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

471. The Lover (Marguerite Duras)

472. The Ravishing of Lol Stein (Marguerite Duras)

473. The Vice-Consul (Marguerite Duras)

474. Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar, Trans. Grace Frick)

475. Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth)

476. Indigo (Marina Warner)

477. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)

478. The Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa, Trans. Edith Grossman)

479. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

480. Justine (Marquis De Sade)

481. London Fields (Martin Amis)

482. Money (Martin Amis)

483. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

484. The Monk (Matthew Lewis)

485. Death Sentence (Maurice Blanchot)

486. Homo Faber (Max Frisch)

487. I'm Not Stiller (Max Frisch)

488. Mother (Maxim Gorky)

489. The Artamonov Business (Maxim Gorky)

490. Life and Death of Harriett Frean (May Sinclair)

491. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

492. Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

493. Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)

494. The Green Hat (Michael Arlen)

495. The Hours (Michael Cunningham)

496. Dispatches (Michael Herr)

497. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

498. Under the Skin (Michel Faber)

499. Platform (Michel Houellebecq)

500. The Elementary Particles (Michel Houellebecq)

501. Whatever (Michel Houellebecq)

502. Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)

503. The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

504. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)

505. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

506. Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)

507. Max Havelaar (Multatuli)

508. The Girls of Slender Means (Muriel Spark)

509. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)

510. Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)

511. July's People (Nadine Gordimer)

512. Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)

513. Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)

514. The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

515. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

516. Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki)

517. Passing (Nella Larsen)

518. Quicksand (Nella Larsen)

519. The Man With the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren)

520. A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)

521. Cutter and Bone (Newton Thornburg)

522. The River Between (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o)

523. Matigari (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o)

524. Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)

525. The Nose (Nikolai Gogol)

526. The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories (Nikolai Leskov)

527. The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)

528. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings (Octavio Paz)

529. The Interesting Narrative (Olaudah Equiano)

530. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith)

531. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

532. Thank You, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)

533. Typical (Padgett Powell)

534. Land (Pak Kyung-Ni)

535. Regeneration (Pat Barker)

536. The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)

537. Hallucinating Foucault (Patricia Duncker)

538. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)

539. Perfume (Patrick Süskind)

540. The Pigeon (Patrick Süskind)

541. The Butcher Boy (Patrick McCabe)

542. The Living and the Dead (Patrick White)

543. Voss (Patrick White)

544. Moon Palace (Paul Auster)

545. The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)

546. Story of O (Pauline Réage)

547. The Devil and Miss Prym (Paulo Coelho)

548. Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)

549. Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)

550. Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)

551. Celestial Harmonies (Péter Esterházy)

552. The Afternoon of a Writer (Peter Handke)

553. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)

554. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Høeg, Trans. Tiina Nunnally)

555. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)

556. Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)

557. The Human Stain (Philip Roth)

558. The Ragazzi (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

559. Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)

560. If Not Now, When? (Primo Levi)

561. If This Is a Man • the Truce (Primo Levi)

562. The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)

563. The Well of Loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)

564. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

565. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)

566. The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)

567. Exercises in Style (Raymond Queneau)

568. The Devil in the Flesh (Raymond Radiguet)

569. Impressions of Africa (Raymond Roussel)

570. Locus Solus (Raymond Roussel)

571. The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)

572. The Thinking Reed (Rebecca West)

573. In Watermelon Sugar (Richard Brautigan)

574. Willard and His Bowling Trophies (Richard Brautigan)

575. Native Son (Richard Wright)

576. Pricksongs and Descants (Robert Coover)

577. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)

578. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

579. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

580. The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)

581. The Confusions of Young Törless (Robert Musil)

582. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)

583. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

584. Promise at Dawn (Romain Gary)

585. The Roots of Heaven (Romain Gary)

586. Kim (Rudyard Kipling)

587. Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)

588. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)

589. Shame (Salman Rushdie)

590. The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

591. The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)

592. Erewhon (Samuel Butler)

593. Molloy (Samuel Beckett)

594. Malone Dies (Samuel Beckett)

595. Murphy (Samuel Beckett)

596. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Samuel Johnson)

597. Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady (Samuel Richardson)

598. Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (Samuel Richardson)

599. Embers (Sándor Márai)

600. Herzog (Saul Bellow)

601. Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)

602. Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)

603. Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)

604. The Saga of Gösta Berling (Selma Lagerlöf)

605. The German Lesson (Siegfried Lenz)

606. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played (Simon Vestdijk)

607. Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)

608. Main Street (Sinclair Lewis)

609. What I Loved (Siri Hustvedt)

610. As If I Am Not There (Slavenka Drakulić)

611. Solaris (Stanisław Lem)

612. Amok (Stefan Zweig)

613. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)

614. The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)

615. The Red and the Black (Stendhal)

616. The Shining (Stephen King)

617. A Day off (Storm Jameson)

618. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

619. Summer Will Show (Sylvia Townsend Warner)

620. World's End (T.C. Boyle)

621. The Once and Future King (T.H. White)

622. The 120 Days of Sodom (The Marquis De Sade)

623. Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)

624. The Stechlin (Theodor Fontane)

625. Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)

626. Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)

627. Wittgenstein's Nephew (Thomas Bernhard)

628. Correction (Thomas Bernhard, Trans. Sophie Wilkins)

629. Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)

630. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)

631. Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

632. Schindler's Ark (Thomas Keneally)

633. Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)

634. Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)

635. Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)

636. The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)

637. The Unfortunate Traveller (Thomas Nashe)

638. Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)

639. The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)

640. V. (Thomas Pynchon)

641. Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)

642. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)

643. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Tobias Smollett)

644. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Tobias Smollett)

645. The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)

646. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)

647. Beloved (Toni Morrison)

648. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)

649. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)

650. The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)

651. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)

652. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

653. Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga)

654. Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

655. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)

656. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

657. Anniversaries (Uwe Johnson, Tr. Damion Searls)

658. The Invention of Curried Sausage (Uwe Timm)

659. A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)

660. In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)

661. The Enigma of Arrival (V.S. Naipaul)

662. Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain)

663. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

664. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)

665. The Clay Machine-Gun (Victor Pelevin)

666. The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)

667. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)

668. The Life of Insects (Viktor Pelevin)

669. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

670. Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

671. The Waves (Virginia Woolf)

672. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

673. Ada, or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)

674. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

675. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)

676. Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)

677. Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)

678. Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)

679. The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham)

680. Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)

681. Vertigo (W.G. Sebald)

682. Marius the Epicurean (Walter Pater)

683. Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)

684. Rob Roy (Walter Scott)

685. The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)

686. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

687. The Professor's House (Willa Cather)

688. Vathek (William Beckford)

689. Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)

690. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)

691. Neuromancer (William Gibson)

692. Caleb Williams (William Godwin)

693. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

694. The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson)

695. The Fan Man (William Kotzwinkle)

696. The Midnight Examiner (William Kotzwinkle)

697. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)

698. News From Nowhere (William Morris)

699. Junky (William S. Burroughs)

700. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)

701. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Winifred Watson)

702. Tarr (Wyndham Lewis)

703. The Apes of God (Wyndham Lewis)

704. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

705. We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

706. The Sea of Fertility Tetraology (Yukio Mishima)

707. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)

708. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)