This is the 1900’s of the 1001 books to read before you die. The books in bold are the ones the historian has already read and if there is a review, a link will be provided.
1900s
- Timbuktu, Paul Auster
- The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic
- Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
- Fear And Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
- Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
- Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
- Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
- Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
- Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
- All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
- The Talk Of The Town, Ardal O’Hanlon
- Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
- Another World, Pat Barker
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham
- Veronika Decides To Die, Paulo Coelho
- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- Great Apes, Will Self
- Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
- Underworld, Don DeLillo
- Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
- The Life Of Insects, Victor Pelevin
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- The Untouchable, John Banville
- Silk, Alessandro Baricco
- Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
- Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker
- Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
- The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
- Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin
- Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
- The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
- The Information, Martin Amis
- The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
- Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
- The Rings Of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
- The End Of The Story, Lydia Davis
- Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
- The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
- Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
- Land, Park Kyong-ni
- The Master Of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
- Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
- City Sister Silve, Jàchym Topol
- How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
- Disappearance, David Dabydeen
- The Invention Of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
- The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
- Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Looking For The Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy
- Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
- Complicity, Iain Banks
- On Love, Alain de Botton
- What A Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The House Of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
- The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
- The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- Life Is A Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar
- The Discovery Of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
- A Heart So White, Javier Marias
- Possessing The Secret Of Joy, Alice Walker
- Indigo, Marina Warner
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
- Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
- Jazz, Toni Morrison
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
- Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, Peter Høeg
- The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
- Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
- The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín
- Asphodel, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
- Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
- Arcadia, Jim Crace
- Wild Swans, Jung Chang
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
- Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
- Mao II, Don DeLillo
- Typical, Padgett Powell
- Regeneration, Pat Barker
- Downriver, Iain Sinclair
- Señor Vivo And The Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
- Wise Children, Angela Carter
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- Amongst Women, John McGahern
- Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
- Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
- Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
- The Music Of Chance, Paul Auster
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
- A Home At The End Of The World, Michael Cunningham
- Like Life, Lorrie Moore
- Possession, A.S. Byatt
- The Buddha Of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
- The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
- A Disaffection, James Kelman
- Sexing The Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
- Moon Palace, Paul Auster
- Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
- The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Melancholy Of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
- The Temple Of My Familiar, Alice Walker
- The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
- The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon, José Saramago
- Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- London Fields, Martin Amis
- The Book Of Evidence, John Banville
- Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
- Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
- Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey
- Libra, Don DeLillo
- The Player Of Games, Iain M. Banks
- Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, Douglas Adams
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
- The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
- The Afternoon Of A Writer, Peter Handke
- The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
- The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
- The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
- The Child In Time, Ian McEwan
- Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
- The Bonfire Of The Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
- World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Enigma Of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
- The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
- Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
- Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
- The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
- Lost Language Of Cranes, David Leavitt
- An Artist Of The Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
- Foe, J.M. Coetzee
- The Drowned And The Saved, Primo Levi
- Reasons To Live, Amy Hempel
- The Parable Of The Blind, Gert Hofmann
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving
- A Maggot, John Fowles
- Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
- Contact, Carl Sagan
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
- White Noise, Don DeLillo
- Queer, William Burroughs
- Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
- Legend, David Gemmell
- Dictionary Of The Khazars, Milorad Pavic
- The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
- The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago
- The Lover, Marguerite Duras
- Empire Of The Sun, J.G. Ballard
- The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
- Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera
- Blood And Guts In High School, Kathy Acker
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
- Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
- Shame, Salman Rushdie
- Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
- Fools Of Fortune, William Trevor
- La Brava, Elmore Leonard
- Waterland, Graham Swift
- The Life And Times Of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
- The Diary Of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
- The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
- The Sorrow Of Belgium, Hugo Claus
- If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
- A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
- A Pale View Of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
- The House Of The Spirits, Isabel Allende
- The Newton Letter, John Banville
- On The Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
- Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
- The Names, Don DeLillo
- Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
- The Comfort Of Strangers, Ian McEwan
- July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
- Summer In Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
- Broken April, Ismail Kadare
- Waiting For The Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- Rites Of Passage, William Golding
- Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
- A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
- The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
- The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, Milan Kundera
- Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
- Shikasta, Doris Lessing
- A Bend In The River, V.S. Naipaul
- Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
- The Safety Net, Heinrich Böll
- If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
- The World According To Garp, John Irving
- Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
- The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
- The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
- Yes, Thomas Bernhard
- The Virgin In The Garden, A.S. Byatt
- In The Heart Of The Country, J.M. Coetzee
- The Passion Of New Eve, Angela Carter
- Delta Of Venus, Anaïs Nin
- The Shining, Stephen King
- Dispatches, Michael Herr
- Petals Of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
- The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
- Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
- The Public Burning, Robert Coover
- Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice
- Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
- Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
- Patterns Of Childhood, Christa Wolf
- The Autumn Of The Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
- W, Or The Memory Of Childhood, Georges Perec
- A Dance To The Music of Time, Anthony Powell
- Grimus, Salman Rushdie
- The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
- Fateless, Imre Kertész
- Willard And His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
- High Rise, J.G. Ballard
- Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
- Dead Babies, Martin Amis
- Correction, Thomas Bernhard
- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
- The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
- Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
- The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
- Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Fear Of Flying, Erica Jong
- A Question Of Power, Bessie Head
- The Siege Of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
- The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
- Crash, J.G. Ballard
- The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- The Breast, Philip Roth
- The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
- G, John Berger
- Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
- House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
- In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
- The Book Of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
- Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
- The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
- Rabbit Redux, John Updike
- The Sea Of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
- The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
- The Ogre, Michael Tournier
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Mercier Et Camier, Samuel Beckett
- Troubles, J.G. Farrell
- Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
- The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
- Tent Of Miracles, Jorge Amado
- Pricksongs And Descants, Robert Coover
- Blind Man With A Pistolm, Chester Hines
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
- The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- Ada Or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
- Them, Joyce Carol Oates
- A Void, Georges Perec
- Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
- Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
- The Nice And The Good, Iris Murdoch
- Belle Du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
- Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, Malcolm Lowry
- The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
- In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
- A Kestrel For A Knave, Barry Hines
- The Quest For Christa T., Christa Wolf
- Chocky, John Wyndham
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
- The Cubs And Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
- The Joke, Milan Kundera
- No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
- The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
- A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
- The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
- Trawl, B.S. Johnson
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Magus, John Fowles
- The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
- Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
- The Crying Of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Things, Georges Perec
- The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- August Is A Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
- The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
- Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
- Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
- Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
- Arrow Of God, Chinua Achebe
- The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
- Herzog, Saul Bellow
- V., Thomas Pynchon
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Graduate, Charles Webb
- Manon Des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
- The Girls Of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
- Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Collector, John Fowles
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
- The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
- The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
- Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
- Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
- The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
- Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- Franny And Zooey, J.D. Salinger
- A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
- Faces In The Water, Janet Frame
- Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
- Cat And Mouse, Günter Grass
- The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor
- How It Is, Samuel Beckett
- Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
- The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
- Promise At Dawn, Romain Gary
- Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
- Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
- Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
- The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
- Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
- Henderson The Rain King, Saul Bellow
- Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
- Billiards At Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
- The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
- Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
- The End Of The Road, John Barth
- The Once And Future King, T.H. White
- The Bell, Iris Murdoch
- Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Voss, Patrick White
- The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
- Homo Faber, Max Frisch
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
- Justine, Lawrence Durrell
- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
- The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
- The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
- Seize The Day, Saul Bellow
- The Floating Opera, John Barth
- The Lord Of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- A World Of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
- The Trusting And The Maimed, James Plunkett
- The Quiet American, Graham Greene
- The Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis
- The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
- Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
- I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
- Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
- The Story Of O, Pauline Réage
- A Ghost At Noon, Alberto Moravia
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Under The Net, Iris Murdoch
- The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
- The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
- The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
- Watt, Samuel Beckett
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
- Junkie, William Burroughs
- The Adventures Of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
- Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
- The Judge And His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
- The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
- Memoirs Of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
- Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
- The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
- The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
- The Rebel, Albert Camus
- Molloy, Samuel Beckett
- The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene
- The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
- The Labyrinth Of Solitude, Octavio Paz
- The Third Man, Graham Greene
- The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing
- I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
- The Moon And The Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
- The Garden Where The Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
- Love In A Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
- The Case Of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
- The Heat Of The Day, Elizabeth Bowen
- Kingdom Of This World, Alejo Carpentier
- The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
- Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
- Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
- The Heart Of The Matter, Graham Greene
- Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
- Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
- The Victim, Saul Bellow
- Exercises In Style, Raymond Queneau
- If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
- Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
- The Path To The Spider’s Nest, Italo Calvino
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- Back, Henry Green
- Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
- The Bridge On The Drina, Ivo Andric
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
- The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
- Loving, Henry Green
- Arcanum 17, André Breton
- Christ Stopped At Eboli, Carlo Levi
- The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
- Transit, Anna Seghers
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
- Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Caught, Henry Green
- The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
- Embers, Sandor Marai
- Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
- The Outsider, Albert Camus
- Conversations In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
- The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
- The Living And The Dead, Patrick White
- Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
- Between The Acts, Virginia Woolf
- The Hamlet, William Faulkner
- Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
- For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- The Power And The Glory, Graham Greene
- The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
- Party Going, Henry Green
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
- Coming Up For Air, George Orwell
- Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic Of Capricorn, Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
- After The Death Of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Warner
- Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
- Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- Cause For Alarm, Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
- U.S.A., John Dos Passos
- Murphy, Samuel Beckett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Years, Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis, David Jones
- The Revenge For Love, Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa, Isak Dineson
- To Have And Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless In Gaza, Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
- Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
- Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
- At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- Independent People, Halldór Laxness
- Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti
- The Last Of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
- The House In Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me, Graham Greene
- Burmese Days, George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
- Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
- Tropic Of Cancer, Henry Miller
- A Handful Of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
- Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
- Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
- Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
- Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
- Testament Of Youth, Vera Brittain
- A Day Off, Storm Jameson
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
- Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey To The End Of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- To The North, Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
- The Waves, Virginia Woolf
- The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
- Cakes And Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
- The Apes Of God, Wyndham Lewis
- Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
- Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
- The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
- Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
- Passing, Nella Larsen
- A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
- Living, Henry Green
- The Time Of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
- The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
- Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
- The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner
- Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
- Story Of The Eye, Georges Bataille
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
- The Well Of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
- Quartet, Jean Rhys
- Decline And Fall, Evelyn Waugh
- Quicksand, Nella Larsen
- Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
- Nadja, André Breton
- Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
- Remembrance Of Things Past, Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Tarka The Otter, Henry Williamson
- Amerika, Franz Kafka
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Blindness, Henry Green
- The Castle, Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
- The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
- One, None And A Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
- The Making Of Americans, Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters, André Gide
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
- The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
- The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
- We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
- A Passage To India, E.M. Forster
- The Devil In The Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
- Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
- Cane, Jean Toomer
- Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
- Amok, Stefan Zweig
- The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
- The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
- Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- The Glimpses Of The Moon, Edith Wharton
- Life And Death Of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
- The Last Days Of Humanity, Karl Kraus
- Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence
- Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- The Fox, D.H. Lawrence
- Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
- The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
- Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
- Night And Day, Virginia Woolf
- Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
- The Return Of The Soldier, Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
- Summer, Edith Wharton
- Growth Of The Soil, Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
- A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce
- Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
- Rashōmon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
- The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
- Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
- Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
- Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
- Tarzan Of The Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
- Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
- The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End, E.M. Forster
- Impressions Of Africa, Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden, Jack London
- Strait Is The Gate, André Gide
- Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
- The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
- A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
- The Iron Heel, Jack London
- The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
- The House On The Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
- Mother, Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Young Törless, Robert Musil
- The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
- The House Of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
- Where Angels Fear To Tread, E.M. Forster
- Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
- Hadrian The Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
- The Golden Bowl, Henry James
- The Ambassadors, Henry James
- The Riddle Of The Sands, Erskine Childers
- The Immoralist, André Gide
- The Wings Of The Dove, Henry James
- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
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