The list... — 2 years ago
Last edited: September 10 2007
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1 Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
2 Richard Adams – Watership Down
3 Martin Amis – Money: A Suicide Note
4 Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
5 Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin OR Oryx and Crake
6 Jane Austen – Emma
7 Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
8 Samuel Beckett – Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
9 John Birmingham – Weapons of Choice
10 Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions
11 Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
12 Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
13 William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
14 A.S. Byatt – Possession
15 Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
16 Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
17 Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
18 Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
19 Raymond Chandler – Farewell, my Lovely
20 Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
21 Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
22 Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
23 Don DeLillo – White Noise
24 Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
25 Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
26 Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
27 Fyodor M Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
28 Fyodor M Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
29 Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
30 George Eliot – Middlemarch
31 Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
32 William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
33 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
34 F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
35 Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys
36 Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors
37 Johann Wolfgang von Geothe – Faust
38 Gunter Grass – The Tin Drum
39 Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (or Our Man in Havana)
40 Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
41 Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
42 Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
43 James Hilton – Lost Horizon
44 Homer – The Odyssey (Fagles translation)
45 Homer – The Iliad (Fagles translation)
46 Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
47 Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
48 James Joyce – Ulysses
49 James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50 Jack Kerouac – On the Road
51 Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
52 Stephen King – The Stand
53 Stephen King – The Shining
54 Rudyard Kipling – Kim
55 Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
56 John le Carre – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
57 Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness
58 Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
59 Jack London – The Call of the Wild
60 Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
61 Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
62 Toni Morrison – Beloved
63 Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
64 Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
65 Iris Murdoch – The Bell
66 Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
67 Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
68 Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds
69 Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
70 Milorad Pavic – Dictionary of the Khazars
71 Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
72 Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
73 Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
74 Thomas Pynchon – V
75 Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
76 Neal Stephenson – Quicksilver
77 Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
78 Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
79 Zadie Smith – White Teeth
80 Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
81 Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
82 William Styron – Sophie’s Choice
83 Graham Swift – Waterland
84 Jonathon Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
85 Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
86 John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
87 Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
88 John Updike – Rabbit, Run
89 Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
90 Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
91 Alice Walker – The Colour Purple
92 Evelyn Waugh – Scoop
93 Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
94 Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth
95 Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
96 Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
97 Gene Wolfe – The Fifth Head of Cerberus
98 Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
99 Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
100 Virginia Woolf – Orlando
