Read Dr. Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Well-written, slim little book about a dealer in silk worms who travels to Japan from France in the 1880s to obtain silk worm eggs and who falls in love with an unattainable woman he meets there. Full of mystery and beauty, achieves a lot without using a whole lot of words. My edition is beautifully designed also, with an image from 17th century cosmetic box in the centre of a grey cover that looks like silk.

The Devils/Dostoyevsky (1870)
One Hundred Years of Solitude/Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967/1970 English)

Both are also on Harold Bloom’s list.

Really enjoyed this, but have to say I find detective fiction incredibly confusing, so many characters and so much plot, and you need to remember it all. I kept flipping back when a character was re-introduced to try to figure out who they were. And Hammett apparently set himself the task, when writing this, of seeing how many characters he could murder in one book, so maybe it’s a little more confusing than usual. Hammett’s nameless detective (referred to as The Continental Op, I have learned) is summoned to Personville by a man who is dead before he even gets to meet with him. The Op finds that Personville is a cesspool of corruption and decides, after securing a hefty payment, to clean the town up. Much bloodshed and many plot twists ensue. Hammett is a good writer and that kept me reading even when I wasn’t totally sure what was going on. The Op is a fascinating character too, cold, hard, but fat and out of shape, not a romantic hero, fairly amoral, but also likeable. Hammett had worked for Pinkertons and based his character on that experience. Will read more Hammett, I liked this.

I love Kathy Acker and I don’t totally get this book. The story of Janey, who leaves an incestuous relationship with her father in Mexico to move to New York where she is eventually kidnapped into sex slavery; later she gets cancer and travels with Jean Genet. Acker’s work is collage, this book contains drawings, poems, handwritten text, a re-telling of The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne. It is also full of graphic sexual language, like all of Acker’s work. She admitted she was out to shock with this book, and it still does shock, but we know what to expect from her work now. And I think it is a deeply moral or ethical book too, and I felt this when I heard Acker read back in the 80s: her protagonists are sex addicts, self-destructive women who believe they deserve pain and abuse and who seek out sex compulsively, the more degrading the better. But they do this out of a search for love. Her books are always about love, about the search for true human connection. That her characters are confused about what it is or how to get it is beside the point. And, besides, a whole bunch of the world shares her protagonists’ confusion of love and sex and pain. She didn’t invent it; she merely described what she saw and what she felt personally. One of the women who speaks about her work in Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker, the documentary recently released about her, says that Janey was Acker’s alter ego, and another one says that everything in the books is true. One should always take claims like these with a bit of a grain of salt because of course all of this is transformed, however little, in the crucible of art, of writing. But Acker’s work is clearly confessional, deeply personal, and thus haunting. You sense that she put herself on the line each time she sat down to write. An inspiring and frustrating writer, as there is a slapdash quality to her work that makes one long at times for a more structured, tightly edited book. And yet the apparent anarchy of her novels would seem to be quite deliberate, an evocation of the world as she experienced it.

I will have to add the numbers later. Green I own, blue I’ve read, red I’ve read since starting the list. This is mind-boggling. I had no idea there was such a list. The list is from a book by Dr. Peter Boxall. He is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. This is serious. This is awesome. This is mad. From www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books.

2000s
1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday, Ian McEwan

3. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
6. The Sea, John Banville
7. The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble

8. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth

9. The Master, Colm Toibi­n

10. Vanishing Point, David Markson
11. The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
14. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour, Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch, Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day, Graham Swift
18. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
20. Islands, Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
25. The Double, Jose Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless, Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
31. In the Forest, Edna O’Brien

32. Shroud, John Banville

33. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

34. Youth, J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air, Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon

37. The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift, Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald

40. Platform, Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling, Heather McGowan
42. Atonement, Ian McEwan

43. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move, Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
46. Fury, Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin, Michel Faber
57. Ignorance, Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies, Peter Esterhazy
60. City of God, E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live, Will Self
62. The Human Stain, Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia, George Saunders

1900s
70. Timbuktu, Paul Auster
71. The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakulic
74. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling, Amelie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town, Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World, Pat Barker
89. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

93. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes, Will Self
95. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
96. Underworld, Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs, Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable, John Banville
101. Silk, Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

110. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro

111. Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
112. The Information, Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie

114. Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
123. Land, Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver, Jachym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

130. Felicia’s Journey William Trevor

131. Disappearance, David Dabydeen

132. The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm

133. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
138. Complicity, Iain Banks
139. On Love, Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

142. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd

145. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Ozdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White, Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
152. Indigo, Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road, Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz, Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
158. The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibi­n
161. Asphodel, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
164. Arcadia, Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans, Jung Chang
166. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
168. Mao II, Don DeLillo
169. Typical, Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration, Pat Barker
171. Downriver, Iain Sinclair
172. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres

173. Wise Children, Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women, John McGahern
176. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance, Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
183. Possession, A.S. Byatt

184. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
185. The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection, James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace, Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
197. London Fields, Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence, John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

200. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco

201. The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White

202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson

203. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

204. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst

205. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey

206. Libra, Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
214. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon, Patrick Suskind
216. The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

219. The New York Trilogy City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room), Paul Auster
220. World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved, Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt

230. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe, J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garci­a Marquez

237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

238. The Cider House Rules, John Irving

239. A Maggot, John Fowles

240. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

241. Contact, Carl Sagan

242. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
244. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise, Don DeLillo
246. Queer, William Burroughs

247. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend, David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavic
250. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose Saramago
252. The Lover, Marguerite Duras

253. Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter

256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

257. Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker

258. Neuromancer, William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes

260. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
261. Shame, Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune, William Trevor
264. La Brava, Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland, Graham Swift

266. The Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee

267. The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus

271. A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White

272. The Color Purple, Alice Walker

273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally

276. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

277. The Newton Letter, John Banville

278. On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names, Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
284. July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage, William Golding
290. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom

291. Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

292. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard

293. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People, John Le Carre
296. Shikasta, Doris Lessing

297. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul

298. Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net, Heinrich Boll

300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan

303. The World According to Garp, John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

306. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
307. Yes, Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country, J.M. Coetzee

310. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter

311. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
312. The Shining, Stephen King
313. Dispatches, Michael Herr

314. Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

315. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

316. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning, Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood, Christa Wolf

324. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell
327. Grimus, Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme

329. Fateless, Imre Kertesz

330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise, J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow

333. Dead Babies, Martin Amis
334. Correction, Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre

340. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

341. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong

342. A Question of Power, Bessie Head

343. The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell

344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino

345. Crash, J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
349. Sula, Toni Morrison

350. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

351. The Breast, Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
353. G, John Berger

354. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul

357. The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow

358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

359. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Boll

360. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs

361. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre, Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke

367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

368. Mercier et Camier, Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol, Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
377. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
379. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
380. Ada, Vladimir Nabokov

381. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid, Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen

384. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf
396. Chocky, John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

400. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke, Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson

404. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
407. Trawl, B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

409. The Magus, John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

412. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth

413. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
414. Things, Georges Perec
415. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o

416. August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey

421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Barthelme
422. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog, Saul Bellow
426. V., Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate, Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
431. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

435. The Collector, John Fowles

436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

437. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

438. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

439. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard

440. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

441. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

442. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien

443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani

444. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

445. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

446. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water, Janet Frame
448. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse, Gunter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

451. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

452. The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is, Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien

456. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

457. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary
459. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs

462. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass

463. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes

464. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow

465. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark

466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Boll

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

468. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass, Eili­s Dillon

472. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan

476. The End of the Road, John Barth

477. The Once and Future King, T.H. White

478. The Bell, Iris Murdoch

479. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss, Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham

482. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber, Max Frisch

484. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful O, James Thurber
488. Justine, Lawrence Durrell

489. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

490. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera, John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American, Graham Greene

500. The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis

501. The Recognitions, William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan

504. I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch

505. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis

506. The Story of O, Pauline Reage
507. A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

509. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

512. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
513. Watt, Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

515. Junky, William Burroughs

516. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow

517. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

518. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming

519. The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Durrenmatt
520. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar

525. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett

526. Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
527. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel, Albert Camus
531. Molloy, Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz
535. The Third Man, Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
537. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

538. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

552. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

553. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann

554. The Victim, Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man, Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino

559. The Plague, Albert Camus
560. Back, Henry Green
561. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andric

563. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

564. Animal Farm, George Orwell

565. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck

566. The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford

567. Loving, Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17, Andre Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi

570. The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit, Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow

574. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
575. Caught, Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse

577. Embers, Sandor Marai

578. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner

579. The Outsider, Albert Camus
580. In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead, Patrick White
583. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet, William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

588. Native Son, Richard Wright

589. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going, Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

593. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

594. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air, George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood

597. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan, Sylvia Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson
602. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

603. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
606. U.S.A., John Dos Passos

607. Murphy, Samuel Beckett

608. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

609. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

610. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years, Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis, David Jones

613. The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis

614. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley

618. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West

619. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

625. Independent People, Halldor Laxness

626. Auto-da-Fe, Elias Canetti

627. The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen

630. England Made Me, Graham Greene

631. Burmese Days, George Orwell

632. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers

633. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain

636. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

637. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh

638. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

639. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse

640. Call it Sleep, Henry Roth

641. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off, Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon

648. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine

649. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

650. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
651. To the North, Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
654. The Waves, Virginia Woolf

655. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett

656. Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God, Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning

659. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh

660. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
661. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing, Nella Larsen

663. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

664. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett

665. Living, Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin
669. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West

671. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

672. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau

673. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
675. Orlando, Virginia Woolf

676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence

677. The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

678. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis

679. Quartet, Jean Rhys

680. Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh

681. Quicksand, Nella Larsen

682. Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja, Andre Breton
684. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson
688. Amerika, Franz Kafka

689. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness, Henry Green
691. The Castle, Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Schvejk, Jaroslav Hasek
693. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
698. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

699. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

700. The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide

701. The Trial, Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
705. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

707. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

708. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

709. The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet

710. Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo

711. Cane, Jean Toomer

712. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
713. Amok, Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

723. Ulysses, James Joyce

724. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence

725. Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley

726. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

727. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

728. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence

729. Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
733. Summer, Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

737. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse

738. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham

742. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence

743. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
744. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse

747. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs

748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

749. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence

750. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
752. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
753. Fantomas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End, E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel
756. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein

757. Martin Eden, Jack London

758. Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide
759. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells

760. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse

761. A Room With a View, E.M. Forster

762. The Iron Heel, Jack London

763. The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother, Maxim Gorky

766. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

767. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
768. Young Torless, Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy

770. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster

773. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl, Henry James

776. The Ambassadors, Henry James

777. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers

778. The Immoralist, Andre Gide

779. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James

780. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

781. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

782. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann

783. Kim, Rudyard Kipling

784. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

785. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

1800s
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
788. The Awakening, Kate Chopin

789. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells

792. What Maisie Knew, Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth, Andre Gide
794. Dracula, Bram Stoker

795. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

798. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane

799. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy

800. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross

801. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
802. Born in Exile, George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere, William Morris
806. New Grub Street, George Gissing
807. Gosta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlof
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

809. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

810. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy

811. La Bete Humaine, Emile Zola

812. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg

813. Hunger, Knut Hamsun

814. The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Perez Galdos
817. The People of Hemso, August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
819. She, H. Rider Haggard
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

821. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal, Emile Zola

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
826. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater

828. Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans

829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant
831. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
832. The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pecuchet, Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
836. Nana, Emile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

838. The Red Room, August Strindberg

839. Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy

840. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

841. Drunkard, Emile Zola
842. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky

851. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch, George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
855. King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
856. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope

857. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope

860. Maldoror, Comte de Lautreaumont

861. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

862. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

863. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

864. Therese Raquin, Emile Zola

865. The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

869. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

870. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu

871. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

872. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley

873. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

874. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev

875. Silas Marner, George Eliot

876. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

877. On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev

878. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

880. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

881. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar, Multatuli
883. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

884. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov

885. Adam Bede, George Eliot

886. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

887. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

888. Hard Times, Charles Dickens

889. Walden, Henry David Thoreau

890. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

891. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
892. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
893. Uncle Tom’ Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe

894. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne

895. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

896. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

897. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

898. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

899. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte

900. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell

901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

902. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

903. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

904. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

905. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

906. The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

907. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
909. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
910. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
911. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
912. Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac

913. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

914. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

915. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal

916. The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe

917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

918. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

919. The Nose, Nikolai Gogol

920. Le Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac

921. Eugenie Grandet, Honore de Balzac

922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

923. The Red and the Black, Stendhal

924. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni

925. Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper

926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
927. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin

928. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
929. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
930. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott

931. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

932. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

933. Persuasion, Jane Austen
934. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma, Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

938. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

939. The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth

940. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

941. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

942. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth

1700s
943. Hyperion, Friedrich Holderlin
944. The Nun, Denis Diderot
945. Camilla, Fanny Burney
946. The Monk, M.G. Lewis
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
949. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
951. Justine, Marquis de Sade
952. Vathek, William Beckford
953. The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
954. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
955. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958. Evelina, Fanny Burney

959. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

960. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett

961. The Man of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
962. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne

964. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith

965. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

966. Emile; or, On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

967. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
970. Candide, Voltaire

971. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia, Henry Fielding
973 Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett

974. Fanny Hill, John Cleland

975. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding

976. Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett

977. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson

978. Pamela, Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding

982. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift

983. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

984. Roxana, Daniel Defoe

985. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
986. Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

988. A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700
989. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn

990. The Princess of Cleves, Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette

991. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

992. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

993. The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe

994. Euphues’ The Anatomy of Wit, John Lyly

995. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais

996. The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous

997. The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
998. Aithiopika, Heliodorus
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe, Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses, Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus