1. THE ALCHEMIST, Paulho Coelho
2. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE, James Kelman
4. THE SOUND AND THE FURY, William Faulkner
5. MARCH, Geraldine Brooks
6. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, Evelyn Waugh
7. CATCH-22, Joseph Heller
8. SATURDAY, Ian McEwan
9. A SUITABLE BOY, Vikram Seth
10. WE WERE THE MULVANEYS, Joyce Carol Oates
11. TALLGRASS, Sandra Dallas
12. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers
13. SARAH’S KEY, Tatiana De Rosnay
14. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, George Orwell
15. NAKED LUNCH, William S. Burroughs
16. PREP, Curtis Sittenfeld
17. THE BOOK OF DANIEL, E.L. Doctorow
18. LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, Laura Esquivel
19. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, Jonathan Safran Foer
20. MRS. DALLOWAY, Virginia Woolf
21. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, Anne Rice
22. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, David Wroblewski
23. THE SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, Dalia Sofer
24. FAHRENHEIT 451, Ray Bradbury
25. KAFKA ON THE SHORE, Haruki Murakami
26. GODS IN ALABAMA, Joshilyn Jackson
27. THE READER, Bernard Schlink
28. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Junot Diaz
29. STUPEUR ET TREMBLEMENTS, Amelie Nothomb
30. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD, Michael Pollan
31. MEMORIES OF A PURE SPRING, Duong Thu Huong
32. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL SOCIETY, Mary Ann Shaffer
33. THE HOURS, Michael Cunningham
34. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, Lionel Shriver
35. PEACE LIKE A RIVER, Leif Enger
36. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Oscar Wilde
37. THE ROAD, Cormac McCarthy
38. I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, Bill Bryson
39. THE KILLER ANGELS, Michael Shaara
40. NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, Bill Bryson
41. THE NAME OF THE ROSE, Umberto Eco
42. THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak
43. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Ernest Hemingway
44. NEVER LET ME GO, Kazuo Ishiguro
45. ASTRID AND VERONIKA, Linda Olsson
46. HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, Chimamanda Adichie
47. IN COLD BLOOD, Truman Capote
48. GIRL IN TRANSLATION, Jean Kwok
49. THE UNCOMMON READER, Alan Bennett
50. THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, Mohsin Hamid
51. LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov
52. PALACE WALK, Naguib Mahfouz
53. MANON DES SOURCES, Marcel Pagnol
54. WEST OF THE JORDAN, Laila Halaby
55. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie
56. MAIN STREET, Upton Sinclair
57. AS I LAY DYING, William Faulkner
58. LES MISERABLES, Victor Hugo
59. AT SWIM, TWO BOYS, Jamie O’Neill
60. NORTHERN LIGHTS, Philip Pullman
61. GORKY PARK, Martin Cruz Smith
62. THE GLASS CASTLE, Jeanette Walls
63. WHITE NOISE, Don DeLillo
64. A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS, V.S. Naipaul
65. WHEN THE EMPORER WAS DIVINE, Julie Otsuka
66. ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Mona Simpson
67. THE MOSQUITO COAST, Paul Theroux
68. OSCAR AND LUCINDA, Peter Carey
69. THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN, Anne Fadiman
70. LIFE IS A CARAVANSERAI, Emine Ozdamar
71. INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO, Redmond O’Hanlon
72. PERE GORIOT, Honore de Balzac
73. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, Robert A. Heinlein
74. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, James Baldwin
75. AUGUST IS A WICKED MONTH, Edna O’Brien
76. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Arthur C. Clarke
77. UP FROM ORCHARD STREET, Eleanor Widmer
78. A TOWN LIKE ALICE, Neville Shute
79. THE EMPORER’S CHILDREN, Claire Messud
80. OVER THE MOAT, James Sullivan
81. WAR AND PEACE, Leo Tolstoy
82. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, Ken Kesey
83. THE HONORARY CONSUL, Graham Greene
84. THE BIG SLEEP, Raymond Chandler
85. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, Elizabeth Strout
86. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, Tim O’Brien
87. WIDE SARGASSO SEA, Jean Rhys
88. THE BONE PEOPLE, Keri Hulme
89. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, Anthony Bourdain
90. THE GOOD SOLDIER, Ford Maddox Ford
91. TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, Peter Carey
92. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Charles Dickens
93. BRICK LANE, Monica Ali
94. DROP CITY, T.C. Boyle
95. THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell
96. THE HA-HA, Dave King
97. HERZOG, Saul Bellow
98. A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS, Dave Eggers
99. AS IF I AM NOT THERE, Slavenka Drakulic
100. THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath