1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006) is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall; with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. Each title is accompanied by a brief synopsis and critique explaining quickly why the book was chosen, some with pictures.
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The List
The list contains 1001 books but while generally approved has received criticism for overlisting certain authors like J.M. Coetzee (Ten Entries) and Ian McEwan (Eight Entries) while overlooking many such as Watership Down, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and other "classics". One of the biggest protests of the list has been the exclusion of the Bible and the exclusion of Shakespeare despite the works of Shakespeare being plays and not novels.
The list is made up of novels, short stories, and short story collections; as well as one pamphlet (A Modest Proposal), and one book of collected text (Adjunct: An Undigest), and one graphic novel (Watchmen).
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Notably absent from this list are
Notably absent from this list are: Guillaume Apollinaire - Charles Bukowski - Jean Genet - W.F. Hermans - E.T.A. Hoffmann - Pierre Klossowski - Gaston Leroux - Pierre Louÿs - Norman Mailer - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Octave Mirbeau - Thomas De Quincey - Alexander Trocchi - Boris Vian - Edgar Wallace - Colin Wilson
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1 - 100
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 Tóibín 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 – José 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 – Michel 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 – Péter Esterházy 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 70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster 71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra 72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson 73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli? 74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy 75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie 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
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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 – Jàchym 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 Özdamar 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 Høeg 158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe 159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates 160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín 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. Señor 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 – László 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 – José 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
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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 Süskind 216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan 217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe 219. The New York Trilogy – 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 García Márquez 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 Süskind 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 Pavić 250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman 251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José 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 270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi 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 Carré 296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing 297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul 298. Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer 299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
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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 – Anaïs 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 García Márquez 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 Kertész 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 Böll 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 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 Böll 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 – Michel 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 Himes 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 García Márquez
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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: A Story of the Sixties – 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 Carré 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 A. 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 – Günter 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 – Günter 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 Böll 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 – Eilís 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 of 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
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500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis 501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis 502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paolo Pasolini 503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan 504. I'm Not Stiller – Max Frisch 505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis 506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage 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. Junkie – 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 Dürrenmatt 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 Andrić 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 – André 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-Exupéry 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
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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 – 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 – Halldór Laxness 626. Auto de 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 Céline 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 Döblin 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 – André 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 Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek 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
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700. The Counterfeiters – André 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 Hamsun 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. Fantômas – 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 – André 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. The Mother – Maxim Gorky 766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair 768. Young Törless – 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 – André 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 19th century literature 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 – André 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
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800 - 899
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 & 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. Gösta Berling's Saga – Selma Lagerlöf 808. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy 811. La Bête Humaine – Émile 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 Pérez Galdés 817. The People of Hemsö – 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 – Émile 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 Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert 835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace 836. Nana – Émile 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. L'Assommoir – Émile 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 – Nikolai 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 Lautréamont 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile 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 Misérables – 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. Oblomov – 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 Brontë 892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell 893. Uncle Tom's Cabin – 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 Brontë
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900 - 999
900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 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 – Honoré de Balzac 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 914. Dead Souls – Nikolay 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 – Nikolay Gogol 920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré 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 Hölderlin 944. The Nun – Denis Diderot 945. Camilla – Fanny Burney 946. The Monk – Matthew Gregory 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. Émile; 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 – [[John Arbuthnot|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. [[La Princesse de Clèves]] – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, 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 – François 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 – Aesop
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