Selected by the Guardian’s Review team and a panel of expert judges, the Guardian Top 1000 list (998 novels actually that everyone must read) includes only novels—no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems—from any decade and in any language.
Reading score: 334/998
† I have read it.
No. | Title | Author |
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1 | Lucky Jim † | Kingsley Amis |
2 | Money † | Martin Amis |
3 | The Information | Martin Amis |
4 | The Bottle Factory Outing | Beryl Bainbridge |
5 | According to Queeney | Beryl Bainbridge |
6 | Flaubert’s Parrot † | Julian Barnes |
7 | A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters | Julian Barnes |
8 | Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man | Henry Howarth Bashford |
9 | Molloy | Samuel Beckett |
10 | Zuleika Dobson † | Max Beerbohm |
11 | The Adventures of Augie March † | Saul Bellow |
12 | The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett |
13 | Queen Lucia | EF Benson |
14 | The Ascent of Rum Doodle | WE Bowman |
15 | A Good Man in Africa † | William Boyd |
16 | The History Man | Malcolm Bradbury |
17 | No Bed for Bacon | Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon |
18 | Illywhacker | Peter Carey |
19 | A Season in Sinji | JL Carr |
20 | The Harpole Report | JL Carr |
21 | The Hearing Trumpet | Leonora Carrington |
22 | Mister Johnson | Joyce Cary |
23 | The Horse’s Mouth | Joyce Cary |
24 | Don Quixote † | Miguel de Cervantes |
25 | The Case of the Gilded Fly | Edmund Crispin |
26 | Just William | Richmal Crompton |
27 | The Provincial Lady | EM Delafield |
28 | Slouching Towards Kalamazoo | Peter De Vries |
29 | The Pickwick Papers † | Charles Dickens |
30 | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens |
31 | Jacques the Fatalist and his Master | Denis Diderot |
32 | A Fairy Tale of New York | JP Donleavy |
33 | The Commitments | Roddy Doyle |
34 | Ennui | Maria Edgeworth |
35 | Cheese | Willem Elsschot |
36 | Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding |
37 | Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding |
38 | Tom Jones † | Henry Fielding |
39 | Caprice | Ronald Firbank |
40 | Bouvard et Pécuchet | Gustave Flaubert |
41 | Towards the End of the Morning | Michael Frayn |
42 | The Polygots | William Gerhardie |
43 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
44 | Dead Souls † | Nikolai Gogol |
45 | Oblomov † | Ivan Goncharov |
46 | The Wind in the Willows † | Kenneth Grahame |
47 | Brewster’s Millions | Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon) |
48 | Squire Haggard’s Journal | Michael Green |
49 | Our Man in Havana † | Graham Greene |
50 | Travels with My Aunt | Graham Greene |
51 | Diary of a Nobody † | George Grossmith |
52 | The Little World of Don Camillo | Giovanni Guareschi |
53 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time † | Mark Haddon |
54 | Catch-22 † | Joseph Heller |
55 | Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House | Eric Hodgkins |
56 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby |
57 | I Served the King of England | Bohumil Hrabal |
58 | The Lecturer’s Tale | James Hynes |
59 | Mr Norris Changes Trains † | Christopher Isherwood |
60 | The Mighty Walzer Howard | Jacobson |
61 | Pictures from an Institution | Randall Jarrell |
62 | Three Men in a Boat † | Jerome K Jerome |
63 | Finnegans Wake | James Joyce |
64 | The Castle † | Franz Kafka |
65 | Lake Wobegon Days | Garrison Keillor |
66 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov |
67 | The Debt to Pleasure | John Lanchester |
68 | L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) | Alain-René Lesage |
69 | Changing Places | David Lodge |
70 | Nice Work | David Lodge |
71 | The Towers of Trebizond | Rose Macaulay |
72 | England, Their England | AG Macdonell |
73 | Whisky Galore | Compton Mackenzie |
74 | Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf | David Madsen |
75 | Cakes and Ale † | W Somerset Maugham |
76 | Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
77 | Bright Lights, Big City † | Jay McInerney |
78 | Puckoon | Spike Milligan |
79 | The Restraint of Beasts | Magnus Mills |
80 | Charade | John Mortimer |
81 | Titmuss Regained | John Mortimer |
82 | Under the Net † | Iris Murdoch |
83 | Pnin † | Vladimir Nabokov |
84 | Pale Fire † | Vladimir Nabokov |
85 | Fireflies | Shiva Naipaul |
86 | The Sacred Book of the Werewolf | Victor Pelevin |
87 | La Disparition | Georges Perec |
88 | Les Revenentes | Georges Perec |
89 | La Vie Mode d’Emploi | Georges Perec |
90 | My Search for Warren Harding † | Robert Plunket |
91 | A Dance to the Music of Time † | Anthony Powell |
92 | A Time to be Born | Dawn Powell |
93 | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym |
94 | Less Than Angels | Barbara Pym |
95 | Zazie in the Metro | Raymond Queneau |
96 | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Mordecai Richler |
97 | Alms for Oblivion | Simon Raven |
98 | Portnoy’s Complaint † | Philip Roth |
99 | The Westminster Alice | Saki |
100 | The Unbearable Bassington | Saki |
101 | Hurrah for St Trinian’s | Ronald Searle |
102 | Great Apes | Will Self |
103 | Porterhouse Blue † | Tom Sharpe |
104 | Blott on the Landscape | Tom Sharpe |
105 | Office Politics | Wilfrid Sheed |
106 | Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel | Charles Simmons |
107 | Moo | Jane Smiley |
108 | Topper Takes a Trip | Thorne Smith |
109 | The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | Tobias Smollett |
110 | The Adventures of Roderick Random | Tobias Smollett |
111 | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | Tobias Smollett |
112 | The Expedition of Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett |
113 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
114 | The Girls of Slender Means † | Muriel Spark |
115 | The Driver’s Seat | Muriel Spark |
116 | Loitering with Intent | Muriel Spark |
117 | A Far Cry from Kensington | Muriel Spark |
118 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman † | Laurence Sterne |
119 | White Man Falling | Mike Stocks |
120 | Handley Cross | RS Surtees |
121 | A Tale of a Tub | Jonathan Swift |
122 | Penrod | Booth Tarkington |
123 | The Luck of Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray |
124 | Before Lunch | Angela Thirkell |
125 | Tropic of Ruislip | Leslie Thomas |
126 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
127 | Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
128 | Venus on the Half-Shell | Kilgore Trout |
129 | The Mysterious Stranger | Mark Twain |
130 | The Witches of Eastwick | John Updike |
131 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
132 | Infinite Jest † | David Foster Wallace |
133 | Decline and Fall † | Evelyn Waugh |
134 | Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh |
135 | Black Mischief | Evelyn Waugh |
136 | Scoop † | Evelyn Waugh |
137 | The Loved One | Evelyn Waugh |
138 | A Handful of Dust † | Evelyn Waugh |
139 | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | Fay Weldon |
140 | Tono Bungay | HG Wells |
141 | Molesworth | Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle |
142 | The Wimbledon Poisoner | Nigel Williams |
143 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes † | Angus Wilson |
144 | Something Fresh † | PG Wodehouse |
145 | Piccadilly Jim † | PG Wodehouse |
146 | Thank You Jeeves | PG Wodehouse |
147 | Heavy Weather † | PG Wodehouse |
148 | The Code of the Woosters † | PG Wodehouse |
149 | Joy in the Morning | PG Wodehouse |
150 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren |
151 | Fantomas | Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre |
152 | The Mask of Dimitrios | Eric Ambler |
153 | Epitaph for a Spy | Eric Ambler |
154 | Journey into Fear | Eric Ambler |
155 | The New York Trilogy | Paul Auster |
156 | Trent’s Last Case | EC Bentley |
157 | The Poisoned Chocolates Case † | Anthony Berkeley |
158 | The Beast Must Die | Nicholas Blake |
159 | Lady Audley’s Secret | Mary E Braddon |
160 | The Neon Rain | James Lee Burke |
161 | The Tin Roof Blowdown | James Lee Burke |
162 | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan |
163 | Greenmantle | John Buchan |
164 | The Asphalt Jungle | WR Burnett |
165 | The Postman Always Rings Twice † | James M Cain |
166 | Double Indemnity | James M Cain |
167 | True History of the Ned Kelly Gang † | Peter Carey |
168 | The Hollow Man | John Dickson Carr |
169 | The Big Sleep † | Raymond Chandler |
170 | The Long Goodbye † | Raymond Chandler |
171 | No Orchids for Miss Blandish | James Hadley Chase |
172 | The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers |
173 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
174 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie |
175 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie |
176 | The Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie |
177 | The Secret Adversary | Agatha Christie |
178 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
179 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
180 | A Study in Scarlet † | Arthur Conan Doyle |
181 | The Hound of the Baskervilles † | Arthur Conan Doyle |
182 | The Sign of Four † | Arthur Conan Doyle |
183 | The Manchurian Candidate | Richard Condon |
184 | The Secret Agent † | Joseph Conrad |
185 | Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad |
186 | Postmortem | Patricia Cornwell |
187 | The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton |
188 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
189 | Poetic Justice | Amanda Cross |
190 | The Ipcress File | Len Deighton |
191 | Last Seen Wearing | Colin Dexter |
192 | The Remorseful Day | Colin Dexter |
193 | Ratking | Michael Dibdin |
194 | Dead Lagoon | Michael Dibdin |
195 | Dirty Tricks | Michael Dibdin |
196 | A Rich Full Death | Michael Dibdin |
197 | Vendetta | Michael Dibdin |
198 | Crime and Punishment † | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
199 | An American Tragedy † | Theodore Dreiser |
200 | My Cousin Rachel † | Daphne du Maurier |
201 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
202 | The Pledge | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
203 | The Crime of Father Amado | José Maria de Eça de Queiroz |
204 | The Name of the Rose † | Umberto Eco |
205 | American Psycho † | Bret Easton Ellis |
206 | LA Confidential | James Ellroy |
207 | The Big Nowhere | James Ellroy |
208 | A Quiet Belief in Angels | RJ Ellory |
209 | Sanctuary | William Faulkner |
210 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming |
211 | Goldfinger | Ian Fleming |
212 | You Only Live Twice | Ian Fleming |
213 | The Day of the Jackal † | Frederick Forsyth |
214 | Brighton Rock † | Graham Greene |
215 | A Gun for Sale | Graham Greene |
216 | The Ministry of Fear | Graham Greene |
217 | The Third Man | Graham Greene |
218 | A Time to Kill | John Grisham |
219 | The King of Torts | John Grisham |
220 | Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton |
221 | The Glass Key | Dashiell Hammett |
222 | The Maltese Falcon † | Dashiell Hammett |
223 | Red Harvest † | Dashiell Hammett |
224 | The Thin Man † | Dashiell Hammett |
225 | Fatherland | Robert Harris |
226 | Black Sunday | Thomas Harris |
227 | Red Dragon † | Thomas Harris |
228 | Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen |
229 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | George V Higgins |
230 | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith |
231 | The Talented Mr Ripley † | Patricia Highsmith |
232 | Bones and Silence | Reginald Hill |
233 | A Rage in Harlem | Chester Himes |
234 | Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow † | Peter Hoeg |
235 | Rogue Male | Geoffrey Household |
236 | Malice Aforethought | Francis Iles |
237 | Silence of the Grave | Arnadur Indridason |
238 | Death at the President’s Lodging | Michael Innes |
239 | Cover Her Face | PD James |
240 | A Taste for Death | PD James |
241 | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | Harry Kemelman |
242 | Misery † | Stephen King |
243 | Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King |
244 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
245 | The Constant Gardener | John le Carre |
246 | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carre |
247 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold † | John le Carre |
248 | To Kill a Mockingbird † | Harper Lee |
249 | 52 Pick-up | Elmore Leonard |
250 | Get Shorty † | Elmore Leonard |
251 | Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem |
252 | The Bourne Identity † | Robert Ludlum |
253 | Cop Hater | Ed McBain |
254 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy |
255 | Enduring Love | Ian McEwan |
256 | Sidetracked | Henning Mankell |
257 | Devil in a Blue Dress † | Walter Mosley |
258 | The Great Impersonation | E Phillips Oppenheim |
259 | The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent | E Phillips Oppenheim |
260 | My Name is Red † | Orhan Pamuk |
261 | Toxic Shock | Sara Paretsky |
262 | Blacklist | Sara Paretsky |
263 | Nineteen Seventy Four | David Peace |
264 | Nineteen Seventy Seven | David Peace |
265 | The Big Blowdown | George Pelecanos |
266 | Hard Revolution | George Pelecanos |
267 | Lush Life | Richard Price |
268 | The Godfather † | Mario Puzo |
269 | V | Thomas Pynchon |
270 | The Crying of Lot 49 † | Thomas Pynchon |
271 | Black and Blue | Ian Rankin |
272 | The Hanging Gardens | Ian Rankin |
273 | Exit Music | Ian Rankin |
274 | Judgment in Stone | Ruth Rendell |
275 | Live Flesh | Ruth Rendell |
276 | Dissolution | CJ Sansom |
277 | Whose Body? | Dorothy L Sayers |
278 | Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L Sayers |
279 | The Madman of Bergerac | Georges Simenon |
280 | The Blue Room | Georges Simenon |
281 | The Laughing Policeman | Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo |
282 | Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith |
283 | Of Mice and Men † | John Steinbeck |
284 | The League of Frightened Men | Rex Stout |
285 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
286 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
287 | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
288 | The Getaway | Jim Thompson |
289 | Pudd’nhead Wilson | Mark Twain |
290 | A Dark-Adapted Eye † | Barbara Vine |
291 | A Fatal inversion | Barbara Vine |
292 | King Solomon’s Carpet | Barbara Vine |
293 | The Four Just Men | Edgar Wallace |
294 | Fingersmith | Sarah Waters |
295 | Native Son † | Richard Wright |
296 | Therese Raquin | Emile Zola |
297 | The Face of Another | Kobo Abe |
298 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
299 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum † | Kate Atkinson |
300 | Cat’s Eye | Margaret Atwood |
301 | Epileptic | David B |
302 | Room Temperature | Nicholson Baker |
303 | Eugenie Grandet † | Honore de Balzac |
304 | Le Pere Goriot † | Honore de Balzac |
305 | The Crow Road | Iain Banks |
306 | The L Shaped Room | Lynne Reid Banks |
307 | Fun Home | Alison Bechdel |
308 | Malone Dies | Samuel Beckett |
309 | A Legacy | Sybille Bedford |
310 | Herzog † | Saul Bellow |
311 | Humboldt’s Gift † | Saul Bellow |
312 | The Old Wives’ Tale † | Arnold Bennett |
313 | G † | John Berger |
314 | Extinction | Thomas Bernhard |
315 | Two Serious Ladies | Jane Bowles |
316 | Any Human Heart | William Boyd |
317 | The Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch |
318 | Evelina | Fanny Burney |
319 | The Way of All Flesh † | Samuel Butler |
320 | The Sound of my Voice | Ron Butlin |
321 | The Outsider | Albert Camus |
322 | Wise Children | Angela Carter |
323 | The Professor’s House | Willa Cather |
324 | The Wapshot Chronicle † | John Cheever |
325 | The Awakening † | Kate Chopin |
326 | Les Enfants Terrible | Jean Cocteau |
327 | The Vagabond | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette |
328 | Manservant and Maidservant | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
329 | Being Dead † | Jim Crace |
330 | Quarantine | Jim Crace |
331 | The Mandarins | Simone de Beauvoir |
332 | Roxana | Daniel Defoe |
333 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
334 | The Brothers Karamazov † | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
335 | My New York Diary | Julie Doucet |
336 | The Millstone † | Margaret Drabble |
337 | My Family and Other Animals | Gerald Durrell |
338 | Silence | Shusaku Endo |
339 | The Gathering | Anne Enright |
340 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
341 | As I Lay Dying † | William Faulkner |
342 | The Sound and the Fury † | William Faulkner |
343 | The Sportswriter † | Richard Ford |
344 | Howards End † | EM Forster |
345 | Spies † | Michael Frayn |
346 | Hideous Kinky | Esther Freud |
347 | The Man of Property | John Galsworthy |
348 | Mary Barton † | Elizabeth Gaskell |
349 | The Immoralist | Andre Gide |
350 | The Vatican Cellars | Andre Gide |
351 | The Vicar of Wakefield † | Oliver Goldsmith |
352 | The Power and the Glory † | Graham Greene |
353 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun |
354 | The Shrimp and the Anemone | LP Hartley |
355 | The Old Man and the Sea † | Ernest Hemingway |
356 | Steppenwolf | Herman Hesse |
357 | Narziss and Goldmund | Hermann Hesse |
358 | The Three Paradoxes | Paul Hornschemeier |
359 | Tom Brown’s Schooldays † | Thomas Hughes |
360 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
361 | The Ambassadors † | Henry James |
362 | Washington Square | Henry James |
363 | The Tortoise and the Hare | Elizabeth Jenkins |
364 | The Unfortunates | BS Johnson |
365 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man † | James Joyce |
366 | Ulysses † | James Joyce |
367 | Good Behaviour | Molly Keane |
368 | Memet my Hawk | Yasar Kemal |
369 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest † | Ken Kesey |
370 | The Buddha of Suburbia | Hanif Kureishi |
371 | Sons and Lovers † | DH Lawrence |
372 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee |
373 | Invitation to the Waltz | Rosamond Lehmann |
374 | The Golden Notebook † | Doris Lessing |
375 | How Green was My Valley | Richard Llewellyn |
376 | Martin Eden | Jack London |
377 | Under the Volcano † | Malcolm Lowry |
378 | The Member of the Wedding | Carson McCullers |
379 | Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz |
380 | The Assistant † | Bernard Malamud |
381 | Buddenbrooks † | Thomas Mann |
382 | The Chateau | William Maxwell |
383 | The Rector’s Daughter | FM Mayor |
384 | The Ordeal of Richard Feverek | George Meredith |
385 | Family Matters † | Rohinton Mistry |
386 | Sour Sweet | Timothy Mo |
387 | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Brian Moore |
388 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
389 | Song of Solomon † | Toni Morrison |
390 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Alice Munro |
391 | The Black Prince | Iris Murdoch |
392 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil |
393 | A House for Mr Biswas † | VS Naipaul |
394 | At-Swim-Two-Birds † | Flann O’Brien |
395 | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness | Kezaburo Oe |
396 | The Moviegoer † | Walker Percy |
397 | The Bell Jar † | Sylvia Plath |
398 | My Name Is Asher Lev | Chaim Potok |
399 | The Good Companions | JB Priestley |
400 | The Shipping News † | E Annie Proulx |
401 | Remembrance of Things Past † | Marcel Proust |
402 | A Married Man † | Piers Paul Read |
403 | Pointed Roofs | Dorothy Richardson |
404 | The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney | Henry Handel Richardson |
405 | Call it Sleep | Henry Roth |
406 | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
407 | The God of Small Things † | Arundhati Roy |
408 | The Catcher in the Rye † | JD Salinger |
409 | Alberta and Jacob | Cora Sandel |
410 | A Suitable Boy † | Vikram Seth |
411 | Unless | Carol Shields |
412 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver |
413 | The Three Sisters | May Sinclair |
414 | The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
415 | A Thousand Acres † | Jane Smiley |
416 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith |
417 | The Man Who Loved Children † | Christina Stead |
418 | East of Eden † | John Steinbeck |
419 | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfield |
420 | Confessions of Zeno | Italo Svevo |
421 | The Magnificent Ambersons † | Booth Tarkington |
422 | Angel † | Elizabeth Taylor |
423 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Flora Thompson |
424 | The Blackwater Lightship | Colm Toibin |
425 | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 | Sue Townsend |
426 | Death in Summer † | William Trevor |
427 | Fathers and Sons † | Ivan Turgenev |
428 | Peace in War | Miguel de Unamuno |
429 | The Rabbit Omnibus | John Updike |
430 | The Color Purple † | Alice Walker |
431 | Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware |
432 | Morvern Callar | Alan Warner |
433 | The History of Mr Polly † | HG Wells |
434 | The Fountain Overflows † | Rebecca West |
435 | Frost in May | Antonia White |
436 | The Tree of Man | Patrick White |
437 | The Picture of Dorian Gray † | Oscar Wilde |
438 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit † | Jeanette Winterson |
439 | I’ll Go to Bed at Noon | Gerard Woodward |
440 | To the Lighthouse † | Virginia Woolf |
441 | Mrs Dalloway † | Virginia Woolf |
442 | Swiss Family Robinson † | Johann David Wyss |
443 | Le Grand Meaulnes | Henri Alain-Fournier |
444 | Dom Casmurro Joaquim | Maria Machado de Assis |
445 | Northanger Abbey † | Jane Austen |
446 | Sense and Sensibility † | Jane Austen |
447 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
448 | Mansfield Park † | Jane Austen |
449 | Emma † | Jane Austen |
450 | Persuasion † | Jane Austen |
451 | Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin |
452 | Nightwood | Djuna Barnes |
453 | The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis | Giorgio Bassani |
454 | Love for Lydia | HE Bates |
455 | More Die of Heartbreak | Saul Bellow |
456 | Lorna Doone | RD Blackmore |
457 | The Death of the Heart † | Elizabeth Bowen |
458 | The Heat of the Day | Elizabeth Bowen |
459 | Jane Eyre † | Charlotte Bronte |
460 | Vilette | Charlotte Bronte |
461 | Wuthering Heights † | Emily Bronte |
462 | Look At Me | Anita Brookner |
463 | Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown |
464 | Possession † | AS Byatt |
465 | Breakfast at Tiffany’s † | Truman Capote |
466 | Oscar and Lucinda † | Peter Carey |
467 | A Month in the Country | JL Carr |
468 | My Antonia † | Willa Cather |
469 | A Lost Lady | Willa Cather |
470 | Claudine a l’ecole | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette |
471 | Cheri | Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette |
472 | Victory: An Island Tale | Joseph Conrad |
473 | The Princess of Cleves | Madame de Lafayette |
474 | The Parasites | Daphne du Maurier |
475 | Rebecca † | Daphne du Maurier |
476 | The Lover | Marguerite Duras |
477 | Adam Bede | George Eliot |
478 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
479 | The Mill on the Floss † | George Eliot |
480 | The Virgin Suicides † | Jeffrey Eugenides |
481 | The Great Gatsby † | F Scott Fitzgerald |
482 | Tender is the Night † | F Scott Fitzgerald |
483 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald |
484 | Madame Bovary † | Gustave Flaubert |
485 | The Good Soldier † | Ford Madox Ford |
486 | A Room with a View † | EM Forster |
487 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman † | John Fowles |
488 | The Snow Goose | Paul Gallico |
489 | Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell |
490 | Strait is the Gate | Andre Gide |
491 | Sunset Song | Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
492 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
493 | Living | Henry Green |
494 | The End of the Affair † | Graham Greene |
495 | The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall |
496 | Far From the Madding Crowd † | Thomas Hardy |
497 | Jude the Obscure † | Thomas Hardy |
498 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles † | Thomas Hardy |
499 | The Woodlanders † | Thomas Hardy |
500 | The Go-Between † | LP Hartley |
501 | The Scarlet Letter † | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
502 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard |
503 | A Farewell to Arms † | Ernest Hemingway |
504 | The Infamous Army | Georgette Heyer |
505 | Regency Buck | Georgette Heyer |
506 | The Swimming-Pool Library | Alan Hollinghurst |
507 | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | WH Hudson |
508 | Their Eyes Were Watching God † | Zora Neale Hurston |
509 | Crome Yellow | Aldous Huxley |
510 | The Remains of the Day † | Kazuo Ishiguro |
511 | Portrait of a Lady † | Henry James |
512 | The Wings of the Dove † | Henry James |
513 | The Piano Teacher | Elfriede Jelinek |
514 | Beauty and Saddness | Yasunari Kawabata |
515 | The Far Pavillions | Mary Margaret Kaye |
516 | Zorba the Greek † | Nikos Kazantzakis |
517 | Moon over Africa | Pamela Kent |
518 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera |
519 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being † | Milan Kundera |
520 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos |
521 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover † | DH Lawrence |
522 | The Rainbow † | DH Lawrence |
523 | Women in Love † | DH Lawrence |
524 | The Echoing Grove † | Rosamond Lehmann |
525 | The Weather in the Streets | Rosamond Lehmann |
526 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Anita Loos |
527 | Zami | Audre Lorde |
528 | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
529 | Samarkand | Amin Maalouf |
530 | Death in Venice † | Thomas Mann |
531 | The Silent Duchess | Dacia Maraini |
532 | A Heart So White | Javier Marias |
533 | Love in the Time of Cholera † | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
534 | Of Human Bondage † | Somerset Maugham |
535 | So Long, See you Tomorrow | William Maxwell |
536 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter † | Carson McCullers |
537 | Atonement † | Ian McEwan |
538 | The Child in Time | Ian McEwan |
539 | The Egoist | George Meredith |
540 | Tropic of Cancer † | Henry Miller |
541 | Patience and Sarah | Isabel Miller |
542 | Gone With the Wind † | Margaret Mitchell |
543 | The Pursuit of Love † | Nancy Mitford |
544 | Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford |
545 | Arturo’s Island | Elsa Morante |
546 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
547 | Lolita † | Vladimir Nabokov |
548 | The Painter of Signs † | RK Narayan |
549 | Delta of Venus | Anais Nin |
550 | All Souls Day | Cees Nooteboom |
551 | The English Patient † | Michael Ondaatje |
552 | Doctor Zhivago † | Boris Pasternak |
553 | Manon Lescaut | Abbe Prevost |
554 | Wide Sargasso Sea † | Jean Rhys |
555 | Maurice Guest | Henry Handel Richardson |
556 | Pamela | Samuel Richardson |
557 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson |
558 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
559 | Bonjour Tristesse | Francoise Sagan |
560 | Ali and Nino | Kurban Said |
561 | Light Years | James Salter |
562 | A Sport and a Passtime | James Salter |
563 | The Reader | Benhardq Schlink |
564 | The Reluctant Orphan | Aara Seale |
565 | Love Story † | Eric Segal |
566 | Enemies, a Love Story | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
567 | At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | Elizabeth Smart |
568 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith |
569 | The Map of Love | Ahdaf Soueif |
570 | Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
571 | Waterland | Graham Swift |
572 | Diary of a Mad Old Man | Junichiro Tanizaki |
573 | Anna Karenina † | Leo Tolstoy |
574 | Music and Silence | Rose Tremain |
575 | First Love | Ivan Turgenev |
576 | Breathing Lessons † | Anne Tyler |
577 | The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler |
578 | The Night Watch | Sarah Waters |
579 | The Graduate † | Charles Webb |
580 | The Age of Innocence † | Edith Wharton |
581 | The Passion | Jeanette Winterson |
582 | East Lynne | Ellen Wood |
583 | Revolutionary Road † | Richard Yates |
584 | The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy † | Douglas Adams |
585 | Non-Stop | Brian W Aldiss |
586 | Foundation † | Isaac Asimov |
587 | The Blind Assassin † | Margaret Atwood |
588 | The Handmaid’s Tale † | Margaret Atwood |
589 | In the Country of Last Things | Paul Auster |
590 | The Drowned World | JG Ballard |
591 | Crash † | JG Ballard |
592 | Millennium People | JG Ballard |
593 | The Wasp Factory † | Iain Banks |
594 | Consider Phlebas | Iain M Banks |
595 | Weaveworld | Clive Barker |
596 | Darkmans | Nicola Barker |
597 | The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter |
598 | Darwin’s Radio | Greg Bear |
599 | Vathek | William Beckford |
600 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
601 | Fahrenheit 451 † | Ray Bradbury |
602 | Lost Souls | Poppy Z Brite |
603 | Wieland | Charles Brockden Brown |
604 | Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys |
605 | The Master and Margarita † | Mikhail Bulgakov |
606 | The Coming Race | EGEL Bulwer-Lytton |
607 | A Clockwork Orange † | Anthony Burgess |
608 | The End of the World News | Anthony Burgess |
609 | A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
610 | Naked Lunch † | William Burroughs |
611 | Kindred | Octavia Butler |
612 | Erewhon † | Samuel Butler |
613 | The Baron in the Trees | Italo Calvino |
614 | The Influence | Ramsey Campbell |
615 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland † | Lewis Carroll |
616 | Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There † | Lewis Carroll |
617 | Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter |
618 | The Passion of New Eve | Angela Carter |
619 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon |
620 | The Man who was Thursday | GK Chesterton |
621 | Childhood’s End | Arthur C Clarke |
622 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke |
623 | Hello Summer, Goodbye | Michael G Coney |
624 | Girlfriend in a Coma | Douglas Coupland |
625 | House of Leaves | Mark Danielewski |
626 | Pig Tales | Marie Darrieussecq |
627 | The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R Delaney |
628 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K Dick |
629 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K Dick |
630 | Camp Concentration | Thomas M Disch |
631 | Foucault’s Pendulum | Umberto Eco |
632 | Under the Skin † | Michel Faber |
633 | The Magus † | John Fowles |
634 | American Gods † | Neil Gaiman |
635 | Red Shift | Alan Garner |
636 | Neuromancer † | William Gibson |
637 | Herland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
638 | Lord of the Flies † | William Golding |
639 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
640 | Light | M John Harrison |
641 | The House of the Seven Gables † | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
642 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A Heinlein |
643 | Dune | Frank L Herbert |
644 | The Glass Bead Game | Herman Hesse |
645 | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban |
646 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | James Hogg |
647 | Atomised | Michel Houellebecq |
648 | Brave New World † | Aldous Huxley |
649 | The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro |
650 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
651 | The Turn of the Screw † | Henry James |
652 | The Children of Men | PD James |
653 | After London; or, Wild England | Richard Jefferies |
654 | Bold as Love | Gwyneth Jones |
655 | The Trial † | Franz Kafka |
656 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
657 | The Shining | Stephen King |
658 | The Victorian Chaise-longue | Marghanita Laski |
659 | Uncle Silas | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
660 | The Earthsea Series | Ursula Le Guin |
661 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula Le Guin |
662 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem |
663 | Memoirs of a Survivor | Doris Lessing |
664 | The Chronicles of Narnia † | CS Lewis |
665 | The Monk | Matthew Lewis |
666 | A Voyage to Arcturus | David Lindsay |
667 | The Night Sessions | Ken Macleod |
668 | Beyond Black | Hilary Mantel |
669 | Only Forward | Michael Marshall Smith |
670 | I Am Legend † | Richard Matheson |
671 | Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Maturin |
672 | The Butcher Boy | Patrick McCabe |
673 | The Road † | Cormac McCarthy |
674 | Ascent | Jed Mercurio |
675 | The Scar | China Mieville |
676 | Ingenious Pain | Andrew Miller |
677 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M Miller Jr |
678 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
679 | Mother London | Michael Moorcock |
680 | News from Nowhere | William Morris |
681 | Beloved † | Toni Morrison |
682 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami |
683 | Ada or Ardor † | Vladimir Nabokov |
684 | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
685 | Ringworld | Larry Niven |
686 | Vurt | Jeff Noon |
687 | The Third Policeman | Flann O’Brien |
688 | The Famished Road † | Ben Okri |
689 | Nineteen Eighty-Four † | George Orwell |
690 | Fight Club † | Chuck Palahniuk |
691 | Nightmare Abbey † | Thomas Love Peacock |
692 | Titus Groan | Mervyn Peake |
693 | The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth |
694 | A Glastonbury Romance | John Cowper Powys |
695 | The Discworld Series | Terry Pratchett |
696 | The Prestige | Christopher Priest |
697 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman |
698 | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais |
699 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe |
700 | Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds |
701 | The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson |
702 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone † | JK Rowling |
703 | Satanic Verses † | Salman Rushdie |
704 | The Female Man | Joanna Russ |
705 | Air | Geoff Ryman |
706 | The Little Prince † | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
707 | Blindness | Jose Saramago |
708 | How the Dead Live | Will Self |
709 | Frankenstein † | Mary Shelley |
710 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons |
711 | Star Maker | Olaf Stapledon |
712 | Snow Crash † | Neal Stephenson |
713 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde † | Robert Louis Stevenson |
714 | Dracula † | Bram Stoker |
715 | The Insult | Rupert Thomson |
716 | The Hobbit † | JRR Tolkien |
717 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien |
718 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain |
719 | Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut |
720 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole |
721 | Institute Benjamenta | Robert Walser |
722 | Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
723 | Affinity | Sarah Waters |
724 | The Time Machine | HG Wells |
725 | The War of the Worlds | HG Wells |
726 | The Sword in the Stone | TH White |
727 | The Old Men at the Zoo | Angus Wilson |
728 | The Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
729 | Orlando † | Virginia Woolf |
730 | Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
731 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham |
732 | We | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
733 | Things Fall Apart † | Chinua Achebe |
734 | Anthills of the Savannah | Chinua Achebe |
735 | London Fields | Martin Amis |
736 | Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand |
737 | Go Tell it on the Mountain † | James Baldwin |
738 | La Comedie Humaine | Honore de Balzac |
739 | They Were Counted | Miklos Banffy |
740 | A Kind of Loving | Stan Barstow |
741 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin † | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
742 | Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave | Aphra Behn |
743 | Clayhanger | Arnold Bennett |
744 | The Last September | Elizabeth Bowen |
745 | Room at the Top | John Braine |
746 | A Dry White Season | Andre Brink |
747 | Shirley | Charlotte Bronte |
748 | Earthly Powers | Anthony Burgess |
749 | The Virgin in the Garden | AS Byatt |
750 | Tobacco Road † | Erskine Caldwell |
751 | The Plague | Albert Camus |
752 | The Kingdom of this World | Alejo Carpentier |
753 | What a Carve Up! | Jonathan Coe |
754 | Disgrace † | JM Coetzee |
755 | Waiting for the Barbarians | JM Coeztee |
756 | Microserfs | Douglas Coupland |
757 | Moll Flanders † | Daniel Defoe |
758 | Underworld | Don DeLillo |
759 | White Noise † | Don DeLillo |
760 | A Tale of Two Cities † | Charles Dickens |
761 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
762 | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens |
763 | Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
764 | Little Dorritt | Charles Dickens |
765 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
766 | Play It As It Lays † | Joan Didion |
767 | Sybil or The Two Nations | Benjamin Disraeli |
768 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Doblin |
769 | The Book of Daniel | EL Doctorow |
770 | Notes from the Underground † | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
771 | The Idiot † | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
772 | USA † | John Dos Passos |
773 | Sister Carrie † | Theodor Dreiser |
774 | Castle Rackrent | Maria Edgeworth |
775 | Middlemarch † | George Eliot |
776 | Silas Marner † | George Eliot |
777 | The Invisible Man † | Ralph Ellison |
778 | Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert |
779 | Effi Briest | Theodore Fontane |
780 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
781 | A Passage to India † | EM Forster |
782 | The Corrections † | Jonathan Franzen |
783 | The Recognitions † | William Gaddis |
784 | Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
785 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell |
786 | The Counterfeiters | Andre Gide |
787 | The Odd Women | George Gissing |
788 | New Grub Street † | George Gissing |
789 | July’s People | Nadine Gordimer |
790 | Mother † | Maxim Gorky |
791 | Lanark | Alastair Gray |
792 | Love on the Dole | Walter Greenwood |
793 | The Mayor of Casterbridge † | Thomas Hardy |
794 | A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines |
795 | The Line of Beauty † | Alan Hollinghurst |
796 | South Riding | Winifred Holtby |
797 | Les Miserables † | Victor Hugo |
798 | Goodbye to Berlin † | Christopher Isherwood |
799 | Chronicle in Stone | Ismael Kadare |
800 | How Late it Was, How Late † | James Kelman |
801 | The Leopard | Giuseppi di Lampedusa |
802 | A Girl in Winter | Philip Larkin |
803 | Passing | Nella Larsen |
804 | The Grass is Singing | Doris Lessing |
805 | Babbitt † | Sinclair Lewis |
806 | Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis |
807 | Main Street † | Sinclair Lewis |
808 | Absolute Beginners | Colin MacInnes |
809 | The Group | Mary McCarthy |
810 | Amongst Women † | John McGahern |
811 | The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis |
812 | Of Love & Hunger | Julian Maclaren-Ross |
813 | Remembering Babylon | David Malouf |
814 | The Magic Mountain † | Thomas Mann |
815 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni |
816 | Bel-Ami | Guy de Maupassant |
817 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry |
818 | The Time of Indifference | Alberto Moravia |
819 | A Bend in the River † | VS Naipaul |
820 | McTeague | Frank Norris |
821 | Personality | Andrew O’Hagan |
822 | Animal Farm † | George Orwell |
823 | The Ragazzi Pier | Paolo Pasolini |
824 | Cry, the Beloved Country † | Alan Paton |
825 | The Moon and the Bonfire | Cesare Pavese |
826 | GB84 | David Peace |
827 | Headlong Hall | Thomas Love Peacock |
828 | Afternoon Men | Anthony Powell |
829 | Vineland | Thomas Pynchon |
830 | The Radetzky March | Joseph Roth |
831 | American Pastoral † | Philip Roth |
832 | The Human Stain | Philip Roth |
833 | Midnight’s Children † | Salman Rushdie |
834 | Shame | Salman Rushdie |
835 | To Each his Own | Leonardo Sciascia |
836 | Staying On † | Paul Scott |
837 | Last Exit to Brooklyn † | Hubert Selby, Jr. |
838 | The Lonely Londoners | Samuel Selvon |
839 | God’s Bit of Wood | Ousmane Sembene |
840 | The Case of Comrade Tulayev | Victor Serge |
841 | Richshaw Boy | Lao She |
842 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe |
843 | The Jungle † | Upton Sinclair |
844 | Novel on Yellow Paper | Stevie Smith |
845 | White Teeth † | Zadie Smith |
846 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich † | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn |
847 | The Grapes of Wrath † | John Steinbeck |
848 | The Red and the Black † | Stendhal |
849 | This Sporting Life | David Storey |
850 | The Red Room | August Stringberg |
851 | The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore |
852 | Vanity Fair † | William Makepeace Thackeray |
853 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell |
854 | The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony Trollope |
855 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope |
856 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
857 | Couples | John Updike |
858 | Z | Vassilis Vassilikos |
859 | Billy Liar | Keith Waterhouse |
860 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh |
861 | The Day of the Locust † | Nathanael West |
862 | The Return of the Soldier † | Rebecca West |
863 | The House of Mirth † | Edith Wharton |
864 | The Bonfire of the Vanities † | Tom Wolfe |
865 | Germinal † | Emile Zola |
866 | La Bete Humaine | Emile Zola |
867 | Silver Stallion | Junghyo Ahn |
868 | Death of a Hero | Richard Aldington |
869 | Master Georgie † | Beryl Bainbridge |
870 | Darkness Falls from the Air | Nigel Balchin |
871 | Empire of the Sun † | JG Ballard |
872 | Regeneration | Pat Barker |
873 | A Long Long Way | Sebastian Barry |
874 | Fair Stood the Wind for France | HE Bates |
875 | Carrie’s War | Nina Bawden |
876 | The Savage Detectives | Roberto Bolano |
877 | The Sheltering Sky † | Paul Bowles |
878 | An Ice-Cream War | William Boyd |
879 | When the Wind Blows | Raymond Briggs |
880 | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino |
881 | Auto-da-Fe | Elias Canetti |
882 | One of Ours | Willa Cather |
883 | Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
884 | Monkey | Wu Ch’eng-en |
885 | Heart of Darkness † | Joseph Conrad |
886 | Lord Jim † | Joseph Conrad |
887 | Nostromo † | Joseph Conrad |
888 | Sharpe’s Eagle † | Bernard Cornwell |
889 | The History of Pompey the Little | Francis Coventry |
890 | The Red Badge of Courage † | Stephen Crane |
891 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
892 | Bomber † | Len Deighton |
893 | Deliverance † | James Dickey |
894 | Three Soldiers | John Dos Passos |
895 | South Wind † | Norman Douglas |
896 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
897 | Justine | Lawrence Durrell |
898 | The Bamboo Bed | William Eastlake |
899 | The Siege of Krishnapur † | JG Farrell |
900 | Birdsong † | Sebastian Faulks |
901 | Parade’s End † | Ford Madox Ford |
902 | The African Queen † | C.S. Forester |
903 | The Ship | CS Forester |
904 | Flashman | George MacDonald Fraser |
905 | Cold Mountain † | Charles Frazier |
906 | The Beach | Alex Garland |
907 | To The Ends of the Earth trilogy | William Golding |
908 | Asterix the Gaul | Rene Goscinny |
909 | The Tin Drum † | Gunter Grass |
910 | Count Belisarius | Robert Graves |
911 | Life and Fate | Vassily Grossman |
912 | De Niro’s Game | Rawi Hage |
913 | King Solomon’s Mines | H Rider Haggard |
914 | She: A History of Adventure | H Rider Haggard |
915 | The Slaves of Solitude | Patrick Hamilton |
916 | Covenant with Death | John Harris |
917 | Enigma † | Robert Harris |
918 | The Good Soldier Švejk † | Jaroslav Hašek |
919 | For Whom the Bell Tolls † | Ernest Hemingway |
920 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Anthony Hope |
921 | The Kite Runner † | Khaled Hosseini |
922 | A High Wind in Jamaica † | Richard Hughes |
923 | Rasselas | Samuel Johnson |
924 | From Here to Eternity † | James Jones |
925 | Andersonville | MacKinlay Kantor |
926 | Confederates | Thomas Keneally |
927 | Schindler’s Ark † | Thomas Keneally |
928 | Day | AL Kennedy |
929 | On the Road † | Jack Kerouac |
930 | Darkness at Noon † | Arthur Koestler |
931 | The Painted Bird † | Jerzy Kosinski |
932 | If Not Now, When? | Primo Levi |
933 | The Call of the Wild † | Jack London |
934 | The Guns of Navarone † | Alistair MacLean |
935 | All the Pretty Horses † | Cormac McCarthy |
936 | Blood Meridian † | Cormac McCarthy |
937 | The Mark of Zorro | Johnston McCulley |
938 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurty |
939 | The Naked and the Dead † | Norman Mailer |
940 | La Condition Humaine | Andre Malraux |
941 | Fortunes of War | Olivia Manning |
942 | One Hundred Years of Solitude † | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
943 | The Children of the New Forest † | Frederick Marryat |
944 | Moby-Dick or, The Whale † | Herman Melville |
945 | Tales of the South Pacific | James Michener |
946 | The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat |
947 | History | Elsa Morante |
948 | Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
949 | The Sorrow of War | Bao Ninh |
950 | Master and Commander † | Patrick O’Brian |
951 | The Things They Carried † | Tim O’Brien |
952 | The Scarlet Pimpernel † | Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
953 | Burmese Days | George Orwell |
954 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance † | Robert Pirsig |
955 | The Valley of Bones † | Anthony Powell |
956 | The Soldier’s Art † | Anthony Powell |
957 | The Military Philosophers † | Anthony Powell |
958 | Gravity’s Rainbow † | Thomas Pynchon |
959 | The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Rudolp Erich Raspe |
960 | All Quiet on the Western Front † | Erich Maria Remarque |
961 | The Crab with the Golden Claws | Georges Remi Herge |
962 | Tintin in Tibet | Georges Remi Herge |
963 | The Castafiore Emerald | Georges Remi Herge |
964 | The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | Joao Guimaraes Rosa |
965 | Sacaramouche | Rafael Sabatini |
966 | Captain Blood | Rafael Sabatini |
967 | Everything is Illuminated † | Jonathon Safran Foer |
968 | The Hunters | James Salter |
969 | Ivanhoe † | Sir Walter Scott |
970 | The Rings of Saturn | WG Sebald |
971 | Austerlitz | WG Sebald |
972 | Black Beauty † | Anna Sewell |
973 | The Young Lions | Irwin Shaw |
974 | A Town Like Alice † | Nevil Shute |
975 | Maus | Art Spiegelman |
976 | The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal |
977 | Cryptonomicon | Neil Stephenson |
978 | A Sentimental Journey | Lawrence Sterne |
979 | Kidnapped † | Robert Louis Stevenson |
980 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
981 | A Flag for Sunrise | Robert Stone |
982 | Sophie’s Choice † | William Styron |
983 | Gulliver’s Travels † | Jonathan Swift |
984 | War and Peace † | Leo Tolstoy |
985 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
986 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
987 | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
988 | Williwaw | Gore Vidal |
989 | Candide | Voltaire |
990 | Slaughter-House Five † | Kurt Vonnegut |
991 | Put Out More Flags † | Evelyn Waugh |
992 | Men at Arms | Evelyn Waugh |
993 | The Island of Dr Moreau | HG Wells |
994 | The Machine-Gunners | Robert Westall |
995 | Voss † | Patrick White |
996 | The Virginian | Owen Wister |
997 | The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
998 | The Debacle | Emile Zola |