Isle of Woman 

by Piers Anthony (1993),

 Essays in Love by Alain de Botton (1994),
 The Dream Weaver by Jack Bowen (2006),
 A Happy Death by Albert Camus (1971)
, VALIS by Philip K. Dick (1981),
 Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872),
 The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind by Rebecca Goldstein (1989), 
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1959), 
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003),
 The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942),
 The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow (2005), 
Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow (1994), 
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (1973), 
Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1983)
105. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
104. Anthem by Ayn Rand (1937)
102. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot (1796)
101. Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936)
100. Watt by Samuel Beckett (1953)
99. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)
98. The Castle by Franz Kafka (1926)

96. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse (1930)

95. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
90. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
90. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (1997)
90. God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams (2001)
90. Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess (1995)
90. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)
89. White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
88. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)

86. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

85. The Sacred Band by Janet E. Morris (2010)
84. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
82. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (1965)
82. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1963)
81. Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman (1992)
80. Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969)
79. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)
78. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
77. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
75. Thérèse Philosophe by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens (1748)
74. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2006)
73. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach (1977)
71. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
71. Blindsight by Peter Watts (2006)
69. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig (1991)
68. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940)
67. When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom (1992)
65. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn (1992)
64. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)
63. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
62. Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot (1941)
61. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
60. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)
59. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

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58. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley (1939)
57. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
56. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (1977)
55. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (1910)
53. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
52. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961)
50. Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008)
49. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
48. Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
47. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch (1961)
46. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
45. Watchmen by Alan Moore (1987)
44. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
43. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
41. The Last Puritan by George Santayana (1935)
39. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
38. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937)
37. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
35. Utopia by Thomas More (1516)
33. The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)
32. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
31. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954)
30. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
29. The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)
28. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
27. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
26. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
25. Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth by Hermann Hesse (1919)
24. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
22. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (1943)
21. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1943)
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
17. The Republic by Plato (380 BCE)
15. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (1991)
13. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1927)
12. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
11. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)
7. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
4. Candide by Voltaire (1759)

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No
Title Author Year Language
.

In Search of Lost Time 1913–

2 Marcel Proust French
Remembrance of Things Past 27

5 Man's Fate André Malraux 1933 French

6 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French

7 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 English

8 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 English

9 Le Grand Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 1913 French

10 Froth on the Daydream Boris Vian 1947 French

11 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French

12 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 1952 French

13 Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 French

15 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian

16 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French

17 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French

18 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 French

19 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch

3
No
Title Author Year Language
.

20 Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss 1955 French

23 Asterix the Gaul René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo 1959 French

25 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sigmund Freud 1905 German

The Abyss
26 Marguerite Yourcenar 1968 French
Zeno of Bruges

30 The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 French

31 The Horseman on the Roof Jean Giono 1951 French

32 Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen 1968 French

36 Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau 1959 French

37 Confusion of Feelings Stefan Zweig 1927 German

38 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 English

40 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German

41 Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan 1954 French

42 Le Silence de la mer Vercors 1942 French

43 Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French

4
No
Title Author Year Language
.

46 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 English

47 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech

48 Contempt/A Ghost at Noon Alberto Moravia 1954 Italian

49 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 English

50 Nadja André Breton 1928 French

51 Aurélien Louis Aragon 1944 French

52 The Satin Slipper Paul Claudel 1929 French

53 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian

54 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 1941 German

55 Friday Michel Tournier 1967 French

56 The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 1898 English

If This Is a Man
57 Se questo è un uomo, Survival in Primo Levi 1947 Italian
Auschwitz

1954–
58 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien English
55

5
No
Title Author Year Language
.

59 The Tendrils of the Vine Colette 1908 French

60 Capital of Pain Paul Éluard 1926 French

61 Martin Eden Jack London 1909 English

62 The Ballad of the Salty Sea Hugo Pratt 1967 Italian

63 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 French

64 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German

65 The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq 1951 French

66 The Order of Things Michel Foucault 1966 French

67 On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 English

69 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 English

70 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 English

71 The Ravishing of Lol Stein Marguerite Duras 1964 French

72 The Interrogation J.M.G. Le Clézio 1963 French

73 Tropisms Nathalie Sarraute 1939 French

74 Journal, 1887–1910 Jules Renard 1925 French

6
No
Title Author Year Language
.

75 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 English

76 Écrits Jacques Lacan 1966 French

77 The Theatre and Its Double Antonin Artaud 1938 French

78 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1925 English

79 Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Spanish

80 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 French

81 The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 Albanian

82 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 English

83 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish

84 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett Georges Simenon 1931 French

85 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1944 French

1930–
86 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil German
42

87 Furor and Mystery René Char 1948 French

89 No Orchids For Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 1939 English

90 Blake and Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs 1950 French

7
 No
Title Author Year Language
.

91 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke 1910 German

92 Second Thoughts Michel Butor 1957 French

The Origins of Totalitarianism

93 Hannah Arendt 1951 English
The Burden of Our Time

1949–
95 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller English
60

97 Amers Saint-John Perse 1957 French

Gaston
98 André Franquin 1957 French
Gomer Goof

99 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 English

100 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 English

1. THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald

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2. CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
3. DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler
4. SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence
5. THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck
6. UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
7. THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler
8. I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
9. TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
10. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYby Theodore Dreiser
11. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
12. INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
13. NATIVE SONby Richard Wright
14. HENDERSON THE RAIN KINGby Saul Bellow
15. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara
16. U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos
17. WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson
18. A PASSAGE TO INDIAby E.M. Forster
19. THE WINGS OF THE DOVEby Henry James
20. THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James
21. TENDER IS THE NIGHTby F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGYby James T. Farrell
23. THE GOOD SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford
24. THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James
25. SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser
26. A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh
27. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
28. ALL THE KING’S MENby Robert Penn Warren
29. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REYby Thornton Wilder
30. HOWARDS ENDby E.M. Forster
31. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby James Baldwin
32. THE HEART OF THE MATTERby Graham Greene
33. DELIVERANCEby James Dickey
34. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell
35. POINT COUNTER POINTby Aldous Huxley
36. THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
37. THE SECRET AGENTby Joseph Conrad
38. NOSTROMOby Joseph Conrad
39. THE RAINBOWby D.H. Lawrence
40. WOMEN IN LOVEby D.H. Lawrence
41. THE NAKED AND THE DEADby Norman Mailer
42. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINTby Philip Roth
43. PALE FIREby Vladimir Nabokov
44. ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
45. PARADE’S ENDby Ford Madox Ford
46. THE AGE OF INNOCENCEby Edith Wharton
47. ZULEIKA DOBSONby Max Beerbohm
48. THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
49. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPby Willa Cather

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50. FROM HERE TO ETERNITYby James Jones
51. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLESby John Cheever
52. OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
53. HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
54. MAIN STREETby Sinclair Lewis
55. THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton
56. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durrell
57. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes
58. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul
59. THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West
60. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
61. SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh
62. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark
63. FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce
64. A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster
65. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
66. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow
67. ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner
68. A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul
69. THE DEATH OF THE HEARTby Elizabeth Bowen
70. LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad
71. RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow
72. THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett
73. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
74. LOVINGby Henry Green
75. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDRENby Salman Rushdie
76. TOBACCO ROADby Erskine Caldwell
77. IRONWEEDby William Kennedy
78. THE MAGUSby John Fowles
79. WIDE SARGASSO SEAby Jean Rhys
80. UNDER THE NETby Iris Murdoch
81. SOPHIE’S CHOICEby William Styron
82. THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
83. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain
84. THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy
85. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington

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Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 1952 [4][6][7][8]

Richard Matheson I Am Legend 1954 [6][7]

Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus 1959 [6][8]

Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886 [4][5]

H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds 1898 [5][8]

Edith Wharton Ethan Frome 1911 [5][6]

Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending 2011 [6]

Saul Bellow Seize the Day 1956 [8]

Kate Chopin The Awakening 1899 [9]

Paulo Coelho The Alchemist 1988 [6]

Maryse Conde I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem 1986 [9]

Don DeLillo Pafko at the Wall 2001 [6]

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Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop 1978 [9]

Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981 [8]

Graham Greene The Tenth Man 1985 [6]

M. K. Indira Phaniyamma 1977 [9]

Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1962 [9]

Henry James The Turn of the Screw 1898 [8]

Tove Jansson The Summer Book 1972 [9]

Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs 1896 [9]

James Joyce The Dead 1914 [8]

Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1959 [4]

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank

Stephen King 1982 [7]

Redemption

Andrew Krivak The Sojourn 2011 [6]

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Nella Larsen Quicksand 1928 [9]

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Janet Lewis The Wife of Martin Guerre 1941 [9]

Johannes Linnankoski The Fugitives 1908 [12]

Penelope Lively The Photograph 2003 [6]

David Malouf Fly Away Peter 1982 [6]

Thomas Mann Death in Venice 1912 [8]

Steve Martin Shopgirl 2000 [6]

Valerie Martin Property 2003 [9]

Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding 1946 [9]

Iris Murdoch Something Special 1957 [6]

Yōko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor 2003 [9]

Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster 2007 [6]

Charles Portis True Grit 1968

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Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 1966 [6]

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 [9]

Francoise Sagan Bonjour, Tristesse 1954 [9]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962 [8]

Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1961 [9]

John Steinbeck The Pearl 1947 [5][13]

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich 1886 [8]

Justin Torres We the Animals 2011 [6]

Voltaire Candide 1759 [6]

Velma Wallis Two Old Women 1993 [9]

H. G. Wells The Time Machine 1895 [6]

Edith Wharton Bunner Sisters 1916 [9]

Edith Wharton Madame de Treymes 1907 [9]

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