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1001 Books You Must Read

1001 Books You Must Read is an unranked selection published in 2018 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as critics' canon. 211 of its 1331 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·10:04 — Ben Lerner
·1984 — George OrwellCanon #239
·1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
·2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
·2666 — Roberto BolañoCanon #226
·A Ballad for Georg Henig — Viktor Paskov
·A Bend in the River — V.S. NaipaulCanon #189
·A Boy's Own Story — Edmund White
·A Christmas Carol — Charles DickensCanon #105
·A Clockwork Orange — Anthony BurgessCanon #243
·A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy TooleCanon #240
·A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement — Anthony Powell
·A Day in Spring — Ciril Kosmač
·A Day Off — Storm Jameson
·A Disaffection — James Kelman
·A dream of red mansions — Cao Xueqin
·A Dry White Season — André Brink
·A Farewell to Arms — Ernest HemingwayCanon #117
·A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry
·A Gate at the Stairs — Lorrie Moore
·A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing — Eimear McBride
·A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh
·A Heart So White — Javier Marías
·A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
·A Home at the End of the World — Michael Cunningham
·A House in the Uplands — Erskine Caldwell
·A Kestrel for a Knave — Barry Hines
·A Lear of the Steppes — Ivan Turgenev
·A Maggot — John Fowles
·A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift
·A Pale View of Hills — Kazuo Ishiguro
·A Passage to India — E.M. ForsterCanon #71
·A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James JoyceCanon #89
·A Prayer for Owen Meany — John IrvingCanon #201
·A Question of Power — Bessie Head
·A Room with a View — E.M. ForsterCanon #224
·A Sentimental Journey — Laurence Sterne
·A Severed Head — Iris Murdoch
·A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian — Marina Lewycka
·A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth
·A Tale of a Tub — Jonathan Swift
·A Tale of Love and Darkness — Amos Oz
·A Tale of Two Cities — Charles DickensCanon #82
·A Town Like Alice — Nevil Shute
·A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
·A Void — Georges Perec
·A Woman's Life — Guy de Maupassant
·A World for Julius — Alfredo Bryce Echenique
·A World of Love — Elizabeth Bowen
·Aaron's Rod — D.H. Lawrence
·Absalom, Absalom! — William FaulknerCanon #70
·Absolute Beginners — Colin MacInnes
·Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle — Vladimir Nabokov
·Adam Bede — George EliotCanon #140
·Adjunct: An Undigest — Peter Manson
·Aesop’s Fables — Aesop
·After the Death of Don Juan — Sylvia Townsend Warner
·After the Quake — Haruki Murakami
·Against Nature — Joris-Karl Huysmans
·Against the Day — Thomas Pynchon
·Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë
·Alamut — Vladimir Bartol
·Albert Angelo — B.S. Johnson
·Alberta and Jacob — Cora Sandel
·Albigenses — Charles Robert Maturin
·Alias Grace — Margaret Atwood
·Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis CarrollCanon #48
·All About H. Hatterr — G.V. Desani
·All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria RemarqueCanon #123
·All Souls — Javier Marías
·All Souls' Day — Cees Nooteboom
·All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
·All the Sinners Bleed — S.A. Cosby
·Almost Transparent Blue — Ryū Murakami
·Amadis of Gaul — Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
·Amateurs — Donald Barthelme
·Amelia — Henry Fielding
·American Pastoral — Philip Roth
·American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
·American Rust — Philipp Meyer
·Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCanon #193
·Amerika — Franz Kafka
·Amok and Other Stories — Stefan Zweig
·Amongst Women — John McGahern
·Amsterdam — Ian McEwan
·An Artist of the Floating World — Kazuo Ishiguro
·An Ethiopian Romance — Heliodorus of Emesa
·An Obedient Father — Akhil Sharma
·Anagrams — Lorrie Moore
·Ancestral Voices — Etienne van Heerden
·Animal Farm — George OrwellCanon #37
·Animal's People — Indra Sinha
·Anna Karenina — Leo TolstoyCanon #15
·Annie John — Jamaica Kincaid
·Another World — Pat Barker
·Antic Hay — Aldous Huxley
·Anton Reiser — Karl Philipp Moritz
·Arcadia — Jim Crace
·Arcanum 17 — André Breton
·Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules VerneCanon #175
·Arrow of God — Chinua Achebe
·As a Man Grows Older — Italo Svevo
·Ashes and Diamonds — Jerzy Andrzejewski
·Asphodel — H.D.
·Astradeni — Evgenia Fakinou
·At Swim, Two Boys — Jamie O'Neill
·At Swim-Two-Birds — Flann O'Brien
·At the Mountains of Madness — H.P. Lovecraft
·Atonement — Ian McEwanCanon #136
·August Is a Wicked Month — Edna O'Brien
·Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts — Joseph von Eichendorff
·Austerlitz — W.G. SebaldCanon #91
·Auto-da-Fé — Elias Canetti
·Babbitt — Sinclair LewisCanon #173
·Back — Henry Green
·Baltasar and Blimunda — José Saramago
·Barabbas — Pär Lagerkvist
·Bartleby & Co. — Enrique Vila-Matas
·Before Night Falls — Reinaldo Arenas
·Bel-Ami — Guy de Maupassant
·Belle du Seigneur — Albert Cohen
·Beloved — Toni MorrisonCanon #29
·Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ — Lew Wallace
·Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred DöblinCanon #84
·Between the Acts — Virginia Woolf
·Billiards at Half-Past Nine — Heinrich Böll
·Billy Bathgate — E.L. Doctorow
·Billy Budd, Sailor — Herman Melville
·Billy Liar — Keith Waterhouse
·Birdman — Mo Hayder
·Birdsong — Sebastian FaulksCanon #244
·Black Box — Amos Oz
·Black Dogs — Ian McEwan
·Black Water — Joyce Carol Oates
·Blaming — Elizabeth Taylor
·Bleak House — Charles DickensCanon #44
·Blind Man with a Pistol — Chester Himes
·Blindness — Henry Green
·Blonde — Joyce Carol Oates
·Blood and Guts in High School — Kathy Acker
·Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West — Cormac McCarthy
·Blue of Noon — Georges Bataille
·Bonjour tristesse — Françoise SaganCanon #162
·Boquitas pintadas — Manuel Puig
·Born in Exile — George Gissing
·Borstal Boy — Brendan Behan
·Bosnian Chronicle — Ivo Andrić
·Bouvard and Pécuchet — Gustave Flaubert
·Brave New World — Aldous HuxleyCanon #38
·Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories — Truman Capote
·Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
·Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
·Brighton Rock — Graham GreeneCanon #236
·Broad and Alien is the World — Ciro Alegría
·Broken April — Ismail Kadare
·Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family — Thomas Mann
·Buddha's Little Finger — Victor Pelevin
·Bunner Sisters — Edith Wharton
·Burger's Daughter — Nadine Gordimer
·Burmese Days — George Orwell
·By the Open Sea — August Strindberg
·Caim — José Saramago
·Cakes and Ale — W. Somerset Maugham
·Caleb Williams — William Godwin
·Call It Sleep — Henry Roth
·Callirhoe — Chariton
·Camera Obscura — Hildebrand
·Camilla — Frances Burney
·Cancer Ward — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
·Candide — VoltaireCanon #36
·Cane — Jean Toomer
·Cannery Row — John Steinbeck
·Carry Me Down — M.J. Hyland
·Casino Royale — Ian Fleming
·Castle Rackrent — Maria Edgeworth
·Castle Richmond — Anthony Trollope
·Cat and Mouse — Günter Grass
·Cat's Eye — Margaret Atwood
·Cataract — Mykhaylo Osadchy
·Catch-22 — Joseph HellerCanon #56
·Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
·Caught — Henry Green
·Cause for Alarm — Eric Ambler
·Cecilia — Frances Burney
·Celestial Harmonies — Péter Esterházy
·Chaka — Thomas Mofolo
·Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
·Chocky — John Wyndham
·Choke — Chuck Palahniuk
·Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year — Carlo Levi
·Cider with Rosie — Laurie Lee
·Cigarettes — Harry Mathews
·City of God — E.L. Doctorow
·City Primeval — Elmore Leonard
·City Sister Silver — Jáchym Topol
·Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady — Samuel Richardson
·Claudine's House — Colette
·Clear Light of Day — Anita Desai
·Closely Watched Trains — Bohumil Hrabal
·Cloud Atlas — David MitchellCanon #186
·Cloudsplitter — Russell Banks
·Cocaine Nights — J.G. Ballard
·Cold Comfort Farm — Stella GibbonsCanon #217
·Come Back, Dr. Caligari — Donald Barthelme
·Coming up for Air — George Orwell
·Complicity — Iain Banks
·Concrete — Thomas Bernhard
·Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·Contact — Carl Sagan
·Contempt — Alberto Moravia
·Conversations in Sicily — Elio Vittorini
·Corelli’s Mandolin — Louis de Bernières
·Correction — Thomas Bernhard
·Cost — Roxana Robinson
·Couples, Passersby — Botho Strauß
·Cranford — Elizabeth GaskellCanon #119
·Crash — J.G. Ballard
·Crime and Punishment — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #3
·Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley
·Crossfire — Miyuki Miyabe
·Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan PatonCanon #209
·Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
·Cutter and Bone — Newton Thornburg
·Dangling Man — Saul Bellow
·Daniel Deronda — George EliotCanon #182
·Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid — Malcolm Lowry
·David Copperfield — Charles DickensCanon #49
·De kleine Johannes — Frederik van Eeden
·De wetten — Connie Palmen
·Dead Air — Iain Banks
·Dead Babies — Martin Amis
·Dead Souls — Nikolai GogolCanon #46
·Death in Rome — Wolfgang Koeppen
·Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
·Death Sentence — Maurice Blanchot
·Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh
·Deep River — Shūsaku Endō
·Delta of Venus — Anaïs Nin
·Democracy — Joan Didion
·Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken — Daniel Paul Schreber
·Der Richter und sein Henker — Friedrich Dürrenmatt
·Derviš i smrt — Meša Selimović
·Dictionary of the Khazars — Milorad Pavić
·Die Räuber vom Liang Schan Moor — Luo Guanzhong
·Die Rückkehr des Filip Latinovicz — Miroslav Krleža
·Dining on Stones — Iain Sinclair
·Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency — Douglas Adams
·Dirty Havana Trilogy — Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
·Disappearance — David Dabydeen
·Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee
·Dispatches — Michael Herr
·Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
·Doctor Faustus — Thomas Mann
·Doctor Zhivago — Boris PasternakCanon #114
·Dog Years — Günter Grass
·Dom Casmurro — Machado de Assis
·Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCanon #2
·Don't Move — Margaret Mazzantini
·Down Second Avenue — Ezekiel Mphahlele
·Downriver — Iain Sinclair
·Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #131
·Dracula — Bram StokerCanon #60
·Drop City — T. Coraghessan Boyle
·Dusklands — J.M. Coetzee
·Eclipse of the Crescent Moon — Géza Gárdonyi
·Effi Briest — Theodor Fontane
·El astillero — Juan Carlos Onetti
·El cuarto de atrás — Carmen Martín Gaite
·El hereje — Miguel Delibes
·El laberinto de la soledad — Octavio Paz
·El llano en llamas — Juan Rulfo
·Elective Affinities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Eline Vere — Louis Couperus
·Elizabeth Costello — J.M. Coetzee
·Embers — Sándor Márai
·Emile, or On Education — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·Emma — Jane AustenCanon #155
·Empire of the Sun — J.G. Ballard
·Enduring Love — Ian McEwan
·Engineer of Human Souls — Josef Škvorecký
·England Made Me — Graham Greene
·Erewhon — Samuel Butler
·Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
·Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin
·Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de BalzacCanon #138
·Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit — John Lyly
·Eva Trout — Elizabeth Bowen
·Evelina — Frances Burney
·Every Dead Thing — John Connolly
·Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer
·Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories — Flannery O'Connor
·Everything You Need — A.L. Kennedy
·Excellent Women — Barbara Pym
·Exercises in Style — Raymond Queneau
·Extinction — Thomas Bernhard
·Eyeless in Gaza — Aldous Huxley
·Faceless Killers — Henning Mankell
·Faces in the Water — Janet Frame
·Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism — Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
·Fado Alexandrino — António Lobo Antunes
·Fall on Your Knees — Ann-Marie MacDonald
·Falling Man — Don DeLillo
·Family Matters — Rohinton Mistry
·Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure — John Cleland
·Fantômas — Marcel Allain
·Far From the Madding Crowd — Thomas HardyCanon #85
·Faraonul - volumul I — Bolesław Prus
·Farewell, My Lovely — Raymond Chandler
·Fatelessness — Imre Kertész
·Fathers and Sons — Ivan TurgenevCanon #81
·Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Hunter S. Thompson
·Fear of Flying — Erica Jong
·Felicia's Journey — William Trevor
·Ferdydurke — Witold Gombrowicz
·Fever and Spear — Javier Marías
·Ficciones — Jorge Luis BorgesCanon #139
·Fifth Business — Robertson Davies
·Fingersmith — Sarah Waters
·Finnegans Wake — James Joyce
·Flaubert's Parrot — Julian Barnes
·Foe — J.M. Coetzee
·Fool's Gold — Maro Douka
·Fools of Fortune — William Trevor
·For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest HemingwayCanon #77
·Forever a Stranger and Other Stories — Hella S. Haasse
·Fortunata and Jacinta — Benito Pérez Galdós
·Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco
·Foundation — Isaac Asimov
·Frankenstein: The 1818 Text — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
·Franny and Zooey — J.D. Salinger
·Freedom — Jonathan Franzen
·Fruits of the Earth — André Gide
·Fugitive Pieces — Anne Michaels
·Fury — Salman Rushdie
·G. — John Berger
·Gabriel's Gift — Hanif Kureishi
·Gabriela, clavo y canela — Jorge Amado
·Garden, Ashes — Danilo Kiš
·Gargantua and Pantagruel — François RabelaisCanon #146
·Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — Anita Loos
·Germinal — Émile ZolaCanon #106
·Get Shorty — Elmore Leonard
·Geur der droefenis — Alfred Kossmann
·Giles Goat-Boy — John Barth
·Gimmick! — Joost Zwagerman
·Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin
·Girl with Green Eyes — Edna O'Brien
·Glamorama — Bret Easton Ellis
·Go Down, Moses — William Faulkner
·Go Tell It on the Mountain — James BaldwinCanon #196
·God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
·God's Bits of Wood — Ousmane Sembène
·Gone with the Wind — Margaret MitchellCanon #47
·Good Morning, Midnight — Jean Rhys
·Goodbye to Berlin — Christopher Isherwood
·Gormenghast — Mervyn Peake
·Grande Sertão: Veredas — João Guimarães Rosa
·Gravity’s Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon
·Great Apes — Will Self
·Great Expectations — Charles DickensCanon #17
·Green Henry — Gottfried Keller
·Grimus — Salman Rushdie
·Group Portrait with Lady — Heinrich Böll
·Growth of the Soil — Knut Hamsun
·Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
·Gösta Berling's Saga — Selma Lagerlöf
·H — Nicola Barker
·H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald
·Hadrian the Seventh — Frederick Rolfe
·Halbzeit — Martin Walser
·Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
·Half of Man Is Woman — Zhang Xianliang
·Hallucinating Foucault — Patricia Duncker
·Hangover Square — Patrick Hamilton
·Hard Times — Charles DickensCanon #132
·Harriet Hume — Rebecca West
·Harvesters — Cesare Pavese
·Hawksmoor — Peter Ackroyd
·He Knew He Was Right — Anthony Trollope
·Heart of Darkness — Joseph ConradCanon #59
·Hebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings — Giorgio de Chirico
·Hell — Henri Barbusse
·Hemsöborna — August Strindberg
·Henderson the Rain King — Saul Bellow
·Henry von Ofterdingen — Novalis
·Her Privates We — Frederic Manning
·Here's to You, Jesusa! — Elena Poniatowska
·Herzog — Saul BellowCanon #203
·Het verboden rijk — J. Slauerhoff
·Het verdriet van België — Hugo Claus
·Hideous Kinky — Esther Freud
·High-Rise — J.G. Ballard
·Histoire d'O | Story of O — Pauline Réage
·Home — Marilynne Robinson
·Homo Faber — Max Frisch
·House Mother Normal — B.S. Johnson
·House of Leaves — Mark Z. Danielewski
·How It Is — Samuel Beckett
·How Late It Was, How Late — James Kelman
·How the Dead Live — Will Self
·Howards End — E.M. ForsterCanon #202
·Humboldt's Gift — Saul Bellow
·Hunger — Knut HamsunCanon #53
·Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland — Friedrich Hölderlin
·I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
·I Thought of Daisy — Edmund Wilson
·I'm Not Scared — Niccolò Ammaniti
·I'm Not Stiller — Max Frisch
·I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
·If Not Now, When? — Primo Levi
·If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — Italo Calvino
·Ignorance — Milan Kundera
·Impressions of Africa — Raymond Roussel
·In a Free State — V.S. Naipaul
·In a Glass Darkly — J. Sheridan Le Fanu
·In Cold Blood — Truman Capote
·In Parenthesis — David Jones
·In Search of Klingsor — Jorge Volpi
·In Search of Lost Time — Marcel ProustCanon #50
·In the Forest — Edna O'Brien
·In the Heart of the Country — J.M. Coetzee
·In the Heart of the Seas — S.Y. Agnon
·In Watermelon Sugar — Richard Brautigan
·Independent People — Halldór Laxness
·Indian Summer — Adalbert Stifter
·Indigo — Marina Warner
·Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
·Inland — Gerald Murnane
·Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts — Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
·Inside Mr. Enderby — Anthony Burgess
·Interview with the Vampire — Anne Rice
·Intimacy — Hanif Kureishi
·Invisible — Paul Auster
·Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
·Invisible Man — Ralph EllisonCanon #20
·Islands — Dan Sleigh
·Ivanhoe — Walter ScottCanon #158
·Jack Maggs — Peter Carey
·Jacob's Room — Virginia Woolf
·Jacques the Fatalist — Denis DiderotCanon #185
·Jahrestage — Uwe Johnson
·Jakob the Liar — Jurek Becker
·Jane Eyre — Charlotte BrontëCanon #10
·Jazz — Toni Morrison
·Jealousy — Alain Robbe-Grillet
·Joseph and His Brothers — Thomas Mann
·Joseph Andrews — Henry Fielding
·Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside — Camilo José Cela
·Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne
·Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand CélineCanon #40
·Jude the Obscure — Thomas HardyCanon #78
·Julie, or the New Heloise — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·July's People — Nadine Gordimer
·Junky — William S. Burroughs
·Justine — Lawrence Durrell
·Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue — Marquis de Sade
·Kaas — Willem Elsschot
·Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
·Keep the Aspidistra Flying — George Orwell
·Kidnapped — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #200
·Kieron Smith, Boy — James Kelman
·Kim — Rudyard KiplingCanon #135
·King Solomon's Mines — H. Rider Haggard
·Kiss of the Spider Woman — Manuel Puig
·Kitchen — Banana Yoshimoto
·Kokoro — Natsume Sōseki
·Kristin Lavransdatter — Sigrid Undset
·L'Abbé C — Georges Bataille
·L'Assommoir — Émile Zola
·L'écume des jours — Boris Vian
·La Bête humaine — Émile Zola
·La Celestina — Fernando de Rojas
·La ciudad y los perros — Mario Vargas Llosa
·La colmena — Camilo José Cela
·La dama número trece — José Carlos Somoza
·La Désobéissance — Alberto Moravia
·La mare au diable — George Sand
·La ragazza di Bube — Carlo Cassola
·La regenta — Leopoldo Alas
·La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes — Lazarillo de Tormes
·LaBrava — Elmore Leonard
·Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings — Jorge Luis Borges
·Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H. LawrenceCanon #166
·Lanark — Alasdair Gray
·Land — Pak Kyongni
·Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel — Julián Ríos
·Le Neveu de Rameau — Denis Diderot
·Le tigri di Mompracem — Emilio Salgari
·Leaden Wings — Zhang Jie
·Lebensansichten des Katers Murr — E.T.A. Hoffmann
·Legend — David Gemmell
·Les Chants de Maldoror — Comte de Lautréamont
·Les Choses — Georges Perec
·Les Liaisons dangereuses — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
·Les Misérables — Victor HugoCanon #34
·Less Than Zero — Bret Easton Ellis
·Libra — Don DeLillo
·Lieutenant Gustl — Arthur Schnitzler
·Life & Times of Michael K — J.M. Coetzee
·Life Is a Caravanserai — Emine Sevgi Özdamar
·Life of Christ — Giovanni Papini
·Life of Pi — Yann Martel
·Life: A User's Manual — Georges Perec
·Like Life: Stories — Lorrie Moore
·Like Water for Chocolate — Laura Esquivel
·Little Women — Louisa May AlcottCanon #33
·Lives of Girls and Women — Alice Munro
·Living — Henry Green
·Locus Solus — Raymond Roussel
·Lolita — Vladimir NabokovCanon #24
·London Fields — Martin Amis
·London Orbital — Iain Sinclair
·Look Homeward, Angel — Thomas Wolfe
·Looking for the Possible Dance — A.L. Kennedy
·Lord Jim — Joseph ConradCanon #108
·Lord of the Flies — William GoldingCanon #100
·Los de abajo — Mariano Azuela
·Los pazos de Ulloa — Emilia Pardo Bazán
·Los ríos profundos — José María Arguedas
·Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac
·Love in a Cold Climate — Nancy Mitford
·Love in Excess — Eliza Fowler Haywood
·Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García MárquezCanon #110
·Love Medicine — Louise Erdrich
·Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life — Gillian Rose
·Loving — Henry Green
·Lucky Jim — Kingsley AmisCanon #233
·Luka — Antun Šoljan
·Là-Bas — Joris-Karl Huysmans
·Madame Bovary — Gustave FlaubertCanon #6
·Main Street — Sinclair LewisCanon #242
·Malone Dies — Samuel Beckett
·Man's Fate — André MalrauxCanon #141
·Manhattan Transfer — John Dos Passos
·Manillaköysi — Veijo Meri
·Manon des sources — Marcel Pagnol
·Mansfield Park — Jane AustenCanon #124
·Mao II — Don DeLillo
·Margot en de engelen — Kristien Hemmerechts
·Marius the Epicurean — Walter Pater
·Marks of Identity — Juan Goytisolo
·Martin Chuzzlewit — Charles Dickens
·Martin Eden — Jack LondonCanon #204
·Martín Fierro — José Hernández
·Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Marya — Joyce Carol Oates
·Mason & Dixon — Thomas Pynchon
·Matigari — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
·Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company — Multatuli
·Measuring the World — Daniel Kehlmann
·Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Robert Maturin
·Memento Mori — Muriel Spark
·Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
·Memoirs of a Peasant Boy — Xosé Neira Vilas
·Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite YourcenarCanon #184
·Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus — Alexander Pope
·Memories of Rain — Sunetra Gupta
·Memory of Fire — Eduardo Galeano
·Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas — Machado de Assis
·Mercier and Camier — Samuel Beckett
·Metamorphoses — OvidCanon #169
·Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle — Heinrich von Kleist
·Midaq Alley — Naguib Mahfouz
·Middlemarch — George EliotCanon #11
·Middlesex — Jeffrey EugenidesCanon #144
·Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie
·Miramar — Naguib Mahfouz
·Misericordia — Benito Pérez Galdós
·Miss Lonelyhearts — Nathanael West
·Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — Winifred Watson
·Moby-Dick or, The Whale — Herman Melville
·Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
·Molloy — Samuel BeckettCanon #94
·Money — Martin Amis
·Monica — Saunders Lewis
·Monkey: The Journey to the West — Wu Cheng'en
·Moon Palace — Paul Auster
·Morvern Callar — Alan Warner
·Moscow to the End of the Line — Venedikt Erofeev
·Mother — Maxim Gorky
·Mother's Milk — Edward St. Aubyn
·Mr Norris Changes Trains — Christopher Isherwood
·Mr. Vertigo — Paul Auster
·Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris — Paul Gallico
·Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia WoolfCanon #18
·Murder Must Advertise — Dorothy L. Sayers
·Murphy — Samuel Beckett
·Myra Breckinridge — Gore Vidal
·Nada — Carmen Laforet
·Nadja — André Breton
·Naked Lunch: The Restored Text — William S. Burroughs
·Nana — Émile Zola
·Native Son — Richard WrightCanon #176
·Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
·Nemesis — Philip Roth
·Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga
·Neuromancer — William Gibson
·Never Let Me Go — Kazuo IshiguroCanon #225
·New Grub Street — George Gissing
·News from Nowhere — William Morris
·Nicholas Nickleby — Charles DickensCanon #245
·Night and Day — Virginia Woolf
·Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry
·Nights at the Circus — Angela Carter
·Nightwood — Djuna Barnes
·Nineteen Seventy Seven — David Peace
·Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids — Kenzaburō Ōe
·No Laughing Matter — Angus Wilson
·No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories — Gabriel García Márquez
·North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell
·Northanger Abbey — Jane AustenCanon #174
·Nostromo — Joseph ConradCanon #43
·Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoevsky
·Novel with Cocaine — M. Agueev
·Nowhere Man — Aleksandar Hemon
·Obabakoak — Bernardo Atxaga
·Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov
·Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset MaughamCanon #213
·Of Love and Shadows — Isabel Allende
·Of Mice and Men — John SteinbeckCanon #130
·Old Masters: A Comedy — Thomas Bernhard
·Oliver Twist — Charles DickensCanon #107
·On Beauty — Zadie SmithCanon #187
·On Love — Alain de Botton
·On the Black Hill — Bruce Chatwin
·On the Edge of Reason — Miroslav Krleža
·On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev
·On the Heights of Despair — Emil M. Cioran
·On the Road — Jack KerouacCanon #86
·One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCanon #218
·One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
·One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García MárquezCanon #4
·One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand — Luigi Pirandello
·Operation Shylock: A Confession — Philip Roth
·Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit — Jeanette Winterson
·Orlando — Virginia WoolfCanon #164
·Ormond — Maria Edgeworth
·Oroonoko — Aphra Behn
·Oscar and Lucinda — Peter CareyCanon #188
·Our Ancestors — Italo Calvino
·Our Lady of the Assassins — Fernando Vallejo
·Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens
·Out of Africa — Isak Dinesen
·Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov
·Pallieter — Felix Timmermans
·Pamela — Samuel Richardson
·Parade's End — Ford Madox Ford
·Paradise of the Blind — Dương Thu Hương
·Party Going — Henry Green
·Passing — Nella Larsen
·Pastoralia — George Saunders
·Patterns of Childhood — Christa Wolf
·Pavel's Letters — Monika Maron
·Pepita Jiménez — Juan Valera
·Perfume: The Story of a Murderer — Patrick Süskind
·Persuasion — Jane AustenCanon #57
·Petals of Blood — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
·Phineas Finn — Anthony Trollope
·Pierre et Jean — Guy de Maupassant
·Pilgrimage 1 — Dorothy M. Richardson
·Pippi Longstocking — Astrid LindgrenCanon #168
·Plata quemada — Ricardo Piglia
·Platero y yo — Juan Ramón Jiménez
·Platform — Michel Houellebecq
·Play It As It Lays — Joan Didion
·Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov
·Portnoy’s Complaint — Philip Roth
·Possessing the Secret of Joy — Alice Walker
·Possession — A.S. Byatt
·Pricksongs and Descants — Robert Coover
·Pride and Prejudice — Jane AustenCanon #5
·Professor Martens' Departure — Jaan Kross
·Professor Unrat — Heinrich Mann
·Promise at Dawn — Romain Gary
·Père Goriot — Honoré de BalzacCanon #32
·Pădurea spânzuraţilor — Liviu Rebreanu
·Quartet — Jean Rhys
·Quartet in Autumn — Barbara Pym
·Queen Margot — Alexandre Dumas
·Queer — William S. Burroughs
·Quicksand — Nella Larsen
·Quo Vadis — Henryk Sienkiewicz
·Rabbit Is Rich — John Updike
·Rabbit Redux — John Updike
·Rabbit, Run — John Updike
·Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow
·Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
·Ratner's Star — Don DeLillo
·Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta — Doris Lessing
·Reasons to Live — Amy Hempel
·Rebecca — Daphne du MaurierCanon #109
·Red Harvest — Dashiell Hammett
·Regeneration — Pat Barker
·Remembering Babylon — David Malouf
·Requiem for a Dream — Hubert Selby Jr.
·Retreat without song — Shahan Shahnur
·Reveries of the Solitary Walker — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·Rickshaw Boy — Lao She
·Rites of Passage — William Golding
·Rituals — Cees Nooteboom
·Rob Roy — Walter Scott
·Robinson Crusoe — Daniel DefoeCanon #55
·Roderick Random — Tobias Smollett
·Rosshalde — Hermann Hesse
·Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress — Daniel Defoe
·Röda Rummet — August Strindberg
·S. — Slavenka Drakulić
·Sabbath's Theater — Philip Roth
·Santa Evita — Tomás Eloy Martínez
·Saturday — Ian McEwan
·Saturday Night and Sunday Morning — Alan Sillitoe
·Schindler’s List — Thomas Keneally
·Schooling — Heather McGowan
·Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih
·Seize the Day — Saul Bellow
·Self Condemned — Wyndham Lewis
·Sense and Sensibility — Jane AustenCanon #157
·Sentimental Education — Gustave FlaubertCanon #88
·Sexing the Cherry — Jeanette Winterson
·Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord — Louis de Bernières
·Shame — Salman Rushdie
·She — H. Rider Haggard
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·Shroud — John Banville
·Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
·Silas Marner — George EliotCanon #122
·Silence — Shūsaku Endō
·Silk — Alessandro Baricco
·Simon and the Oaks — Marianne Fredriksson
·Simplicissimus — Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
·Sister Carrie — Theodore DreiserCanon #161
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·Slow Man — J.M. Coetzee
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·Small Remedies — Shashi Deshpande
·Smiley's People — John le Carré
·Smilla's Sense of Snow — Peter Høeg
·Snow — Orhan Pamuk
·So Long a Letter — Mariama Bâ
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·Soldiers of Salamis — Javier Cercas
·Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia — Víctor Català
·Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. — Edith Œnone Somerville
·Some Prefer Nettles — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
·Sometimes a Great Notion — Ken Kesey
·Song of Solomon — Toni MorrisonCanon #192
·Sons and Lovers — D.H. LawrenceCanon #51
·Sostiene Pereira — Antonio Tabucchi
·Southern Seas — Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
·Spring Flowers, Spring Frost — Ismail Kadare
·Spring Torrents — Ivan Turgenev
·Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
·Steppenwolf — Hermann HesseCanon #215
·Stone Junction — Jim Dodge
·Storm of Steel — Ernst Jünger
·Story of the Eye — Georges Bataille
·Strait is the Gate — André Gide
·Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein
·Stupeur et tremblements — Amélie Nothomb
·Suite Francaise — Irène NémirovskyCanon #235
·Sula — Toni Morrison
·Summer — Edith Wharton
·Summer in Baden-Baden — Leonid Tsypkin
·Summer Will Show — Sylvia Townsend Warner
·Sunset Song — Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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·Surfacing — Margaret Atwood
·Survival in Auschwitz — Primo Levi
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·Tarr — Wyndham Lewis
·Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
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·Terug naar Oegstgeest — Jan Wolkers
·Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
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·Thank You, Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse
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·The Accidental — Ali Smith
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·The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
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·The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael ChabonCanon #228
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·The Black Dahlia — James Ellroy
·The Black Prince — Iris Murdoch
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·The Blind Owl — Sadegh Hedayat
·The Blindness of the Heart — Julia Franck
·The Blithedale Romance — Nathaniel Hawthorne
·The Bluest Eye — Toni MorrisonCanon #247
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·The Crucifix Killer — Chris Carter
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·The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales — Nikolai Leskov
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·The Garden Party and Other Stories — Katherine Mansfield
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·The Girls of Slender Means — Muriel Spark
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·The Glass Key — Dashiell Hammett
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·The Go-Between — L.P. Hartley
·The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick — Peter Handke
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·The Grass is Singing — Doris Lessing
·The Great Gatsby — F. Scott FitzgeraldCanon #19
·The Great Indian Novel — Shashi Tharoor
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·The Ground Beneath Her Feet — Salman Rushdie
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·The Guiltless — Hermann Broch
·The Hamlet — William FaulknerCanon #69
·The Hand of Ethelberta — Thomas Hardy
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·The Heat of the Day — Elizabeth Bowen
·The Heather Blazing — Colm Tóibín
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·The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia — Samuel Johnson
·The History of the Siege of Lisbon — José Saramago
·The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding
·The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas AdamsCanon #248
·The Hobbit, or There and Back Again — J.R.R. Tolkien
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·The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel HawthorneCanon #160
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·The House with the Blind Glass Windows — Herbjørg Wassmo
·The Human Stain — Philip RothCanon #145
·The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo
·The Idiot — Fyodor DostoevskyCanon #65
·The Immoralist — André Gide
·The Information — Martin Amis
·The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai
·The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Olaudah Equiano
·The Invention of Curried Sausage — Uwe Timm
·The Invisible Man — H.G. Wells
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·The Island of Dr. Moreau — H.G. Wells
·The Jigsaw Man — Nadine Matheson
·The Joke — Milan Kundera
·The Jungle — Upton SinclairCanon #172
·The Killer Inside Me — Jim Thompson
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·The Lambs of London — Peter Ackroyd
·The Last Chronicle of Barset — Anthony Trollope
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·The Last of the Mohicans — James Fenimore Cooper
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·The Last World — Christoph Ransmayr
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·The Life and Death of Harriett Frean — May Sinclair
·The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne
·The Life of Insects — Victor Pelevin
·The Light of Day — Graham Swift
·The Line of Beauty — Alan HollinghurstCanon #143
·The Lion of Flanders — Hendrik Conscience
·The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCanon #35
·The Living and the Dead — Patrick White
·The Lonely Londoners — Sam Selvon
·The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul — Douglas Adams
·The Long Goodbye — Raymond Chandler
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·The Lost Steps — Alejo Carpentier
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·The Man Who Loved Children — Christina Stead
·The Man with the Golden Arm — Nelson Algren
·The Man Without Qualities — Robert MusilCanon #61
·The Mandarins — Simone de Beauvoir
·The Manor — Isaac Bashevis Singer
·The Marble Faun — Nathaniel Hawthorne
·The Marriage Plot — Jeffrey Eugenides
·The Master — Colm Tóibín
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·The Master of Petersburg — J.M. Coetzee
·The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas HardyCanon #103
·The Melancholy of Resistance — László Krasznahorkai
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·The Midnight Examiner — William Kotzwinkle
·The Midwich Cuckoos — John Wyndham
·The Mill on the Floss — George EliotCanon #128
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·The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha ChristieCanon #151
·The Museum of Unconditional Surrender — Dubravka Ugrešić
·The Music of Chance — Paul Auster
·The Mysteries of Udolpho — Ann Radcliffe
·The Name of the Rose — Umberto EcoCanon #116
·The Names — Don DeLillo
·The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
·The New World — Heruy Wolde Selassie
·The New York Trilogy — Paul Auster
·The Newton Letter — John Banville
·The Nice and the Good — Iris Murdoch
·The Nine Tailors — Dorothy L. Sayers
·The Nose — Nikolai Gogol
·The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge — Rainer Maria Rilke
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·The Ogre — Michel Tournier
·The Old Devils — Kingsley Amis
·The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest HemingwayCanon #83
·The Old Wives' Tale — Arnold Bennett
·The Once and Future King — T.H. White
·The Opposing Shore — Julien Gracq
·The Optimist's Daughter — Eudora Welty
·The Parable of the Blind — Gert Hofmann
·The Passion — Jeanette Winterson
·The Passion According to G.H. — Clarice Lispector
·The Passion of New Eve — Angela Carter
·The Path to the Spiders' Nests — Italo Calvino
·The Piano Teacher — Elfriede Jelinek
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·The Pigeon — Patrick Süskind
·The Pilgrim's Progress — John BunyanCanon #152
·The Pit and the Pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe
·The Plague — Albert CamusCanon #118
·The Player of Games — Iain M. Banks
·The Plot Against America — Philip RothCanon #231
·The Plumed Serpent — D.H. Lawrence
·The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
·The Poor Mouth — Flann O'Brien
·The Portrait of a Lady — Henry JamesCanon #62
·The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M. Cain
·The Power and the Glory — Graham GreeneCanon #179
·The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel SparkCanon #96
·The Princesse de Clèves — Madame de La Fayette
·The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg
·The Professor's House — Willa Cather
·The Public Burning — Robert Coover
·The Puppet Show — M.W. Craven
·The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe
·The Pursuit of Love — Nancy Mitford
·The Quest for Christa T. — Christa Wolf
·The Quiet American — Graham Greene
·The Radetzky March — Joseph RothCanon #211
·The Radiant Way — Margaret Drabble
·The Ragazzi — Pier Paolo Pasolini
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·The Rainbow — D.H. LawrenceCanon #95
·The Ravishing of Lol Stein — Marguerite Duras
·The Razor’s Edge — W. Somerset Maugham
·The Reader — Bernhard Schlink
·The Real Charlotte — Edith Œnone Somerville
·The Rebel — Albert Camus
·The Recognitions — William Gaddis
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·The Romantics — Pankaj Mishra
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·The Secret History — Donna Tartt
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·The Shining — Stephen King
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·The Silence of the Lambs — Thomas Harris
·The Singapore Grip — J.G. Farrell
·The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCanon #30
·The Sound and the Fury — William FaulknerCanon #25
·The Sound of Waves — Yukio Mishima
·The Spy Who Came In from the Cold — John le Carré
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·The Stone Diaries — Carol Shields
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·The Story of the Lost Child — Elena Ferrante
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·The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter — Anonymous
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·The Talk of the Town — Ardal O'Hanlon
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·The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë
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·The Third Man — Graham Greene
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·The Trick is to Keep Breathing — Janice Galloway
·The Triple Mirror of the Self — Zulfikar Ghose
·The Trusting and the Maimed — James Plunkett
·The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
·The Twilight Years — Sawako Ariyoshi
·The Twins — Tessa de Loo
·The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan KunderaCanon #220
·The Unconsoled — Kazuo Ishiguro
·The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works — Thomas Nashe
·The Unknown Soldier — Väinö Linna
·The Unnamable — Samuel Beckett
·The Untouchable — John Banville
·The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver GoldsmithCanon #120
·The Vice-Consul — Marguerite Duras
·The Viceroys — Federico De Roberto
·The Victim — Saul Bellow
·The Violent Bear It Away — Flannery O'Connor
·The Virgin in the Garden — A.S. Byatt
·The Virgin Suicides — Jeffrey Eugenides
·The Voyage Out — Virginia Woolf
·The War of the End of the World — Mario Vargas Llosa
·The War of the Worlds — H.G. WellsCanon #125
·The Wars — Timothy Findley
·The Wasp Factory — Iain Banks
·The Water Babies — Charles Kingsley
·The Waves — Virginia Woolf
·The Way of All Flesh — Samuel ButlerCanon #181
·The Well of Loneliness — Radclyffe Hall
·The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga
·The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead — William S. Burroughs
·The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
·The Wings of the Dove — Henry JamesCanon #214
·The Witness — Juan José Saer
·The Woman in White — Wilkie CollinsCanon #79
·The Wonderful O — James Thurber
·The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy
·The World According to Garp — John Irving
·The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis — José Saramago
·The Year of the Hare — Arto Paasilinna
·The Years — Virginia Woolf
·The Yellow Wall-Paper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
·The Young Man — Botho Strauß
·Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale HurstonCanon #63
·Them — Joyce Carol Oates
·There But For The — Ali Smith
·They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Horace McCoy
·Things Fall Apart — Chinua AchebeCanon #16
·This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen — Tadeusz Borowski
·Thomas Of Reading — Thomas Deloney
·Thousand Cranes — Yasunari Kawabata
·Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong
·Three Lives — Gertrude Stein
·Three Trapped Tigers — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
·Threepenny Novel — Bertolt Brecht
·Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There — Lewis CarrollCanon #194
·Thursbitch — Alan Garner
·Thérèse Raquin — Émile Zola
·Tiempo de silencio — Luis Martín-Santos
·Timbuktu — Paul Auster
·Time's Arrow — Martin Amis
·Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — John le CarréCanon #234
·Tipping the Velvet — Sarah Waters
·Tirant lo Blanc — Joanot Martorell
·Titus Groan — Mervyn Peake
·To Each His Own — Leonardo Sciascia
·To Have and Have Not — Ernest Hemingway
·To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper LeeCanon #27
·To the Lighthouse — Virginia WoolfCanon #23
·To the North — Elizabeth Bowen
·Tono-Bungay — H.G. Wells
·Trainspotting — Irvine Welsh
·Transit — Anna Seghers
·Trawl — B.S. Johnson
·Treasure Island — Robert Louis StevensonCanon #75
·Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller
·Tropic of Capricorn — Henry Miller
·Troubles — J.G. Farrell
·Troubling Love — Elena Ferrante
·Tyll — Daniel Kehlmann
·Typical: Stories — Padgett Powell
·U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money — John Dos Passos
·Ulysses — James JoyceCanon #1
·Un homme qui dort — Georges Perec
·Una comedia ligera — Eduardo Mendoza
·Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture — Apostolos Doxiadis
·Uncle Silas — J. Sheridan Le Fanu
·Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher StoweCanon #52
·Under Fire — Henri Barbusse
·Under Satan's Sun — Georges Bernanos
·Under the Net — Iris Murdoch
·Under the Skin — Michel Faber
·Under the Volcano — Malcolm LowryCanon #207
·Underworld — Don DeLillo
·Unless — Carol Shields
·Untouchable — Mulk Raj Anand
·V. — Thomas Pynchon
·Vanishing Point — David Markson
·Vanity Fair — William Makepeace ThackerayCanon #39
·Vathek — William Beckford
·Vernon God Little — D.B.C. Pierre
·Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
·Vertigo — W.G. Sebald
·Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh
·Villette — Charlotte Brontë
·Vineland — Thomas Pynchon
·Vipers' Tangle — François Mauriac
·Virgin Soil — Ivan Turgenev
·Voss — Patrick White
·W, or the Memory of Childhood — Georges Perec
·Waiting for the Barbarians — J.M. Coetzee
·Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light — Ivan Klíma
·Walden or, Life in the Woods — Henry David Thoreau
·War and Peace — Leo TolstoyCanon #12
·War with the Newts — Karel Čapek
·Watchmen — Alan Moore
·Waterland — Graham Swift
·Watt — Samuel Beckett
·We — Yevgeny Zamyatin
·What a Carve Up! — Jonathan Coe
·What I Loved — Siri Hustvedt
·What Maisie Knew — Henry James
·Whatever — Michel Houellebecq
·Where Angels Fear to Tread — E.M. Forster
·White Noise — Don DeLillo
·White Teeth — Zadie SmithCanon #183
·Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean RhysCanon #80
·Wild Harbour — Ian MacPherson
·Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — Jung Chang
·Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
·Willard and His Bowling Trophies — Richard Brautigan
·Winter — Ali Smith
·Wise Blood — Flannery O'Connor
·Wise Children — Angela Carter
·Wittgenstein’s Mistress — David Markson
·Wittgenstein’s Nephew — Thomas Bernhard
·Woman at Point Zero — Nawal El Saadawi
·Women in Love — D.H. LawrenceCanon #90
·World's End — T. Coraghessan Boyle
·Worstward Ho — Samuel Beckett
·Written on the Body — Jeanette Winterson
·Wuthering Heights — Emily BrontëCanon #7
·Yes — Thomas Bernhard
·Youth — J.M. Coetzee
·Z — Vassilis Vassilikos
·Zeno's Conscience — Italo Svevo
·Zorba the Greek — Nikos KazantzakisCanon #134
·Под игото — Ivan Vazov
·태백산맥 세트 — Jo Jung-rae

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.