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This is a record of my reading from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and my participation in the 1% Well-Read Challenge each year.  (See the 1% Well-read Challenge 2009-10  for the rules, but they change a bit from year to year.)

• 1% Well-Read Challenge 2008-9, completed
• 1% Well-read Challenge 2009-10, completed
• 1% Well-Read Challenge 2010-11 completed.

The 1% Well-Read Challenge is to read 10 books from the list in 10 months from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.  There are endless new editions of this list:  each new edition drops some titles in order to make room for more recent books.   I am using the 2001 Edition not the revised ones.

My list is based on the original 1001 List (from 1001 Books You  Must Read Before You Die 2001 ) but you can also download an Excel worksheet to track your progress from here.  Be warned, the new worksheet is based on the revised 1001 list and it’s very different. I have read 24% of the old list, but only 21% of the new, and there are far fewer classics on the new list.  There are, of course, no books after the year 2000 on the list I have chosen.

I have revamped this page because it was becoming too hard to keep track.  What follows is the 1001 books titles in alphabetical order, and ticked to show which ones I’ve read), and then my progress, in alphabetical order by author so far.

Thanks to Sue from Whispering Gums for tips on how to do the hyperlinks on this page:)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
2. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

A

1. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
2. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
3. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
4. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
5. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
6. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
7. √ Adam Bede – George Eliot
8. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
9. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
10. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
11. √ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. √ Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
14. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
15. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
16. √ The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
17. √ Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
18. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
19. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
20. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
21. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
22. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
23. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood, on the TBR
24. √ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
25. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
26. √ All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
27. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
28. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
29. The Ambassadors – Henry James
30. Amelia – Henry Fielding
31. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
32. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
33. Amerika – Franz Kafka
34. Amok – Stefan Zweig
35. Amongst Women – John McGahern
36. √ Amsterdam – Ian McEwan, see Lisa’s review
37. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
38. √ Animal Farm – George Orwell
39. √ Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
40. √ Another World – Pat Barker
41. √ Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
42. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
43. Arcadia – Jim Crace
44. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
45. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
46. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
47. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
48. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
49. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli
50. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
51. √ At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien, see Lisa’s review
52. √ At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
53. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
54. √ Atonement – Ian McEwan
55. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
56. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
57. √ Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
58. √ Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti, see Lisa’s review
59. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
60. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
61. √ The Awakening – Kate Chopin

B

1. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
2. Back – Henry Green
3. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
4. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
5. √ The Bell – Iris Murdoch
6. √ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
7. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
8. √ Beloved – Toni Morrison – see Lisa’s review
9. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
10. √ A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
11. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin, on the TBR
12. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
13. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
14. √ Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
15. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
16. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
17. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
18. √ Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
19. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
20. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
21. √ Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
22. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
23. √ The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood, see Lisa’s review
24. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
25. √ Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
26. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch, on the TBR
27. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
28. √ Bleak House – Charles Dickens
29. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
30. Blindness – Henry Green
31. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
33. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
34. Blue of Noon – Georges Bataille
35. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
36. √ The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
37. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
38. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
39. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
40. The Book of Evidence – John Banville, on the TBR
41. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
42. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
43. Born in Exile – George Gissing
44. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
45. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
46. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
47. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
48. √ Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
49. √ Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
50. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
51. The Breast – Philip Roth
52. √ Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
53. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri, on the TBR
54. √ Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
55. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
56. √ The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
57. √  Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann, see Lisa’s review
58. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
59. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
60. Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
61. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
62. √ Burmese Days – George Orwell
63. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
64. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg

C

1. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
2. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
3. Camilla – Fanny Burney
4. √ Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
5. Cane – Jean Toomer
6. √ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
7. √ Candide – Voltaire
8. √ Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
9. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
10. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
11. √ The Castle – Franz Kafka
12. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
13. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
14. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth                                                                    
15. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
16. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
17. √ Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
18. √ The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
20. √ Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
21. Caught – Henry Green
22. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
23. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
24. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
25. √ The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan, see Lisa’s review
26. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
27. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
28. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
29. √ The Child in Time – Ian McEwan, see Lisa’s review
30. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
31. Chocky – John Wyndham
32. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
33. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
34. √ A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
35. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
36. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
37. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
38. √ City of God – E.L. Doctorow, see Lisa’s review
39. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
40. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
41. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
42. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
43. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
44. √ Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
45. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
46. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
47. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons, on the TBR
48. √ The Color Purple – Alice Walker
49. √ The Colour – Rose Tremain
50. The Collector – John Fowles, on the TBR
51. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
52. Complicity – Iain Banks
53. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
54. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
55. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
56. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole, on the TBR
57. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
58. Contact – Carl Sagan
59. Conversations In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
60. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
61. √ The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
62. √ The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
63. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
64. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
65. √ Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell, see Lisa’s review
66. Crash – J.G. Ballard
67. √ Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
68. √ Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
69. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
70. √ Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
71. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
74. √ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
75. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg

D

1. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell, see Lisa’s review
2. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
3. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
4. √ Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
5. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
6. √ David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
7. √ The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
8. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
9. Dead Air – Iain Banks, on the TBR
10. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
11. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
12. √ Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol, see Lisa’s review
13. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
14. √ The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
15. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
16. √ Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
17. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
18. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
19. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
20. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
22. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
23. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi
24. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
25. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
26. A Disaffection – James Kelman
27. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
28. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
29. √ Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
30. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
31. Dispatches – Michael Herr
32. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
33. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann, on the TBR
34. √ Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak, see Lisa’s review.
35. √ Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, see Lisa’s review
36. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
37. √ The Double – José Saramago, see Lisa’s review
38. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
39. Dracula – Bram Stoker
40. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
41. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
42. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
43. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
44. Drunkard – Émile Zola
45. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee

E

1. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
2. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
4. √ Elementary Particles (Atomised) – Michel Houellebecq
5. √ Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
6. Embers – Sandor Marai
7. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
8. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. √ Emma – Jane Austen
10. √ Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
11. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
12. √ The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
13. The End of the Road – John Barth
14. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
15. √ Enduring Love – Ian McEwan, see my review
16. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
17. England Made Me – Graham Greene
18. √ The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje, see my review
19. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
20. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
21. √ Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac, see Lisa’s summary
22. Erewhon – Samuel Butler, on the TBR
23. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
24. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
25. Evelina – Fanny Burney
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
28. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
29. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
30. √ Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
31. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
32. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley

F

1. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
2. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
3. √ Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
4. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
5. √ Fanny Hill – John Cleland, see Lisa’s review
6. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
7. √ Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
8. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
9. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway, on the TBR
10. √ Fateless – Imre Kertész, see Lisa’s review
11. √ Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev, see Lisa’s review
12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
13. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
14. √ Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
15. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
16. √ Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
17. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
18. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
19. √ A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
20. √ Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
21. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce, on the TBR (Kindle)
22. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
23. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
24. The Floating Opera – John Barth
25. √ Foe – J.M. Coetzee
26. √ The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
27. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
28. √ For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
29. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
30. √ The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
31. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
32. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
33. √ Foundation – Isaac Asimov
34. √ The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
35. √ Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
36. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
37. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
38. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
39. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
40. Fury – Salman Rushdie

G

1. √ G – John Berger, see Lisa’s review
2. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
3. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
4. √ The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
5. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
6. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
7. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
8. √ Germinal – Émile Zola, see Lisa’s review
9. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
10. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
11. √ The Ghost Road – Pat Barker, see Lisa’s review
12. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
13. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
14. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
15. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
16. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
17. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
18. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
19. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
20. √ The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
21. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
22. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
23. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
24. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
25. √ The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy, see Lisa’s review
26. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
27. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
28. The Golden Bowl – Henry James, on the TBR
29. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
30. √ Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
31. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
32. √ The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford, see Lisa’s review
33. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
34. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood, on the TBR
35. √ Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
36. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
37. The Graduate – Charles Webb
38. √ The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
39. √ The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
40. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
41. Great Apes – Will Self
42. √ Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
43. √ The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
45. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
46. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
47. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
48. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
49. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
50. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

H

1. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
2. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
3. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
4. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
5. √ A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
6. √ The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
7. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
8. √ Hard Times – Charles Dickens
9. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
10. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
11. √ He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
12. √ Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
13. √ The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
14. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
15. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
16. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
17. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
18. √ The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
19. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
20. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
21. Herzog – Saul Bellow
22. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
23. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
24. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. √ The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
27. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
28. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
29. √ The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
30. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on the TBR
31. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
32. √ The Hours – Michael Cunningham, see Lisa’s review
33. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
34. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
35. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
36. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
37. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
38. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
40. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
41. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
42. How the Dead Live – Will Self
43. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
44. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
45. Howards End – E.M. Forster, on the TBR
46. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
47. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
48. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
49. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
50. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
51. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

I

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
2. √ I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
3. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. √ If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino See my review
5. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
6. √ If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
7. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
8. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
9. The Immoralist – André Gide
10. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
11. √ In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
12. In The Forest – Edna O’Brien
13. √ In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul, see Lisa’s review
14. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
15. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
16. In Parenthesis – David Jones
17. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
18. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
19. Indigo – Marina Warner
20. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
21. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
22. The Information – Martin Amis
23. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
24. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
25. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
26. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
27. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
28. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
29. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
30. √ Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
31. √ The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
32. The Iron Heel – Jack London
33. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
34. Islands – Dan Sleigh,  on the TBR

J

1. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
2. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot                                                 
3. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
4. √ Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
5. √ Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
6. Jazz – Toni Morrison
7. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
8. The Joke – Milan Kundera
9. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
10. √ Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
11. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
12. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
13. √ Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
14. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
16. √ The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
17. Junkie – William Burroughs
18. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
19. Justine – Marquis de Sade

K

1. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami, on the TBR
2. √ A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
4. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson, on the TBR
5. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
6. √ Kim – Rudyard Kipling
7. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
8. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
9. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
10. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
11. √ The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy, see Lisa’s review

L

1. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
2. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
3. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
4. √ Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
5. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
6. Land – Park Kyong-ni
7. √ The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
8. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
9. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
10. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
11. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
12. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
13. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
14. Legend – David Gemmell
15. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
16. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
17. Libra – Don DeLillo
18. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec, on the TBR
19. √ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
20. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
21. √ The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee, see Lisa’s review
22. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
23. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
24. √ Life of Pi – Yann Martel, see Lisa’s review
25. √ The Light of Day – Graham Swift
26. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
27. √ Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
28. √ The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
29. √ Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
30. Living – Henry Green
31. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
32. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
33. √ Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
34. London Fields – Martin Amis
35. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
36. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
37. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
38. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
39. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
40. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
41. √ Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
42. √ Lord of the Flies – William Golding
43. √ The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
44. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll, on the TBR
45. √ Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac, see my review
46. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
47. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford, on the TBR
48. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
49. √ Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
50. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
51. Loving – Henry Green, currently reading
52. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
53. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

M

1. √ Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert, see Lisa’s review
2. A Maggot – John Fowles
3. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
4. The Magus – John Fowles
5. √ Main Street – Sinclair Lewis, see my review
6. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
7. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
8. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
9. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
10. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
11. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
12. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
13. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
14. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
15. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
16. √ Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
17. Mao II – Don DeLillo
18. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
20. √ Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
21. Martin Eden – Jack London
22. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
23. Marya: A Life – Joyce Carol Oates
24. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
25. √ The Master– Colm Tóibín
26. √ The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
27. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
28. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
29. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
30. √ The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
31. Max Havelaar – Multatuli                                                                                        
32. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
33. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
34. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
35. √ Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
36. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
37. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
38. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
39. √ Metamorphoses – Ovid
40. √ Middlemarch – George Eliot
41. √ Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
42. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
43. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
44. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
45. √ The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
46. √ Les Misérables – Victor Hugo, see Lisa’s review
47. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
48. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
49. √ Moby-Dick – Herman Melville, see Lisa’s review.
50. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
51. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
52. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
53. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
54. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
55. √ The Monk – M.G. Lewis, see Lisa’s review
56. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
57. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
58. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
59. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
60. Mother – Maxim Gorky
61. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
62. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
63. √ Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
64. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
65. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
66. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
67. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
68. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
69. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
70. √ The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe, see Lisa’s review

N

1. Nadja – André Breton
2. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
3. √ The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
4. The Names – Don DeLillo
5. Nana – Émile Zola
6. Native Son – Richard Wright
7. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
9. Neuromancer – William Gibson
10. √ Never Let me Go -  Kazuo Ishiguro
11. New Grub Street – George Gissing
12. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
13. News from Nowhere – William Morris
14. The Newton Letter – John Banville
15. √ The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
16. √ Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
17. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
18. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
19. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
20. √ Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
21. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
22. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
23. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
24. √ North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
25. √ Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
26. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
27. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
29. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
30. The Nun – Denis Diderot

O

1. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
2. Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov
3. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham, on the TBR
4. √ Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
5. The Ogre – Michael Tournier, on the TBR
6. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis, on the TBR
7. √ The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
8. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
9. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
10. √ Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
11. √ On Beauty – Zadie Smith
12. On Love – Alain de Botton
13. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
14. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
15. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
16. √ The Once and Future King – T.H. White
17. √ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
18. √ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
19. √ One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
20. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
21. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
22. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
23. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
24. √ Orlando – Virginia Woolf
25. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
26. √Oroonoko – Aphra Behn, see my review </li>
27. √ Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
28. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
29. √ Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
30. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen), on the TBR
31. √ The Outsider – Albert Camus

P

1. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
2. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
4. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
5. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
6. Party Going – Henry Green
7. √ A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
8. Passing – Nella Larsen
9. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
10. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
11. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
12. Pastoralia – George Saunder
13. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
14. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
15. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
16. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
17. √ Perfume – Patrick Süskind, see Lisa’s review
18. √ Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac, see Lisa’s summary
19. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
20. √ Persuasion – Jane Austen
21. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
22. √ Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
23. √ The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek, see Lisa’s review
24. √ The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
25. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
26. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
27. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
28. √ The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
29. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
30. √ The Plague – Albert Camus
31. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
32. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
33. √ The Plot Against America – Philip Roth, see Lisa’s review
34. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
35. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
36. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
37. √ The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
38. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
39. √ Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
40. √ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
41. √ The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
42. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
43. √ Possession – A.S. Byatt
44. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
45. √ The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
46. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
47. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
48. √ Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
49. √ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
50. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
51. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
52. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
53. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
54. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
55. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
56. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
57. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford

Q

1. Quartet – Jean Rhys
2. Queer – William Burroughs
3. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
4. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
5. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
6. √ The Quiet American – Graham Greene
7. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz

R

1. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
2. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike, on the TBR
3. Rabbit, Run – John Updike, on the TBR
4. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
5. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble, on the TBR
6. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
7. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
8. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
9. √ The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
10. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
11. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
12. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
13. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
14. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
15. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
16. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
17. √ Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
18. The Rebel – Albert Camus
19. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
20. √ The Red and the Black – Stendhal , see Lisa’s review
21. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
22. The Red Room – August Strindberg
23. √ The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
24. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
25. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble, on the TBR
26. √ Regeneration – Pat Barker
27. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
28. √ The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro, see Lisa’s review
29. √ Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
30. √ The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
31. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
32. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
33. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
34. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
35. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
36. √ Rites of Passage – William Golding, see Lisa’s review
37. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
38. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
39. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
40. √ The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
41. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
42. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
43. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
44. √ A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
45. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
46. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
47. Roxana – Daniel Defoe

S

1. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
2. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
3. √ The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
4. √ Saturday – Ian McEwan
5. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
6. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne                                                   
7. √ Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
8. Schooling – Heather McGowan
9. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
10. √ The Sea – John Banville, see Lisa’s review
11. √ The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch, see Lisa’s review
12. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
13. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
14. √ The Secret History – Donna Tartt
15. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
16. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
17. √ Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
18. √ Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
19. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
20. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
21. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
22. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
23. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
24. Shame – Salman Rushdie
25. √ She – H. Rider Haggard
26. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
27. The Shining – Stephen King
28. √ The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
29. √ Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
30. √ Shroud – John Banville, see Lisa’s review
31. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
32. √ The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell, see Lisa’s review
33. √ Silas Marner – George Eliot
34. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
35. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell, on the TBR
36. √ Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser, see my review
37. √ Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
38. √ Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
39. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
40. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
41. √ Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
42. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
43. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
44. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
45. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
46. √ Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
47. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
48. √<The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, see my review
49. √ The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
50. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
51. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
52. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
53. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
54. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
55. √ Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
56. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
57. √ The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
58. √ The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
59. √ The Story of O – Pauline Réage
60. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
61. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
62. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
63. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
64. √ A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
65. Sula – Toni Morrison
66. Summer – Edith Wharton
67. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
68. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
69. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
70. √ The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway, see Lisa’s thoughts
71. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
72. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
73. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst

T

1. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
2. √ A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift, see Lisa’s review  
3. √ A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith, on the TBR
5. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
6. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
7. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
8. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
9. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
10. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
11. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
12. √ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
13. √ Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
15. √ Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
16. √ Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
17. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
18. That They May Face The Rising Sun – John McGahern
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
20. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
21. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
22. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
23. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
24. Things – Georges Perec
25. √ Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
26. √ The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien, see Lisa’s review
27. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
28. √ The Third Man – Graham Greene
29. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
30. √ The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
31. √ The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
32. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
33. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
34. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
35. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
36. √ Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
37. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
38. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
39. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
40. √ The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
41. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
42. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
43. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
44. √ Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
45. √ Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
46. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
47. √ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
48. √ To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
49. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
50. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
51. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
52. √ A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
53. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
54. Transit – Anna Seghers
55. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
56. √ Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
57. √ The Trial – Franz Kafka
58. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
59. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
60. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller, on the TBR
61. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller, on the TBR
62. √ Troubles – J.G. Farrell
63. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
64. √ The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
65. Typical – Padgett Powell

U

1. √ Ulysses – James Joyce
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
3. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
4. √ Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. √ The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
7. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
8. √ Under the Skin – Michel Faber
9. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
10. Underworld – Don DeLillo
11. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
12. √ Unless – Carol Shields
13. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
14. The Untouchable – John Banville, on the TBR
15. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos

V

1. V. – Thomas Pynchon
2. √ Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
3. Vanishing Point – David Markson
4. Vathek – William Beckford
5. √ Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
6. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
7. √ The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith, see Lisa’s review
8. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
9. The Victim – Saul Bellow
10. √ Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
11. √ Villette – Charlotte Brontë
12. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
13. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
14. √ The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
15. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
16. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
17. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
18. √ Voss – Patrick White, see Lisa’s review
19. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf

W

1. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
2. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
3. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
4. √ War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy.   See Lisa’s review
5. √ The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
6. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
7. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
8. √ The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
9. √ Waterland – Graham Swift
10. Watt – Samuel Beckett
11. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
12. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
13. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
14. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
15. √ What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
16. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
17. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
18. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
19. White Noise – Don DeLillo
20. White Teeth – Zadie Smith, on the TBR
21. √ Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
22. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
23. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
24. √ Wild Swans – Jung Chang
25. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
27. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami, on the TBR
28. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
29. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
30. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
31. Wise Children – Angela Carter
32. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
33. √ The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
34. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
35. √ Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
36. √ The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
37. √ The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
38. The World According to Garp – John Irving
39. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
40. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen

<li√>Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett, see Lisa’s review

• Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
• √ Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

X

Y

1. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
2. The Years – Virginia Woolf
3. √The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, see my review
4. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
5. Young Törless – Robert Musil
6. Youth – J.M. Coetzee

Z

1. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo

Progress so far

Date are accurate after 1997 when I started keeping a reading journal. For others they are approximate:

• For comparatively recent books that I read before keeping reading journals, I have put the date that I read it as circa the year after publication, because I usually got hold of a copy of high profile books when they became available in paperback or at the library.
• Others, I have been able to date because I read them at school or university, or they are linked with some memorable event in my life.
• In some years, I read everything I could find by a particular author.
• Some were childhood books, or books I read as an adolescent.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1. Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart (1960s)
2. Ackroyd, Peter: The Lambs of London (2004)
3. Aesopus: Aesop’s Fables (1950s as a child, 1970s as a parent)
4. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women (1960s)
5. Asimov, Isaac: Foundation (1980s)
6. Asimov, Isaac:  I, Robot (1980s)
7. Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin (2002) see Lisa’s review
8. Atwood, Margaret: Cat’s Eye  (2009) see Lisa’s review
9. Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale (2003)
10. Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride (2003)
11. Austen, Jane: Emma (1960′s & 1980′s & 1996)
12. Austen, Jane:  Mansfield Park (1960′s & 1980′s)
13. Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey 1960′s & 1986)
14. Austen, Jane: Persuasion (1960′s & 1980′s & 1995)
15. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (1960′s, 1980′s & 1995)
16. Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility (1960′s & 1980′s & 1995)
17. Ballard, J.G:  Empire of the Sun (2006)
18. Balzac, Honore de, Lost Illusions (2013) see Lisa’s review
19. Banville, John: The Sea – John Banville (2005) see Lisa’s review
20. Banville, John: Shroud (2009) see Lisa’s review
21. Barker, Pat: Another World (1999)
22. Barker, Pat, The Ghost Road (2000), see Lisa’s review
23. Barker, Pat, Regeneraton (2000)
24. Beckett, Samuel, Worstword Ho (2013)
25. Bowe, Elizabeth Eva Trout (2005)
26. Bradbury, Ray  Fahrenheit 451 (2009) see Lisa’s review
27. BrittainVera  Testament of Youth (1980′s)
28. Brontë, Anne, Agnes Grey  (1980′s)
29. Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (2007)
30. (1960′s & 1980) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
31. Brontë, Charlotte, Shirley (1980′s)
32. Brontë, Charlotte,  Villette (1980′s)
33. Brontë, Emily,  Wuthering Heights (1960′s & 1980 & 2006)
34. Buchan, John, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1980s)
35. Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita   (1978)
36.  Bunyan, JohnThe Pilgrim’s Progress  (1980′s)
37. Byatt, A.S.,  Possession c1991)
38. Byatt, A.S.,The Virgin in the Garden (1990′s)
39. Camus, Albert, The Outsider, (c1978)
40. Camus, Albert, The Plague (1980s)
41. Calvino, Italo, If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller, see my review
42. Canetti, Elias , Auto-da-Fé, (2010), see my review
43. Capote, Truman,  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (2003)
44. Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood (2009) see my review
45. Carey, Peter, Jack Maggs, (1998)
46. Carey, Peter, Oscar and Lucinda (c1989)
47. Carroll, Lewis, (1950′s and 1970′s)  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
48. Carroll, Lewis, (1950′s and 1970′s) Through the Looking Glass, & What Alice Found There
49. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,  Don Quixote, (2009) see Lisa’s review
50. Chang, Jung, Wild Swans, (c1992)
51. Chopin, Kate, The Awakening, (2002)
52. Cleland, John, Fanny Hill, (2008), see Lisa’s review
53. Coelho, Paulo, Veronika Decides to Die (2002)
54. Coetzee, J.M.,  Disgrace  (1999)
55. Coetzee, J.M,  Elizabeth Costello (2004)
56. Coetzee, J.M.,  Foe, (2002)
57. Coetzee, J.M., The Life and Times of Michael K (2002), see Lisa’s review
58. Coetzee, J.M., Slow Man (2006)
59. Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in White (1980s)
60. Conrad, Joseph,  Heart of Darkness (2003)
61. Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim (2005)
62. Cunningham, Michael, The Hours – , (2008)see Lisa’s review
63. De Bernieres, Louis, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, (1998 & 2008)
64. De Bernieres, Louis,  Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1999)
65. Dickens, Charles,  Bleak House (1960′s & 1981, twice)
66. Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
67. Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
68. Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
69. Dickens, Charles, Hard Times – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
70. Dickens, Charles, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
71. Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
72. Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
73. Dickens, Charles, Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
74. Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (1960′s & 1981, twice)
75. Dineson, Isak (Karen Blixen)Out of Africa (1970′s)
76. Doctoriw, E.L., City of God, (2010) see Lisa’s review
77. Dostoevsky, Fyodor, (1980′s) Crime and Punishment (1980′s)
78. Dostoevsky, Fyodor,  The Brothers Karamazov (c1981)
79. Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie (2011), see my review
80. Dumas, Alexandre,  The Count of Monte-Cristo (1980′s)
81. Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose (1990)
82. Eliot, George,  Adam Bede –  (c1981)
83. Eliot, George,  Daniel Deronda – George Eliot(c1981)
84. Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot (c1981)
85. Eliot, George,  Middlemarch – George Eliot (c1981)
86.  Eliot, George,  Silas Marner – George Eliot (c1981)
87.  Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (1999)
88.  Esquivel, Laura, Like Water for Chocolate (c1990)
89.  Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex (2004)
90.  Faber, Michael, Under the Skin (2001)
91.  Farrell, J.G., The Siege of (2003), see Lisa’s review
92.  Farrell, J.G., Troubles (2003)
93.  Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong (c1994)
94.  Fitzgerland, F. Scott  The Great Gatsby (1970′s)
95. Ford, Ford Madox, The Good Soldier, (2009) see Lisa’s review
96. Forster, E.M., A Passage to India (2007)
97. Forster, E.M.,  A Room With a View (1980′s)
98. Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (c1979)
99. Franzen, Jonathan The Corrections (2004)
100. Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga (1970s)      
101. Gaskell, Elizabeth, Cranford, (2009) see my review
102. Gaskell, Elizabeth,  North and South (2005)
103. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Yellow Wallpaper (2011) see Lisa’s review
104. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang de, The Sorrows of Young Werther (2012) see Lisa’s review
105. Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha (2001)
106. William Golding, Lord of the Flies  (1973
107. Golding, William, Rites of Passage (2008), see Lisa’s review
108. Greene, Graham, Brighton Rock – Graham Greene (1980′s)
109. Greene, Graham, The End of the Affair  (1980′s & 2007)
110. Greene, Graham, The Heart of the Matter (1980′s & 2006)
111. Greene, Graham,  The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene (1980′s)
112. Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory  (1973)
113. Greene, Graham, The Quiet American (1973 & 2003)
114.  Greene, Graham, The Third Man (1980′s)
115. Haddon, Mark, The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  (2004)
116. (1970′s) She – H. Rider Haggard
117. (1970′s) Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
118. (1970′s) Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
119. (1970′s) The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
120. (1970′s) Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
121. (1970′s) Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
122. (1970′s) The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
123. (1973) The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
124. (c 1978) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
125. (2007) For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
126. (1980′s) The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
127. (2009) The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway, see Lisa’s thoughts
128. (2006) Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
129. (1975) A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
130. (1997) (Miss) Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
131. (1997) The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
132. (2003) Elementary Particles (Atomised) – Michel Houellebecq
133. (2006) What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
134. (1960′s) Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
135. (1960′s) Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
136. (1960′s) Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
137. (2005) Never Let me Go -  Kazuo Ishiguro
138. (2009) Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro, see Lisa’s review
139. (2003) The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
140. (1980′s) The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
141. (2005) The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
142. (1980′s) Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
143. (1980′s) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
144. (1983, 1989 & 2009-2010) Ulysses – James Joyce, see Disordered Thoughts of an Amateur
145. (c1983) The Castle – Franz Kafka
146. (c1983) The Trial – Franz Kafka
147. (c1983) Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
148. (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
149. (2010) Fateless – Imre Kertész, see Lisa’s review
150. (1950′s) The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
151. (2003) The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
152. (1970′s) The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
153. (1970′s) Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
154. (1970′s) The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
155. (1970′s) Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
156. (1970′s) Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
157. (1973) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
158. (1970′s) The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
159. Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street (2011) (see my review)
160. (2000) If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
161. (2005) The Body Artist – Don De Lillo
162. McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam (2003) see Lisa’s review
163. McEwan, Ian, Atonement (2005)
164. McEwan, Ian, Black Dogs (2006)
165. McEwan, Ian, The Cement Garden (2009) – Ian McEwan, see Lisa’s review
166. McEwan, Ian,  The Child in Time (2009) see Lisa’s review
167. McEwan, Ian,  Saturday (2005)
168. (2010) Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann, see Lisa’s review
169. (2002) The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield    
170. (2002) Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
171. (2002) One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
172. (2002) Life of Pi – Yann Martel, see Lisa’s review
173. (1970s’s) Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
174. (2011) Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, see my review
175. (c1981) Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
176. (2009) Moby-Dick – Herman Melville, see Lisa’s review.       
177. (2003) Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
178. (2002) A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
179. (2005) Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
180. (1970′s) Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
181. (2009) Beloved – Toni Morrison – see Lisa’s review
182. (2006) The Bell – Iris Murdoch
183. (2005) The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
184. (2003) The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch, see Lisa’s review
185. (c1978) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
186. (2004) A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
187. (2008) In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul, see Lisa’s review
188. (2008) The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien, see Lisa’s review
189. (2011) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, see my review
190. (2002) At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
191. (1960′s) Animal Farm – George Orwell
192. (2007) Burmese Days – George Orwell
193. (1970′s & 1984) Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
194. (1984) Metamorphoses – Ovid
195. (2009) Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak, see Lisa’s review.
196. (1970′s) Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
197. (2007) Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
198. (2007) Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
199. (1990′s) The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
200. Powell, Anthony, A Dance to the Music of Time (2012) see Lisa’s review
201. (c 1994) The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
202. (2004) Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
203. (2010) The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, see Lisa’s review
204. (1980′s) The Story of O – Pauline Réage
205. (1970′s) All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
206. (2006) Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
207. (2008) The Plot Against America – Philip Roth, see Lisa’s review
208. (1970′s) + (2010 re-read) Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth, see Lisa’s review
209. (2002) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy, see Lisa’s review
210. (c1989) The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
211. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de   The Little Prince (1975)
212. Salinger, J.D.   The Catcher in the Rye (1970′s)
213. Saramago, José, Blindness (2011) See Lisa’s review
214. Saramago, José, The Double (2010) see Lisa’s review
215. Schlink,, Bernhard The Reader  (1998)
216.  Sebald, W.G.  Austerlitz (2002)
217. Seth, Vikram,  A Suitable Boy (c 1994)
218. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,   Frankenstein (1980′s)
219. Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries(c 1994)
220. Shields, Carol,  Unless (2007)
221. Shute, Nevil,   A Town Like Alice (1970′s)
222.  Sinclair, Upton,The Jungle  (1980′s)
223. Smith, Zadie,   On Beauty (2006)
224. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich,  Cancer Ward (1978)
225. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich,  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  (1977)
226. Spark, Muriel,   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  (2000)
227. Steinbeck, John, Cannery Row(1970′s)
228. Steinbeck, John,  The Grapes of Wrath (1970′s)
229. Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men (1970′s)
230. Stendhal The Red and the Black, (2010)see Lisa’s review
231. Stevenson, Robert Louis   Treasure Island (1960′s)
232. Stowe, Harriet Beecher  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1970′s)
233. Patrick Süskind, Perfume, (2009) see Lisa’s review
234. Swift, Graham, The Light of Day (2003)
235. Swift, Graham, Waterland (2004)
236. Swift, Jonathan, A Tale of a Tub (2009), see Lisa’s review  
237. Tartt, Donna, The Secret History (2002)
238. Thackeray, William Makepeace , Vanity Fair (1960′s & 1980)
239. Thurber, James,  The 13 Clocks (1960′s)
240. Thurber, James,  The Wonderful “O” (1960′s)
241. Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing (1998)
242. Colm Tóibín,  The Master (2005)
243. Tolkien, J.R.R.,  The Hobbit (1975)
244. Tolkien, J.R.R.,  The Lord of the Rings (1975)
245. Tolstoy, Leo,  Anna Karenina (c1981 and 2011) See Lisa’s review
246. Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace (2009) See Lisa’s review
247. Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (2011) See Lisa’s review
248. Tremain, Rose, The Colour (2003)
249. Trevor, William,  Felicia’s Journey (2004)
250. Trevor, William, The Story of Lucy Gault (2004)
251. Trollope, Anthony,  He Knew He Was Right (c1990)
252. Trollope, Anthony, The Last Chronicle of Barset (c1990)
253. Trollope, Anthony,  Phineas Finn (c1990)
254. Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons (2012) see Lisa’s review
255. Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960′s)        
256. Verne, Jules Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1960′s)
257. Vonnegut, Kurt , Jr.   Slaughterhouse-five (2007)
258. Voltaire, Candide (1989)
259. Walker, Alice,  The Color Purple (c1983)
260. Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith (2006)
261. Waugh, Evelyn,  Brideshead Revisited (1970′s & 1981)
262. Waugh, Evelyn, Decline and Fall (1970′s)
263. Waugh, Evelyn,  A Handful of Dust (1970′s)
264. Waugh, Evelyn, Vile Bodies (1970′s)
265. Wells, H.G., ( The Invisible Man 1960′s)
266. Wells, H.G.,  The Time Machine (1960s)
267. Wells, H.G.,  The War of the Worlds (1960′s)
268. Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (2006)
269. White, Patrick, Voss, (2009) see Lisa’s review
270. White, T.H.,  The Once and Future King (1980′s)
271. Wilde, Oscar,  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1980′s)
272. Winterson, Jeanette, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (c1986)
273. Woolf, Virginia,  Between the Acts (c1983)
274. Woolf, Virginia,  Orlando (1992)
275.  Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway (c1979)
276.  Woolf, Virginia, Night and Day (1980′s)
277.  Woolf, Virginia, To The Lighthouse  (c1983)
278. Wyndham, John,  Day of the Triffids (1980′s)           

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