The List by Popularity
Among the twenty-four lists used to build the very long Master List, some books appeared more often than others. Here is the Master broken down by popularity.
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12 LISTS
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 1547
Don Quixote de La Mancha [O] [PB] [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G] [MSS]
JAMES JOYCE 1882
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [LM] [G] [PB] [GB] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
11 LISTS
JOSEPH CONRAD 1857
Heart of Darkness [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [LM] [G] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [MUM]
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1896
The Great Gatsby [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [GB] [HB] [MUM] [G]
GEORGE ORWELL 1903
1984 [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [G] [MSS]
10 LISTS
MARK TWAIN 1835
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [O] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
E. M. FORSTER 1879
A Passage to India [MLB] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [MUM] [G]
JAMES JOYCE 1882
Ulysses [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
VIRGINIA WOOLF 1882
To the Lighthouse [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [GB] [EL] [HB]
VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1899
Lolita [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [G]
JOHN STEINBECK 1902 [NP]
The Grapes of Wrath [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [PP] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
GEORGE ORWELL 1903
Animal Farm [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [G] [PB] [GB] [EL] [EP] [MUM]
JOSEPH HELLER 1923
Catch-22 [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [MUM] [G]
9 LISTS
JONATHAN SWIFT 1667
Gulliver’s Travels [O] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804
The Scarlet Letter [O] [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
HERMAN MELVILLE 1819
Moby-Dick [O] [PB] [GB] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
The Brothers Karamazov [O] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
LEO TOLSTOY 1828
Anna Karenina [O] [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894
Brave New World [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [LM] [O] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [G]
WILLIAM FAULKNER 1897 [NP]
The Sound and the Fury [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
RALPH ELLISON 1914
Invisible Man [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
J. D. SALINGER 1919
The Catcher in the Rye [MLB] [MLR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [G]
TONI MORRISON 1931 [NP]
Beloved [MLR] [RR] [AT] [NYT] [PP] [LM] [G] [PB] [EL]
JOHN UPDIKE 1932
Rabbit Angstrom [RR] [NYT] [AT] [PP] [NBA] [G] [PB] [EL] [MUM]
SALMAN RUSHDIE 1947
Midnight’s Children [MLR] [RR] [AT] [MBP] [LM] [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
8 LISTS
HOMER 700 BCE
The Odyssey [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
VIRGIL 70 BCE
The Aenied [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265
The Divine Comedy [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI 1469
The Prince [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564
Plays and poems [GB] [EL] [HB] [HRB] [HC] [SJC] [EP] [MSS]
HENRY FIELDING 1707
Tom Jones [O] [PB] [HC] [GB] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [G]
JANE AUSTEN 1775
Pride and Prejudice [G] [PB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
David Copperfield [O] [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
Crime and Punishment [G] [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1821
Madame Bovary [O] [PB] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB] [G]
LEO TOLSTOY 1828
War and Peace [G] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
VIRGINIA WOOLF 1882
Mrs. Dalloway [RR] [AT] [O] [PB] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [G]
RICHARD WRIGHT 1908
Native Son [MLB] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
WILLIAM GOLDING 1911 [NP]
The Lord of the Flies [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [O] [PB] [MUM] [G]
JACK KEROUAC 1922
On the Road [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [O] [PB] [G]
HARPER LEE 1926
To Kill A Mockingbird [MLR] [RR] [AT] [PP] [O] [PB] [MUM] [G]
7 LISTS
ANONYMOUS 1200-100 BCE APPROX.
Hebrew Bible or Tanakh [EL] [HC] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [EP] [MSS]
HOMER 700 BCE
The Iliad [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
AESCHYLUS 524 BCE
Orestia [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
PLATO 428 BCE
The Republic [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
ANONYMOUS 50-100 CE APPROX.
New Testament [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [HRB] [EP] [MSS]
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 354 CE
Confessions [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
GEOFFRY CHAUCER 1343
Canterbury Tales [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS 1494
Gargantua and Pantagruel [G] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
DANIEL DEFOE 1659
Robinson Crusoe [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
VOLTAIRE 1694
Candide [G] [PB] [GB] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
LAURENCE STERNE 1713
Tristram Shandy [O] [PB] [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP] [G]
JANE AUSTEN 1775
Emma [O] [PB] [GB] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811
Vanity Fair [O] [PB] [HC] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [G]
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 1816
Jane Eyre [O] [PB] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [G]
IVAN TURGENEV 1818
Fathers and Sons [G] [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB] [MUM]
GEORGE ELIOT 1819
Middlemarch [G] [PB] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
The Mill on the Floss [G] [PB] [HC] [EL] [HB] [MUM] [EP]
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Portrait of a Lady [RR] [O] [PB] [HC] [EP] [HB] [G]
JOSEPH CONRAD 1857
Lord Jim [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM]
FRANZ KAFKA 1883
The Trial [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [HRB] [G] [MSS]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
Sons and Lovers [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [EL] [HB] [MUM]
HENRY MILLER 1891
Tropic of Cancer [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1899 [NP]
A Farewell to Arms [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM]
The Sun Also Rises [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [PB] [HB]
VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1899
Pale Fire [MLB] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
MARGARET MITCHELL 1900
Gone With the Wind [MLR] [RR] [AT] [PP] [G] [PB] [MUM]
MALCOLM LOWRY 1909
Under the Volcano [MLB] [MLR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
ANTHONY BURGESS 1917
A Clockwork Orange [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
KURT VONNEGUT 1922
Slaughterhouse-Five [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
CHINUA ACHEBE 1930
Things Fall Apart [RR] [AT] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [G]
DON DELILLO 1936
White Noise [RR] [AT] [NYT] [NBA] [G] [PB] [HB]
THOMAS PYNCHON 1937
Gravity’s Rainbow [MLR] [AT] [NBA] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
6 LISTS
SOPHOCLES 497 BCE
Oedipus Cycle [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOTLE 384 BCE
Poetics [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
LUCRETIUS 99 BCE
On the Nature of Things [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
PLUTARCH 46 CE
Lives [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
THOMAS HOBBES 1588
Leviathan [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
RENE DESCARTES 1596
Discourse on the Method [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
BLAISE PASCAL 1623
Pensees [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
JOHN BUNYAN 1628
Pilgrim’s Progress [O] [PB] [HC] [EP] [HB] [MSS]
MOLIERE 1622
Tartuffe, Misanthrope and other plays [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
ADAM SMITH 1723
The Wealth of Nations [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [HRB] [MSS]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 1745
Faust [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
STENDHAL 1783
The Red and the Black [G] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
CHARLES DARWIN 1809
The Origin of Species [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HRB] [MSS]
EMILY BRONTE 1818
Wuthering Heights [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [G]
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Ambassadors [MLB] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
OSCAR WILDE 1854
The Picture of Dorian Gray [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM] [G]
EDITH WHARTON 1862
The Age of Innocence [MLB] [RR] [PP] [G] [PB] [HB]
RUDYARD KIPLING 1865 [NP]
Kim [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
MARCEL PROUST 1871
In Search of Lost Time [O] [PB] [GB] [HB] [HRB] [G]
THEODORE DREISER 1871
An American Tragedy [MLB] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [HB]
THOMAS MANN 1875 [NP]
The Magic Mountain [G] [PB] [EL] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
JAMES JOYCE 1882
Finnegans Wake [MLB] [RR] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
Women in Love [MLB] [RR] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
ZORA NEALE HURSTON 1891
Their Eyes Were Watching God [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 1892
The Lord of the Rings [MLR] [RR] [O] [PB] [MUM] [G]
DASHIELL HAMMETT 1894
The Maltese Falcon [MLB] [RR] [LM] [G] [PB] [EL]
JOHN DOS PASSOS 1896
U.S.A. [MLB] [LM] [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
WILLIAM FAULKNER 1897 [NP]
As I Lay Dying [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [O] [HB] [G]
EVELYN WAUGH 1903
Brideshead Revisited [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [PB] [EL]
ALBERT CAMUS 1913 [NP]
The Plague [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [MUM] [G]
SAUL BELLOW 1915 [NP]
The Adventures of Augie March [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
Herzog [AT] [NBA] [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
WALKER PERCY 1916
The Moviegoer [MLB] [MLR] [AT] [NBA] [G] [HB]
CARSON MCCULLERS 1917
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [MLB] [MLR] [AT] [G] [HB] [MUM]
MURIEL SPARK 1918
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [MLB] [AT] [O] [PB] [EL] [G]
WILLIAM GADDIS 1922
The Recognitions [MLR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
JAMES BALDWIN 1924
Go Tell It On the Mountain [MLB] [RR] [AT] [G] [PB] [MUM]
JOHN FOWLES 1926
The French Lieutenant’s Woman [MLR] [RR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
TONI MORRISON 1931 [NP]
Song of Solomon [RR] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [G]
PHILIP ROTH 1933
American Pastoral [AT] [NYT] [PP] [O] [PB] [G]
CORMAC MCCARTHY 1933
Blood Meridian [MLR] [AT] [NYT] [LM] [G] [HB]
ALICE WALKER 1944
The Color Purple [RR] [PP] [NBA] [G] [PB] [MUM]
WILLIAM GIBSON 1948
Neuromancer [AT] [HA] [NA] [LM] [G] [PB]
5 LISTS
AESCHYLUS 524 BCE
Prometheus Bound [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
THUCYDIDES 460 BCE
History of the Peloponnesian War [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
ARISTOPHANES 446 BCE
The Frogs [HC] [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
PLATO 428 BCE
Apology [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Crito [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Phaedo [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOTLE 384 BCE
Politics [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HRB] [MSS]
Nicomachean Ethics [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
MARCUS AURELIUS 121 CE
Meditations [HC] [GB] [EL] [HRB] [MSS]
ANONYMOUS 800 AD APPROX.
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights [PB] [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB]
JOHN DONNE 1572
The Complete English Poems [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [EP]
JOHN MILTON 1608
Paradise Lost [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE 1639
Phedre [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
HENRY FIELDING 1707
Joseph Andrews [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1712
Confessions [PB] [EL] [HB] [EP] [MSS]
LAURENCE STERNE 1713
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy [G] [HC] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS 1741
Dangerous Liaisons [O] [PB] [HB] [EL] [G]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 1745
The Sorrows of Young Werther [G] [PB] [HC] [HB] [MUM]
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770
Selected Poems [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
STENDHAL 1783
The Charterhouse of Parma [O] [PB] [HB] [HRB] [G]
MARY SHELLEY 1797
Frankenstein [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [G]
VICTOR HUGO 1802
Les Miserables [G] [PB] [EP] [HB] [MUM]
JOHN STUART MILL 1806
On Liberty [HC] [GB] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
Great Expectations [G] [PB] [EL] [EP] [HB]
A Tale of Two Cities [G] [PB] [EL] [EP] [HB]
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1817
Walden [PB] [EL] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
The Idiot [G] [PB] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
LEWIS CARROLL 1832
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [G]
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832
Little Women [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [G]
THOMAS HARDY 1840
Jude the Obscure [O] [PB] [HB] [EP] [G]
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Wings of the Dove [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
KATE CHOPIN 1850
The Awakening [RR] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [O] [PB] [EP] [HB] [G]
JOSEPH CONRAD 1857
Nostromo [MLB] [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
EDITH WHARTON 1862
The House of Mirth [MLB] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
JOHN GALSWORTHY 1867 [NP]
The Forsyte Saga [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [NP]
FORD MADOX FORD 1873
The Good Soldier [MLB] [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
WILLA CATHER 1873
My Antonia [RR] [G] [EL] [HB] [MUM]
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 1874
Of Human Bondage [MLB] [MLR] [G] [PB] [MUM]
E. M. FORSTER 1879
Howards End [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
FRANZ KAFKA 1883
The Castle [G] [PB] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
SINCLAIR LEWIS 1885
Main Street [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [G]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
The Rainbow [MLB] [O] [PB] [HB]
Lady Chatterley’s Lover [RR] [G] [PB] [EP] PC]
RAYMOND CHANDLER 1888
The Big Sleep [AT] [O] [PB] [EL] [G]
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 1890
Collected Stories [PP] [NBA] [HB] [MUM]
JEAN RHYS 1890
Wide Sargasso Sea [MLB] [RR] [AT] [G] [PB]
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1896
Tender is the Night [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM FAULKNER 1897 [NP]
Light in August [MLB] [MLR] [RR] [AT] [HB]
Absalom, Absalom! [MLR] [RR] [LM] [PB] [HB]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1899 [NP]
The Old Man and the Sea [RR] [PP] [G] [PB] [NP]
NATHANAEL WEST 1903
The Day of the Locust [MLB] [AT] [LM] [G] [HB]
EVELYN WAUGH 1903
A Handful of Dust [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
Scoop [MLB] [O] [EL] [HB] [G]
GRAHAM GREENE 1904
The Power and the Glory [AT] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
ROBERT PENN WARREN 1905
All the King’s Men [MLB] [RR] [AT] [PP] [HB]
HENRY GREEN 1905
Loving [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
SAMUEL BECKETT 1906 [NP]
Molloy Trilogy [LM] [O] [PB] [EL] [HB]
PAUL BOWLES 1910
The Sheltering Sky [MLB] [AT] [LM] [G] [HB]
FLANN O’BRIEN 1911
At Swim-Two-Birds [MLR] [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
ALBERT CAMUS 1913 [NP]
The Stranger [G] [PB] [EL] [HB] [MUM]
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914
Naked Lunch [MLR] [RR] [AT] [G] [PB]
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN 1918 [NP]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch [G] [EL] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
DORIS LESSING 1919 [NP]
The Golden Notebook [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
FLANNERY O’CONNOR 1925
Complete Stories [RR] [NBA] [PB] [SJC] [HB]
Wise Blood [MLR] [LM] [O] [PB] [HB]
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ 1927 [NP]
One Hundred Years of Solitude [O] [PB] [EL] [HB] [G]
GUNTER GRASS 1927 [NP]
The Tin Drum [O] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [G]
URSULA K. LE GUIN 1929
The Left Hand of Darkness [HA] [NA] [G] [HB] [MUM]
V. S. NAIPAUL 1932 [NP]
A House for Mr. Biswas [MLB] [AT] [G] [EL] [HB]
A Bend in the River [MLB] [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
PHILIP ROTH 1933
Portnoy’s Complaint [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE 1937
A Confederacy of Dunces [MLR] [NYT] [PP] [G] [PB]
PETER CAREY 1943
Oscar and Lucinda [O] [MBP] [PB] [HB] [G]
4 LISTS
AESOP 620 BCE
Fables [PB] [HC] [EP] [HB]
CONFUCIUS 551 BCE
The Analects [EL] [HC] [EP] [MSS]
EURIPIDES 480 BCE
Medea [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
HIPPOCRATES 460 BCE
The Oath of Hippocrates [HC] [GB] [HRB] [MSS]
ARISTOPHANES 446 BCE
The Clouds [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
The Birds [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
PLATO 428 BCE
Gorgias [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Meno [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Parmenides [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Theatetus [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
Timeaus [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOTLE 384 BCE
Physics [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
On Generation and Corruption [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
Metaphysics [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
Parts of Animals [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
On the Generation of Animals [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
De Anima [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
On Interpretation [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
Prior Analytics [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
Categories [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
EUCLID 300 BCE
Elements [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
OVID 43 BCE
Metamorphoses [PB] [HB] [HB] [HRB]
EPICTETUS 55 CE
The Discourses [HC] [GB] [HRB] [SJC]
TACITUS 56 CE
Annals [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
PLOTINUS 204 CE
The Enneads [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
MUHAMMAD 570 CE
The Qur’an 610 CE APPROX. [HC] [EL] [HB] [MSS]
THOMAS AQUINAS 1225
Summa Theologica [SELECTIONS] [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 1466
The Praise of Folly [GB] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS 1473
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres [GB] [HRB] [MSS]
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 1533
Essays [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
FRANCIS BACON 1561
Novum Organum [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
GALILEO GALILEI 1564
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
JOHANNES KEPLER 1571
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV – V) [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
WILLIAM HARVEY 1578
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHN MILTON 1608
Poems [HC] [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ANDREW MARVELL 1621
Poems [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB]
JONATHAN SWIFT 1667
A Tale of a Tub [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 1689
Clarissa [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709
Rasselas [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1712
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality [GB] [HC] [SJC] [HRB]
IMMANUEL KANT 1724
The Critique of Pure Reason [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
EDWARD GIBBON 1737
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [GB] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
JOHN JAY, JAMES MADISON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1745, 1751, 1755
The Federalist Papers [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HRB]
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
JANE AUSTEN 1775
Sense and Sensibility [G] [PB] [HC] [EL]
ALESSANDRO MANZONI 1785
The Betrothed [G] [PB] [HC] [HB]
JOHN KEATS 1795
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB]
VICTOR HUGO 1802
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) [PB] [HC] [EP] [HB]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS 1802
The Three Musketeers [G] [PB] [EP] [MUM]
The Count of Monte Cristo [O] [PB] [EP] [G]
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 1803
Essays [HC] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE 1805
Democracy in America [GB] [SJC] [EL] [HRB]
NIKOLAI GOGOL 1809
Dead Souls [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809
Tales and poetry [HC] [PB] [EP] [HB]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
Oliver Twist [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
Hard Times [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
ROBERT BROWNING 1812
Poems [HC] [EL] [EP] [HB]
IVAN GONCHAROV 1812
Oblomov [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
HERMAN MELVILLE 1819
Billy Budd [PB] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
GEORGE ELIOT 1819
Daniel Deronda [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
Silas Marner [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
Adam Bede [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
Notes from the Underground [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
WILKIE COLLINS 1824
The Woman in White [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
HENRIK IBSEN 1828
A Doll’s House and other plays [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
THOMAS HARDY 1840
The Mayor of Casterbridge [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
Tess of the D’Urbervilles [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
WILLIAM JAMES 1842
Pragmatism [GB] [HB] [HRB] [MSS]
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 1844
Beyond Good and Evil [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
BRAM STOKER 1847
Dracula [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850
Treasure Island [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
SIGMUND FREUD 1856
Selected Writings [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
JOSEPH CONRAD 1857
The Secret Agent [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
EDITH WHARTON 1862
Ethan Frome [RR] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
H. G. WELLS 1866
The Time Machine [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
The War of the Worlds [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
ARNOLD BENNETT 1867
The Old Wives’ Tale [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
STEPHEN CRANE 1871
The Red Badge of Courage [G] [EP] [HB] [MUM]
THEODORE DREISER 1871
Sister Carrie [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
FORD MADOX FORD 1873
Parade’s End [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLA CATHER 1873
Death Comes for the Archbishop [MLB] [RR] [AT] [EL]
JACK LONDON 1876
The Call of the Wild [MLR] [RR] [O] [G]
E. M. FORSTER 1879
A Room with a View [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB]
ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [GB] [SJC] [HRB] [MSS]
JAMES JOYCE 1882
Dubliners [LM] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
VIRGINIA WOOLF 1882
Orlando [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
FRANZ KAFKA 1883
The Metamorphosis [GB] [EL] [HB] [MUM]
T. S. ELIOT 1888 [NP]
The Waste Land [GB] [SJC] [EL] [HB]
BORIS PASTERNAK 1890 [NP]
Doctor Zhivago [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 1891
The Master and Margarita [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
JAMES M. CAIN 1893
The Postman Always Rings Twice [MLB] [G] [PB] [EL]
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE 1894
Journey to the End of the Night [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
DASHIELL HAMMETT 1894
Red Harvest [AT] [G] [PB] [EL]
JOSEPH ROTH 1894
The Radetzky March [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
THOMAS WOLFE 1900
Look Homeward, Angel [RR] [LM] [PB] [MUM]
JOHN STEINBECK 1902 [NP]
Of Mice and Men [RR] [G] [PB] [EP]
SAMUEL BUTLER 1902
The Way of All Flesh [MLB] [G] [EP] [HB]
FRANK HERBERT 1902
Dune [MLR] [HA] [NA] [G]
GRAHAM GREENE 1904
The Heart of the Matter [MLB] [AT] [PB] [HB]
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD 1904
The Berlin Stories [AT] [PB] [G] [HB]
ANTHONY POWELL 1905
A Dance to the Music of Time (series) [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB]
HENRY ROTH 1906
Call It Sleep [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
DAPHNE DU MAURIER 1907
Rebecca [RR] [G] [PB] [MUM]
ROBERT HEINLEIN 1907
Stranger in a Strange Land [MLR] [HA] [G] [PB]
BERNARD MALAMUD 1914
The Fixer [PP] [NBA] [HB] [MUM]
IRIS MURDOCH 1919
Under the Net [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB]
KURT VONNEGUT 1922
Cat’s Cradle [RR] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
KINGSLEY AMIS 1922
Lucky Jim [AT] [O] [PB] [G]
ITALO CALVINO 1923
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler [O] [PB] [EL] [HB]
NORMAN MAILER 1923
The Naked and the Dead [MLB] [RR] [LM] [G]
JOHN FOWLES 1926
The Magus [MLB] [MLR] [G] [PB]
WILLIAM KENNEDY 1928
Albany Trilogy [MLB] [PP] [LM] [HB]
PHILIP ROTH 1933
Operation Shylock [NYT] [PFA] [PB] [HB]
The Human Stain [NYT] [PFA] [G] [PB]
CORMAC MCCARTHY 1933
Border Trilogy [NYT] [NBA] [G] [EL]
ANNIE PROULX 1935
The Shipping News [PP] [NBA] [G] [PB]
KEN KESEY 1935
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [RR] [AT] [G] [PB]
THOMAS KENEALLY 1935
Schindler’s Ark [RR] [MBP] [G] [PB] [HB]
J. G. FARRELL 1935
The Siege of Krishnapur [MBP] [G] [PB] [HB]
DON DELILLO 1936
Underworld [NYT] [LM] [G] [PB]
Libra [NYT] [LM] [PB] [HB]
A. S. BYATT 1936
Possession [AT] [MBP] [G] [PB]
THOMAS PYNCHON 1937
The Crying of Lot 49 [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
V. [MLR] [G] [PB] [HB]
MARGARET ATWOOD 1939
The Handmaid’s Tale [MLR] [G] [PB] [EL]
The Blind Assassin [AT] [MBP] [G] [PB]
J. M. COETZEE 1940 [NP]
Waiting for the Barbarians [LM] [O] [PB] [G]
JOHN IRVING 1942
The World According to Garp [MLR] [RR] [NBA] [PB]
MARILYNN ROBINSON 1943
Housekeeping [AT] [NYT] [LM] [O]
RICHARD FORD 1944
Independence Day [NYT] [PP] [PFA] [G]
SALMAN RUSHDIE 1947
The Satanic Verses [MLR] [RR] [G] [PB]
PAUL AUSTER 1947
New York Trilogy [LM] [O] [PB] [G]
IAN MCEWAN 1948
Atonement [AT] [O] [PB] [G]
MARTIN AMIS 1949
Money [AT] [O] [PB] [G]
DOUGLAS ADAMS 1952
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [MLR] [RR] [G] [PB]
JONATHAN FRANZEN 1959
The Corrections [AT] [NBA] [G] [PB]
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 1962
Infinite Jest [AT] [LM] [G] [PB]
3 LISTS
AESCHYLUS 524 BCE
Seven Against Thebes [HB] [HC] [HRB]
Persians [HB] [HC] [HRB]
Suppliant Maids [HB] [HC] [HRB]
SOPHOCLES 497 BCE
Electra [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Women of Trachis [HB] [GB] [HRB]
EURIPIDES 480 BCE
Alcestis [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Electra [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Cyclops [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Heracles [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Hecuba [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Ion [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Helen [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Iphigenia at Aulis [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOPHANES 446 BCE
Lysistrata [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Knights [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Wasps [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Assemblywomen [GB] [HB] [HRB]
PLATO 428 BCE
Charmides [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Euthyphro [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Laches [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Lysis [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Protagoras [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Euthydemus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Cratylus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Parmenides [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Sophist [GB] [HB] [HRB] [SJC]
Statesman [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Philebus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Laws [GB] [HB] [HRB]
APOLLONIUS OF PERGA 262 BCE
On Conic Sections [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
VIRGIL 70 BCE
The Eclogues [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Georgics [GB] [HB] [HRB]
NICOMACHUS OF GERASA 60 CE
Introduction to Arithmetic [GB] [HRB] [SJC]
PTOLEMY 90 CE
The Almagest [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 354 CE
City of God [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Beowulf 700-1000 CE APPROX. [HC] [EP] [HB]
The Song of Roland 1140 CE APPROX. [HC] [HB] [HRB]
GEOFFRY CHAUCER 1343
Troilus and Criseyde [GB] [HB] [HRB]
THOMAS MORE 1478
Utopia [HC] [HB] [HRB]
FRANCIS BACON 1561
Essays [HC] [HB] [HRB]
The New Atlantis [HC] [GB] [HRB]
RENE DESCARTES 1596
Rules for the Direction of the Mind [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Meditations on First Philosophy [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHN MILTON 1608
Areopagitica & Tractate of Education [HC] [HB] [HRB]
CHRISTIAN HUYGENS 1629
Treatise on Light [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
DANIEL DEFOE 1659
Moll Flanders [G] [PB] [HB]
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 1689
Pamela [G] [PB] [HB]
VOLTAIRE 1694
Letters on the English, by Voltaire [HC] [HB] [HRB]
DAVID HUME 1711
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume [HC] [GB] [HRB]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1712
The Social Contract [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Emile; or, On Education [PB] [HB] [HRB]
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise [G] [PB] [HB]
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 1721
The Adventures of Roderick Random [G] [PB] [HB]
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [G] [PB] [HB]
IMMANUEL KANT 1724
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1730
She Stoops to Conquer [HC] [EP] [HB]
The Vicar of Wakefield [G] [PB] [HB]
JAMES BOSWELL 1740
The Life of Samuel Johnson [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER 1743
Elements of Chemistry [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 1745
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship [PB] [HC] [HB]
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 1751
The School for Scandal [HC] [HB] [MUM]
FANNY BURNEY 1752
Evelina [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM BLAKE 1757
The Complete Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
MARIA EDGEWORTH 1767
Castle Rackrent [G] [PB] [HB]
JAMES HOGG 1770
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner [G] [PB] [HB]
WALTER SCOTT 1771
Ivanhoe [G] [PB] [EP]
JANE AUSTEN 1775
Mansfield Park [G] [PB] [HB]
Persuasion [G] [PB] [HB]
CHARLES MATURIN 1782
Melmoth the Wanderer [G] [PB] [HB]
WASHINGTON IRVING 1783
The Sketch Book [HC] [EP] [HB]
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785
Nightmare Abbey [O] [HB]
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM 1785
Household Tales [HC] [EP] [HB]
LORD BYRON 1788
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792
Poems [HC] [HB] [EL]
JOHN STUART MILL 1806
Autobiography [HC] [HB] [HRB]
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1806
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
CHARLES DARWIN 1809
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex [GB] [HRB] [EP]
ELIZABETH GASKELL 1810
Mary Barton [G] [PB] [HB]
Cranford [G] [PB] [HB]
North and South [G] [PB] [HB]
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811
Uncle Tom’s Cabin [G] [PB] [EP]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
Bleak House [G] [PB] [HB]
The Pickwick Papers [G] [HB] [HRB]
Martin Chuzzlewit [G] [PB] [HB]
SOREN KIERKEGAARD 1813
Fear and Trembling [PB] [GB] [SJC]
ANTHONY TROLLOPE 1815
The Way We Live Now [O] [HB]
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 1816
Villette [G] [PB] [HB]
KARL MARX 1818
Capital [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
IVAN TURGENEV 1818
First Love [G] [EL] [HB]
WALT WHITMAN 1819
Leaves of Grass [EL] [EP] [HB]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
The Devils [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE 1821
Selected Poems by Charles Baudelaire [EL] [HB] [EP]
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1821
A Sentimental Education [G] [PB] [HB]
WILKIE COLLINS 1824
The Moonstone [G] [PB] [HB]
LEO TOLSTOY 1828
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1830
The Complete Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
EMILY DICKINSON 1830
Poems [EL] [EP] [HB]
LEWIS CARROLL 1832
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM MORRIS 1834
News from Nowhere [G] [PB] [HB]
MARK TWAIN 1835
The Mysterious Stranger [G] [HB] [HRB]
THOMAS HARDY 1840
Far from the Madding Crowd [G] [PB] [HB]
The Woodlanders [G] [PB] [HB]
The Return of the Native [PB] [HB] [EP]
WILLIAM JAMES 1842
The Principles of Psychology [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Turn of the Screw [G] [PB] [MUM]
The Golden Bowl [MLB][PB] [HB]
GEORGE GROSSMITH 1847
The Diary of a Nobody [O] [PB]
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850
Stories [HC] [EP] [HB]
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850
Kidnapped [G] [PB] [HB]
ARTHUR RIMBAUD 1854
Collected Poems [SJC] [EL] [HB]
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1856 [NP]
Pygmalion [EP] [HB] [HRB]
Saint Joan [GB] [HB] [HRB]
GEORGE GISSING 1857
New Grub Street [G] [PB] [HB]
ANTON CHEKHOV 1860
Plays [GB] [EP] [HB]
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1865 [NP]
Collected Poems [EP] [SJC] [HB]
H. G. WELLS 1866
The Island of Dr Moreau [G] [PB] [HB]
ANDRE GIDE 1869 [NP]
The Immoralist [G] [PB] [HB]
BOOTH TARKINGTON 1869
The Magnificent Ambersons [MLB][PP] [G]
ERSKINE CHILDERS 1870
The Riddle of the Sands [O] [PB]
WILLA CATHER 1873
A Lost Lady [G] [GB] [HB]
The Professor’s House [G] [PB] [HB]
MAX BEERBOHM 1874
Zuleika Dobson [MLB][G] [HB]
GERTRUDE STEIN 1874
The Making of Americans [LM] [PB] [HB]
ROBERT FROST 1874
Poems [EL] [EP] [HB]
JOHN BUCHAN 1875
The Thirty-Nine Steps [O] [PB]
THOMAS MANN 1875 [NP]
Joseph and His Brothers [EL] [HB] [HRB]
Death in Venice [G] [PB] [GB]
Buddenbrooks [G] [PB] [NP]
SHERWOOD ANDERSON 1876
Winesburg, Ohio [MLB][LM] [HB]
ALFRED DOBLIN 1878
Berlin Alexanderplatz [G] [PB] [HB]
UPTON SINCLAIR 1878
The Jungle [RR] [G] [PB]
WALLACE STEVENS 1879
Poems [SJC] [EL] [HB]
ROBERT MUSIL 1880
The Man Without Qualities [G] [PB] [HB]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
Complete Short Stories [PB] [GB] [HB]
SINCLAIR LEWIS 1885
Babbitt [G] [PB] [HB]
JEAN TOOMER 1894
Cane [LM] [PB] [HB]
DASHIELL HAMMETT 1894
The Thin Man [G] [PB] [EL]
ROBERT GRAVES 1895
I, Claudius [MLB] [MLR] [AT]
WILLIAM FAULKNER 1897 [NP]
Collected Stories [NBA] [HB] [MUM]
THORNTON WILDER 1897
The Bridge of San Luis Rey [MLB][AT] [PP]
JORGE LUIS BORGES 1899
Ficciones [PB] [EL] [HB]
ERICH REMARQUE 1898
All Quiet on the Western Front [G] [PB] [MUM]
ELIZABETH BOWEN 1899
The Death of the Heart [MLB][AT] [G]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1899 [NP]
For Whom the Bell Tolls [RR] [G] [PB]
VLADIMIR NABOKOV 1899
Pnin [G] [PB] [EL]
NEVIL SHUTE 1899
A Town Like Alice [MLR] [G] [PB]
ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY 1900
The Little Prince [G] [PB] [MUM]
ANDRE MALRAUX 1901
Man’s Fate [HB] [G] [MUM]
CHRISTINA STEAD 1902
The Man Who Loved Children [AT] [G] [HB]
SAMUEL BUTLER 1902
Erewhon [G] [PB] [HB]
EVELYN WAUGH 1903
Vile Bodies [G] [PB] [HB]
ALAN PATON 1903
Cry, the Beloved Country [G] [PB] [MUM]
ALEJO CARPENTIER 1904
The Kingdom of this World [G] [PB] [HB]
GRAHAM GREENE 1904
Brighton Rock [G] [PB] [HB]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 1905 [NP]
Nausea [PB] [HB] [HRB]
JOHN O’HARA 1905
Appointment in Samarra [MLB] [AT] [HB]
SAMUEL BECKETT 1906 [NP]
Waiting for Godot [GB] [HB] [MUM]
JAMES AGEE 1909
A Death in the Family [AT] [PP] [MUM]
NELSON ALGREN 1909
The Man With the Golden Arm [NBA] [G] [PB]
WILLIAM GOLDING 1911 [NP]
Rites of Passage [MBP] [PB] [G]
FLANN O’BRIEN 1911
The Third Policeman [G] [PB] [HB]
MERVYN PEAKE 1911
Titus Groan [G] [PB] [HB]
JOHN CHEEVER 1912
The Wapshot Chronicles [MLB][NBA] [G]
Collected Stories [PP] [NBA] [HB]
PATRICK WHITE 1912 [NP]
Voss [G] [PB] [HB]
SAUL BELLOW 1915 [NP]
Humboldt’s Gift [PP] [G] [PB]
GIORGIO BASSANI 1916
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis [G] [PB] [EL]
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN 1918 [NP]
Cancer Ward [PB] [HB] [HRB]
MURIEL SPARK 1918
The Girls of Slender Means [G] [PB] [EL]
The Driver’s Seat [G] [PB] [EL]
PRIMO LEVI 1919
The Periodic Table [O] [EL] [HB]
If Not Now, When? [G] [PB] [HB]
STANISLAW LEM 1921
Solaris [G] [PB] [HB]
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 1921
The Talented Mr Ripley [G] [PB] [EL]
ITALO CALVINO 1923
Invisible Cities [G] [PB] [HB]
NORMAN MAILER 1923
The Executioner’s Song [PP] [O] [HB]
JAMES DICKEY 1923
Deliverance [MLB] [AT] [G]
TRUMAN CAPOTE 1924
In Cold Blood [RR] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM STYRON 1925
Sophie’s Choice [MLB] [NBA] [G]
RUSSELL HOBAN 1925
Riddley Walker [LM] [G] [HB]
JOHN BERGER 1926
G. [MBP] [G] [PB]
PHILIP K. DICK 1928
The Man in the High Castle [HA] [LM] [G]
MILAN KUNDERA 1929
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting [O] [PB]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being [G] [PB] [HB]
J. G. BALLARD 1930
Crash [LM] [G] [PB]
JOHN BARTH 1930
The Sot-Weed Factor [AT] [LM] [HB]
E. L. DOCTOROW 1931
Ragtime [MLB] [AT] [PB]
The Book of Daniel [G] [PB] [HB]
TOM WOLFE 1931
Bonfire of the Vanities [RR] [G] [PB]
JOHN LE CARRE 1931
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold [AT] [G] [PB]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [O] [PB] [G]
UMBERTO ECO 1932
The Name of the Rose [G] [PB] [EL]
PHILIP ROTH 1933
Sabbath’s Theater [NYT] [NBA] [PB]
DON DELILLO 1936
Mao II [PFA] [PB] [HB]
ROBERT STONE 1937
Dog Soldiers [AT] [NBA] [HB]
JOYCE CAROL OATES 1938
Them [NBA] [PB] [HB]
LARRY NIVEN 1938
Ringworld [HA] [NA] [G]
J. M. COETZEE 1940 [NP]
Disgrace [MBP] [G] [PB]
ANGELA CARTER 1940
Wise Children [O] [PB] [G]
JOHN IRVING 1942
A Prayer for Owen Meany [MLR] [G] [PB]
MICHAEL ONDAATJE 1943
The English Patient [MBP] [G] [PB]
JOE HALDEMAN 1943
The Forever War [HA] [NA] [G]
W. G. SEBALD 1944
Austerlitz [O] [PB] [G]
JAMES KELMAN 1946
How Late It Was, How Late [MBP] [G] [PB]
TIM O’BRIEN 1946
The Things They Carried [NYT] [G] [PB]
ORSON SCOTT CARD 1951
Ender’s Game [MLR] [HA] [NA]
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 1952
The Hours [PP] [PFA] [PB]
JEANNETTE WINTERSON 1959
The Passion [G] [PB] [HB]
NEIL GAIMAN 1960
American Gods [HA] [NA] [G]
JEFFREY EUGENIDES 1960
Middlesex [PP] [G] [PB]
ARUNDHATI ROY 1961
The God of Small Things [MBP] [G] [PB]
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