| 2666 | bolano | 2004 | 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño |
| Absalom, Absalom | faulkner | 1936 | Absalom, Absalom (1936) by William Faulkner |
| Ada, or Ardor | nabokov | 1969 | Ada, or Ardor (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Adventures of Augie March | bellow | 1953 | The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow |
| Alice in Wonderland | carroll | 1865 | Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll |
| Animal Farm | orwell | 1945 | Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | tolstoy | 1878 | Anna Karenina (1878) by Leo Tolstoy |
| As I Lay Dying | faulkner | 1930 | As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner |
| Bell Jar | plath | 1963 | The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath |
| Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West | mccarthy | 1985 | Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCarthy |
| Bonfire of the Vanities | wolfe-tom | 1987 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe |
| Book of Disquiet | pessoa | 1985 | The Book of Disquiet (1985) by Fernando Pessoa |
| Book of the New Sun | wolfe-gene | 1987 | The Book of the New Sun (1987) by Gene Wolfe |
| Brave New World | huxley | 1932 | Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley |
| Brideshead Revisited | waugh | 1945 | Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh |
| Brothers Karamazov | dostoevsky | 1880 | The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Canticle for Leibowitz | miller | 1959 | A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M. Miller Jr. |
| Castle | kafka | 1926 | The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka |
| Catch-22 | heller | 1961 | Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller |
| Catcher in the Rye | salinger | 1951 | The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger |
| Confederacy of Dunces | toole | 1980 | A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole |
| Count of Monte Cristo | dumas | 1846 | The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) by Alexandre Dumas |
| Crime and Punishment | dostoevsky | 1866 | Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Crying of Lot 49 | pynchon | 1966 | The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon |
| Darkness at Noon | koestler | 1940 | Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler |
| Dead Souls | gogol | 1842 | Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | cather | 1927 | Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather |
| Death in the Family | agee | 1957 | A Death in the Family (1957) by James Agee |
| Deliverance | dickey | 1970 | Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey |
| Demian | hesse | 1919 | Demian (1919) by Hermann Hesse |
| Demons | dostoevsky | 1872 | Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Don Quixote | cervantes | 1615 | Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dubliners | joyce | 1914 | Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce |
| East of Eden | steinbeck | 1952 | East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck |
| Elementary Particles | houellebecq | 1998 | The Elementary Particles (1998) by Michel Houellebecq |
| End of the Affair | greene | 1951 | The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene |
| Erewhon | butler | 1872 | Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler |
| Fable | faulkner | 1954 | A Fable (1954) by William Faulkner |
| Farewell to Arms | hemingway | 1929 | A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway |
| Farmer Giles of Ham | tolkien | 1949 | Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) by J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Fathers and Sons | turgenev | 1862 | Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | thompson | 1971 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson |
| Ficciones | borges | 1956 | Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges |
| Finnegan’s Wake | joyce | 1939 | Finnegan’s Wake (1939) by James Joyce |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | hemingway | 1940 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway |
| Frankenstein | shelley | 1818 | Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley |
| Golden Notebook | lessing | 1962 | The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing |
| Good Soldier | ford | 1915 | The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford |
| Grapes of Wrath | steinbeck | 1939 | The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | pynchon | 1973 | Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon |
| Great Divorce | lewis | 1945 | The Great Divorce (1945) by C. S. Lewis |
| Great Gatsby | fitzgerald | 1925 | The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Hamlet | shakespeare | 1603 | Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare |
| Handful of Dust | waugh | 1934 | A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh |
| Heart of Darkness | conrad | 1899 | Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad |
| Heart of the Matter | greene | 1948 | The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene |
| Henderson the Rain King | bellow | 1959 | Henderson the Rain King (1959) by Saul Bellow |
| Hero of Our Time | lermontov | 1840 | A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov |
| Herzog | bellow | 1964 | Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | adams | 1979 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams |
| Hobbit | tolkien | 1937 | The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Hunger | hamsun | 1890 | Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsum |
| Idiot | dostoevsky | 1869 | The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| If on a winter’s night a traveler | calvino | 1979 | If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino |
| In Search of Lost Time | proust | 1927 | In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust |
| Infinite Jest | wallace | 1996 | Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace |
| Invisible Cities | calvino | 1972 | Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino |
| Ironweed | kennedy | 1983 | Ironweed (1983) by William Kennedy |
| J R | gaddis | 1975 | J R (1975) by William Gaddis |
| Journey to the End of the Night | celine | 1932 | Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| Kokoro | soseki | 1914 | Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Sōseki |
| Kristin Lavransdatter | undset | 1922 | Kristin Lavransdatter (1922) by Sigrid Undset |
| Last Gentleman | percy | 1966 | The Last Gentleman (1966) by Walker Percy |
| Les Misérables | hugo | 1862 | Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo |
| Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | sterne | 1767 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767) by Laurence Sterne |
| Light in August | faulkner | 1932 | Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner |
| Little Prince | saint-exupery | 1943 | The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| Lolita | nabokov | 1955 | Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Lord of the Rings | tolkien | 1954 | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
| ◦ The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) |
| ◦ The Two Towers (1954) |
| ◦ The Return of the King (1955) |
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| Love in the Ruins | percy | 1971 | Love in the Ruins (1971) by Walker Percy |
| Madame Bovary | flaubert | 1857 | Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert |
| Magic Mountain | mann | 1924 | The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann |
| Man Who Was Thursday | chesterton | 1908 | The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G. K. Chesterton |
| Man Without Qualities | musil | 1943 | The Man Without Qualities (1943) by Robert Musil |
| Mason & Dixon | pynchon | 1997 | Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon |
| Master and Margarita | bulgakov | 1967 | The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Metamorphosis | kafka | 1915 | The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale | melville | 1851 | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville |
| Moviegoer | percy | 1961 | The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy |
| My Ántonia | cather | 1918 | My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather |
| Naked Lunch | burroughs | 1959 | The Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs |
| Naked and the Dead | mailer | 1948 | The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer |
| Name of the Rose | eco | 1980 | The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco |
| Napoleon of Notting Hill | chesterton | 1904 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) by G. K. Chesterton |
| Narcissus and Goldmund | hesse | 1930 | Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) by Hermann Hesse |
| Never Let Me Go | ishiguro | 2005 | Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | orwell | 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell |
| No Longer Human | dazai | 1948 | No Longer Human (1948) by Osamu Dazai |
| Notes from Underground | dostoevsky | 1864 | Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Oblomov | goncharov | 1859 | Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov |
| Of Mice and Men | steinbeck | 1937 | Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck |
| Old Man and the Sea | hemingway | 1952 | The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway |
| On the Road | kerouac | 1957 | On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | solzhenitsyn | 1962 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | marquez | 1967 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez |
| Pale Fire | nabokov | 1962 | Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Pedro Páramo | rulfo | 1955 | Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo |
| Picture of Dorian Gray | wilde | 1890 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | joyce | 1916 | The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce |
| Power and the Glory | greene | 1940 | The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene |
| Recognitions | gaddis | 1955 | The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis |
| Road | mccarthy | 2006 | The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy |
| Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | mishima | 1963 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) by Yukio Mishima |
| Sanctuary | faulkner | 1931 | Sanctuary (1931) by William Faulkner |
| Savage Detectives | bolano | 1998 | The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño |
| Siddhartha | hesse | 1922 | Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | vonnegut | 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut |
| Sons and Lovers | lawrence | 1913 | Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence |
| Sound and the Fury | faulkner | 1929 | The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner |
| Space Trilogy | lewis | 1938 | The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
| ◦ Out of the Silent Planet (1938) |
| ◦ Perelandra (1943) |
| ◦ That Hideous Strength (1945) |
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| Steppenwolf | hesse | 1927 | Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse |
| Stoner | williams | 1965 | Stoner (1965) by John Williams |
| Storm of Steel | junger-ernst | 1920 | Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger |
| Stranger | camus | 1942 | The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus |
| Sun Also Rises | hemingway | 1926 | The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | nietzsche | 1892 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1892) by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Time Machine | wells | 1895 | The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells |
| To the Lighthouse | woolf | 1927 | To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf |
| Treasure Island | stevenson | 1883 | Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Trial | kafka | 1925 | The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka |
| Trilogy | beckett | 1951 | The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
| ◦ Molloy (1951) |
| ◦ Malone Dies (1951) |
| ◦ The Unnamable (1953) |
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| Tunnel | gass | 1920 | The Tunnel (1920) by William H. Gass |
| Ulysses | joyce | 1922 | Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being | kundera | 1984 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera |
| Under the Volcano | lowry | 1947 | Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry |
| Utopia | more | 1516 | Utopia (1516) by Saint Thomas More |
| V. | pynchon | 1963 | V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon |
| Violent Bear It Away | o-connor | 1960 | The Violent Bear It Away (1960) by Flannery O’Connor |
| War and Peace | tolstoy | 1869 | War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy |
| Waves | woolf | 1931 | The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf |
| Way of All Flesh | butler | 1903 | The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler |
| White Noise | delillo | 1985 | White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo |
| Wise Blood | o-connor | 1952 | Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O’Connor |
| Woman in the Dunes | abe | 1962 | The Woman in the Dunes (1962) by Kōbō Abe |
| Wuthering Heights | bronte | 1847 | Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë |
| Zeno’s Conscience | svevo | 1923 | Zeno’s Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo |