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Critics' list

1001 books to read before you die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall. This list aggregates the results of several editions.

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1
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
2
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
3
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
4
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
5
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
6
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
7
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 25 lists
8
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
9
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
10
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
11
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
12
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
13
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
14
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
15
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
16
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
17
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897 · 15 lists
18
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
19
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · 14 lists
20
The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
21
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1848 · 13 lists
22
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
23
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
24
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · 13 lists
25
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
26
Emma
Jane Austen · 1815 · 12 lists
27
Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 11 lists
28
Candide
Voltaire · 1746 · 11 lists
29
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719 · 11 lists
30
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1891 · 11 lists
31
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 1860 · 11 lists
32
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · 1749 · 11 lists
33
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 2000 · 10 lists
34
Hunger
Knut Hamsun · 1890 · 8 lists
35
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1895 · 8 lists
36
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 1859 · 7 lists
37
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · 1995 · 7 lists
38
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817 · 7 lists
39
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1962 · 7 lists
40
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868 · 7 lists
41
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 7 lists
42
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · 7 lists
43
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1843 · 6 lists
44
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson · 1748 · 6 lists
45
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 1479 · 6 lists
46
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 6 lists
47
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1811 · 6 lists
48
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869 · 6 lists
49
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 1970 · 6 lists
50
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1850 · 6 lists
51
Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · 5 lists
52
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot · 1800 · 5 lists
53
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev · 1907 · 5 lists
54
Germinal
Émile Zola · 1885 · 5 lists
55
Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 · 5 lists
56
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 1838 · 5 lists
57
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1919 · 5 lists
58
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells · 1895 · 5 lists
59
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac · 1868 · 4 lists
60
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 · 4 lists
61
Silas Marner
George Eliot · 1861 · 4 lists
62
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 4 lists
63
The Princess of Clèves
Madame de La Fayette · 1678 · 4 lists
64
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2017 · 4 lists
65
Villette
Charlotte Brontë · 1853 · 4 lists
66
Anton Reiser
Karl Philipp Moritz · 1886 · 3 lists
67
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell · 1853 · 3 lists
68
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · 1874 · 3 lists
69
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 3 lists
70
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 3 lists
71
La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas · 1899 · 3 lists
72
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac · 1988 · 3 lists
73
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 1814 · 3 lists
74
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe · 1722 · 3 lists
75
New Grub Street
George Gissing · 1891 · 3 lists
76
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov · 1913 · 3 lists
77
Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · 1800 · 3 lists
78
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott · 1818 · 3 lists
79
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong · 1644 · 3 lists
80
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni · 1800 · 3 lists
81
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · 2008 · 3 lists
82
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851 · 3 lists
83
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope · 1867 · 3 lists
84
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot · 1800 · 3 lists
85
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · 2020 · 3 lists
86
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1899 · 3 lists
87
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift · 1729 · 2 lists
88
Adam Bede
George Eliot · 1859 · 2 lists
89
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · 1956 · 2 lists
90
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace · 1800 · 2 lists
91
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert · 2018 · 2 lists
92
Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane · 1894 · 2 lists
93
Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1962 · 2 lists
94
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin · 1995 · 2 lists
95
Facundo
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · 1868 · 2 lists
96
Green Henry
Gottfried Keller · 1987 · 2 lists
97
Hard Times
Charles Dickens · 1854 · 2 lists
98
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot · 2006 · 2 lists
99
King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard · 1885 · 2 lists
100
Maldoror
Comte de Lautréamont · 1943 · 2 lists
101
Max Havelaar
Multatuli · 1868 · 2 lists
102
Nana
Émile Zola · 1880 · 2 lists
103
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 1818 · 2 lists
104
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1896 · 2 lists
105
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy · 1878 · 2 lists
106
She
H. Rider Haggard · 1886 · 2 lists
107
Shirley
Charlotte Brontë · 1800 · 2 lists
108
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · 2 lists
109
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
E.T.A. Hoffman · 2006 · 2 lists
110
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
Joseph von Eichendorff · 2018 · 2 lists
111
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg · 1824 · 2 lists
112
The Red Room
August Strindberg · 1896 · 2 lists
113
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë · 1847 · 2 lists
114
The True history of the Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Díaz del Castillo · 1963 · 2 lists
115
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith · 1766 · 2 lists
116
Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola · 1900 · 2 lists
117
A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao Xueqin · 1986 · 1 list
118
A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne · 1967 · 1 list
119
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift · 1704 · 1 list
120
A Woman’s Life
Guy de Maupassant · 1988 · 1 list
121
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop · 1848 · 1 list
122
Against the Grain
Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1922 · 1 list
123
Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë · 1847 · 1 list
124
Amadis of Gaul
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo · 2018 · 1 list
125
Amelia
Henry Fielding · 1751 · 1 list
126
An Ethiopian Romance
Heliodorus · 1976 · 1 list
127
Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · 1 list
128
Born in Exile
George Gissing · 1892 · 1 list
129
By the Open Sea
August Strindberg · 2018 · 1 list
130
Camera Obscura
Hildebrand · 1854 · 1 list
131
Camilla
Fanny Burney · 1796 · 1 list
132
Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth · 1800 · 1 list
133
Castle Richmond
Anthony Trollope · 1906 · 1 list
134
Cecilia
Fanny Burney · 1782 · 1 list
135
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Chariton · 50 · 1 list
136
Down There
Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1962 · 1 list
137
Drunkard
Émile Zola · 2008 · 1 list
138
Eline Vere
Louis Couperus · 1892 · 1 list
139
Émile; or, On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 2019 · 1 list
140
Erewhon
Samuel Butler · 1872 · 1 list
141
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
John Lyly · 2002 · 1 list
142
Evelina
Fanny Burney · 1778 · 1 list
143
Fanny Hill
John Cleland · 1749 · 1 list
144
Gösta Berling’s Saga
Selma Lagerlöf · 1891 · 1 list
145
He Knew He Was Right
Anthony Trollope · 1869 · 1 list
146
Henry of Ofterdingen
Novalis · 2018 · 1 list
147
Humphry Clinker
Tobias George Smollett · 1813 · 1 list
148
In a Glass Darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872 · 1 list
149
Indian Summer
Adalbert Stifter · 1971 · 1 list
150
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding · 1742 · 1 list
151
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne · 2006 · 1 list
152
Julie; or, the New Eloise
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1968 · 1 list
153
Justine
Marquis de Sade · 1900 · 1 list
154
King Lear of the Steppes
Ivan Turgenev · 1907 · 1 list
155
La Bête Humaine
Émile Zola · 1996 · 1 list
156
Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood · 2021 · 1 list
157
Marius the Epicurean
Walter Pater · 1891 · 1 list
158
Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens · 1840 · 1 list
159
Martin Fierro
Jose Hernandez · 1894 · 1 list
160
Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell · 1848 · 1 list
161
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin · 1820 · 1 list
162
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
John et al Arbuthnot · 1741 · 1 list
163
Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist · 1902 · 1 list
164
Monkey: Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en · 2000 · 1 list
165
News from Nowhere
William Morris · 1891 · 1 list
166
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell · 1855 · 1 list
167
On the Eve
Ivan Turgenev · 2006 · 1 list
168
Ormond
Maria Edgeworth · 1817 · 1 list
169
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn · 2016 · 1 list
170
Pamela
Samuel Richardson · 1741 · 1 list
171
Pepita Jimenez
Juan Valera · 1880 · 1 list
172
Peregrine Pickle
Tobias George Smollett · 1723 · 1 list
173
Phineas Finn
Anthony Trollope · 1882 · 1 list
174
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant · 1887 · 1 list
175
Queen Margot
Alexandre Dumas · 1911 · 1 list
176
Rameau’s Nephew
Denis Diderot · 1956 · 1 list
177
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1983 · 1 list
178
Roderick Random
Tobias George Smollett · 1748 · 1 list
179
Roxana
Daniel Defoe · 1920 · 1 list
180
Spring Torrents
Ivan Turgenev · 1926 · 1 list
181
Thais
Anatole France · 1889 · 1 list
182
The 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis de Sade · 1991 · 1 list
183
The Absentee
Maria Edgeworth · 1812 · 1 list
184
The Adventures of Caleb Williams
William Godwin · 1794 · 1 list
185
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Hans von Grimmelshausen · 2013 · 1 list
186
The Albigenses
Charles Robert Maturin · 1824 · 1 list
187
The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1852 · 1 list
188
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole · 1764 · 1 list
189
The Child of Pleasure
Gabriele D'Annunzio · 2018 · 1 list
190
The Crime of Father Amaro
José Maria Eça de Queirós · 1 list
191
The Devil's Pool
George Sand · 2017 · 1 list
192
The Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1840 · 1 list
193
The Enchanted Wanderer
Nikolai Leskov · 1924 · 1 list
194
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe · 1839 · 1 list
195
The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox · 1752 · 1 list
196
The Golden Ass
Lucius Apuleius · 1999 · 1 list
197
The Hand of Ethelberta
Thomas Hardy · 1876 · 1 list
198
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson · 1800 · 1 list
199
The House by the Medlar Tree
Giovanni Verga · 1953 · 1 list
200
The Interesting Narrative
Olaudah Equiano · 2018 · 1 list
201
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells · 1896 · 1 list
202
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy · 1887 · 1 list
203
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous · 1908 · 1 list
204
The Lion of Flanders
Hendrik Conscience · 2014 · 1 list
205
The Lusiads
Luís de Camões · 2018 · 1 list
206
The Man of Feeling
Henry Mackenzie · 1771 · 1 list
207
The Manors of Ulloa
Emilia Pardo Bazan · 1 list
208
The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1840 · 1 list
209
The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1888 · 1 list
210
The Monastery
Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 1 list
211
The Monk
M.G. Lewis · 1794 · 1 list
212
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 1794 · 1 list
213
The Nose
Nikolai Gogol · 1983 · 1 list
214
The Nun
Denis Diderot · 2019 · 1 list
215
The People of Hemsö
August Strindberg · 1887 · 1 list
216
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 · 1 list
217
The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe · 1931 · 1 list
218
The Quest
Frederik van Eeden · 2007 · 1 list
219
The Real Charlotte
Somerville and Ross · 1901 · 1 list
220
The Regent's Wife
Leopoldo Alas · 1725 · 1 list
221
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous · 1998 · 1 list
222
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Gustave Flaubert · 1930 · 1 list
223
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1 list
224
The Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas Nashe · 1971 · 1 list
225
The Viceroys
Federico De Roberto · 2000 · 1 list
226
The Water-Babies
Charles Kingsley · 1863 · 1 list
227
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy · 1800 · 1 list
228
Thomas of Reading
Thomas Deloney · 1750 · 1 list
229
Tirant lo Blanc
Joanot Martorell · 2005 · 1 list
230
Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1864 · 1 list
231
Under the Yoke
Ivan Vazov · 1994 · 1 list
232
Vathek
William Thomas Beckford · 1815 · 1 list
233
Virgin Soil
Ivan Turgenev · 2006 · 1 list
234
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 2019 · 1 list
235
A Bend in the River
V.S. Naipaul · 1979
236
A Boy’s Own Story
Edmund White · 1982
237
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
238
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980
239
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell · 1951
240
A Day in Spring
Ciril Kosmac · 1959
241
A Day Off
Storm Jameson · 1933
242
A Dry White Season
Andre Brink · 1979
243
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 1929
244
A Ghost at Noon
Alberto Moravia · 1955
245
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh · 1934
246
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov · 2001
247
A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines · 1968
248
A Maggot
John Fowles · 1985
249
A Man Asleep
Georges Perec · 1990
250
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982
251
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924
252
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916
253
A Question of Power
Bessie Head · 1972
254
A Room With a View
E. M. Forster · 1908
255
A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert · 1869
256
A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch · 1963
257
A Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata · 2019
258
A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute · 1950
259
A Void
Georges Perec · 2022
260
A World for Julius
Alfredo Bryce Echenique · 1992
261
A World of Love
Elizabeth Bowen · 1955
262
Aaron’s Rod
D.H. Lawrence · 1922
263
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936
264
Absolute Beginners
Colin MacInnes · 2013
265
Ada
Vladimir Nabokov · 2018
266
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885
267
After the Death of Don Juan
Sylvia Townsend Warner · 1938
268
Alamut
Vladimir Bartol · 1984
269
Albert Angelo
B.S. Johnson · 1964
270
Alberta and Jacob
Cora Sandel · 1962
271
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
272
All About H. Hatterr
G.V. Desani · 1951
273
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929
274
All Souls
Javier Marias · 1999
275
Almost Transparent Blue
Ryu Murakami · 2003
276
Amateurs
Donald Barthelme · 1926
277
Amerika
Franz Kafka · 1927
278
Amok
Stefan Zweig · 1900
279
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986
280
Anagrams
Lorrie Moore · 1986
281
Ancestral Voices
Etienne van Heerden · 1975
282
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
283
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid · 1983
284
Anniversaries
Uwe Johnson · 1995
285
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley · 1923
286
Arcanum 17
André Breton · 2004
287
Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe · 1964
288
As a Man Grows Older
Italo Svevo · 1898
289
Ashes and Diamonds
Jerzy Andrzejewski · 1962
290
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien · 1939
291
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft · 1968
292
August is a Wicked Month
Edna O'Brien · 1965
293
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti · 1984
294
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · 1922
295
Back
Henry Green · 1882
296
Back to Oegstgeest
Jan Wolkers
297
Ballad for Georg Henig
Viktor Paskov · 1990
298
Baltasar and Blimunda
Jose Saramago · 1998
299
Barabbas
Par Lagerkvist · 1893
300
Bebo's Girl
Carlo Cassola · 1962
301
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen · 1968
302
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
303
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin · 1929
304
Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf · 1941
305
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Heinrich Böll · 1975
306
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Herman Melville · 1924
307
Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse · 1959
308
Black Box
Amos Oz · 1915
309
Blaming
Elizabeth Taylor · 1939
310
Blind Man With a Pistol
Chester Himes · 1969
311
Blindness
Henry Green · 1926
312
Blood and Guts in High School
Kathy Acker · 1984
313
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985
314
Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille · 2015
315
Bonjour Tristesse
Françoise Sagan · 1954
316
Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan · 1958
317
Bosnian Chronicle
Ivo Andrić · 1963
318
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
319
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote · 1956
320
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut · 1973
321
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1945
322
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene · 1938
323
Broad and Alien is the World
Ciro Alegria · 1973
324
Broken April
Ismail Kadare · 1982
325
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1909
326
Bunner Sisters
Edith Wharton · 2000
327
Burger’s Daughter
Nadine Gordimer · 1979
328
Burmese Days
George Orwell · 1934
329
Cakes and Ale
W. Somerset Maugham · 1930
330
Call it Sleep
Henry Roth · 1934
331
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1969
332
Cane
Jean Toomer · 1923
333
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck · 1945
334
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming · 1953
335
Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass · 1995
336
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · 1963
337
Cataract
Mykhailo Osadchyi · 1972
338
Caught
Henry Green · 2010
339
Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler · 1938
340
Chaka the Zulu
Thomas Mofolo · 1968
341
Cheese
Willem Elsschot · 1933
342
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig · 2005
343
Chocky
John Wyndham · 1968
344
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi · 1949
345
Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee · 1959
346
Cigarettes
Harry Mathews · 1890
347
City Primeval
Elmore Leonard · 1980
348
Claudine's House
Colette · 2006
349
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai · 1980
350
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal · 1990
351
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons · 1932
352
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Donald Barthelme · 1964
353
Coming Up for Air
George Orwell · 1939
354
Compassion
Benito Pérez Galdós · 2021
355
Concrete
Thomas Bernhard · 2021
356
Contact
Carl Sagan · 1985
357
Conversations In Sicily
Elio Vittorini · 2009
358
Correction
Thomas Bernhard · 2001
359
Couples, Passerby
Botho Strauss
360
Crash
J.G. Ballard · 1973
361
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley · 1921
362
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 1940
363
Cutter and Bone
Newton Thornburg · 1976
364
Dangling Man
Saul Bellow · 1944
365
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid
Malcolm Lowry · 1969
366
Day of the Dolphin
Robert Merle · 1969
367
Dead Babies
Martin Amis · 1975
368
Death and the Dervish
Mesa Selimovic · 1996
369
Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen · 1967
370
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · 1954
371
Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch · 2012
372
Death Sentence
Maurice Blanchot · 2011
373
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh · 1776
374
Deep Rivers
José María Arguedas · 1981
375
Delta of Venus
Anaïs Nin · 1977
376
Democracy
Joan Didion · 1942
377
Dictionary of the Khazars
Milorad Pavic · 1990
378
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams · 1987
379
Disobedience
Alberto Moravia · 2006
380
Dispatches
Michael Herr · 1977
381
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968
382
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann · 1662
383
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1958
384
Dog Years
Günter Grass · 2006
385
Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · 1900
386
Down Second Avenue
Es'kia Mphahlele · 1940
387
Dusklands
J.M. Coetzee · 1974
388
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Geza Gardonyi · 1991
389
Embers
Sandor Marai · 1998
390
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard · 1984
391
England Made Me
Graham Greene · 1943
392
Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul · 1987
393
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1910
394
Eva Trout
Elizabeth Bowen · 1968
395
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor · 1965
396
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym · 1952
397
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau · 1958
398
Extinction
Thomas Bernhard · 2014
399
Eyeless in Gaza
Aldous Huxley · 1930
400
Faces in the Water
Janet Frame · 1961
401
Fado Alexandrino
Antonio Lobo Antunes · 1992
402
Fantômas
Marcel Allain · 1961
403
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler · 1940
404
Fatelessness
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405
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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406
Fear of Flying
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407
Ferdydurke
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1973
409
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies · 1970
410
Finnegans Wake
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411
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Foe
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413
Fool's Gold
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Fools of Fortune
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415
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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416
Fortunata and Jacinta
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417
Foundation
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Franny and Zooey
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419
Froth on the Daydream
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420
Fruits of the Earth
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421
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Garden, Ashes
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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425
Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth · 1966
426
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1956
427
Girl With Green Eyes
Edna O'Brien · 1990
428
Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner · 1940
429
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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430
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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431
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut · 1965
432
God's Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembene · 1987
433
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936
434
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys · 1967
435
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 1939
436
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake · 1950
437
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973
438
Grimus
Salman Rushdie · 1975
439
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Growth of the Soil
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441
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442
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443
Halftime
Martin Walser · 2012
444
Hangover Square
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445
Harriet Hume
Rebecca West · 1929
446
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Peter Ackroyd · 1985
447
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899
448
Heartbreak Tango
Manuel Puig · 1973
449
Hebdomeros
Giorgio De Chirico · 1929
450
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Here's to You, Jesusa
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453
Herzog
Saul Bellow · 1961
454
High Rise
J.G. Ballard · 1975
455
Homo Faber
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456
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457
House Mother Normal
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458
How It Is
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459
Howards End
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460
Humboldt's Gift
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461
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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462
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463
I, Robot
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464
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465
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466
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino · 1982
467
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468
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470
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Insatiability
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479
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480
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Jacob the Liar
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482
Jealousy
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483
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484
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485
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486
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William Burroughs · 1953
488
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489
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490
Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier · 1957
491
Kiss of the Spider Woman
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492
Kitchen
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493
Kokoro
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495
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496
Labyrinths
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497
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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498
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
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499
Leaden Wings
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Less Than Zero
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509
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510
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511
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512
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513
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514
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 1985
515
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich · 1986
516
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517
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518
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519
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520
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Manhattan Transfer
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522
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523
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Jack London · 1909
525
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Joyce Carol Oates · 1986
526
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528
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Midaq Alley
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534
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535
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Naguib Mahfouz · 1988
536
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537
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538
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539
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540
Moscow Stations
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Maxim Gorky · 1979
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543
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544
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545
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Samuel Beckett · 2012
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547
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548
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549
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550
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552
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553
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William Gibson · 1984
554
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555
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556
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557
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559
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560
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579
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614
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847
The Parable of the Blind
Gert Hofmann · 1986
848
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson · 1964
849
The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector · 1964
850
The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter · 1977
851
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo Calvino · 1957
852
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek · 1988
853
The Pigeon
Patrick Süskind · 1959
854
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1678
855
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1947
856
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks · 1988
857
The Plumed Serpent
D.H. Lawrence · 1926
858
The Poor Mouth
Flann O'Brien · 1981
859
The Port
Antun Šoljan · 1907
860
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain · 1934
861
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene · 1940
862
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961
863
The Professor’s House
Willa Cather · 1925
864
The Public Burning
Robert Coover · 1977
865
The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford · 1945
866
The Quest for Christa T.
Christa Wolf · 1968
867
The Quiet American
Graham Greene · 1940
868
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth · 1932
869
The Radiant Way
Margaret Drabble · 1987
870
The Ragazzi
Pier Paulo Pasolini · 2017
871
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell · 1914
872
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence · 1915
873
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
Marguerite Duras · 1964
874
The Razor’s Edge
W. Somerset Maugham · 1944
875
The Rebel
Albert Camus · 1979
876
The Recognitions
William Gaddis · 1955
877
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Miroslav Krleža
878
The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West · 1918
879
The Revenge for Love
Wyndham Lewis · 1937
880
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers · 1903
881
The River Between
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1965
882
The Roots of Heaven
Romain Gary · 2013
883
The Safety Net
Heinrich Böll · 1991
884
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · 1988
885
The Sea of Fertility
Yukio Mishima · 1971
886
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907
887
The Shadow Line
Joseph Conrad · 1917
888
The Shining
Stephen King · 1977
889
The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti · 2013
890
The Singapore Grip
J.G. Farrell · 1978
891
The Sorrow of Belgium
Hugo Claus · 1991
892
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929
893
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima · 1956
894
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré · 1963
895
The Stechlin
Theodor Fontane · 1995
896
The Story of O
Pauline Réage · 1965
897
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz · 1963
898
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson · 2021
899
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926
900
The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst · 1988
901
The Taebaek Mountains
Jung-rae Jo
902
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith · 1955
903
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati · 1940
904
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett · 1934
905
The Thinking Reed
Rebecca West · 1936
906
The Third Man
Graham Greene · 1935
907
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien · 1967
908
The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis · 1967
909
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan · 1915
910
The Time of Indifference
Alberto Moravia · 1929
911
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2011
912
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 1959
913
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy · 1945
914
The Tree of Man
Patrick White · 1955
915
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925
916
The Trusting and the Maimed
James Plunkett · 1980
917
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 1898
918
The Twilight Years
Sawako Ariyoshi · 1984
919
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2006
920
The Underdogs
Mariano Azuela · 1920
921
The Unknown Soldier
Vaino Linna · 2004
922
The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett · 2014
923
The Vice-Consul
Marguerite Duras · 1968
924
The Victim
Saul Bellow · 2020
925
The Violent Bear it Away
Flannery O'Connor · 1960
926
The Virgin in the Garden
A. S. Byatt · 1978
927
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf · 1984
928
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2011
929
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells · 1898
930
The Wars
Timothy Findley · 1898
931
The Wasp Factory
Iain M. Banks · 1984
932
The Waves
Virginia Woolf · 1931
933
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler · 1903
934
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall · 1928
935
The Wild Boys
William Burroughs · 1971
936
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James · 1902
937
The Witness
Juan Jose Saer · 1995
938
The Wonderful “O”
James Thurber · 1957
939
The World According to Garp
John Irving · 1979
940
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Jose Saramago · 1998
941
The Year of the Hare
Arto Paasilinna · 1996
942
The Years
Virginia Woolf · 1722
943
The Young Man
Botho Strauss · 1818
944
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
945
Them
Joyce Carol Oates · 2001
946
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Horace McCoy · 1935
947
Things: A Story of the Sixties
Georges Perec · 1990
948
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski · 1976
949
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein · 1909
950
Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante · 1978
951
Threepenny Novel
Bertolt Brecht · 1910
952
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 1871
953
Time of Silence
Luis Martín-Santos · 2021
954
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carré · 1974
955
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake · 1946
956
To Each His Own
Leonardo Sciascia · 1989
957
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 1937
958
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
959
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
960
To the North
Elizabeth Bowen · 1933
961
Tono-Bungay
H. G. Wells · 1890
962
Transit
Anna Seghers · 1976
963
Trawl
B.S. Johnson · 1900
964
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller · 1934
965
Tropic of Capricorn
Henry Miller · 1939
966
Troubles
J.G. Farrell · 1921
967
U.S.A. Trilogy
John Dos Passos · 1960
968
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920
969
Under Fire
Henri Barbusse · 1990
970
Under Satan's Sun
Georges Bernanos · 2017
971
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch · 1954
972
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947
973
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand · 1981
974
V.
Thomas Pynchon · 1600
975
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh · 1930
976
Vipers' Tangle
Francois Mauriac · 1933
977
Voss
Patrick White · 1957
978
W, or the Memory of Childhood
Georges Perec · 1975
979
Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee · 1980
980
War with the Newts
Karel Capek · 1959
981
Watchmen
Alan Moore · 1987
982
Waterland
Graham Swift · 1983
983
Watt
Samuel Beckett · 1953
984
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 2014
985
What Maisie Knew
Henry James · 1897
986
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster · 2020
987
White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1984
988
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 1966
989
Wild Harbour
Ian MacPherson · 1936
990
Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Richard Brautigan · 1976
991
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor · 1952
992
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
David Markson · 1988
993
Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Thomas Bernhard · 2013
994
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi · 1983
995
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence · 1920
996
World's End
T. Coraghessan Boyle · 1987
997
Worstward Ho
Samuel Beckett · 1983
998
Yes
Thomas Bernhard · 1981
999
Z
Vassilis Vassilikos · 2006
1000
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo · 2001