2000s
8. The Plot Against
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
1900s
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
134. Trainspotting –
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
225. Matigari –
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being –
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
312. The Shining – Stephen King
314. Petals of Blood –
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
411. Wide
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
478. The
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
529. The Catcher in the
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
587. For Whom the
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
614. Out of
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
708. A Passage to
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
762. The Iron Heel – Jack London
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
1800s
788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831.
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902.
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
937.
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
1700s
949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
952. Vathek – William Beckford
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
pre-1700s
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus