Reading Challenges Perpetual

1,000,000 Pages Challenge

Past Monthly Page Count — 4244

Left to Go — 925,054

NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books 
I found this great list released Aug. 2011.  I think I’ll make this my new perpetual reading challenge.  I’ve been enjoying science fiction lately and have always enjoyed fantasy.  Books read are bolded.

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer by William Gibson
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand, by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God’s Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65.  I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel’s Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

Top 100 YA Novels (completely arbitrary, but I liked the challenge!)

1. Alex Finn – Beastly
2. Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
3. Ally Carter – Callagher Girls (1, 2, 3, 4)
4. Ally Condie – Matched
5. Alyson Noel – The Immortals  (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
6. Anastasia Hopcus – Shadow Hills
7. Angie Sage – Septimus Heap (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
8. Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1, 2, 3, 4)
9. Anna Godbersen – Luxe (1, 2, 3, 4)
10. Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
11. Aprilynne Pike – Wings (1, 2, 3)
12. Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush, Hush (1, 2)
13. Brandon Mull – Fablehaven (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
14. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
15. Cassandra Clare – The Mortal Instruments (1, 2, 3, 4)
16. Carrie Jones – Need (1, 2, 3)
17. Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth (1, 2, 3, 4)
18. Christopher Paolini  - Inheritance (1, 2, 3, 4)
19. Cinda Williams Chima – The Heir Chronicles (1, 2, 3)
20. Colleen Houck – Tigers Saga (1, 2)
21. Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (1, 2, 3)
22. Ellen Hopkins – Impulse
23. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
24. Faraaz Kazi – Truly, Madly, Deeply
25. Frank Beddor – The Looking Glass Wars (1, 2, 3)
26. Gabrielle Zevin – Elsewhere
27. Gail Carson Levine – Fairest
28. Holly Black – Tithe (1, 2, 3)
29. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
30. James Dashner – The Maze Runner (1, 2)
31. James Patterson – Maximum Ride (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
32. Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
33. Jeanne DuPrau – Books of Ember (1, 2, 3, 4)
34. Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
35. John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
36. John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
37. John Green – Looking for Alaska
38. John Green – Papper Towns
39. Jonathan Stroud – Bartimaeus (1, 2, 3, 4)
40. Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – Caster Chronicles (1, 2)
41. Kelley Armstrong – Darkest Powers (1, 2, 3)
42. Kristin Cashore – The Seven Kingdoms (1, 2)
43. Lauren Kate – Fallen (1, 2, 3)
44. Lemony Snicket -  Series of Unfortunate Events (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
45. Libba Bray – Gemma Doyle (1, 2, 3)
46. Lisa McMann – Dream Catcher (1, 2, 3)
47. Louise Rennison – Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
48. M.T. Anderson – Feed
49. Maggie Stiefvater – The Wolves of Mercy Falls (1, 2, 3)
50. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Shadow Children (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
51. Maria V. Snyder – Study (1, 2, 3)
52. Markus Zusak  - The Book Thief
53. Markus Zusak – I am the Messenger
54. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
55. Mary Ting – Crossroads
56. Maureen Johnson – Little Blue Envelope (1, 2)
57. Meg Cabot – All-American Girl (1, 2)
58. Meg Cabot – The Mediator (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
59. Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
60. Meg Rosoff – How I live now
61. Megan McCafferty – Jessica Darling (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
62. Megan Whalen Turner – The Queen’s Thief (1, 2, 3, 4)
63. Melina Marchetta – On the Jellicoe Road
64. Melissa de la Cruz – Blue Bloods (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
65. Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
66. Michael Grant – Gone  (1, 2, 3, 4)
67. Nancy Farmer – The House of the Scorpion
68. Neal Shusterman – Unwind
69. Neil Gaiman – Coraline
70. Neil Gaiman – Stardust
71. Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
72. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – House of Night (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )
73. Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials (1, 2, 3)
74. Rachel Caine – The Morganville Vampires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
75. Rachel Cohn & David Levithan – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
76. Richelle Mead – Vampire Academy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
77. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
78. Rom LcO’Feer – Somewhere carnal over 40 winks
79. S.L. Naeole – Grace (1, 2, 3, 4)
80. Sabrina Bryan & Julia DeVillers – Princess of Gossip
81. Sarah Dessen – Along for the Ride
82. Sarah Dessen – Lock and Key
83. Sarah Dessen – The Truth about Forever
84. Sara Shepard – Pretty Little Liars (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
85. Scott Westerfeld  - Leviathan (1, 2)
86. Scott Westerfeld  - Uglies (1, 2, 3)
87. Shannon Hale – Books of a Thousand Days
88. Shannon Hale – Princess Academy
89. Shannon Hale – The Books of Bayern (1, 2, 3, 4)
90. Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
91. Simone Elkeles – Perfect Chemistry (1, 2, 3)
92. Stephanie Meyer – The Host
93. Stephanie Meyer – Twilight Saga (1, 2, 3, 4)
94. Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
95. Susan Beth Pfeffer – Last Survivors (1, 2, 3)
96. Suzanne Collins – Hunger Games (1, 2, 3)
97. Suzanne Collins – Underland Chronicles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
98. Terry Pratchett – Tiffany Aching (1, 2, 3, 4)
99. Tonya Hurley – Ghost Girl (1, 2, 3)
100. Wendelin Van Draanen – Flipped

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I’ve found this list on so many other bloggers’ sites.  With my crazy reading, I thought it would be nice for me to keep track on my blog.  I’m going to highlight all that I’ve read…

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro                     — 2000s
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster                               — 1900s
71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World – Pat Barker
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
94. Great Apes – Will Self
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable – John Banville
101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
112. The Information – Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
123. Land – Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
138. Complicity – Iain Banks
139. On Love – Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
152. Indigo – Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
164. Arcadia – Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
169. Typical – Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
206. Libra – Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
246. Queer – William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend – David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
261. Shame – Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names – Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
312. The Shining – Stephen King
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless – Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
349. Sula – Toni Morrison
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
351. The Breast – Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
353. G – John Berger
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
396. Chocky – John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
409. The Magus – John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
414. Things – Georges Perec
415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector – John Fowles
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road – John Barth
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss – Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
560. Back – Henry Green
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
567. Loving – Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit – Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught – Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
577. Embers – Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
579. The Outsider – Albert Camus
580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going – Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
611. The Years – Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis – David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert MusilA Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
647. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Frdinand Céline
648. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
649. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
650. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
651. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
652. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
653. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
654. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
655. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
656. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
657. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
658. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
659. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
660. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
661. Passing – Nella Larsen
662. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
663. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
664. Living – Henry Green
665. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
666. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
667. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
668. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
669. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
670. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
671. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
672. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
673. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
674. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
675. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
676. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
677. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
678. Quartet – Jean Rhys
679. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
680. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
681. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
682. Nadja – André Breton
683. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
684. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
685. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
686. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
687. Amerika – Franz Kafka
688. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
689. Blindness – Henry Green
690. The Castle – Franz Kafka
691. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
692. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
693. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
694. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
695. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
696. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
697. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
698. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
699. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
700. The Trial – Franz Kafka
701. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
702. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
703. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
704. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
705. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
706. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
707. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
708. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
709. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
710. Cane – Jean Toomer
711. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
712. Amok – Stefan Zweig
713. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
714. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
715. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
716. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
717. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
718. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
719. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
720. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
721. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
722. Ulysses – James Joyce
723. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
724. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
725. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
726. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
727. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
728. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
729. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
730. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
731. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
732. Summer – Edith Wharton
733. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
734. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
735. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
736. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
737. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
738. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
739. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
740. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
741. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
742. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
743. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
744. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
745. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
746. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
747. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
748. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
749. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
750. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
751. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
752. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
753. Howards End – E.M. Forster
754. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
755. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
756. Martin Eden – Jack London
757. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
758. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
759. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
760. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
761. The Iron Heel – Jack London
762. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
763. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
764. Mother – Maxim Gorky
765. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
766. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
767. Young Törless – Robert Musil
768. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworth
769. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
770. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
771. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
772. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
773. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
774. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
775. The Ambassadors – Henry James
776. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
777. The Immoralist – André Gide
778. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
779. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
780. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
781. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
782. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
783. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
784. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
785. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross    – 1800s
786. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
787. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
788. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
789. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
790. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
791. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
792. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
793. Dracula – Bram Stoker
794. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
795. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
796. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
797. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
798. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
799. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
800. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
801. Born in Exile – George Gissing
802. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
803. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
804. News from Nowhere – William Morris
805. New Grub Street – George Gissing
806. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
807. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
808. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
809. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
810. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
811. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
812. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
813. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
814. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
815. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
816. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
817. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
818. She – H. Rider Haggard
819. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
820. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
821. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
822. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
823. Germinal – Émile Zola
824. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
825. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
826. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
827. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
828. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
829. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
830. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
831. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
832. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
833. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
834. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
835. Nana – Émile Zola
836. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
837. The Red Room – August Strindberg
838. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
839. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
840. Drunkard – Émile Zola
841. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
842. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
843. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
844. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
845. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
846. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
847. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
848. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
849. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
850. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
851. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
852. Middlemarch – George Eliot
853. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
854. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
855. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
856. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
857. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
858. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
859. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
860. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
861. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
862. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
863. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
864. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
865. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
866. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
867. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
868. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
869. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
870. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
871. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
872. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
873. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
874. Silas Marner – George Eliot
875. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
876. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
877. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
878. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
879. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
880. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
881. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
882. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
883. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
884. Adam Bede – George Eliot
885. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
886. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
887. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
888. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
889. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
890. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
891. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
892. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
893. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
894. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
896. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
897. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
898. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
899. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
900. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
901. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
902. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
903. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
904. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
905. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
906. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
907. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
909. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
910. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
911. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
912. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
913. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
914. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
915. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
916. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
917. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
918. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
919. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
920. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
921. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
922. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
923. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
924. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
925. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
926. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
927. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
928. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
929. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
930. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
931. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
932. Persuasion – Jane Austen
933. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
934. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
935. Emma – Jane Austen
936. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
937. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
938. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
939. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
940. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
941. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
942. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin         — 1700s
943. The Nun – Denis Diderot
944. Camilla – Fanny Burney
945. The Monk – M.G. Lewis
946. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
947. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
948. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
949. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
950. Justine – Marquis de Sade
951. Vathek – William Beckford
952. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
953. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
954. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
955. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
956. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
957. Evelina – Fanny Burney
958. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
959. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
960. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
961. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
962. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
963. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
964. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
965. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
966. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
967. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
968. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
969. Candide – Voltaire
970. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
971. Amelia – Henry Fielding
972. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
973. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
974. Tom Jones – Henry Fieldin
975. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
976. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
977. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
978. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
979. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
980. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
981. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
982. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
983. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
984. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
985. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
986. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
987. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
988. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn                   — Pre-1700
989. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
990. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
991. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
992. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
993. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
994. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
995. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
996. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
997. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
998. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
999. Metamorphoses – Ovid
1000. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: A Comprehensive Reference Source, Chronicling the History of the Novel    Preface by Peter Ackroyd, General Editor Peter Boxall

Goal: 5/196

Books Around the World

~~Antarctica~~

~~Asia~~

Mongolia: Warrior by Zoe Archer

~~Austrailia and Oceania~~

~~Europe~~

England: Stranger by Zoe Archer

Greece: Scoundrel by Zoe Archer

France: The Queen’s Dollmaker by Christine Trent

~~Middle East and North Africa~~

~~North America and the Caribbean~~

Canada: Rebel by Zoe Archer

~~South America~~

~~Sub-Saharan Africa~~

Goal: 2/51

Books Around the States

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas — You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York – The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

1. George Washington 1789-97
2. John Adams, 1797-1801 (Federalist)
3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-9 (Democratic-Republican)
4. James Madison, 1809-17 (Democratic-Republican)
5. James Monroe, 1817-25 (Democratic-Republican)
6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 (Democratic-Republican)
7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 (Democrat)
8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-41 (Democrat)
9. William Henry Harrison, 1841 (Whig)
10. John Tyler, 1841-45 (Whig)
11. James Knox Polk, 1845-49 (Democrat)
12.  Zachary Taylor, 1849-50 (Whig)
13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-53 (Whig)
14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-57 (Democrat)
15. James Buchanan, 1857-61 (Democrat)
16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 (Republican)
17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-69 (Democrat/National Union)
18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77 (Republican)
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81 (Republican)
20. James Abram Garfield, 1881 (Republican)
21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85 (Republican)
22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-89 and 1893-97 (Democrat)
23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93 (Republican)
24. William McKinley, 1897-1901 (Republican)
25. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-9 (Republican)
26. William Howard Taft, 1909-13 (Republican)
27. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21 (Democrat)
28. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 (Republican)
29. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29 (Republican)
30. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33 (Republican)
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45 (Democrat)
32. Harry S. Truman, 1945-53 (Democrat)
33. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61 (Republican)
34. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63 (Democrat)
35. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69 (Democrat)
36. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74 (Republican)
37. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77 (Republican)
38. James Earl Carter, 1977-81 (Democrat)
39. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89 (Republican)
40. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (Republican)
41. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 (Democrat)
42. George W. Bush, 2001-2009 (Republican)
43. Barack Hussein Obama, 2009- (Democrat)