1 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2 In Memorium to Identity by Kathy Acker

3 The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
5 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
6 Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
7 Winesberg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
8 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
11 Crash by J. G. Ballard
12 Le Pre Goriot by Honor de Balzac
13 Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, (A trilogy) by Samuel Beckett
14 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
15 Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
16 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
17 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
18 The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
19 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront
20 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
21 Possession by A.S. Byatt
22 The Stranger by Albert Camus
23 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Cline
24 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
25 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
26 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
27 Stories by Anton Chekhov
28 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
29 Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
30 Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
31 Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Dblin
32 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
33 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
34 The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
35 Middlemarch by George Eliot
36 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
37 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
38 Medea by Euripides
39 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
40 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
41 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
43 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
44 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
45 The French Lieutenant s Woman by John Fowles
46 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
47 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
48 Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garca Lorca
49 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garca Mrquez
50 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garca Mrquez
51 Cyberspace Trilogy by William Gibson
52 Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
53 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
54 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
55 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass
56 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
57 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
58 The Devil to Pay in the Backland by Joo Guimares Rosa
59 Hunger by Knut Hamsun

60 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

61 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
62 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
63 Iliad by Homer
64 Odyssey by Homer
65 A Doll s House by Henrik Ibsen
66 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
67 The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Is
herwood
68 Ulysses by James Joyce
69 Dubliners by James Joyce
70 Stories by Franz Kafka
71 The Trial by Franz Kafka
72 Shakuntala by Kalidasa
73 The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
74 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
75 One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest by Ken Kesey
76 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
77 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
78 Independent People by Halldr Laxness
79 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carr
80 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
81 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
82 Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
83 A Madman s Diary
by Lu Xun
84 Atonement by Ian McEwan
85 Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
86 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
87 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
88 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
89 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
90 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
91 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
92 History by Elsa Morante
93 Beloved by Toni Morrison
94 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
95 The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
96 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
97 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
98 A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
99 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
100 The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O Brien
101 At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O Brien
102 Wise Blood by Flannery O Connor
103 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
104 Animal Farm by George Orwell
105 Metamorphoses by Ovid
106 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
107 Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
108 A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell
109 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
110 Gravity s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
111 The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by Franois Rabelais
112 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
113 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
114 Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone by JK Rowling
115 Pedro Pramo by Juan Rulfo
116 Masnavi by Rumi
117 Midnight s Children by Salman Rushdie
118 Bostan by Saadi

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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Blindness by Jos Saramago
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
Book of Job by Unknown
One Thousand and One Nights by Unknown
Njl s Saga by Unknown
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ramayana by Valmiki
Aeneid by Virgil
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Mahabharata by Vyasa
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar