1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (3rd edition,

2010)
Pre-1800
2. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - Anonymous
9. Amadis of Gaul - Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
15. Thomas of Reading Thomas Deloney
28. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus - J. Arbuthnot, J. Gray, T.
Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
51. Anton Reiser - Karl Phillipp Mortiz
1800's
79. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff
89. The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience
92. Camera Obscura - Hildebrand
98. Facundo - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
113. Green Henry - Gottfried Keller
116. Indian Summer - Adalbert Stifter
152. The Crime of Father Amaro - Jose
Maria Eca de Queiros
160. The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga
167. The Regent's Wife - Leopoldo Alas (Clarin)
176. The People of Hemso August Strindberg
178. Under the Yoke - Ivan Vazov
189. Gosta Berling's Saga Selma Lagerlof
194. The Viceroys - Federico De Roberto
196. Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane
204. Fruits of the Earth - Andre Gide
206. As a Man Grows Older - Italo Svevo
209. The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
210. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi
1900's
212. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem - Emilio Salgari
214. None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler
220. The Immoralist - Andre Gide
229. Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
230. Solitude - Victor Catala
245. The Charwoman's Daughter James Stephens
249. Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
251. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
261. Pallieter - Felix Timmermans
271. Life of Christ - Giovanni Papini
274. Claudine's House - Colette
276. The Forest of the Hanged Liviu Rebreanu
286. The Green Hat - Michael Arlen
287. The New World - Heruy Wolde Selassie
289. The Artomonov Business Maxim Gorky
291. The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
294. Chaka the Zulu - Thomas Mofolo
297. One, No one and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi
Pirandello
298. Under Satan's Sun Georges Bernanos
300. Alberta and Jacob - Cora Sandel
302. Blindness - Henry Green
306. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
310. Nadja - Andre Breton
319. Retreat Without Song Shahan Shahnour
320. Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau
323. The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia
325. I Thought of Daisy - Edmund Wilson
330. Her Privates We - Frederic Manning
331. The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
332. Monica - Saunders Lewis
338. The Return of Philip Latinowicz - Miroslav Krleza
340. The Forbidden Realm - J. J. Slauerhoff
343. Vipers' Tangle - Francois Mauriac
345. Cheese - Willem Elsschot
347. A Day Off - Storm Jameson
359. The Bells of Basel - Louis Aragon
377. In Parenthesis - David Jones
391. On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleza
403. Broad and Alien is the World Ciro Alegria
404. The Living and the Dead Patrick White
405. The Harvesters - Cesare Pavese
406. Conversations in Sicily Elio Vittorini
411. Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann
420. Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi
421. Arcanum 17 Andr Breton
423. Bosnian Chronicle - Ivo Andri
425. Andrea - Carmen Laforet
426. The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch
427. Titus Groan Mervyn Peake
428. Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
429. Back - Henry Green
430. House in the Uplands Erskine Caldwell
438. Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
439. Journey to the Alcarria Camilo Jose Cela
440. Ashes and Diamonds Jerzy Andrzejewski
441. Disobedience - Alberto Moravia
442. All About H. Hatterr - G.V. Desani
444. In the Heart of the Seas Shmuel Yosef Agnon
445. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz
Borowski
449. Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier
453. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Simon
Vestdijk
457. The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese
461. The Abbot C Georges Bataille
462. The Guiltless - Hermann Broch
468. The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq
473. The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
477. The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Drrenmatt
484. The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier
488. The Dark Child - Camara Laye
489. A Day in Spring - Ciril Kosmac
498. The Unknown Soldier - Vaino Linna
500. The Ragazzi Pier Paulo Pasolini
502. The Burning Plain - Juan Rulfo

504. The Trusting and the Maimed - James Plunkett

511. The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon
512. The Roots of Heaven Romain Gary
516. The Glass Bees - Ernst Junger
520. The Manila Rope - Veijo Meri
521. The Deadbeats - Ward Ruyslinck
527. The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
534. The Bitter Glass Eils Dillon
541. Down Second Avenue Ezekiel Mphahlele
545. Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse
547. Promise at Dawn Romain Gary
550. The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer
551. Halftime - Martin Walser
552. The Country Girls Edna OBrien
553. Bebo's Girl - Carlo Cassola
554. God's Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembene
555. The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti
563. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
564. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Xose Neira Vilas
572. Girl With Green Eyes/The Country Girl Edna OBrien
577. The Third Wedding - Costas Taktsis
595. The River Between Ngugi wa Thiongo
596. Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis
602. To Each His Own Leonardo Sciascia
605. Marks of Identity - Juan Goytisolo
606. The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras
611. Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
612. Z - Vassilis Vassilikos
613. Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson
614. The Manor - Issac Bashevis Singer
616. No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson
617. Day of the Dolphin - Robert Merle
620. The Cathedral - Oles Honchar
623. The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz
624. The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf
631. A Void/Avoid Georges Perec
632. Them Joyce Carol Oates
641. Tent of Miracles Jorge Amado
642. The Case Worker - Gyorgy Konrad
643. Moscow Stations Venedikt Yerofeev
646. Here's to You, Jesusa! Elena Poniatowska
649. Jahrestage Uwe Johnson
650. A World for Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique
655. Cataract - Mykhaylo Osadchy
660. House Mother Normal - B. S. Johnson
665. The Twilight Years Sawako Ariyoshi
673. A Question of Power Bessie Head
678. Dusklands J.M. Coetzee
680. The Port - Antun Soljan
685. Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
691. W, or the Memory of Childhood Georges Perec
693. Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf
695. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
701. The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
714. The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
719. So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
724. Fool's Gold - Maro Douka
731. Smell of Sadness Alfred Kossmann
735. Summer in Baden-Baden Leonid Tsypkin
736. The House with the Blind Glass Windows - Herbjorg
Wassmo
737. Leaden Wings - Zhang Jie
741. Couples, Passerby - Botho Strauss
750. If Not Now, When? Primo Levi
753. The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus
758. The Christmas Oratorio Goran Tunstrom
759. Fado Alexandrino - Antonio Lobo Antunes
760. The Witness - Juan Jose Saer
764. Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross
766. Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel - Julian Rios
774. The Bus Conductor Hines James Kelman
778. The Young Man - Botho Strauss
781. Half of Man is Woman Zhang Xianliang
788. Simon and the Oaks Marianne Fredriksson
791. The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofmann
793. Ancestral Voices - Etienne van Heerden
794. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman - Andrzej Szczypiorski
795. The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
796. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
799. Memory of Fire - Eduardo Galeano
801. Matigari - Ngugi Wa Thiongo
804. Taebaek Mountain Range Jo Jung-rae
805. Ballad for Georg Henych Viktor Paskov
807. Worlds End T. Coraghessan Boyle
809. Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende
816. The Afternoon of a Writer Peter Handke
817. The Radiant Way Margaret Drabble
820. Cigarettes Harry Mathews
822. The First Garden - Anne Herbert
823. The Last World Christoph Ransmayr
832. Inland - Gerald Murnane
836. The Trick is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway
846. The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle
852. The Daughter - Pavlos Matesis
855. The Laws - Connie Palmen
857. Astradeni - Eugenia Fakinou
864. Memoirs of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
865. Asphodel H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
871. Indigo - Marina Warner
875. The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose
878. Life is a Caravanserai Emine zdamar
879. Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
881. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Alvaro
Murtis
882. Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
890. Looking for the Possible Dance A.L. Kennedy
894. The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm
895. Disappearance David Dabydeen

896. Deep River - Shusaku Endo

900. City Sister Silver Jchym Topol
903. Our Lady of the Assassins Fernando Vallejo
904. Land Park Kyong-ni
912. Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
916. The Clay Machine-Gun Victor Pelevin
918. Forever a Stranger Hella Haasse
922. A Light Comedy - Eduardo Mendoza
926. Margot and the Angels Kristien Hemmerechts
927. The Life of Insects Victor Pelevin
932. Crossfire - Miyabe Miyuki
936. All Souls Day Cees Nooteboom
937. The Heretic - Miguel Delibes
939. The Talk of the Town Ardal OHanlon
940. Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
944. Pavel's Letters - Monika Maron
945. In Search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
946. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka
Ugresic
2000's
949. Celestial Harmonies Pter Esterhzy
970. Lady Number Thirteen - Jose Carlos Somoza
978. The Book about Blanch and Marie - Per Olov Enquist
997. Cost - Roxanna Robinson
Additional (2012)
1. Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson
2. Vanishing Point David Markson
3. Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair
4. The Colour Rose Tremain
5. Thursbitch Alan Garner
6. Small Island Andrea Levy
7. Islands Dan Sleigh
8. London Orbital Iain Sinclair
9. The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
10. That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern
11. Gabriels Gift Hanif Kureishi
12. How the Dead Live Will Self
13. Small Remedies Shashi Deshpande
14. Blonde Joyce Carol Oates
15. The Romantics Pankaj Mishra
16. Everything You Need AL Kennedy
17. The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie
18. Intimacy Hanif Kureishi
19. The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst
20. Marya Joyce Carol Oates
21. The Diary of Jane Somers Doris Lessing
22. Yes Thomas Bernhard
23. The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter
24. Petals of Blood Ngugi Wa Thiongo
25. Amateurs Donald Barthelme
26. The Breast Philip Roth
27. Mercier et Camier Samuel Beckett
28. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm
Lowry
29. Trawl BS Johnson
30. Albert Angelo BS Johnson
31. Our Ancestors Italo Calvino
32. Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
33. The Wonderful O James Thurber
34. The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
35. The Victim Saul Bellow
36. Caught Henry Green
37. After the Death of Don Juan Sylvie Townsend Warner
38. The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis
39. Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson
40. England Made Me Graham Greene
41. Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht
42. Novel With Cocaine M Ageyev
43. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
44. Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico
45. The Last September Elizabeth Bowen
46. Harriet Hume Rebecca West
47. The Childermass Wyndham Lewis
48. Quartet Jean Rhys
49. The Plumed Serpent DH Lawrence
50. Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos
51. The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus
52. Strait is the Gate Andr Gide
53. Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Prez Galdos
54. La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas
55. The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe
56. Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton
57. Metamorphoses Ovid