Book Lists

This is a compilation of the lists of books that I am collecting. I also read and own books that are not listed here, particularly books by Nobel laureates which compose a whole new list, but for the sake of having a book collection, I prioritize these. It is composed of the following books:

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
• National Book Award for Fiction Winners
• Man Booker Prize Winners
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Winners
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winners
• All TIME 100 Novels
• Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels
• Radcliffe’s Rival 100 Best Novels
• The Novel 100

355/459 (77.34%) – Updated last April 2013. Underlined items are books that I own.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
3. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
5. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
6. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
9. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
10. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
11. Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
12. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
13. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
14. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
15. The Ambassadors by Henry James
16. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
18. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
19. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
20. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
21. Animal Farm by George Orwell
22. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
23. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
24. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
25. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
26. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
27. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
28. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
29. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
30. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
31. Atonement by Ian McEwan
32. Augustus by John Williams
33. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
34. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
35. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
36. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
37. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. Being Dead by Jim Crace
39. A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
40. Beloved by Toni Morrison
41. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
42. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
43. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
44. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
45. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
46. Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
47. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
48. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
49. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
50. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
51. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
52. Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
53. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
54. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
55. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
56. The Bostonians by Henry James
57. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
58. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
59. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
60. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
61. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
62. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
63. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
64. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
65. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
66. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
67. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
68. Candide by Voltaire
69. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
71. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
72. The Centaur by John Updike
73. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
74. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
75. Chimera by John Barth
76. Cities of Salt by ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif
77. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
78. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
79. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
80. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
81. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
82. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
83. The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
84. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
85. The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’Connor
86. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
87. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
88. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
89. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
90. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
91. The Counterlife by Philip Roth
92. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
93. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
94. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
95. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
96. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
97. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
98. De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage
99. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
100. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
101. A Death in the Family by James Agee
102. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
103. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
104. Deliverance by James Dickey
105. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
106. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
107. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
108. Dracula by Bram Stoker
109. Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
110. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
111. Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
112. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
113. The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
114. The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
115. Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
116. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
117. Emma by Jane Austen
118. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
119. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
120. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
121. Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
122. Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
123. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
124. A Fable by William Faulkner
125. Falconer by John Cheever
126. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
127. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
128. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
129. The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
130. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
131. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
132. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
133. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
134. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
135. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
136. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
137. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
138. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
139. A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
140. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
141. G. by John Berger
142. The Gathering by Anne Enright
143. George Mills by Stanley Elkin
144. Germinal by Emile Zola
145. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
146. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
147. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
148. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
149. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
150. Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
151. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
152. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
153. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
154. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
155. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
156. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
157. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
158. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
159. Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
160. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
161. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
162. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
163. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
164. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
165. Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
166. The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
167. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
168. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
169. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
170. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
171. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
172. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
173. Herzog by Saul Bellow
174. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
175. His Family by Ernest Poole
176. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
177. Holiday by Stanley Middleton
178. Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
179. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
180. The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
181. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
182. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
183. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
184. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
185. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
186. How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
187. Howards End by E. M. Forster
188. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
189. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
190. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
191. In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
192. In America by Susan Sontag
193. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
194. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
195. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
196. In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
197. Independence Day by Richard Ford
198. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
199. Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
200. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
201. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
202. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
203. Ironweed by William Kennedy
204. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
205. Jazz by Toni Morrison
206. Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
207. JR by William Gaddis
208. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
209. Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
210. The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
211. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
212. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
213. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
214. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
215. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
216. The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
217. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
218. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
219. Last Orders by Graham Swift
220. The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
221. Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
222. Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
223. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
224. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
225. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
226. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
227. Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
228. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
229. Light in August by William Faulkner
230. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
231. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
232. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
233. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
234. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
235. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
236. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
237. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
238. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
239. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
240. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
241. Loving by Henry Green
242. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
243. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
244. The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
245. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
246. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
247. The Magus by John Fowles
248. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
249. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
250. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
251. Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
252. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
253. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
254. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
255. The March by E. L. Doctorow
256. March by Geraldine Brooks
257. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
258. The Master by Colm Toibin
259. Mating by Norman Rush
260. The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
261. Middlemarch by George Eliot
262. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
263. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
264. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
265. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
266. Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
267. Money by Martin Amis
268. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
269. Morte D’Urban by J. F. Powers
270. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
271. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
272. Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
273. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
274. Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
275. My Antonia by Willa Cather
276. My Heart So White by Javier Marias
277. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
278. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
279. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
280. Native Son by Richard Wright
281. Neuromancer by William Gibson
282. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
283. The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
284. No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
285. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
286. Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
287. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
288. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
289. October Light by John Gardner
290. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
291. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
292. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
293. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
294. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
295. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
296. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
297. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
298. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
299. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
300. One of Ours by Willa Cather
301. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
302. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
303. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
304. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
305. Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann
306. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
307. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
308. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
309. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
310. Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
311. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
312. Petersburg by Andrey Bely
313. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
314. Plains Song by Wright Morris
315. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
316. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
317. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
318. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
319. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
320. Possession by A. S. Byatt
321. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
322. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
323. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
324. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
325. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
326. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
327. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
328. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
329. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
330. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
331. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
332. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
333. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
334. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
335. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
336. The Reivers by William Faulkner
337. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
338. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
339. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
340. Rites of Passage by William Golding
341. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
342. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
343. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
344. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
345. Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
346. Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
347. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
348. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
349. Saville by David Storey
350. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
351. Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
352. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
353. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
354. The Sea by John Banville
355. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
356. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
357. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
     
358. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
359. Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
360. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
361. Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
362. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
363. The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
364. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
365. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
366. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
367. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
368. So Big by Edna Ferber
369. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
370. Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
371. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
372. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
373. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
374. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
375. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
376. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
377. Spartina by John Casey
378. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
379. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
380. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
381. Staying On by Paul Scott
382. Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
383. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
384. The Store by T. S. Stribling
385. The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
386. The Stranger by Albert Camus
387. Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
388. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
389. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
390. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
391. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
392. Ten North Frederick by John O’Hara
393. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
394. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
395. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
396. Them by Joyce Carol Oates
397. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
398. This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
399. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
400. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
401. Three Junes by Julia Glass
402. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
403. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
404. Tinkers by Paul Harding
405. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
406. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
407. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
408. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
409. The Town by Conrad Richter
410. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
411. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
412. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
413. The Trial by Franz Kafka
414. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
415. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
416. Troubles by J. G. Farrell
417. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
418. The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
419. U. S. A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
420. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
421. Ulysses by James Joyce
422. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
423. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
424. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
425. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
426. Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
427. Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
428. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
429. Waiting by Ha Jin
430. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
431. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
432. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
433. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
434. The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
435. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
436. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
437. The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
438. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
439. White Noise by Don DeLillo
440. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
441. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
442. Wide Open by Nicola Barker
443. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
444. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
445. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
446. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
447. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
448. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
449. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
450. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
451. Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
452. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
453. The World According to Garp by John Irving
454. World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow
455. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
456. The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
457. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
458. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
459. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm