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Read as an adult (1990s-2013) (list order)3 Auster, Paul - Invisible
22 Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
42 Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas
45 Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
57 Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore
61 Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
63 Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
68 Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
72 Pamuk, Orhan - Snow
79 Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke
81 Auster, Paul - The Book of Illusions
85 McEwan, Ian - Atonement
99 Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
124 Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart
131 Waters, Sarah - Tipping The Velvet
134 Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
136 Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
138 Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
147 Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things
160 Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace
174 Auster, Paul - Mr Vertigo
180 Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
184 de Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
190 Proulx, E. Annie - The Shipping News
191 Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting
192 Faulks, Sebastian - Birdsong
206 Atwood, Margaret - The Robber Bride
208 Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
218 Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
220 Banks, Iain - The Crow Road
223 Høeg, Peter - Smilla’s Sense of Snow
232 Chang, Jung - Wild Swans
233 Amis, Martin - Time's Arrow
238 Mankell, Henning - Faceless Killers
245 de Bernieres, Louis - Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
254 Byatt, A. S. - Possession
260 Auster, Paul - Moon Palace
263 Ishiguro, Kazuo - Remains of the Day
269 Esquivel, Laura - Like Water For Chocolate
275 Atwood, Margaret - Cat's Eye
276 Eco, Umberto - Foucault's Pendulum
282 Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda
293 Drabble, Margaret - The Radiant Way
299 Auster, Paul - The New York Trilogy
301 Morrison, Toni - Beloved
302 Allende, Isabel - Of Love and Shadows
313 Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of the Floating World
321 Márquez, Gabriel García - Love in the Time of Cholera
342 Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
345 Ballard, J.G. - Empire of the Sun
349 Banks, Iain - The Wasp Factory
355 Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's Parrot
373 Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
376 Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's Ark
377 Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits
397 Toole, John Kennedy - Confederacy of Dunces
400 Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose
404 Kundera, Milan - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
405 Brink, Andre - A Dry White Season
411 Calvino, Italo - If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
419 Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea
425 King, Stephen - The Shining
465 Le Carré, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
466 Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of Champions
472 Greene, Graham - The Honorary Consul
477 Welty, Eudora - The Optimist's Daughter
480 Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book
482 Atwood, Margaret - Surfacing
497 Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
513 Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
514 Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
516 Becker - Jacob the Liar
541 Márquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
547 O'Brien, Flann - The Third Policeman
564 Vonnegut, Kurt - God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
565 O'Connor, Flannery - Everything That Rises Must Converge
575 Achebe, Chinua - Arrow of God
579 Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat's Cradle
580 Webb, Charles - The Graduate
585 Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
592 Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
598 Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths
605 Salinger, J. D. - Franny and Zooey
609 Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris
610 Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
614 O'Connor, Flannery - The Violent Bear It Away
620 Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mocking Bird
633 Capote, Truman - Breakfast At Tiffany's
638 Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
654 Kerouac, Jack - On The Road
696 Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
706 O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood
714 Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye
767 Steinbeck, John - Cannery Row
781 Faulkner, William - Go Down, Moses
793 Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom The Bell Tolls
798 O'Brien, Flann - At Swim, Two Birds
802 Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
816 Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
830 Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With The Wind
834 Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom!
840 McCoy, Horace - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
853 Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night
866 Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
867 Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm
887 Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell To Arms
896 Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
900 Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
912 Woolf, Virginia - To The Lighthouse
916 Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
928 Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway
961 Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
975 Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
977 Ryunosuke, Akutagawa - Rashomon
981 Lawrence, D. H. - The Rainbow
982 Buchan, John - The Thirty Nine Steps
983 Soseki, Natsume - Kokoro
986 Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan of the Apes
992 Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
1013 Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
1019 London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
1024 James, Henry - The Wings of the Dove
1025 Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
1046 Stoker, Bram - Dracula
1049 Wells, H. G. - The Time Machine
1051 Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure
1057 Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1061 Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1063 Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Grey
1090 Tolstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1096 James, Henry - The Portrait of A Lady
1099 Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov
1103 Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
1111 Hardy, Thomas - Far From the Madding Crowd
1118 Eliot, George - Middlemarch
1126 Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot
1127 Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
1132 Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
1140 Eliot, George - Silas Marner
1141 Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
1146 Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
1152 Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
1153 Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South
1158 Brontë, Charlotte - Villette
1163 Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
1164 Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
1167 Gaskell, Elizabeth - Mary Barton
1169 Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
1170 Brontë, Anne - Agnes Grey
1173 Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
1206 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - Frankenstein
1207 Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey
1208 Austen, Jane - Persuasion
1211 Austen, Jane - Emma
1212 Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park
1213 Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
1214 Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility
1237 de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos - Dangerous Liaisons
1262 Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
1264 Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders
1266 Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
1288 Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
1302 Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84
2014 (in order of reading)1244 Sterne, Laurence - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
1007 Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent
1122 Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
1045 James, Henry - What Maisie Knew
1015 Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
918 Kafka, Franz - The Castle
1131 Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
1039 James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
169 Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
2015 (in order of reading)
1274 de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel - Don Quixote
492 Mishima, Yukio - The Sea of Fertility tetralogy
904 Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro - Some Prefer Nettles
938 Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We
892 Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
402 Le Carré, John - Smiley's People
1147 Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White
968 Conrad, Joseph - The Shadow Line
418 Perec, Georges - Life: A User's Manual
1050 Fontane, Theodore - Effi Briest
2016 (in order of reading)1102 Hardy, Thomas - The Return of the Native
875 Woolf, Virginia - The Waves
820 Hedayat, Sedagh - The Blind Owl
408 Gordimer, Nadine - Burger's Daughter
1159 Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
993 Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
903 Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's End
23 Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
989 Lawrence, D H - Sons and Lovers
731 Mitford, Nancy - Love in a Cold Climate
768 Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love
817 Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
15 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a Yellow Sun
1054 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - The Yellow Wallpaper
Read as a child (list order)
649 Wyndham, John - The Midwich Cuckoos
770 Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Longstocking
819 Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Hobbit
913 Williamson, Henry - Tarka the Otter
1113 Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days
1119 Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
1128 Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
1133 Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1137 Kingsley, Charles - The Water Babies
1171 Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
1177 Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
1182 Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
1205 Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
Read as a teen (list order)
290 Adams, Douglas - The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
291 Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
334 Atwood, Margaret - Handmaid's Tale
393 Golding, William - Rites of Passage
412 Adams, Douglas - The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
417 Irving, John - The World According to Garp
533 Hines, Barry - A Kestral for a Knave
607 Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
624 Waterhouse, Keith - Billy Liar
627 Lee, Laurie - Cider With Rosie
665 Tolkein, J. R. R. - The Lord of the Rings
684 Golding, William - The Lord of the Flies
710 Wyndham, John - Day of the Triffids
724 Peake, Mervyn - Gormenghast
740 Paton, Alan - Cry, The Beloved Country
757 Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan
762 Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
766 Orwell, George - Animal Farm
775 de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine - The Little Prince
810 du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
824 Dineson, Isak - Out of Africa
852 Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
882 Waugh, Evelyn - Vile Bodies
907 Waugh, Evelyn - Decline and Fall
924 Christie, Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
929 Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
939 Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India
995 Forster, E. M. - Howard's End
1000 Forster, E. M. - A Room with a View
1026 Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur - The Hound of the Baskervilles
1028 Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
1044 Wells, H. G. - The Invisible Man
1079 Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1085 Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1092 Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
1190 Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist
1195 Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1198 Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
1294 Aesopus - Aesop's Fables