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Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
1605
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
1644
Areopagitica, John Milton
1719
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
1722
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
1724
Roxanna, Daniel Defoe
1726
A System of Magick, Daniel Defoe
The Political History of the Devil, Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
1729
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
1740
Pamela, Samuel Richardson
1741
Shamela, Henry Fielding
1742
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
1748
Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
1749
Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
1751
Amelia, Henry Fielding
1753
Sir Charles Grandison, Samuel Richardson
1759
Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne
1782
Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1787
Justine, ou Les infortunes de la vertu, Donatien Alphonse
François de Sade
1797
Juliette, ou Les prospérités du vice, Donatien
Alphonse François de Sade
1811
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
1813
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
1814
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
1816
Emma, Jane Austen
1818
Persuasion, Jane Austen
1821
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey
1826
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
1830
The Red and the Black, Stendhal
1833
Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle
Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin
1834
The Last Days of Pompeii, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1835
Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
1836
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
1837
Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
1840
The Deerslayer, James Fennimore Cooper
The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
1841
La Fausse Maîtresse, Honoré de Balzac
1842
Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
1844
Les Paysans, Honoré de Balzac
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844,
Friedrich Engels
1847
Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx
1849
Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
1850
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851
London Labour and the London Poor Vols I-III, Henry Mayhew
1852
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
1853
Villette, Charlotte Brontë
1854
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1857
The Professor, Charlotte Brontë
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
1858
The Coral Island, R.M. Ballantyne
1859
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Adam Bede, George Eliot
1860
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
1861
Silas Marner, George Eliot
1851
London Labour and the London Poor Vol IV, Henry Mayhew
1862
Salammbo, Gustave Flaubert
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
1863
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
1864
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
1865
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The First Men in the Moon, Jules Verne
1866
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1868
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
1869
A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
1870
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
1871
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
Middlemarch, George Eliot
1873
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
1874
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
1876
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
1877
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
1878
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
1879
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880
Nana, Emile Zola
1881
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
1883
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Richard Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
1884
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
1885
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Richard Burton
King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
Germinal, Emile Zola
1886
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi, Richard Burton
The Romance of Two Worlds, Marie Corelli
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis
Stevenson
1887
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
Allan Quartermain, H. Rider Haggard
She, H. Rider Haggard
1889
Ardath, Marie Corelli
1890
The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
1891
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
1892
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer
1893
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson
1894
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
1895
The Sorrows of Satan, Marie Corelli
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Second Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Time Machine, H.G.Wells
1897
The Nigger of the Narcissus, Joseph Conrad
1898
The War of the Worlds, H.G.Wells
1899
Stalky & Co, Rudyard Kipling
1900
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
1901
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
1902
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Immoralist, André Gide
1903
The People of the Abyss, Jack London
1904
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
1905
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
1906
Mother, Maxim Gorky
Puck of Pook’s Hill, Rudyard Kipling
1908
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Iron Heel, Jack London
The Magician, W. Somerset Maugham
1909
Tono-Bungay, H.G.Wells
1910
Prester John, John Buchan
Howards End, E.M. Forster
1911
The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton
1912
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
1913
My Childhood, Maxim Gorky
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
1915
The Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan
The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Genius, Theodore Dreiser
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
Sergeant Michael Cassidy R.E, Herman Cyril McNeile "Sapper"
1916
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
1917
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle
1919
The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham
1920
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
Bull-Dog Drummond, Herman Cyril McNeile "Sapper"
1921
Chrome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
1922
Ulysses, James Joyce
1924
The Land that Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
1925
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
1926
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
1927
Witch Wood, John Buchan
Meet the Tiger, Leslie Charteris
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
archy and mehitabel, Don Marquis
To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
1928
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
1929
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
1930
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
The Defence, Vladimir Nabokov
The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
1932
The Magic Walking Stick, John Buchan
Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
1933
archys life of mehitabel, Don Marquis
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
The Shape of Things to Come, H.G.Wells
1934
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
1935
Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand
Mr Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood
archy does his part, Don Marquis
Swami and Friends, R. K. Narayan
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
1936
Coolie, Mulk Raj Anand
A Happy Death, Albert Camus
Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier
Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley
Black Spring, Henry Miller
Despair, Vladimir Nabokov
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
Godaan, Munshi Premchand
1937
Two Leaves and a Bud, Mulk Raj Anand
The Bachelor of Arts, R. K. Narayan
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
1938
The Black Book, Lawrence Durrell
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Unvanquished, William Faulkner
Count Belisarius, Robert Graves
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
The Dark Room, R. K. Narayan
Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
1939
The Village, Mulk Raj Anand
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
1940
Across Black Waters, Mulk Raj Anand
Les hommes oubliés de Dieu, Albert Cossery
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
1941
Nightfall, Isaac Asimov
The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
1942
The Sword and the Sickle, Mulk Raj Anand
L'étranger, Albert Camus
1943
L’Invitée, Simone de Beauvoir
The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
Being and Nothingness, Jean Paul Sartre
1944
The Barbers’ Trade Union, Mulk Raj Anand
The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
1945
Prospero’s Cell, Lawrence Durrell
The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller
The English Teacher, R. K. Narayan
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Age of Reason, Jean Paul Sartre
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
1946
King Jesus, Robert Graves
1947
The Plague, Albert Camus
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
1948
The White Goddess, Robert Graves
The Little World of Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
1949
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges
The Third Man, Graham Greene
A Writer’s Notebook, W. Somerset Maugham
Sexus, Henry Miller
Mr Sampath, R. K. Narayan
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
1950
The Simple Art of Murder, Raymond Chandler
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
1951
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
1952
Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Financial Expert, R. K. Narayan
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
1953
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
The Private Life of an Indian Prince, Mulk Raj Anand
Reflections on a Marine Venus, Lawrence Durrell
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Don Camillo and His Flock, Giovanni Guareschi
Plexus, Henry Miller
1954
The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Christ Recrucified, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
1955
The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov
Mendiants et Orgueilleux, Albert Cossery
The Inheritors, William Golding
The Greek Myths, Robert Graves
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
H.M.S. Ulysses, Alistair MacLean
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Waiting for the Mahatma, R. K. Narayan
The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
1956
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
The Fall, Albert Camus
The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
Pincher Martin, William Golding
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie Smith
1957
The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
Bitter Lemons, Lawrence Durrell
Justine, Lawrence Durrell
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
The Mystic Masseur, V.S. Naipaul
Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
Voss, Patrick White
1958
Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
Balthazar, Lawrence Durrell
Mountolive, Lawrence Durrell
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
The Odyssey, a Modern Sequel, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Leopard, Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Suffrage of Elvira, V.S. Naipaul
The Guide, R. K. Narayan
1959
The Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Free Fall, William Golding
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul
1960
The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
Clea, Lawrence Durrell
Nexus, Henry Miller
Words, Jean Paul Sartre
1961
The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
The Man-Eater of Malgudi, R. K. Narayan
1962
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes
Island, Aldous Huxley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
1963
The Collector, John Fowles
Comrade Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi
The Centaur, John Updike
1964
Herzog, Saul Bellow
The Eve of Saint Venus, Anthony Burgess
The Spire, William Golding
The Fratricides, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Defense, Vladimir Nabokov
An Area of Darkness, V.S. Naipaul
1965
The Egyptologists, Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest
The Millstone, Margaret Drabble
The Magus, John Fowles
Report to Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis
1966
Giles Goat Boy, John Barth
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Nabokov’s Quartet, Vladimir Nabokov
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The Solid Mandala, Patrick White
1967
The Magic Toyshop, Angela Carter
The Pyramid, William Golding
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The Mimic Men, V.S. Naipaul
The Vendor of Sweets, R. K. Narayan
1968
Enderby Outside, Anthony Burgess
The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda
Tunc, Lawrence Durrell
Couples, John Updike
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
1969
The Waterfall, Margaret Drabble
Spirit of Place, Lawrence Durrell
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
Ada, Vladimir Nabokov
1970
Mr Sammler’s Planet, Saul Bellow
Nunquam, Lawrence Durrell
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
Blue Movie, Terry Southern
1971
Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
1972
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
The Needle's Eye, Margaret Drabble
Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov
1973
The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White
1974
Monsieur, Lawrence Durrell
Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing
Look at the Harlequins! Vladimir Nabokov
The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1975
Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
The Clockwork Testament, Anthony Burgess
Tyrants Destroyed, Vladimir Nabokov
Guerillas, V.S. Naipaul
1976
The Painter of Signs, R. K. Narayan
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
1977
Sicilian Carousel, Lawrence Durrell
Daniel Martin, John Fowles
The Harafish, Naguib Mahfouz
Song of Solomon, Tony Morrison
India, A Wounded Civilisation, V.S. Naipaul
Staying On, Paul Scott
1978
Livia, Lawrence Durrell
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
1979
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson
1980
Metroland, Julian Barnes
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban
1981
A Farewell to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir
Bliss, Peter Carey
Lanark, Alasdair Gray
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
1982
Constance, Lawrence Durrell
1983
Sebastian, Lawrence Durrell
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
A Tiger for Malgudi, R. K. Narayan
Shame, Salman Rushdie
Waterland, Graham Swift
1984
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
Neuromancer, William Gibson
God Knows, Joseph Heller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
1985
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Illywhacker, Peter Carey
Quinx, Lawrence Durrell
A Maggot, John Fowles
The Tenth Man, Graham Greene
The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
1986
The Circle of Reason, Amitav Ghosh
Memory’s Dancer, Susan Wills Goss
Talkative Man, R. K. Narayan
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
1987
In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster
All
We Need of Hell, Harry Crews
Beloved, Tony Morrison
1988
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Baumgartner’s Bombay, Anita Desai
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
1989
London Fields, Martin Amis
Moon Palace, Paul Auster
A History of the World in 101⁄2
Chapters, Julian Barnes
1990
Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt
Caesar’s Vast Ghost, Lawrence Durrell
The
Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
The World of Nagaraj, R. K. Narayan
1991
Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Ever After, Graham Swift
1992
Vox, Nicholson Baker
Angels & Insects, A.S. Byatt
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
1993
Love, Tony Morrison
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
1994
Mister Vertigo, Paul Auster
The Fermata, Nicholson Baker
The Unusual Life of Tristram Smith, Peter Carey
In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh
At the Hall, Henrietta Soames
1995
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
The Piano Man's Daughter, Timothy Findley
The
Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh
The Double Tongue, William Golding
The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
1996
Silk, Alessandro Baricco
Accordion Crimes, Annie Proulx
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Last Orders, Graham Swift
1997
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
1998
England, England, Julian Barnes
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker
The House Gun, Nadine Gordimer
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
1999
Les couleurs de l'infamie, Albert Cossery
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Pilgrim,
Timothy Findley
An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
2000
Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, Joseph Heller
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
2001
Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
Atonement, Ian McEwan
2002
The
Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
2003
Yellow Dog, Martin Amis
Under a Tin-Grey Sari, Wayne Ashton
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
2004
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Oracle Night, Paul Auster
Checkpoint, Nicholson Baker
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel García
Márquez
2005
The
Sea, John Banville
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday, Ian McEwan
2006
The Book of Dave, Will Self
2007
Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
Darkmans, Nicola Barker
The Gathering, Anne Enright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Mr Pip, Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Winnie and Wolf, A.N. Wilson
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
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