Book List

I recently made an agreement with a college friend to tackle a list of 1,000 books together. We came to the conclusion that if we split the list it would be a reasonable task. So I took the list, used a RNG on Excel, and split it up. I ended up with 519 books to take on. I am putting it on here for reference, and of course if anyone wants to tell me what I should read next!

Zee list:
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Amelia – Henry Fielding
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Amerika – Franz Kafka
Amok – Stefan Zweig
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Back – Henry Green
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Blindness – Henry Green
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer
Burmese Days – George Orwell
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Caught – Henry Green
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Complicity – Iain Banks
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Contact – Carl Sagan
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Evelina – Fanny Burney
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
G – John Berger
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Germinal – Émile Zola
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
How the Dead Live – Will Self
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
In Parenthesis – David Jones
Indigo – Marina Warner
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Junkie – William Burroughs
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Libra – Don DeLillo
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
London Fields – Martin Amis
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
Martin Eden – Jack London
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Mother – Maxim Gorky
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Native Son – Richard Wright
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
On Love – Alain de Botton
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Party Going – Henry Green
Passing – Nella Larsen
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Shame – Salman Rushdie
She – H. Rider Haggard
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Shroud – John Banville
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Sula – Toni Morrison
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
The Collector – John Fowles
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Colour – Rose Tremain
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Double – José Saramago
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Graduate – Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Joke – Milan Kundera
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Newton Letter – John Banville
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
The Nun – Denis Diderot
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Red Room – August Strindberg
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
The Sea – John Banville
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
The Untouchable – John Banville
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
Things – Georges Perec
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Transit – Anna Seghers
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Ulysses – James Joyce
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Waterland – Graham Swift
Watt – Samuel Beckett
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
White Noise – Don DeLillo
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo