501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)Modern Fiction

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From the introduction to "501 Must-Read Books": "The recommendations for inclusion in this comprehensive book were made by a bibliophile and writer with a peerless reputation, but the reviews show more themselves were compiled by lecturers, writers and book lovers, sharing their pleasure or surprise or even indignation with the rest of us." show less
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All, Children's Fiction (50), Classic Fiction (55), Classics (3), History (50), Memoirs (50), Modern Fiction (140), Science Fiction (49), Thrillers (60), Travel Writing (40), , No Category (4)
Work
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966) by Jorge Amado
Take a Girl Like You (1960) by Kingsley Amis
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
Collected Stories (1929) by Isaac Babel
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin
The Sweet Hereafter (1991) by Russell Banks
The Regeneration Trilogy (1991) by Pat Barker
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
Fictions (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges
Nadja (1928) by André Breton
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Naked Lunch (1962) by William S. Burroughs
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
Auto-da-Fé (1935) by Elias Canetti
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
The Kingdom of This World (1949) by Alejo Carpentier
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) by Angela Carter
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981) by Raymond Carver
The Horse's Mouth (1957) by Joyce Cary
Soldiers of Salamis (2001) by Javier Cercas
The Stories of John Cheever (1978) by John Cheever
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
Chéri (1920) by Colette
A House and Its Head (1935) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Victory (1915) by Joseph Conrad
Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1993) by Louis De Bernières
Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
Seven Gothic Tales (1934) by Isak Dinesen
Once Were Warriors (1990) by Alan Duff
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
The Alexandria Quartet (1957) by Lawrence Durrell
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
The Neverending Story (1983) by Michael Ende
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
The Blue Flower (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
Wildlife (1990) by Richard Ford
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
From the Fifteenth District (1979) by Mavis Gallant
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Ferdydurke (1937) by Witold Gombrowicz
July's People (1981) by Nadine Gordimer
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
Blind Owl (1937) by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
The Old Man and the Sea (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton
A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) by Richard Hughes
The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving
The Berlin Stories (1945) by Christopher Isherwood
The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The File on H. (1981) by Ismaîl Kadaré
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
It (1986) by Stephen King
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) by Josef Škvorecký
The Diviners (1974) by Margaret Laurence
Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Changing Places (1975) by David Lodge
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (1956) by Naguib Mahfouz
The Executioner's Song (1979) by Norman Mailer
God's Grace (1982) by Bernard Malamud
An Imaginary Life (1978) by David Malouf
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
Cakes and Ale (1934) by W. Somerset Maugham
The Group (1963) by Mary McCarthy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
Enduring Love (1997) by Ian McEwan
The Sea of Fertility (1971) by Yukio Mishima
A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry
Cold Heaven (1983) by Brian Moore
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai
The Progress of Love (1986) by Alice Munro
The Sea, the Sea (1978) by Iris Murdoch
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
The Third Policeman (1967) by Flann O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955) by Flannery O'Connor
The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
Where The Jackals Howl and Other Stories (1981) by Amos Oz
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) by Cynthia Ozick
Gormenghast (1950) by Mervyn Peake
Mr. Weston's Good Wine (1927) by T. F. Powys
The nephew (1960) by James Purdy
Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne Rice
Barney's Version (1997) by Mordecai Richler
Hadrian the Seventh (1904) by Frederick Rolfe
The Radetzky March (1932) by Joseph Roth
The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth
Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie
Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Françoise Sagan
The Short Stories of Saki (1930) by Saki
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
Staying On (1977) by Paul Scott
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Unless (2002) by Carol Shields
The Magician of Lublin (1960) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) by Patrick Süskind
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron
Zeno's Conscience (1930) by Italo Svevo
Pereira Maintains (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
The White Hotel (1981) by D. M. Thomas
The Master (2004) by Colm Tóibín
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Felicia's Journey (1994) by William Trevor
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) by Amos Tutuola
The Accidental Tourist (1985) by Anne Tyler
Couples (1968) by John Updike
The Time of the Hero (1962) by Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of Older Women (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
Voss (1957) by Patrick White
Memoirs of Hadrian (1950) by Marguerite Yourcenar

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