aListOfBooks is an anglo-centric repository of the “Best Books Ever Written”. They took thirteen “Best Books” articles and merged them into a single list (info here).
In search for good-but-not-dauntingly-long novels, I scraped the site for title, author and number of pages. Here is the table, ordered by ascending page-count:
| Title | Author | Pp. |
|---|---|---|
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 37 |
| Gaston, tome 1 | André Franquin | 47 |
| Asterix the Gaul | René Goscinny | 48 |
| The Secret of the Swordfish | Edgar P. Jacobs | 55 |
| The Blue Lotus | Hergé | 61 |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello | 64 |
| The Twits | Roald Dahl | 76 |
| Romancero Gitano | Federico García Lorca | 82 |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 91 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 94 |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 96 |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 100 |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 104 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 107 |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 111 |
| A Room of One’s Own | Virginia Woolf | 111 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 112 |
| Writing Degree Zero | Roland Barthes | 112 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain | 116 |
| A Room with a View | E. M. Forster | 120 |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 123 |
| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Bertolt Brecht | 125 |
| Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons | 126 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 128 |
| Tropismes | Nathalie Sarraute | 140 |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 140 |
| Cane | Jean Toomer | 144 |
| Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 144 |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Heinrich Böll | 144 |
| Maigret and the Enigmatic Letter | Georges Simenon | 144 |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | 144 |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 144 |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | 145 |
| Where Angels Fear to Tread | E. M. Forster | 148 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 149 |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 149 |
| Up | Ronald Sukenick | 150 |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | 150 |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | 151 |
| Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway | 153 |
| Bonjour Tristesse | Françoise Sagan | 154 |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 156 |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux | François Mauriac | 156 |
| Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D. | Stefan Zweig | 157 |
| The age of wire and string | Ben Marcus | 160 |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee | 160 |
| The bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder | 160 |
| In Our Time | Ernest Hemingway | 160 |
| Four Plays | Eugene Ionesco | 160 |
| Nadja | André Breton | 160 |
| The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | 160 |
| Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson | 160 |
| Girls in Love | Jacqueline Wilson | 160 |
| James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | 160 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | 162 |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 167 |
| The Ballad of the Salt Sea | Hugo Pratt | 169 |
| Amers/Oiseaux/Poesie | Saint-John Perse | 170 |
| Les Vrilles de La Vigne | Colette | 173 |
| Snow Country | Yasunari Kawabata | 175 |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | 176 |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather | 176 |
| Zazie dans le Métro | Raymond Queneau | 176 |
| The Theater and Its Double | Antonin Artaud | 176 |
| On the Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 176 |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith | 176 |
| Tlooth | Harry Mathews | 177 |
| Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | Ishmael Reed | 177 |
| Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | 178 |
| The Bottle Factory Outing | Beryl Bainbridge | 179 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 180 |
| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 180 |
| The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 180 |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | 181 |
| Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein | Marguerite Duras | 181 |
| A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 181 |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 181 |
| Nightwood | Djuna Barnes | 182 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 182 |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 182 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | 183 |
| Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | 184 |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | 184 |
| Alcools | Guillaume Apollinaire | 185 |
| Le Silence de La Mer | Vercors | 187 |
| More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon | 192 |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell | 192 |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 192 |
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | Sigmund Freud | 192 |
| No Orchids for Miss Blandish | James Hadley Chase | 192 |
| The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford | 192 |
| Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson | 192 |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | 192 |
| The Cannibal | John Hawkes | 195 |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 195 |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | 196 |
| Genoa | Paul Metcalf | 198 |
| The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati | 198 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 200 |
| Franny and Zooey | J. D. Salinger | 201 |
| Creamy and Delicious | Steve Katz | 204 |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles | 204 |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 204 |
| Loving | Henry Green | 206 |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | 206 |
| Contempt | Alberto Moravia | 207 |
| The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West | 208 |
| City of Glass | Paul Auster | 208 |
| Ironweed | William J. Kennedy | 208 |
| The Wanderer | Alain-Fournier | 208 |
| Drown | Junot Diaz | 208 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 209 |
| Shadow of the Torturer | Gene Wolfe | 211 |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl | 212 |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 212 |
| Dealing with Dragons | Patricia C. Wrede | 212 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 213 |
| Down and out in Paris and London | George Orwell | 213 |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 216 |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 216 |
| Our Lady of the Flowers | Jean Genet | 216 |
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Grace Paley | 216 |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 218 |
| Hogg | Samuel R. Delany | 219 |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 219 |
| Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 220 |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 222 |
| The Stain | Rikki Ducornet | 223 |
| Crash | J. G. Ballard | 224 |
| Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | 224 |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 224 |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | 224 |
| Young Lonigan | James T. Farrell | 224 |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | 224 |
| Fureur Et Mystere | René Char | 224 |
| Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor | 224 |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | 224 |
| The Voyeur | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 224 |
| The Code of the Woosters | P. G. Wodehouse | 224 |
| The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 224 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 226 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 228 |
| The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | 228 |
| Jazz | Toni Morrison | 229 |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 231 |
| Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee | 231 |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 232 |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 233 |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | 233 |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 235 |
| Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor | 236 |
| Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm | 236 |
| Friday, or, The Other Island | Michel Tournier | 236 |
| The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | Rainer Maria Rilke | 238 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 238 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | 238 |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | 238 |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 239 |
| At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O’Brien | 240 |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | 240 |
| The Periodic Table | Primo Levi | 240 |
| Wise Children | Angela Carter | 240 |
| The Home and the World | Rabindranath Tagore | 240 |
| Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | 240 |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | 240 |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 240 |
| Talk Before Sleep | Elizabeth Berg | 240 |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 242 |
| A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 242 |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 244 |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 244 |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 245 |
| Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown | 246 |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 247 |
| Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | 248 |
| Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara | 251 |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories | Flannery O’Connor | 252 |
| Paroles | Jacques Prévert | 252 |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | 253 |
| Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban | 256 |
| Pricksongs & descants | Robert Coover | 256 |
| The Universal Baseball Association, inc. | Robert Coover |
256 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 256 |
| Howards End | E. M. Forster | 256 |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 256 |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein |
256 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 256 |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Nils | Selma Lagerlöf | 256 |
| The Interrogation | J. M. G. Le Clezio | 256 |
| Moravagine | Blaise Cendrars | 256 |
| The General of the Dead Army | Ismail Kadare | 256 |
| Waiting for the Mahatma | R. K. Narayan | 256 |
| The road from Coorain | Jill Ker Conway | 256 |
| Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction | J. D. Salinger | 256 |
| The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | 256 |
| Under Satan’s Sun | Georges Bernanos | 257 |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | 257 |
| The Remains of the day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 258 |
| the man in the high castle | Philip K. Dick | 259 |
| If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino | 260 |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Suskind | 263 |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 264 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 266 |
| Double or Nothing | Raymond Federman | 267 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 267 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 268 |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 269 |
| Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | 269 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 271 |
| Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding | 271 |
| In Memoriam to Identity | Kathy Acker | 272 |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | 272 |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 272 |
| Mort | Terry Pratchett | 272 |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 272 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 273 |
| Portnoy’s Complaint | Philip Roth | 274 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 275 |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 276 |
| The Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith | 276 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 277 |
| Easy Travel to Other Planets | Ted Mooney | 278 |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 279 |
| A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes | 279 |
| Capital of Pain | Paul Eluard | 279 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 281 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 283 |
| The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot | 283 |
| Go in beauty | William Eastlake | 286 |
| The Princesse de Cleves | Madame de La Fayette | 288 |
| Deliverance | James Dickey | 288 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington | 288 |
| This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 288 |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 288 |
| The Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. Du Bois | 288 |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 288 |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | 288 |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | 289 |
| The Opposing Shore | Julien Gracq | 292 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 293 |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 295 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 296 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | 297 |
| Eminent Victorians | Lytton Strachey | 300 |
| Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | 302 |
| Nine Stories | J. D. Salinger | 302 |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler | 303 |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 304 |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 304 |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 304 |
| The Journal of Jules Renard | Jules Renard | 304 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 304 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 305 |
| Gulliver’s travels | Jonathan Swift | 306 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 307 |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz | Carlos Fuentes | 307 |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle | 307 |
| An evil cradling | Brian Keenan | 307 |
| A handful of dust | Evelyn Waugh | 308 |
| The Plague | Albert Camus | 308 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 308 |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo | 310 |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | J. K. Rowling | 310 |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | 311 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 311 |
| Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung | Mao Tse-Tung | 311 |
| La Modification | Michel Butor | 313 |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | 313 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 314 |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 314 |
| The Razor’s Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 314 |
| Omensetter’s Luck | William H. Gass | 315 |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 315 |
| Froth on the Daydream | Boris Vian | 315 |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 318 |
| Tours of the Black Clock | Steve Erickson | 320 |
| The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 320 |
| The Leopard | Giuseppe Di Lampedusa | 320 |
| The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 320 |
| Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | 320 |
| Good Night, Mr. Tom | Michelle Magorian |
320 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 320 |
| The Van | Roddy Doyle | 320 |
| The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | 320 |
| Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | 320 |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 320 |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 321 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 323 |
| The Joke | Milan Kundera | 323 |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 323 |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan | 324 |
| Notes from a small island | Bill Bryson | 324 |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 324 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | 325 |
| The 42nd Parallel | John Dos Passos | 326 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 326 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 326 |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 328 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 329 |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 331 |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 336 |
| A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul | 336 |
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | 336 |
| Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf | 336 |
| The Warden | Anthony Trollope | 336 |
| The Color of Water | James McBride | 336 |
| The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | 336 |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 336 |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers | 336 |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 337 |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 338 |
| The Black Sheep | Honoré de Balzac | 339 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 340 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | 341 |
| The Franchiser | Stanley Elkin | 342 |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 343 |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 344 |
| Goodbye to All That | Robert Graves | 347 |
| Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 348 |
| Love in The Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 348 |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 351 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 351 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 351 |
| The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 351 |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 352 |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | 352 |
| Dream of the Red Chamber | Tsao Hsueh-Chin | 352 |
| Henderson the Rain King | Saul Bellow | 352 |
| The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy | 352 |
| Manhattan Transfer | John Dos Passos | 352 |
| Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | 352 |
| I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | 352 |
| Confessions | Saint Augustine | 352 |
| The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | 352 |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | 352 |
| Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | Richard Fariña | 352 |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | 355 |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 356 |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx | 356 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 358 |
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 359 |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 360 |
| Jayber Crow | Wendell Berry | 363 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 368 |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 368 |
| The Heart is A Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | 368 |
| The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever | 368 |
| Man’s Fate | Andre Malraux | 368 |
| A Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami | 368 |
| You Shall Know Our Velocity | Dave Eggers | 368 |
| Old Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 370 |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow | 371 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 371 |
| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 371 |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | 372 |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | 376 |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | 378 |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré | 379 |
| Petersburg | Andrei Bely | 384 |
| Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | 384 |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | 384 |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 384 |
| Popol Vuh | Anonymous | 384 |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 385 |
| The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences | Michel Foucault | 387 |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | 391 |
| Money | Martin Amis | 394 |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 394 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 396 |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | 396 |
| If This Is a Man and The Truce | Primo Levi | 398 |
| Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | 400 |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 400 |
| Time and Again | Jack Finney | 400 |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | 400 |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Howard Pyle | 400 |
| Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder | 403 |
| Watchmen | Alan Moore | 408 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 409 |
| Sybil | Benjamin Disraeli | 412 |
| Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Neil Gaiman | 412 |
| Austerlitz | W.G. Sebald | 415 |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 416 |
| Tristes Tropiques | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 417 |
| My Name is Red | Orhan Pamuk | 417 |
| The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | 418 |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes | 419 |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | 420 |
| The Beautiful and Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 422 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 423 |
| Schindler’s List | Thomas Keneally | 429 |
| The Horseman on the Roof | Jean Giono | 430 |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | 430 |
| Suite Française | Irene Nemirovsky | 431 |
| The Rifles | William Vollmann | 432 |
| Skinny Legs and All | Tom Robbins | 432 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 432 |
| Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley | 432 |
| Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt | 432 |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 433 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 434 |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 435 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | 435 |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | 436 |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 438 |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren | 438 |
| Oblomov | Ivan Goncharov | 443 |
| Mulligan Stew | Gilbert Sorrentino | 445 |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | 448 |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 448 |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 448 |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 448 |
| The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 448 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 449 |
| The Bone People | Keri Hulme | 450 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | 451 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 453 |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 453 |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 455 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 455 |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | 460 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | 462 |
| Call it Sleep | Henry Roth | 462 |
| Sixty Stories | Donald Barthelme | 464 |
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 464 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 464 |
| The Counterfeiters | Andre Gide | 467 |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 468 |
| The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles | 470 |
| London Fields | Martin Amis | 470 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 474 |
| Noughts & Crosses | Malorie Blackman | 479 |
| Libra | Don DeLillo | 480 |
| Martin Eden | Jack London | 480 |
| L. A. Confidential | James Ellroy | 480 |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 480 |
| Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | 480 |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | 480 |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | 483 |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 487 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 488 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 489 |
| Waverley | Walter Scott | 491 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | 494 |
| The Sea, the Sea | Iris Murdoch | 495 |
| The Bostonians | Henry James | 496 |
| The Alienist | Caleb Carr | 498 |
| Katherine | Anya Seton | 500 |
| Soulier De Satin | Paul Claudel | 501 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 504 |
| The Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 504 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 505 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 507 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 509 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams | Sigmund Freud | 510 |
| The Abyss | Marguerite Yourcenar | 511 |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 512 |
| The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 512 |
| Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | 512 |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean M. Auel | 512 |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | 512 |
| Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey | 515 |
| The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 518 |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James | 519 |
| The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | 527 |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James | 528 |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 528 |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | 528 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 528 |
| Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett | 528 |
| Lookout cartridge | Joseph McElroy | 531 |
| Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh | 533 |
| Always Coming Home | Ursula K. Le Guin | 534 |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 536 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 540 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | 540 |
| The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | 544 |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang | 544 |
| Baudolino | Umberto Eco | 544 |
| The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | 544 |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 554 |
| Possession | A.S. Byatt | 555 |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | 558 |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 559 |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 560 |
| Lanark | Alasdair Gray | 560 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 560 |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 561 |
| A House for Mr.Biswas | V. S. Naipaul | 562 |
| Sophie’s Choice | William Styron | 562 |
| Little, Big | John Crowley | 562 |
| The Old Wives’ Tale | Arnold Bennett | 565 |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 567 |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 569 |
| The Complete Stories | Flannery O’Connor | 576 |
| The Savage Detectives | Roberto Bolaño | 577 |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 580 |
| Life | Georges Perec | 581 |
| The Faraway Tree Stories | Enid Blyton | 583 |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | 586 |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | 588 |
| The Golden Bowl | Henry James | 591 |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 592 |
| Germinal | Émile Zola | 592 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 592 |
| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | 592 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 597 |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 598 |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 603 |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 607 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 608 |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | 608 |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | 609 |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 611 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 624 |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 625 |
| The Rosy Crucifixion | Henry Miller | 628 |
| You Bright & Risen Angels | William Vollmann | 635 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 636 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 637 |
| The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 640 |
| Cities of Salt | Abdelrahman Munif | 640 |
| Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course | Delia Smith | 640 |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 640 |
| Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe | 644 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 644 |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | 647 |
| History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | 648 |
| Earthly Powers | Anthony Burgess | 649 |
| The Tunnel | William H. Gass | 652 |
| Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | 654 |
| The Magus | John Fowles | 656 |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 656 |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 656 |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 672 |
| Being and Nothingness | Jean-Paul Sartre | 688 |
| Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | 688 |
| The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy | 688 |
| The Thornbirds | Colleen McCullough | 692 |
| Magician | Raymond E. Feist | 694 |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 703 |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | 704 |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 706 |
| The Histories | Herodotus | 716 |
| The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | 720 |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 720 |
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer | 721 |
| Darconville’s Cat | Alexander Theroux | 728 |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | 732 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | 734 |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 736 |
| The Wings of the Dove | Henry James | 741 |
| The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 746 |
| The Sot-Weed Factor | John Barth | 768 |
| A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn | 768 |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis | 768 |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 776 |
| The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | 776 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 783 |
| Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | 784 |
| The Good Soldier Svejk | Jaroslav Hasek | 784 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 796 |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | 796 |
| Commedia | Dante Alighieri | 798 |
| Bible: King James Version | KJV | 800 |
| Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 801 |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 801 |
| Aurélien | Louis Aragon | 811 |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones | 816 |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 859 |
| Parade’s End | Ford Madox Ford | 864 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 867 |
| Écrits | Jacques Lacan | 878 |
| The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell | 884 |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 904 |
| The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony Trollope | 928 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 940 |
| Hawaii | James A. Michener | 960 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 974 |
| The Recognitions | William Gaddis | 976 |
| The Pillars of The Earth | Ken Follett | 976 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 982 |
| Democracy in America; and Two essays on America | Alexis de Tocqueville | 992 |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1017 |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1024 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1037 |
| The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights | Richard Burton | 1049 |
| The Executioner’s Song | Norman Mailer | 1056 |
| War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk | 1056 |
| Centennial | James A. Michener | 1056 |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1079 |
| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | 1088 |
| It | Stephen King | 1090 |
| Belle Du Seigneur | Albert Cohen | 1110 |
| The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 1130 |
| The Stand | Stephen King | 1152 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1168 |
| The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | 1182 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1243 |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare | 1248 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1285 |
| The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street | Naguib Mahfouz | 1368 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1392 |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 1463 |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1488 |
| Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady | Samuel Richardson | 1534 |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 4211 |
| The Second World War | Winston S. Churchill | 4532 |