genius served from a firehose

My pal Julie O was interviewed, and the interview was apparently translated into some "foreign tongue" and then auto-translated back into something which-- from a certain angle -- resembles English.

I think...

Thus, Him rickrack that a likely-regarded penner had worked forwards this sacred Technicolor Spiritus researched. I’d met the gentleman far out clatter wherewith unbounded apropos of the screenwriting performing area and gent seemed polished agreeably, powerful Superego dropped themselves a discussion.

The inter-webs are a strange place, where every word and scrap of info circles the world twice, pulls over in Slobovia for coffee and directions, then washes back ashore 18 months later in Nebraska wedged in the butt-crack of a wax statue of Claude Akins.

See the car wreck in its entirety here.

Congrats, Julie!

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domination

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I will update if/when real world confirmation becomes available.
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the current mood as described in a series of five simple steps

1) slouch back in chair, legs extended out as far as possible beneath desk

2) stick out tongue

3) gently close lips around out-stuck tongue

4) blow

5) continue until professional help intercedes

Decorate with a replica of Old Glory.

Enjoy!
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UPDATE: where stuff is

I've had a few folks ask about status on some projects (including at least one question here on the blog), so I updated the progress bars and here's some blather:

"QUEEN OF THE SKY" [WAR DRAMA]
STATUS: COMPLETED! OUT TO TALENT!

No substantive changes to the piece since Nicholl, though a few "customized" tweaks have been made to create special drafts tuned for specific possible leads. Obviously no great glorious news to report, and the looming possibility of SAG/AFTRA labor problems is creating a tough environment for pieces like this which pretty much require strong talent support up front, but still... hope springs infernal.

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[CRITTER-COMEDY THING]
STATUS: COMPLETED! OUT TO STUDIOS!

I'm tweaking and polishing some second act stuff to improve the piece. A sneak peek to a prodco brought some cool comments and praise, but (again, obviously) no great and glorious news or paydays. Still, the concept is fun, teh title too great, and the tagline too perfect for someone to NOT take serious notice, so again, as soon as the smoke from the Great Labor Fiasco of '08 clears, perhaps grand things will happen.

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"AMAZON"
STATUS: INTO CONTESTS, BUT NEEDS WORK...

Managed to get a workable revised draft ready for some contests (even if only to say "yeah, I entered..."), but the piece needs some more work. Actually, now that I (and lots of others) have seen INDY 4, this piece might be DOA, as a LOT of very cool beats and moments and concepts are so similar to stuff in the Spielberg blockbuster that many readers would likely (and incorrectly) shrug and say "oh, well, it's just a rip-off of Indy." I (and my kids) love the story and characters here, but this might be useful only as a demo piece to show action-adventure chops. And so it goes.

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"DAVIS GARY" [COMEDY]
STATUS: 30 PAGES AND COUNTING....

The month of May was hectic in the extreme (as usual) so little useful work went on here. Still, the material is there, and I am just working to make the barest framework of a story stand still long enough for me to hang the moments and visuals on the frame so that the insanity looks and feels like a movie rather than a thematically linked series of vignettes and memories. This is the big item on the to-do list right now.

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[HISTORICAL ADVENTURE THING]
STATUS: 20 PAGES AND COUNTING...

Not sure The Agents are super-keen on this concept, but no matter, as I AM keen on it, and I get a warm fuzzy excited feeling whenever I review what few pages are in the books here. I have an increasingly clear mental image for what this is supposed to be, and the last time I had this feeling it was for LILYA< so perhaps that's a good sign, or perhaps it's just a warning that I am again well into an impossible project. Time till tell.

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[CHASE COMEDY THING]
STATUS: OUTLINING...

Not a lot to share on this, but there is a stupidly funny idea and a stupidly weird take on it and a stupidly cool funk of possibility to this project, but for reasons too dumb to go into no work can go on for now. For now.

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[HOLIDAY THING]
STATUS: BRAINSTORMING...

This is the "rainy day" project I doodle on when nothing else seems to be going right. I have some cool location ideas which then lead to story ideas (it makes more sense if I explain that, but I'm not explaining it yet so deal with it), but I can see a sweet little movie that I am now describing as "a Christmas movie for folks who don't like Christmas movies."

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"TWELVE DAYS" [ROMCOM]
STATUS: AWAITING A PAGE ONE REWRITE...

This one needs major work, and distance away from the project will eventually make that work easier. Sounds good in theory, anyway.

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[SPAGHETTI WESTERN THING]
STATUS: BRAINSTORMING...

I still love the characters and setting and tone and the opening and ending and some specific beats, but I have no idea when I will find time to come back and do this one justice. I might force myself just to try something... well... "out there.".

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"NEWSMAKERS"
STATUS: IN DRYDOCK

"In drydock" sounds so much happier and laden with potential than does "deader 'en hell," so we'll stick with the former.

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And thus we stand.

Trust me-- if/when there's reason to crow, it will be heard locally and hard to overlook.
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Among My Best 10 Dollar Investments

I'm not prone to endorsing commercial stuff or of turning these usually pointless rants into quasi-commercials, but I was reminded again today of how much value I consistently derive from my subscription to WIRED magazine. I initially subscribed years ago when I was a freelance graphic designer and was curious about the mag not just for its views and reviews of tech items and trends, but its über-cool design and typography.

On the store rack, the magazine runs 4 or 5 bucks an issue, but via subscription that price drops to a rather ridiculously low 10 bucks per year. I call that "ridiculously low" because WIRED more consistently sparks my creative thinking in storytelling than any other single news or information source out there. Not a single issue in the past four years has come through my house where I have not found myself reading some article about some potentially geeky niche subject -- be it bio-engineered foods or new energy sources or matters of arcane interest to geophysicists or interviews with Polish psychologists -- that I don't wind up dropping the magazine, staring into space and go "Huh!" as some kernel of a story idea pops into my head.

That that last random example as a specific example. In this month's issue there is a featured section devoted to Memory and The Mind. Now, to some that might be pretty dry or esoteric stuff, but the fine folks at WIRED also tend to hire some pretty damned fine writers, and even the most squirrelly subject usually comes off well-represented in their pages.

Of special interest to me this time was a supremely cool piece called The Memory Master, an interview and overview of the research and life of Polish cognitive psychologist Piotr Wozniak, a truly "out-there" researcher who has pretty much turned his own life and mind into an ongoing research project into the study of learning and memory.

Wozniak helped develop a program years ago called "SuperMemo" which automates the recall and re-learning elements which are now proving perhaps MOST critical in long-term retention of newly acquired knowledge (basically, it now turns out that the best time to review and practice remembering knowledge is that moment right before it's totally forgotten, and Wozniak has developed a wild algorithm based program to help schedule and automate the review sessions for... well, anything.

Beyond just the typically weird "Polish psychologist" aspect of his mind, Wozniak's priest-like devotion to the idea of learning is fascinating to me. The idea that a man might turn his back on the normal social conventions and traditions in order to build a computer to help him expand his mind into a super-powerful device for recalling and storing and connecting facts... well, there are aspects of that which resonate with me perhaps more than is healthy.

I'm one of those odd folks who always seems able to recall loads more than what my peers do. I'm not saying I'm "smarter," because I'm not entirely sure how that would be measured. But I do know that I often seem to be playing with a lot of extra cards in my deck, and when I throq down that sixth ace, people often look and say "now where the hell did that come from?"

Wozniak's research gives hints to possible answers, and they also spark all sorts of cool potential story ideas.

I'll strongly recommend WIRED to any writer looking for a constant source of possible story ideas and igniters, and I'll also recommend the Wozniak article to anyone with even a passing interest in getting a cool and untraditional view of how that big blob of fat between our ears operates and possible ways to eek out some more performance.

Yeah, I'm a closet geek, but I find it absolutely thrilling stuff.
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meme poll: 1001 Novels

Been a while since we did the geek dance, so let's trip the light phantasmic and see what we gots:

There's a list circulating around of "The 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die."

I'm not sure where the list originated, but I know I found mine via a link on screenwriter John August's blog, where he had linked to a book blog titled 1morechapter.

Understand that this is a list of NOVELS -- not just books or works -- which is why there are what seem to be some conspicuous absences (no Shakespeare for example, as Shakey didn't DO novels...).

I was actually a little surprised to find that I've read 41 of the novels listed, as I am not a huge "serious" novel guy. Add CLive Cussler to this list and I danged near double my tally, sally.

How well-read are YOU, lovechunks? How do your slope-browed peers compare? Let's see some numbers, you slobbering pissants.

And remember: this is for posterity, so be honest.
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1001 NOVELS You Must Read before You Die


2000s

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro


2. On Beauty – Zadie Smith


3. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee


4. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson


5. The Sea – John Banville


6. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble


7. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth


8. The Master – Colm Tóibín


9. Vanishing Point – David Markson


10. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd


11. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair


12. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell


13. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle


14. The Colour – Rose Tremain


15. Thursbitch – Alan Garner


16. The Light of Day – Graham Swift


17. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt


18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon


19. Islands – Dan Sleigh


20. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee


21. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair


22. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry


23. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters


24. The Double – José Saramago


25. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer


26. Unless – Carol Shields


27. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami


28. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor


29. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern


30. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien


31. Shroud – John Banville


32. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides


33. Youth – J.M. Coetzee


34. Dead Air – Iain Banks


35. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon


36. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster


37. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi


38. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald


39. Platform – Michael Houellebecq


40. Schooling – Heather McGowan


41. Atonement – Ian McEwan


42. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen


43. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini


44. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo


45. Fury – Salman Rushdie


46. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill


47. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk


48. Life of Pi – Yann Martel


49. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa


50. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma


51. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho


52. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare


53. White Teeth – Zadie Smith


54. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda


55. Under the Skin – Michel Faber


56. Ignorance – Milan Kundera


57. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace


58. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy


59. City of God – E.L. Doctorow


60. How the Dead Live – Will Self


61. The Human Stain – Philip Roth


62. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood


63. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami


64. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande


65. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard


66. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski


67. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates


68. Pastoralia – George Saunder

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1900s

69. Timbuktu – Paul Auster


70. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra


71. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson


72. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?


73. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy


74. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb


75. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie


76. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee


77. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami


78. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq


79. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi


80. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan


81. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks


82. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom


83. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon


84. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters


85. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver


86. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis


87. Another World – Pat Barker


88. The Hours – Michael Cunningham


89. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho


90. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon


91. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy


92. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden


93. Great Apes – Will Self


94. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan


95. Underworld – Don DeLillo


96. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey


97. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin


98. American Pastoral – Philip Roth


99. The Untouchable – John Banville


100. Silk – Alessandro Baricco


101. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard


102. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker


103. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels


104. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker


105. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse


106. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace


107. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin


108. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood


109. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro


110. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner


111. The Information – Martin Amis


112. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie


113. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth


114. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald


115. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink


116. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry


117. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose


118. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis


119. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster


120. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst


121. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq


122. Land – Park Kyong-ni


123. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee


124. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami


125. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi


126. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol


127. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman


128. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres


129. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor


130. Disappearance – David Dabydeen


131. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm


132. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx


133. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh


134. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks


135. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy


136. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth


137. Complicity – Iain Banks


138. On Love – Alain de Botton


139. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe


140. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth


141. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields


142. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides


143. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd


144. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood


145. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald


146. The Secret History – Donna Tartt


147. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar


148. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch


149. A Heart So White – Javier Marias


150. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker


151. Indigo – Marina Warner


152. The Crow Road – Iain Banks


153. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson


154. Jazz – Toni Morrison


155. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje


156. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg


157. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe


158. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates


159. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín


160. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)


161. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan


162. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud


163. Arcadia – Jim Crace


164. Wild Swans – Jung Chang


165. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis


166. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis


167. Mao II – Don DeLillo


168. Typical – Padgett Powell


169. Regeneration – Pat Barker


170. Downriver – Iain Sinclair


171. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres


172. Wise Children – Angela Carter


173. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard


174. Amongst Women – John McGahern


175. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon


176. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald


177. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge


178. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster


179. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien


180. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham


181. Like Life – Lorrie Moore


182. Possession – A.S. Byatt


183. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi


184. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle


185. A Disaffection – James Kelman


186. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson


187. Moon Palace – Paul Auster


188. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow


189. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro


190. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai


191. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker


192. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway


193. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago


194. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel


195. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving


196. London Fields – Martin Amis


197. The Book of Evidence – John Banville


198. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood


199. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco


200. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White


201. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson


202. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie


203. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst


204. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey


205. Libra – Don DeLillo


206. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks


207. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga


208. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams


209. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams


210. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble


211. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke


212. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy


213. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson


214. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind


215. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan


216. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews


217. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe


218. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster


219. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle


220. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul


221. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae


222. Beloved – Toni Morrison


223. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore


224. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o


225. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates


226. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons


227. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis


228. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt


229. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro


230. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard


231. Foe – J.M. Coetzee


232. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi


233. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel


234. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann


235. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez


236. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson


237. The Cider House Rules – John Irving


238. A Maggot – John Fowles


239. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis


240. Contact – Carl Sagan


241. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood


242. Perfume – Patrick Süskind


243. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard


244. White Noise – Don DeLillo


245. Queer – William Burroughs


246. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd


247. Legend – David Gemmell


248. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?


249. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman


250. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago


251. The Lover – Marguerite Duras


252. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard


253. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks


254. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter


255. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera


256. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker


257. Neuromancer – William Gibson


258. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes


259. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis


260. Shame – Salman Rushdie


261. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett


262. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor


263. La Brava – Elmore Leonard


264. Waterland – Graham Swift


265. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee


266. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing


267. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek


268. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus


269. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi


270. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White


271. The Color Purple – Alice Walker


272. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard


273. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro


274. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally


275. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende


276. The Newton Letter – John Banville


277. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin


278. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard


279. The Names – Don DeLillo


280. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike


281. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray


282. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan


283. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer


284. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin


285. Broken April – Ismail Kadare


286. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee


287. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie


288. Rites of Passage – William Golding


289. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom


290. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole


291. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard


292. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco


293. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera


294. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré


295. Shikasta – Doris Lessing


296. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul


297. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer


298. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll


299. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino


300. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams


301. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan


302. The World According to Garp – John Irving


303. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec


304. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch


305. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell


306. Yes – Thomas Bernhard


307. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt


308. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee


309. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter


310. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin


311. The Shining – Stephen King


312. Dispatches – Michael Herr


313. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o


314. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison


315. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector


316. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke


317. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo


318. The Public Burning – Robert Coover


319. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice


320. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg


321. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme


322. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf


323. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez


324. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec


325. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell


326. Grimus – Salman Rushdie


327. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme


328. Fateless – Imre Kertész


329. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan


330. High Rise – J.G. Ballard


331. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow


332. Dead Babies – Martin Amis


333. Correction – Thomas Bernhard


334. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow


335. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle


336. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee


337. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll


338. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré


339. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


340. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong


341. A Question of Power – Bessie Head


342. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell


343. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino


344. Crash – J.G. Ballard


345. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene


346. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon


347. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch


348. Sula – Toni Morrison


349. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino


350. The Breast – Philip Roth


351. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson


352. G – John Berger


353. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood


354. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson


355. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul


356. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow


357. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson


358. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll


359. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs


360. Rabbit Redux – John Updike


361. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima


362. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark


363. The Ogre – Michael Tournier


364. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison


365. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke


366. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou


367. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett


368. Troubles – J.G. Farrell


369. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson


370. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard


371. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado


372. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover


373. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines


374. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


375. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles


376. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis


377. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth


378. The Godfather – Mario Puzo


379. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov


380. Them – Joyce Carol Oates


381. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec


382. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen


383. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal


384. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch


385. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen


386. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


387. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


388. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke


389. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick


390. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry


391. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz


392. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan


393. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines


394. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf


395. Chocky – John Wyndham


396. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe


397. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa


398. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez


399. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov


400. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson


401. The Joke – Milan Kundera


402. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson


403. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien


404. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec


405. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West


406. Trawl – B.S. Johnson


407. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote


408. The Magus – John Fowles


409. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras


410. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys


411. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth


412. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon


413. Things – Georges Perec


414. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o


415. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien


416. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut


417. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor


418. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector


419. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey


420. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme


421. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson


422. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe


423. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras


424. Herzog – Saul Bellow


425. V. – Thomas Pynchon


426. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut


427. The Graduate – Charles Webb


428. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol


429. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré


430. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark


431. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess


432. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath


433. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


434. The Collector – John Fowles


435. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey


436. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess


437. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov


438. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard


439. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing


440. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges


441. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien


442. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani


443. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein


444. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger


445. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch


446. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame


447. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem


448. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass


449. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark


450. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller


451. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor


452. How It Is – Samuel Beckett


453. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino


454. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien


455. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee


456. Rabbit, Run – John Updike


457. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary


458. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee


459. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse


460. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs


461. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass


462. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes


463. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow


464. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark


465. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll


466. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote


467. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa


468. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe


469. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute


470. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon


471. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe


472. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe


473. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico


474. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan


475. The End of the Road – John Barth


476. The Once and Future King – T.H. White


477. The Bell – Iris Murdoch


478. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet


479. Voss – Patrick White


480. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham


481. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille


482. Homo Faber – Max Frisch


483. On the Road – Jack Kerouac


484. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov


485. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak


486. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber


487. Justine – Lawrence Durrell


488. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin


489. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon


490. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary


491. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow


492. The Floating Opera – John Barth


493. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien


494. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith


495. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov


496. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen


497. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett


498. The Quiet American – Graham Greene


499. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis


500. The Recognitions – William Gaddis


501. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini


502. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan


503. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch


504. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis


505. The Story of O – Pauline Réage


506. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia


507. Lord of the Flies – William Golding


508. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch


509. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley


510. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler


511. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett


512. Watt – Samuel Beckett


513. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis


514. Junkie – William Burroughs


515. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow


516. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin


517. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming


518. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt


519. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison


520. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway


521. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor


522. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson


523. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar


524. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett


525. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham


526. Foundation – Isaac Asimov


527. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq


528. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger


529. The Rebel – Albert Camus


530. Molloy – Samuel Beckett


531. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene


532. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille


533. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz


534. The Third Man – Graham Greene


535. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber


536. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake


537. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing


538. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov


539. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese


540. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk


541. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford


542. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge


543. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen


544. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier


545. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren


546. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell


547. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani


548. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia


549. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot


550. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene


551. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton


552. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann


553. The Victim – Saul Bellow


554. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau


555. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi


556. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry


557. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino


558. The Plague – Albert Camus


559. Back – Henry Green


560. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake


561. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?


562. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh


563. Animal Farm – George Orwell


564. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck


565. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford


566. Loving – Henry Green


567. Arcanum 17 – André Breton


568. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi


569. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham


570. Transit – Anna Seghers


571. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges


572. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow


573. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


574. Caught – Henry Green


575. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse


576. Embers – Sandor Marai


577. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner


578. The Outsider – Albert Camus


579. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini


580. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien


581. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White


582. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton


583. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf


584. The Hamlet – William Faulkner


585. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler


586. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway


587. Native Son – Richard Wright


588. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene


589. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati


590. Party Going – Henry Green


591. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck


592. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce


593. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien


594. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell


595. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood


596. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller


597. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys


598. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler


599. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner


600. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson


601. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre


602. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier


603. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler


604. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene


605. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos


606. Murphy – Samuel Beckett


607. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck


608. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston


609. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien


610. The Years – Virginia Woolf


611. In Parenthesis – David Jones


612. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis


613. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)


614. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway


615. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner


616. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley


617. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West


618. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell


619. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell


620. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson


621. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner


622. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft


623. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes


624. Independent People – Halldór Laxness


625. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti


626. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood


627. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy


628. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen


629. England Made Me – Graham Greene


630. Burmese Days – George Orwell


631. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers


632. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht


633. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev


634. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain


635. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller


636. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh


637. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald


638. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse


639. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth


640. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West


641. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers


642. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein


643. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain


644. A Day Off – Storm Jameson


645. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil


646. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon


647. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline


648. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley


649. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons


650. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen


651. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett


652. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth


653. The Waves – Virginia Woolf


654. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett


655. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham


656. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis


657. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning


658. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh


659. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett


660. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico


661. Passing – Nella Larsen


662. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway


663. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett


664. Living – Henry Green


665. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia


666. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque


667. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin


668. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen


669. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West


670. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner


671. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau


672. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe


673. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille


674. Orlando – Virginia Woolf


675. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence


676. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall


677. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis


678. Quartet – Jean Rhys


679. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh


680. Quicksand – Nella Larsen


681. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford


682. Nadja – André Breton


683. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse


684. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust


685. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf


686. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson


687. Amerika – Franz Kafka


688. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway


689. Blindness – Henry Green


690. The Castle – Franz Kafka


691. The Good Soldier _vejk – Jaroslav Ha_ek


692. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence


693. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello


694. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie


695. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein


696. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos


697. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf


698. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald


699. The Counterfeiters – André Gide


700. The Trial – Franz Kafka


701. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky


702. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather


703. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville


704. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen


705. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann


706. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin


707. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster


708. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet


709. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo


710. Cane – Jean Toomer


711. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley


712. Amok – Stefan Zweig


713. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield


714. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings


715. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf


716. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse


717. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton


718. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair


719. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus


720. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence


721. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis


722. Ulysses – James Joyce


723. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence


724. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley


725. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton


726. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis


727. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence


728. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf


729. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis


730. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West


731. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad


732. Summer – Edith Wharton


733. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen


734. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton


735. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce


736. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse


737. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke


738. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford


739. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf


740. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham


741. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence


742. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan


743. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki


744. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel


745. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse


746. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs


747. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell


748. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence


749. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann


750. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens


751. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton


752. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre


753. Howards End – E.M. Forster


754. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel


755. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein


756. Martin Eden – Jack London


757. Strait is the Gate – André Gide


758. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells


759. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse


760. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster


761. The Iron Heel – Jack London


762. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett


763. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson


764. Mother – Maxim Gorky


765. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad


766. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair


767. Young Törless – Robert Musil


768. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy


769. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton


770. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann


771. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster


772. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad


773. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe


774. The Golden Bowl – Henry James


775. The Ambassadors – Henry James


776. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers


777. The Immoralist – André Gide


778. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James


779. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad


780. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


781. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann


782. Kim – Rudyard Kipling


783. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser


784. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

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1800s

785. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross


786. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane


787. The Awakening – Kate Chopin


788. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James


789. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells


790. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells


791. What Maisie Knew – Henry James


792. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide


793. Dracula – Bram Stoker


794. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz


795. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells


796. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells


797. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane


798. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy


799. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross


800. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman


801. Born in Exile – George Gissing


802. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith


803. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


804. News from Nowhere – William Morris


805. New Grub Street – George Gissing


806. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf


807. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy


808. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde


809. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy


810. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola


811. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg


812. Hunger – Knut Hamsun


813. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson


814. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant


815. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés


816. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg


817. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy


818. She – H. Rider Haggard


819. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson


820. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy


821. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson


822. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard


823. Germinal – Émile Zola


824. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain


825. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant


826. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater


827. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans


828. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy


829. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant


830. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson


831. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga


832. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James


833. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert


834. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace


835. Nana – Émile Zola


836. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky


837. The Red Room – August Strindberg


838. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy


839. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy


840. Drunkard – Émile Zola


841. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev


842. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot


843. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy


844. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert


845. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy


846. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov


847. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne


848. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu


849. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky


850. Erewhon – Samuel Butler


851. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev


852. Middlemarch – George Eliot


853. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll


854. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev


855. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope


856. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy


857. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert


858. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope


859. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont


860. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky


861. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins


862. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott


863. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola


864. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope


865. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne


866. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky


867. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll


868. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens


869. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu


870. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky


871. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley


872. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo


873. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev


874. Silas Marner – George Eliot


875. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens


876. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev


877. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope


878. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot


879. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins


880. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne


881. Max Havelaar – Multatuli


882. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens


883. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov


884. Adam Bede – George Eliot


885. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert


886. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell


887. Hard Times – Charles Dickens


888. Walden – Henry David Thoreau


889. Bleak House – Charles Dickens


890. Villette – Charlotte Brontë


891. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell


892. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe


893. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne


894. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne


895. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville


896. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne


897. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens


898. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë


899. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell


900. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë


901. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë


902. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë


903. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë


904. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray


905. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas


906. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas


907. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas


908. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe


909. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens


910. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe


911. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac


912. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens


913. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol


914. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal


915. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe


916. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens


917. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens


918. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol


919. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac


920. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac


921. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo


922. The Red and the Black – Stendhal


923. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni


924. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper


925. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg


926. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin


927. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin


928. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott


929. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott


930. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


931. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen


932. Persuasion – Jane Austen


933. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth


934. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott


935. Emma – Jane Austen


936. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen


937. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen


938. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth


939. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen


940. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


941. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

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1700s

942. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin


943. The Nun – Denis Diderot


944. Camilla – Fanny Burney


945. The Monk – M.G. Lewis


946. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


947. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe


948. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano


949. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin


950. Justine – Marquis de Sade


951. Vathek – William Beckford


952. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade


953. Cecilia – Fanny Burney


954. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


955. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos


956. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


957. Evelina – Fanny Burney


958. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


959. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett


960. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie


961. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne


962. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne


963. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith


964. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole


965. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


966. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot


967. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau


968. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson


969. Candide – Voltaire


970. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox


971. Amelia – Henry Fielding


972. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett


973. Fanny Hill – John Cleland


974. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding


975. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett


976. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson


977. Pamela – Samuel Richardson


978. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot


979. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift


980. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding


981. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift


982. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift


983. Roxana – Daniel Defoe


984. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe


985. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood


986. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe


987. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

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Pre-1700

988. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn


989. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette


990. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan


991. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


992. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe


993. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly


994. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais


995. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous


996. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius


997. Aithiopika – Heliodorus


998. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton


999. Metamorphoses – Ovid


1000. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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