Let's hope that 2008 is just as good:)
Ken Kesey was born Kenneth Elton Kesey on September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado and died on Novemer 10, 2001 in Pleasant Hill, Oregon at the age of 66. While Kesey was a child his parents moved from Colorado to Oregon State. In high school and college Kesey was a star athlete in wrestling. He studied at the University of Oregon and upon graduation married his high school sweetheart. Kesey had 4 children, 3 with his wife Faye and 1 with Merry Prankster Carolyn Adams.
In 1958 Kesey attended a creative writing program at Stanford. This is when he would begin writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Kesey's inspiration for this novel came when he agreed to participate in and experiment at the Menlo Park veteran's hospital, a study on the effects of psychoactive drugs. Kesey would spend time talking to some of the patients of the hospital, but his take on their situation was much different than those of other people. He did not believe that the patients were insane at all.
After the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey spent time as the *non-leader* of the Merry Pranksters. The antics of the Merry Pranksters has been widely documented as well as being the subject of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. During this time he published Sometimes a Great Notion. During his time with the Merry Pranksters he had gotten into some legal trouble and at one point tried to fake his own death.
Ken Kesey's works include=
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Viking, 1962
Sometimes a Great Notion, Viking, 1964.
Kesey's Garage Sale, Viking, 1973.
Kesey, Northwest Review of Books, 1977 (Edited by Michael Strelow).
The Day After Superman Died, Lord John Press, 1980.
Demon Box, Viking, 1986.
The Further Inquiry, Viking, 1990.
Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear, Viking 1990.
The Sea Lion, Viking, 1991.
Sailor Song, Viking, 1992.
Last Round Up, (with Ken Babbs), Viking, 1994.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Copyright 1943
Pages 720
Synopsis= The Fountainhead takes place in New York City during the 1920s and 30s. It depicts the struggles of innovative architect Howard Roark and his unswerving devotion to his own thinking and judgment. His autonomous thinking allows him to create and successfully fight for revolutionary designs. Along the way many people use their influence in one way or another to either make or break Roark while Roark's only devotion is to himself and his own work.
At the beginning of the book we meet Howard Roark as he is being kicked out of school for refusing to do the old outdated work that is expected of it's graduates. We also meet his nemesis Peter Keating who is a classmate of Roark and the son of Roark's landlord. Peter is a suck-up who can smile at a persons face while stabbing them in the back, and all he cares about is success, fame, appearances and money, all of which he acquires but not through his own ability. Eventually Roark gets what he wants- the ability to build the way he wants to, and the girl too. Many people learn some hard lessons along the way.
Others in this work=
Elsworth Toohey= The anti-Roark. He is always trying to control others through manipulation, and this is his only talent.
Dominique Francon= The girl. She is supposedly the perfect girl for Roark although she spends a lot of the book trying to destroy him because of her own views on life. She first marries Peter Keating, and then Gail Wynand.
Gail Wynand= Is the middle point between Roark and Wynand. He is the owner of The Banner, a newspaper with high circulation and the same paper that both Dominique and Toohey work for (Dominique is ultimately fired for her support of Roark). Wynand grew up like Roark, but along the way he let the world shape and corrupt him. Only toward the end does Wynand try to turn his life around but he is not strong enough and gives in. He is the tragic figure of the novel.
One does not have to subscribe to objectivism in order to get something out of this book. For those who are not philosophically minded this also makes a strange love story. The Fountainhead reads at a quick pace despite it's size and the character development is good.
Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2, 1905 and was the oldest of three daughters. At age six she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine she decided to make fiction writing her career.
During her high school years, she was eyewitness to both the Kerensky Revolution, which she supported, and—in 1917—the Bolshevik Revolution, which she denounced from the outset. In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where she finished high school. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father's pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be.
When her family returned from the Crimea, she entered the University of Petrograd to study philosophy and history. Graduating in 1924, she experienced the disintegration of free inquiry and the takeover of the university by communist thugs. Amidst the increasingly gray life, her one great pleasure was Western films and plays. Long an admirer of cinema, she entered the State Institute for Cinema Arts in 1924 to study screenwriting.
In late 1925 she obtained permission to leave Soviet Russia for a visit to relatives in the United States. Although she told Soviet authorities that her visit would be short, she was determined never to return to Russia. She arrived in New York City in February 1926. She spent the next six months with her relatives in Chicago, obtained an extension to her visa, and then left for Hollywood to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
She began writing The Fountainhead in 1935. In the character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man, man as "he could be and ought to be." The Fountainhead was rejected by twelve publishers but finally accepted by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. When published in 1943, it made history by becoming a best seller through word-of-mouth two years later, and gained for its author lasting recognition as a champion of individualism.
Ayn Rand returned to Hollywood in late 1943 to write the screenplay for The Fountainhead, but wartime restrictions delayed production until 1948. Working part time as a screenwriter for Hal Wallis Productions, she began her major novel, Atlas Shrugged, in 1946. In 1951 she moved back to New York City and devoted herself full time to the completion of Atlas Shrugged.
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was her greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics and sex. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible.
List of Ayn Rand works include:
Fiction-
- Night of January 16th (1934) ISBN 0-452-26486-3
- We the Living (1936) ISBN 0-451-18784-9
- Anthem (1938) ISBN 0-451-19113-7
- The Fountainhead (1943) ISBN 0-451-19115-3
- Atlas Shrugged (1957) ISBN 0-451-19114-5
- Night of January 16th (1934) ISBN 0-452-26486-3
- We the Living (1936) ISBN 0-451-18784-9
- Anthem (1938) ISBN 0-451-19113-7
- The Fountainhead (1943) ISBN 0-451-19115-3
- Atlas Shrugged (1957) ISBN 0-451-19114-5
1. Reality is an objective absolute.
2. Reason is man's basic means of survival.
3. Man must exist for his own sake. Man does not live for others nor make others live for him. The pursuit of his own self-interest and happiness is his highest moral goal.
4. Laissez-faire capitalism.
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguroown itSaturday – Ian McEwanown it- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville own it
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Rothown it- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Colour – Rose Tremain
- Thursbitch – Alan Garner
- The Light of Day – Graham Swift
- What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddonown it- Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzeeown it- London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
- Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
- Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
- The Double – José Saramago
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Unless – Carol Shields
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
- That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
- In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
- Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenidesown it- Youth – J.M. Coetzee
- Dead Air – Iain Banks
- Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
- The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
- Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
- Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
- Platform – Michael Houellebecq
- Schooling – Heather McGowan
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen own it
- Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
- The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
- Fury – Salman Rushdie
- At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniukown itLife of Pi – Yann Martelown it- The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
- An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
- The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith own it
- The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
- Under the Skin – Michel Faber
- Ignorance – Milan Kundera
- Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
- Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
- City of God – E.L. Doctorow own it
- How the Dead Live – Will Self
- The Human Stain – Philip Roth own it
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
- Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
- Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
- Pastoralia – George Saunders
- Timbuktu – Paul Auster
- The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
- Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
- Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzeeown it- Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
- Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
- Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
- Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
- Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
- All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
- The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
- Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolverown it- Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barkerown itThe Hours – Michael Cunninghamown itVeronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelhoown it- Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy own it
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Goldenown it- Great Apes – Will Self own it
- Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
- Underworld – Don DeLillo
- Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
- The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
- American Pastoral – Philip Roth
- The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Bariccoown it- Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
- Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
- Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
- The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
- Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood own it
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguroown it- Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
- The Information – Martin Amis
- The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
- Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
- The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
- The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
- The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
- Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
- The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
- Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
- Land – Park Kyong-ni
- The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
- City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
- How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres own it
- Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
- Disappearance – David Dabydeen
- The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulxown it- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
- Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
- Complicity – Iain Banks
- On Love – Alain de Botton
- What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields own it
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenidesown it- The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
- The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
- The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald own it
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
- The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
- A Heart So White – Javier Marias
- Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
- Indigo – Marina Warner
- The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Wintersonown it- Jazz – Toni Morrison
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje own it
- Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
- The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
- Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
- The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
- Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
- Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
- Arcadia – Jim Crace
- Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellisown it- Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
- Mao II – Don DeLillo own it
- Typical – Padgett Powell
- Regeneration – Pat Barker
- Downriver – Iain Sinclair
- Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
- Wise Children – Angela Carter
- Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
- Amongst Women – John McGahern
- Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
- Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
- Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
- The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunninghamown it- Like Life – Lorrie Moore
- Possession – A.S. Byatt own it
- The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
- The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
- A Disaffection – James Kelman
- Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
- Moon Palace – Paul Auster
- Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow own it
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguroown it- The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
- The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker own it
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
- The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
- Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving- London Fields – Martin Amis
- The Book of Evidence – John Banville
- Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
- The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie- The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
- Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
- Libra – Don DeLillo
- The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
- Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adamsown itDirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams- The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
- The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
- The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy own it
- The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
- The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
- The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
- Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
- World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
- The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
- Beloved – Toni Morrison own it
- Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
- Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
- Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
- The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
- Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguroown it- Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
- Foe – J.M. Coetzee
- The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
- Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
- The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving- A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellisown itContact – Carl Saganown it- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Perfume – Patrick Süskind
- Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
- White Noise – Don DeLillo
- Queer – William Burroughs
- Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
- Legend – David Gemmell
- Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavic
- The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
- The Lover – Marguerite Duras
- Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera own it
- Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
- Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
- Shame – Salman Rushdie
- Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
- Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
- La Brava – Elmore Leonard
- Waterland – Graham Swift
- The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
- The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
- The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
- The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
- If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
- A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walkerown it- Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguroown it- Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
- The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
- The Newton Letter – John Banville
- On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
- Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
- The Names – Don DeLillo
- Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
- The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
- July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
- Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
- Broken April – Ismail Kadare
- Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie own it
- Rites of Passage – William Golding own it
- Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
- Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole own it
- City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco own it
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
- Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
- Shikasta – Doris Lessing
- A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
- Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
- The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
- If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams- The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irvingown it- Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
- The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
- The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
- Yes – Thomas Bernhard
- The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
- In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
- The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
- Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King- Dispatches – Michael Herr
- Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrisonown it- The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
- The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
- Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
- The Public Burning – Robert Coover own it
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Riceown it- Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
- Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
- Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
- Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
- W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec
- A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
- Grimus – Salman Rushdie
- The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
- Fateless – Imre Kertész
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan own it
- High Rise – J.G. Ballard
- Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
- Dead Babies – Martin Amis
- Correction – Thomas Bernhard
- Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow own it
- The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
- Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.- Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
- A Question of Power – Bessie Head
- The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
- The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
- Crash – J.G. Ballard
- The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
- Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrisonown it- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- The Breast – Philip Roth
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- G – John Berger
- Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
- House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
- In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
- The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompsonown it- Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
- The Wild Boys – William Burroughs own it
- Rabbit Redux – John Updike
- The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
- The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
- The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrisonown it- Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
- Troubles – J.G. Farrell
- Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
- The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
- Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
- Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
- Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.- The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles own it
- The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
- Them – Joyce Carol Oates
- A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
- Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
- Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
- The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
- Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
- Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn own it
- The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn own it
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick own it
- Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
- The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
- In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
- A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
- The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
- Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfeown it- The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquezown it- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
- The Joke – Milan Kundera
- No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
- The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
- A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
- The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
- Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capoteown it- The Magus – John Fowles own it
- The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
- Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
- The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
- Things – Georges Perec
- The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
- The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
- Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey own it
- Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
- Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
- Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
- The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
- Herzog – Saul Bellow
- V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut- The Graduate – Charles Webb
- Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
- The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
- Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plathown itOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsynown itThe Collector – John Fowlesown itOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Keseyown it- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess own it
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
- The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
- Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
- Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani own it
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein- Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
- A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
- Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
- Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
- Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Sparkown itCatch-22 – Joseph Hellerown it- The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
- How It Is – Samuel Beckett
- Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
- The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee- Rabbit, Run – John Updike
- Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
- Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
- Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughsown it- The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
- Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
- Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow own it
- Memento Mori – Muriel Spark own it
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capoteown it- The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
- Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
- Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
- The End of the Road – John Barth
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- The Bell – Iris Murdoch
- Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Voss – Patrick White
- The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
- Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
- Homo Faber – Max Frisch
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov own it
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak own it
- The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
- Justine – Lawrence Durrell
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
- The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
- Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
- The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkienown itThe Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmithown it- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov own it
- A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
- The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis own it
- The Recognitions – William Gaddis
- The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
- Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
- I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
- Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
- The Story of O – Pauline Réage
- A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies – William Golding- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
- The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
- The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
- Watt – Samuel Beckett
- Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
- Junkie – William Burroughs
- The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
- Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
- The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
- The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
- Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
- Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
- Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov own it
- The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger- The Rebel – Albert Camus
- Molloy – Samuel Beckett
- The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
- The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
- The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
- The Third Man – Graham Greene
- The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
- Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
- The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimovown it- The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
- Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
- The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
- Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
- The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwellown it- All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
- Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
- Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
- The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
- Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
- The Victim – Saul Bellow
- Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
- If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
- Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino own it
The Plague – Albert Camusown it- Back – Henry Green
- Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
- The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh own it
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeckown it- The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
- Loving – Henry Green
- Arcanum 17 – André Breton
- Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
- The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
- Transit – Anna Seghers
- Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
- Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Caught – Henry Green
- The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
- Embers – Sandor Marai
- Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
- The Outsider – Albert Camus
- In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
- The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
- The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
- Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
- Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
- The Hamlet – William Faulkner
- Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway own it
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
- The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
- Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeckown it- Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
- Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
- Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
- Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
- Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
- Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
- Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
- U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
- Murphy – Samuel Beckett
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkienown it- The Years – Virginia Woolf
- In Parenthesis – David Jones
- The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
- Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
- To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
- Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
- The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
- Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
- Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
- At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft own it
- Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
- Independent People – Halldór Laxness
- Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
- The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
- The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
- England Made Me – Graham Greene
- Burmese Days – George Orwell
- The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
- Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
- Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
- The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
- A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
- Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
- Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
- Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
- Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
- A Day Off – Storm Jameson
- The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
- A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World – Aldous Huxleyown it- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
- The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
- The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
- The Waves – Virginia Woolf
- The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
- Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
- Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
- Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
- Passing – Nella Larsen
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
- Living – Henry Green
- The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
- The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
- Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
- Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
- Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
- Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrenceown it- The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
- The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
- Quartet – Jean Rhys
- Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
- Quicksand – Nella Larsen
- Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
- Nadja – André Breton
- Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
- Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
- Amerika – Franz Kafka
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Blindness – Henry Green
- The Castle – Franz Kafka
- The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
- The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
- One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
- The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
- Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Counterfeiters – André Gide own it
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
- The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
- Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
- The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
- The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
- We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forsterown it- The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
- Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
- Cane – Jean Toomer
- Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
- Amok – Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield- The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
- Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse- The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
- The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
- Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewisown it- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
- Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley own it
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- Main Street – Sinclair Lewis own it
- Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
- Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
- Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
- The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
- The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
- Summer – Edith Wharton
- Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
- Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce own it
- Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke- The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
- The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maughamown it- The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
- Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
- Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
- Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
- Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
- The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Whartonown it- Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
- Howards End – E.M. Forster
- Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
- Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
- Martin Eden – Jack London
- Strait is the Gate – André Gide
- Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
- The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
- A Room With a View – E.M. Forster own it
- The Iron Heel – Jack London
- The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
- The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
- Mother – Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclairown it- Young Törless – Robert Musil
- The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
- Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forsterown it- Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
- Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
- The Golden Bowl – Henry James
- The Ambassadors – Henry James
- The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
- The Immoralist – André Gide
- The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiserown it- Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad own it
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
- The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin own it
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wellsown it- What Maisie Knew – Henry James
- Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
- Dracula – Bram Stoker own it
- Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wellsown it- The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy own it
- The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Born in Exile – George Gissing
- Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- News from Nowhere – William Morris
- New Grub Street – George Gissing
- Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wildeown itThe Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoyown it- La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
- By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
- Hunger – Knut Hamsun
- The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
- Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
- The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
- The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
- She – H. Rider Haggard
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardyown it- Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
- King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
- Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twainown it- Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
- Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
- Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoyown it- A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
- The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James own it
- Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
- Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
- Nana – Émile Zola
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Red Room – August Strindberg
- Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy own it
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Drunkard – Émile Zola
- Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
- Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
- The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
- The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
- Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy own it
- The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
- Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne own it
- In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Erewhon – Samuel Butler
- Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll- King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
- He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert own it
- Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
- Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky own it
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins own it
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott own it
- Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
- The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky own it
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll- Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
- Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
- Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky own it
- The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo own it
- Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
- Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickensown it- On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
- Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
- The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Max Havelaar – Multatuli
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
- Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubertown it- North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Hard Times – Charles Dickens own it
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- Villette – Charlotte Brontë
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stoweown it- The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville own it
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
- Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre DumasThe Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe- Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe- Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
- The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol- Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
- Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo own it
- The Red and the Black – Stendhal
- The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
- Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
- The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
- Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
- The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley own it
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
- Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
- Emma – Jane Austen own it
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen own it
- The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen own it
- Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
- Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
- The Nun – Denis Diderot
- Camilla – Fanny Burney
- The Monk – M.G. Lewis
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
- The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sadeown it- Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sadeown it- Cecilia – Fanny Burney
- Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau own it
- Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Evelina – Fanny Burney
- The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
- The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
- A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
- Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
- The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
- The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
- Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
- Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaireown it- The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
- Amelia – Henry Fielding
- Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
- Fanny Hill – John Cleland own it
- Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
- Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
- Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
- Pamela – Samuel Richardson own it
- Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
- Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift own it
- Roxana – Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe own it
- Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoeown it- A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
- Oroonoko – Aphra Behn own it
- The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
- The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan own it
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra own it
- The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
- Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
- Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
- The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
- The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
- Aithiopika – Heliodorus
- Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
- Metamorphoses – Ovid own it
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
