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TitlesOrder
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust#1
Ulysses by James Joyce#2
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez#4
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald#5
Moby Dick by Herman Melville#6
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy#7
Hamlet by William Shakespeare#8
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert#10
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri#11
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov#12
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky#13
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky#14
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë#15
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger#16
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen#17
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain#18
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy#19
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll#20
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf#22
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller#23
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad#24
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner#25
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell#26
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens#27
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton#28
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck#29
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner#30
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison#31
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee#32
The Trial by Franz Kafka#33
The Red and the Black by Stendhal#34
Middlemarch by George Eliot#35
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift#36
Beloved by Toni Morrison#37
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf#38
Stories by Anton Chekhov#39
The Stranger by Albert Camus#40
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë#41
The Aeneid by Virgil#42
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges#43
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway#44
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens#45
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne#46
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman#47
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann#48
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce#49
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie#50
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles#51
Candide by Voltaire#52
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien#53
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky#54
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo#55
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster#56
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway#57
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe#58
Emma by Jane Austen#59
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J. R. R. Tolkien — not in English Common Knowledge#60
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway#60
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka#61
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka#62
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James#63
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov#65
Antigone by Sophocles#66
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner#67
The Color Purple by Alice Walker#68
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky#69
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell#70
Lord of the Flies by William Golding#71
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley#72
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe#73
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton#74
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol#75
On the Road by Jack Kerouac#76
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford#77
Animal Farm by George Orwell#78
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf#79
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer#80
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray#81
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry#82
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot#83
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway#84
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline#85
The Castle by Franz Kafka#86
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert#87
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne#88
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut#89
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood#90
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White#91
Native Son by Richard Wright#92
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal#93
Paradise Lost by John Milton#94
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais#95
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson#96
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe#97
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier#98
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire#99
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio#100
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy#101
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett#102
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe#103
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov#108
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston#110
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole#124
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren#126
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott#128
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald#132
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen#147
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving#151
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike#153
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak#154
The Plague by Albert Camus#166
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro#177
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe#182
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde#189
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser#207
Dracula by Bram Stoker#209
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams#213
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King#214
The World According to Garp by John Irving#230
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe#247
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand#275
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells#280
Dune by Frank Herbert#281
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro#282
I, Claudius by Robert Graves#283
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller#285
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling#304
The Once and Future King by T. H. White#305
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand#312
Crash by J. G. Ballard#318
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver#320
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens#327
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison#334
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy#339
The Godfather by Mario Puzo#347
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons#388
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson#394
We: A Novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin#397
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice#411
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison#412
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler#419
Hawaii by James A. Michener#427
Underworld by Peter Conrad#467
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory#469
The Shining by Stephen King#495
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger#526
Jazz by Toni Morrison#540
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott#541
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis#542
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson#591
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne#600
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn#643
Sula by Toni Morrison#649
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion#666
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson#688
Time and Again by Jack Finney#699
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand#706
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison#717
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West#735
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder#750
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson#793
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney#801
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams#812
East of Eden by John Steinbeck#819
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley#836
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth#848
The Turn of the Screw, and Other Short Novels by Henry James#867
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton#907
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin#1171
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson#1173
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz#1182
The Cider House Rules by John Irving#1342
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft#1362
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall#1385
Story of O by Pauline Réage#1435
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson#1467
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling#1504
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling#1505
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling#1513
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling#1523
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling#1524
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling#1525
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters#1530
It by Stephen King#1534
The Alienist by Caleb Carr#1547
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown#1550
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon#1788
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann#1800
Watchers by Dean Koontz#1819
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris#1841
Misery by Stephen King#1876
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg#1881
Lost Horizon by James Hilton#1889
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald#1941
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder#2002
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson#2193
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett#2201
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood#2237
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates#2259
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany#2270
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury#2329
The Terror by Dan Simmons#2463
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood#2507
Hard Times by Charles Dickens#2535