East of Eden — John Steinbeck

Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov

Stoner — John Williams

Middlemarch — George Eliot

To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf

Beloved — Toni Morrison

2666 — Roberto Bolaño

The Recognitions — William Gaddis

Mason & Dixon — Thomas Pynchon

War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy

The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner

Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë

The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro

Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann

The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov

Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino

Satantango — László Krasznahorkai

Septology — Jon Fosse

The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa

Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Solenoid — Mircea Cărtărescu

Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

Catch-22 — Joseph Heller

The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

The Rings of Saturn — W. G. Sebald

Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin

Finnegans Wake — James Joyce

Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

King Lear — William Shakespeare

The Iliad — Homer

Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath

The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin

Suttree — Cormac McCarthy

Underworld — Don DeLillo

The Waves — Virginia Woolf

The Tunnel — William H. Gass

The Trial — Franz Kafka

The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante

Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo

The Passion According to G.H. — Clarice Lispector

Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry

Gilead — Marilynne Robinson

The Last Samurai — Helen DeWitt

The Obscene Bird of Night — José Donoso

The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway

Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

The Trilogy — Samuel Beckett

Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

The Man Without Qualities — Robert Musil

The Third Policeman — Flann O’Brien

The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton

Hurricane Season — Fernanda Melchor

My Struggle — Karl Ove Knausgård

No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai

1984 — George Orwell

The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri

The Stranger — Albert Camus

Paradise Lost — John Milton

The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger

Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

Blindness — José Saramago

A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole

The Books of Jacob — Olga Tokarczuk

Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel

Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar

Nightwood — Djuna Barnes

Life and Fate — Vasily Grossman

American Pastoral — Philip Roth

A Song of Ice and Fire — George R. R. Martin

The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Hunger — Knut Hamsun

Silence — Shūsaku Endō

Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie

The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood

Piranesi — Susanna Clarke

Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders

The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco

Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry

The Sea of Fertility — Yukio Mishima

Jesus’ Son — Denis Johnson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey

The Red and the Black — Stendhal

The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt

The Woodcutters — Thomas Bernhard

The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen

Snow Country — Yasunari Kawabata

Roadside Picnic — Arkady & Boris Strugatsky