1000 Books Before You Die discussion

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
London Fields by Martin Amis
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Room at the Top by John Braine
A Dry White Season by André Brink
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Independence Day by Richard Ford
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
The Odd Women by George Gissing
New Grub Street by George Gissing
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Amongst Women by John McGahern
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
McTeague by Frank Norris
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Ragazzi by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
GB 84 by David Peace
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Staying On by Paul Scott
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Red Room by August Strindberg
This Sporting Life by David Storey
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Couples by John Updike
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Return of the Soldier byRebecca West
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Germinal by Émile Zola
La Bête humaine by Émile Zola