PghKitten's Journal

In Which Stacie Chases Yet Another of Her Old-Fashioned Notions

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:48:37 GMT

Reposted from Facebook on account of my friends list here doesn't quite overlap the one there.

So during the last few years, I've discussed separately with at least Kat, Wendy, Amber, and possibly others the idea of getting together and having a "sewing circle"-type thing, since I know so many cool and creative people, and our busy lives mean that we often only get together for gaming or going out. The season, which features increasingly earlier nighttime and cold cocoony weather, has made me want to bring this to fruition. Even though this semester is not as bad for Adam as last year's were, I've still ended up having a lot of free evenings while he works, and have spent a lot of them working alone on my crafty projects. But it would be more fun to have company, so would people be interested in coming over and working on creative stuff some night this week or later? Since we are living in the Enlightened Twenty-First Century, guys are welcome too! I know there are a lot of you who paint miniatures and stuff. Come over and sew, knit, draw, découpage, scrapbook, write structured poetry, etc.! There can even be tasty refreshments.

I'm usually completely free Monday and Wednesday nights, and occasionally on Tuesdays. Fridays and Saturdays are less reliable, and Thursdays and Sundays are, of course, gaming. It's been indicated that Monday the 12th may be a possible good night for some. Let me know!

Damage Report

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:49:37 GMT

This is the first time in my life I've ever lived in a valley instead of the top of a hill. Until last night, I didn't fully appreciate the benefits of the latter option.

We were enjoying the storm quite a lot throughout dinner; in fact, Adam went out in it and played with the energy for a while. That was entertaining; at certain points, he shouted at the storm and it thundered back at him. It's the first time we had a really good thunderstorm since we moved, and it was very cool. It was also very interesting to see the purpose of the little slits in the brick retaining wall holding up our garden; we had little waterfalls pouring out of each of them. I kind of feel bad about the spiders that used to live in them; they probably didn't weather the storm too well. We were slightly concerned about a bit of erosion of the yard into the driveway, but everything seemed like issues we could deal with.

Then the power went out.

Then we realized we hadn't seen the kittens in a while, and that we were hearing faint trickling sounds coming from the basement.

Mina and Eris were investigating a small stream of water going from the corner to the drain down there. We'd had a bit of flooding one day this past winter, when we got a lot of rain that couldn't soak into the frozen ground, but the inspector had pronounced the basement a bit susceptible to moisture but no big problem.

We shone a flashlight around and discovered another little stream. Then another. Then another. And then we looked at the back wall, right underneath the gas meter, and noticed a little fountain squirting directly out of the wall.

O.O

It's probably fortunate that we were down there at that moment, because that was almost exactly when the ground reached full saturation and the stormdrains began to back up. As we watched, the water stopped going down the drain and began to rise. I briefly tried to bail out the area around the drain with a bucket, until I realized--there was absolutely nowhere I could put the water. Even if I took it upstairs and threw it out into the yard, it would just keep flowing back in.

We began simultaneously trying to get our possessions on top of the appliances and rescue the cats, whose curiosity was getting them into frequent crises as they tried to investigate the water and then found themselves trapped. Water began to bubble up through cracks in the basement floor. We discovered another wall fountain beside Adam's vintage copy of the Fireball Island board game (one of his most prized possessions) and a C3PO figure boxed set. Don't know how bad the damage was to them yet. We kept moving stuff around in between harried calls to our parents asking what to do, and by that time, the water was up to our ankles in the highest parts of the basement, and shin-depth around the drain. Water was coming out of all four of the walls. The kittens were cowering in terror on top of the washing machine. I felt like I was a passenger on the fucking Titanic. But there is always a part of that appreciates a good adventure story even when I'm in the midst of it, so instead of freaking out too much, I just had to laugh and watch the water continue to rise.

We rescued one of the litterboxes, brought it upstairs, and closed off the basement. This was an ordeal, because the cats--despite being terrified--couldn't look away from the apocalyptic destruction of their lair, and every time we brought one of them upstairs, they would run back down again and get stranded. But we eventually got them both upstairs, and since it was getting a bit dark to do anything but read by candlelight, we decided to check out how things were doing outside.

Well.

At first, it didn't look too bad. Adam's mom had said she'd seen a weather report about cars being underwater at Big Jim's, and in our naivete, we were like, "LOL, that's impossible." We didn't see any terrible mayhem from our front door, at least; only a stream of water going down the road and a big puddle on our front walk. Then I stepped off the porch steps and realized that the puddle went up to my ankles...and it had a current. At that point I was intrigued and had to look at what was going on in the neighborhood, and Adam followed. It was actually difficult getting to the street. Below the water there was a layer of mud, and my flip-flops kept sticking and sliding (that will be important later). When I got to the street (having had to hold onto the fence to get there!), I realized that what had seemed like a small trickle of water...well, wasn't, because the edge of the street was gone in places, making it a lot deeper than it looked. We went upstream, and that was when we began to see the really interesting stuff.

Boundary Street was completely underwater, and in the middle of it was a fountain about three feet tall and twice as wide as I am, shooting up out of a manhole like a geyser. In fact, almost all of the manholes in the neighborhood were doing that. We waded up Boundary and turned onto Saline, and looked over toward Big Jim's. The picture I took is up on Facebook. Adam's mom was right. There was a car sort of half on the curb and half on Saline, nose-down in the water, submerged up to the front seat. Only the back half was visible. Sitting beside it was an SUV with water up to its hood. People were standing around just staring in amazement and laughing, because I don't think any of us could believe what we were seeing. Horrible property damage aside, it was almost kind of cool to look at.

At that point the rain began to pick up a lot again, so we started to head back home. On the way back up to our sidewalk, one of my sandals stuck in the mud while I was fighting the current. My foot pulled out of it, I bent down to retrieve it, and it was gone. We still haven't found it. It's probably in the river by now. And it was one of my favorite shoes, too--one of the Tinkerbell flip-flops I bought during our honeymoon the last time we decided to walk around in a torrential downpour (although to our credit, that time, it was a tropical storm and we didn't have much choice).

That was the biggest excitement for the night, except for hearing weather reports from other people, since our power was still out (apparently a tornado touched down in Braddock and cars were floating away at the intersection of Bates Street, which is only two traffic lights away from our neighborhood). I think we went to bed before 11, because it was dark, we were tired, and there was nothing else to do but wait for it to stop raining. The city actually sent street-sweeping trucks to our area this morning. It's the first time I've ever seen them there.

Early morning was a bit miserable for us; we still had no power, our gas was now off, and we had a refrigerator and two freezers' worth of thawing food meant to get us through the rest of the month because we have no money. But we did have enough hot water to shower with, at least, and the power went back on right as Adam was leaving for class. And Saline Street (the only way out of the neighborhood by car) was surprisingly unscathed. We'd been worried, due to the angle of the car sticking out of it last night, that it had collapsed.

So as long as our gas is back on by the time we get home, things will mostly be back to normal. We'll need to dry out the basement, clean the floor, and see what damage was done to our board games, and we'll probably have to shovel lots of mud off the sidewalks, but it's a lot better than it could have been. My mom told me that there were houses in Oakland and Squirrel Hill that had five feet, not five inches, of water in the basement, and that people trying to seek shelter from the funnel clouds had to run back upstairs when they realized their cellars were completely full of water. So I guess our first natural disaster wasn't all that bad. I hope everyone else was able to get through it all right as well.

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:26:11 GMT

Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
But there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place,
To enter into the days of your togetherness.
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

It's called the "Apache Wedding Prayer", and even though I know it probably has nothing to do with the Apache Nation or any other native tradition and was probably created by a Hallmark copywriter, it still gets me teary-eyed every time I hear it. It was the closing reading at our wedding, and it comes to mind today, on the third anniversary of the day we got most of our friends and family together to celebrate the love we share. Here's to many more.

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:38:21 GMT

Happy birthday to guendolen_sama!

Winter seems officially to be coming now

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:48:39 GMT

The role of Tyrion Lannister has been cast in the HBO Game of Thrones pilot!

http://winter-is-coming.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-cast-member-and-director.html

I don't think I've seen anything this actor is in, but various forums discussing the show have suggested he'll be great in the part. I'm very excited that the show seems to be making progress. I would love to see it onscreen, and HBO won't pull any punches when keeping to the...rather gritty spirit of the series, unlike the little I've seen of ABC Family's rendition of the Terry Goodkind books.

This is pghkitten being outraged about another form of media besides Twilight for once

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:47:53 GMT

OH NO THEY FUCKING DIDN'T.

As much as it was kinda great to see the Yotsuba* Corporation arc wrap up, and as cool as it was to see Light transform back from confused, essentially goodhearted crime fighter into his usual megalomaniacal bastard self, and as awesome it was to see Light's sinister master plan fall into place almost perfectly...still. No.

I was totally emotionally prepared to see Misa die during this episode.

Adam and I have agreed that if L is actually dead, our interest in the show diminishes exponentially. We have some hope in a theory that he may have faked his death and that Near, the new boy genius on the cover of Vol. 7 about whom we know nothing about, may be L in disguise, but I don't have 100% faith in that theory. It would also be a fitting end for L, at the moment of death, to get his confirmation of Kira's identity in his glimpse of Light's RED-EYED GRINNING EVILFACE.

When L closed his eyes, he looked satisfied. On a plot level, it wouldn't be a terrible move on the writer's part.

But still, the reason I watch this show is to see L take Light down, and if that doesn't happen, I'm going to be pretty damn disappointed.

At least I'm pretty convinced that Light is going down fairly soon anyway, because he seems to be having some problems with impulse control, and to have developed Tourette's Syndrome of the face since he got his memories back. Now he's all...

LIGHT: We must avenge Ryuzaki, no matter what it takes.

(turns away)

LIGHT: RED-EYED GRINNING EVILFACE

TASK FORCE: Light, you doing okay?

LIGHT: (sniffles) I'm...just a little overwrought over my best friend's and his butler's and the Shinigami's death, but thanks. You guys are great.

(turns away)

LIGHT: RED-EYED GRINNING EVILFACE

MATSUDA: Hey, want me to grab you a sandwich while I'm out? Hang in there, buddy.

LIGHT: Nah, I've got a Hot Pocket to eat here, but thanks.

(turns away)

LIGHT: RED-EYED GRINNING EVILFACE

So...yes, Light, please keep losing control of yourself and be destroyed soon. Part of me doesn't want to say that, because this has been the best series I've seen recently and I'm not too eager to see it end, but now I really just want to see if L managed to pull off an upset, and I want to see that bastard go down in flames.

DO NOT MESS WITH CHARACTERS I'VE BOUGHT PLUSHIES OF.

Just sayin'. ;-P

*I couldn't take this name seriously, because every time I heard it, I thought of this Yotsuba. And the strangest thing is (you'll probably understand this if you've read that manga)...I could actually see Yotsuba possessing a Death Note, and it would probably make for a very disturbing and awesome crossover story. Just think about it. O.o

Things that rock

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:46:04 GMT

*Everyone who offered birthday wishes/reassurances of my continued nondecrepitude. Thank you all. ::hugs and kisses::
*The David L. Lawrence Convention Center, which didn't fall down while we were there, and which seems to be a perfect venue for our poor itinerant Tekkoshocon.
*Downtown Pittsburgh, which is quite pretty in spring.
*Fondue.
*Fondue with LOBSTER.
*Baccano!
*Adam, who provided for me an awesome and wonderful weekend, and who is getting me a new bike so pghkitten can go ZOOM all around the city and grow fit and healthy!
*Did I mention Baccano!?

I am happy and lucky and full of fondue. It has been a great birthday/convention weekend.

A non-sparkly interlude

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:22:35 GMT

I suppose it's not surprising, given that they are growing up in a house steeped in King, zombies, Lovecraft, and goat skulls on the guest room bookshelf (really!), but it's still amusing:

The kittens have apparently developed a liking for horror entertainment.

They've begun deliberately hanging out in sinks and the bathtub, sitting directly under the faucet and staring expectantly up at it. They wait there until I turn on the water. Then they freak out, skitter away from it, vacate the premises, shake their paws, and bathe themselves furiously.

When I turn the water off, they jump back in the sink or bathtub, sit down under the tap, and wait for the water to return.

It's so damn hilarious.

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:13:09 GMT

I was going to title this "A Meme for Monday," except that it's Wednesday. ::tries to adjust inner clock::

Seriously. Who is this guy?

I am:

Cordwainer Smith (Paul M.A. Linebarger)

This inimitably unique storyteller created a future with so many deep layers of history that all the world we know is practically lost in it.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Today's daily supply of just wrong

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:17 GMT

Just in case anybody missed the link on FaceBook today:

Saturday Morning Watchmen

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:20:50 GMT

Thank you, Vatican City, for periodically giving me these little reminders about why I left the Church:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090309/od_nm/us_washingmachine_1

Seriously, wow, what a proud and empowering message to offer for International Women's Day.

Les loups, les fouets, et embrasse !

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:23:25 GMT

Bonjour, mes amis, mes membres de famille, et les amants ! Aujourd'hui est le jour que nous célébrons le St. Le valentin, et si vous retournez loin assez, le jour que nous célébrons la fertilité dans les champs, les loups qui laissent des figures romaines légendaires soignent d'eux, et frappant des femmes heureuses avec les fouets. Je poste de nouveau dans la langue d'amour, parce que c'est un bon jour pour faire cela. J'espère que tout le monde je sache -- seul, épousé, ou dans n'importe quel des états merveilleux au milieu -- a un jour merveilleux, et que vous dites que quelqu'un ou sont dit par quelqu'un que vous les aimez. Nous allons à Rouge Chaud et Bleu pour manger quelques côtes, parce qu'ils sont proches au coeur, et nous verrons que Coraline, que nous entendons est un très bon film. Adam m'a acheté les chocolats et râle saccadé pour symboliser les fouets de Lupercalia. Aujourd'hui, embrasser votre amant, appeler un ami, ou câliner un chaton, parce qu'est aujourd'hui le jour pour l'aimer, dans quoi que la forme qui aime prend.

A surfeit of lampreys (lampreys=relatives)

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:41:56 GMT

Okay, so yesterday on a whim, I decided to start a family tree on Ancestry.com. Soon after that, I signed up for the 14-day free trial.

A few hours after that I had a family tree for my paternal grandmother's line going back 12 generations to the 1500s.

Holy crap am I OCDing over this site, but it's fascinating.

I have ancestors named Zillah and Hieronymus.

My dad, whom I've always thought of as simply English, German, and a bit Scotch-Irish, has heritage including Swiss, Dutch, and Alsatian. A lot of Alsatian, actually. I wonder if my father's family is distantly related to mrteapot.

I suspect this is how I'm going to be spending a lot of my time in the near future. :-P

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:00:21 GMT

Happy birthday to sol_blackstar!

Tomo says, "One for the other thumb!"

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:23:02 GMT

This is apparently the fiscal year (in other words, the one starting last July) where pghkitten gets everything she wants.

Egads. People running the entire length of the football field and making touchdowns on their tippytoes and us royally sucking for a long time and then pulling a victory totally out of our asses. Wow.

We walked down Carson Street afterwards and celebrated with nearly everyone between the ages of 21 and 60 in the city (the ones between 18 and 21 were in Oakland, I guess), and Adam jumped in the air and chest-bumped some guy and got knocked back a few feet. And then we saw a giant phalanx of police either ahorseback or in full riot gear with shields and huge broom handles encouraging people to return to their homes, and we ducked down a side street so as not to be urged to move along, and I felt very much like one of my gaming characters. :-D

I am well pleased.

Amusing

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:09:43 GMT

Just a moment ago, Mina tried to jump onto the computer keyboard--she likes to sit right in the middle of it--and slipped, ending up hanging onto the edge of it for dear life. In the process of flailing, she ended up completing a search for the word "uyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" on YouTube.

The best part is the fact that seven matches came up. :)

Happy Birthday...

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:12:43 GMT

...to little__one! Have a great day!

Pittsburgh-Related Onion Article of the Day

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:10:17 GMT

...Although I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it were actually true.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/teammates_pretty_sure_ben

Home of the calzone as big as your child

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:28:25 GMT

I would like to report, with great hometown and indeed home neighborhood pride, that one of our favorite local eateries (local enough that we could probably hit it from our house with a slingshot, if we got the angle right), Big Jim's, was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives last night. Serendipitously, we happen to be eating there with our erstwhile realtor tonight. This makes me a very happy pghkitten.

Very amusing

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:43 GMT

Russell just shared this Onion link with me, saying that it immediately made him think of me. He assured me it was because of my general sense of humor and not any other reason. ;-P

I am now passing it on to all of you for very much the same reason. Really. :)

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/typo_in_proposition_8

A slippery, or perhaps spiky, slope

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:59 GMT

Eris is currently near the top of our (undecorated) [artificial] Yule tree, purring, crawling around inside the branches, and gnawing on the decorative pinecones. She bites me every time I attempt to extricate her, which suggests to me that she is having a good time.

I guess this officially means she's feeling better.

I guess this also gives us another way Christmas Eve at our house could go hilariously wrong.

*headdesk once again*

Joie

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:41:02 GMT

While the Longest Night is still going on, I wanted to wish everyone a blessed and merry Yule. :)

On Not Biting Off More Than One Can Chew At Once

Mon, 07 May 2007 19:23:45 GMT

Okay...so several days ago I unveiled my ambitious plan to continue my lifelong education by reading every single piece of literature that could be considered a Great and Influential Text since the beginning of time. This is obviously going to take a while, because there are a great many Great Works that I've never read...hell, I only ever read Hamlet for the very first time last week, and I expect it to take months or years for me to get through the ancient Mesopotamian and Greek canons alone. So I'm starting out a little less ambitiously, with the list that vent22 posted a few weeks ago. Or at least I'm turning it into a meme and posting it on LJ with the ones I've read marked, so I can see where I stand.

(Found here in original form: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books)

Struck through if finished, italicized if begun/read too long ago to recall (i.e. in undergrad), and left alone if unread.

2000s

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
6. The Sea – John Banville
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
25. The Double – José Saramago
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Unless – Carol Shields
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
32. Shroud – John Banville
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
~~48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk~~
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
~~63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood~~
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
69. Pastoralia – George Saunders

1900s

70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
88. Another World – Pat Barker
~~89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham~~
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
~~93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden~~
94. Great Apes – Will Self
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100. The Untouchable – John Banville
101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
112. The Information – Martin Amis
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
123. Land – Park Kyong-ni
124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
138. Complicity – Iain Banks
139. On Love – Alain de Botton
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
~~143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides~~
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
152. Indigo – Marina Warner
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
164. Arcadia – Jim Crace
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
169. Typical – Padgett Powell
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter
174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
197. London Fields – Martin Amis
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
206. Libra – Don DeLillo
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
~~209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams~~
~~210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams~~
211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
222. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
223. Beloved – Toni Morrison
224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
~~242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood~~
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
246. Queer – William Burroughs
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
248. Legend – David Gemmell
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
261. Shame – Salman Rushdie
262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
~~272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker~~
273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
280. The Names – Don DeLillo
281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
~~301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams~~
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
~~312. The Shining – Stephen King~~
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
~~320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice~~
321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
329. Fateless – Imre Kertész
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
~~349. Sula – Toni Morrison~~
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
351. The Breast – Philip Roth
352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
353. G – John Berger
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
~~358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson~~
359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
~~375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.~~
~~376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles~~
377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
~~389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke~~
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
396. Chocky – John Wyndham
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
409. The Magus – John Fowles
410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
~~413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon~~
414. Things – Georges Perec
415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
~~420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey~~
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
428. The Graduate – Charles Webb
429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
~~433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath~~
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
435. The Collector – John Fowles
~~436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey~~
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
~~444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein~~
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
~~455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien~~
~~456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee~~
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
~~467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote~~
468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
476. The End of the Road – John Barth
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
480. Voss – Patrick White
481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell
489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
~~494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien~~
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
~~506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage~~
507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
~~508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding~~
509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
~~518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming~~
519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
~~529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger~~
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
~~539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov~~
540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
~~547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell~~
548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
~~559. The Plague – Albert Camus~~
560. Back – Henry Green
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
~~564. Animal Farm – George Orwell~~
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
567. Loving – Henry Green
568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
571. Transit – Anna Seghers
572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
575. Caught – Henry Green
576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
577. Embers – Sandor Marai
578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
~~579. The Outsider – Albert Camus~~
580. In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
~~581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien~~
582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going – Henry Green
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
~~610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien~~
611. The Years – Virginia Woolf
612. In Parenthesis – David Jones
613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
~~619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell~~
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
665. Living – Henry Green
666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
~~671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner~~
672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
679. Quartet – Jean Rhys
680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen
682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
683. Nadja – André Breton
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
688. Amerika – Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
690. Blindness – Henry Green
691. The Castle – Franz Kafka
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
~~698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf~~
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
~~704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville~~
705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
711. Cane – Jean Toomer
712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
713. Amok – Stefan Zweig
714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
733. Summer – Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
~~736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce~~
737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
~~752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton~~
753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
757. Martin Eden – Jack London
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
~~762. The Iron Heel – Jack London~~
763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
765. Mother – Maxim Gorky
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
768. Young Törless – Robert Musil
769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
~~780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad~~
~~781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~~
782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
~~783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling~~
~~784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser~~
785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad

1800s

786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
~~788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin~~
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
~~801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman~~
802. Born in Exile – George Gissing
803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
806. New Grub Street – George Gissing
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
~~809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde~~
810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
~~819. She – H. Rider Haggard~~
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
824. Germinal – Émile Zola
~~825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain~~
826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
~~831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson~~
832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
836. Nana – Émile Zola
837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
838. The Red Room – August Strindberg
839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
841. Drunkard – Émile Zola
842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
~~854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll~~
855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
~~862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins~~
~~863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott~~
864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
~~868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll~~
869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
875. Silas Marner – George Eliot
~~876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens~~
877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
~~891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë~~
892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
~~893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe~~
894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
~~897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne~~
~~898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens~~
899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
~~902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë~~
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
~~904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë~~
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
~~909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe~~
~~910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens~~
~~911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe~~
912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
~~913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens~~
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
~~916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe~~
~~917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens~~
~~918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens~~
919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
~~931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley~~
~~932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen~~
~~933. Persuasion – Jane Austen~~
934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
936. Emma – Jane Austen
~~937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen~~
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
~~940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen~~
941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth

1700s

943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
944. The Nun – Denis Diderot
945. Camilla – Fanny Burney
~~946. The Monk – M.G. Lewis~~
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~~948. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe~~
949. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
951. Justine – Marquis de Sade
952. Vathek – William Beckford
953. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
954. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
955. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
956. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
958. Evelina – Fanny Burney
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
960. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
961. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
962. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
964. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
~~965. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole~~
966. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
967. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
968. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
969. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
~~970. Candide – Voltaire~~
971. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
972. Amelia – Henry Fielding
973. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
974. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
975. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
~~977. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson~~
~~978. Pamela – Samuel Richardson~~
979. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
~~981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding~~
~~982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift~~
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
~~985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe~~
986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
~~987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe~~
988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

~~989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn~~
~~990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette~~
~~991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan~~
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
~~996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous~~
~~997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius~~
998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
~~1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid~~
~~1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus~~