I see that the Guardian has launched a new 1000 great novels series. Irritatingly, the full list isn’t yet on-line, but I take this opportunity to go through the list of 1001 books you must read before you die, at least according to Peter Boxall. As usual, bold means I’ve read it (with link to review if there is on), italic means started but didn’t finish, struck through means I hated it. The canonical version of this list does the books in chronological order of publication, but I have listed them here alphabetically by author. (As far as I can; got a bit confused with some of the compound surnames.)

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Thousand and One Nights
Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker
Hawksmoor, by Peter Ackroyd
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In The Heart of the Seas, by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Regent’s Wife, by Leopoldo Alas
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Broad and Alien is the World, by Ciro Alegria
The Man With the Golden Arm, by Nelson Algren
Fantômas, by Marcel Allain
Of Love and Shadows, by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, by Jorge Amado
Tent of Miracles, by Jorge Amado
Cause for Alarm, by Eric Ambler
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis
London Fields, by Martin Amis
Money: A Suicide Note, by Martin Amis
I’m Not Scared, by Niccolo Ammaniti
Untouchable, by Mulk Raj Anand
The Commandant, by Jessica Anderson
Bosnian Chronicle, by Ivo Andrić
The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andrić
Ashes and Diamonds, by Jerzy Andrzejewski
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Fado Alexandrino, by Antonio Lobo Antunes
The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius
The Bells of Basel, by Louis Aragon
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, by John Arbuthnot
Before Night Falls, by Reinaldo Arenas
Deep Rivers, by Jose Maria Arguedas
The Twilight Years, by Sawako Ariyoshi
The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Obabakoak, by Bernardo Atxaga
Emma, by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Moon Palace, by Paul Auster
The Music of Chance, by Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela
So Long a Letter, by Mariama Ba
Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
Crash, by J.G. Ballard
Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks
The Sea, by John Banville
The Inferno, by Henri Barbusse
Under Fire, by Henri Barbusse
Silk, by Alessandro Baricco
Regeneration, by Pat Barker
The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes
Flaubert’s Parrot, by Julian Barnes
Giles Goat-Boy, by John Barth
The Floating Opera, by John Barth
The Dead Father, by Donald Barthelme
Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani
Blue of Noon, by Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille
The Abbot C, by Georges Bataille
The Manors of Ulloa, by Emilia Pardo Bazan
Jacob the Liar, by Jurek Becker
Malone Dies, by Samuel Beckett
Molloy, by Samuel Beckett
Murphy, by Samuel Beckett
Vathek, by William Thomas Beckford
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan
Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn
Dangling Man, by Saul Bellow
Herzog, by Saul Bellow
Humboldt’s Gift, by Saul Bellow
The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett
G, by John Berger
Under Satan’s Sun, by Georges Bernanos
Correction, by Thomas Bernhard
Extinction, by Thomas Bernhard
Wittgenstein’s Nephew, by Thomas Bernhard
Death Sentence, by Maurice Blanchot
2666, by Roberto Bolano
Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano
Billiards at Half-Past Nine, by Heinrich Böll
Group Portrait With Lady, by Heinrich Böll
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll
Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, by Tadeusz Borowski
Eva Trout, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen
To the North, by Elizabeth Bowen
World’s End, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan
Willard and His Bowling Trophies, by Richard Brautigan
Arcanum 17, by André Breton
Nadja, by André Breton
A Dry White Season, by Andre Brink
Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain
The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch
The Guiltless, by Hermann Broch
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Inside Mr. Enderby, by Anthony Burgess
Camilla, by Fanny Burney
Evelina, by Fanny Burney
Junkie, by William Burroughs
Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs
Erewhon, by Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati
The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
House in the Uplands, by Erskine Caldwell
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies, by Italo Calvino
The Path to the Nest of Spiders, by Italo Calvino
The Outsider, by Albert Camus
The Plague, by Albert Camus
The Rebel, by Albert Camus
Auto-da-Fé, by Elias Canetti
War with the Newts, by Karel Capek
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Jack Maggs, by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
Them, by Joyce Carol Oates
Kingdom of This World, by Alejo Carpentier
The Lost Steps, by Alejo Carpentier
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter
Bebo’s Girl, by Carlo Cassola
Solitude, by Victor Catala
The Professor’s House, by Willa Cather
Journey to the Alcarria, by Camilo Jose Cela
The Hive, by Camilo Jose Cela
Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Soldiers of Salamis, by Javier Cercas
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin
Monkey: Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng’en
The Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers
The Taebaek Mountains, by Jung Rae Cho
Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
On the Heights of Despair, by Emil Cioran
2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Sorrow of Belgium, by Hugo Claus
Fanny Hill, by John Cleland
Les Enfants Terribles, by Jean Cocteau
What a Carve Up!, by Jonathan Coe
The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die, by Paulo Coelho
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Dusklands, by J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country, by J.M. Coetzee
The Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee
Belle du Seigneur, by Albert Cohen
Claudine’s House, by Colette
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
The Lion of Flanders, by Hendrik Conscience
Pricksongs and Descants, by Robert Coover
Eline Vere, by Louis Couperus
Arcadia, by Jim Crace
The Enormous Room, by E.E. Cummings
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
Disappearance, by David Dabydeen
Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Child of Pleasure, by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
The End of the Story, by Lydia Davis
Dom Casmurro, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Eugénie Grandet, by Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions, by Honoré de Balzac
The Mandarins, by Simone de Beauvoir
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
On Love, by Alain de Botton
The Princess of Clèves, by Madame de La Fayette
Maldoror, by Comte de Lautréaumont
The Twins, by Tessa de Loo
A Woman’s Life, by Guy de Maupassant
Bel-Ami, by Guy de Maupassant
Pierre and Jean, by Guy de Maupassant
Amadis of Gaul, by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
The Crime of Father Amaro, by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
The Viceroys, by Federico De Roberto
La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas
Justine, by Marquis de Sade
The 120 Days of Sodom, by Marquis de Sade
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
The Heretic, by Miguel Delibes
Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
Mao II, by Don DeLillo
Underworld, by Don DeLillo
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
Thomas of Reading, by Thomas Deloney
Clear Light of Day, by Anita Desai
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
All About H. Hatterr, by G.V. Desani
Small Remedies, by Shashi Deshpande
The Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist, by Denis Diderot
The Nun, by Denis Diderot
Rameau’s Nephew, by Denis Diderot
Democracy, by Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
The Bitter Glass, by Eilís Dillon
Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin
Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
The Book of Daniel, by E.L. Doctorow
Stone Junction, by Jim Dodge
Asphodel, by Hilda Doolittle
U.S.A., by John Dos Passos
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fool’s Gold, by Maro Douka
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Radiant Way, by Margaret Drabble
As If I Am Not There, by Slavenka Drakulic
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte-Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, by Marguerite Duras
The Vice-Consul, by Marguerite Duras
Justine, by Lawrence Durrell
The Judge and His Hangman, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
A World for Julius, by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
Castle Rackrent, by Maria Edgeworth
Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi
Adam Bede, by George Eliot
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
Cheese, by Willem Elsschot
Deep River, by Shusaku Endo
Silence, by Shusaku Endo
The Book about Blanche and Marie, by Per Olov Enquist
The Interesting Narrative, by Olaudah Equiano
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
Moscow Stations, by Venedikt Erofeyev
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
Celestial Harmonies, by Péter Esterházy
The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
Astradeni, by Eugenia Fakinou
The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell
The Singapore Grip, by J.G. Farrell
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks
Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
Troubling Love, by Elena Ferrante
Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
The Wars, by Timothy Findley
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bouvard and Pécuchet, by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert
Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Effi Briest, by Theodor Fontane
The Stechlin, by Theodor Fontane
Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster – seen the film!
A Room With a View, by E.M. Forster – seen the film!
Howards End, by E.M. Forster – seen the film!
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
The Magus, by John Fowles
Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame
Thais, by Anatole France
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
Simon and the Oaks, by Marianne Fredriksson
Hideous Kinky, by Esther Freud
Homo Faber, by Max Frisch
I’m Not Stiller, by Max Frisch
The Death of Artemio Cruz, by Carlos Fuentes
The Recognitions, by William Gaddis
The Back Room, by Carmen Martin Gaite
Memory of Fire, by Eduardo Galeano
The Trick is to Keep Breathing, by Janice Galloway
The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy
Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
No One Writes to the Colonel, by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, by Geza Gardonyi
Promise at Dawn, by Romain Gary
The Roots of Heaven, by Romain Gary
Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Legend, by David Gemmell
The Triple Mirror of the Self, by Zulfikar Ghose
The Shadow Lines, by Amitav Ghosh
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Fruits of the Earth, by André Gide
Strait is the Gate, by André Gide
The Counterfeiters, by André Gide
The Immoralist, by André Gide
New Grub Street, by George Gissing
The Adventures of Caleb Williams, by William Godwin
Elective Affinities, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dead Souls, by Nikolay Gogol
The Nose, by Nikolay Gogol
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
Ferdydurke, by Witold Gombrowicz
Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov
Burger’s Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer
July’s People, by Nadine Gordimer
Mother, by Maxim Gorky
The Artamonov Business, by Maxim Gorky
Marks of Identity, by Juan Goytisolo
The Opposing Shore, by Julien Gracq
Dog Years, by Gunter Grass
Cat and Mouse, by Günter Grass
The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass
Lanark: A Life in Four Books, by Alasdair Gray
Back, by Henry Green
Blindness, by Henry Green
Living, by Henry Green
Loving, by Henry Green
Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene
The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
The Honorary Consul, by Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong
Memoirs of Rain, by Sunetra Gupta
Dirty Havana Trilogy, by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Forever a Stranger, by Hella Haasse
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon
The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
Hunger, by Knut Hamsun
The Afternoon of a Writer, by Peter Handke
The Left-Handed Woman, by Peter Handke
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
The Good Soldier Švejk, by Jaroslav Hašek
The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love in Excess, by Eliza Haywood
A Question of Power, by Bessie Head
The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
Margot and the Angels, by Kristien Hemmerechts
Nowhere Man, by Aleksandar Hemon
Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
The First Garden, by Anne Herbert
Martin Fierro, by Jose Hernandez
Dispatches, by Michael Herr
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse
The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse
The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
Camera Obscura, by Hildebrand
Blind Man With a Pistol, by Chester Himes
A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines
The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffman
The Parable of the Blind, by Gert Hofmann
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg
Hyperion, by Friedrich Hölderlin
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Cathedral, by Oles Honchar
Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq
Platform, by Michel Houellebecq
Whatever, by Michel Houellebecq
Closely Watched Trains, by Bohumil Hrabal
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
Paradise of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong
What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
Eyeless in Gaza, by Aldous Huxley
Against the Grain, by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Down There, by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Carry Me Down, by M.J. Hyland
Three Trapped Tigers, by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood
The Last of Mr. Norris, by Christopher Isherwood
A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ambassadors, by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
What Maisie Knew, by Henry James
A Day Off, by Storm Jameson
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson
The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek
Leaden Wings, by Zhang Jie
Platero and I, by Juan Ramon Jimenez
House Mother Normal, by B.S. Johnson
Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson
Jahrestage, by Uwe Johnson
In Parenthesis, by David Jones
Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Ulysses, by James Joyce
The Glass Bees, by Ernst Junger
The Storm of Steel, by Ernst Junger
Broken April, by Ismail Kadare
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, by Ismail Kadare
The Successor, by Ismail Kadare
Amerika, by Franz Kafka
The Castle, by Franz Kafka
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
A Thousand Cranes, by Yasunari Kawabata
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzákis
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzákis
Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann
Green Henry, by Gottfried Keller
How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman
The Busconductor Hines, by James Kelman
Schindler’s Ark, by Thomas Keneally
Looking for the Possible Dance, by A.L. Kennedy
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Fateless, by Imre Kertész
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid
The Shining, by Stephen King
The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
Garden, Ashes, by Danilo Kis
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, by Ivan Klima
Death in Rome, by Wolfgang Koeppen
The Hothouse, by Wolfgang Koeppen
The Case Worker, by Gyorgy Konrad
A Day in Spring, by Ciril Kosmac
Smell of Sadness, by Alfred Kossmann
The Fan Man, by William Kotzwinkle
The Midnight Examiner, by William Kotzwinkle
The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai
On the Edge of Reason, by Miroslav Krleza
The Return of Philip Latinowicz, by Miroslav Krleza
Professor Martens’ Departure, by Jaan Kross
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi
Land, by Park Kyung-ni
Andrea, by Carmen Laforet
Barabbas, by Par Lagerkvist
Gösta Berling’s Saga, by Selma Lagerlöf
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Passing, by Nella Larsen
Quicksand, by Nella Larsen
The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
Independent People, by Halldór Laxness
The Dark Child, by Camara Laye
Smiley’s People, by John Le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carré
In a Glass Darkly, by Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas, by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lost Language of Cranes, by David Leavitt
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Cider With Rosie, by Laurie Lee
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
The Female Quixote, by Charlotte Lennox
The German Lesson, by Siegfried Lenz
Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard
La Brava, by Elmore Leonard
A Hero of Our Times, by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
The Enchanted Wanderer, by Nikolai Leskov
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
The Grass is Singing, by Doris Lessing
Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi
If Not Now, When?, by Primo Levi
If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi
The Drowned and the Saved, by Primo Levi
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
The Monk, by M.G. Lewis
Monica, by Saunders Lewis
Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
Tarr, by Wyndham Lewis
The Apes of God, by Wyndham Lewis
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
The Unknown Soldier, by Vaino Linna
The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector
The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector
The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell
The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Time of the Hero, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The War of the End of the World, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Absolute Beginners, by Colin MacInnes
The Man of Feeling, by Henry Mackenzie
Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz
Miramar, by Naguib Mahfouz
Remembering Babylon, by David Malouf
Man’s Fate, by André Malraux
Faceless Killers, by Henning Mankell
Professor Unrat, by Heinrich Mann
Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann
Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
Her Privates We, by Frederic Manning
The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni
Embers, by Sandor Marai
All Souls , by Javier Marias
Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marias
The Late-Night News, by Petros Markaris
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, by David Markson
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Time of Silence, by Luis Martin Santos
Santa Evita, by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Tirant lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell
The Daughter, by Pavlos Matesis
Cigarettes, by Harry Mathews
Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Robert Maturin
Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
Vipers’ Tangle, by Francois Mauriac
The Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, by Horace McCoy
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden, by Ian McEwan
Amongst Women, by John McGahern
The Heart of Redness, by Zakes Mda
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
A Light Comedy, by Eduardo Mendoza
The Manila Rope, by Veijo Meri
Day of the Dolphin, by Robert Merle
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
The Sea of Fertility, by Yukio Mishima
The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford
Crossfire, by Miyuki Miyabe
Chaka the Zulu, by Thomas Mofolo
Southern Seas, by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Watchmen, by Alan Moore
Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore
Like Life, by Lorrie Moore
A Ghost at Noon, by Alberto Moravia
Disobedience, by Alberto Moravia
The Time of Indifference, by Alberto Moravia
Anton Reiser, by Karl Philipp Moritz
Pavel’s Letters, by Monika Moron
News from Nowhere, by William Morris
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Down Second Avenue, by Es’kia Mphahlele
The Holder of the World, by Bharati Mukherjee
The Discovery of Heaven, by Harry Mulisch
Max Havelaar, by Multatuli
Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro
The Beggar Maid, by Alice Munro
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Almost Transparent Blue, by Ryu Murakami
A Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch
The Bell, by Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch
Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch
Inland, by Gerald Murnane
The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil
Young Törless, by Robert Musil
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis
Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Water Margin, by Shi Nai’an
A Bend in the River, by V.S. Naipaul
Enigma of Arrival, by V.S. Naipaul
In A Free State, by V.S. Naipaul
The Guide, by R.K. Narayan
The Unfortunate Traveller, by Thomas Nashe
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
Delta of Venus, by Anaïs Nin
All Souls Day, by Cees Nooteboom
Rituals, by Cees Nooteboom
Fear and Trembling, by Amélie Nothomb
Henry of Ofterdingen, by Novalis
Girl With Green Eyes, by Edna O’Brien
The Country Girls, by Edna O’Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O’Brien
The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O’Connor
Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
The Talk of the Town, by Ardal O’Hanlon
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, by Kenzaburo Oe
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
The Shipyard, by Juan Carlos Onetti
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Cataract, by Mykhailo Osadchyi
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz
Black Box, by Amos Oz
Life is a Caravanserai, by Emine Özdamar
The Year of the Hare, by Arto Paasilinna
Manon des Sources, by Marcel Pagnol
The Laws, by Connie Palmen
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
Life of Christ, by Giovanni Papini
Ballad for Georg Henig, by Viktor Paskov
The Ragazzi, by Pier Paulo Pasolini
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Marius the Epicurean, by Walter Pater
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
The Harvesters, by Cesare Pavese
The Moon and the Bonfires, by Cesare Pavese
Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad Pavic
The Labyrinth of Solitude, by Octavio Paz
Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
The Clay Machine-Gun, by Victor Pelevin
The Life of Insects, by Victor Pelevin
A Void, by Georges Perec
Life: A User’s Manual, by Georges Perec
Things: A Story of the Sixties, by Georges Perec
W, or the Memory of Childhood, by Georges Perec
Compassion, by Benito Perez Galdos
The Dumas Club, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa
Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
Money to Burn, by Ricardo Piglia
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, by Luigi Pirandello
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Trusting and the Maimed, by James Plunkett
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
Here’s to You, Jesusa, by Elena Poniatowska
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell
Typical, by Padgett Powell
The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx
Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Pharoah, by Boleslaw Prus
Heartbreak Tango, by Manuel Puig
Kiss of the Spider Woman, by Manuel Puig
Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
V., by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon
Exercises in Style, by Raymond Queneau
Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Françoise Rabelais
The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe
The Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet
The Last World, by Christoph Ransmayr
The Story of O, by Pauline Réage
The Forest of the Hanged, by Liviu Rebreanu
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Interview With the Vampire, by Anne Rice
Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson
Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson
Pamela, by Samuel Richardson
King Solomon’s Mines, by H. Rider Haggard
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel, by Julian Rios
Jealousy, by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Love’s Work, by Gillian Rose
Call it Sleep, by Henry Roth
The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Émile; or, On Education, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Julie; or, the New Eloise, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reveries of a Solitary Walker, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Impressions of Africa, by Raymond Roussel
Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy
The Burning Plain, by Juan Rulfo
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
Shame, by Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
The Deadbeats, by Ward Ruyslinck
Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Witness, by Juan Jose Saer
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem, by Emilio Salgari
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Devil’s Pool, by George Sand
Alberta and Jacob, by Cora Sandel
The History of the Siege of Lisbon, by José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago
Baltasar and Blimunda, by Jose Saramago
Facundo, by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Swarm, by Frank Schatzing
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
None but the Brave, by Arthur Schnitzler
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness, by Daniel Paul Schreber
The Street of Crocodiles, by Bruno Schulz
To Each His Own, by Leonardo Sciascia
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott
Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
Vertigo, by W.G. Sebald
Transit, by Anna Seghers
Requiem for a Dream, by Hubert Selby Jr.
Death and the Dervish, by Mesa Selimovic
The Lonely Londoners, by Sam Selvon
God’s Bits of Wood, by Ousmane Sembene
The Case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
Retreat Without Song, by Shahan Shahnur
Rickshaw Boy, by Lao She
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Alan Sillitoe
Life and Death of Harriett Frean, by May Sinclair
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
The Magician of Lublin, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Manor, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Animal’s People, by Indra Sinha
The Engineer of Human Souls, by Josef Skvorecky
The Forbidden Realm, by J. Slauerhoff
Islands, by Dan Sleigh
The Accidental, by Ali Smith
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
Humphry Clinker, by Tobias George Smollett
Peregrine Pickle, by Tobias George Smollett
The Port, by Antun Šoljan
Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., by Somerville and Ross
Lady Number Thirteen, by Jose Carlos Somoza
Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki
The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Mother’s Milk, by Edward St Aubyn
The Man Who Loved Children, by Christina Stead
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans, by Gertrude Stein
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
The Charwoman’s Daughter, by James Stephens
A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Indian Summer, by Adalbert Stifter
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Couples, Passerby, by Botho Strauss
The Young Man, by Botho Strauss
By the Open Sea, by August Strindberg
The People of Hemsö, by August Strindberg
The Red Room, by August Strindberg
Perfume, by Patrick Süskind
The Pigeon, by Patrick Süskind
As a Man Grows Older, by Italo Svevo
Zeno’s Conscience, by Italo Svevo
Waterland, by Graham Swift
A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman, by Andrzej Szczypiorski
Pereira Declares: A Testimony, by Antonio Tabucchi
The Home and the World, by Rabindranath Tagore
The Third Wedding, by Costas Taktsis
Some Prefer Nettles, by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Blaming, by Elizabeth Taylor
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Great Indian Novel, by Shashi Tharoor
Matigari, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The River Between, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Cutter and Bone, by Newton Thornburg
The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber
The Invention of Curried Sausage, by Uwe Timm
Pallieter, by Felix Timmermans
The Master, by Colm Tóibín
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
City Sister Silver, by Jáchym Topol
Summer Will Show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell
Felicia’s Journey, by William Trevor
Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope
Summer in Baden-Baden, by Leonid Tsypkin
The Christmas Oratorio, by Goran Tunstrom
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
King Lear of the Steppes, by Ivan Turgenev
Spring Torrents, by Ivan Turgenev
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, by Dubravka Ugresic
Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
Rabbit is Rich, by John Updike
Rabbit Redux, by John Updike
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
Our Lady of Assassins, by Fernando Vallejo
The Quest, by Frederik van Eeden
Ancestral Voices, by Etienne van Heerden
Z, by Vassilis Vassilikos
The Lusiad, by Luis Vaz de Camoes
Under the Yoke, by Ivan Vazov
The House by the Medlar Tree, by Giovanni Verga
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne
The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, by Simon Vestdijk
Froth on the Daydream, by Boris Vian
Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
Bartleby and Co., by Enrique Vila-Matas
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy, by Xose Neira Vilas
Conversations In Sicily, by Elio Vittorini
In Search of Klingsor, by Jorge Volpi
Candide, by Voltaire
The Life of a Good-for-Nothing, by Joseph von Eichendorff
The Adventurous Simplicissimus, by Hans von Grimmelshausen
Michael Kohlhaas, by Heinrich von Kleist
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
The New World, by Henry Walda-Sellasse
Possessing the Secret of Joy, by Alice Walker
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole
Halftime, by Martin Walser
Morvern Callar, by Alan Warner
Indigo, by Marina Warner
The House with the Blind Glass Windows, by Herbjorg Wassmo
Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
The Graduate, by Charles Webb
The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty
Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West
The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West
The Thinking Reed, by Rebecca West
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
A Boy’s Own Story, by Edmund White
The Living and the Dead, by Patrick White
The Tree of Man, by Patrick White
Voss, by Patrick White
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson
No Laughing Matter, by Angus Wilson
I Thought of Daisy, by Edmund Wilson
Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson
Insatiability, by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
Patterns of Childhood, by Christa Wolf
The Quest for Christa T., by Christa Wolf
Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
Back to Oegstgeest, by Jan Wolkers
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Native Son, by Richard Wright
Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham
Half of Man is Woman, by Zhang Xianliang
A Dream of Red Mansions, by Cao Xueqin
Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Drunkard, by Émile Zola
Germinal, by Émile Zola
La Bête Humaine, by Émile Zola
Nana, by Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola
Gimmick!, by Joost Zwagerman
The Case of Sergeant Grischa, by Arnold Zweig
Amok, by Stefan Zweig
Chess Story, by Stefan Zweig

So that’s 165 out of 1001 that I have read, with another four that I have started but not finished (two of which I disliked so much I doubt that I will ever finish them).