From The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list I still have those left, more or less

The best 20 from 2000 guardian 

 

 

A Season in Sinji by JL Carr again

 

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding        272p      librivox

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding                    975         librivox

Michael Frayn again

 

Eric Hodgkins Blandings maybe again

 

L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage             608 p    

David Lodge         again, still one to go

 

Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham   again

 

Magnus Mill yes

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

La Disparition by Georges Perec to kindle 319

Les Revenentes by Georges Perec

La Vie Mode d’Emploi by Georges Perec to kindle 581

Anthony Powell  again for sure

Hurrah for St Trinian’s by Ronald Searle

Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons again and again

The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Handley Cross by RS Surtees 576p

The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas         again 

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace immense size

Evelyn Waugh Loved One perhaps again

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh did again

Tono Bungay by HG Wells           414         librivox

Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle first part and more

Oblomov librivox again maybe

 

Crime

Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Greenmantle by John Buchan      librivox

 

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton

The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter

 

The Crime of Father Amaro by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy

A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

The King of Torts by John Grisham

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris he has Fatherland?

Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill    448p

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

A Taste for Death by PD James

Misery by Stephen King

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Constant Gardener by John le Carre

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee again?

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim

The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim

Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky

Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace

The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos

Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos

Lush Life by Richard Price

V by Thomas Pynchon

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

 

Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

Dissolution by CJ Sansom

Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers

 

The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine

King Solomon’s Carpet by Barbara Vine

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Native Son by Richard Wright

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

 

Family and self

 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson again rated 11 out of 10

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles 10** again 

Evelina by Fanny Burney             librivox

Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau

The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett again 

Quarantine by Jim Crace again 

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Silence by Shusaku Endo

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving yet to review

The Ambassadors by Henry James

Washington Square by Henry James

The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins  again on archive

The Unfortunates by BS Johnson

Ulysses by James Joyce...           well, let us see

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee                 again maybe...10 out of 10

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann in kindle yes, wondrous

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing maybe again, first time not much to speak of

Martin Eden by Jack London hmm

The Rector’s Daughter  yees

The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith 590 pages 18hrs librivox

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil well…

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe

The Good Companions by JB Priestley thrilling

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust                               claelry again

 

A Married Man by Piers Paul Read         again on Archive

The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson             librivox near 1000p

Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau            610p

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel           did, maybe again

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth                 1474 pages!

Unless by Carol Shields

The Three Sisters by May Sinclair           388 librivox 1914

The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer            624p      archive

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley           371p, only 3 stars, read...again??

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead           read, no review 525p, again??

Lark Lark Rise to Candleford (Lark Rise to Candleford #1-3 omnibus) by Flora Thompson,       537 read by Judy Dench               only 0ne of three, the rest still to read maybe librivox

Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno                   410 maybe

The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike to take again        sure!!

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

Morvern Callar by Alan Warner                               242 Peculiar written in Scotts?

Frost in May by Antonia White 221         archive again

The Tree of Man by Patrick White          audio

I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward      446 darkly funny also shortlist for Booker

 

Love

 

 

 

Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier audio again maybe

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes       on something librivox?

More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore

Vilette by Charlotte Bronte

Claudine a l’ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette

Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Living by Henry Green maybe again

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

The Go-Between by LP Hartley great

The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer HDD

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH Hudson done ?

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata

The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye 958p

 

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

 

The Rainbow by DH Lawrence

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann liked it very much

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

 

Zami by Audre Lorde

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann must engage again

A Heart So White by Javier Marias

 

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell wow

The Egoist by George Meredith

 

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

 

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

 

Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante

 

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

 

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

 

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

 

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

 

The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale

 

Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

 

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith wow

 

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

 

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

 

Waterland by Graham Swift

 

Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki

Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

East Lynne by Ellen Wood

 

Science fiction and fantasy

 

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

The Drowned World by JG Ballard

Crash by JG Ballard

Millennium People by JG Ballard

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks 

Darkmans by Nicola Barker

The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter

Vathek by William Beckford

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite

Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown

Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys

The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess yes

 

The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

The Influence by Ramsey Campbell

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

 

The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter

 

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

 

The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton

 

Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke

 

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

 

Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney

 

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

 

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

 

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney

 

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick       youtube francais

 

Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch

 

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

 

Under the Skin by Michel Faber

 

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

 

Red Shift by Alan Garner

 

Neuromancer by William Gibson

 

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

 

Light by M John Harrison

 

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein

 

Dune by Frank L Herbert

 

The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

 

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

 

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

 

Houellebecq     audio in phone

 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson in phone maybe??

 

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

 

The Children of Men by PD James

 

After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

 

Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones

 

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

 

The Shining by Stephen King

 

The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski

 

Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

 

The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin

 

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

 

Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing

 

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

 

The Monk by Matthew Lewis

 

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

 

The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod

 

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

 

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

 

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

Ascent by Jed Mercurio

 

The Scar by China Mieville

 

Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

 

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr

 

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

 

Mother London by Michael Moorcock

 

News from Nowhere by William Morris

 

Beloved by Toni Morrison

 

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

 

Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

 

Ringworld by Larry Niven

 

Vurt by Jeff Noon

 

The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien

 

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

 

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

 

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

 

A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys

 

The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett

 

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

 

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

 

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

 

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

 

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

 

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

 

Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

 

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

 

Air by Geoff Ryman

 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

How the Dead Live by Will Self

 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

 

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

 

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

 

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

 

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

The Insult by Rupert Thomson

 

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

 

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

 

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

 

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

 

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

 

Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser

 

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner nearly there

Affinity by Sarah Waters

 

The Time Machine by HG Wells

 

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

 

The Sword in the Stone by TH White

 

The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson

 

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

 

State of the nation

 

London Fields by Martin Amis

La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac

They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy  maybe, though unlikely- the first try failed

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett librivox 

Room at the Top by John Braine

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt    again!!

 

The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 339 not yet librivox

Underworld by Don DeLillo

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin               audio in phone

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky              again maybe

USA by John Dos Passos              again, maybe

Independence Day b Richard Ford       again?

A Passage to India by EM Forster            again?

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen   again!

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell                  librivox

The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide

The Odd Women by George Gissing      librivox

July’s People by Nadine Gordimer

Lanark by Alastair Gray 560p

Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood  again

How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa              again, maybe

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

 

The Group by Mary McCarthy

McGahern

 

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross wow

 

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

 

 Mann

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant

 

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

 

The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia maybe again

 

The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini

 

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

 

The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese

 

GB84 by David Peace

 

Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock

 

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

Shame by Salman Rushdie

 

Staying On by Paul Scott wow

 

The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon

 

God’s Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

 

The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge  AGAIN

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

 

The Red and the Black by Stendhal        again?

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell libri?

The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Couples by John Updike

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh done

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 

 

 

War and travel

 

Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn

Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge

Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin wow

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles audio now?

An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd

When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti

One of Ours by Willa Cather

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-en

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Sharpe’s Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Bomber by Len Deighton

Deliverance by James Dickey

Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos

South Wind by Norman Douglas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell oh yes

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford

The African Queen by CS Forester

The Ship by CS Forester

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The Beach by Alex Garland audio encore

To The Ends of the Earth trilogy by William Golding

Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman

King Solomon’s Mines by H Rider Haggard

She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

Covenant with Death by John Harris

Enigma by Robert Harris

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

Confederates by Thomas Keneally

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally

Day by AL Kennedy

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

La Condition Humaine by Andre Malraux

Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning

Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener yes

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

History by Elsa Morante

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Burmese Days by George Orwell

The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell

The Soldier’s Art by Anthony Powell

The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich Raspe

The Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi Herge

Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi Herge

The Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi Herge

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa wow

Sacaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

The Hunters by James Salter enjoyed it

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

 

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal again maybe

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson really?

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy again?

Williwaw by Gore Vidal arcadian

Candide by Voltaire could be libri

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh maybe again

Voss by Patrick White

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk so damn good again audio

The Debacle by Emile Zola