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1) The List of Novels

The current list of Novels you might want to read in your life-time if you get half the chance:

Achebe – Things Fall Apart  (Nigeria)

Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (UK)

Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria) – added on 5 March 2011

Ageev – Novel with Cocaine (Russia)

Andreyev – The Man Who Found the Truth (Russia)

Andric – Travnicka hronika / UK ed: Chronicles of Travnik (Bosnia)

Arsand – En silence (France)

Asimov – Foundation series (US)

Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tail (Canada)  – added on 20 March 2011

Atwood – Oryx and Crake (Canada)

Atkinson – Case Histories (UK) – added on 5 March 2011

Audeguy – La théorie des nuages  (France)

Audoux – Marie-Claire (France)

Austen – Pride and Prejudice (UK)

Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory (UK / Malaysia) – added on 22 January 2011

Aymé – La jument verte / UK-US ed: The Green Mare (France)

Aymé – Uranus (France)

Bail – Eucalyptus (Australia)

Balzac – Eugénie Grandet (France)

Balzac – Illusions Perdus (France)

Banks – The Wasp Factory (UK)

Bartelt – Les bottes rouges (France)

Beck – L’enfant chat (Belgium)

Bellow – Humboldt’s Gift (Canada)

Bennett – A Life Like Other People’s (UK) – added on 5 March 2011

Benoziglio – Louis Capet, suite et fin (Switzerland)

Berger – Into their labours (UK)

Bergounioux – B17G (France)

Bernanos – Monsieur Ouine (France)

Bernard – Pareil à des enfants (France)

Billetdoux -  L’ouverture des bras de l’homme (France)

Bolano – Los detectives salvajes / UK-US ed: The Savage Detectives (Chile)

Böll – Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum / UK ed: Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Germany)

Borges – All his books (Argentina)

Bouvier – L’échappée belle (Switzerland)

Bradbury – Farenheit 451 (UK)

Bronte -  Jane Eyre (UK)

Butler – Erewhon (UK)

Byatt – The Biographer’s Tale (UK)

Cabanis – Des jardins en Espagne (France)

Caligaris – Barnum des ombres (France)

Calvino – Il Barone Rampante / UK-US ed: The Baron in the Trees (Italy)

Calvino – Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore/UK ed: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Italy)

Camus – La Peste / UK-US ed: The Plague (France)

Capote – In Cold Blood (US)

Card – Ender’s Game (US)

Carey – Oscar and Lucinda (Australia)

Caroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (UK)

Caroll – Through the looking glass (UK)

Céline – Voyage au bout de la nuit / UK-US ed: Journey to the End of Night (France)

Cendrars – L’Or / UK-US ed: Sutter’s Gold (Switzerland)

Chabon – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (US)

Chamoiseau – Texaco / UK-US ed: Texaco: A Novel (Martiniques)

Chatwin – The Viceroy of Ouidah (UK)

Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle (US)

Chevillard – Oreille rouge  (France)

Cholodenko – Les États du désert (France)

Claus – Het verdriet van België / UK-US ed: The Sorrow of Belgium (Belgium)

Coelho – O Alquimista / UK-US ed: The Alchemist (Brazil)

Coetzee – Life and Times of Michael K (South Africa)

Colette – Claudine (France)

Congreve – Incognita (UK)

Conrad – The Heart of Darkness (Poland)

Crane – The Open Boat (US)

Dante – la Divina Commedia / UK-US ed: Divine Comedy (Italy)

De Lautreamont – Les Chants de Maldoror / UK-US ed: The Songs of Maldoror (France)

Defoe – Moll Flanders (UK)

Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (UK)

Desbiolles – Anchise / UK-US ed: The Cuttlefish: A Novel  (France)

Detambel – Pandémonium (France)

Dickens – Pickwick Papers (UK)

Dickens – A Christmas Carol (UK) – added on 19 December 2010

Di Lampedusa – Il Gattopardo / UK-US ed: The Leopard (Italy)

Döblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany)

Dostoïevski – Crime and Punishement (Russia)

Doyle – The Lost World (UK)

Drieu La Rochelle – Gilles (France)

Du Maurier – Rebecca   (UK)

Dumas – La Reine Margot / UK-US ed: Queen Margot (France)

Duras – L’Amour / UK-US ed: Love (France)

Echenoz -  L’Equipée malaise (France)

Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum (Italy)

Eliot – Middlemarch (UK)

Eliot – The Mill on the Floss (UK)

Ernaux – L’Occupation / UK ed: The Possession (France)

Faulkner – The Unvanquished (US)

Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (US)

Flaubert – L’Education Sentimentale / UK-US ed: Sentimental Education (France)

Foer – Everything is Illuminated (US)

Forster – A room with a view (UK)

Forster – Howards End (UK)

Fowles – The Magus (UK)

Franzen – The Corrections (US)

Frappat – Sous réserve (France)

Gadda – La cognizione del dolore / UK-US ed: Acquainted with Grief (Italy)

Gailly – L’incident (France)

Gardner – Grendel (US)

Garner – Strandloper (Australia)

Germain -  Magnus (France)

Ghosh – Sea of Poppies (India)

Gide – Les Faux Monnayeurs / UK-US ed: The Counterfeiters (France)

Giono – Le hussard sur le toit / UK-US ed: The Horseman on the Roof (France)

Gissing – The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (UK)

Golding – Lord of the Flies (UK)

Gorky -Mother (Russia)

Gracq – Le Rivage des Syrtes / UK-US ed: The Opposing Shore (France)

Gran – Les trois vies de Lucie (France)

Grass – Die Blechtrommel / UK-US ed: The Tin Drum (Germany)

Greene – A gun for sale (UK)

Greene – End of the Affair (UK)

Greene – The Quiet American (UK)

Grenier – Friterie-bar Brunetti (France)

Grossman – Life and Fate (Ukraine)

Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (UK)

Hamsun – Sult / UK-US ed: Hunger (Norway)

Hardy – Far from the madding crowd (UK)

Hazzard – The Great Fire (Australia)

Heaney (trans.) – Beowulf (UK)

Heller – Catch 22 (US)

Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (US)

Herbert – Dune Books (US)

Hesse – Siddharta (Germany)

Hollingshurst – The Line of Beauty (UK)

Holmes – The Guardian Angel (US)

Homer – The Odyssey  (Greece)

Hugo – Notre Dame de Paris / UK-US ed: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (France)

Hulme – The Bone People  (New Zealand)

Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God (US)

Hustvedt – What I Loved (US)

Huxley – Brave new world (UK)

Irving – Hotel New Hampshire (US)

Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin (US)

Ishiguro – The Unconsoled (Japan)

Jansson – Sommarboken / UK-US ed: The Summer Book (Finland)

Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ireland)

Kadare – Kronikë në gur / UK-US ed: Chronicle in Stone (Albania)

Kafka – Amerika (Czech Rep)

Kafka – The Castle (Czech Rep)

Koestler – Darkness at Noon (Hungary)

Kertész – Sorstalanság / UK ed: Fateless / US ed: Fatelessness (Hungary)

Kipling – Jungle Book (UK)

Kourouma – Allah n’est pas obligé / UK-US ed: Allah is Not Obliged (Cotes d’Ivoire)

Kourouma – En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages / UK-US ed: Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote (Cotes d’Ivoire)

Krasznahorkai – Az ellenállás melankóliája / UK-US ed: The Melancholy of Resistance (Hungary)

Kristof- C’est égal  (Hungary)

Kuprin – The Duel (Russia)

La Fayette -  La Princesse de Clèves / UK-US ed: The Princess of Cleves (France)

Laclavetine – Première ligne (France)

Laurrent – Clara Stern (France)

Lawrence – Sons and Lovers (UK)

Ledig – Die Stalinorgel / UK-US ed: The Stalin Organ (Germany)

Lee – To Kill a Mocking Bird (US)

Leiris -  Aurora / US ed: Aurora (France)

Lem – Solaris (Russia)

Levi – Se questo è un uomo / UK ed: If this is a man / US ed: Survival in Auschwitz (Italy)

Levi (Carlo) – Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / UK ed: Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy)

Levy – Small Island (UK)

Lindsay – The Magic Pudding (Australia)

Malouf – Remembering Babylon (Australia)

Marc Aurèle -  Meditations (Rome)

Marquez – El amor en los tiempos del cólera / UK-US ed: Love in the time of cholera (Colombia)

Marquez – Cien años de soledad / UK-US ed: One hundred years of solitude (Colombia)

Martel – Life of Pi (Canada)

McCarthy – The Road (US)

Melville – Moby Dick (US)

Michon – Vies minuscules / UK-US ed: Small Lives (France)

Mieville – The City and the City (UK)

Miller -Tropic of Cancer (US)

Mishima – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Japan)

Mistry – A Fine Balance (India)

Mitchell – Cloud Atlas (UK)

Mitford – Love in a cold climate (UK)

Montaigne – Les Essais / UK-US ed: Essays (France)

More – Utopia (UK)

Morrison – Beloved (US) – added on 5 March 2011

Mulisch – De ontdekking van de Hemel / UK-US ed: The Discovery of Heaven (Netherlands)

Murakami – The Wind-up Bird Chronicle  (Japan)

Murdoch – The Bell (UK)

Nabokov – The Defense (US)

Nesbit – The Railway Children (UK)

Nin – The Delta of Venus (France)

Okri – The Famished Road (Nigeria)

Ortese – Alonso e i visionari / UK ed: Alonso and the Visionaries (out of print) (Italy)

Orwell – 1984 (UK)

Orwell – Keep the Aspidistra Flying (UK)

Oster -  L’imprévu / UK-US ed: The Unforeseen (France)

Paley – Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (US)

Pamuk – Kar / UK-US ed: Snow (Turkey)

Peake – Titus Groan (UK)

Pekic – Kako upokojiti Vampira / UK ed: How to Quiet a Vampire (Montenegro)

Perec – La Vie Mode D’emploi / UK ed: Life: A User’s Manual (France)

Piercy -  Woman on the Edge of Time (US)

Potocki – RÄ™kopis znaleziony w Saragossie / UK ed: The Saragosa Manuscript (Poland)

Proulx – The Shipping News (US)

Proust – A la recherche du temps perdu / UK ed: Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time  (France)

Pulman – His Dark Materials trilogy (UK)

Pushkin – Evgeny Onegin (Russia)

Remarque – Im Westen nichts Neues / UK-US ed: All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)

Renard – Poil de Carotte / UK-US ed: Carrot Head (France)

Revaz – Rapport aux bêtes / UK ed: Report on Brutes (not yet published) (Switzerland)

Reverzy – Le Passage / UK-US ed: The Passage (France)

Rolin – L’organisation (France)

Roubaud – Le Grand Incendie de Londres / UK-US Ed: The Great Fire of London (France)

Rousseau – Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire / UK-US ed: Reveries of a Solitary Walker (Switzerland)

Rushdie – Midnight’s Children (India)

Saint-Exupéry – Le Petit Prince / UK-US ed: The Little Prince (France)

Sapienza -  L’Arte della gioia / UK ed: The Art of Joy (Italy)

Saramago – O homem duplicado / UK-US ed: The Double (Portugal)

Sartre – Les Mots / UK-US ed: The Words (France)

Schwarz-Bart – Le dernier des justes / UK-US ed: The Last of the Just (France)

Selimovic – Death and the Dervish (Bosnia)

Semprun – Le Grand Voyage / UK-US ed: The Cattle Truck (Spain)

Senges – La réfutation majeure (France)

Shriver – We Need to Talk About Kevin (US)

Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia)

Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (UK)

Steinbeck – East of Eden (US)

Stendhal – La chartreuse de Parme / UK-US ed: The Charterhouse of Parma (France)

Stendhal – Le Rouge et le noir / UK ed: Red and Black / US ed: Scarlet and Black (France)

Stendhal – Mémoires d’un touriste / US ed: Memoirs of a tourist (out of print) (France)

Stephenson – Snow Crash (US)

Sterne – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (UK)

Stevenson – Treasure Island (UK)

Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (UK)

Tabucchi – Tristano muore. Una vita (Italy)

Tanizaki – Diary of a Mad Old Man (Japan)

Tartt – The Secret History (US) – added on 7 June 2011

Thackeray – Barry Lyndon (UK)

Thackeray – Vanity Fair (UK)

Thoreau – Walden (US)

Tiptree – Her Smoke Rose up Forever (US)

Toer – the Buru Quartet (Indonesia)

Tolkien – Lord of the Rings (UK)

Tolstoy – War and Peace (Russia)

Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (Russia)

Tournier – Gaspard, Melchior & Balthazar / UK-US ed: The Four Wise Men (France)

Trollope – The Way We Live Now (UK)

Tsvetaeva – A Captive Spirit (Russia)

Turgenev – Fathers and Sons (Russia)

Valery – L’Idée fixe ou Deux hommes à la mer (out of print) (France)

Vallès – Jacques Vingtras Series / UK ed: only first part “The Child” in English  (France)

Verne – 20,000 Lieues sous la mer / UK ed: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (France)

Verne – Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours / UK-US ed: Around the World in Eighty Days (France)

Vidal – Creation (US)

Vila Matas – El mal de Montano / UK ed: Montano / US ed: Montano’s Malady (Spain)

Volodine – Des anges mineurs / UK-US ed: Minor Angels (France)

von Blixen-Finecke – Last Tales (Denmark)

Waters – Fingersmith (UK)

Waugh – Decline and Fall (UK)

Wells – Time Machine (UK)

Wells – War of the Worlds (UK)

Weyman – The House of the Wolf (UK)

Wharton – The Age of Innocence (US)

White – Riders in the Chariot (Australia)

Wiggin – Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (US)

Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (UK)

Winterson – The Passion (UK)

Winton – Cloudstreet  (Australia)

Woolf – Orlando (UK)

Wyndham – Midwich Cuckoos (UK)

Yonge – The Heir of Redclyffe (UK)

Xueqin – Dream of the Red Chamber (China)

Yourcenar – L’Oeuvre au Noir / UK ed: The Abyss / US ed: Zeno of Bruges (Belgium)

Yourcenar – Memoire d’Hadrian / UK ed: Memoirs of Hadrian (Belgium)

Zelazny – Lord of Light (US)

Zola – La Bete Humaine (France)

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