Books I’ve read are highlighted in Blue; follow links to my reviews
- Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, Things Fall Apart
- Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, Fairy Tales and Stories
- Jane Austen, England, Pride and Prejudice
- Honore de Balzac, France, Old Goriot
- Samuel Beckett, Ireland, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, Decameron
- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, Collected Fictions
- Emily Bronte, England, Wuthering Heights
- Albert Camus, France, The Stranger
- Paul Celan, Romania/France, Poems.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, Journey to the End of the Night
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Don Quixote
- Geoffrey Chaucer, England, Canterbury Tales
- Joseph Conrad, England, Nostromo
- Dante Alighieri, Italy, The Divine Comedy
- Charles Dickens, England, Great Expectations (read my review)
- Denis Diderot, France, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
- Alfred Doblin, Germany, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
- George Eliot, England, Middlemarch
- Ralph Ellison, United States, Invisible Man
- Euripides, Greece, Medea
- William Faulkner, United States, Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
- Gustave Flaubert, France, Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, Gypsy Ballads
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, Faust
- Nikolai Gogol, Russia, Dead Souls
- Gunter Grass, Germany, The Tin Drum
- Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil,The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- Knut Hamsun, Norway, Hunger.
- Ernest Hemingway, United States, The Old Man and the Sea
- Homer, Greece, The Iliad and The Odyssey
- Henrik Ibsen, Norway, A Doll’s House
- The Book of Job, Israel
- James Joyce, Ireland, Ulysses
- Franz Kafka, Bohemia, The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
- Kalidasa, India,The Recognition of Sakuntala
- Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, The Sound of the Mountain
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, Zorba the Greek
- DH Lawrence, England, Sons and Lovers
- Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, Independent People (read my review)
- Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, Complete Poems
- Doris Lessing, England, The Golden Notebook
- Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, Pippi Longstocking
- Lu Xun, China, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
- Mahabharata, India
- Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, Children of Gebelawi
- Thomas Mann, Germany, Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
- Herman Melville, United States, Moby Dick
- Michel de Montaigne, France, Essays
- Elsa Morante, Italy, History
- Toni Morrison, United States, Beloved
- Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, The Tale of Genji
- Robert Musil, Austria, The Man Without Qualities
- Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, Lolita
- Njaals Saga, Iceland
- George Orwell, England, 1984
- Ovid, Italy, Metamorphoses
- Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, The Book of Disquiet
- Edgar Allan Poe, United States, The Complete Tales
- Marcel Proust, France, Remembrance of Things Past
- Francois Rabelais, France, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Juan Rulfo, Mexico, Pedro Paramo
- Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, Mathnawi
- Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, Midnight’s Children (read my review)
- Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, The Orchard
- Tayeb Salih, Sudan, Season of Migration to the North
- Jose Saramago, Portugal, Blindness
- William Shakespeare, England, Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
- Sophocles, Greece, Oedipus the King
- Stendhal, France, The Red and the Black
- Laurence Sterne, Ireland, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Italo Svevo, Italy, Confessions of Zeno
- Jonathan Swift, Ireland, Gulliver’s Travels
- Leo Tolstoy, Russia, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
- Anton P Chekhov, Russia, Selected Stories
- Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt
- Mark Twain, United States, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Valmiki, India, Ramayana
- Virgil, Italy, The Aeneid
- Walt Whitman, United States,Leaves of Grass
- Virginia Woolf, England, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
- Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Memoirs of Hadrian
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