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  1. 1.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

  2. 2.
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    by Italo Calvino

  3. 3.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  4. 4.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  5. 5.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons

  6. 6.
    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol

  7. 7.
    Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  8. 8.
    Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Mary Shelley

  9. 9.
    Ficciones (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  10. 10.
    THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES
    by ANGELA CARTER

  11. 11.
    Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Hans Christian Andersen

  12. 12.
    The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
    by Alison Anderson (Translator) Muriel Barbery (Author)

  13. 13.
    I Looked Alive: Stories
    by Gary Lutz

  14. 14.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson McCullers

  15. 15.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

  16. 16.
    Emma (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Jane Austen

  17. 17.
    The Peacock Manifesto
    by Stuart David

  18. 18.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  19. 19.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  20. 20.
    Pastoralia
    by George Saunders

  21. 22.
    The Holy Barbarians
    by Lawrence Lipton

  22. 23.
    The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Upton Sinclair

  23. 24.
    The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel
    by Jonathan Lethem

  24. 26.
    A Rage to Live (Modern Library Classics)
    by John O'Hara

  25. 27.
    Novels in Three Lines (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Felix Feneon

  26. 28.
    Oliver Twist
    by Charles Dickens

  27. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  28. 30.
    Women In Love (Vintage Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  29. 31.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  30. 32.
    Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
    by Italo Svevo

  31. 33.
    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

  32. 34.
    The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
    by Etgar Keret

  33. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  34. 36.

  35. 37.
    A Void. Georges Perec
    by Georges Perec

  36. 38.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  37. 39.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

  38. 40.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn

  39. 42.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  40. 43.
    The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  41. 44.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Vintage Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  42. 45.
    Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme

  43. 46.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  44. 47.
    Persuasion (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  45. 48.
    Home Land: A Novel
    by Sam Lipsyte

  46. 49.
    Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
    by Chris Ware

  47. 50.
    Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  48. 51.
    Revolutionary Road
    by Richard Yates

  49. 52.
    The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Jack Kerouac

  50. 53.
    The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories
    by Etgar Keret

  51. 54.
    Midnight's Children. Salman Rushdie (Vintage Classics)
    by Salman Rushdie

  52. 55.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  53. 56.

  54. 57.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

  55. 58.
    Margherita Dolce Vita
    by Stefano Benni

  56. 59.
    Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

  57. 60.
    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski

  58. 61.
    Beloved (Vintage Classics)
    by Toni Morrison

  59. 62.
    White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

  60. 63.
    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq

  61. 64.
    Middlemarch (Vintage Classics)
    by George Eliot

  62. 65.
    Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  63. 66.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  64. 67.
    Gulliver's Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

  65. 68.
    The Complete Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm

  66. 69.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

  67. 70.
    Cigarettes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
    by Harry Mathews

  68. 71.
    Complete Short Stories
    by Franz Kafka

  69. 72.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

  70. 73.
    The Little Girl and The Cigarette
    by Benoit Duteurtre

  71. 74.
    South of the Border, West of the Sun
    by Haruki Murakami

  72. 75.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

  73. 76.
    Moby Dick : or the Whale (Modern Library)
    by HERMAN MELVILLE

  74. 77.
    The Age of Innocence (Vintage Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  75. 78.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  76. 79.
    The Wild Palms
    by William Faulkner

  77. 80.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link

  78. 81.
    Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri

  79. 82.
    Bed
    by Tao Lin

  80. 83.
    War and Peace (Modern Library)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  81. 84.
    The Slynx: A Novel
    by Tatyana Tolstaya

  82. 85.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  83. 86.
    Black Hole
    by Charles Burns

  84. 87.
    Eeeee Eee Eeee
    by Tao Lin

  85. 88.
    Little Women and Good Wives (Vintage Classic)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  86. 90.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

  87. 91.
    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

  88. 92.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  89. 93.
    Hunger: A Novel
    by Knut Hamsun

  90. 94.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  91. 95.
    Ulysses (Modern Library)
    by James Joyce

  92. 96.
    Moravagine (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Blaise Cendrars

  93. 98.
    Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life (Everyman's Library)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  94. 99.
    Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
    by Julio Cortazar

  95. 100.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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