Desert Island fiction
A personal treasury of great fiction. Blurbs to come!

Modern (≥19c)
- The Ruined Map (Kobo Abe)
- The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
- Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
- 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
- The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
- Labyrinths (Jorge-Luis Borges)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
- Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
- The Aegypt Cycle (John Crowley)
- Little, Big (John Crowley)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Devils (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Nikolai Gogol)
- Demian (Herman Hesse)
- The Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse)
- The Lord Chandos Letter (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
- Against Nature (Joris-Karl Huysmans)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
- Dubliners (James Joyce)
- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
- Ulysses (James Joyce)
- The Castle (Franz Kafka)
- The Trial (Franz Kafka)
- Short Stories (Franz Kafka)
- Monsieur De Bougrelon (Jean Lorrain)
- Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
- Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
- Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
- Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
- The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
- Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
- A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami)
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
- The Plains (Gerald Murnane)
- Bluets (Maggie Nelson)
- The Third Policeman (Flann O’Brien)
- Gormenghast/Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
- The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
- Maiden Castle (John Cowper Powys)
- Wolf Solent (John Cowper Powys)
- The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
- Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
- Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)
- The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
- The Rings of Saturn (W. G. Sebald)
- Vertigo (W. G. Sebald)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
- Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
- To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Less modern (<19c)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (anonymous)
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
- The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Paradise Lost (John Milton)
- King Lear (Shakespeare)
- The Tempest (Shakespeare)
- Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Written on July 27, 2019