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)