1. Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
2. José Saramago, Blindness
3. William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
5. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
6. Alice Munro, Selected Stories
7. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
8. Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories [stories]
9. William Gaddis, J R
10. Joyce Carol Oates, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
11. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
12. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
13. John Updike, The Rabbit Novels
14. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
16. Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories [stories]
17. Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway [stories]
18. William Kennedy, Ironweed
19. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
20. Joseph Heller, Something Happened
21. Samuel Beckett, The Trilogy (Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
22. Nevil Shute, On the Beach
23. George Orwell, 1984
24. James Joyce, Ulysses
25. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
26. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
27. Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son [stories]
28. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
29. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
30. William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
31. Gustav Flaubert, Sentimental Education
32. James Welch, Winter in the Blood
33. Michael Cunningham, The Hours

34. Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone
35. Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
36. Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
37. Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
38. Niall Griffiths, Stump
39. John Irving, The World According to Garp
40. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
41. Toni Morrison, Beloved
42. Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity
43. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
44. Andrzej Szczypiorski, The Beautiful Mrs. Siedenman
45. Willa Cather, My Ántonia
46. Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
47. Don DeLillo, Underworld
48. Alexander Solzhenizen, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
49. J. D. Salinger, Frannie and Zooey
50. David Markson, This Is Not a Novel
51. Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
52. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
53. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
54. John O’Brien, Leaving Las Vegas
55. Saul Bellow, Herzog
56. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
57. Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter
58. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
59. Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
60. António Lobo Antunes, The Natural Order of Things
61. Monika Fagerholm, Wonderful Women By the Sea
62. Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina
63. James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
64. Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party
65. Nadine Gordimer, July’s People
66. James Salter, Dusk [stories]

67. Ron Hansen, Nebraska [stories]
68. William Trevor, Family Sins [stories]
69. Marguerite Duras, Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night
70. Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne
71. Nathaniel West, Miss Lonelyhearts
72. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
73. William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
74. Norman Mailer, Executioner’s Song
75. Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
76. Bernard MacLaverty, Cal
77. Claire Davis, Winter Range
78. Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love
79. J. G. Farrell, The Seige of Krishnapur
80. Haruki Murakami, Kafka at the Shore
81. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
82. Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
83. Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
84. John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever [stories]
85. Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers
86. William Kittredge, The Willow Field
87. John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy
88. Ella Leffland, Rumors of Peace
89. Joan Silber, Household Words
90. Kent Haruf, Plain Song
91. V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
92. Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan [stories]
93. Stewart O’Nan, A Prayer for the Dying
94. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
95. Wright Morris, Ceremony in Lone Tree
96. Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
97. Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart
98. Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains
99. Edna O’Brien, Night
100. John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War