
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated by Peter Anthony Motteux
Published in 1700

2. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Published in 1848

3. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
Published in 1899

4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Published in 1874

5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Falubert
Translated by Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx
Published in 1886

6. Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Published in 1914

7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Published in 1859

8. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Translated by George Egerton
Published in 1899

9. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Published in 1994

10. Ulysses by James Joyce
Published in 1922

11. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Published in 1927

12. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Translated by Edwin Muir and Willa Muir
Published in 1961

13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Published in 1926

14. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
Published in 1924

15. Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
Translated by Tagore himself
Published in 1924

16. The Outsider by Albert Camus
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Published in 1946

17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Published in 1970

18. Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Published in 1977

19. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Translated by George Dillon
Published in 1936

20. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Published in 1861

21. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Translated by Max Hayward, Manya Harari
Published in 1958

22. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
Published in 1878

23. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Translated by Ralph Frederick Manheim
Published in 1961

24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Constance Garnett
Published in 1901

25. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Translated by C.K. Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin
Published in 1922-31

26. Beloved by Toni Morrison
Published in 1987

27. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Michael Hulse
Published in 2000

28. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Published in 1985

29. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Published in 1949

30. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Published in 1929

31. Blindness by Jose Saramago
Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Published in 1997

32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Published in 1960

33. Manto: Selected Stories
Translated by Aatish Taseer
Published in 2011

34. The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by William Maynard Hutchins
Published in 1990s

35. Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore
Published in 1913

36. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Translated by Edward George Seidensticker
Published in 1956

37. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Published in 1901

38. Love in the Time of Cholera
Translated by Edith Grossman
Published in 1988

39. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Andrew Hurley
Published in 1962

40. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Translated by Erdag Goknar
Published in 2001

41. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
Translated by Sam Hielman, Alfred MacAdam
Published in 1964

42. Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
Translated by David Brookshaw
Published in 2006

43. Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth
Published in 1995

44. The Puppets’ Tale by Manik Bandopadhyay
Translated by Sachindralal Ghosh
Published in 1968

45. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Published in 1961

46. Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Translated by Rimli Bhattacharya
Published in 2018

47. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Ilosa
Translated by Edith Grossman
Published in 2001

48. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Published in 1973

49. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel
Published in 2002

50. Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by C.F. Macintyre
Published in 1967

51. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Published in 1999

52. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Published in 1981

53. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Translated by Magda Bogin
Published in 1985

54. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Published in 1960

55. God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Published in 1997

56. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
Translated by Suzanne Rappaport
Published in 1974

57. Dylan Thomas Selected Poems
Published in 1952

58. My Uncle Napolean by Iraj Pezeshkzad
Translated by Dick Davis
Published in 1996

59. The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Published in 1981

60. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Published in 2008

61. Germinal by Emile Zola
Translated by Havelock Ellis, Peter Collier
Published in 1894
62. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Published in 1958

63. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Published in 1939

64. Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Published in 1983
65. White Noise by Don DeLilo
Published in 1985

66. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Published in 1922

67. Dream of the Red Chamber/ The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
Translated by David Hawkes
Published in 1868, 1892; 1973–1980 (1st complete English translation)

68. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Published in 1899

69. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Published in 1974

70. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Published in 1966

71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Published in 1955

72. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Published in 1962

73. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published in 1986

74. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Published in 1966

75. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Translated by Ivan Morris
Published in 1959

76. The Tale of the Hansuli Turn by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Translated by Ben Conisbee Baer
Published in 2011

77. The Songs of Mihyar of Damascus by Adonis
Translated by Adnan Hayder, Michael Beard
Published in 2008

78. The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz
Translated by Elizabeth Bishop
Published in 1987

79. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Published in 1938

80. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Published in 1925

81. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Published in 2000

82. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published in 1925

83. The Human Comedy: Selected Stories by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan M. Stump
Published in 2014

84. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Published in 1991

85. The Castle by Franz Kafka
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Published in 1930

86. The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
Published in 1919

87. 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Published in 1965

88. Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
Published in 1991

89. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Published in 2007

90. River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder
Translated by the author herself
Published in 1998

91. Diary of a madman and other stories by Lu Xun
Translated by William A. Lyell
Published in 1990

92. The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chughtai
Translated by Tahira Naqvi and Syeda S. Hameed
Published in 1994

93. Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Published in 1905

94. Childhood Friend by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
Translated by R.E. Asher, Achamma Coilparampil Chandrasekharan
Published in 1964

95. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Published in 2017

96. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Published in 1980

97. Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
Published in 1943

98. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Published in 1935

99. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Translated by Deborah Smith
Published in 2015

100. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Published in 2016


