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What books to understand Essay 1. Dazzle Man With a Pistol †Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman †John Fowles 3. The Green Man †Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint †Philip Roth 5. Ada †Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them †Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid †Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout †Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge †Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good †Iris Murdoch 11. Beauty du Seigneur †Albert Cohen 12. Dim as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid †Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson †Siegfried Lenz 14. In Watermelon Sugar †Richard Brautigan 15. A Kestrel for a Knave †Barry Hines 16. The Quest for Christa T. †Christa Wolf. 17. Chocky †John Wyndham 18. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test †Tom Wolfe 19. The Cubs and Other Stories †Mario Vargas Llosa 20. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 21. The Master and Margarita †Mikhail Bulgakov 22. Journey †Dorothy Richardson 23. The Joke †Milan Kundera 24. No Laughing Matter †Angus Wilson 25. The Third Policeman †Flann O’Brien 26. A Man Asleep †Georges Perec 27. The Birds Fall Down †Rebecca West 28. Trawl †B. S. Johnson 29. Without hesitating †Truman Capote 30. The Magus †John Fowles 31. The Vice-Consul †Marguerite Duras 32. Wide Sargasso Sea †Jean Rhys 33. Giles Goat-Boy †John Barth 34. The Crying of Lot 49 †Thomas Pynchon 35. Things †Georges Perec 36. The River Between †Ngugi wa Thiong’o 37. August is a Wicked Month †Edna O’Brien 38. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater †Kurt Vonnegut 39. Everything That Rises Must Converge †Flannery O’Connor 40. The Passion According to G. H. †Clarice Lispector 41. Once in a while a Great Notion †Ken Kesey 42. Return, Dr. Caligari †Donald Bartholme 43. Albert Angelo †B. S. Johnson 44. Bolt of God †Chinua Achebe 45. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein †Marguerite Duras 46. Herzog †Saul Bellow 47. V. †Thomas Pynchon 48. Cat’s Cradle †Kurt Vonnegut 49. The Graduate †Charles Webb 50. Manon des Sources †Marcel Pagnol 51. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold †John Le Carre 52. The Girls of Slender Means †Muriel Spark 53. Inside Mr. Enderby †Anthony Burgess 54. The Bell Jar †Sylvia Plath 55. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich †Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 56. The Collector †John Fowles 57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest †Ken Kesey 58. A Clockwork Orange †Anthony Burgess 59. Pale Fire †Vladimir Nabokov 60. The Drowned World †J. G. Ballard 61. The Golden Notebook †Doris Lessing 62. Mazes †Jorg Luis Borges 63. Young lady With Green Eyes †Edna O’Brien 64. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis †Giorgio Bassani 65. Stranger in a Strange Land †Robert Heinlein 66. Franny and Zooey †J. D. Salinger 67. A Severed Head †Iris Murdoch 68. Faces in the Water †Janet Frame 69. Solaris †Stanislaw Lem 70. Feline and Mouse †Gunter Grass 71. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie †Muriel Spark 72. Predicament †Joseph Heller 73. The Violent Bear it Away †Flannery O’Connor 74. How It Is †Samuel Beckett 75. Our Ancestors †Italo Calvino 76. The Country Girls †Edna O’Brien 77. Hare, Run †John Updike 78. Guarantee at Dawn †Romain Gary 79. Juice With Rosie †Laurie Lee. 80. Billy Liar †Keith Waterhouse 81. Bare Lunch †William Burroughs 82. The Tin Drum †Gunter Grass 83. Total Beginners †Colin MacInnes 84. Henderson the Rain King †Saul Bellow 85. Token Mori †Muriel Spark 86. Billiards at Half-Past Nine †Heinrich Boll 87. Breakfast at Tiffany’s †Truman Capote 88. The Leopard †Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 89. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring †Kenzaburo Oe 90. A Town Like Alice †Nevil Shute 91. The Bitter Glass †Eilis Dillon 92. Things Fall Apart †Chinua Achebe 93. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning †Alan Sillitoe 94. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris †Paul Gallico 95. Borstal Boy †Brendan Behan 96. The End of the Road †John Barth 97. The Once and Future King †T. H. White 98. The Bell †Iris Murdoch 99. Desire †Alain Robbe-Grillet 100. Voss †Patrick White 101. The Midwich Cuckoos †John Wyndham 102. Blue Noon †Georges Bataille 103. Homo Faber †Max Frisch 104. On the Road †Jack Kerouac 105. Pnin †Vladimir Nabokov 106. Specialist Zhivago †Boris Pasternak 107. The Wonderful â€Å"O† †James Thurber 108. Justine †Lawrence Durrell 109. Giovanni’s Room †James Baldwin 110. The Lonely Londoners †Sam Selvon 111. The Roots of Heaven †Romain Gary 112. Hold onto the Day †Saul Bellow 113. The Floating Opera †John Barth 114. The Lord of the Rings †J. R. R. Tolkien 115. The Talented Mr. Ripley †Patricia Highsmith 116. Lolita †Vladimir Nabokov 117. A World of Love †Elizabeth Bowen 118. The Trusting and the Maimed †James Plunkett 119. The Quiet American †Graham Greene 120. The Last Temptation of Christ †Nikos Kazantzakis 121. The Recognitions †William Gaddis 122. The Ragazzi †Pier Paulo Pasolini 123. Bonjour Tristesse †Francoise Sagan 124. I’m Not Stiller †Max Frisch 125. Self Condemned †Wyndham Lewis 126. The Story of O †Pauline Reage 127. A Ghost at Noon †Alberto Moravia 128. Master of the Flies †William Golding 129. Under the Net †Iris Murdoch 130. The Go-Between †L. P. Hartley 131. The Long Goodbye †Raymond Chandler 132. The Unnamable †Samuel Beckett 133. Watt †Samuel Beckett 134. Fortunate Jim †Kingsley Amis 135. Addict †William Burroughs 136. The Adventures of Augie March †Saul Bellow 137. Go Tell It on the Mountain †James Baldwin 138. Gambling club Royale †Ian Fleming 139. The Judge and His Hangman †Friedrich Durrenmatt 140. Imperceptible Man †Ralph Ellison 141. The Old Man and the Sea †Ernest Hemingway 142. Savvy Blood †Flannery O’Connor 143. The Killer Inside Me †Jim Thompson 144. Diaries of Hadrian †Marguerite Yourcenar 145. Malone Dies †Samuel Beckett 146. Day of the Triffids †John Wyndham 147. Establishment †Isaac Asimov 148. The Opposing Shore †Julien Gracq 149. The Catcher in the Rye †J. D. Salinger 150. The Rebel †Albert Camus 151. Molloy †Samuel Beckett 152. The End of the Affair †Graham Greene 153. The Abbot C †Georges Bataille 154. The Labyrinth of Solitude †Octavio Paz 155. The Third Man †Graham Greene 156. The 13 Clocks †James Thurber 157. Gormenghast †Mervyn Peake 158. The Grass is Singing †Doris Lessing 159. I, Robot †Isaac Asimov 160. The Moon and the Bonfires †Cesare Pavese. 161. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played †Simon Vestdijk 162. Love in a Cold Climate †Nancy Mitford 163. The Case of Comrade Tulayev †Victor Serge 164. The Heat of the Day †Elizabeth Bowen 165. Realm of This World †Alejo Carpentier 166. The Man With the Golden Arm †Nelson Algren 167. Nineteen Eighty-Four †George Orwell 168. About H. Hatterr †G. V. Desani 169. Defiance †Alberto Moravia 170. Capital punishment †Maurice Blanchot 171. The Heart of the Matter †Graham Greene 172. Cry, the Beloved Country †Alan Paton 173. Specialist Faustus †Thomas Mann 174. The Victim †Saul Bellow 175. Activities in Style †Raymond Queneau 176. On the off chance that This Is a Man †Primo Levi 177. Under the Volcano †Malcolm Lowry 178. The Path to the Nest of Spiders †Italo Calvino 179. The Plague †Albert Camus 180. Back †Henry Green 181. Titus Groan †Mervyn Peake 182. The Bridge on the Drina †Ivo Andri? 183. Brideshead Revisited †Evelyn Waugh 184. Animal Farm †George Orwell 185. Cannery Row †John Steinbeck 186. The Pursuit of Love †Nancy Mitford 187. Cherishing †Henry Green 188. Arcanum 17 †Andre Breton 189. Christ Stopped at Eboli †Carlo Levi 190. The Razor’s Edge †William Somerset Maugham 191. Travel †Anna Seghers 192. Ficciones †Jorge Luis Borges 193. Dangling Man †Saul Bellow 194. Gotten †Henry Green 195. The Glass Bead Game †Herman Hesse 196. Coals †Sandor Marai 197. Go Down, Moses †William Faulkner 198. The Outsider †Albert Camus 199. In Sicily †Elio Vittorini 200. The Poor Mouth †Flann O’Brien 201. The Living and the Dead †Patrick White 202. Headache Square †Patrick Hamilton 203. Between the Acts †Virginia Woolf 204. The Hamlet †William Faulkner 205. Goodbye My Lovely †Raymond Chandler 206. For Whom the Bell Tolls †Ernest Hemingway 207. Local Son †Richard Wright 208. The Power and the Glory †Graham Greene. 209. The Tartar Steppe †Dino Buzzati 210. Gathering Going †Henry Green 211. The Grapes of Wrath †John Steinbeck 212. Finnegans Wake †James Joyce 213. At Swim-Two-Birds †Flann O’Brien 214. Surfacing for oxygen †George Orwell 215. Farewell to Berlin ?