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Index
Contents
Praise
Introduction
Works Cited
A Note on the Entries
Acknowledgements
1 | Don Quixote (1605 and 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes.
2 | The Princesse de Clèves (1678) by Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne).
3 | Candide, or Optimism (1759) by Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet).
4 | Dangerous Liaisons (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos (Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos).
5 | The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774, revised 1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
6 | Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone) (1750s–1763; published 1792) by Cao Xueqin.
7 | Jacques the Fatalist (1778–1786; fully published 1796) by Denis Diderot.
8 | Corinne, or Italy (1807) by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker).
9 | Michael Kohlhaas (1810) by Heinrich von Kleist.
10 | The Betrothed (1827; revised 1842) by Alessandro Manzoni.
11 | The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle).
12 | Indiana (1832) by George Sand (Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin).
13 | Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac.
14 | A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov.
15 | Dead Souls: an Epic Poem (1842/1855) by Nikolai Gogol.
16 | Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.
17 | Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo.
18 | Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev.
19 | War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy.
20 | The Crime of Father Amaro: Scenes from the Religious Life (1875; revised 1880) by Eça de Quieroz (José Maria de Eça de Queiroz).
21 | Epitaph of a Small Winner (The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas) (1880) by Machado de Assis (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis).
22 | Niels Lyhne (1880) by Jens Peter Jacobsen.
23 | The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
24 | Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola.
25 | Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun.
26 | The Duel (1891) by Anton Chekhov.
27 | The Murderess (1903) by Alexandros Papadiamantis.
28 | The Gate (1910) by Natsume Sōseki.
29 | The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
30 | In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) by Marcel Proust.
31 | Reeds in the Wind (1913) by Grazia Deledda.
32 | Petersburg (1916; revised 1922) by Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev).
33 | Home and the World (1916) by Rabindranath Tagore.
34 | Kristin Lavransdatter (The Wreath; The Wife; The Cross) (1920-1922) by Sigrid Undset.
35 | Chéri/The Last of Chéri (1920;1926) by Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette).
36 | Zeno’s Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo (Aron Ettore Schmitz).
37 | The Good Soldier Švejk (1923) by Jaroslav Hašek.
38 | The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann.
39 | The Trial (1914-15; published 1925) by Franz Kafka.
40 | Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin.
41 | The Seven Madmen (1929) by Roberto Arlt.
42 | The Man Without Qualities (1930-33; 1943) by Robert Musil.
43 | The Foundation Pit (1930; published 1973) by Andrey Platonov.
44 | Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches).
45 | The Radetzsky March (1932) by Joseph Roth.
46 | Independent People (1934-35) by Halldór Laxness.
47 | Journey by Moonlight (1937) by Antal Szerb.
48 | The Gift (1938;1952) by Vladimir Nabokov.
49 | Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre.
50 | The Invention of Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
51 | The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati.
52 | The Master and Margarita (1928-40; published in full 1973) by Mikhail Bulgakov.
53 | The Outsider (1942) by Albert Camus.
54 | Suite Française (1942; published 2004) by Irène Némirovsky.
55 | Near to the Wild Heart (1943) by Clarice Lispector.
56 | The Bridge on the Drina (1945) by Ivo Andrić.
57 | Only Yesterday (1945) by SY Agnon (Shmuel-Yoysef Tshatshkes).
58 | The Makioka Sisters (1946-48) by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki.
59 | Fortress Besieged (1947) by Qian Zhongshu.
60 | Dirty Snow (1948) by Georges Simenon.
61 | The Moon and the Bonfires (1950) by Cesare Pavese
62 | Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951-1953) by Samuel Beckett.
63 | The Hive (1946; published 1951) by Camilo José Cela.
64 | Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite de Crayencour).
65 | Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo.
66 | The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) (1956-57) by Naguib Mahfouz.
67 | That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (1946-1957) by Carlo Emilio Gadda.
68 | The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
69 | The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass.
70 | Life and Fate (1959, published 1980) by Vasily Grossman.
71 | Solaris (1961) by Stanisław Lem.
72 | The Time Regulation Institute (1962) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar.
73 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Giorgio Bassani.
74 | The Slave (1962) by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
75 | The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) by Carlos Fuentes.
76 | Hopscotch (1963) by Julio Cortázar.
77 | Three Trapped Tigers (1965) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
78 | Season of Migration to the North (1966); by Tayeb Salih.
79 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez.
80 | The Quest for Christa T (1968) by Christa Wolf.
81 | I Served the King of England (1971) by Bohumil Hrabal.
82 | Chronicle in Stone (1971, revised 1997) by Ismail Kadare.
83 | The Bridge of Beyond (1972); by Simone Schwarz-Bart.
84 | Correction (1975) by Thomas Bernhard.
85 | Life A User’s Manual (1978) by Georges Perec.
86 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978) by Milan Kundera.
87 | If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979) by Italo Calvino.
88 | Basti (1979) by Intizar Husain.
89 | So Long a Letter (1979) by Mariama Bâ.
90 | Buru Quartet (This Earth of Mankind; Child of All Nations; Footsteps; House of Glass)(1980-1988) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
91 | The True Deceiver (1982) by Tove Jansson.
92 | The Lover (1984); by Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Donnadieu).
93 | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) by José Saramago.
94 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) by Haruki Murakami.
95 | See Under: LOVE (1986) by David Grossman.
96 | The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk.
97 | The Emigrants (1992) by WG Sebald.
98 | The Land of Green Plums (1993) by Herta Müller.
99 | A Dictionary of Maqiao (1996) by Han Shaogong.
100 | The Feast of the Goat (2000) by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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