Long-term Reads

  • The Odyssey (Homer)
  • Anabasis (Xenophon)
  • Metamorphoses (Ovid)
  • The Seven Princesses (Nezami)
  • Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
  • Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
  • The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
  • Don Quixote (Cervantes, 1605/1615)
  • The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)
  • Gulliver’s Travels (Swift, 1726)
  • Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1813)
  • Emma (Austen, 1815)
  • Frankenstein (Shelley, 1818)
  • Sense and Sensibility (Austen, 1811)
  • Jane Eyre (Brontë, 1847)
  • Wuthering Heights (Brontë, 1847)
  • David Copperfield (Dickens, 1850)
  • The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, 1850)
  • Bleak House (Dickens, 1853)
  • Madame Bovary (Flaubert, 1857)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens, 1859)
  • Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)
  • Les Misérables (Hugo, 1862)
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson, 1886)
  • The Woman in White (Collins, 1859)
  • Dubliners (Joyce, 1914)
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce, 1916)
  • Ulysses (Joyce, 1922)
  • The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925)
  • The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, 1926)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
  • A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
  • The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner, 1929)
  • Brave New World (Huxley, 1932)
  • I, Claudius (Graves, 1934)
  • Greek Myths (Graves, 1934)
  • Tropic of Cancer (Miller, 1934)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck, 1939)
  • The Stranger (Camus, 1942)
  • Invisible Man (Ellison, 1952)
  • Lolita (Nabokov, 1955)
  • Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
  • Lord of the Flies (Golding, 1954)
  • Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak, 1957)
  • The Bell Jar (Plath, 1963)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey, 1962)
  • The Golden Notebook (Lessing, 1962)
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys, 1966)
  • Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, 1969)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez, 1967)
  • The Kite Runner (Hosseini, 2003)
  • Beloved (Morrison, 1987)
  • War and Peace (Tolstoy)
  • In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
  • Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
  • The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
  • Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
  • The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
  • The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
  • The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
  • Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
  • Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
  • Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
  • The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
  • Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
  • The House on the Hill (Cesare Pavese)
  • Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
  • Shuttlecock (Graham Swift)
  • 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
  • By Night in Chile (Roberto Bolaño)
  • The Trial & All (Kafka)