Skip to favourite books- The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe, 1980–83
- The Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe, 1993–96
- The Book of the Short Sun, Gene Wolfe, 1999–2001
- Peace, Gene Wolfe, 1975
- The Obscene Bird of Night, José Donoso, 1970
- The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat, 1937
- Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany, 1975
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973
- Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa, 1982
- In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, 1913–27
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985
- Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
- The Tunnel, William H. Gass, 1995
- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, c. 1321
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1996
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck, 1952
- The Waves, Virginia Woolf, 1931
- The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector, 1964
- Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, 1955
- The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington, 1976
- The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz, 1934
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe, 1962
- So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell, 1980
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq, 1951
- Blinding: Book One, Mircea Cărtărescu, 1996
- The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Bruno Schulz, 1934–37
- The Book of Nights, Sylvie Germain, 1985
- Seiobo There Below, László Krasznahorkai, 2008
- The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch, 1945
- Death in Spring, Mercè Rodoreda, 1986
- Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes, 1975
- Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin, 1982
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847
- The Odyssey, Homer, 8th century BC
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis, 1955
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930–43
- The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai, 1989
- Satantango, László Krasznahorkai, 1985
- Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner, 1936
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1936
- Paradiso, José Lezama Lima, 1966
- The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett, 1953
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe, 1972
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, 1851
- The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995
- The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, 1924
- Little, Big, John Crowley, 1981
- The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien, 1967
- 2666, Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald, 2001
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, 1939
- The Castle, Franz Kafka, 1926
- The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch, 1930–32
- Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann, 1947
- Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti, 1935
- Malina, Ingeborg Bachmann, 1971
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
- J R, William Gaddis, 1975
- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon, 1997
- The Garden of Seven Twilights, Miquel de Palol, 1989
- The Museum of Eterna's Novel, Macedonio Fernández, 1967
- Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar, 1963
- Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavić, 1984
- If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino, 1979
- Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco, 1988
- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk, 2014
- Inland, Gerald Murnane, 1988
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis, 1881
- Grande Sertão: Veredas, João Guimarães Rosa, 1956
- Zama, Antonio Di Benedetto, 1956
- A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti, 1950
- The Luminous Novel, Mario Levrero, 2005
- A House in the Country, José Donoso, 1978
- The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier, 1949
- The War of the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa, 1981
- The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1940
- The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes, 1962
- The Solitudes, John Crowley, 1987
- The Course of the Heart, M. John Harrison, 1992
- The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake, 1946–59
- Lanark, Alasdair Gray, 1981
- A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay, 1920
- The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, c. 1010
- The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin, 1791
- The Famished Road, Ben Okri, 1991
- The Palace of Dreams, Ismail Kadare, 1981