Aapeli: Pikku Pietarin pihaAchebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart- Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Adams, Richard: Watership Down
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Americanah
Aho, Juhani: Rautatie- Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
- Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy
- Andersen, H.C.: The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fables
- Archer, Jeffrey: Kane And Abel
- Asimov, Isaac: The Foundation
- Auel, Jean M.: The Clan Of The Cave Bear
- Austen, Jane: Emma
- Austen, Jane: Persuasion
- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
- Bach, Richard: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Balzac, Honoré de: Le Père Goriot
- Beckett, Samuel: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameble (trilogy)
- Bernières, Louis de: Captain Correli’s Mandolin
Blackman, Malorie: Noughts & Crosses- Blyton, Enid: The Magic Faraway Tree
- Blyton, Enid: The Famous Five series
- Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decamerone
- Bolano, Roberto: 2666
- Borges, Jorge Luis: Ficciones
- Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: The Wuthering Heights- Brown, Dan: The Da Vinci Code
- Bulgakov, Mihail: The Master and Margarita
- Cabot, Meg: The Princess Diaries
- Camus, Albert: The Stranger
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Celan, Paul: Poems
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Journey to the End of the Night
- Cervantes, Miquel de: Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay
- Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
- Charrière, Henri: Papillon
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Cantebury Tales
Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were NoneClarke, Arthur C.: 2001: A Space Odyssey- Coelho, Paulo: The Alchemist
- Coelho, Paulo: By the River PIedra I Sat Down And Wept
- Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
- Collins, Wilkie: The Woman In White
- Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Dahl, Roald: The BFG- Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Dahl, Roald: Matilda
Dahl, Roald: The TwitsDíaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas CarolDickens, Charles: The Tale of Two Cities- Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
- Diderot, Denis: Jacques The Fatalist
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Demons
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
- Doyle, Conan Arthur: The Hound of Baskerville
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte-Cristo
- Döblin, Alfred: Berlin Aleksanderplatz
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose- Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Eliot, George: Middlemarch- Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
- Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex
- Euripedes: Medeia
- Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!
- Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
- Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
- Feist, Raymond E.: Magician
Ferrante, Elena: My Brilliant Friend- Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby- Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
- Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
- Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections
- Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth
Fountain, Ben: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk- Fowles, John: The Magus
Frank, Anne: The Diary of a Young Girl- Gaarder, Jostein: Sophie’s World
- Garcia, Lorca Frederico: Gypsy Ballads
- Garcia, Marqués Gabriel: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Garcia, Marqués Gabriel: Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm
- Gilgamesh: Epic of Gilgamesh
- Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von: Faust
- Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of A GeishaGolding, William: Lord Of The Flies- Goscinny-Uderzo: Asterix (comic)
- Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Günther: The Tin Drum
- Grimm: The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Guareschi, Giovanni: The Little World of Don Camillo
- Guillou, Jan: Ondskan
- Guimarães, Rosa Jõao: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- Hamsun, Knut: Hunger
- Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Harris, Thomas: Silence of the Lambs
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Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea- Herbert, Frank: Dune
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- Hietamies, Laila: Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat
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Hoeg, Peter: Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow- Hollinghurst, Alan: The Line of Beauty
- Homer: The Iliad
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- Hotakainen, Kari: Juoksuhaudantie
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Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World- Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Häräntappoase
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House- Ingalls Wilder, Laura: Little House on the Prairie
- Irving, John: The World According to Garp
- Irving, John: A Prayer For Owen Meany
Isomäki, Risto: The Sands of SarasvatiItkonen, Juha: Anna minun rakastaa enemmän- Jansson, Tove: Comet in Moominland
- Jones, Edward P: The Known World
Jotuni, Maria: Huojuva talo- Joyce, James: Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz: Stories
- Kafka, Franz: The Trial
Kalevala- Kalidasa: Shakuntala
- Kawabata, Yasunari: The Sound of the Mountain
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
- Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kianto, Ilmari: Punainen viiva- King, Stephen: The Shining
- King, Stephen: The Stand
- Kivi, Aleksis: Seven brothers
- Kokko, Yrjö: Pessi ja Illusia
- Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Kunnas, Kirsi: Tiitiäisen satupuu
- Kunnas, Mauri: Koiramäen talossa
- Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
- Laxness, Halldór: Independent People
- Larsson, Stig: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mockingbird- Leino, Eino: Helkavirsiä
- Leopardi, Giacomo: Poems
- Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook
- Lewis, C.S.: The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
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Lindgren, Astrid: The Brothers Lionheart- Linna, Väinö: The Unknown Soldier
- Linna, Väinö: Täällä Pohjantähden alla (series)
- Lu, Xun: Madman´s Diary
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- Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain
Manteĺ, Hilary: Wolf HallMaurier, Daphne du: RebeccaMcCarthy, Cormac: The Road- McCourt, Frank: Angela´s Ashes
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McEwan, Ian: AtonementMelville, Herman: Moby-Dick; or The WhaleMeri, Veijo: Manillaköysi- Milne, A.A.: Winnie-the-Pooh
- Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
- Montaigne, Michel de: Essays
- Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (series)
- Montgomery, L.M.: Emily of New Moon (series)
- Morante, Elsa: History
- Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Mukka, Timo K.: Maa on syntinen laulu- Murasaki, Shikibu: Tale of Genji (series)
- Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities
- Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
- Niemi, Mikael: Populäärimusiikkia Vittulanjänkältä
- Njál´s Saga
- Oksanen, Sofi: Purge
Orwell, George: The Animal FarmOrwell, George: 1984- Ovid: Metamorphoses
- Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast
- Pessoa, Fernando: The Book of Disquiet
- Pilcher, Rosamunde: The Shell Seekers
Poe, Edgar Allan: Tales- Pratchett, Terry: The Colour of Magic
- Pratchett, Terry: Mort
- Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards!
- Pratchett, Terry: Night Watch
- Pratchett, Terry; Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens
- Proust, Marcel: In Search of Lost Time
- Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials
(series) - Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
The Bible: Book of Job- Rabelais, Francois: The Life of Gargantuas and Pantagruel
- Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons
Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead- Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter (series)
- Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
- Rulfo, Juan: Pedro Páramo
- Rumi: Masnavi
- Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
- Saadi: Bostan
Sachar, Louis: Holes- Saint-Excupéry, Antoine de: The Little Prince
- Salih, Tayeb: Season of Migration to the North
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye- Saramago, José: Blindness
- Sebald, WG: Austerlitz
- Seton, Anya: Katherine
Sewell, Anna: Black BeautyShakespeare, William: HamletShakespeare, William: King Lear- Shakespeare, William: Othello
- Shute, Nevil: A Town Like Alice
- Seth, Vikram: a Suitable Boy
Sinisalo, Johanna: Troll: A Love StorySmith, Dodie: I Capture The Castle- Smith, Zadie: NW
- Smith, Zadie: White Teeth
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago
Spungen, Deborah: And I Don’t Want to Live This Life- Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Stendhal: The Red and the Black
- Sterne, Laurence: Tristam Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island- Suhola, Aino: Rakasta minut vahvaksi
- Süskind, Patrick: Perfume
- Svevo, Italo: Confessions of Zeno
- Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travel
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina- Tolstoy, Leo: The Death of Ivan Ilych
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Tressell, Robert: The Ragged Trousered Philantrophists
- Chekhov, Anton: Stories
- One Thousand and One Nights
Twain, Mark: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Uris, Leon: Exodus
- Uspensky, Eduard: Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat
- Valmiki: Ramayana
- Virgil: Aeneid
- Verne, Jules: Around the World in 80 Days
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse 5Vuorinen, Juha: Juoppohullun päiväkirja- Vyasa: Mahabharata
Waltari, Mika: The EgyptianWaugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited- Westö, Kjell: Missä kuljimme kerran
- Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilson, Jacqueline: Girls In Love
- Wilson, Jacqueline: Double Act
Wilson, Jacqueline: The Story of Tracy Beaker- Wilson, Jacqueline: Vicky Angel
- Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway- Yourcenar, Marguerite: Memoirs of Hadrian
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Well done! 🙂
Hi ! I’m from India and I was pleasantly surprised to see the Ramayana, Mahabharatha and Shakunthala on your TBR list . These are the stories I grew up listening to 🙂 Here is a link that I sometimes refer to when I need to clarify something . The summary by Rajaji is one of the most popular in India
http://www.mahabharataonline.com/
Hope its useful !!
Hi! The three books that you mentioned were actually listed on The 100 Best Books of All Time. And since I don’t want to limit myself to only classics of Western literature, I thought it would be fun to read books from around the world. And thank you for the link, it has inspired me to try and look for the translation!
So many great novels you’ve got on here! Master and Margarita is such an amazing read! How did you go about putting this list together?
Thank you! I actually wrote a post where I explained how this list came about: https://bookarino.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/story-behind-my-ambitious-tbr/
Sweet I will check it out!
I like your TBR. The Grapes of Wrath is probably the best novel I’ve read. The Gulag Archipelago is excellent too.