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Elegance of the Hedgehog The Children's Book Invisible American Rust Cost The White Tiger Home Kieron Smith, boy The Gathering The Blind Side of the Heart The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Falling Man Half of a Yellow Sun The Inheritance of Loss Against the Day Carry Me Down Mother's Milk Measuring the World The Sea The Accidental The Line of Beauty 2666 The Book about Blanche and Marie The Master Suite Francaise The Swarm Cloud Atlas Your Face Tomorrow A Tale of Love and Darkness What I Loved Lady Number Thirteen The Successor Vernon God Little The Namesake Kafka on the Shore Everything is Illuminated Nowhere Man

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Snow Platform The Corrections Life of Pi Austerlitz Atonement Soldiers of Salamis I'm Not Scared The Feast of the Goat The Devil and Miss Prym Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Under the Skin White Teeth The Human Stain Celestial Harmonies Bartleby and Co.

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Fear and Trembling The Museum of Unconditional Surrender In Search of Klingsor Pavel's Letters As If I Am Not There Disgrace Savage Detectives Dirty Havana Trilogy The Talk of the Town Elementary Particles The Heretic All Souls Day The Hours Veronika Decides to Die The Poisonwood Bible Crossfire Enduring Love Underworld Jack Maggs Money to Burn The Life of Insects Margot and the Angels The God of Small Things Silk Fall on Your Knees A Light Comedy Hallucinating Foucault Fugitive Pieces The Ghost Road Forever a Stranger Infinite Jest

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The Clay Machine-Gun Alias Grace The Unconsoled Morvern Callar Santa Evita The Reader A Fine Balance Love’s Work The End of the Story The Late-Night News Troubling Love Whatever Land Our Lady of the Assassins The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Pereira Declares: A Testimony City Sister Silver How Late It Was, How Late Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Felicia’s Journey Deep River Disappearance The Invention of Curried Sausage Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light The Shipping News Birdsong Looking for the Possible Dance The Twins On Love What a Carve Up! A Suitable Boy The Stone Diaries The Virgin Suicides The Holder of the World Remembering Babylon The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll The Secret History Before Night Falls Life is a Caravanserai The Discovery of Heaven Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture The Triple Mirror of the Self All the Pretty Horses Possessing the Secret of Joy The English Patient Indigo The Crow Road Written on the Body


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The Dumas Club Smilla’s Sense of Snow The Butcher Boy Asphodel Memoirs of Rain Hideous Kinky Arcadia Wild Swans Mao II Typical Regeneration Astradeni Faceless Killers The Laws American Psycho Vertigo The Daughter Get Shorty Amongst Women Stone Junction The Music of Chance The Things They Carried The Midnight Examiner The Shadow Lines The Buddha of Suburbia Like Life Sexing the Cherry Moon Palace London Fields Remains of the Day The Melancholy of Resistance The Great Indian Novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing The History of the Siege of Lisbon Like Water for Chocolate A Prayer for Owen Meany Inland Obabakoak Gimmick! Foucault’s Pendulum Paradise of the Blind Wittgenstein’s Mistress The Satanic Verses The Swimming Pool Library Oscar and Lucinda The Last World The First Garden Nervous Conditions


181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228

Cigarettes Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Kitchen The Radiant Way The Afternoon of a Writer The Black Dahlia The Bonfire of the Vanities Black Box The New York Trilogy All Souls Beloved Of Love and Shadows The Pigeon World’s End Enigma of Arrival Ballad for Georg Henig The Taebaek Mountains Lost Language of Cranes Anagrams Matigari The Old Devils Memory of Fire An Artist of the Floating World Extinction Watchmen The Drowned and the Saved The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman Ancestral Voices Love in the Time of Cholera The Parable of the Blind Annie John The Cider House Rules Simon and the Oaks Contact Blood Meridian Perfume Hawksmoor The Handmaid’s Tale Reasons to Live Half of Man is Woman White Noise Love Medicine The Young Man Legend The Unbearable Lightness of Being Dictionary of the Khazars The Busconductor Hines Empire of the Sun


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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The Lover Democracy The Wasp Factory Neuromancer Nights at the Circus Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel Blood and Guts in High School Professor Martens' Departure Flaubert’s Parrot Money: A Suicide Note Shame The Witness Fado Alexandrino The Christmas Oratorio La Brava Waterland The Life and Times of Michael K The Piano Teacher The Sorrow of Belgium Baltasar and Blimunda The Book of Disquiet If Not Now, When? A Boy’s Own Story The Color Purple Wittgenstein’s Nephew A Pale View of Hills Schindler’s Ark The House of the Spirits On the Black Hill July’s People Couples, Passerby Rabbit is Rich Lanark: A Life in Four Books The War of the End of the World Leaden Wings The House with the Blind Glass Windows Summer in Baden-Baden Waiting for the Barbarians Midnight’s Children Broken April Smell of Sadness Rituals Confederacy of Dunces Clear Light of Day The Name of the Rose Southern Seas Smiley’s People


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Fool's Gold The Book of Laughter and Forgetting A Dry White Season A Bend in the River Burger’s Daughter So Long a Letter If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Cement Garden The Virgin in the Garden The Back Room Life: A User’s Manual The Sea, The Sea The Singapore Grip Requiem for a Dream The Beggar Maid Delta of Venus The Shining Dispatches The Wars Song of Solomon The Hour of the Star Quartet in Autumn The Engineer of Human Souls In the Heart of the Country Almost Transparent Blue Kiss of the Spider Woman The Left-Handed Woman Interview With the Vampire Cutter and Bone Blaming Patterns of Childhood Autumn of the Patriarch W, or the Memory of Childhood A Dance to the Music of Time Correction The Dead Father Fateless Willard and His Bowling Trophies Woman at Point Zero Humboldt’s Gift The Year of the Hare The Commandant Ragtime The Port The Fan Man Dusklands The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum


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The Diviners The Dispossessed Fear of Flying A Question of Power The Siege of Krishnapur The Castle of Crossed Destinies Crash The Honorary Consul Gravity’s Rainbow Invisible Cities The Optimist's Daughter The Twilight Years The Summer Book G Surfacing In A Free State House Mother Normal Lives of Girls and Women The Book of Daniel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Group Portrait With Lady Cataract Rabbit Redux The Sea of Fertility The Bluest Eye I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A World for Julius Jahrestage Play It As It Lays Fifth Business Here's to You, Jesusa Season of Migration to the North Heartbreak Tango Moscow Stations The Case Worker Tent of Miracles Pricksongs and Descants Blind Man With a Pistol Slaughterhouse Five The French Lieutenant’s Woman Jacob the Liar Portnoy’s Complaint The Godfather Ada Them A Void The First Circle Myra Breckinridge


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Cancer Ward Belle du Seigneur 2001: A Space Odyssey Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Quest for Christa T. The German Lesson In Watermelon Sugar A Kestrel for a Knave The Cathedral Eva Trout The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Day of the Dolphin No Laughing Matter One Hundred Years of Solitude The Manor Pilgrimage Z Miramar The Third Policeman Wide Sargasso Sea The Master and Margarita The Magus The Vice-Consul Marks of Identity Giles Goat-Boy The Crying of Lot 49 To Each His Own Silence Death and the Dervish In Cold Blood Things: A Story of the Sixties Everything That Rises Must Converge Garden, Ashes The River Between Closely Watched Trains Back to Oegstgeest The Passion According to G.H. Sometimes a Great Notion Three Trapped Tigers Arrow of God The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Herzog V. Cat's Cradle The Graduate Manon des Sources The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Girls of Slender Means


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Inside Mr. Enderby The Bell Jar Dog Years The Third Wedding One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Garden of the Finzi-Continis The Time of the Hero The Death of Artemio Cruz Girl With Green Eyes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest A Clockwork Orange Pale Fire Time of Silence The Golden Notebook Labyrinths Stranger in a Strange Land Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Faces in the Water No One Writes to the Colonel Franny and Zooey A Severed Head The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Cat and Mouse Solaris Catch-22 The Shipyard God's Bits of Wood Bebo's Girl The Country Girls Halftime The Magician of Lublin To Kill a Mockingbird Rabbit, Run Promise at Dawn Absolute Beginners Billy Liar Naked Lunch The Tin Drum Cider With Rosie Down Second Avenue Billiards at Half-Past Nine Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Breakfast at Tiffany’s Deep Rivers The Leopard The Guide The Bitter Glass Things Fall Apart


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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Borstal Boy The Bell The Once and Future King The Birds Jealousy Voss The Midwich Cuckoos Blue of Noon Homo Faber The Deadbeats The Manila Rope On the Road Pnin Doctor Zhivago The Glass Bees Justine Giovanni’s Room The Floating Opera The Roots of Heaven The Lonely Londoners The Lord of the Rings The Talented Mr. Ripley Lolita The Devil to Pay in the Backlands The Last Temptation of Christ The Tree of Man The Trusting and the Maimed The Quiet American The Burning Plain The Recognitions The Ragazzi I’m Not Stiller The Unknown Soldier The Sound of Waves Death in Rome Bonjour Tristesse The Mandarins Lord of the Flies Under the Net The Story of O A Ghost at Noon A Day in Spring The Dark Child The Go-Between The Long Goodbye The Hothouse


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The Lost Steps Lucky Jim Junkie Casino Royale Go Tell It on the Mountain A Thousand Cranes Excellent Women The Judge and His Hangman Invisible Man The Old Man and the Sea Wise Blood The Hive Memoirs of Hadrian Day of the Triffids Malone Dies Foundation The Opposing Shore The Catcher in the Rye The Rebel Molloy The End of the Affair Barabbas The Guiltless The Abbot C The Labyrinth of Solitude The 13 Clocks Gormenghast The Moon and the Bonfires A Town Like Alice The Grass is Singing I, Robot The Garden Where the Brass Band Played The Case of Comrade Tulayev Love in a Cold Climate The Heat of the Day Kingdom of This World The Man With the Golden Arm Nineteen Eighty-Four Death Sentence This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen In The Heart of the Seas Cry, the Beloved Country All About H. Hatterr Disobedience Ashes and Diamonds Journey to the Alcarria Froth on the Daydream Midaq Alley


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Doctor Faustus The Plague Exercises in Style If This Is a Man Under the Volcano The Path to the Nest of Spiders House in the Uplands Back Zorba the Greek Titus Groan The Death of Virgil Andrea The Tin Flute Bosnian Chronicle Brideshead Revisited Arcanum 17 Christ Stopped at Eboli The Bridge on the Drina Animal Farm Loving Pippi Longstocking Transit The Razor’s Edge Dangling Man The Little Prince Joseph and His Brothers The Glass Bead Game Chess Story Embers The Outsider Conversations In Sicily The Harvesters The Living and the Dead Broad and Alien is the World The Man Who Loved Children For Whom the Bell Tolls The Power and the Glory The Tartar Steppe Native Son Finnegans Wake At Swim-Two-Birds Good Morning, Midnight The Grapes of Wrath Goodbye to Berlin The Big Sleep On the Edge of Reason Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Nausea


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Rebecca Alamut Cause for Alarm Brighton Rock U.S.A. Murphy Of Mice and Men Their Eyes Were Watching God The Hobbit The Blind Owl Ferdydurke In Parenthesis Out of Africa Rickshaw Boy Summer Will Show Eyeless in Gaza The Thinking Reed Gone With the Wind Keep the Aspidistra Flying War with the Newts Absalom, Absalom! At the Mountains of Madness Nightwood Independent People Untouchable The Last of Mr. Norris They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Auto-da-Fé The Nine Tailors The Bells of Basel On the Heights of Despair The Postman Always Rings Twice Tropic of Cancer Tender is the Night Thank You, Jeeves The Street of Crocodiles Call it Sleep Miss Lonelyhearts Murder Must Advertise The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Testament of Youth A Day Off Man's Fate Cheese The Man Without Qualities Vipers' Tangle Brave New World Cold Comfort Farm


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The Forbidden Realm The Radetzky March The Return of Philip Latinowicz Journey to the End of the Night The Thin Man To the North The Waves Insatiability Monica The Apes of God Her Privates We The Maltese Falcon Look Homeward, Angel Passing A Farewell to Arms I Thought of Daisy Living The Time of Indifference All Quiet on the Western Front Berlin Alexanderplatz Les Enfants Terribles Retreat Without Song Story of the Eye Orlando Lady Chatterley’s Lover The Well of Loneliness Parade’s End Some Prefer Nettles Decline and Fall Quicksand Nadja Steppenwolf Remembrance of Things Past To The Lighthouse Tarka the Otter The Case of Sergeant Grischa Amerika The Sun Also Rises Blindness The Castle Alberta and Jacob The Good Soldier Švejk Under Satan's Sun One, No One and One Hundred Thousand The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Making of Americans Chaka the Zulu Mrs. Dalloway


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The Great Gatsby The Counterfeiters The Trial The Artamonov Business The Professor’s House The New World The Green Hat The Magic Mountain We A Passage to India Zeno’s Conscience The Devil in the Flesh Amok Kristin Lavransdatter The Enormous Room Siddhartha The Forest of the Hanged Life and Death of Harriett Frean Claudine's House Babbitt Ulysses Life of Christ Crome Yellow The Age of Innocence Main Street Women in Love The Storm of Steel Tarr The Return of the Soldier Growth of the Soil The Home and the World Pallieter The Underdogs A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Under Fire Rashomon The Good Soldier Of Human Bondage The Rainbow The Thirty-Nine Steps Kokoro Locus Solus Tarzan of the Apes Platero and I The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Sons and Lovers Death in Venice The Charwoman’s Daughter

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Ethan Frome Fantômas Impressions of Africa Howards End The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Strait is the Gate A Room With a View The Inferno The Old Wives’ Tale The House on the Borderland Mother The Secret Agent The Jungle The Forsyte Saga Young Törless Solitude Professor Unrat The House of Mirth Nostromo Hadrian the Seventh The Way of All Flesh Memoirs of my Nervous Illness The Call of the Wild The Riddle of the Sands The Ambassadors The Immoralist The Wings of the Dove Heart of Darkness The Hound of the Baskervilles Buddenbrooks Kim None but the Brave Sister Carrie Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem

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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon The Stechlin The Awakening Dom Casmurro As a Man Grows Older The War of the Worlds Fruits of the Earth Pharoah Compassion What Maisie Knew Dracula Quo Vadis


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The Island of Dr. Moreau The Time Machine Effi Briest Jude the Obscure The Viceroys Diary of a Nobody The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes News from Nowhere New Grub Street Gösta Berling’s Saga Tess of the D’Urbervilles Down There The Picture of Dorian Gray The Kreutzer Sonata Thais La Bête Humaine By the Open Sea Hunger Eline Vere The Child of Pleasure Under the Yoke Pierre and Jean The People of Hemsö The Manors of Ulloa The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Quest King Solomon’s Mines Germinal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Marius the Epicurean Bel-Ami The Regent's Wife Against the Grain The Death of Ivan Ilyich A Woman’s Life Treasure Island Bouvard and Pécuchet The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The House by the Medlar Tree The Portrait of a Lady Nana Ben-Hur The Red Room Martin Fierro Anna Karenina Drunkard The Crime of Father Amaro Pepita Jimenez


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Far from the Madding Crowd The Enchanted Wanderer Around the World in Eighty Days In a Glass Darkly The Devils Erewhon Spring Torrents Middlemarch Through the Looking Glass King Lear of the Steppes War and Peace Sentimental Education Phineas Finn Maldoror The Idiot Little Women The Moonstone Thérèse Raquin The Last Chronicle of Barset Crime and Punishment Journey to the Centre of the Earth Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Uncle Silas Notes from the Underground The Water-Babies Les Misérables Fathers and Sons Silas Marner Great Expectations Max Havelaar The Mill on the Floss The Woman in White Oblomov Adam Bede Indian Summer Madame Bovary North and South Green Henry Walden Bleak House Cranford Uncle Tom’s Cabin The House of the Seven Gables Moby-Dick The Scarlet Letter David Copperfield The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Wuthering Heights

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Vanity Fair Jane Eyre The Count of Monte-Cristo The Devil's Pool Facundo The Three Musketeers The Pit and the Pendulum Lost Illusions Dead Souls A Hero of Our Times Camera Obscura The Fall of the House of Usher The Charterhouse of Parma The Lion of Flanders Oliver Twist The Nose Le Père Goriot Eugénie Grandet Eugene Onegin The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Red and the Black The Betrothed Last of the Mohicans The Life of a Good-for-Nothing The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr Melmoth the Wanderer Ivanhoe Frankenstein Rob Roy Emma Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Michael Kohlhaas Elective Affinities Rameau’s Nephew Henry of Ofterdingen Castle Rackrent

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Hyperion The Nun Jacques the Fatalist Camilla The Monk Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship The Mysteries of Udolpho The Interesting Narrative

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The Adventures of Caleb Williams A Dream of Red Mansions Justine Vathek Anton Reiser The 120 Days of Sodom Confessions Dangerous Liaisons Reveries of a Solitary Walker Evelina The Sorrows of Young Werther Humphry Clinker The Man of Feeling A Sentimental Journey Tristram Shandy The Vicar of Wakefield The Castle of Otranto Émile; or, On Education Julie; or, the New Eloise Rasselas Candide The Female Quixote Peregrine Pickle Fanny Hill Tom Jones Clarissa Pamela Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Joseph Andrews A Modest Proposal Gulliver’s Travels Moll Flanders Love in Excess Robinson Crusoe

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Oroonoko The Princess of Clèves The Adventurous Simplicissimus The Conquest of New Spain The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda Don Quixote Thomas of Reading The Unfortunate Traveller Monkey: Journey to the West The Lusiad Gargantua and Pantagruel The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Amadis of Gaul

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La Celestina Tirant lo Blanc The Golden Ass The Water Margin Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Tale of Genji The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter The Thousand and One Nights

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Victor Margaret Kazuo Alan Tomas Eloy Bernhard Rohinton Gillian Lydia Petros Elena Michel Park Fernando Haruki Antonio Jáchym James Louis de William Shusaku David Uwe Ivan E. Annie Sebastian A.L. Tessa de Alain Jonathan Vikram Carol Jeffrey Bharati David Alvaro Donna Reinaldo Emine Harry Apostolos Zulfikar Cormac Alice Michael Marina Iain Jeanette

Pelevin Atwood Ishiguro Warner Martinez Schlink Mistry Rose Davis Markaris Ferrante Houellebecq Kyung-ni Vallejo Murakami Tabucchi Topol Kelman Bernières Trevor Endo Dabydeen Timm Klima Proulx Faulks Kennedy Loo de Botton Coe Seth Shields Eugenides Mukherjee Malouf Mutis Tartt Arenas Özdamar Mulisch Doxiadis Ghose McCarthy Walker Ondaatje Warner Banks Winterson

Arturo Peter Patrick Hilda Sunetra Esther Jim Jung Don Padgett Pat Eugenia Henning Connie Bret Easton W.G. Pavlos Elmore John Jim Paul Tim William Amitav Hanif Lorrie Jeanette Paul Martin Kazuo László Shashi Janice José Laura John Gerald Bernardo Joost Umberto Duong Thu David Salman Alan Peter Christoph Anne Tsitsi

Perez-Reverte Høeg McCabe Doolittle Gupta Freud Crace Chang DeLillo Powell Barker Fakinou Mankell Palmen Ellis Sebald Matesis Leonard McGahern Dodge Auster O’Brien Kotzwinkle Ghosh Kureishi Moore Winterson Auster Amis Ishiguro Krasznahorkai Tharoor Galloway Saramago Esquivel Irving Murnane Atxaga Zwagerman Eco Huong Markson Rushdie Hollinghurst Carey Ransmayr Herbert Dangarembga

Harry Douglas Banana Margaret Peter James Tom Amos Paul Javier Toni Isabel Patrick T. Coraghessan V.S. Viktor Jung Rae David Lorrie Ngugi wa Kingsley Eduardo Kazuo Thomas Alan Primo Andrzej Etienne Gabriel Gert Jamaica John Marianne Carl Cormac Patrick Peter Margaret Amy Zhang Don Louise Botho David Milan Milorad James J.G.

Mathews Adams Yoshimoto Drabble Handke Ellroy Wolfe Oz Auster Marias Morrison Allende Süskind Boyle Naipaul Paskov Cho Leavitt Moore Thiong'o Amis Galeano Ishiguro Bernhard Moore Levi Szczypiorski van Heerden García Márquez Hofmann Kincaid Irving Fredriksson Sagan McCarthy Süskind Ackroyd Atwood Hempel Xianliang DeLillo Erdrich Strauss Gemmell Kundera Pavic Kelman Ballard

José Marguerite Joan Iain William Angela Julian Kathy Jaan Julian Martin Salman Juan Jose Antonio Lobo Goran Elmore Graham J.M. Elfriede Hugo Jose Fernando Primo Edmund Alice Thomas Kazuo Thomas Isabel Bruce Nadine Botho John Alasdair Mario Zhang Herbjorg Leonid J.M. Salman Ismail Alfred Cees John Anita Umberto Manuel Vazquez John

Saramago Duras Didion Banks Gibson Carter Rios Acker Kross Barnes Amis Rushdie Saer Antunes Tunstrom Leonard Swift Coetzee Jelinek Claus Saramago Pessoa Levi White Walker Bernhard Ishiguro Keneally Allende Chatwin Gordimer Strauss Updike Gray Vargas Llosa Jie Wassmo Tsypkin Coetzee Rushdie Kadare Kossmann Nooteboom Kennedy Toole Desai Eco Montalban Le Carré

Maro Milan Andre V.S. Nadine Mariama Italo Douglas Ian A.S. Carmen Martin Georges Iris J.G. Hubert Alice Anaïs Stephen Michael Timothy Toni Clarice Barbara Josef J.M. Ryu Manuel Peter Anne Newton Elizabeth Christa Gabriel Georges Anthony Thomas Donald Imre Richard Nawal Saul Arto Jessica E.L. Antun William J.M. Heinrich

Douka Kundera Brink Naipaul Gordimer Ba Calvino Adams McEwan Byatt Gaite Perec Murdoch Farrell Selby Jr. Munro Nin King Herr Findley Morrison Lispector Pym Skvorecky Coetzee Murakami Puig Handke Rice Thornburg Taylor Wolf García Márquez Perec Powell Bernhard Barthelme Kertész Brautigan El Saadawi Bellow Paasilinna Anderson Doctorow Šoljan Kotzwinkle Coetzee Böll

Margaret Ursula K. Erica Bessie J.G. Italo J.G. Graham Thomas Italo Eudora Sawako Tove John Margaret V.S. B.S. Alice E.L. Hunter S. Heinrich Mykhailo John Yukio Toni Maya Alfredo Bryce Uwe Joan Robertson Elena Tayeb Manuel Venedikt Gyorgy Jorge Robert Chester Kurt John Jurek Philip Mario Vladimir Joyce Carol Georges Aleksandr Gore

Laurence Le Guin Jong Head Farrell Calvino Ballard Greene Pynchon Calvino Welty Ariyoshi Jansson Berger Atwood Naipaul Johnson Munro Doctorow Thompson Böll Osadchyi Updike Mishima Morrison Angelou Echenique Johnson Didion Davies Poniatowska Salih Puig Erofeyev Konrad Amado Coover Himes Vonnegut Fowles Becker Roth Puzo Nabokov Oates Perec Solzhenitsyn Vidal

Aleksandr Albert Arthur C. Philip K. Christa Siegfried Richard Barry Oles Elizabeth Tom Robert Angus Gabriel Isaac Bashevis Dorothy Vassilis Naguib Flann Jean Mikhail John Marguerite Juan John Thomas Leonardo Shusaku Mesa Truman Georges Flannery Danilo Ngugi wa Bohumil Jan Clarice Ken Guillermo Cabrera Chinua Marguerite Saul Thomas Kurt Charles Marcel John Muriel

Solzhenitsyn Cohen Clarke Dick Wolf Lenz Brautigan Hines Honchar Bowen Wolfe Merle Wilson García Márquez Singer Richardson Vassilikos Mahfouz O’Brien Rhys Bulgakov Fowles Duras Goytisolo Barth Pynchon Sciascia Endo Selimovic Capote Perec O’Connor Kis Thiong'o Hrabal Wolkers Lispector Kesey Infante Achebe Duras Bellow Pynchon Vonnegut Webb Pagnol Le Carré Spark

Anthony Sylvia Gunter Costas Aleksandr Giorgio Mario Vargas Carlos Edna Ken Anthony Vladimir Luis Doris Jorge Luis Robert Xose Neira Janet Gabriel J.D. Iris Muriel Günter Stanislaw Joseph Juan Carlos Ousmane Carlo Edna Martin Isaac Bashevis Harper John Romain Colin Keith William Günter Laurie Es'kia Heinrich Kenzaburo Truman José María Giuseppe R.K. Eilís Chinua

Burgess Plath Grass Taktsis Solzhenitsyn Bassani Llosa Fuentes O’Brien Kesey Burgess Nabokov Martin Santos Lessing Borges Heinlein Vilas Frame García Márquez Salinger Murdoch Spark Grass Lem Heller Onetti Sembene Cassola O’Brien Walser Singer Lee Updike Gary MacInnes Waterhouse Burroughs Grass Lee Mphahlele Böll Oe Capote Arguedas Tomasi di Lampedusa Narayan Dillon Achebe

Alan Jorge Brendan Iris T.H. Tarjei Alain Patrick John Georges Max Ward Veijo Jack Vladimir Boris Ernst Lawrence James John Romain Sam J.R.R. Patricia Vladimir Joao Guimaraes Nikos Patrick James Graham Juan William Pier Paulo Max Vaino Yukio Wolfgang Françoise Simone de William Iris Pauline Alberto Ciril Camara L.P. Raymond Wolfgang

Sillitoe Amado Behan Murdoch White Vesaas Robbe-Grillet White Wyndham Bataille Frisch Ruyslinck Meri Kerouac Nabokov Pasternak Junger Durrell Baldwin Barth Gary Selvon Tolkien Highsmith Nabokov Rosa Kazantzákis White Plunkett Greene Rulfo Gaddis Pasolini Frisch Linna Mishima Koeppen Sagan Beauvoir Golding Murdoch Réage Moravia Kosmac Laye Hartley Chandler Koeppen

Alejo Kingsley William Ian James Yasunari Barbara Friedrich Ralph Ernest Flannery Camilo Jose Marguerite John Samuel Isaac Julien J.D. Albert Samuel Graham Par Hermann Georges Octavio James Mervyn Cesare Nevil Doris Isaac Simon Victor Nancy Elizabeth Alejo Nelson George Maurice Tadeusz Shmuel Yosef Alan G.V. Alberto Jerzy Camilo Jose Boris Naguib

Carpentier Amis Burroughs Fleming Baldwin Kawabata Pym Dürrenmatt Ellison Hemingway O’Connor Cela Yourcenar Wyndham Beckett Asimov Gracq Salinger Camus Beckett Greene Lagerkvist Broch Bataille Paz Thurber Peake Pavese Shute Lessing Asimov Vestdijk Serge Mitford Bowen Carpentier Algren Orwell Blanchot Borowski Agnon Paton Desani Moravia Andrzejewski Cela Vian Mahfouz

Thomas Albert Raymond Primo Malcolm Italo Erskine Henry Nikos Mervyn Hermann Carmen Gabrielle Ivo Evelyn André Carlo Ivo George Henry Astrid Anna W. Somerset Saul Antoine de Thomas Herman Stefan Sandor Albert Elio Cesare Patrick Ciro Christina Ernest Graham Dino Richard James Flann Jean John Christopher Raymond Miroslav Winifred Jean-Paul

Mann Camus Queneau Levi Lowry Calvino Caldwell Green Kazantzákis Peake Broch Laforet Roy Andrić Waugh Breton Levi Andrić Orwell Green Lindgren Seghers Maugham Bellow Saint-Exupéry Mann Hesse Zweig Marai Camus Vittorini Pavese White Alegria Stead Hemingway Greene Buzzati Wright Joyce O’Brien Rhys Steinbeck Isherwood Chandler Krleza Watson Sartre

Daphne Vladimir Eric Graham John Samuel John Zora J.R.R. Sadegh Witold David Isak Lao Sylvia Aldous Rebecca Margaret George Karel William H.P. Djuna Halldór Mulk Raj Christopher Horace Elias Dorothy L. Louis Emil James M. Henry F. Scott P.G. Bruno Henry Nathanael Dorothy L. Gertrude Vera Storm André Willem Robert Francois Aldous Stella

du Maurier Bartol Ambler Greene Dos Passos Beckett Steinbeck Neale Hurston Tolkien Hedayat Gombrowicz Jones Dinesen She Townsend Warner Huxley West Mitchell Orwell Capek Faulkner Lovecraft Barnes Laxness Anand Isherwood McCoy Canetti Sayers Aragon Cioran Cain Miller Fitzgerald Wodehouse Schulz Roth West Sayers Stein Brittain Jameson Malraux Elsschot Musil Mauriac Huxley Gibbons

Jan Jacob Joseph Miroslav Louis-Ferdinand Dashiell Elizabeth Virginia Stanislaw Ignacy Saunders Wyndham Frederic Dashiell Thomas Nella Ernest Edmund Henry Alberto Erich Maria Alfred Jean Shahan Georges Virginia D.H. Radclyffe Ford Madox Junichiro Evelyn Nella André Herman Marcel Virginia Henry Arnold Franz Ernest Henry Franz Cora Jaroslav Georges Luigi Agatha Gertrude Thomas Virginia

Slauerhoff Roth Krleza Céline Hammett Bowen Woolf Witkiewicz Lewis Lewis Manning Hammett Wolfe Larsen Hemingway Wilson Green Moravia Remarque Döblin Cocteau Shahnour Bataille Woolf Lawrence Hall Ford Tanizaki Waugh Larsen Breton Hesse Proust Woolf Williamson Zweig Kafka Hemingway Green Kafka Sandel Hašek Bernanos Pirandello Christie Stein Mofolo Woolf

F. Scott André Franz Maxim Willa Blattengeta Heruy Michael Thomas Yevgeny E.M. Italo Raymond Stefan Sigrid E.E. Herman Liviu May Sinclair James Giovanni Aldous Edith Sinclair D.H. Ernst Wyndham Rebecca Knut Rabindranath Felix Mariano James Henri Akutagawa Ford Madox W. Somerset D.H. John Natsume Raymond Edgar Juan Ramón Robert D.H. Thomas James

Fitzgerald Gide Kafka Gorky Cather Welde Sellase Arlen Mann Zamyatin Forster Svevo Radiguet Zweig Undset Cummings Hesse Rebreanu Sinclair Colette Lewis Joyce Papini Huxley Wharton Lewis Lawrence Junger Lewis West Hamsun Tagore Timmermans Azuela Joyce Barbusse Ryunosuke Ford Maugham Lawrence Buchan Soseki Roussel Rice Burroughs Jiménez Tressell Lawrence Mann Stephens

Edith Marcel Raymond E.M. Rainer Maria André E.M. Henri Arnold William Hope Maxim Joseph Upton John Robert Victor Heinrich Edith Joseph Frederick Samuel Daniel Paul Jack Erskine Henry André Henry Joseph Arthur Conan Thomas Rudyard Arthur Theodore Emilio

Wharton Allain Roussel Forster Rilke Gide Forster Barbusse Bennett Hodgson Gorky Conrad Sinclair Galsworthy Musil Catala Mann Wharton Conrad Rolfe Butler Schreber London Childers James Gide James Conrad Doyle Mann Kipling Schnitzler Dreiser Salgari

Geza Theodor Kate Joaquim Maria Italo H.G. André Boleslaw Benito Henry Bram Henryk

Somerville and Ross Gardonyi Fontane Chopin Machado de Assis Svevo Wells Gide Prus Pérez Galdós James Stoker Sienkiewicz

H.G. H.G. Theodor Thomas Federico George Arthur Conan William George Selma Thomas Joris-Karl Oscar Leo Anatole Émile August Knut Louis Gabriele Ivan Guy de August Emilia Pardo Robert Louis Frederik H. Émile Mark Walter Guy de Leopoldo Joris-Karl Leo Guy de Robert Louis Gustave Joaquim Maria Giovanni Henry Émile Lew August Jose Leo Émile José Maria Juan

Wells Wells Fontane Hardy De Roberto Grossmith Doyle Morris Gissing Lagerlöf Hardy Huysmans Wilde Tolstoy France Zola Strindberg Hamsun Couperus D'Annunzio Vazov Maupassant Strindberg Bazan Stevenson van Eeden Rider Haggard Zola Twain Pater Maupassant Alas Huysmans Tolstoy Maupassant Stevenson Flaubert Machado de Assis Verga James Zola Wallace Strindberg Hernandez Tolstoy Zola Eça de Queirós Valera

Thomas Nikolai Jules Sheridan Fyodor Samuel Ivan George Lewis Ivan Leo Gustave Anthony Comte de Fyodor Louisa May Wilkie Émile Anthony Fyodor Jules Lewis Sheridan Fyodor Charles Victor Ivan George Charles George Wilkie Ivan George Adalbert Gustave Elizabeth Gottfried Henry David Charles Elizabeth Harriet Nathaniel Herman Nathaniel Charles Anne Emily

Hardy Leskov Verne Le Fanu Dostoevsky Butler Turgenev Eliot Carroll Turgenev Tolstoy Flaubert Trollope Lautréaumont Dostoevsky Alcott Collins Zola Trollope Dostoevsky Verne Carroll Le Fanu Dostoevsky Kingsley Hugo Turgenev Eliot Dickens Multatuli Eliot Collins Goncharov Eliot Stifter Flaubert Gaskell Keller Thoreau Dickens Gaskell Beecher Stowe Hawthorne Melville Hawthorne Dickens Brontë Brontë

William Makepeace Charlotte Alexandre George Domingo Faustino Alexandre Edgar Allan Honoré de Nikolay Mikhail Yurevich

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Thackeray Brontë Dumas Sand Sarmiento Dumas Poe Balzac Gogol Lermontov Hildebrand Poe Stendhal Conscience Dickens Gogol Balzac Balzac Pushkin Hugo Stendhal Manzoni Fenimore Cooper von Eichendorff Hogg Hoffman Maturin Scott Shelley Scott Austen Austen Austen Austen von Kleist Goethe Diderot Novalis Edgeworth

Friedrich Denis Denis Fanny M.G. Johann Wolfgang von Ann Olaudah

Hölderlin Diderot Diderot Burney Lewis Goethe Radcliffe Equiano

Edgar Allan Hendrik Charles Nikolay Honoré de Honoré de Alexander Victor Alessandro James Joseph James E.T.A. Charles Robert Sir Walter Mary Sir Walter Jane Jane Jane Jane Heinrich Johann Wolfgang von Denis

William Cao Marquis William Thomas Karl Philipp Marquis Jean-Jacques Pierre Jean-Jacques Fanny Johann Wolfgang von Tobias George Henry Laurence Laurence Oliver Horace Jean-Jacques Jean-Jacques Samuel Charlotte Tobias George John Henry Samuel Samuel John Henry Jonathan Jonathan Daniel Eliza Daniel Aphra Madame de Hans Bernal Miguel de Miguel de Thomas Thomas Wu Luís Françoise Garci

Godwin Xueqin de Sade Beckford Moritz de Sade Rousseau Choderlos de Laclos Rousseau Burney Goethe Smollett Mackenzie Sterne Sterne Goldsmith Walpole Rousseau Rousseau Johnson Voltaire Lennox Smollett Cleland Fielding Richardson Richardson Arbuthnot Fielding Swift Swift Defoe Haywood Defoe Behn La Fayette von Grimmelshausen Díaz del Castillo Cervantes Saavedra Cervantes Saavedra Deloney Nashe Cheng'en Vaz de Camões Rabelais Anonymous Rodríguez de Montalvo

Fernando Joanot Lucius Shi Luo Murasaki

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