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Classic Fiction

  1. ​​The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  2. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
  3. The Beast Within by Émile Zola
  4. Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
  5. Candide by Voltaire
  6. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  7. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
  8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  9. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
  10. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  12. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  14. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
  15. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  17. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  18. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  19. Histoires extraordinaires by Edgar Allan Poe
  20. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  22. Howards End by E. M. Forster
  23. The Iliad by Homer
  24. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  26. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  27. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  28. King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
  29. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  30. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  31. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
  32. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  33. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  35. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  36. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  37. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  38. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  39. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  40. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  41. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  42. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  43. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  44. A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
  45. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  46. Stories by Anton Chekhov
  47. The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
  48. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  49. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  50. Utopia by Thomas More
  51. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  52. Vathek by William Beckford
  53. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
  54. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  55. Waverley by Walter Scott
  56. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Classics

  1. Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  3. Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome

Modern Fiction

  1. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
  2. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  3. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
  4. Auto da Fé by Elias Canetti
  5. Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
  6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  7. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
  8. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
  9. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  10. The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
  11. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
  12. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
  13. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
  14. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  15. The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
  16. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
  17. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
  18. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  19. Changing Places by David Lodge
  20. Chéri by Colette
  21. Cold heaven by Brian Moore
  22. Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
  23. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  24. Couples by John Updike
  25. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
  26. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
  27. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
  28. Embers by Sándor Márai
  29. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
  30. The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký
  31. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  32. Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis
  33. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  34. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
  35. Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
  36. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  37. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
  38. The File on H.: A Novel by Ismail Kadare
  39. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  40. From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant
  41. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
  42. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
  43. God's Grace by Bernard Malamud
  44. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  45. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  46. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  47. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  48. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
  49. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  50. The Group by Mary McCarthy
  51. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
  52. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  53. Herzog by Saul Bellow
  54. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
  55. The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
  56. A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  57. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
  58. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
  59. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
  60. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  61. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
  62. In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
  63. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  64. It by Stephen King
  65. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  66. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
  67. The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
  68. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Jr Hubert Selby
  69. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  70. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  72. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  73. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  74. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
  75. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  76. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  77. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
  78. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  79. The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín
  80. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
  81. The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
  82. Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T. F. Powys
  83. Nadja by André Breton
  84. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  85. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  86. The nephew by James Purdy
  87. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
  88. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
  89. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  90. Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
  91. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  92. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  93. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
  94. The Palm-wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
  95. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
  96. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
  97. Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
  98. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
  99. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
  100. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  101. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  102. The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
  103. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
  104. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  105. The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
  106. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  107. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  108. The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
  109. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
  110. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
  111. The Short Stories of Saki by Saki
  112. Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
  113. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  114. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  115. Staying On by Paul Scott
  116. The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  117. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  118. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
  119. The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
  120. Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
  121. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  122. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
  123. The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
  124. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
  125. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  126. Ulysses by James Joyce
  127. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  128. Underworld by Don DeLillo
  129. Unless by Carol Shields
  130. Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
  131. Voss by Patrick White
  132. The Wars by Timothy Findley
  133. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  134. Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz
  135. The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
  136. Wildlife by Richard Ford
  137. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  138. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
  139. The World According to Garp by John Irving
  140. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo

Science Fiction

  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  3. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  4. Brain Wave by Poul Anderson
  5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  6. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  7. City by Clifford D. Simak
  8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  9. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
  10. The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
  11. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  12. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  13. Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak
  14. Dune by Frank Herbert
  15. Dwellers in the Mirage by Abraham Merritt
  16. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
  17. The Green Child by Herbert Read
  18. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  19. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  20. Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss
  21. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  22. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  23. Inverted World by Christopher Priest
  24. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
  25. Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
  26. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  27. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
  28. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  29. Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
  30. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  31. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
  32. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
  33. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  34. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
  35. The People Trap by Robert Sheckley
  36. Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
  37. Ringworld by Larry Niven
  38. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
  39. Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing
  40. Slan by A. E. Van Vogt
  41. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  42. Solaris by Stanisław Lem
  43. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  44. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
  45. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  46. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
  47. The Time Traders by Andre Norton
  48. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
  49. Two Planets by Kurd Lasswitz
  50. Who Goes There?: The Novella That Formed the Basis of the Thing by Jr. John W. Campbell

Children's Fiction

  1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  2. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
  3. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  4. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
  5. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  7. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
  8. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  9. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
  10. The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
  11. The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
  12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  13. Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
  14. The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  15. Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
  16. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
  17. The Golem by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  18. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
  19. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  20. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  21. The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
  22. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
  23. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
  24. The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
  25. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  26. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
  27. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  28. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  29. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
  30. Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot
  31. Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
  32. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  33. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  34. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  35. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
  36. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  37. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  38. Sophie's Misfortunes by Comtesse de Ségur
  39. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
  40. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  41. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  42. The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
  43. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
  44. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
  45. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  46. The War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud
  47. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
  48. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  49. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  50. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
  51. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  52. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

History

  1. The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980–1420 by Georges Duby
  2. The Annals by Tacitus
  3. The Armada by Garrett Mattingly
  4. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
  5. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg
  6. Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys
  7. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
  8. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
  9. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
  10. The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
  11. Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jérôme Carcopino
  12. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  13. The Decline of the West [complete] by Oswald Spengler
  14. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
  15. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
  16. The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
  17. The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
  18. Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter
  19. Frozen Desire by James Buchan
  20. God's First Love: Christians and Jews Over Two Thousand Years (Phoenix Giants S.) by Friedrich Heer
  21. Hiroshima by John Hersey
  22. The Histories by Herodotus
  23. A History of Warfare by John Keegan
  24. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
  25. The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
  26. The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariès
  27. The Iron King by Maurice Druon
  28. Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
  29. Leviathan & the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin
  30. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
  31. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne
  32. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel
  33. Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
  34. The Naked Heart by Peter Gay
  35. The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 by A. J. P. Taylor
  36. The ornament of the world by María Rosa Menocal
  37. Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
  38. Pandaemonium 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers by Humphrey Jennings
  39. Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire by Jan Morris
  40. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  41. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer
  42. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
  43. Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
  44. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
  45. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas
  46. The Story of English by Robert McCrum
  47. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
  48. The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
  49. The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
  50. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Memoirs

  1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  2. Amiel's Journal by Henri Frédéric Amiel
  3. An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame
  4. Aubrey's brief lives by John Aubrey
  5. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  6. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
  7. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
  8. The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
  9. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
  10. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
  11. Childhood, Youth & Exile by Alexander Herzen
  12. The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies by William Butler Yeats
  13. The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  14. Confessions by Augustine
  15. Diaries 1910 - 1923 by Franz Kafka
  16. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  17. The Diary of Alice James by Alice James
  18. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
  19. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  20. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse
  21. From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  22. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
  23. In the Castle of my Skin by George Lamming
  24. Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
  25. Journal of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
  26. Journals: 1889-1949 by André Gide
  27. The Letters by Pliny the Younger
  28. Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
  29. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  30. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
  31. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
  32. My Left Foot by Christy Brown
  33. My Place by Sally Morgan
  34. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
  35. Paula by Isabel Allende
  36. Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
  37. Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
  38. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
  39. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
  40. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  41. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
  42. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  43. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
  44. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  45. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
  46. The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus by Cyril Connolly
  47. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  48. Ways of Escape by Graham Greene
  49. I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer
  50. The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre

Thriller

  1. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
  2. The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
  3. Blood Sport by Dick Francis
  4. Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
  5. Born Victim by Hillary Waugh
  6. The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
  7. The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake
  8. The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen
  9. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
  10. Deadlock by Sara Paretsky
  11. Death in the Wrong Room by Anthony Gilbert
  12. Death of My Aunt by C. H. B. Kitchin
  13. Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly by John Franklin Bardin
  14. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
  15. Dover One by Joyce Porter
  16. The Engagement by Georges Simenon
  17. Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
  18. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
  19. The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest by Peter Dickinson
  20. Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
  21. He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
  22. How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar
  23. In The Last Analysis by Amanda Cross
  24. A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
  25. The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
  26. The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall
  27. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
  28. The Man in the Net by Patrick Quentin
  29. The Man Who Killed Himself by Julian Symons
  30. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
  31. More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
  32. The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
  33. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  34. The Murder Room by P. D. James
  35. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
  36. No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
  37. An Oxford Tragedy by J. C. Masterman
  38. A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse
  39. The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
  40. Psycho by Robert Bloch
  41. Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser
  42. A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
  43. The Red Box by Rex Stout
  44. A Red Death by Walter Mosley
  45. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
  46. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
  47. The Rose At Ten by Marco Denevi
  48. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
  49. The Sleeping Car Murders by Sébastien Japrisot
  50. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
  51. The Steam Pig by James McClure
  52. Suicide Excepted by Cyril Hare
  53. The Sunday Woman by Carlo Fruttero
  54. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
  55. Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley
  56. Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley
  57. Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
  58. Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
  59. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  60. ​Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Travel Writing

  1. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul
  2. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez
  3. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
  4. Danube by Claudio Magris
  5. Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson by Nicholas Rankin
  6. Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone by Jan Morris
  7. Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake
  8. From Southern Cross to Pole Star by A. F. Tschiffely
  9. Golden Earth: Travels in Burma by Norman Lewis
  10. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
  11. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  12. Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
  13. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
  14. Journals of the Western Islands by Samuel Johnson
  15. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
  16. My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Néel
  17. Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
  18. On Fiji Islands by Ronald Wright
  19. On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan by Lesley Downer
  20. Le poisson-scorpion by Nicolas Bouvier
  21. The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson
  22. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
  23. Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom
  24. A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee
  25. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
  26. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman
  27. Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
  28. The Seasick Whale: An Israeli Abroad by Ephraim Kishon
  29. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
  30. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
  31. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
  32. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
  33. The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  34. The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
  35. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  36. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
  38. The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark
  39. Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer
  40. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
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