1. James Joyce: Ulysses
2. Samuel Beckett: Murphy
3. Vladimer Nabokov: Pale Fire
4. Henry James: The Golden Bowl
5. Flann O’Brien: At Swim Two Birds
6. William Gaddis: The Recognition
7. Henry Green: Concluding
8. Ivy Compton Burnett: Bullivant and the Lambs
9. Ronald Firbank: Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Perelli
10. Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust
11. Thomas Pynchon: Crying of Lot 49
12. Anthony Burgess: Inside Mr Enderby
13. Rex Warner: Aerodrome
14. Muriel Sparks: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
15. Alexander Theroux: Darconville’s Cat
16. Alasdair Gray: Lanark
17. Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow
18. William Sansom: The Body
19. Virginia Woolf: The Waves
20. Graham Greene: Brighton Rock
21. William Golding: The Inheritors
22. L.P. Hartley: Facial Justice
23. Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye
24. William Gass: The Tunnel
25. Joyce Cary: The Horse’s Mouth
26. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
27. Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn
28. Carl Van Vechten: Tatooed Countess
29. John Barth: Letters
30. Saul Bellow: The Victim
31. Jean Rhys: Quartet
32. Bernard Malamud: The Fixer
33. Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier
34. P.G. Wodehouse: Summer Moonshine
35. Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street
36. Hortense Calisher: The New Yorkers
37. J.G. Ballard: High Rise
38. Elizabeth Taylor: Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont
39. John Updike: The Coup
40. C.H.B. Kitchin: Streamers Waving
41. Brigid Brophy: In Transit
42. David Lodge: Nice Work
43. Iris Murdoch: Bells
44. Carson McCullers: Heart is a Lonely Hunter
45. Penelope Lively: Road to Lichfield
46. Don Dillello: White Noise
47. Elizabeth Bowen: Death of the Heart
48. Percival Everett: Erasure
49. John Collier: His Monkey Wife
50. George Orwell: 1984
51. Budd Schulberg: Disenchanted
52. Herbert Selby: The Room
53. Edward Upward: Journey to the Border
54. Cynthia Ozick: Messiah of Stockholm
55. Angela Thirkell: Brandons
56. Paul Bailey: At the Jerusalem
57. Aldous Huxley: Time Must Have a Stop
58. Angus Wilson: The Old Man at the Zoo
59. Kingsley Amis: One Fat Englishman
60. Raymond Federman: Take it or Leave it
61. Conrad Aiken: Blue Voyage
62. Malcolm Bradbury: Doctor Criminale
63. Penelope Fitzgerald: Blue Flower
64. Dashiel Hammett: The Glass Key
65. Flannery O’Conner: Wise Blood
66. Robert Graves: I Claudius
67. Rayner Heppenstall: Blaze of Noon
68. Christine Brooke-Rose: Xorandor
69. Lauren Van Der Post: Lost World of Kalahari
70. Dorothy Richardson: Pointed Roofs
71. Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love
72. Philip Larkin: A Girl In Winter
73. Robert Nye: Falstaff
74. Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair
75. Rosamond Lehmann: The Weather in the Streets
76. William Faulkner: Soldier’s Pay
77. Kay Boyle: Plagued by the Nightingale
78. E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia
79. Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
80. Brian Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head
81. Paul Auster: City of Glass
82. Nicholson Baker: A Box of Matches
83. John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
84. Molly Keane: Taking Chances
85. Elizabeth Hardwick: The Ghostly Lover
86. Dorothy Hughes: In a Lonely Place
87. Robert Liddell: The Last Enchantment
88. Giles Gordon: Pictures from an Exhibition
89. Ernest Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying
90. Olivia Manning: The Great Fortune
91. Salmon Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
92. Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan
93. Doris Lessing: The Good Notebook
94. T.F. Powys: Mr. Weston’s Good Wine
95. Richard Hughes: High Wind in Jamica
96. Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden
97. John Lehmann: Evil Was Abroad
98. James Kelman: How Late It Was, How Late
99. B.S. Johnson: Travelling People
100. Max Beerbolm: Zuleika Dobson