An ever-growing, ever-changing list of my favorite books (novels, short-story collections, plays, etc) excluding graphic novels and non-fictional books (even though there are plenty of both that I think are great).
An asterisk means that I've read the book in its original language.
Addams, Richard: Watership Down*
Aeschylus: The Oresteia, Prometheus Bound
Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy
Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love: The Queen's Tiara*
Andric, Ivo: The Bridge on the Drina
Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice*, Emma*
Balzac, Honoré de: Pére Goriot* , The Wild Ass' Skin*, Cousin Bette* , Lost Illusions*
Banffy, Miklós: They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanted, They Were Divided
Beagle, Peter S.: The Last Unicorn*
Bély, Andrei: Petersburg
Bernanos, Georges: Diary of a Country Priest*, Under the Sun of Satan*
Bolt, Robert: A Man For All Seasons*
Borges, Jorge Luis: Fictions, The Aleph
Brisville, Jean-Claude: Le Souper*
Broch, Hermann: The Sleepwalkers
Brontë, Charlotte: Villette
Bulgakov, Michail: The Master & Margarita
Buzzati, Dino: The Tartar Steppe, The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, The Baron in the Trees, Invisible Cities
Carroll, Lewis (Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge): Alice's Adventure in Wonderland*, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There*
Carter, Angela: Wise Children*
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chekhov, Anton: Uncle Vanya, The Four Sisters, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard
Chesteton, Gilbert Keith: The Man Who Was Thursday*, The Napoleon of Notting Hill*
Clarke, Susannah: Piranesi*
Claudel, Paul: The Satin Slipper*
Collins, Wilkie: No Name*, The Woman in White*
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, Lord Jim*
Davies, Robertson: Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders
Dick, Philip K.: A Scanner Darkly, Ubik* , The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch*
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations*, A Tale of Two Cities*
Dinesen Isak (Blixen, Karin: Seven Gothic Tales, The Ways of Vengeance
Dostoyvesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Demons, The Idiot, The Humiliated and the Insulted
Döblin, Alfred: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Eco, Umberto: Baudolino , The Name of the Rose , The Prague Cemetery
Eliot, T.S.: The Wasteland* , Murder in the Cathedral*
Eliot, George (Evans, Mary Ann): Middlemarch* , Daniel Deronda*
Euripides: Medea, The Trojan Women, Bacchae, Iphgenia at Aulis
Endo, Shunsaku: The Samurai, Silence
Faulkner, William: Absalon! Absalon!
Gardner, John: Grendel*
Gazdanov, Gaito: The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust
Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov
Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory* , The Quiet American*, The Comedians*, The Ministry of Fear*
Gorodischer, Angelica: Trafalgar
Graves,Robert: I, Claudius*
Grossman, Vassily: Life and Fate, Everything Flows
Gustafsson, Lars: Death of a Beekeeper*, Dr. Weiss Sista Uppdrag*
Hesse, Hermann: Narciss and Goldmund
Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker*
Homer: The Illiad, The Odyssey
Hrabal, Boumil: I Served the King of England
Hugo, Victor: Ninety-Three* , The Man Who Laughs*, The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, La Fin de Satan*, Les Miserables
Ibsen, Henrik:Peer Gynt, Ghosts, The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, The Lady From the Sea
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day*
Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)*
Kafka, Franz: The Castle
Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana*
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim*
Koestler, Arthur: Darkness at Noon
Krasznahorkai, Laszló: The Melancholy of Resistance, Satantango
Kristof, Agota: The Notebook
Lagerkvist, Pär: The Dwarf*, Barabbas*
Lagerlöf, Selma:The Saga of Gösta Berling*, The Emperor of Portugal*. Sir Arne's Treasure*
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di: The Leopard
Laxness, Halldor: Iceland's Bell, Independent People
Le Carré, John (Cornwell, David): The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird*
Lefanu, Joseph Sheridan: Carmilla*
LeGuin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea*, The Tombs of Atuan*, The Farthest Shore
Lorca, Federico Garcia: The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding
Lönnrot, Elias: The Kalevala
MacDonald, Ross: The Galton Case*
Mann, Thomas:Buddenbrooks
Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies*, The Mirror and the Light*, A Place of Greater Safety
Manzoni, Alessandro: The Betrothed
Martinsson, Harry: Aniara*
McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West*
Meyrink, Gustav: The Golem
Milton, John: Paradise Lost
Molière (Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste): The Misanthrope*,Tartuffe*, L'Avare* , Don Juan*
Moers, Walter: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
O'Brien, Flann: The Third Policeman
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Palliser, Charles: The Quincunx*
Pamhuk, Oran: My Name is Red
Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan*, Gormenghast*
Perutz, Leo:The Swedish Cavalier, By Night Under the Stonebridge
Pessoa, Fernando: The Book of Disquiet
Potocki, Jan: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Portis, Charles: True Grit*
Pushkin, Alexander: Boris Godunov, The Captain's Daughter, Eugene Onegin
Racine, Jean: Andromaque*, Berenice*, Phedre
Renault, Mary: The King Must Die*
Rulfo, Juan: Pedro Paramo
Rostand Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac*
Sabatini, Rafael: Scaramouche*
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine: Night Flight*
Saramago, José: Baltasar & Blimunda, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Schwob, Marcel: The King With the Golden Mask*, Imaginary Lives*
Scott, Paul: The Jewel in the Crown*. The Day of the Scorpion*, The Towers of Silence*, The Division of the Spoils*
Sebald, W.G: Austerlitz
Serge, Victor: The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet*, King Lear*, Macbeth*, Othello*, Henry IV, Part I*
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis
Simmons, Dan: Hyperion*, The Fall of Hyperion*
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Soyinka, Wole: Death and the King's Horseman*
Stendhal (Beyle, Henri): The Charterhouse of Parma*, Lucien Leuwen
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman*
Steinbeck, John: East of Eden*
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Szerb, Antal: Voyage by Moonlight
Tabucchi, Antonio: Pereira Maintains
Tanizaki, Junichiro: The Makioka Sisters
Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann: Address Unknown*
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta: This Earth of Mankind, A Child of All Nations
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection
Tournier, Michel: The Erl-King*, The Three Wise Men
Tremain, Rose: Music and Silence*, Restoration*
Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now*
Tunström, Göran: The Christmas Oratorio*
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons
Undset, Sigrid: Kristin Lavransdatter, Gunnar's Daughter*
Unknown: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Vandermeer, Jeff: City of Saints and Madmen*, Shriek: An Afterword*, Finch*
Llosa, Mario Vargas: Conversation in the Cathedral, The Feast of the Goat
Virgil: The Aenid
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited*
White, Patrick: Voss*, A Fringe of Leaves*
Whittemore, Edward: Sinai Tapestry*, Jerusalem Poker*, Nile Shadows*, Jericho Mosaic*
Wodehouse, P.G.: , Uncle Fred in the Springtime*, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Wolfe, Gene: Peace*, The Book of the New Sun*, Lithany of the Long Sun*, Soldier of the Mists*
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway*, Orlando*, The Waves*
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Hadrian's Memories, The Abyss*
Zweig, Stefan:Beware of Pity
