Top 40 .. and Counting

My Top 40+ Reading Recommendations

1. Ulysses — James Joyce
2. Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne
4. Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
5. À la recherche du temps perdu — Marcel Proust
6. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
8. The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
9. Finnegans Wake — James Joyce
10. Waiting For Godot — Samuel Beckett
11. The Man Without Qualities — Robert Musil
12. Our Lady of the Flowers — Jean Genet
13. Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
14. The Last Temptation of Christ — Nikos Kazantzakis
15. The Cairo Trilogy — Naguib Mahfouz [Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street]
16. La Vie mode d’emploi — Georges Perec
17. Bouvard et Pécuchet — Gustave Flaubert
18. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
19. The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann
20. JR — William Gaddis
21. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. Le Voyeur — Alain Robbe-Grillet
23. The Makioka Sisters — Junichero Tanizaki
24. Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner
25. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
26. The Recognitions — William Gaddis
27. The Sea of Fertility — Yukio Mishima
28. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
29. Moby Dick — Herman Melville
30. The Leopard — Giuseppe di Lampedusa
31. A Dance to the Music of Time — Anthony Powell
32. To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
33. Mulligan Stew — Gilbert Sorrentino
34. Naked Lunch — William S. Burroughs
35. The Awakening Land — Conrad Richter
36. The Alexandria Quartet — Lawrence Durrell
37. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
38. Middlemarch — George Eliot
39. Clarissa — Samuel Richardson
40. The Tin Drum — Günter Grass
41. The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
42. Europe Central — William T. Vollmann