Ésta es la lista completa de las 1000 novelas que cualquiera debe leer; más bien, la lista de mil novelas que todos debemos leer. Fue compilada por “el equipo de The Guardian y un panel de jueces expertos”. Aclaro, ¡únicamente son novelas!

Originalmente fue publicada por The Guardian por separado, por temas. Después se decidieron a dejarla disponible toda como una única lista. Fue publicada el 23 de enero de 2009 -debajo dejo disponible el vínculo para llegar al artículo original- y tiene una corrección posterior (en 2015) por ortografía.

Las novelas están separadas de la siguiente manera:

• Amor.
• Crimen.
• Comedia.
• Familia y Personales.
• Estado de la Nación.
• Ciencia Ficción.
• Fantasía.
• Guerra y Viajes.
  

Fue esta lista la que me inspiró a leer mil libros en diez años. Los que voy a leer no van a ser necesariamente los mil libros compilados en esta Lista, quiero leer también historia, no ficción, filosofía, ¡más libros! Así y todo, siempre la tengo a la mano como fuente de inspiración y de guía. De hecho la tengo impresa y la guardo en mi biblioteca. Hoy quiero que esté disponible también para ustedes.

Yo inicié el proceso de leer mil libros en diez años el 10 de abril de 2015.

Amor.

Le Grand Meaulnes – Henri Alain-Fournier
Dom Casmurro Joaquim – Maria Machado de Assis
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis – Giorgio Bassani
Love for Lydia – HE Bates
More Die of Heartbreak – Saul Bellow
Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore
The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Vilette – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Look At Me – Anita Brookner
Rubyfruit Jungle – Rita Mae Brown
Possession – AS Byatt
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
A Month in the Country – JL Carr
My Antonia – Willa Cather
A Lost Lady – Willa Cather
Claudine a l’ecole – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Cheri – Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
Victory: An Island Tale – Joseph Conrad
The Princess of Cleves – Madame de Lafayette
The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View – EM Forster
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Snow Goose – Paul Gallico
Ruth – Elizabeth Gaskell
Strait is the Gate – Andre Gide
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Living – Henry Green
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between – LP Hartley
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway (Leído antes de iniciar el proyecto)
The Infamous Army – Georgette Heyer
Regency Buck – Georgette Heyer
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest – WH Hudson
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
Beauty and Saddness – Yasunari Kawabata
The Far Pavillions – Mary Margaret Kaye
Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
Moon over Africa – Pamela Kent
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / La Insoportable Levedad del Ser – Milan Kundera
Les Liaisons Dangereuses – Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence
The Rainbow – DH Lawrence
Women in Love – DH Lawrence
The Echoing Grove – Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets – Rosamond Lehmann
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos
Zami – Audre Lorde
Foreign Affairs – Alison Lurie
Samarkand – Amin Maalouf
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Silent Duchess – Dacia Maraini
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Love in the Time of Cholera / El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera – Gabriel García Márquez (Leído antes de iniciar el proyecto)
Of Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham
So Long, See you Tomorrow – William Maxwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
The Egoist – George Meredith
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Arturo’s Island – Elsa Morante
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male / Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Painter of Signs – RK Narayan
Delta of Venus – Anais Nin
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Manon Lescaut – Abbe Prevost
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Maurice Guest – Henry Handel Richardson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
Ali and Nino – Kurban Said
Light Years – James Salter
A Sport and a Passtime – James Salter
The Reader – Benhardq Schlink
The Reluctant Orphan – Aara Seale
Love Story – Eric Segal
Enemies, a Love Story – Isaac Bashevis Singer
At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Waterland – Graham Swift
Diary of a Mad Old Man – Junichiro Tanizaki
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Music and Silence – Rose Tremain
First Love – Ivan Turgenev
Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
The Graduate – Charles Webb
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
East Lynne – Ellen Wood
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

Crimen.

The Man with the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Fantomas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
The Mask of Dimitrios – Eric Ambler
Epitaph for a Spy – Eric Ambler
Journey into Fear – Eric Ambler
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Trent’s Last Case – EC Bentley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case – Anthony Berkeley
The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake
Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary E Braddon
The Neon Rain – James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown – James Lee Burke
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Greenmantle – John Buchan
The Asphalt Jungle – WR Burnett
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M Cain
Double Indemnity – James M Cain
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
The Hollow Man – John Dickson Carr
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish – James Hadley Chase
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Manchurian Candidate – Richard Condon
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes – Joseph Conrad
Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Poetic Justice – Amanda Cross
The Ipcress File – Len Deighton
Last Seen Wearing – Colin Dexter
The Remorseful Day – Colin Dexter
Ratking – Michael Dibdin
Dead Lagoon – Michael Dibdin
Dirty Tricks – Michael Dibdin
A Rich Full Death – Michael Dibdin
Vendetta – Michael Dibdin
Crime and Punishment / Crimen y Castigo – Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Pledge – Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Crime of Father Amaro – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
The Name of the Rose / El Nombre de la Rosa – Umberto Eco (Leído antes de empezar con el Proyecto)
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
LA Confidential – James Ellroy
The Big Nowhere – James Ellroy
A Quiet Belief in Angels – RJ Ellory
Sanctuary – William Faulkner
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Goldfinger – Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice – Ian Fleming
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
A Gun for Sale – Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear – Graham Greene
The Third Man – Graham Greene
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
The King of Torts – John Grisham
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
Fatherland – Robert Harris
Black Sunday – Thomas Harris
Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen
The Friends of Eddie Coyle – George V Higgins
Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Bones and Silence – Reginald Hill
A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg
Rogue Male – Geoffrey Household
Malice Aforethought – Francis Iles
Silence of the Grave – Arnadur Indridason
Death at the President’s Lodging – Michael Innes
Cover Her Face – PD James
A Taste for Death – PD James
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late – Harry Kemelman
Misery – Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne – Stephen King
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
The Constant Gardener – John le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre
To Kill a Mockingbird / Matar un Ruiseñor – Harper Lee
52 Pick-up – Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
Cop Hater – Ed McBain
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Sidetracked – Henning Mankell
Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Mosley
The Great Impersonation – E Phillips Oppenheim
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent – E Phillips Oppenheim
My Name is Red / Mi Nombre Rojo – Orhan Pamuk
Toxic Shock – Sara Paretsky
Blacklist – Sara Paretsky
Nineteen Seventy Four – David Peace
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
The Big Blowdown – George Pelecanos
Hard Revolution – George Pelecanos
Lush Life – Richard Price
The Godfather / El Padrino – Mario Puzo (Leído antes de empezar con el Proyecto)
V – Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Black and Blue – Ian Rankin
The Hanging Gardens – Ian Rankin
Exit Music – Ian Rankin
Judgment in Stone – Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh – Ruth Rendell
Dissolution – CJ Sansom
Whose Body? – Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy Le Sayers
The Madman of Bergerac – Georges Simenon
The Blue Room – Georges Simenon
The Laughing Policeman – Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The League of Frightened Men – Rex Stout
Perfume / El Perfume – Patrick Suskind
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
The Getaway – Jim Thompson
Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
A Dark-Adapted Eye – Barbara Vine
A Fatal inversion – Barbara Vine
King Solomon’s Carpet – Barbara Vine
The Four Just Men – Edgar Wallace
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Native Son – Richard Wright
Therese Raquin – Emile Zola

Comedia.

Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Money – Martin Amis
The Information – Martin Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney – Beryl Bainbridge
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters – Julian Barnes
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man – Henry Howarth Bashford
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
Zuleika Dobson – Max Beerbohm
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
Queen Lucia – EF Benson
The Ascent of Rum Doodle – WE Bowman
A Good Man in Africa – William Boyd
The History Man – Malcolm Bradbury
No Bed for Bacon – Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
Illywhacker – Peter Carey
A Season in Sinji – JL Carr
The Harpole Report – JL Carr
The Hearing Trumpet – Leonora Carrington
Mister Johnson – Joyce Cary
The Horse’s Mouth – Joyce Cary
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Case of the Gilded Fly – Edmund Crispin
Just William – Richmal Crompton
The Provincial Lady – EM Delafield
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo – Peter De Vries
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master – Denis Diderot
A Fairy Tale of New York – JP Donleavy
The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
Ennui – Maria Edgeworth
Cheese – Willem Elsschot
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Caprice – Ronald Firbank
Bouvard et Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Towards the End of the Morning – Michael Frayn
The Polygots – William Gerhardie
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Brewster’s Millions – Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
Squire Haggard’s Journal – Michael Green
Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt – Graham Greene
Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
The Little World of Don Camillo – Giovanni Guareschi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House – Eric Hodgkins
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal
The Lecturer’s Tale – James Hynes
Mr Norris Changes Trains – Christopher Isherwood
The Mighty Walzer Howard – Jacobson
Pictures from an Institution – Randall Jarrell
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
The Castle / El Castillo – Franz Kafka
Lake Wobegon Days – Garrison Keillor
Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov
The Debt to Pleasure – John Lanchester
L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage
Changing Places – David Lodge
Nice Work – David Lodge
The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macaulay
England, Their England – AG Macdonell
Whisky Galore – Compton Mackenzie
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf – David Madsen
Cakes and Ale – Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard – W Somerset Maugham
Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney
Puckoon – Spike Milligan
The Restraint of Beasts – Magnus Mills
Charade – John Mortimer
Titmuss Regained – John Mortimer
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Fireflies – Shiva Naipaul
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf – Victor Pelevin
La Disparition – Georges Perec
Les Revenentes – Georges Perec
La Vie Mode d’Emploi – Georges Perec
My Search for Warren Harding – Robert Plunkett
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
A Time to be Born – Dawn Powell
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
Less Than Angels – Barbara Pym
Zazie in the Metro – Raymond Queneau
Solomon Gursky Was Here – Mordecai Richler
Alms for Oblivion – Simon Raven
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Westminster Alice – Saki
The Unbearable Bassington – Saki
Hurrah for St Trinian’s – Ronald Searle
Great Apes – Will Self
Porterhouse Blue – Tom Sharpe
Blott on the Landscape – Tom Sharpe
Office Politics – Wilfrid Sheed
Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel – Charles Simmons
Moo b-y Jane Smiley
Topper Takes a Trip – Thorne Smith
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom – Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random – Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle – Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker – Tobias Smollett
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent – Muriel Spark
A Far Cry from Kensington – Muriel Spark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
White Man Falling – Mike Stocks
Handley Cross – RS Surtees
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Penrod – Booth Tarkington
The Luck of Barry Lyndon – William Makepeace Thackeray
Before Lunch – Angela Thirkell
Tropic of Ruislip – Leslie Thomas
A Confederacy of Dunces / La Conjura de los Necios – John Kennedy Toole
Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope
Venus on the Half-Shell – Kilgore Trout
The Mysterious Stranger – Mark Twain
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
Black Mischief – Evelyn Waugh
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil – Fay Weldon
Tono Bungay – HG Wells
Molesworth – Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
The Wimbledon Poisoner – Nigel Williams
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes – Angus Wilson
Something Fresh – PG Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim – PG Wodehouse
Thank You Jeeves – PG Wodehouse
Heavy Weather – PG Wodehouse
The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
Joy in the Morning – PG Wodehouse

Familia y Personales.

The Face of Another – Kobo Abe
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Epileptic – David B
Room Temperature – Nicholson Baker
Eugenie Grandet – Honore de Balzac
Le Pere Goriot – Honore de Balzac
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
A Legacy – Sybille Bedford
Herzog – Saul Bellow
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
G – John Berger
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Two Serious Ladies – Jane Bowles
Any Human Heart – William Boyd
The Death of Virgil – Hermann Broch
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Sound of my Voice – Ron Butlin
The Outsider / El Extranjero – Albert Camus
Wise Children – Angela Carter
The Professor’s House  Willa Cather
The Wapshot Chronicle – John Cheever
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Les Enfants Terrible – Jean Cocteau
The Vagabond – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Manservant and Maidservant – Ivy Compton-Burnett
Being Dead – Jim Crace
Quarantine – Jim Crace
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
My New York Diary – Julie Doucet
The Millstone – Margaret Drabble
My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
Silence – Shusaku Endo
The Gathering – Anne Enright
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
Howards End – EM Forster
Spies – Michael Frayn
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
The Man of Property – John Galsworthy
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Immoralist – Andre Gide
The Vatican Cellars – Andre Gide
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Shrimp and the Anemone – LP Hartley
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Steppenwolf / Lobo Estepario– Herman Hesse
Narziss and Goldmund / Narciso y Goldmundo – Hermann Hesse
The Three Paradoxes – Paul Hornschemeier
Tom Brown’s Schooldays – Thomas Hughes
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Washington Square – Henry James
The Tortoise and the Hare – Elizabeth Jenkins
The Unfortunates – BS Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ulysses – James Joyce
Good Behaviour – Molly Keane
Memet my Hawk – Yasar Kemal
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrence
Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee
Invitation to the Waltz – Rosamond Lehmann
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
How Green was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
Martin Eden – Jack London
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz
The Assistant – Bernard Malamud
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
The Chateau – William Maxwell
The Rector’s Daughter – FM Mayor
The Ordeal of Richard Feverek – George Meredith
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Sour Sweet – Timothy Mo
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Who Do You Think You Are? – Alice Munro
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul
At-Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness – Kezaburo Oe
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
My Name Is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
The Good Companions – JB Priestley
The Shipping News – E Annie Proulx
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
A Married Man – Piers Paul Read
Pointed Roofs – Dorothy Richardson
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney – Henry Handel Richardson
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Alberta and Jacob – Cora Sandel
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Unless – Carol Shields
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The Three Sisters – May Sinclair
The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate – Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfield
Confessions of Zeno – Italo Svevo
The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington
Angel – Elizabeth Taylor
Lark Rise to Candleford – Flora Thompson
The Blackwater Lightship – Colm Toibin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
Death in Summer – William Trevor
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Peace in War – Miguel de Unamuno
The Rabbit Omnibus – John Updike
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The History of Mr Polly – HG Wells
The Fountain Overflows – Rebecca West
Frost in May – Antonia White
The Tree of Man – Patrick White
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
I’ll Go to Bed at Noon – Gerard Woodward
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss

Estado de la Nación.

Things Fall Apart / Todo se Desmorona – Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah – Chinua Achebe
London Fields – Martin Amis
Untouchable – Mulk Raj Anand
Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
La Comedie Humaine – Honore de Balzac
They Were Counted – Miklos Banffy
A Kind of Loving – Stan Barstow
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave – Aphra Behn
Clayhanger – Arnold Bennett
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Room at the Top – John Braine
A Dry White Season – Andre Brink
Shirley – Charlotte Bronte
Earthly Powers – Anthony Burgess
The Virgin in the Garden – AS Byatt
Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Kingdom of this World – Alejo Carpentier
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
Disgrace – JM Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians – JM Coeztee
Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Underworld – Don DeLillo
White Noise – Don DeLillo
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Little Dorritt – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
Sybil or The Two Nations – Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
The Book of Daniel – EL Doctorow
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
USA – John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie – Theodor Dreiser
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Silas Marner – George Eliot
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Independence Day – Richard Ford
A Passage to India – EM Forster
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Counterfeiters – Andre Gide
The Odd Women – George Gissing
New Grub Street – George Gissing
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Mother – Maxim Gorky
Lanark – Alastair Gray
Love on the Dole – Walter Greenwood
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
South Riding – Winifred Holtby
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Chronicle in Stone – Ismael Kadare
How Late it Was, How Late – James Kelman
The Leopard – Giuseppi di Lampedusa
A Girl in Winter  – Philip Larkin
Passing – Nella Larsen
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry – Sinclair Lewis
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Amongst Women – John McGahern
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Of Love & Hunger – Julian Maclaren-Ross
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
The Betrothed . Alessandro Manzoni
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
A Bend in the River / Un Recodo en el Río – VS Naipaul
McTeague – Frank Norris
Personality – Andrew O’Hagan
Animal Farm – George Orwell (Leído antes de iniciar el proyecto)
The Ragazzi Pier – Paolo Pasolini
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Moon and the Bonfire – Cesare Pavese
GB84 – David Peace
Headlong Hall – Thomas Love Peacock
Afternoon Men – Anthony Powell
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Midnight’s Children / Los Hijos de la Media Noche – Salman Rushdie
Shame – Salman Rushdie
To Each his Own – Leonardo Sciascia
Staying On – Paul Scott
Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr
The Lonely Londoners – Samuel Selvon
God’s Bit of Wood – Ousmane Sembene
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
Richshaw Boy – Lao She
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Novel on Yellow Paper – Stevie Smith
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
This Sporting Life – David Storey
The Red Room – August Stringberg
The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Couples – John Updike
Z – Vassilis Vassilikos
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Germinal – Emile Zola
La Bete Humaine – Emile Zola

Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Non-Stop – Brian W Aldiss
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Last Things – Paul Auster
The Drowned World – JG Ballard
Crash – JG Ballard
Millennium People – JG Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks
Weaveworld – Clive Barker
Darkmans – Nicola Barker
The Time Ships – Stephen Baxter
Darwin’s Radio – Greg Bear
Vathek – William Beckford
The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Lost Souls – Poppy Z Brite
Wieland – Charles Brockden Brown
Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Coming Race – EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The End of the World News – Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Kindred – Octavia Butler
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino
The Influence – Ramsey Campbell
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
The Man who was Thursday – GK Chesterton
Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Hello Summer, Goodbye – Michael G Coney
Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski
Pig Tales – Marie Darrieussecq
The Einstein Intersection – Samuel R Delaney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K Dick
Camp Concentration – Thomas M Disch
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
The Magus – John Fowles
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Red Shift – Alan Garner
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Light – M John Harrison
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A Heinlein
Dune – Frank L Herbert
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
Atomised – Michel Houellebecq
Brave New World / Un Mundo Feliz – Aldous Huxley
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Children of Men – PD James
After London; or, Wild England – Richard Jefferies
Bold as Love – Gwyneth Jones
The Trial / El Proceso – Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Shining – Stephen King
The Victorian Chaise-longue – Marghanita Laski
Uncle Silas – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Earthsea Series – Ursula Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula Le Guin
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Memoirs of a Survivor – Doris Lessing
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
The Monk – Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus – David Lindsay
The Night Sessions – Ken Macleod
Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel
Only Forward – Michael Marshall Smith
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Maturin
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Ascent – Jed Mercurio
The Scar – China Mieville
Ingenious Pain – Andrew Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M Miller Jr
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Mother London – Michael Moorcock
News from Nowhere – William Morris
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Ada or Ardor – Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld – Larry Niven
Vurt – Jeff Noon
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
The Famished Road – Ben Okri
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (Leído antes de empezar el proyecto)
Fight Club / El Club de la Pelea – Chuck Palahniuk
Nightmare Abbey – Thomas Love Peacock
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Space Merchants – Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
A Glastonbury Romance – John Cowper Powys
The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett
The Prestige – Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Francois Rabelais
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds
The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling (Leído antes de empezar el proyecto)
Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Female Man – Joanna Russ
Air – Geoff Ryman
The Little Prince / El Principito – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Blindness / Ensayo Sobre la Ceguera – Jose Saramago
How the Dead Live – Will Self
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Star Maker – Olaf Stapledon
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Insult – Rupert Thomson
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (Leído antes de iniciar el proyecto)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Institute Benjamenta – Robert Walser
Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Affinity – Sarah Waters
The Time Machine / La Máquina del Tiempo – HG Wells
The War of the Worlds / La Guerra de los Mundos – HG Wells
The Sword in the Stone – TH White
The Old Men at the Zoo – Angus Wilson
The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Guerra y Viajes.

Silver Stallion – Junghyo Ahn
Death of a Hero – Richard Aldington
Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge
Darkness Falls from the Air – Nigel Balchin
Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard
Regeneration – Pat Barker
A Long Long Way – Sebastian Barry
Fair Stood the Wind for France – HE Bates
Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
An Ice-Cream War – William Boyd
When the Wind Blows – Raymond Briggs
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Auto-da-Fe – Elias Canetti
One of Ours – Willa Cather
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Monkey – Wu Ch’eng-en
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Sharpe’s Eagle – Bernard Cornwell
The History of Pompey the Little – Francis Coventry
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Bomber – Len Deighton
Deliverance – James Dickey
Three Soldiers – John Dos Passos
South Wind – Norman Douglas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
The Bamboo Bed – William Eastlake
The Siege of Krishnapur – JG Farrell
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
The African Queen – CS Forester
The Ship – CS Forester
Flashman – George MacDonald Fraser
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
The Beach – Alex Garland
To The Ends of the Earth trilogy – William Golding
Asterix the Gaul – Rene Goscinny
The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
Count Belisarius – Robert Graves
Life and Fate – Vassily Grossman
De Niro’s Game – Rawi Hage
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider Haggard
She: A History of Adventure – H Rider Haggard
The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton
Covenant with Death – John Harris
Enigma – Robert Harris
The Good Soldier Svejk / Las Aventuras del Buen Soldado Svejk – Jaroslav Hasek
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
From Here to Eternity – James Jones
Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor
Confederates – Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
Day – AL Kennedy
On the Road / En el Camino – Jack Kerouac
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
The Call of the Wild / La Llamada de la Naturaleza – Jack London
The Guns of Navarone – Alistair MacLean
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
The Mark of Zorro – Johnston McCulley
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
La Condition Humaine – Andre Malraux
Fortunes of War – Olivia Manning
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Cien Años de Soledad – Gabriel García Márquez
The Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat
Moby-Dick or, The Whale – Herman Melville
Tales of the South Pacific – James Michener
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
History – Elsa Morante
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Burmese Days – George Orwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
The Valley of Bones – Anthony Powell
The Soldier’s Art – Anthony Powell
The Military Philosophers – Anthony Powell
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Rudolp Erich Raspe
All Quiet on the Western Front / Sin Novedad en el Frente – Erich Maria Remarque
The Crab with the Golden Claws – Georges Remi Herge
Tintin in Tibet – Georges Remi Herge
The Castafiore Emerald – Georges Remi Herge
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands – Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Sacaramouche – Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood – Rafael Sabatini
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
The Hunters – James Salter
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
The Rings of Saturn – WG Sebald
Austerlitz – WG Sebald
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
The Young Lions – Irwin Shaw
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Maus – Art Spiegelman
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
A Sentimental Journey – Lawrence Sterne
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
A Flag for Sunrise – Robert Stone
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Williwaw – Gore Vidal
Candide – Voltaire
Slaughter-House Five / Matadero Cinco – Kurt Vonnegut
Put Out More Flags – Evelyn Waugh
Men at Arms – Evelyn Waugh
The Island of Dr Moreau / La Isla del Dr Moreau – HG Wells
The Machine-Gunners – Robert Westall
Voss – Patrick White
The Virginian – Owen Wister
The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk
The Debacle – Emile Zola

Leídos: 40 / 1000

Fuente:   

The Guardian. (Enero 23 de 2009). “1000 Novels Everyone Must Read: The Definitive List”. En: The Guardian. Extraído de la red virtual de: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction