Peter S. Beagle  |  The Last Unicorn

Jorge Luis Borges  |  stories

John Buchan  |  The Thirty-Nine Steps

Anthony Burgess  |  A Clockwork Orange

Albert Camus  |  The Stranger

Wilkie Collins  |  The Woman in White,
The Moonstone

Charles Dickens  |  A Tale of Two Cities

Anthony Doerr  |  All the Light
We Cannot See

Arthur Conan Doyle  |   stories,
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Lord Dunsany  |  The King
of Elfland’s Daughter

Dent-de-Lion du Midi  |  The Poisoned Door

Charles Frazier  |  Cold Mountain

Jean Giono  |  The Man Who Planted Trees

Jeremias Gotthelf  |  The Black Spider

Hella S. Haasse  |  In a Dark Wood Wandering

Knut Hamsun  |  Hunger,
The Growth of the Soil

Nathaniel Hawthorne  |  The Scarlet Letter

Seamus Heaney  |  Beowulf

Hermann Hesse  |  Narcissus and Goldmund,
Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game

Russell Hoban  |  Riddley Walker

Eowyn Ivey  |  The Snow Child

Johannes V. Jensen  |  The Fall of the King

Franz Kafka  |  Metamorphosis

Heinrich von Kleist  |  stories

Jerzy Kosinski  |  The Painted Bird

C.S. Lewis  |  Till We Have Faces

Janet Lewis  |  The Trial of Soren Qvist,
The Wife of Martin Guerre

David Lindsay  |  A Voyage to Arcturus

Thomas Mann  |  The Holy Sinner

Sándor Márai  |  Embers

W. Somerset Maugham  |  stories,
Up at the Villa, Of Human Bondage

Robert Merle  |  The Brethren

Harry Mulisch  |  The Assault,
The Discovery of Heaven

Edgar Allan Poe  |  stories

Joseph Roth  |  The Radetzky March

JD Salinger  |  The Catcher in the Rye

Jose Saramago  |  The Double

Issac Bashevis Singer  |  stories,
The King of the Fields

Art Spiegelman  |  MAUS

Robert Louis Stevenson  |  stories,
The Black Arrow, Kidnapped

Patrick Suskind  |  Perfume:
The Story of a Murderer

J.R.R. Tolkien  |  The Lord of the Rings,
The Hobbit

Kurt Vonnegut  |  Slaughterhouse Five

Lynn Ward  |  Madman’s Drum

Elie Wiesel  |  Night

Oscar Wilde  |  stories,
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Carlos Ruiz Zafón  |  The Shadow
of the Wind

Markus Zusak  |  The Book Thief