1.The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
2. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
3. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
4. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
5. The Trial (Franz Kafka)
6. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
7. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
8. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
9. The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
10. Robinson Cruesoe (Daniel Defoe)
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
12. Deliverance (James Dickey)
13. The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
14. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
15. The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger)
16. Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
17. Washington Square (Henry James)
18. The Republic (Plato)
19. Notes from the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
20. A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh)
21. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
22. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
24. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
25. Howards End (E.M. Forster)
26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
27. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
28. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
29. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
30. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
31. Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
32. Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
33. Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
34. The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemmingway)
35. The Castle (Franz Kafka)
36. The Witches (Roald Dahl)
37. The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
38. The Time Machine (H G Wells)
39. Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
40. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
41. The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien)
42. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
43. Go Tell it on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
44. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
45. A Room with a View (E. M. Forster)
46. Reflections in a Golden Eye (Carson McCullers)
47. Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
48. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
49. The Way of all Flesh (Samuel Butler)
50. Dune (Frank Herbert)
Hey Nick,
I came over to look at your actual blog because I assumed it was you who leant Dave Irving Nick Drake. I do really like that. But your music list is crazy (I’m overwhelmed!) so I moved onto your books. Interesting … I read loads of Thomas Hardy once but never actually got to The Mayor of Casterbridge. I now own the popular penguin though and it’s in the queue …