List-o-Phile Monday

Continuing the 1,001 Books list…here are the second group of 100 from the 1900s (reverse chronological order)

The 2000s
The first 100 of the 1900s

1. Regeneration – Pat Barker
2. Downriver – Iain Sincliar
3. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
4. Wise Children – Angela Carter
5. Everything Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
6. Amongst Women – John McGahern
7. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
8. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
9. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
10. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
11. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
12. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
13. Possession – A.S. Byatt
14. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
15. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
16. A Disaffection – James Kelman
17. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
18. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
19. Billy Bathgate –E.L. Doctorow
20. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
21. The Melancholy of Resistance – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
22. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
23. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
24. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – Jose Saramago
25. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
26. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
27. London Fields – Martin Amis
28. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
29. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
30. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
31. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
32. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
33. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
34. The Swimming Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
35. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
36. Libra – Don Delillo
37. The Player of Games – Ian Banks
38. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
39. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
40. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
41. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
42. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
43. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
44. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
45. The Pigeon – Patrick Suskind
46. A Child in Time – Ian McEwan
47. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
48. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
49. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
50. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
51. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
52. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-Rae
53. Beloved – Toni Morrison
54. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
55. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
56. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
57. Watchmen – Alan Moore and David Gibbons
58. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
59. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
60. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
61. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
62. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
63. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
64. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
65. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
66. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
68. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
69. A Maggot – John Fowles
70. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
71. Contact – Carl Sagan
72. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
73. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
74. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
75. White Noise – Don Delillo
76. Queer – William Burroughs
77. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
78. Legend – David Gemmell
79. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi
80. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
81. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – Jose Saramago
82. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
83. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
84. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
85. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
86. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
87. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
88. Neuromancer – William Gibson
89. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
90. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
91. Shame – Salman Rushdie
92. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
93. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
94. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
95. Waterland - Graham Swift
96. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
97. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
98. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
99. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
100. If Now Now, When? – Primo Levi