Puss Reboots

Bold I've read. Italics are TBR.

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I read lots of mysteries but not from a wide selection of authors. I have to admit that most of these books I've never heard of!

Bold ones are ones I've read. Italics are on my immediate TBR list.

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From n8an. The bold are ones I've read. The italics are ones on my immediate TBR list.

212. "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe
213. "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands," Jorge Amado
214. "Le Grand Meaulnes," Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban Fournier)
215. "Take a Girl Like You," Kingsley Amis
216. "Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson
217. "Surfacing," Margaret Atwood
218. "The New York Trilogy," Paul Auster
219. "Tales of Odessa," Isaak Babel
220. "Giovanni's Room," James Baldwin
221. "The Sweet Hereafter," Russel Banks
222. "The Regeneration Trilogy," Pat Barker
223. "Herzog," Saul Bellow
224. "Ficciones," Jorge Luis Borges
225. "Nadja," Andre Breton
226. "The Master and the Margarita," Mikhail Bulgakov
227. "The Naked Lunch," William Burroughs
228. "Possession," A.S. Byatt
229. "If On a Winter's Night a Traveller," Italo Calvino
230. "The Outsider," Albert Camus
231. "Auto da Fe," Elias Canetti
232. "Oscar and Lucinda," Peter Carey
233. "The Kingdom of This World," Alejo Carpentier
234. "The Bloody Chamber," Angela Carter
235. "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love," Raymond Carver
236. "The Horse's Mouth," Joyce Carey
237. "Journey to the End of Night," Louis-Ferdinand Celine
238. "Soldiers of Salamis," Javier Cercas
239. "The Stories of John Cheever," John Cheever
240. "Disgrace," J.M. Coetzee (d'oh. I think I own this)
241. "Cheri," Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
242. "Victory," Joseph Conrad
243. "A House and Its Head," Ivy Compton-Burnett
244. "Fifth Business," Roberson Davies
245. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," Louis De Bernieres
246. "Underworld," Don Delillo
247. "Seven Gothic Tales," Isak Dinesen
248. "Berlin Alexanderplatz," Alfred Doblin
249. "Once Were Warriors," Alan Duff
250. "Rebecca," Daphne Du Maurier
251. "The Lover," Marguerite Duras
252. "The Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell
253. "The Name of the Rose," Umberto Eco
254. "The Neverending Story," Michael Ende
255. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner
256. "The Wars," Timothy Findley
257. "The Good Soldier," Ford Maddox Ford
258. "Wildlife," Richard Ford
259. "A Passage to India," E.M. Forster
260. "The Corrections," Jonathan Franzen
261. "Birdsong," Sebastian Faulks
262. "The Blue Flower," Penelope Fitzgerald
263. "From the Fifteenth District," Mavis Gallant
264. "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez
265. "Our Lady of the Flowers," Jean Genet
266. "Lord of the Flies," William Golding
267. "July's People," Nadine Gordimer
268. "FerdyDurke," Witold Gombrowicz
269. "The Tin Drum," Gunther Grass
270. "Hunger," Knut Hamsun
271. "The Blind Owl," Sadegh Hedayat
272. "The Old Man and the Sea," Ernest Hemingway
273. "The Glass Bead Game," Herman Hesse
274. "Lost Horizon," James Hilton
275. "A High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes
276. "The World According to Garp," John Irving
277. "Berlin Stories," Christopher Isherwood
278. "The Remains of the Day," Kazuo Ishiguro
279. "Ulysses," James Joyce
280. "The File on H," Ismail Kadare
281. "The Trial," Franz Kafka
282. "It," Stephen King
283. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Milan Kundera
284. "The Leopard," Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
285. "The Diviners," Margaret Laurence
286. "Women in Love," D.H. Lawrence
287. "The Golden Notebook," Doris Lessing
288. "The Periodic Table," Primo Levi
289. "Changing Places," David Lodge
290. "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas" J.M. Machado De Assis
291. "The Cairo Trilogy," Naguib Mahfouz
292. "The Executioner's Song," Norman Mailer
293. "God's Grace," Bernard Malamud
294. "An Imaginary Life," David Malouf
295. "The Magic Mountain," Thomas Mann
296. "Embers," Sandor Marai
297. "Life of Pi," Yann Martel
298. "Cakes and Ale," Somorset Maugham
299. "The Group," Mary McCarthy
300. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers
301. "Enduring Love," Ian McEwan
302. "The Sea of Fertility," Yukio Mishima
303. "A Fine Balance," Rohinton Mistry
304. "Cold Heaven," Brian Moore
305. "Beloved," Toni Morrison
306. "The Progress of Love," Alice Munro
307. "The Sea, the Sea," Iris Murdoch
308. "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov
309. "A House for Mr Biswas," V.S. Naipaul
310. "The Third Policeman," Flann O'Brian
311. "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor
312. "The English Patient," Michael Ondaatje
313. "Where the Jackals Howl," Amos Oz
314. "The Messiah of Stockholm," Cynthia Ozick
315. "Gormenghast," Mervyn Peake
316. "Mr. Weston's Good Wine," T.F. Powys
317. "The Nephew," James Purdy
318. "Interview with the Vampire," Anne Rice
319. "Barney's Version," Mordecai Richler
320. "Hadrian the Seventh," Frederick Rolfe (Baron Colvo)
321. "The Radetzky March," Joseph Roth
322. "The Human Stain," Philip Roth
323. "The Satanic Verses," Salman Rushdie
324. "Pedro Paramo," Juan Rulfo
325. "Bonjour Tristesse," Francoise Sagan
326. "Short Stories," Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
327. "Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger
328. "Staying On," Paul Scott
329. "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald
330. "Last Exit to Brooklyn," Hubert Selby Jr.
331. "Unless," Carol Shields
332. "The Magician of Lubin," Isaac Bashevis Singer
333. "The Engineer of Human Souls," Josef Skvorecky
334. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark
335. "The Man Who Loved Children," Christina Stead
336. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck
337. "Sohie's Choice," William Styron
338. "Perfume," Patrick Suskind
339. "The Confessions of Zeno," Italo Svevo
340. "Declares Pereira," Antonio Tabucchi
341. "The White Hotel," D.M. Thomas
342. "The Master," Colm Toibin
343. "Felicia's Journey," William Trevor
344. "The Palm-Wine Drinkard," Amos Tutuola
345. "The Accidental Tourist," Anne Tyler
346. "Couples," John Updike
347. "The Time of the Hero," Mario Vargas Llosa
348. "In Praise of Older Women," Stephen Vizinczey
349. "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh
350. "Voss," Patrick White
351. "Memoirs of Hadrian," Marguerite Yourcenar

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Here's the next installment via mojosmom...  Again, I do read a lot of memoirs but apparently not the "must reads."

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