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How to Be Well Read: A Guide to 500 Great Novels and a Handful of Literary Curiosities - Page 2

This is a (hopefully complete) list of books mentioned in "How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities" by John Sutherland. One of the titles (Gaslight, Gaiters and Gonophs by Jack Northcliffe) was a fake novel, so it's not on this list.
All the items you see here are Sutherland's choice, not mine.
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Aurora Leigh (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Aurora Leigh
41
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Auto-Da-Fe (Elias Canetti)
Auto-Da-Fe
42
Elias Canetti
Babel-17 (Samuel R Delany)
Babel-17
43
Samuel R Delany
Babi Yar (Anatoly Kuznetsov)
Babi Yar
44
Anatoly Kuznetsov
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Muriel Spark)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
45
Muriel Spark
Bambi, a Life in the Woods (Felix Salten)
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
46
Felix Salten
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby the Scrivener
47
Herman Melville
The Dark Knight Rises (Greg Cox)
The Dark Knight Rises
48
Greg Cox
Beau Geste (P.C. Wren)
Beau Geste
49
P.C. Wren
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
50
Bel-Ami (Guy De Maupassant)
Bel-Ami
51
Guy De Maupassant
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
52
Sylvia Plath
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
53
Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman
Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf)
Between the Acts
54
Virginia Woolf
Billy Liar (Keith Waterhouse)
Billy Liar
55
Keith Waterhouse
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
Black Beauty
56
Anna Sewell
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales (George Bernard Shaw)
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales
57
George Bernard Shaw
The Black Tulip (Alexandre Dumas)
The Black Tulip
58
Alexandre Dumas
Blade Runner (Philip Dick)
Blade Runner
59
Philip Dick
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
60
Charles Dickens
Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
Bleeding Edge
61
Thomas Pynchon
Blue Nights (Joan Didion)
Blue Nights
62
Joan Didion
Bluebeard (Angela Carter)
Bluebeard
63
Angela Carter
Bomber (Len Deighton)
Bomber
64
Len Deighton
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
65
Tom Wolfe
Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
Bonjour Tristesse
66
Francoise Sagan
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
67
Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (G.B. Edwards)
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
68
G.B. Edwards
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
69
Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
70
Evelyn Waugh
The British Museum Is Falling Down (David Lodge)
The British Museum Is Falling Down
71
David Lodge
Brooklyn (Colm Toibin)
Brooklyn
72
Colm Toibin
The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace)
The Broom of the System
73
David Foster Wallace
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
74
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
75
Thomas Mann
By the Lake (John McGahern)
By the Lake
76
John McGahern
Byzantium Endures (Michael Moorcock)
Byzantium Endures
77
Michael Moorcock
Cain's Book (Alexander Trocchi)
Cain's Book
78
Alexander Trocchi
Caleb Williams (William Godwin)
Caleb Williams
79
William Godwin
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
80
Jack London
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