Here are the 50 novels from Literary Hub’s list, in the order shown on the page.
The Invention of Morel — Adolfo Bioy Casares
Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M. Cain
Passing — Nella Larsen
The Stranger — Albert Camus
Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo
The Cloven Viscount — Italo Calvino
The Awakening — Kate Chopin
The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
In Watermelon Sugar — Richard Brautigan
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man — James Weldon Johnson
Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson
A Single Man — Christopher Isherwood
Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ice — Anna Kavan
Cane — Jean Toomer
The Drowned World — J.G. Ballard
Hunger — Knut Hamsun
Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin
O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan
Billy Budd, Sailor — Herman Melville
The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
The Trial — Franz Kafka
A Personal Matter — Kenzaburo Oe
Nightwood — Djuna Barnes
Snow Country — Yasunari Kawabata
Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
Silas Marner — George Eliot
The Girls of Slender Means — Muriel Spark
Jakob von Gunten — Robert Walser
Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
Fat City — Leonard Gardner
House Made of Dawn — N. Scott Momaday
If He Hollers Let Him Go — Chester Himes
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov
Norwood — Charles Portis
Ubik — Philip K. Dick
Near to the Wild Heart — Clarice Lispector
A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead — Barbara Comyns
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsay
The Magic Toyshop — Angela Carter
many of them are not short novels, they are novellas. But whatever, there’s some great stuff on the list.
Mark for reference. Thanks
The Slaughter House Five: Kurt Vonnegut
The Book of the Dunn Cow: Walter Wangren
This is the list I’ve been looking for, but was too lazy to Google. Thank you for reminding me of what is now available to read and ponder.
There are some very good titles there.
No Hemingway??
Thank you! I want to read a few of these again - some I haven’t read since high school.
I mostly read history and biographies.
But when I want some light reading, there is nothing better than...
Louis L’Amour.