Mike Janes’s Booklist

Mr. Mike James is the creator of this list - I think you’ll discover the man has impeccable taste. I concluded that, anyway, once I saw this list. These are books (and I’ve added a few entries at the end after the asterisk) that are on the horizon, so there’s a great deal of fantastic books that have already been read. I’ll try and come up with a good list of these as well. Enjoy.

Leviathan Three - An Anthology
I, Robot - Issac Asimov
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Epileptic - David B.
Vox - Nicholson Baker
The Prince Of Nothing Trilogy - R. Scott Bakker
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Continental Drift - Russell Banks
S - Samuel Beckett
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Concrete - Thomas Bernhard
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
Ghost And Horror Stories Of Ambrose Bierce - Ambrose Bierce
A Case of Conscience - James Blish
The Lost Honor of Katrina Blum - Heinrich Boll
East is East - T.C. Boyle
Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
Televisionary Oracle - Rob Brezsny
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Thank You For Smoking - Christopher Buckley
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Tremor Of Intent - Anthony Burgess
exterminator! - William Burroughs
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Stranger - Albert Camus
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales - Edited by Michael Chabon.
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
You Remind Me Of Me - Dan Chaon
Head of A Sad Angel - Alfred Chester
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Public Burning - Robert Coover
The Inferno - Dante
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
A Heart of Stone - Renate Dorrestein
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
I, Lucifer - Glenn Duncan
Journey Through Genius - William Dunham
You Shall Know Our Velocity! - David Eggers
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Collector - John Fowles
The Magus - John Fowles
The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys - Chris Fuhrman
The Tunnel - William H. Gass
Agapé Agape - William Gaddis
The Beach - Alex Garland
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Faust - William Goethe
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Fingerprints Of The Gods - Graham Hancock
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Areas Of My Expertise - John Hodgman
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Twelve Chairs - Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Beasts Of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
Aztec - Gary Jennings
In The Pond - Ha Jin
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man - James Joyce
The Complete Works - Franz Kafka
The Last Temptation Of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Threshold - Caitlin Kiernan
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
SlackJaw - Jim Knipfel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Dangerious Liaisons - Choderlos De Laclos
Hiero’s Journey - Sterling E. Lanier
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
A Working Stiff’s Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can’t Remember - Iain Levison
Dance for Two - Alan Lightman
Iron Heel - Jack London
The Lies Of Locke Lamora - Stephen Lynch
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Game Of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Bark Of The Dogwood - Jackson Tippett McCrae
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
Three to See the King - Magnus Mills
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Coyote Blue - Christopher Moore
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A Question Of Attraction - David Nicholls
The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
The Mote In God’s Eye - Larry Niven
In the Forest - Edna O’Brien
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O’Brien
Delano - John Orozco
Shadow Without a Name - Ignacio Padilla
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Buddha’s Little Finger - Victor Pelevin
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The People Of Paper - Salvador Plascencia
The Republic of Plato - Plato
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance - Richard Powers
The Time Of Our Singing - Richard Powers
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Night Witch - Jack Priest
Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Ishmael/My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Between Two Rivers - Nicholas Rinaldi
Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff
Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie
Seeing - Jose Saramago
Strange But True - John Searles
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Naked - David Sedaris
Summer Of Night - Dan Simmons
East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Naked Pictures Of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
The Bartimaeus Trilogy (2 & 3) - Jonathan Stroud
The Dark Night Returns
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree, Jr.
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Roughing It - Mark Twain
Veniss Underground - Jeff VanderMeer
The Dark Descent - Various Authors
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito
The Royal Family - William T. Vollmann
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural - Phyllis Cerf Wagner
Love And Other Impossible Pursuits - Ayelet Waldman
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Trial of God - Elie Wiesel
The Keep - F. Paul Wilson
Spin - Roger Charles Wilson
Sword And Citadel - Gene Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Old School - Tobias Wolff
The Golden Age Trilogy - John C. Wright
The Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham
Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
Dominion - Calvin Baker
The Known World - Edward P. Jones