My 2014 reading list:

• Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
• Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Honore de Balzac, Old Father Goriot
• Samuel Beckett, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
• Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
• Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
• Albert Camus, The Stranger
• Paul Celan, Poems
• Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
• Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories; Thousand and One Nights
• Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
• Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• Euripides, Medea
• William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
• Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
• Federico Garcia Lorca, Gypsy Ballads
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
• Anon, The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
• Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
• Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
• Joao Guimaraes Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
• Knut Hamsun, Hunger
• Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
• Homer, The Iliad; The Odyssey
• Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
• Anon, The Book of Job
• James Joyce, Ulysses
• Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle
• Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala
• Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

• D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
• Halldor K. Laxness, Independent People
• Giacomo Leopardi, Complete Poems
• Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
• Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
• Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
• Anon, Mahabharata
• Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi
• Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick
• Michel de Montaigne, Essays
• Elsa Morante, History
• Toni Morrison, Beloved
• Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
• Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Njal's Saga
• George Orwell, 1984
• Ovid, Metamorphoses
• Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales
• Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
• Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo
• Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, The Mathnawi
• Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz, The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard)
• Tayeb Salih, A Season of Migration to the North
• Jose Saramago, Blindness
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
• Sophocles, Oedipus the King
• Stendhal, The Red and the Black
• Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
• Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
• Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
• Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Valmiki, Ramayana
• Virgil, The Aeneid
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
• Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian