 | Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $2.93 The Rosetta Stone of Modernist fiction.
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 | The Trial by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.91 It will haunt you until you read it again...and then it will haunt you even more.
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 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $3.06 You will laugh until unmentionable parts of your anatomy begin to fall off... and then you'll laugh harder.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.25 The book Lewis Carroll might have written had he been trapped in Stalin's Moscow during the Terror. Beautiful, absurd, surreal, magnificent.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $3.99 Another book in which the author's jaw-dropping inventiveness does not flag until the final sentence.
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 | Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $1.08 The greatest American novel of the 19th century.
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 | War And Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $5.27 Read it once and you'll never forget it. Perhaps the greatest of all 19th-century novels.
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 | Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) by William Faulkner
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.00 The greatest American novel of the 20th century.
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 | Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $3.72 The greatest French novel of the 19th century.
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 | Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.65 Dostoyevsky's most original work, its greatness is unclouded by the less than credible redemption scenarios he forced upon his longer narratives (e.g. the equally brilliant and unforgettable 'Crime and Punishment').
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $46.46 Either read in a single megadose or taken one volume at a time over the course of several months, this is one of the best works you will ever read. Treat yourself.
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.05 All readers can thank Quilty that Humbert "has only words to play with."
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 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $9.77 / Used from: $1.00 The apex of Woolf's art.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.96 The American dream as tragic melodrama. A beautifully written examination of the emptiness at the center of capitalist life.
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 | Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.72 Almost unbearably violent, this book tells dark, disturbing truths about the nihilism at the core of American life.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.00 "The novel is not the author's confession," Kundera tells us in this, his greatest novel, "it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become."
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 | The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.99 Roth achieved absolute perfection in this funny, fearless, unforgettable book.
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 | Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winfried Georg Sebald
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.50 A beautiful, melancholy, shattering meditation on memory and loss. Also check out Sebald's other magnificent prose fictions: "Vertigo", "The Emigrants", and "The Rings of Saturn".
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 | Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.98 The greatest American novel of the 21st century (so far).
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