The Librarian, oil on canvas, 1566. Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Skoklosters slott, Skokloster.
Lucian (c. 125-180) / A True History
Ibn Tufail (c. 1105-1185) / The Improvement of Human Reason
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (1554)
Denis Diderot / The Indiscreet Jewels (1748)
Voltaire / Candide (1759)
Laurence Sterne / The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)
Xavier de Maistre / Voyage Around My Room (1794)
Friedrich Hölderlin / Hyperion (1797, 1799)
Novalis (1772-1801) / Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Mary Shelley / The Last Man (1826)
Nikolai Gogol / Dead Souls (1842)
Emily Brontë / Wuthering Heights (1847)
Herman Melville / Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Lewis Carroll / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1867)
Comte de Lautréamont / Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-1869)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky / The Idiot (1869)
Joris-Karl Huysmans / Against Nature (1884)
Mark Twain / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Knut Hamsum / Hunger (1890)
Léon Genonceaux / The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle (1891)
Marcel Schwob / The Book of Monelle (1894)
Arthur Schnitzler / Lieutenant Gustl (1900)
Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness (1902)
Frank Wedekind / Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (1903)
Félix Fénéon / Novels in Three Lines (1906)
Robert Walser / Jakob von Gunten (1909)
Rainer Maria Rilke / The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)
Alfred Jarry / Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1911)
Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis (1912)
Octave Mirbeau / Dingo (1913)
Marcel Proust / In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)
Miguel de Unamuno / Mist (1914)
Hermann Hesse / Demian (1919)
André Breton, Philippe Soupault / The Magnetic Fields (1920)
Maurice Dekobra / The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1925)
Jack Black / You Can't Win (1926)
Emilio Lascano Tegui / On Elegance While Sleeping (1926)
Louis Aragon / Irene's Cunt (1928)
Alfred Döblin / Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
William Faulkner / As I Lay Dying (1930)
Henry Miller / Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) / The Book of Disquiet
Dezső Kosztolányi / Kornél Esti (1936)
Witold Gombrowicz / Ferdydurke (1937)
Adolfo Bioy Casares / The Invention of Morel (1940)
Maurice Blanchot / Thomas the Obscure (1941)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / The Little Prince (1943)
Jorge Luis Borges / Ficciones (1944)
Gherasim Luca / The Passive Vampire (1945)
Raymond Queneau / Exercises in Style (1947)
Boris Vian / Foam of the Daze (1947)
Osamu Dazai / No Longer Human (1948)
J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
René Daumal / Mount Analogue (1952)
Vladimir Nabokov / Lolita (1955)
Pier Paolo Pasolini / The Ragazzi (1955)
Jean de Berg / The Image (1956)
William S. Burroughs / Naked Lunch (1959)
Flannery O'Conner / The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Alexander Trocchi / Cain's Book (1960)
Julio Cortázar / Hopscotch (1963)
Konrad Bayer / The Head of Vitus Bering (1965)
Pierre Klossowski / The Baphomet (1965)
Jerzy Kosinski / The Painted Bird (1965)
Richard Brautigan / Trout Fishing in America (1967)
Mikhail Bulgakov / The Master and Margarita (1967)
Michel Tournier / Friday (1967)
Venedikt Erofeev / Moscow to the End of the Line (1969)
Chester Himes / Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
Pierre Guyotat / Eden, Eden, Eden (1970)
Unica Zürn / Dark Spring (1970)
Henri Michaux / Miserable Miracle (1972)
Alexander Kluge / Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome (1973)
Walter Abish / Alphabetical Africa (1974)
Grisélidis Réal / Black is a Color (1974)
Isabelle Eberhardt / The Oblivion Seekers (1975)
Peter Weiss / The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975)
Bohumil Hrabal / Too Loud a Solitude (1976)
Jean-Patrick Manchette / Fatale (1977)
Gabriel García Márquez / Innocent Eréndira (1978)
Georges Perec / Life: A User's Manuel (1978)
Italo Calvino / If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
Max Frisch / Man in the Holocene (1979)
Umberto Eco / The Name of the Rose (1980)
Thomas Bernhard / Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982)
Charles Bukowski / Ham on Rye (1982)
Kathy Acker / Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Alasdair Gray / 1982, Janine (1984)
László Krasznahorkai / The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
Herta Müller / The Land of Green Plums (1994)
William H. Gass / The Tunnel (1995)
Juan Goytisolo / State of Siege (1995)
Antonio Tabucchi / The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (1997)
Orhan Pamuk / My Name Is Red (1998)
Leonid Tsypkin / Summer in Baden-Baden (2001)
Édouard Levé / Oeuvres (2002)
José Manuel Prieto / Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia (2003)
Horacio Castellanos Moya / Senselessness (2004)
Victor Pelevin / The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2005)
Mikhail Shishkin / Maidenhair (2005)
