This is not a list of the hundred best books of all time. It's probably not even close, albeit some of the books actually do show up at a number of those lists. This is unavoidable.

This is instead a list of 100 books I should read in order to familiar myself with the great and big world outside of the sf/fantasy genre. (Some works of that genre sneaked in anyway.) About half of them I had already thought about reading, the rest seemed interesting enough to warrant a spot. It might be 100 books of pure crap, but I don't think so. Oh, and it will undergo constant revisions.

The 100 List

Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Girlfriend 44 - Mark Barrowcliffe
Sabbatical - John Barth
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Ficciones - J. L. Borges
Armadillo - William Boyd
Stars and Bars - William Boyd
Kallocain - Karin Boye
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay - Michael Chabon
One Virgin Too Many - Lindsey Davis
Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
White Noise - Don Delillo
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Händelser Vid Vatten - Kerstin Ekman
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley
Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Thought Gang - Tibor Fischer
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Passage to India - E. M. Forster
The Magus - John Fowles
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Den Som Vandrar Om Natten - Marianne Fredriksson
The Liar - Stephen Fry
The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy
Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene
Travel Arrangements - M. John Harrison
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Det osynliga barnet - Tove Jansson
Hans Nådes Tid - Eyvind Johnsson
Ulysses - James Joyce
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Tripmaster Monkey - Maxine Hong Kingston
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence
Be Cool - Elmore Leonard
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
The Naked And The Dead - Norman Mailer
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The age of wire and string - Ben Marcus
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aniara - Harry Martinsson
Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me - Martin Millar
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
The Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Bokhandlaren som slutade bada - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brian
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
1984 - George Orwell
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
Operation Wandering Soul - Richard Powers
The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Slam - Lewis Shiner
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Doktor Glas - Hjalmar Söderberg
Rabbit Run - John Updike
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
A Handful Of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
The Last Samurai - Helen de Witt
The Jeeves Omnibus - P.G. Wodehouse
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf