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Ten from the classics:

– “Lady Windemere’s Fan”
– “War and Peace”
– “The Nose” [or, for a novel: “Dead Souls”]
– “Jude the Obscure”
– “Cry, the Beloved Country”
– “Ball of Fat” [No wonder the title isn’t usually translated!]
– “The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck: A Comedy of Limitations”
– “The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania”
– “The Life and Death of Mr. Badman”
– “Lady into Fox”

And it’s non-fiction, but a special mention for “The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, naturally, artificially, mystically considered” – which is of course the lesser-known and weirder sequel to “Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk”, itself widely considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.

And ten from SF&F:

– “Black Juice”
– “The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World”
– “Pebble in the Sky”
– “Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said” [or: “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”?]
– “The Pawns of Null-A”
– “The Claw of the Conciliator”
– “The Pnume” [or: special mention for “Servants of the Wankh”…?]
– “Nerilka’s Story & The Coelura”
– “Hederick the Theocrat” [not a classic book, but a nicely 19th century title…]
– “Against all Things Ending”

And ten just from the work of Samuel Delany:

– “They Fly at Çiron”
– “Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia”
– “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders”
– “Dhalgren”
– “The Einstein Intersection”
– “The Ballad of Beta-2”
– “Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand”
– “Aye, and Gomorrah, and Other Stories”
– “The Jewels of Aptor”
– “The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities”