HKBC archive by year
2026
Satantango (László Krasznahorkai)
The Golden House (Salman Rushdie)
Stoner (John Williams)
2025
Shadow Ticket (Thomas Pynchon)
The Swimmer (John Cheever)
Cuba Libre (Elmore Leonard)
The River Between (Ngugi wa Thiong'O)
Speedboat (Renata Adler)
M31 (Stephen Wright)
The Kreutzer Sonata (Leo Tolstoy)
Josephine the Singer (Franz Kafka)
2024
The Map and the Territory (Michel Houellebecq)
The Festival of Insignificance (Milan Kundera)
Hunter of Stories (Eduardo Galeano)
Trust (Hernan Diaz)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
Ms Ice Sandwich (Mieko Kawakami)
Pastoralia (George Saunders)
Passing (Nella Larsen)
2023
The Captive Mind (Czesław Miłosz)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Effi Briest (Theodore Fontane)
The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead)
The Bear (William Faulkner)
Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
The Box Man (Kobo Abe)
2022
To Have and Have Not (Ernest Hemingway)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme (Donald Barthelme)
Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
Oranges (John McPhee)
Grey Bees (Andrey Kurkov)
A Confederate General from Big Sur (Richard Brautigan)
The Promise (Damon Galgut)
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
Ravelstein (Saul Bellow)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell)
2021
A Walker in the City (Alfred Kazin)
The Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Letham)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Machado de Assis)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
City on the Edge of Forever (Harlan Ellison)
Why I Live at the PO (Eudora Welty)
The Cyberiad (Stanislaw Lem)
2020
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
Intimations (Zadie Smith)
The History of Rasselas (Samuel Johnson)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways (Errol Flynn)
White Noise (Don DeLillo)
William Trevor's Last Stories (William Trevor)
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Time's Arrow (Martin Amis)
2019
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Delmore Schwartz)
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
The Nose (Nikolai Gogol)
2018
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
2017
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Rhinoceros (Eugene Ionesco)
Night of Wenceslas (Lionel Davidson)
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)
The Dead (James Joyce)
2016
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse)
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Zero K (Don DeLillo)
The Peregrine (J.A. Baker)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
2015
Any Human Heart (William Boyd)
To Set Prometheus Free (Anthony Grayling)
Traveler of the Century (Andres Neuman)
Paterson (William Carlos Williams)
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
China Mountain Zhang (Maureen McHugh)
All I Asking for is My Body (Milton Murayama)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allen Poe)
2014
The Colossus of Maroussi (Henry Miller)
The Great Wall of China (Franz Kafka)
A Contest for Supremacy (Aaron Friedberg)
The Royal Game (Stefan Zweig)
Desert Queen (Janet Wallach)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
2013
Report from the Interior (Paul Auster)
Man Walks Into A Room (Nicole Krauss)
The Ruined Map (Kobo Abe)
The Driver's Seat (Muriel Spark)
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (Mo Yan)
The Conservationist (Nadine Gordimer)
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
The Rider (Tim Krabbé)
2012
The Lemon Table (Julian Barnes)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
Poems of Philip Larkin (Philip Larkin)
Laughter in the Dark (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
2011
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Horse's Mouth (Joyce Cary)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2010
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
The Road to Wellville (T.C. Boyle)
The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
Blindness (José Saramago)
The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)