100 Collectible Modern Firsts

Below is a list of my most-wanted Modern First Editions.

2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A is for Alibi – Sue Grafton
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Passage to India – E M Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
A Room with a View – E M Forster
A Touch of Frost – R D Wingfield
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
After Hours / Carlito’s Way – Edwin Torres
Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anthem – Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugges – Ayn Rand
Babbling April – Graham Greene
Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Carrie – Stephen King
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke
Crash – J G Ballard
Cup of Gold – John Steinbeck
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Disgrace – J M Coetzee
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K Dick
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Dune – Frank Herbert
Dusklands – J M Coetzee
Early Japanese Stories – Kazuo Ishiguro
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fatherland – Robert Harris
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
First Love, Last Rites – Ian McEwan
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
Hear the Wind Sing – Haruki Murakami
I am Legend – Richard Matheson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino
In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence
Last Bus To Woodstock – Colin Dexter
Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov
Legend – David Gemmell
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Metamorphosis and Other Stories – Franz Kafka
Metroland – Julian Barnes
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
Of Human Bondage – W Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
On The Beach – Nevil Shute
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
P D James – Touch My Face
Pinball, 1973 – Haruki Murakami
Psycho – Robert Bloch
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
Ringworld – Larry Niven
Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A Heinlein
Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Bridge – Iain Banks
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
The Collector – John Fowles
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The Girl at Lion D’or – Sebastian Faulks
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Gunslinger – Stephen King
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula Le Guin
The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
The Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A Heinlein
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Orchard Keeper – Cormac McCarthy
The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Plant – Stephen King
The Rachel Papers – Martin Amis
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Restaurant at the End of the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Stamboul Train – Graham Greene
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K Dick
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Wasp Factor – Iain Banks
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The World Jones Made – Philip K Dick
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Two Stories – Salman Rushdie
Ulysses – James Joyce
V – Thomas Pynchon
White Noise – Don Delillo
World of Chance – Philip K Dick