Comedy

  • "Lucky Jim", by Kingsley Amis
  • "Money", by Martin Amis
  • "The Information", by Martin Amis
  • "The Bottle Factory Outing", by Beryl Bainbridge
  • "According to Queeney", by Beryl Bainbridge
  • "Flaubert's Parrot", by Julian Barnes
  • "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", by Julian Barnes
  • "Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man", by Henry Howarth Bashford
  • "Molloy", by Samuel Beckett
  • "Zuleika Dobson", by Max Beerbohm
  • "The Adventures of Augie March", by Saul Bellow
  • "The Uncommon Reader", by Alan Bennett
  • "Queen Lucia", by EF Benson
  • "The Ascent of Rum Doodle", by WE Bowman
  • "A Good Man in Africa", by William Boyd
  • "The History Man", by Malcolm Bradbury
  • "No Bed for Bacon", by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
  • "Illywhacker", by Peter Carey
  • "A Season in Sinji", by JL Carr
  • "The Harpole Report", by JL Carr
  • "The Hearing Trumpet", by Leonora Carrington
  • "Mister Johnson", by Joyce Cary
  • "The Horse's Mouth", by Joyce Cary
  • "Don Quixote", by Miguel de Cervantes
  • "The Case of the Gilded Fly", by Edmund Crispin
  • "Just William", by Richmal Crompton
  • "The Provincial Lady", by EM Delafield
  • "Slouching Towards Kalamazoo", by Peter De Vries
  • "The Pickwick Papers", by Charles Dickens
  • "Martin Chuzzlewit", by Charles Dickens
  • "Jacques the Fatalist and his Master", by Denis Diderot
  • "A Fairy Tale of New York", by JP Donleavy
  • "The Commitments", by Roddy Doyle
  • "Ennui", by Maria Edgeworth
  • "Cheese", by Willem Elsschot
  • "Bridget Jones's Diary", by Helen Fielding
  • "Joseph Andrews", by Henry Fielding
  • "Tom Jones", by Henry Fielding
  • "Caprice", by Ronald Firbank
  • "Bouvard et Pécuchet", by Gustave Flaubert
  • "VTowards the End of the Morning", by Michael Frayn
  • "The Polygots", by William Gerhardie
  • "Cold Comfort Farm", by Stella Gibbons
  • "Dead Souls", by Nikolai Gogol
  • "Oblomov", by Ivan Goncharov
  • "The Wind in the Willows", by Kenneth Grahame
  • "Brewster's Millions", by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
  • "Squire Haggard's Journal", by Michael Green
  • "Our Man in Havana", by Graham Greene
  • "Travels with My Aunt", by Graham Greene
  • "Diary of a Nobody", by George Grossmith
  • "The Little World of Don Camillo", by Giovanni Guareschi
  • "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", by Mark Haddon
  • "Catch-22", by Joseph Heller
  • "Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House", by Eric Hodgkins
  • "High Fidelity", by Nick Hornby
  • "I Served the King of England", by Bohumil Hrabal
  • "The Lecturer's Tale", by James Hynes
  • "Mr Norris Changes Trains", by Christopher Isherwood
  • "The Mighty Walzer Howard", by Jacobson
  • "Pictures from an Institution", by Randall Jarrell
  • "Three Men in a Boat", by Jerome K Jerome
  • "Finnegans Wake", by James Joyce
  • "The Castle", by Franz Kafka
  • "Lake Wobegon Days", by Garrison Keillor
  • "Death and the Penguin", by Andrey Kurkov
  • "The Debt to Pleasure", by John Lanchester
  • "L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage"
  • "Changing Places", by David Lodge
  • "Nice Work", by David Lodge
  • "The Towers of Trebizond", by Rose Macaulay
  • "England, Their England", by AG Macdonell
  • "Whisky Galore", by Compton Mackenzie
  • "Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf", by David Madsen
  • "Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard", by W Somerset Maugham
  • "Tales of the City", by Armistead Maupin
  • "Bright Lights, Big City", by Jay McInerney
  • "Puckoon", by Spike Milligan
  • "The Restraint of Beasts", by Magnus Mills
  • "Charade", by John Mortimer
  • "Titmuss Regained", by John Mortimer
  • "Under the Net", by Iris Murdoch
  • "Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov
  • "Pale Fire", by Vladimir Nabokov
  • "Fireflies", by Shiva Naipaul
  • "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf", by Victor Pelevin
  • "La Disparition", by Georges Perec
  • "Les Revenentes", by Georges Perec
  • "La Vie Mode d'Emploi", by Georges Perec
  • "My Search for Warren Harding", by Robert Plunkett
  • "A Dance to the Music of Time", by Anthony Powell
  • "A Time to be Born", by Dawn Powell
  • "Excellent Women", by Barbara Pym
  • "Less Than Angels", by Barbara Pym
  • "Zazie in the Metro", by Raymond Queneau
  • "Solomon Gursky Was Here", by Mordecai Richler
  • "Alms for Oblivion", by Simon Raven
  • "Portnoy's Complaint", by Philip Roth
  • "The Westminster Alice", by Saki
  • "The Unbearable Bassington", by Saki
  • "Hurrah for St Trinian's", by Ronald Searle
  • "Great Apes", by Will Self
  • "Porterhouse Blue", by Tom Sharpe
  • "Blott on the Landscape", by Tom Sharpe
  • "Office Politics", by Wilfrid Sheed
  • "Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel", by Charles Simmons
  • "Moo", by Jane Smiley
  • "Topper Takes a Trip", by Thorne Smith
  • "The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom", by Tobias Smollett
  • "The Adventures of Roderick Random", by Tobias Smollett
  • "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle", by Tobias Smollett
  • "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker", by Tobias Smollett
  • "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", by Muriel Spark
  • "The Girls of Slender Means", by Muriel Spark
  • "The Driver's Seat", by Muriel Spark
  • "Loitering with Intent", by Muriel Spark
  • "A Far Cry from Kensington", by Muriel Spark
  • "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", by Laurence Sterne
  • "White Man Falling", by Mike Stocks
  • "Handley Cross", by RS Surtees
  • "A Tale of a Tub", by Jonathan Swift
  • "Penrod", by Booth Tarkington
  • "The Luck of Barry Lyndon", by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • "Before Lunch", by Angela Thirkell
  • "Tropic of Ruislip", by Leslie Thomas
  • "A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole
  • "Barchester Towers", by Anthony Trollope
  • "Venus on the Half-Shell", by Kilgore Trout
  • "The Mysterious Stranger", by Mark Twain
  • "The Witches of Eastwick", by John Updike
  • "Breakfast of Champions", by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "Infinite Jest", by David Foster Wallace
  • "Decline and Fall", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "Vile Bodies", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "Black Mischief", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "Scoop", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "The Loved One", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "A Handful of Dust", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil", by Fay Weldon
  • "Tono Bungay", by HG Wells
  • "Molesworth", by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
  • "The Wimbledon Poisoner", by Nigel Williams
  • "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes", by Angus Wilson
  • "Something Fresh", by PG Wodehouse
  • "Piccadilly Jim", by PG Wodehouse
  • "Thank You Jeeves", by PG Wodehouse
  • "Heavy Weather", by PG Wodehouse
  • "The Code of the Woosters", by PG Wodehouse
  • "Joy in the Morning", by PG Wodehouse

Crime

  • "The Man with the Golden Arm", by Nelson Algren
  • "Fantomas", by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
  • "The Mask of Dimitrios", by Eric Ambler
  • "Epitaph for a Spy", by Eric Ambler
  • "Journey into Fear", by Eric Ambler
  • "The New York Trilogy", by Paul Auster
  • "Trent's Last Case", by EC Bentley
  • "The Poisoned Chocolates Case", by Anthony Berkeley
  • "The Beast Must Die", by Nicholas Blake
  • "Lady Audley's Secret", by Mary E Braddon
  • "The Neon Rain", by James Lee Burke
  • "The Tin Roof Blowdown", by James Lee Burke
  • "The Thirty-Nine Steps", by John Buchan
  • "Greenmantle", by John Buchan
  • "The Asphalt Jungle", by WR Burnett
  • "The Postman Always Rings Twice", by James M Cain
  • "Double Indemnity", by James M Cain
  • "True History of the Ned Kelly Gang", by Peter Carey
  • "The Hollow Man", by John Dickson Carr
  • "The Big Sleep", by Raymond Chandler
  • "The Long Goodbye", by Raymond Chandler
  • "No Orchids for Miss Blandish", by James Hadley Chase
  • "The Riddle of the Sands", by Erskine Childers
  • "And Then There Were None", by Agatha Christie
  • "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", by Agatha Christie
  • "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", by Agatha Christie
  • "The Murder at the Vicarage", by Agatha Christie
  • "The Secret Adversary", by Agatha Christie
  • "The Woman in White", by Wilkie Collins
  • "The Moonstone", by Wilkie Collins
  • "A Study in Scarlet", by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Hound of the Baskervilles", by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Sign of Four", by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Manchurian Candidate", by Richard Condon
  • "The Secret Agent", by Joseph Conrad
  • "Under Western Eyes", by Joseph Conrad
  • "Postmortem", by Patricia Cornwell
  • "The Andromeda Strain", by Michael Crichton
  • "Jurassic Park", by Michael Crichton
  • "Poetic Justice", by Amanda Cross
  • "The Ipcress File", by Len Deighton
  • "Last Seen Wearing", by Colin Dexter
  • "The Remorseful Day", by Colin Dexter
  • "Ratking", by Michael Dibdin
  • "Dead Lagoon", by Michael Dibdin
  • "Dirty Tricks", by Michael Dibdin
  • "A Rich Full Death", by Michael Dibdin
  • "Vendetta", by Michael Dibdin
  • "Crime and Punishment", by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "An American Tragedy", by Theodore Dreiser
  • "My Cousin Rachel", by Daphne du Maurier
  • "The Count of Monte Cristo", by Alexandre Dumas
  • "The Pledge", by Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • "The Crime of Father Amado", by Eça de Queiroz
  • "The Name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco
  • "American Psycho", by Bret Easton Ellis
  • "LA Confidential", by James Ellroy
  • "The Big Nowhere", by James Ellroy
  • "A Quiet Belief in Angels", by RJ Ellory
  • "Sanctuary", by William Faulkner
  • "Casino Royale", by Ian Fleming
  • "Goldfinger", by Ian Fleming
  • "You Only Live Twice", by Ian Fleming
  • "The Day of the Jackal", by Frederick Forsyth
  • "Brighton Rock", by Graham Greene
  • "A Gun for Sale", by Graham Greene
  • "The Ministry of Fear", by Graham Greene
  • "The Third Man", by Graham Greene
  • "A Time to Kill", by John Grisham
  • "The King of Torts", by John Grisham
  • "Hangover Square", by Patrick Hamilton
  • "The Glass Key", by Dashiell Hammett
  • "The Maltese Falcon", by Dashiell Hammett
  • "Red Harvest", by Dashiell Hammett
  • "The Thin Man", by Dashiell Hammett
  • "Fatherland", by Robert Harris
  • "Black Sunday", by Thomas Harris
  • "Red Dragon", by Thomas Harris
  • "Tourist Season", by Carl Hiaasen
  • "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", by George V Higgins
  • "Strangers on a Train", by Patricia Highsmith
  • "The Talented Mr Ripley", by Patricia Highsmith
  • "Bones and Silence", by Reginald Hill
  • "A Rage in Harlem", by Chester Himes
  • "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", by Peter Hoeg
  • "Rogue Male", by Geoffrey Household
  • "Malice Aforethought", by Francis Iles
  • "Silence of the Grave", by Arnadur Indridason
  • "Death at the President's Lodging", by Michael Innes
  • "Cover Her Face", by PD James
  • "A Taste for Death", by PD James
  • "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late", by Harry Kemelman
  • "Kim", by Rudyard Kipling
  • "The Constant Gardener", by John le Carre
  • "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", by John le Carre
  • "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", by John le Carre
  • "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee
  • "52 Pick-up", by Elmore Leonard
  • "Get Shorty", by Elmore Leonard
  • "Motherless Brooklyn", by Jonathan Lethem
  • "The Bourne Identity", by Robert Ludlum
  • "Cop Hater", by Ed McBain
  • "No Country for Old Men", by Cormac McCarthy
  • "Enduring Love", by Ian McEwan
  • "Sidetracked", by Henning Mankell
  • "Devil in a Blue Dress", by Walter Mosley
  • "The Great Impersonation", by E Phillips Oppenheim
  • "The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent", by E Phillips Oppenheim
  • "My Name is Red", by Orhan Pamuk
  • "Toxic Shock", by Sara Paretsky
  • "Blacklist", by Sara Paretsky
  • "Nineteen Seventy Four", by David Peace
  • "Nineteen Seventy Seven", by David Peace
  • "The Big Blowdown", by George Pelecanos
  • "Hard Revolution", by George Pelecanos
  • "Lush Life", by Richard Price
  • "The Godfather", by Mario Puzo
  • "V", by Thomas Pynchon
  • "The Crying of Lot 49", by Thomas Pynchon
  • "Black and Blue", by Ian Rankin
  • "The Hanging Gardens", by Ian Rankin
  • "Exit Music", by Ian Rankin
  • "Judgment in Stone", by Ruth Rendell
  • "Live Flesh", by Ruth Rendell
  • "Dissolution", by CJ Sansom
  • "Whose Body?", by Dorothy L Sayers
  • "Murder Must Advertise", by Dorothy Le Sayers
  • "The Madman of Bergerac", by Georges Simenon
  • "The Blue Room", by Georges Simenon
  • "The Laughing Policeman", by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
  • "Gorky Park", by Martin Cruz Smith
  • "Of Mice and Men", by John Steinbeck
  • "The League of Frightened Men", by Rex Stout
  • "Perfume", by Patrick Suskind
  • "The Secret History", by Donna Tartt
  • "The Daughter of Time", by Josephine Tey
  • "The Getaway", by Jim Thompson
  • "Pudd'nhead Wilson", by Mark Twain
  • "A Dark-Adapted Eye", by Barbara Vine
  • "A Fatal inversion", by Barbara Vine
  • "King Solomon's Carpet", by Barbara Vine
  • "The Four Just Men", by Edgar Wallace
  • "Fingersmith", by Sarah Waters
  • "Native Son", by Richard Wright
  • "Therese Raquin", by Emile Zola

Family and self

  • "The Face of Another", by Kobo Abe
  • "Little Women", by Louisa May Alcott
  • "Behind the Scenes at the Museum", by Kate Atkinson
  • "Cat's Eye", by Margaret Atwood
  • "Epileptic", by David B
  • "Room Temperature", by Nicholson Baker
  • "Eugenie Grandet", by Honore de Balzac
  • "Le Pere Goriot", by Honore de Balzac
  • "The Crow Road", by Iain Banks
  • "The L Shaped Room", by Lynne Reid Banks
  • "Fun Home", by Alison Bechdel
  • "Malone Dies", by Samuel Beckett
  • "A Legacy", by Sybille Bedford
  • "Herzog", by Saul Bellow
  • "Humboldt's Gift", by Saul Bellow
  • "The Old Wives' Tale", by Arnold Bennett
  • "G", by John Berger
  • "Extinction", by Thomas Bernhard
  • "Two Serious Ladies", by Jane Bowles
  • "Any Human Heart", by William Boyd
  • "The Death of Virgil", by Hermann Broch
  • "Evelina", by Fanny Burney
  • "The Way of All Flesh", by Samuel Butler
  • "The Sound of my Voice", by Ron Butlin
  • "The Outsider", by Albert Camus
  • "Wise Children", by Angela Carter
  • "The Professor's House", by Willa Cather
  • "The Wapshot Chronicle", by John Cheever
  • "The Awakening", by Kate Chopin
  • "Les Enfants Terrible", by Jean Cocteau
  • "The Vagabond", by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
  • "Manservant and Maidservant", by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • "Being Dead", by Jim Crace
  • "Quarantine", by Jim Crace
  • "The Mandarins", by Simone de Beauvoir
  • "Roxana", by Daniel Defoe
  • "Great Expectations", by Charles Dickens
  • "The Brothers Karamazov", by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "My New York Diary", by Julie Doucet
  • "The Millstone", by Margaret Drabble
  • "My Family and Other Animals", by Gerald Durrell
  • "Silence", by Shusaku Endo
  • "The Gathering", by Anne Enright
  • "Middlesex", by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • "As I Lay Dying", by William Faulkner
  • "The Sound and the Fury", by William Faulkner
  • "The Sportswriter", by Richard Ford
  • "Howards End", by EM Forster
  • "Spies", by Michael Frayn
  • "Hideous Kinky", by Esther Freud
  • "The Man of Property", by John Galsworthy
  • "Mary Barton", by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • "The Immoralist", by Andre Gide
  • "The Vatican Cellars", by Andre Gide
  • "The Vicar of Wakefield", by Oliver Goldsmith
  • "The Power and the Glory", by Graham Greene
  • "Hunger", by Knut Hamsun
  • "The Shrimp and the Anemone", by LP Hartley
  • "The Old Man and the Sea", by Ernest Hemingway
  • "Steppenwolf", by Herman Hesse
  • "Narziss and Goldmund", by Hermann Hesse
  • "The Three Paradoxes", by Paul Hornschemeier
  • "Tom Brown's Schooldays", by Thomas Hughes
  • "A Prayer for Owen Meany", by John Irving
  • "The Ambassadors", by Henry James
  • "Washington Square", by Henry James
  • "The Tortoise and the Hare", by Elizabeth Jenkins
  • "The Unfortunates", by BS Johnson
  • "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", by James Joyce
  • "Ulysses", by James Joyce
  • "Good Behaviour", by Molly Keane
  • "Memet my Hawk", by Yasar Kemal
  • "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", by Ken Kesey
  • "The Buddha of Suburbia", by Hanif Kureishi
  • "Sons and Lovers", by DH Lawrence
  • "Cider with Rosie", by Laurie Lee
  • "Invitation to the Waltz", by Rosamond Lehmann
  • "The Golden Notebook", by Doris Lessing
  • "How Green was My Valley", by Richard Llewellyn
  • "Martin Eden", by Jack London
  • "Under the Volcano", by Malcolm Lowry
  • "The Member of the Wedding", by Carson McCullers
  • "Palace Walk", by Naguib Mahfouz
  • "The Assistant", by Bernard Malamud
  • "Buddenbrooks", by Thomas Mann
  • "The Chateau", by William Maxwell
  • "The Rector's Daughter", by FM Mayor
  • "The Ordeal of Richard Feverek", by George Meredith
  • "Family Matters", by Rohinton Mistry
  • "Sour Sweet", by Timothy Mo
  • "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne", by Brian Moore
  • "The Bluest Eye", by Toni Morrison
  • "Song of Solomon", by Toni Morrison
  • "Who Do You Think You Are?", by Alice Munro
  • "The Black Prince", by Iris Murdoch
  • "The Man Without Qualities", by Robert Musil
  • "A House for Mr Biswas", by VS Naipaul
  • "At-Swim-Two-Birds", by Flann O'Brien
  • "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness", by Kezaburo Oe
  • "The Moviegoer", by Walker Percy
  • "The Bell Jar", by Sylvia Plath
  • "My Name Is Asher Lev", by Chaim Potok
  • "The Good Companions", by JB Priestley
  • "The Shipping News", by E Annie Proulx
  • "Remembrance of Things Past", by Marcel Proust
  • "A Married Man", by Piers Paul Read
  • "Pointed Roofs", by Dorothy Richardson
  • "The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney", by Henry Handel Richardson
  • "Call it Sleep", by Henry Roth
  • "Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise", by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • "The God of Small Things", by Arundhati Roy
  • "The Catcher in the Rye", by JD Salinger
  • "Alberta and Jacob", by Cora Sandel
  • "A Suitable Boy", by Vikram Seth
  • "Unless", by Carol Shields
  • "We Need to Talk About Kevin", by Lionel Shriver
  • "The Three Sisters", by May Sinclair
  • "The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate", by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • "A Thousand Acres", by Jane Smiley
  • "On Beauty", by Zadie Smith
  • "The Man Who Loved Children", by Christina Stead
  • "East of Eden", by John Steinbeck
  • "Ballet Shoes", by Noel Streatfield
  • "Confessions of Zeno", by Italo Svevo
  • "The Magnificent Ambersons", by Booth Tarkington
  • "Angel", by Elizabeth Taylor
  • "Lark Rise to Candleford", by Flora Thompson
  • "The Blackwater Lightship", by Colm Toibin
  • "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4", by Sue Townsend
  • "Death in Summer", by William Trevor
  • "Fathers and Sons", by Ivan Turgenev
  • "Peace in War", by Miguel de Unamuno
  • "The Rabbit Omnibus", by John Updike
  • "The Color Purple", by Alice Walker
  • "Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth", by Chris Ware
  • "Morvern Callar", by Alan Warner
  • "The History of Mr Polly", by HG Wells
  • "The Fountain Overflows", by Rebecca West
  • "Frost in May", by Antonia White
  • "The Tree of Man", by Patrick White
  • "The Picture of Dorian Gray", by Oscar Wilde
  • "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", by Jeanette Winterson
  • "I'll Go to Bed at Noon", by Gerard Woodward
  • "To the Lighthouse", by Virginia Woolf
  • "Mrs Dalloway", by Virginia Woolf
  • "Swiss Family Robinson", by Johann David Wyss

Love

  • "Le Grand Meaulnes", by Henri Alain-Fournier
  • "Dom Casmurro", by Machado de Assis
  • "Northanger Abbey", by Jane Austen
  • "Sense and Sensibility", by Jane Austen
  • "Pride and Prejudice", by Jane Austen
  • "Mansfield Park", by Jane Austen
  • "Emma", by Jane Austen
  • "Persuasion", by Jane Austen
  • "Giovanni's Room", by James Baldwin
  • "Nightwood", by Djuna Barnes
  • "The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis", by Giorgio Bassani
  • "Love for Lydia", by HE Bates
  • "More Die of Heartbreak", by Saul Bellow
  • "Lorna Doone", by RD Blackmore
  • "The Death of the Heart", by Elizabeth Bowen
  • "The Heat of the Day", by Elizabeth Bowen
  • "Jane Eyre", by Charlotte Bronte
  • "Vilette", by Charlotte Bronte
  • "Wuthering Heights", by Emily Bronte
  • "Look At Me", by Anita Brookner
  • "Rubyfruit Jungle", by Rita Mae Brown
  • "Possession", by AS Byatt
  • "Breakfast at Tiffany's", by Truman Capote
  • "Oscar and Lucinda", by Peter Carey
  • "A Month in the Country", by JL Carr
  • "My Antonia", by Willa Cather
  • "A Lost Lady", by Willa Cather
  • "Claudine a l'ecole", by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
  • "Cheri", by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
  • "Victory: An Island Tale", by Joseph Conrad
  • "The Princess of Cleves", by Madame de Lafayette
  • "The Parasites", by Daphne du Maurier
  • "Rebecca", by Daphne du Maurier
  • "The Lover", by Marguerite Duras
  • "Adam Bede", by George Eliot
  • "Daniel Deronda", by George Eliot
  • "The Mill on the Floss", by George Eliot
  • "The Virgin Suicides", by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • "The Great Gatsby", by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • "Tender is the Night", by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • "The Blue Flower", by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • "Madame Bovary", by Gustave Flaubert
  • "The Good Soldier", by Ford Madox Ford
  • "A Room with a View", by EM Forster
  • "The French Lieutenant's Woman", by John Fowles
  • "The Snow Goose", by Paul Gallico
  • "Ruth", by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • "Strait is the Gate", by Andre Gide
  • "Sunset Song", by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • "The Sorrows of Young Werther", by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • "Living", by Henry Green
  • "The End of the Affair", by Graham Greene
  • "The Well of Loneliness", by Radclyffe Hall
  • "Far From the Madding Crowd", by Thomas Hardy
  • "Jude the Obscure", by Thomas Hardy
  • "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", by Thomas Hardy
  • "The Woodlanders", by Thomas Hardy
  • "The Go-Between", by LP Hartley
  • "The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "The Transit of Venus", by Shirley Hazzard
  • "A Farewell to Arms", by Ernest Hemingway
  • "The Infamous Army", by Georgette Heyer
  • "Regency Buck", by Georgette Heyer
  • "The Swimming-Pool Library", by Alan Hollinghurst
  • "Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest", by WH Hudson
  • "Their Eyes Were Watching God", by Zora Neale Hurston
  • "Crome Yellow", by Aldous Huxley
  • "The Remains of the Day", by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • "Portrait of a Lady", by Henry James
  • "The Wings of the Dove", by Henry James
  • "The Piano Teacher", by Elfriede Jelinek
  • "Beauty and Saddness", by Yasunari Kawabata
  • "The Far Pavillions", by Mary Margaret Kaye
  • "Zorba the Greek", by Nikos Kazantzakis
  • "Moon over Africa", by Pamela Kent
  • "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", by Milan Kundera
  • "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", by Milan Kundera
  • "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  • "Lady Chatterley's Lover", by DH Lawrence
  • "The Rainbow", by DH Lawrence
  • "Women in Love", by DH Lawrence
  • "The Echoing Grove", by Rosamond Lehmann
  • "The Weather in the Streets", by Rosamond Lehmann
  • "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", by Anita Loos
  • "Zami", by Audre Lorde
  • "Foreign Affairs", by Alison Lurie
  • "Samarkand", by Amin Maalouf
  • "Death in Venice", by Thomas Mann
  • "The Silent Duchess", by Dacia Maraini
  • "A Heart So White", by Javier Marias
  • "Love in the Time of Cholera", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • "Of Human Bondage", by Somerset Maugham
  • "So Long, See You Tomorrow", by William Maxwell
  • "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", by Carson McCullers
  • "Atonement", by Ian McEwan
  • "The Child in Time", by Ian McEwan
  • "The Egoist", by George Meredith
  • "Tropic of Cancer", by Henry Miller
  • "Patience and Sarah", by Isabel Miller
  • "Gone With the Wind", by Margaret Mitchell
  • "The Pursuit of Love", by Nancy Mitford
  • "Love in a Cold Climate", by Nancy Mitford
  • "Arturo's Island", by Elsa Morante
  • "Norwegian Wood", by Haruki Murakami
  • "Lolita", by Vladimir Nabokov
  • "The Painter of Signs", by RK Narayan
  • "Delta of Venus", by Anais Nin
  • "All Souls Day", by Cees Nooteboom
  • "The English Patient", by Michael Ondaatje
  • "Doctor Zhivago", by Boris Pasternak
  • "Manon Lescaut", by Abbe Prevost
  • "Wide Sargasso Sea", by Jean Rhys
  • "Maurice Guest", by Henry Handel Richardson
  • "Pamela", by Samuel Richardson
  • "Clarissa", by Samuel Richardson
  • "Gilead", by Marilynne Robinson
  • "Bonjour Tristesse", by Francoise Sagan
  • "Ali and Nino", by Kurban Said
  • "Light Years", by James Salter
  • "A Sport and a Passtime", by James Salter
  • "The Reader", by Benhardq Schlink
  • "The Reluctant Orphan", by Aara Seale
  • "Love Story", by Eric Segal
  • "Enemies, a Love Story", by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • "At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept", by Elizabeth Smart
  • "I Capture the Castle", by Dodie Smith
  • "The Map of Love", by Ahdaf Soueif
  • "Valley of the Dolls", by Jacqueline Susann
  • "Waterland", by Graham Swift
  • "Diary of a Mad Old Man", by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • "Anna Karenina", by Leo Tolstoy
  • "Music and Silence", by Rose Tremain
  • "First Love", by Ivan Turgenev
  • "Breathing Lessons", by Anne Tyler
  • "The Accidental Tourist", by Anne Tyler
  • "The Night Watch", by Sarah Waters
  • "The Graduate", by Charles Webb
  • "The Age of Innocence", by Edith Wharton
  • "The Passion", by Jeanette Winterson
  • "East Lynne", by Ellen Wood
  • "Revolutionary Road", by Richard Yates

Science fiction and fantasy

  • "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams
  • "Non-Stop", by Brian W Aldiss
  • "Foundation", by Isaac Asimov
  • "The Blind Assassin", by Margaret Atwood
  • "The Handmaid's Tale", by Margaret Atwood
  • "In the Country of Last Things", by Paul Auster
  • "The Drowned World", by JG Ballard
  • "Crash", by JG Ballard
  • "Millennium People", by JG Ballard
  • "The Wasp Factory", by Iain Banks
  • "Consider Phlebas", by Iain M Banks
  • "Weaveworld", by Clive Barker
  • "Darkmans", by Nicola Barker
  • "The Time Ships", by Stephen Baxter
  • "Darwin's Radio", by Greg Bear
  • "Vathek", by William Beckford
  • "The Stars My Destination", by Alfred Bester
  • 7 "Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury
  • "Lost Souls", by Poppy Z Brite
  • "Wieland", by Charles Brockden Brown
  • "Rogue Moon", by Algis Budrys
  • "The Master and Margarita", by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • "The Coming Race", by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
  • "A Clockwork Orange", by Anthony Burgess
  • "The End of the World News", by Anthony Burgess
  • "A Princess of Mars", by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • "Naked Lunch", by William Burroughs
  • "Kindred", by Octavia Butler
  • "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler
  • "The Baron in the Trees", by Italo Calvino
  • "The Influence", by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll
  • "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", by Lewis Carroll
  • "Nights at the Circus", by Angela Carter
  • "The Passion of New Eve", by Angela Carter
  • "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", by Michael Chabon
  • "The Man who was Thursday", by GK Chesterton
  • "Childhood's End", by Arthur C Clarke
  • "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell", by Susanna Clarke
  • "Hello Summer, Goodbye", by Michael G Coney
  • "Girlfriend in a Coma", by Douglas Coupland
  • "House of Leaves", by Mark Danielewski
  • "Pig Tales", by Marie Darrieussecq
  • "The Einstein Intersection", by Samuel R Delaney
  • "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K Dick
  • "The Man in the High Castle", by Philip K Dick
  • "Camp Concentration", by Thomas M Disch
  • "Foucault's Pendulum", by Umberto Eco
  • "Under the Skin", by Michel Faber
  • "The Magus", by John Fowles
  • "American Gods", by Neil Gaiman
  • "Red Shift", by Alan Garner
  • "Neuromancer", by William Gibson
  • "Herland", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • "Lord of the Flies", by William Golding
  • "The Forever War", by Joe Haldeman
  • "Light", by M John Harrison
  • "The House of the Seven Gables", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A Heinlein
  • "Dune", by Frank L Herbert
  • "The Glass Bead Game", by Herman Hesse
  • "Riddley Walker", by Russell Hoban
  • "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner", by James Hogg
  • "Atomised", by Michel Houellebecq
  • "Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley
  • "The Unconsoled", by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • "The Haunting of Hill House", by Shirley Jackson
  • "The Turn of the Screw", by Henry James
  • "The Children of Men", by PD James
  • "After London; or, Wild England", by Richard Jefferies
  • "Bold as Love", by Gwyneth Jones
  • "The Trial", by Franz Kafka
  • "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes
  • "The Victorian Chaise-longue", by Marghanita Laski
  • "Uncle Silas", by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • "The Earthsea Series", by Ursula Le Guin
  • "The Left Hand of Darkness", by Ursula Le Guin
  • "Solaris", by Stanislaw Lem
  • "Memoirs of a Survivor", by Doris Lessing
  • "The Chronicles of Narnia", by CS Lewis
  • "The Monk", by Matthew Lewis
  • "A Voyage to Arcturus", by David Lindsay
  • "The Night Sessions", by Ken Macleod
  • "Beyond Black", by Hilary Mantel
  • "Only Forward", by Michael Marshall Smith
  • "I Am Legend", by Richard Matheson
  • "Melmoth the Wanderer", by Charles Maturin
  • "The Butcher Boy", by Patrick McCabe
  • "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy
  • "Ascent", by Jed Mercurio
  • "The Scar", by China Mieville
  • "Ingenious Pain", by Andrew Miller
  • "A Canticle for Leibowitz", by Walter M Miller Jr
  • "Cloud Atlas", by David Mitchell
  • "Mother London", by Michael Moorcock
  • "News from Nowhere", by William Morris
  • "Beloved", by Toni Morrison
  • "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", by Haruki Murakami
  • "Ada or Ardor", by Vladimir Nabokov
  • "The Time Traveler's Wife", by Audrey Niffenegger
  • "Ringworld", by Larry Niven
  • "Vurt", by Jeff Noon
  • "The Third Policeman", by Flann O'Brien
  • "The Famished Road", by Ben Okri
  • "Nineteen Eighty-Four", by George Orwell
  • "Fight Club", by Chuck Palahniuk
  • "Nightmare Abbey", by Thomas Love Peacock
  • "Titus Groan", by Mervyn Peake
  • "The Space Merchants", by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
  • "A Glastonbury Romance", by John Cowper Powys
  • "The Discworld Series", by Terry Pratchett
  • "The Prestige", by Christopher Priest
  • "His Dark Materials", by Philip Pullman
  • "Gargantua and Pantagruel", by Francois Rabelais
  • "The Mysteries of Udolpho", by Ann Radcliffe
  • "Revelation Space", by Alastair Reynolds
  • "The Years of Rice and Salt", by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", by JK Rowling
  • "Satanic Verses", by Salman Rushdie
  • "The Female Man", by Joanna Russ
  • "Air", by Geoff Ryman
  • "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • "Blindness", by Jose Saramago
  • "How the Dead Live", by Will Self
  • "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley
  • "Hyperion", by Dan Simmons
  • "Star Maker", by Olaf Stapledon
  • "Snow Crash", by Neal Stephenson
  • "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Dracula", by Bram Stoker
  • "The Insult", by Rupert Thomson
  • "The Hobbit", by JRR Tolkien
  • "The Lord of the Rings", by JRR Tolkien
  • "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain
  • "Sirens of Titan", by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "The Castle of Otranto", by Horace Walpole
  • "Institute Benjamenta", by Robert Walser
  • "Lolly Willowes", by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • "Affinity", by Sarah Waters
  • "The Time Machine", by HG Wells
  • "The War of the Worlds", by HG Wells
  • "The Sword in the Stone", by TH White
  • "The Old Men at the Zoo", by Angus Wilson
  • "The Book of the New Sun", by Gene Wolfe
  • "Orlando", by Virginia Woolf
  • "Day of the Triffids", by John Wyndham
  • "The Midwich Cuckoos", by John Wyndham
  • "We", by Yevgeny Zamyatin

State of the nation

  • "Things Fall Apart", by Chinua Achebe
  • "Anthills of the Savannah", by Chinua Achebe
  • "London Fields", by Martin Amis
  • "Untouchable", by Mulk Raj Anand
  • "Go Tell it on the Mountain", by James Baldwin
  • "La Comedie Humaine", by Honore de Balzac
  • "They Were Counted", by Miklos Banffy
  • "A Kind of Loving", by Stan Barstow
  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • "Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave", by Aphra Behn
  • "Clayhanger", by Arnold Bennett
  • "The Last September", by Elizabeth Bowen
  • "Room at the Top", by John Braine
  • "A Dry White Season", by Andre Brink
  • "Shirley", by Charlotte Bronte
  • "Earthly Powers", by Anthony Burgess
  • "The Virgin in the Garden", by AS Byatt
  • "Tobacco Road", by Erskine Caldwell
  • "The Plague", by Albert Camus
  • "The Kingdom of this World", by Alejo Carpentier
  • "What a Carve Up!", by Jonathan Coe
  • "Disgrace", by JM Coetzee
  • "Waiting for the Barbarians", by JM Coeztee
  • "Microserfs", by Douglas Coupland
  • "Moll Flanders", by Daniel Defoe
  • "Underworld", by Don DeLillo
  • "White Noise", by Don DeLillo
  • "A Tale of Two Cities", by Charles Dickens
  • "Bleak House", by Charles Dickens
  • "Dombey and Son", by Charles Dickens
  • "Hard Times", by Charles Dickens
  • "Little Dorritt", by Charles Dickens
  • "Oliver Twist", by Charles Dickens
  • "Play It As It Lays", by Joan Didion
  • "Sybil or The Two Nations", by Benjamin Disraeli
  • "Berlin Alexanderplatz", by Alfred Döblin
  • "The Book of Daniel", by EL Doctorow
  • "Notes from the Underground", by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "The Idiot", by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "USA", by John Dos Passos
  • "Sister Carrie", by Theodor Dreiser
  • "Castle Rackrent", by Maria Edgeworth
  • "Middlemarch", by George Eliot
  • "Silas Marner", by George Eliot
  • "The Invisible Man", by Ralph Ellison
  • "Sentimental Education", by Gustave Flaubert
  • "Effi Briest", by Theodore Fontane
  • "Independence Day", by Richard Ford
  • "A Passage to India", by EM Forster
  • "The Corrections", by Jonathan Franzen
  • "The Recognitions", by William Gaddis
  • "Cranford", by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • "North and South", by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • "The Counterfeiters", by Andre Gide
  • "The Odd Women", by George Gissing
  • "New Grub Street", by George Gissing
  • "July's People", by Nadine Gordimer
  • "Mother", by Maxim Gorky
  • "Lanark", by Alastair Gray
  • "Love on the Dole", by Walter Greenwood
  • "The Mayor of Casterbridge", by Thomas Hardy
  • "A Kestrel for a Knave", by Barry Hines
  • "The Line of Beauty", by Alan Hollinghurst
  • "South Riding", by Winifred Holtby
  • "Les Miserables", by Victor Hugo
  • "Goodbye to Berlin", by Christopher Isherwood
  • "Chronicle in Stone", by Ismael Kadare
  • "How Late it Was, How Late", by James Kelman
  • "The Leopard", by Giuseppi di Lampedusa
  • "A Girl in Winter", by Philip Larkin
  • "Passing", by Nella Larsen
  • "The Grass is Singing", by Doris Lessing
  • "Babbitt", by Sinclair Lewis
  • "Elmer Gantry", by Sinclair Lewis
  • "Main Street", by Sinclair Lewis
  • "Absolute Beginners", by Colin MacInnes
  • "The Group", by Mary McCarthy
  • "Amongst Women", by John McGahern
  • "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas", by Machado de Assis
  • "Of Love & Hunger", by Julian Maclaren-Ross
  • "Remembering Babylon", by David Malouf
  • "The Magic Mountain", by Thomas Mann
  • "The Betrothed", by Alessandro Manzoni
  • "Bel-Ami", by Guy de Maupassant
  • "A Fine Balance", by Rohinton Mistry
  • "The Time of Indifference", by Alberto Moravia
  • "A Bend in the River", by VS Naipaul
  • "McTeague", by Frank Norris
  • "Personality", by Andrew O'Hagan
  • "Animal Farm", by George Orwell
  • "The Ragazzi Pier", by Paolo Pasolini
  • "Cry, the Beloved Country", by Alan Paton
  • "The Moon and the Bonfire", by Cesare Pavese
  • "GB84", by David Peace
  • "Headlong Hall", by Thomas Love Peacock
  • "Afternoon Men", by Anthony Powell
  • "Vineland", by Thomas Pynchon
  • "The Radetzky March", by Joseph Roth
  • "American Pastoral", by Philip Roth
  • "The Human Stain", by Philip Roth
  • "Midnight's Children", by Salman Rushdie
  • "Shame", by Salman Rushdie
  • "To Each his Own", by Leonardo Sciascia
  • "Staying On", by Paul Scott
  • "Last Exit to Brooklyn", by Hubert Selby Jr
  • "The Lonely Londoners", by Samuel Selvon
  • "God's Bit of Wood", by Ousmane Sembene
  • "The Case of Comrade Tulayev", by Victor Serge
  • "Richshaw Boy", by Lao She
  • "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", by Alan Sillitoe
  • "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair
  • "Novel on Yellow Paper", by Stevie Smith
  • "White Teeth", by Zadie Smith
  • "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich", by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  • "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck
  • "The Red and the Black", by Stendhal
  • "This Sporting Life", by David Storey
  • "The Red Room", by August Stringberg
  • "The Home and the World", by Rabindranath Tagore
  • "Vanity Fair", by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", by Robert Tressell
  • "The Last Chronicle of Barset", by Anthony Trollope
  • "The Way We Live Now", by Anthony Trollope
  • "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain
  • "Couples", by John Updike
  • "Z", by Vassilis Vassilikos
  • "Billy Liar", by Keith Waterhouse
  • "Trainspotting", by Irvine Welsh
  • "The Day of the Locust", by Nathanael West
  • "The Return of the Soldier", by Rebecca West
  • "The House of Mirth", by Edith Wharton
  • "The Bonfire of the Vanities", by Tom Wolfe
  • "Germinal", by Emile Zola
  • "La Bete Humaine", by Emile Zola

War and travel

  • "Silver Stallion", by Junghyo Ahn
  • "Death of a Hero", by Richard Aldington
  • "Master Georgie", by Beryl Bainbridge
  • "Darkness Falls from the Air", by Nigel Balchin
  • "Empire of the Sun", by JG Ballard
  • "Regeneration", by Pat Barker
  • "A Long Long Way", by Sebastian Barry
  • "Fair Stood the Wind for France", by HE Bates
  • "Carrie's War", by Nina Bawden
  • "The Savage Detectives", by Roberto Bolano
  • "The Sheltering Sky", by Paul Bowles
  • "An Ice-Cream War", by William Boyd
  • "When the Wind Blows", by Raymond Briggs
  • "Invisible Cities", by Italo Calvino
  • "Auto-da-Fe", by Elias Canetti
  • "One of Ours", by Willa Cather
  • "Journey to the End of the Night", by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • "Monkey", by Wu Ch'eng-en
  • "Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad
  • "Lord Jim", by Joseph Conrad
  • "Nostromo", by Joseph Conrad
  • "Sharpe's Eagle", by Bernard Cornwell
  • "The History of Pompey the Little", by Francis Coventry
  • "The Red Badge of Courage", by Stephen Crane
  • "Robinson Crusoe", by Daniel Defoe
  • "Bomber", by Len Deighton
  • "Deliverance", by James Dickey
  • "Three Soldiers", by John Dos Passos
  • "South Wind", by Norman Douglas
  • "The Three Musketeers", by Alexandre Dumas
  • "Justine", by Lawrence Durrell
  • "The Bamboo Bed", by William Eastlake
  • "The Siege of Krishnapur", by JG Farrell
  • "Birdsong", by Sebastian Faulks
  • "Parade's End", by Ford Madox Ford
  • "The African Queen", by CS Forester
  • "The Ship", by CS Forester
  • "Flashman", by George MacDonald Fraser
  • "Cold Mountain", by Charles Frazier
  • "The Beach", by Alex Garland
  • "To The Ends of the Earth trilogy", by William Golding
  • "Asterix the Gaul", by Rene Goscinny
  • "The Tin Drum", by Gunter Grass
  • "Count Belisarius", by Robert Graves
  • "Life and Fate", by Vassily Grossman
  • "De Niro's Game", by Rawi Hage
  • "King Solomon's Mines", by H Rider Haggard
  • "She: A History of Adventure", by H Rider Haggard
  • "The Slaves of Solitude", by Patrick Hamilton
  • "Covenant with Death", by John Harris
  • "Enigma", by Robert Harris
  • "The Good Soldier Svejk", by Jaroslav Hasek
  • "For Whom the Bell Tolls", by Ernest Hemingway
  • "The Prisoner of Zenda", by Anthony Hope
  • "The Kite Runner", by Khaled Hosseini
  • "A High Wind in Jamaica", by Richard Hughes
  • "Rasselas", by Samuel Johnson
  • "From Here to Eternity", by James Jones
  • "Andersonville", by MacKinlay Kantor
  • "Confederates", by Thomas Keneally
  • "Schindler's Ark", by Thomas Keneally
  • "Day", by AL Kennedy
  • "On the Road", by Jack Kerouac
  • "Darkness at Noon", by Arthur Koestler
  • "The Painted Bird", by Jerzy Kosinski
  • "If Not Now, When?", by Primo Levi
  • "The Call of the Wild", by Jack London
  • "The Guns of Navarone", by Alistair MacLean
  • "All the Pretty Horses", by Cormac McCarthy
  • "Blood Meridian", by Cormac McCarthy
  • "The Mark of Zorro", by Johnston McCulley
  • "Lonesome Dove", by Larry McMurty
  • "The Naked and the Dead", by Norman Mailer
  • "La Condition Humaine", by Andre Malraux
  • "Fortunes of War", by Olivia Manning
  • "One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • "The Children of the New Forest", by Frederick Marryat
  • "Moby-Dick or, The Whale", by Herman Melville
  • "Tales of the South Pacific", by James Michener
  • "The Cruel Sea", by Nicholas Monsarrat
  • "History", by Elsa Morante
  • "Suite Francaise", by Irene Nemirovsky
  • "The Sorrow of War", by Bao Ninh
  • "Master and Commander", by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Things They Carried", by Tim O'Brien
  • "The Scarlet Pimpernel", by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • "Burmese Days", by George Orwell
  • "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", by Robert Pirsig
  • "The Valley of Bones", by Anthony Powell
  • "The Soldier's Art", by Anthony Powell
  • "The Military Philosophers", by Anthony Powell
  • "Gravity's Rainbow", by Thomas Pynchon
  • "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen", by Rudolp Erich Raspe
  • "All Quiet on the Western Front", by Erich Maria Remarque
  • "The Crab with the Golden Claws", by Georges Remi Herge
  • "Tintin in Tibet", by Georges Remi Herge
  • "The Castafiore Emerald", by Georges Remi Herge
  • "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands", by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  • "Sacaramouche", by Rafael Sabatini
  • "Captain Blood", by Rafael Sabatini
  • "Everything is Illuminated", by Jonathon Safran Foer
  • "The Hunters", by James Salter
  • "Ivanhoe", by Sir Walter Scott
  • "The Rings of Saturn", by WG Sebald
  • "Austerlitz", by WG Sebald
  • "Black Beauty", by Anna Sewell
  • "The Young Lions", by Irwin Shaw
  • "A Town Like Alice", by Nevil Shute
  • "Maus", by Art Spiegelman
  • "The Charterhouse of Parma", by Stendhal
  • "Cryptonomicon", by Neil Stephenson
  • "A Sentimental Journey", by Lawrence Sterne
  • "Kidnapped", by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Treasure Island", by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "A Flag for Sunrise", by Robert Stone
  • "Sophie's Choice", by William Styron
  • "Gulliver's Travels", by Jonathan Swift
  • "War and Peace", by Leo Tolstoy
  • "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", by Mark Twain
  • "Around the World in Eighty Days", by Jules Verne
  • "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", by Jules Verne
  • "Williwaw", by Gore Vidal
  • "Candide", by Voltaire
  • "Slaughter-House Five", by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "Put Out More Flags", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "Men at Arms", by Evelyn Waugh
  • "The Island of Dr Moreau", by HG Wells
  • "The Machine-Gunners", by Robert Westall
  • "Voss", by Patrick White
  • "The Virginian", by Owen Wister
  • "The Caine Mutiny", by Herman Wouk
  • "The Debacle", by Emile Zola

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