List taken from here

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Disgrace by JM Coetzee
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• ✔ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
• The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Passage to India by EM Forster
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
• A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Rabbit books by John Updike
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Underworld by Don DeLillo
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Austerlitz by WG Sebald
• The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
• London Fields by Martin Amis
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
• Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
• Crash by JG Ballard
• If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
• Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Germinal by Emile Zola
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
• The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• One Thousand and One Nights by Anon
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• ✔ The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien