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Books By Author
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
- Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie
- Nicholson Baker: The Fermata
- James Baldwin: Another Country
- Honore de Balzac: Cousin Bette
"It is one of the finest of my finest works." Balzac
- Pat Barker: The Ghost Road
This final volume of The Regeneration Trilogy won the
1995 Booker Prize
- Paul Bowles: Let it Come Down
- Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Capote described this as the first non-fiction novel
- Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
- Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
Alice's adventures begin when she follows White Rabbit down
a rabbit-hole and falls down, down, down
- Willa Cather: My Antonia
- Raymond Chandler: Farewell My
Lovely
- Anton Chekhov: The Story of a Nobody
- Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a
Pearl Earring
- J M Coetzee: Disgrace
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1999
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
"The first, the longest, the best of modern English detective
novels" T.S. Eliot
- Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
from the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich
Observatory, Conrad created a tense and chilling plot
- Jim Crace: Quarantine
Whitbread Novel of the Year 1997
- Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels
- Don DeLillo: Underworld
- Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting
- Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and
Steel
A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
- Charles Dickens:
Barnaby Rudge
set during the Gordon Riots of 1780
Our Mutual Friend
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers
Karamazov
a drama of parricide and intense family rivalry
- Roddy Doyle: The Van
a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained
with ketchup
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron
Mask
The final instalment of the Three Musketeers' story.
- George Eliot: Daniel Deronda
- James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia
A unique voice in American crime writing
- William Faulkner: The Sound and
the Fury
- Gustave Flaubert: Sentimental
Education
- Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier
"You would have said he was just exactly the sort of chap
that you could have trusted your wife with..."
- Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky
life on the road with a hippie mother from the point of view
of her five-year-old daughter
- Benito Perez Galdos: Nazarin
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Ruth
deals with the issue of unmarried motherhood - two of Mrs Gaskell's
male acquaintances burnt their copies
- William Gibson: Neuromancer
Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book
- Andre Gide: The Immoralist
- Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
- Nadine Gordimer: The House Gun
- Maxim Gorky: My Childhood
- Graham Greene: The Power and the
Glory
- George and Weedon Grossmith:
The Diary of a Nobody
'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh
- Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
banned on publication as obscene after a notorious and dramatic
trial, this is a classic story of lesbian love
- Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet
Letter
- Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the
Bell Tolls
- Hermann Hesse: Peter Camenzind
- Patricia Highsmith: Ripley's
Game
Liar, psychopath, killer...This is Tom Ripley
- Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling
for Snow
Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award
- Elizabeth Jane Howard: Getting it
Right
- Bohumal Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude
- Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
- Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay
- John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye
to Berlin
- Henry James:
The Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
- Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the
World
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim
"In all India is no one so alone as I!"
- Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa:
The Leopard
- Halldor Laxness
Independent People
Iceland's Bell
- Rosamund Lehmann: The Weather in
the Streets
- Doris Lessing: The Fifth Child
- Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
- Amy Levy: Reuben Sachs
- Andrea Levy: The Fruit of the Lemon
- David Lodge: The Art of Fiction
- Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty
Horses
- Andrei Makine: A Life's Music
- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
- Sandor Marai: Embers
- Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
- Guy de Maupassant: Bel-Ami
- Armistead Maupin: Tales and More
Tales of the City
manic, romantic, tawdry, touching and outrageous
- Herman Melville: Moby Dick
- Ann Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
- Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain
Winner of the IMPAC prize in 1999
- Oscar Moore: A Matter of Life and
Sex
- Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
- Alice Munro: Runaway
- Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart
- Iris Murdoch: The Bell
- V.S. Naipaul: The Mimic Men
"we pretended to be real, to be learning, to be preparing
ourselves for life, we mimic men of the New World"
- Taslima Nasrin: Lajja (Shame)
as a result of writing this book, Nasrin is living under the
threat of death or fatwa
- Jeff Noon: Vurt
- Patrick O'Brian: Master & Commander
- Michael Ondaatje: The English
Patient
Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize
- Orham Pamuk: Snow
- Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and
Imagination
- J B Priestley: The Good Companions
- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
- Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1996, the
Carnegie Medal 1996, and the British Book Award: Children's Book
of the Year 1996
- Alexander Pushkin: The Queen of
Spades and other stories
- Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
This book can change your life - according to some
- Joseph Roth: The String of Pearls
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
- Kurban Said: Ali and Nino
- Andre Schwarz-Bart: The Last
of the Just
- Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
- Luis Sepulveda: The Old Man who
read Love Stories
- William Shakespeare: Richard
II
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Carol Shields: Unless
Shields' last novel - a very thought-provoking and poignant
read
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Family
Moskat
- Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
the King Lear story transposed to the modern day
- Dava Sobel: Longitude
the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific
problem of his time
- Hjalmar Soderberg: The Serious
Game
- John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
Steinbeck's tribute to his native California - a lyrical riot
of fun and trouble
- Stendhal: Scarlet and Black
a tale of murder, betrayal and seduction set in post-revolutionary
France
- Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions
of Tristram Shandy
"Nothing odd will do long," said Dr Johnson; "Tristram
Shandy did not last."
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and
the World
- Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese
American daughters
- Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka
Sisters
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy
of Dunces
- Rose Tremain: Sacred Country
- Anthony Trollope: The Warden
- Fanny Trollope: Domestic Manners
of the Americans
"I do not like them. I do not like their principles, I do not
like their manners, I do not like their opinions."
- Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
- Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Barry Unsworth: Sacred Hunger
winner of the 1992 Booker Prize
- Jules Verne: Around the World in
Eighty Days
- Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
- Eudora Welty: The Robber Bridegroom
- Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
- Oscar Wilde: Salome
- Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San
Luis Rey
- Tim Winton: Cloudstreet
- Helen Zahavi: Dirty Weekend
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