User:GrahamHardy/non-SF By Rating :

5/5 - Excellent :

• Skallagrigg by William Horwood *

4/5 - Very good :

Affinity by Sarah Waters After the Hole by Guy Burt The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson * The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (sad) The Calligrapher by Edward Docx * Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Crow Lake by Mary Lawson * Cujo by Stephen King The Curious Incident of the Dog by Mark Haddon Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - though please see a Christian response Gold by Dan Rhodes (except last page!) * Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Help by Kathryn Stockett Inferno by Dan Brown Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan "Millennium series" by Stieg Larsson Mudbound by Hillary Jordan * The Observations by Jane Harris One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson Perfume by Patrick Suskind Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Sacred Hunger (book 1) by Barry Unsworth This Is Life by Dan Rhodes Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (SF) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Very Private Life by Michael Frayn (SF) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (SF) The Woman in Black by Susan Hill The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle

3/5 - Good :

The Accidental by Ali Smith The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Angels and Demons by Dan Brown The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Animal Farm by George Orwell Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Anthem by Ayn Rand Any Human Heart by William Boyd Arthur and George by Julian Barnes The Associate by John Grisham Asylum by Patrick McGrath Atonement by Ian McEwan The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld The Beach by Alex Garland The Beacon by Susan Hill The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle Beasts and Super-Beasts (stories) by Saki Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson The Believers by Zoe Heller The Bell by Iris Murdoch Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji Black Sheep by Susan Hill Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe The Book of Evidence by John Banville The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Boy A by Jonathan Trigell The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd The Bridge (novel) by Ian Banks The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières The Carer by Deborah Moggach Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Chances Are... by Richard Russo A Change for the Better by Susan Hill Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult Changing Places by David Lodge The Children Act by Ian McEwan Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Christmas Tree by Jennifer Johnston Cider House Rules by John Irving Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee Close to Home by Deborah Moggach Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Cloudstreet by Tim Winton The Collector by John Fowles The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas The Commitments by Roddy Doyle Complicity by Iain Banks A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Confederates by Thomas Keneally Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien The Crossing by Andrew Miller The Crow Road by Iain Banks A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In by Magnus Mills The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Dancing on the Outskirts by Shena Mackay Dark Hearts of Chicago by William Horwood Dark Matter by Michelle Paver Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way Deception Point by Dan Brown The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (except ch. 28) Dirt Music by Tim Winton Dolly: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill Doppler by Erlend Loe The Double by Jose Saramago The Double Bass by Patrick Suskind The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge A Dry White Season by Andre Brink Duffy by Dan Kavanagh e by Matt Beaumont The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones East of Eden by John Steinbeck East of Wimbledon by Nigel Williams Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Empire Falls by Richard Russo The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas Enduring Love by Ian McEwan England and Other Stories by Graham Swift England, England by Julian Barnes Engleby by Sebastian Faulks Ever After by Graham Swift Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs The Fermata by Nicholson Baker (too rude though!) Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby Fiddle City by Julian Barnes Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Final Cut by S. J. Watson Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier From the Heart by Susan Hill A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly Gentleman and Ladies by Susan Hill Ghostwritten by David Mitchell The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng Gillespie and I by Jane Harris Ginger You're Barmy by David Lodge The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Girls at Play by Paul Theroux

The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley The God Child by Paul Sayer A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Go With Me by Castle Freeman Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore The Greeks Have a Word For It by Barry Unsworth Green Hand by Lillian Beckwith Gridiron by Philip Kerr Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates The Grownup by Gillian Flynn The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter Headlong by Michael Frayn The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Heaven Lake by John Dalton Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Here We Are by Graham Swift High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells Holes by Louis Sachar Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving Hotel World by Ali Smith House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge How to Be Both by Ali Smith Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson I am David by Anne Holm I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn If It Bleeds by Stephen King If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston Illywhacker by Peter Carey In Cold Blood by Truman Capote In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill Indignation by Philip Roth The Information Officer by Mark Mills Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller The Innocent by Ian McEwan The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Invasion by Luke Rhinehart The Inverted Forest by John Dalton Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Joseph Knight by James Robertson Junky by William S. Burroughs Kill Your Friends by John Niven The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen Legacy by Alan Judd The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes Libra by Don DeLillo Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Life Class by Pat Barker Life of Pi by Yann Martel Life-Size by Jenefer Shute The Light of Day by Graham Swift Little Bird by Camilla Way The Little Friend by Donna Tartt The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi The Long Walk by Stephen King Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Love, etc by Julian Barnes Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories by David Lodge Mariana by Monica Dickens Marry Me by Dan Rhodes Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg Mistaken by Neil Jordan The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill Modern Baptists by James Wilcox Mohawk by Richard Russo Monster Love by Carol Topolski The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone My Cleaner by Maggie Gee My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier My Driver by Maggie Gee My Secret History by Paul Theroux The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer Naked Pueblo (stories) by Mark Poirier Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe Native Son by Richard Wright The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller Notwithstanding (stories) by Louis de Bernières Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman Nutshell by Ian McEwan Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Once by Morris Gleitzman One Day by David Nicholls One Day as a Tiger by Anne Haverty On the Yankee Station (stories) by William Boyd Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1st half vg, 2nd half fair) The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson The Outsider by Stephen King O-Zone by Paul Theroux Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Plague 99 by Jean Ure The Plot Against America by Philip Roth The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Pollard by Laura Beatty Poor Souls by Joseph Connolly The Porpoise by Mark Haddon The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver The Power of One by Bryce Courteney A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irvine The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Q & A by Vikas Swarup The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth A Quiet Belief In Angels by R. J. Ellory A Quiet Drink by Deborah Moggach The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell The Red House by Mark Haddon Relentless by Simon Kernick Restless by William Boyd

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson The Risk Pool by Richard Russo Road Ends by Mary Lawson The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Room by Emma Donoghue The Running Man by Stephen King The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn Sacred Country by Rose Tremain Sadler's Birthday by Rose Tremain Saturday by Ian McEwan Scenes from a Poisoner's Life by Nigel Williams The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills Schindler's Ark by Thomas Kenneally Screwtop Thompson by Magnus Mills Sea Glass by Anita Shreve The Search for the Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart Second Life by S. J. Watson The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd See Jane Run by Joy Fielding Seesaw by Deborah Moggach Self Help by Edward Docx The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton The Shack by William P. Young Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn The Shining by Stephen King The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Shogun by James Clavell Shopping by Gavin Kramer A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka Shuttlecock by Graham Swift The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason Skios by Michael Frayn Slade House by David Mitchell Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller The Small Hand by Susan Hill Small World by Matt Beaumont The Snapper by Roddy Doyle Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Solar by Ian McEwan Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach Sophie's Choice by William Styron So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan Spies by Michael Frayn A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson Starter for Ten by David Nicholls Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood Strange Meeting by Susan Hill A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson Summertime by J. M. Coetzee Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Sweet Caress by William Boyd The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge Symposium by Muriel Spark Talking it Over by Julian Barnes Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris They Came from SW19 by Nigel Williams The Thing Around Your Neck (stories) by Chimamanda Adichie The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome Three to See the King by Magnus Mills The Tin Men by Michael Frayn Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Tomorrow by Graham Swift The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn The Town with no Twin by Barry Pilton Transcription by Kate Atkinson Trauma by Patrick McGrath Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Tree of Man by Patrick White Triangulation by Phil Whitaker The Trick of It by Michael Frayn Trio by William Boyd Troubles by J. G. Farrell Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan To Have and To Hold by Deborah Moggach Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka The Two Pound Tram by William Newton Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker Under the Skin by Michel Faber The Understudy by David Nicholls The Unknown Bridesmaid by Margaret Forster The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris The Untouchable by John Banville Us by David Nicholls Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel The Valley by Barry Pilton The Van by Roddy Doyle The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler Voices by Arnaldur Indridason Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd Walking on Glass by Iain Banks The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Waterland by Graham Swift A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks We Others by Steven Millhauser Welcome to Higby by Mark Dunn The Whaleboat House by Mark Mills When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Where They Were Missed by Lucy Caldwell What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson Whit by Iain Banks Wild Boy by Jill Dawson The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift Witch Child by Celia Rees The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins A Word Child by Iris Murdoch The World According to Garp by John Irving The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford Youth by J. M. Coetzee Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore

2/5 - Fair :

24 for 3 by Jennie Walker The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Air and Angels by Susan Hill The Albatross by Susan Hill Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood All Quiet On The Orient Express by Magnus Mills All the Names by Jose Saramago Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada American Gods by Neil Gaimon American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (too gory!) Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Anthropology (stories) by Dan Rhodes Armadillo by William Boyd The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay As Far As You Can Go by Lesley Glaister As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Aspern Papers by Henry James Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Atmospheric Railway by Shena Mackay Autumn by Ali Smith The Average Human by Ellen Toby-Potter Away from it All by Judy Astley An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers The Bachelors by Muriel Spark Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel Beloved by Toni Morrison Between Two Rivers by Nicholas Rinaldi Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani The Bird of Night by Susan Hill The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier Black Dogs by Ian McEwan The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque Blindness by José Saramago Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan The Book of Fub by Michael Frayn The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read by Susan Hill Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Breaking Point (stories) by Daphne du Maurier Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx The Business by Iain Banks The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger The Cave by José Saramago Cham by Jonathan Trigell A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey The Child in Time by Ian McEwan City of Glass by Paul Auster Clock Without Hansa by Carson McCullers A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan The Cockroach by Ian McEwan The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer The Colour of Hope by Susan Madison The Comfort of Strangers (stories) by Ian McEwan The Comforters by Muriel Spark The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark Concrete Island by J G Ballard A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien Coraline by Neil Gaiman Cracks by Sheila Kohler Cry of the Justice Bird by Jon Haylett Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Dancing Girls (stories) by Margaret Atwood Dandelion Clock by Guy Burt The Dare by John Boyne A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' by William Boyd The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald Digging to America by Anne Tyler The Disaster Area by J.G. Ballard Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark Driving in the Dark by Deborah Moggach Dunedin by Shena Mackay Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann Eagles and Angels by Juli Zeh Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury The Echo by Minette Walters The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser Electricity by Ray Robinson The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Elephant Vanishes (stories) by Haruki Murakami Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (stories) by Richard Yates Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson The End of Alice by A. M. Homes The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Erasure by Percival Everett Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills The Face by Phil Whitaker

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (stories) by Yann Martell Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills Fifth Business by Robertson Davies The Final Solution by Michael Chabon The Finishing School by Muriel Spark First Love, Last Rites (stories) by Ian McEwan The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes The Flood by David Maine Fludd by Hilary Mantel Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles From Here to Eternity by James Jones The Gathering by Anne Enright Germinal - Emile Zola Ghosts by John Banville Ghosts by Paul Auster The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel Gifted by Nikita Lalwani The Ginger Man by J P Donleavy The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark Goats by Mark Poirier The Godfather by Mario Puzo The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Good Bones (stories) by Margaret Atwood Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Lover by Jill Dawson The Greenhouse by Susan Hillmore Grits by Niall Griffiths The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Happy to be Here (stories) by Garrison Keillor Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge Hatchett and Lycett by Nigel Williams A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis Heligoland by Shena Mackay Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud High Rise by J. G. Ballard The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans Hot Water Man by Deborah Moggach Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner The Hothouse by the East River by Muriel Spark The Hours by Michael Cunningham A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston Ice Cream (stories) by Helen Dunmore The Ice People by Maggie Gee I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (too gory!) In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Juggling by Barbara Trapido The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux Justine by Alice Thompson Keepers of the House by Lisa St Aubin de Terán Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard Kitchen by Banana Yashimoto Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto Lanark by Alasdair Gray A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. Last Orders by Graham Swift The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd Learning to Swim by Graham Swift Learning to Talk (stories) by Hilary Mantel Let Go My Hand by Edward Docx Liars in Love by Richard Yates Like by Ali Smith The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy The Locked Room by Paul Auster Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood The Lion's Mouth by Anne Holt Little Infamies by Panos Karnezis The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore The Long March by William Styron Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Lost Property by Laura Beatty Love by Roddy Doyle Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love of Fat Men by Helen Dunmore Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories by J. G. Ballard M is for Magic (stories) by Neil Gaiman The Magus by John Fowles Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk Man and Boy by Tony Parsons A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark Mao II by Don DeLillo Memento Mori by Muriel Spark Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Metroland by Julian Barnes The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky A Moment in Time by H. E. Bates Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read More Than This by Patrick Ness Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mum and Mr. Armitage by Beryl Bainbridge Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood My Antonia by Willa Cather The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 by William Boyd Nemesis by Philip Roth Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The New Confessions by William Boyd The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan Night Over Day Over Night by Paul Watkins Night Train by Martin Amis Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes Not the End of the World (stories) by Kate Atkinson Now You Know by Michael Frayn Number9dream by David Mitchell The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan On the Road by Jack Kerouac Once in a Blue Moon (stories) by Magnus Mills One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Only Problem by Muriel Spark The Only Story by Julian Barnes Only When the Sun Shines Brightly by Magnus Mills Ordinary People by Judith Guest Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey The Other by Tom Tryon Other People by Martin Amis Out of this World by Graham Swift Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo Painting Ruby Tuesday by Jane Yardley Papillon by Henri Charriere The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Pedestal by George Lanning The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pig by Andrew Cowan The Plague by Albert Camus Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut The Porcupine by Julian Barnes Porky by Deborah Moggach Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Post Office by Charles Bukowski Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith Pulse by Julian Barnes Purity by Jonathan Franzen The Pupil by Caro Fraser The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge Rabbit, Run by John Updike Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark The Red Pony by John Steinbeck Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers Regeneration by Pat Barker The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson Robinson by Muriel Spark The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker Rule Britannia by Daphne Du Maurier Sacred Hunger (book 2) by Barry Unsworth The Savage Garden by Mark Mills The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Seeing by Jose Saramago Seize the Day by Saul Bellow The Service of Clouds by Susan Hill Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad A Simple Plan by Scott Smith Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen Spring by Ali Smith The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Sophie by Guy Burt Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima SS-GB by Len Deighton Stamboul Train by Graham Greene Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes Stoner by John Williams Story of My Life by Jay McInerney The Story of the Weasel by Carolyn Slaughter Straight Man by Richard Russo The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami The Stranger by Albert Camus A Sudden Light by Garth Stein Sugar Money by Jane Harris A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Suttree by Cormac McCarthy Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn The Takeover by Muriel Spark The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle Tango by Alan Judd The Tarnished Eye by Judith Guest Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark The Tesseract by Alex Garland Theory of War by Joan Brady There But For The by Ali Smith Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (stories) by John Irving The Turning (stories) by Tim Winton Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo The Understory by Pamela Erens Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer Until I Find You by John Irving The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill The Virgins by Pamela Erens Voss by Patrick White Vox by Nicholson Baker Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee Washington Square by Henry James We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka When the Green Woods Laugh by H. E. Bates When William Came by Saki Whispers in the Dark by Jonathan Aycliffe The White Family by Maggie Gee White Noise by Don DeLillo The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo Why Come to Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury Wide Open by Nicola Barker Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Wilderness Tips (stories) by Margaret Atwood Winter by Ali Smith The Women's Room by Marilyn French Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark An American Dream by Norman Mailer Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo Cross Channel (stories) by Julian Barnes The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Dying, In Other Words by Maggie Gee Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels Glister by John Burnside The Help of Hospitalities by Emma Tennant Hound Music by Rosalind Belben Hunger by Knut Hamsun Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Kim by Rudyard Kipling Love and Summer by William Trevor Mefisto by John Banville Music Upstairs by Shena Mackay My Life Closed Twice by Nigel Williams Not To Disturb by Muriel Spark Old Crow by Shena Mackay Other Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith Pigeon Feathers (stories) by John Updike The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Public Image by Muriel Spark The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis The Reivers by William Faulkner The Silence by Don DeLillo Sleep It Off Lady by Jean Rhys Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (too rude!) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Spire by William Golding The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schultz To The Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston The Two Sisters by H.E. Bates Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray What Maisie Knew by Henry James Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge

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After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott God on a Harley by Joan Brady The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing The Bleeding Heart by Lionel Shriver Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar

Hospital by Toby Litt Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Inheritors by William Golding Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs The Recognitions by William Gaddis Redemption by Wayne Sharrocks Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski Three Blind Mice by Caron Freeborn The Trial by Franz Kafka

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