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Comedy
1615 - Don Quixote (series), Miguel de Cervantes
1704 - A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift
1735 - L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas), Alain-René Lesage
1742 - Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
1748 - The Adventures of Roderick Random, Tobias Smollett
1749 - Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
1751 - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Tobias Smollett
1753 - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Tobias Smollett
1767 - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (series), Laurence Sterne
1771 - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett
1780 - Jacques the Fatalist and his Master, Denis Diderot
1809 - Ennui, Maria Edgeworth
1837 - The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
1842 - Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
1843 - Handley Cross, R.S. Surtees
1844 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
1844 - The Luck of Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray
1857 - Barchester Towers (part of a series), Anthony Trollope
1859 - Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
1881 - Bouvard et Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
1889 - Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
1892 - Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
1902 - Brewster's Millions, Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
1902 - The Westminster Alice, Saki
1908 - The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
1909 - Tono Bungay, H.G. Wells
1911 - Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
1912 - The Unbearable Bassington, Saki
1914 - Penrod, Booth Tarkington
1915 - Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
1916 - The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain
1917 - Caprice, Ronald Firbank
1918 - Piccadilly Jim (part of a series), P.G. Wodehouse
1922 - Just William (part of a series), Richmal Crompton
1924 - Augustus Carp, Esq., Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, Henry Howarth Bashford
1925 - The Polyglots, William Gerhardie
1926 - The Castle, Franz Kafka
1928 - Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
1930 - Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
1930 - Cakes and Ale – Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard, W. Somerset Maugham
1932 - Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh
1932 - Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
1932 - Topper Takes a Trip (part of a series), Thorne Smith
1933 - England, Their England, A.G. Macdonell
1933 - Heavy Weather, P.G. Wodehouse
1933 - Cheese, Willem Elsschot
1934 - A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
1934 - Thank You Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
1938 - Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
1938 - The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
1939 - Before Lunch, Angela Thirkell
1939 - Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
1939 - Mister Johnson, Joyce Cary
1940 - The Provincial Lady (series), E. M. Delafield
1941 - No Bed for Bacon, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
1942 - A Time to be Born, Dawn Powell
1944 - The Case of the Gilded Fly (part of a series), Edmund Crispin
1944 - The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
1946 - Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood
1946 - Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgkins
1947 - Whisky Galore, Compton Mackenzie
1947 - Charade, John Mortimer
1947 - Joy in the Morning, P.G. Wodehouse
1948 - The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
1948 - Hurrah for St Trinian's (part of a series), Ronald Searle
1951 - A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
1951 - Molloy, Samuel Beckett
1952 - Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
1953 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
1954 - Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
1954 - Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
1954 - Pictures from an Institution, Randall Jarrell
1955 - Less Than Angels, Barbara Pym
1955 - A Fairy Tale of New York, J.P. Donleavy
1956 - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson
1956 - The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay
1956 - The Ascent of Rum Doodle, W.E. Bowman
1957 - Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
1958 - Molesworth (series), Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
1958 - Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
1959 - Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau
1961 - Catch-22, Joseph Heller
1961 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
1962 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
1963 - The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
1963 - Puckoon, Spike Milligan
1966 - Office Politics, Wilfrid Sheed
1967 - A Season in Sinji, J.L. Carr
1967 - Towards the End of the Morning, Michael Frayn
1968 - The Little World of Don Camillo (series), Giovanni Guareschi
1969 - La Disparition, Georges Perec
1969 - Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene
1969 - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
1970 - The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
1970 - Fireflies, Shiva Naipaul
1972 - Les Revenentes, Georges Perec
1972 - The Harpole Report, J.L. Carr
1973 - Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
1974 - The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
1974 - Tropic of Ruislip, Leslie Thomas
1974 - Porterhouse Blue (part of a series), Tom Sharpe
1975 - Changing Places, David Lodge
1975 - Venus on the Half-Shell, Kilgore Trout
1975 - The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
1975 - Squire Haggard's Journal, Michael Green
1975 - Blott on the Landscape, Tom Sharpe
1976 - The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington
1976 - Alms for Oblivion (series), Simon Raven
1978 - La Vie Mode d'Emploi, Georges Perec
1980 - A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1981 - Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
1981 - A Good Man in Africa, William Boyd
1983 - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
1983 - Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries
1983 - My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunkett
1984 - Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
1984 - The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
1984 - Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
1984 - Money, Martin Amis
1985 - Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
1985 - Illywhacker, Peter Carey
1987 - Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel, Charles Simmons
1987 - The Commitments (part of a series), Roddy Doyle
1988 - Nice Work, David Lodge
1988 - A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark
1989 - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
1989 - Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
1990 - I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
1990 - Titmuss Regained, John Mortimer
1990 - The Wimbledon Poisoner (part of a series), Nigel Williams
1995 - Moo, Jane Smiley
1995 - The Information, Martin Amis
1995 - High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
1996 - Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov
1996 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
1996 - Bridget Jones's Diary (part of a series), Helen Fielding
1996 - The Debt to Pleasure, John Lanchester
1997 - Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, David Madsen
1997 - Great Apes, Will Self
1998 - The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills
1999 - The Mighty Walzer, Howard Jacobson
2001 - According to Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge
2001 - The Lecturer's Tale, James Hynes
2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
2005 - The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, Victor Pelevin
2006 - White Man Falling, Mike Stocks
2007 - The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
2010 - Tales of the City (series), Armistead Maupin
Crime
1845 - The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
1860 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
1862 - Lady Audley's Secret, Mary E Braddon
1866 - Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867 - Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
1868 - The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
1875 - The Crime of Father Amado, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
1887 - A Study in Scarlet (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1890 - The Sign of Four (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1894 - Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
1901 - Kim, Rudyard Kipling
1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 - The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
1905 - The Four Just Men (part of a series), Edgar Wallace
1907 - The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
1911 - Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
1913 - Trent's Last Case (part of a series), E. C. Bentley
1915 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
1916 - Greenmantle, John Buchan
1920 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1920 - The Great Impersonation, E. Phillips Oppenheim
1922 - The Secret Adversary (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1923 - Whose Body? (part of a series), Dorothy L. Sayers
1925 - An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
1926 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1929 - The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Anthony Berkeley
1929 - Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
1930 - The Murder at the Vicarage (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1930 - The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
1931 - The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
1931 - Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles
1931 - Sanctuary, William Faulkner
1932 - The Madman of Bergerac, Georges Simenon
1933 - Murder Must Advertise (part of a series), Dorothy L. Sayers
1934 - The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
1934 - The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent, E. Phillips Oppenheim
1934 - The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M Cain
1935 - The Hollow Man, John Dickson Carr
1935 - The League of Frightened Men (part of a series), Rex Stout
1936 - A Gun for Sale, Graham Greene
1936 - Death at the President's Lodging (part of a series), Michael Innes
1937 - Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
1938 - Epitaph for a Spy, Eric Ambler
1938 - Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
1938 - The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake
1939 - And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
1939 - The Mask of Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
1939 - Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
1939 - No Orchids for Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase
1939 - The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
1940 - Journey into Fear, Eric Ambler
1940 - Native Son, Richard Wright
1941 - Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
1943 - The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene
1943 - Double Indemnity, James M Cain
1949 - The Third Man, Graham Greene
1949 - The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
1949 - The Asphalt Jungle, W.R. Burnett
1950 - Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
1951 - My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
1951 - The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
1953 - Casino Royale (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1953 - The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
1955 - The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
1956 - Cop Hater (part of a series), Ed McBain
1957 - A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
1958 - The Pledge, Friedrich Durrenmatt
1959 - Goldfinger (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1959 - The Getaway, Jim Thompson
1959 - The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon
1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1962 - The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
1962 - Cover Her Face (part of a series), P.D. James
1963 - Fantomas (series), Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
1963 - V, Thomas Pynchon
1964 - The Blue Room, Georges Simenon
1964 - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (part of a series), Harry Kemelman
1964 - You Only Live Twice (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1964 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre
1966 - The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
1968 - The Laughing Policeman, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
1969 - The Godfather, Mario Puzo
1969 - The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
1970 - Poetic Justice, Amanda Cross
1970 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V Higgins
1971 - The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
1974 - 52 Pick-up, Elmore Leonard
1974 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre
1975 - Black Sunday, Thomas Harris
1976 - Last Seen Wearing, Colin Dexter
1977 - Judgment in Stone, Ruth Rendell
1980 - The Bourne Identity (part of a series), Robert Ludlum
1980 - The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
1981 - Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
1981 - Red Dragon (part of a series), Thomas Harris
1985 - Perfume, Patrick Suskind
1986 - A Dark-Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
1986 - Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen
1986 - A Rich Full Death, Michael Dibdin
1986 - A Taste for Death (part of a series), P.D. James
1986 - The New York Trilogy (series), Paul Auster
1986 - Live Flesh, Ruth Rendell
1987 - A Fatal inversion, Barbara Vine
1987 - The Neon Rain (part of a series), James Lee Burke
1987 - Misery, Stephen King
1988 - The Big Nowhere (part of a series), James Ellroy
1988 - Ratking (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1988 - Toxic Shock (part of a series), Sara Paretsky
1989 - A Time to Kill, John Grisham
1990 - Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
1990 - LA Confidential (part of a series), James Ellroy
1990 - Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
1990 - Vendetta (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1990 - Bones and Silence (part of a series), Reginald Hill
1990 - Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley
1991 - King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine
1991 - American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
1991 - Dirty Tricks, Michael Dibdin
1991 - Postmortem (part of a series), Patricia Cornwell
1992 - The Secret History, Donna Tartt
1992 - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg
1992 - Fatherland, Robert Harris
1992 - Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
1994 - Dead Lagoon (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1995 - Sidetracked (part of a series), Henning Mankell
1996 - The Big Blowdown (part of a seires), George Pelecanos
1997 - Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
1997 - Black and Blue (part of a series), Ian Rankin
1998 - The Hanging Gardens (part of a series), Ian Rankin
1998 - My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
1999 - The Remorseful Day, Colin Dexter
1999 - Nineteen Seventy Four (part of a series), David Peace
1999 - Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
2000 - Nineteen Seventy Seven (part of a series), David Peace
2000 - True History of the Ned Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
2001 - Silence of the Grave, Arnadur Indridason
2001 - The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
2002 - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
2003 - Dissolution (part of a series), C.J. Sansom
2003 - The King of Torts, John Grisham
2003 - Blacklist (part of a series), Sara Paretsky
2004 - Hard Revolution (part of a series), George Pelecanos
2005 - No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
2007 - Exit Music (part of a series), Ian Rankin
2007 - The Tin Roof Blowdown (part of a series), James Lee Burke
2007 - A Quiet Belief in Angels, R.J. Ellory
2008 - Lush Life, Richard Price
Family and self
1724 - Roxana, Daniel Defoe
1761 - Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762 - The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
1778 - Evelina, Fanny Burney
1812 - Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
1833 - Eugenie Grandet (part of a series), Honore de Balzac
1835 - Le Pere Goriot (part of a series), Honore de Balzac
1848 - Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
1857 - Tom Brown's Schooldays, Thomas Hughes
1859 - The Ordeal of Richard Feverek, George Meredith
1861 - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
1862 - Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
1869 - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
1880 - The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880 - Washington Square, Henry James
1890 - Hunger, Knut Hamsun
1891 - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
1897 - Peace in War, Miguel de Unamuno
1899 - The Awakening, Kate Chopin
1901 - Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
1902 - The Immoralist, Andre Gide
1903 - The Ambassadors, Henry James
1903 - The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
1906 - The Man of Property (part of a series), John Galsworthy
1908 - The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
1909 - Martin Eden, Jack London
1910 - Howards End, E.M. Forster
1910 - The History of Mr Polly, H.G. Wells
1910 - The Vagabond, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
1913 - Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
1914 - The Vatican Cellars, Andre Gide
1914 - The Three Sisters, May Sinclair
1915 - Pointed Roofs, Dorothy Richardson
1916 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
1918 - The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
1922 - Ulysses, James Joyce
1923 - Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo
1924 - The Rector's Daughter, F. M. Mayor
1925 - Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
1925 - The Professor's House, Willa Cather
1926 - Alberta and Jacob (part of a series), Cora Sandel
1927 - Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
1927 - Remembrance of Things Past (series), Marcel Proust
1927 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
1929 - The Good Companions, J.B. Priestley
1929 - Les Enfants Terrible, Jean Cocteau
1929 - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
1930 - The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, Henry Handel Richardson
1930 - Narziss and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
1930 - As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
1932 - Invitation to the Waltz, Rosamond Lehmann
1933 - Frost in May, Antonia White
1935 - Call it Sleep, Henry Roth
1936 - Ballet Shoes (part of a series), Noel Streatfield
1938 - At-Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
1939 - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
1939 - How Green was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
1940 - The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
1942 - The Outsider, Albert Camus
1942 - The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
1943 - Lark Rise to Candleford (series), Flora Thompson
1943 - Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
1944 - The Shrimp and the Anemone, L.P. Hartley
1945 - The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch
1946 - The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
1947 - Manservant and Maidservant, Ivy Compton-Burnett
1947 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
1950 - The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1951 - The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
1951 - Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
1952 - East of Eden, John Steinbeck
1954 - The Tortoise and the Hare, Elizabeth Jenkins
1954 - The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
1955 - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Brian Moore
1955 - The Tree of Man, Patrick White
1955 - Memet my Hawk, Yasar Kemal
1956 - My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
1956 - Palace Walk (part of a series), Naguib Mahfouz
1956 - The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West
1956 - A Legacy, Sybille Bedford
1957 - The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
1957 - Angel, Elizabeth Taylor
1957 - The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
1959 - The Face of Another, Kobo Abe
1959 - Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
1960 - The L Shaped Room, Lynne Reid Banks
1961 - The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
1961 - The Chateau, William Maxwell
1962 - The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
1962 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
1962 - A House for Mr Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
1963 - The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
1964 - Herzog, Saul Bellow
1965 - The Millstone, Margaret Drabble
1966 - Silence, Shusaku Endo
1967 - The Manor, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1969 - The Unfortunates, B.S. Johnson
1969 - The Estate, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1970 - The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
1972 - My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
1972 - G, John Berger
1973 - The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
1975 - Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
1977 - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Kezaburo Oe
1977 - Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
1978 - Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro
1979 - A Married Man, Piers Paul Read
1981 - Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
1982 - The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ (part of a series), Sue Townsend
1982 - Sour Sweet, Timothy Mo
1985 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
1986 - The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
1986 - Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
1987 - The Sound of my Voice, Ron Butlin
1988 - Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
1989 - A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
1990 - The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
1990 - The Rabbit Omnibus (series), John Updike
1990 - Room Temperature, Nicholson Baker
1991 - Wise Children, Angela Carter
1991 - A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1992 - Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
1992 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
1993 - The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1993 - A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
1995 - Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
1997 - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
1997 - Quarantine, Jim Crace
1998 - Death in Summer, William Trevor
1999 - The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
1999 - Being Dead, Jim Crace
1999 - My New York Diary, Julie Doucet
2000 - Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware
2002 - Unless, Carol Shields
2002 - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 - Spies, Michael Frayn
2002 - Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
2002 - Any Human Heart, William Boyd
2003 - Epileptic, David B
2003 - We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
2004 - I'll Go to Bed at Noon, Gerard Woodward
2005 - On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2006 - Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
2007 - The Gathering, Anne Enright
2007 - The Three Paradoxes, Paul Hornschemeier
Love
1678 - The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
1731 - Manon Lescaut (part of a series), Abbe Prevost
1740 - Pamela, Samuel Richardson
1748 - Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
1774 - The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Goethe
1782 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
1811 - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
1813 - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
1814 - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
1815 - Emma, Jane Austen
1818 - Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
1818 - Persuasion, Jane Austen
1847 - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
1847 - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
1850 - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1853 - Vilette, Charlotte Bronte
1853 - Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell
1856 - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
1859 - Adam Bede, George Eliot
1860 - The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
1860 - First Love, Ivan Turgenev
1861 - East Lynne, Ellen Wood
1869 - Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore
1874 - Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
1876 - Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
1877 - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
1879 - The Egoist, George Meredith
1881 - Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
1887 - The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
1891 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
1895 - Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
1899 - Dom Casmurro, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1900 - Claudine a l'ecole, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
1902 - The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
1904 - Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest, W.H. Hudson
1908 - A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
1908 - Maurice Guest, Henry Handel Richardson
1909 - Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide
1912 - Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
1913 - Le Grand Meaulnes, Henri Alain-Fournier
1915 - The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
1915 - The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
1915 - Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad
1915 - Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
1918 - My Antonia, Willa Cather
1920 - Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
1920 - The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
1920 - Cheri, Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
1921 - Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
1923 - A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
1925 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos
1925 - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1928 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
1928 - The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
1929 - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
1929 - Living, Henry Green
1932 - Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1934 - Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934 - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
1935 - Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer
1936 - Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
1936 - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1936 - The Weather in the Streets, Rosamond Lehmann
1937 - The Infamous Army, Georgette Heyer
1937 - Ali and Nino, Kurban Said
1937 - Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
1938 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
1940 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
1941 - The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
1945 - At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart
1945 - The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
1946 - Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
1947 - The Reluctant Orphan, Sara Seale
1948 - I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
1949 - The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier
1949 - The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
1949 - Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
1951 - The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
1952 - Love for Lydia, H.E. Bates
1953 - The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
1953 - The Echoing Grove, Rosamond Lehmann
1954 - Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
1955 - Moon over Africa, Pamela Kent
1955 - Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male, Vladimir Nabokov
1956 - Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
1957 - Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
1957 - Arturo's Island, Elsa Morante
1958 - The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
1961 - Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichiro Tanizaki
1961 - Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
1962 - The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis, Giorgio Bassani
1963 - The Graduate, Charles Webb
1964 - Beauty and Saddness, Yasunari Kawabata
1966 - Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
1966 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
1967 - A Sport and a Passtime, James Salter
1969 - Patience and Sarah, Isabel Miller
1969 - The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
1970 - Love Story, Eric Segal
1972 - Enemies, a Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 - Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
1975 - Light Years, James Salter
1976 - The Painter of Signs, R.K. Narayan
1977 - Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
1978 - The Far Pavillions, Mary Margaret Kaye
1978 - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
1980 - A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
1980 - The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
1980 - So Long, See you Tomorrow, William Maxwell
1982 - Zami, Audre Lorde
1983 - Look At Me, Anita Brookner
1983 - The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
1983 - Waterland, Graham Swift
1984 - Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984 - The Lover, Marguerite Duras
1984 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
1985 - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
1985 - Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1987 - Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
1987 - The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
1987 - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
1987 - More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow
1988 - The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
1988 - Samarkand, Amin Maalouf
1988 - Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1989 - The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
1990 - Possession, A.S. Byatt
1990 - The Silent Duchess, Dacia Maraini
1992 - A Heart So White, Javier Marias
1992 - The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
1993 - The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
1995 - The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
1995 - The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
1999 - The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
1999 - All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
1999 - Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
2002 - Atonement, Ian McEwan
2004 - Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2006 - The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Science fiction
1564 - Gargantua and Pantagruel (series), Francois Rabelais
1764 - The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
1786 - Vathek, William Beckford
1794 - The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
1796 - The Monk, Matthew Lewis
1798 - Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown
1818 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
1818 - Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
1820 - Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin
1824 - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
1851 - House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864 - Uncle Silas, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
1871 - The Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1871 - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
1872 - Erewhon, Samuel Butler
1885 - After London; or, Wild England, Richard Jefferies
1886 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
1889 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
1890 - News from Nowhere, William Morris
1895 - The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
1897 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
1898 - The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
1898 - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
1908 - The Man who was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
1909 - Institute Benjamenta, Robert Walser
1915 - Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1917 - A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1920 - A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
1925 - The Trial, Franz Kafka
1926 - Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
1927 - We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
1928 - Orlando, Virginia Woolf
1932 - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1932 - A Glastonbury Romance (part of a series), John Cowper Powys
1937 - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
1937 - Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
1938 - The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White
1940 - The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
1943 - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1943 - The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
1946 - Titus Groan (part of a series), Mervyn Peake
1948 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
1951 - Foundation (part of a series), Isaac Asimov
1951 - Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
1952 - The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
1953 - Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke
1953 - The Victorian Chaise-longue, Marghanita Laski
1953 - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
1954 - The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
1954 - I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
1955 - Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1956 - The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
1956 - The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
1957 - The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
1957 - The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
1958 - Non-Stop, Brian W Aldiss
1959 - Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
1959 - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
1959 - Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
1960 - Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
1960 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller Jr
1961 - The Old Men at the Zoo, Angus Wilson
1961 - Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 - Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
1962 - The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
1962 - The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1963 - A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
1965 - Dune (part of a series), Frank L Herbert
1966 - Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
1966 - The Magus, John Fowles
1967 - The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
1967 - The Einstein Intersection, Samuel R Delaney
1968 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
1968 - Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch
1969 - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
1969 - Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
1970 - The Female Man, Joanna Russ
1970 - Ringworld (part of a series), Larry Niven
1973 - Red Shift, Alan Garner
1973 - Crash, J.G. Ballard
1974 - Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing
1974 - The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 - Hello Summer, Goodbye, Michael G Coney
1977 - The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
1977 - The Shining, Stephen King
1979 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (part of a series), Douglas Adams
1979 - Kindred, Octavia Butler
1980 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
1982 - The End of the World News, Anthony Burgess
1983 - The Book of the New Sun (series), Gene Wolfe
1984 - Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
1984 - The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
1984 - Neuromancer, William Gibson
1985 - The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
1987 - Weaveworld, Clive Barker
1987 - Consider Phlebas (part of a series), Iain M. Banks
1987 - In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster
1987 - Beloved, Toni Morrison
1988 - Mother London, Michael Moorcock
1988 - The Influence, Ramsey Campbell
1988 - Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
1988 - Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
1989 - Hyperion (part of a series), Dan Simmons
1990 - The Earthsea Series, Ursula Le Guin
1991 - The Famished Road, Ben Okri
1992 - Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
1992 - The Children of Men, P.D. James
1992 - The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
1992 - Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite
1993 - Vurt (part of a series), Jeff Noon
1994 - Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
1995 - The Prestige, Christopher Priest
1995 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
1995 - Blindness, Jose Saramago
1995 - The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
1995 - The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
1996 - Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
1996 - Pig Tales, Marie Darrieussecq
1996 - The Insult, Rupert Thomson
1997 - Ingenious Pain, Andrew Miller
1997 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (part of a series), J.K. Rowling
1998 - Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
1998 - Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
1999 - Darwin's Radio (part of a series), Greg Bear
1999 - Affinity, Sarah Waters
2000 - Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
2000 - The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
2000 - House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
2000 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 - Under the Skin, Michel Faber
2000 - His Dark Materials (series), Philip Pullman
2000 - How the Dead Live, Will Self
2001 - Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones
2001 - American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2002 - The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
2002 - Light, M. John Harrison
2003 - The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
2003 - The Scar, China Mieville
2003 - Millennium People, J.G. Ballard
2004 - Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
2004 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2005 - Air, Geoff Ryman
2005 - Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
2006 - The Road, Cormac McCarthy
2007 - Ascent, Jed Mercurio
2007 - Darkmans, Nicola Barker
2008 - The Night Sessions, Ken Macleod
2011 - The Discworld Series, Terry Pratchett
State of the nation
1688 - Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, Aphra Behn
1722 - Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
1800 - Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
1816 - Headlong Hall, Thomas Love Peacock
1827 - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
1830 - The Red and the Black, Stendhal
1839 - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
1845 - Sybil or The Two Nations, Benjamin Disraeli
1847 - La Comedie Humaine (series), Honore de Balzac
1848 - Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
1848 - Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
1849 - Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853 - Bleak House, Charles Dickens
1853 - Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
1854 - Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1855 - North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
1857 - Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens
1859 - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
1861 - Silas Marner, George Eliot
1862 - Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
1864 - Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867 - The Last Chronicle of Barset (part of a series), Anthony Trollope
1869 - The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869 - Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
1872 - Middlemarch, George Eliot
1875 - The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
1876 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
1879 - The Red Room, August Stringberg
1881 - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1885 - Germinal (part of a series), Emile Zola
1885 - Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
1886 - The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
1890 - La Bete Humaine (part of a series), Emile Zola
1891 - New Grub Street, George Gissing
1893 - The Odd Women, George Gissing
1894 - Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
1899 - McTeague, Frank Norris
1900 - Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
1905 - The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
1906 - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
1907 - Mother, Maxim Gorky
1914 - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
1916 - The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore
1918 - Clayhanger (series), Arnold Bennett
1918 - The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
1920 - Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
1922 - Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
1924 - A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
1924 - The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
1925 - The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
1926 - Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
1929 - The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
1929 - Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
1929 - The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
1929 - Passing, Nella Larsen
1930 - USA, John Dos Passos
1931 - Afternoon Men, Anthony Powell
1932 - Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
1932 - The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
1933 - Love on the Dole, Walter Greenwood
1934 - They Were Counted (part of a series), Miklos Banffy
1935 - Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand
1936 - Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith
1936 - South Riding, Winifred Holtby
1937 - Rickshaw Boy, Lao She
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1939 - The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
1946 - Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
1946 - Animal Farm, George Orwell
1947 - The Plague, Albert Camus
1947 - Of Love & Hunger, Julian Maclaren-Ross
1947 - A Girl in Winter, Philip Larkin
1948 - Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
1949 - The Kingdom of this World, Alejo Carpentier
1949 - The Moon and the Bonfire, Cesare Pavese
1950 - The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
1951 - The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
1952 - Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
1953 - Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
1955 - The Recognitions, William Gaddis
1956 - The Ragazzi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
1956 - The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
1957 - Room at the Top, John Braine
1958 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
1958 - The Leopard, Giuseppi di Lampedusa
1959 - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
1959 - Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
1959 - Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
1960 - This Sporting Life, David Storey
1960 - God's Bit of Wood, Ousmane Sembene
1960 - A Kind of Loving, Stan Barstow
1962 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1963 - The Group, Mary McCarthy
1964 - Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr
1966 - To Each his Own, Leonardo Sciascia
1967 - Z, Vassilis Vassilikos
1968 - A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines
1968 - Couples, John Updike
1970 - Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
1971 - Chronicle in Stone, Ismael Kadare
1975 - The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
1977 - Staying On, Paul Scott
1978 - The Virgin in the Garden (part of a series), A.S. Byatt
1979 - A Dry White Season, Andre Brink
1979 - A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
1980 - Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
1980 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
1981 - Lanark, Alastair Gray
1981 - July's People, Nadine Gordimer
1981 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
1983 - Shame, Salman Rushdie
1985 - White Noise, Don DeLillo
1987 - Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
1987 - The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
1989 - London Fields, Martin Amis
1990 - Amongst Women, John McGahern
1990 - Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
1993 - Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
1993 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
1994 - How Late it Was, How Late, James Kelman
1994 - What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
1995 - Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
1995 - Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 - A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
1997 - Underworld, Don DeLillo
1997 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1999 - Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
2000 - The Human Stain, Philip Roth
2000 - White Teeth, Zadie Smith
2001 - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
2003 - Personality, Andrew O'Hagan
2004 - The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
2004 - GB84, David Peace
War and travel
1599 - Monkey, Wu Ch'eng-en
1719 - Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
1735 - Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
1751 - The History of Pompey the Little, Francis Coventry
1759 - Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
1759 - Candide, Voltaire
1768 - A Sentimental Journey, Lawrence Sterne
1785 - The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rudolp Erich Raspe
1820 - Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
1839 - The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
1844 - The Three Musketeers (part of a series), Alexandre Dumas
1847 - The Children of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat
1851 - Moby-Dick or, The Whale, Herman Melville
1864 - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
1869 - War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
1873 - Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
1877 - Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
1883 - Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
1884 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
1885 - King Solomon's Mines (part of a series), Henry Rider Haggard
1886 - Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
1887 - She: A History of Adventure (part of a series), Henry Rider Haggard
1892 - The Debacle (part of a series), Emile Zola
1894 - The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope
1895 - The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
1896 - The Island of Dr Moreau, H.G. Wells
1900 - Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
1902 - The Virginian, Owen Wister
1903 - The Call of the Wild, Jack London
1903 - Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
1904 - Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
1905 - The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1917 - South Wind, Norman Douglas
1920 - Queen Lucia (part of a series), E. F. Benson
1920 - Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos
1921 - Sacaramouche (part of a series), Rafael Sabatini
1922 - Captain Blood (part of a series), Rafael Sabatini
1922 - One of Ours, Willa Cather
1923 - The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek
1924 - Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
1924 - The Mark of Zorro (part of a series), Johnston McCulley
1929 - All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
1929 - Death of a Hero, Richard Aldington
1929 - A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
1932 - Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
1933 - La Condition Humaine, Andre Malraux
1934 - Burmese Days, George Orwell
1935 - The African Queen, C.S. Forester
1935 - Auto-da-Fe, Elias Canetti
1938 - Count Belisarius, Robert Graves
1940 - Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
1940 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
1942 - Put Out More Flags, Evelyn Waugh
1942 - Suite Francaise (series), Irene Nemirovsky
1942 - Darkness Falls from the Air, Nigel Balchin
1943 - The Ship, C.S. Forester
1943 - The Crab with the Golden Claws (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1944 - Fair Stood the Wind for France, H.E. Bates
1946 - Williwaw, Gore Vidal
1947 - Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener
1947 - The Slaves of Solitude, Patrick Hamilton
1948 - The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw
1948 - The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
1949 - The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
1950 - A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
1951 - The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1951 - The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
1952 - Men at Arms (part of a series), Evelyn Waugh
1952 - From Here to Eternity, James Jones
1955 - Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
1956 - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Joao Guimaraes Rosa
1957 - The Guns of Navarone, Alistair MacLean
1957 - On the Road, Jack Kerouac
1957 - The Hunters, James Salter
1957 - Justine (part of a series), Lawrence Durrell
1957 - Voss, Patrick White
1959 - The Tin Drum (part of a series), Gunter Grass
1959 - Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman
1960 - Tintin in Tibet (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1960 - Fortunes of War (series), Olivia Manning
1961 - Covenant with Death, John Harris
1961 - Asterix the Gaul (part of a series), Rene Goscinny
1963 - The Castafiore Emerald (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1964 - The Valley of Bones (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1965 - The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
1966 - The Soldier's Art (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1967 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1968 - The Military Philosophers (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1969 - Slaughter-House Five, Kurt Vonnegut
1969 - Master and Commander (part of a series), Patrick O'Brian
1969 - The Bamboo Bed, William Eastlake
1970 - Deliverance, James Dickey
1970 - Bomber, Len Deighton
1972 - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
1973 - Carrie's War, Nina Bawden
1973 - Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
1974 - History, Elsa Morante
1974 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
1975 - The Machine-Gunners, Robert Westall
1979 - Confederates, Thomas Keneally
1979 - Sophie's Choice, William Styron
1980 - To The Ends of the Earth trilogy, William Golding
1981 - Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell
1981 - A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone
1982 - When the Wind Blows, Raymond Briggs
1982 - Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
1982 - An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
1984 - Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
1985 - Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1986 - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
1986 - If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
1990 - Silver Stallion, Junghyo Ahn
1990 - The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
1991 - Maus (series), Art Spiegelman
1991 - Regeneration, Pat Barker
1992 - All the Pretty Horses (part of a series), Cormac McCarthy
1993 - Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
1994 - The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
1995 - Enigma, Robert Harris
1995 - The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
1996 - The Beach, Alex Garland
1997 - Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
1998 - Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
1998 - The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
1999 - Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
2001 - Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
2002 - Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
2003 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
2005 - Flashman (series), George MacDonald Fraser
2005 - A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
2006 - De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
2007 - Day, A.L. Kennedy
Comedy
1615 - Don Quixote (series), Miguel de Cervantes
1704 - A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift
1735 - L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas), Alain-René Lesage
1742 - Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
1748 - The Adventures of Roderick Random, Tobias Smollett
1749 - Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
1751 - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Tobias Smollett
1753 - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Tobias Smollett
1767 - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (series), Laurence Sterne
1771 - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett
1780 - Jacques the Fatalist and his Master, Denis Diderot
1809 - Ennui, Maria Edgeworth
1837 - The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
1842 - Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
1843 - Handley Cross, R.S. Surtees
1844 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
1844 - The Luck of Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray
1857 - Barchester Towers (part of a series), Anthony Trollope
1859 - Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
1881 - Bouvard et Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
1889 - Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
1892 - Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
1902 - Brewster's Millions, Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
1902 - The Westminster Alice, Saki
1908 - The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
1909 - Tono Bungay, H.G. Wells
1911 - Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
1912 - The Unbearable Bassington, Saki
1914 - Penrod, Booth Tarkington
1915 - Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
1916 - The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain
1917 - Caprice, Ronald Firbank
1918 - Piccadilly Jim (part of a series), P.G. Wodehouse
1922 - Just William (part of a series), Richmal Crompton
1924 - Augustus Carp, Esq., Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, Henry Howarth Bashford
1925 - The Polyglots, William Gerhardie
1926 - The Castle, Franz Kafka
1928 - Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
1930 - Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
1930 - Cakes and Ale – Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard, W. Somerset Maugham
1932 - Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh
1932 - Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
1932 - Topper Takes a Trip (part of a series), Thorne Smith
1933 - England, Their England, A.G. Macdonell
1933 - Heavy Weather, P.G. Wodehouse
1933 - Cheese, Willem Elsschot
1934 - A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
1934 - Thank You Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
1938 - Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
1938 - The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
1939 - Before Lunch, Angela Thirkell
1939 - Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
1939 - Mister Johnson, Joyce Cary
1940 - The Provincial Lady (series), E. M. Delafield
1941 - No Bed for Bacon, Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
1942 - A Time to be Born, Dawn Powell
1944 - The Case of the Gilded Fly (part of a series), Edmund Crispin
1944 - The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
1946 - Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood
1946 - Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgkins
1947 - Whisky Galore, Compton Mackenzie
1947 - Charade, John Mortimer
1947 - Joy in the Morning, P.G. Wodehouse
1948 - The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
1948 - Hurrah for St Trinian's (part of a series), Ronald Searle
1951 - A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
1951 - Molloy, Samuel Beckett
1952 - Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
1953 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
1954 - Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
1954 - Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
1954 - Pictures from an Institution, Randall Jarrell
1955 - Less Than Angels, Barbara Pym
1955 - A Fairy Tale of New York, J.P. Donleavy
1956 - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson
1956 - The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay
1956 - The Ascent of Rum Doodle, W.E. Bowman
1957 - Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
1958 - Molesworth (series), Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
1958 - Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
1959 - Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau
1961 - Catch-22, Joseph Heller
1961 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
1962 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
1963 - The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
1963 - Puckoon, Spike Milligan
1966 - Office Politics, Wilfrid Sheed
1967 - A Season in Sinji, J.L. Carr
1967 - Towards the End of the Morning, Michael Frayn
1968 - The Little World of Don Camillo (series), Giovanni Guareschi
1969 - La Disparition, Georges Perec
1969 - Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene
1969 - Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
1970 - The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
1970 - Fireflies, Shiva Naipaul
1972 - Les Revenentes, Georges Perec
1972 - The Harpole Report, J.L. Carr
1973 - Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
1974 - The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
1974 - Tropic of Ruislip, Leslie Thomas
1974 - Porterhouse Blue (part of a series), Tom Sharpe
1975 - Changing Places, David Lodge
1975 - Venus on the Half-Shell, Kilgore Trout
1975 - The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury
1975 - Squire Haggard's Journal, Michael Green
1975 - Blott on the Landscape, Tom Sharpe
1976 - The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington
1976 - Alms for Oblivion (series), Simon Raven
1978 - La Vie Mode d'Emploi, Georges Perec
1980 - A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1981 - Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
1981 - A Good Man in Africa, William Boyd
1983 - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
1983 - Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries
1983 - My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunkett
1984 - Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
1984 - The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
1984 - Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
1984 - Money, Martin Amis
1985 - Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
1985 - Illywhacker, Peter Carey
1987 - Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel, Charles Simmons
1987 - The Commitments (part of a series), Roddy Doyle
1988 - Nice Work, David Lodge
1988 - A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark
1989 - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
1989 - Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
1990 - I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
1990 - Titmuss Regained, John Mortimer
1990 - The Wimbledon Poisoner (part of a series), Nigel Williams
1995 - Moo, Jane Smiley
1995 - The Information, Martin Amis
1995 - High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
1996 - Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov
1996 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
1996 - Bridget Jones's Diary (part of a series), Helen Fielding
1996 - The Debt to Pleasure, John Lanchester
1997 - Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, David Madsen
1997 - Great Apes, Will Self
1998 - The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills
1999 - The Mighty Walzer, Howard Jacobson
2001 - According to Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge
2001 - The Lecturer's Tale, James Hynes
2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
2005 - The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, Victor Pelevin
2006 - White Man Falling, Mike Stocks
2007 - The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
2010 - Tales of the City (series), Armistead Maupin
Crime
1845 - The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
1860 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
1862 - Lady Audley's Secret, Mary E Braddon
1866 - Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867 - Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
1868 - The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
1875 - The Crime of Father Amado, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
1887 - A Study in Scarlet (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1890 - The Sign of Four (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1894 - Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
1901 - Kim, Rudyard Kipling
1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles (part of a series), Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 - The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
1905 - The Four Just Men (part of a series), Edgar Wallace
1907 - The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
1911 - Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
1913 - Trent's Last Case (part of a series), E. C. Bentley
1915 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
1916 - Greenmantle, John Buchan
1920 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1920 - The Great Impersonation, E. Phillips Oppenheim
1922 - The Secret Adversary (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1923 - Whose Body? (part of a series), Dorothy L. Sayers
1925 - An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
1926 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1929 - The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Anthony Berkeley
1929 - Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
1930 - The Murder at the Vicarage (part of a series), Agatha Christie
1930 - The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
1931 - The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
1931 - Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles
1931 - Sanctuary, William Faulkner
1932 - The Madman of Bergerac, Georges Simenon
1933 - Murder Must Advertise (part of a series), Dorothy L. Sayers
1934 - The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
1934 - The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent, E. Phillips Oppenheim
1934 - The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M Cain
1935 - The Hollow Man, John Dickson Carr
1935 - The League of Frightened Men (part of a series), Rex Stout
1936 - A Gun for Sale, Graham Greene
1936 - Death at the President's Lodging (part of a series), Michael Innes
1937 - Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
1938 - Epitaph for a Spy, Eric Ambler
1938 - Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
1938 - The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake
1939 - And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
1939 - The Mask of Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
1939 - Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
1939 - No Orchids for Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase
1939 - The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
1940 - Journey into Fear, Eric Ambler
1940 - Native Son, Richard Wright
1941 - Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
1943 - The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene
1943 - Double Indemnity, James M Cain
1949 - The Third Man, Graham Greene
1949 - The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
1949 - The Asphalt Jungle, W.R. Burnett
1950 - Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
1951 - My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
1951 - The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
1953 - Casino Royale (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1953 - The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
1955 - The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
1956 - Cop Hater (part of a series), Ed McBain
1957 - A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
1958 - The Pledge, Friedrich Durrenmatt
1959 - Goldfinger (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1959 - The Getaway, Jim Thompson
1959 - The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon
1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1962 - The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
1962 - Cover Her Face (part of a series), P.D. James
1963 - Fantomas (series), Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
1963 - V, Thomas Pynchon
1964 - The Blue Room, Georges Simenon
1964 - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (part of a series), Harry Kemelman
1964 - You Only Live Twice (part of a series), Ian Fleming
1964 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre
1966 - The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
1968 - The Laughing Policeman, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
1969 - The Godfather, Mario Puzo
1969 - The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
1970 - Poetic Justice, Amanda Cross
1970 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V Higgins
1971 - The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
1974 - 52 Pick-up, Elmore Leonard
1974 - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre
1975 - Black Sunday, Thomas Harris
1976 - Last Seen Wearing, Colin Dexter
1977 - Judgment in Stone, Ruth Rendell
1980 - The Bourne Identity (part of a series), Robert Ludlum
1980 - The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
1981 - Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
1981 - Red Dragon (part of a series), Thomas Harris
1985 - Perfume, Patrick Suskind
1986 - A Dark-Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
1986 - Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen
1986 - A Rich Full Death, Michael Dibdin
1986 - A Taste for Death (part of a series), P.D. James
1986 - The New York Trilogy (series), Paul Auster
1986 - Live Flesh, Ruth Rendell
1987 - A Fatal inversion, Barbara Vine
1987 - The Neon Rain (part of a series), James Lee Burke
1987 - Misery, Stephen King
1988 - The Big Nowhere (part of a series), James Ellroy
1988 - Ratking (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1988 - Toxic Shock (part of a series), Sara Paretsky
1989 - A Time to Kill, John Grisham
1990 - Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
1990 - LA Confidential (part of a series), James Ellroy
1990 - Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
1990 - Vendetta (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1990 - Bones and Silence (part of a series), Reginald Hill
1990 - Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley
1991 - King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine
1991 - American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
1991 - Dirty Tricks, Michael Dibdin
1991 - Postmortem (part of a series), Patricia Cornwell
1992 - The Secret History, Donna Tartt
1992 - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg
1992 - Fatherland, Robert Harris
1992 - Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
1994 - Dead Lagoon (part of a series), Michael Dibdin
1995 - Sidetracked (part of a series), Henning Mankell
1996 - The Big Blowdown (part of a seires), George Pelecanos
1997 - Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
1997 - Black and Blue (part of a series), Ian Rankin
1998 - The Hanging Gardens (part of a series), Ian Rankin
1998 - My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
1999 - The Remorseful Day, Colin Dexter
1999 - Nineteen Seventy Four (part of a series), David Peace
1999 - Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
2000 - Nineteen Seventy Seven (part of a series), David Peace
2000 - True History of the Ned Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
2001 - Silence of the Grave, Arnadur Indridason
2001 - The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
2002 - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
2003 - Dissolution (part of a series), C.J. Sansom
2003 - The King of Torts, John Grisham
2003 - Blacklist (part of a series), Sara Paretsky
2004 - Hard Revolution (part of a series), George Pelecanos
2005 - No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
2007 - Exit Music (part of a series), Ian Rankin
2007 - The Tin Roof Blowdown (part of a series), James Lee Burke
2007 - A Quiet Belief in Angels, R.J. Ellory
2008 - Lush Life, Richard Price
Family and self
1724 - Roxana, Daniel Defoe
1761 - Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762 - The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
1778 - Evelina, Fanny Burney
1812 - Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
1833 - Eugenie Grandet (part of a series), Honore de Balzac
1835 - Le Pere Goriot (part of a series), Honore de Balzac
1848 - Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
1857 - Tom Brown's Schooldays, Thomas Hughes
1859 - The Ordeal of Richard Feverek, George Meredith
1861 - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
1862 - Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
1869 - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
1880 - The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880 - Washington Square, Henry James
1890 - Hunger, Knut Hamsun
1891 - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
1897 - Peace in War, Miguel de Unamuno
1899 - The Awakening, Kate Chopin
1901 - Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
1902 - The Immoralist, Andre Gide
1903 - The Ambassadors, Henry James
1903 - The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
1906 - The Man of Property (part of a series), John Galsworthy
1908 - The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
1909 - Martin Eden, Jack London
1910 - Howards End, E.M. Forster
1910 - The History of Mr Polly, H.G. Wells
1910 - The Vagabond, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
1913 - Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
1914 - The Vatican Cellars, Andre Gide
1914 - The Three Sisters, May Sinclair
1915 - Pointed Roofs, Dorothy Richardson
1916 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
1918 - The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
1922 - Ulysses, James Joyce
1923 - Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo
1924 - The Rector's Daughter, F. M. Mayor
1925 - Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
1925 - The Professor's House, Willa Cather
1926 - Alberta and Jacob (part of a series), Cora Sandel
1927 - Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
1927 - Remembrance of Things Past (series), Marcel Proust
1927 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
1929 - The Good Companions, J.B. Priestley
1929 - Les Enfants Terrible, Jean Cocteau
1929 - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
1930 - The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, Henry Handel Richardson
1930 - Narziss and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
1930 - As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
1932 - Invitation to the Waltz, Rosamond Lehmann
1933 - Frost in May, Antonia White
1935 - Call it Sleep, Henry Roth
1936 - Ballet Shoes (part of a series), Noel Streatfield
1938 - At-Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
1939 - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
1939 - How Green was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
1940 - The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
1942 - The Outsider, Albert Camus
1942 - The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
1943 - Lark Rise to Candleford (series), Flora Thompson
1943 - Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
1944 - The Shrimp and the Anemone, L.P. Hartley
1945 - The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch
1946 - The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
1947 - Manservant and Maidservant, Ivy Compton-Burnett
1947 - Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
1950 - The Family Moskat, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1951 - The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
1951 - Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
1952 - East of Eden, John Steinbeck
1954 - The Tortoise and the Hare, Elizabeth Jenkins
1954 - The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
1955 - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Brian Moore
1955 - The Tree of Man, Patrick White
1955 - Memet my Hawk, Yasar Kemal
1956 - My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
1956 - Palace Walk (part of a series), Naguib Mahfouz
1956 - The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West
1956 - A Legacy, Sybille Bedford
1957 - The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
1957 - Angel, Elizabeth Taylor
1957 - The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
1959 - The Face of Another, Kobo Abe
1959 - Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
1960 - The L Shaped Room, Lynne Reid Banks
1961 - The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
1961 - The Chateau, William Maxwell
1962 - The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
1962 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
1962 - A House for Mr Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
1963 - The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
1964 - Herzog, Saul Bellow
1965 - The Millstone, Margaret Drabble
1966 - Silence, Shusaku Endo
1967 - The Manor, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1969 - The Unfortunates, B.S. Johnson
1969 - The Estate, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1970 - The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
1972 - My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
1972 - G, John Berger
1973 - The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
1975 - Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
1977 - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Kezaburo Oe
1977 - Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
1978 - Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro
1979 - A Married Man, Piers Paul Read
1981 - Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
1982 - The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ (part of a series), Sue Townsend
1982 - Sour Sweet, Timothy Mo
1985 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
1986 - The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
1986 - Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
1987 - The Sound of my Voice, Ron Butlin
1988 - Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
1989 - A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
1990 - The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
1990 - The Rabbit Omnibus (series), John Updike
1990 - Room Temperature, Nicholson Baker
1991 - Wise Children, Angela Carter
1991 - A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1992 - Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
1992 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
1993 - The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1993 - A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
1995 - Morvern Callar, Alan Warner
1995 - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
1997 - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
1997 - Quarantine, Jim Crace
1998 - Death in Summer, William Trevor
1999 - The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
1999 - Being Dead, Jim Crace
1999 - My New York Diary, Julie Doucet
2000 - Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware
2002 - Unless, Carol Shields
2002 - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 - Spies, Michael Frayn
2002 - Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
2002 - Any Human Heart, William Boyd
2003 - Epileptic, David B
2003 - We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
2004 - I'll Go to Bed at Noon, Gerard Woodward
2005 - On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2006 - Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
2007 - The Gathering, Anne Enright
2007 - The Three Paradoxes, Paul Hornschemeier
Love
1678 - The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
1731 - Manon Lescaut (part of a series), Abbe Prevost
1740 - Pamela, Samuel Richardson
1748 - Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
1774 - The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Goethe
1782 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
1811 - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
1813 - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
1814 - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
1815 - Emma, Jane Austen
1818 - Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
1818 - Persuasion, Jane Austen
1847 - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
1847 - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
1850 - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1853 - Vilette, Charlotte Bronte
1853 - Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell
1856 - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
1859 - Adam Bede, George Eliot
1860 - The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
1860 - First Love, Ivan Turgenev
1861 - East Lynne, Ellen Wood
1869 - Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore
1874 - Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
1876 - Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
1877 - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
1879 - The Egoist, George Meredith
1881 - Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
1887 - The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
1891 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
1895 - Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
1899 - Dom Casmurro, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1900 - Claudine a l'ecole, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
1902 - The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
1904 - Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest, W.H. Hudson
1908 - A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
1908 - Maurice Guest, Henry Handel Richardson
1909 - Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide
1912 - Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
1913 - Le Grand Meaulnes, Henri Alain-Fournier
1915 - The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
1915 - The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
1915 - Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad
1915 - Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
1918 - My Antonia, Willa Cather
1920 - Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
1920 - The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
1920 - Cheri, Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
1921 - Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
1923 - A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
1925 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos
1925 - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1928 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
1928 - The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
1929 - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
1929 - Living, Henry Green
1932 - Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1934 - Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934 - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
1935 - Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer
1936 - Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
1936 - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1936 - The Weather in the Streets, Rosamond Lehmann
1937 - The Infamous Army, Georgette Heyer
1937 - Ali and Nino, Kurban Said
1937 - Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
1938 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
1940 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
1941 - The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
1945 - At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart
1945 - The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
1946 - Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
1947 - The Reluctant Orphan, Sara Seale
1948 - I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
1949 - The Parasites, Daphne du Maurier
1949 - The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
1949 - Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
1951 - The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
1952 - Love for Lydia, H.E. Bates
1953 - The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
1953 - The Echoing Grove, Rosamond Lehmann
1954 - Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
1955 - Moon over Africa, Pamela Kent
1955 - Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male, Vladimir Nabokov
1956 - Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
1957 - Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
1957 - Arturo's Island, Elsa Morante
1958 - The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
1961 - Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichiro Tanizaki
1961 - Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
1962 - The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis, Giorgio Bassani
1963 - The Graduate, Charles Webb
1964 - Beauty and Saddness, Yasunari Kawabata
1966 - Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
1966 - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
1967 - A Sport and a Passtime, James Salter
1969 - Patience and Sarah, Isabel Miller
1969 - The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
1970 - Love Story, Eric Segal
1972 - Enemies, a Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 - Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
1975 - Light Years, James Salter
1976 - The Painter of Signs, R.K. Narayan
1977 - Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
1978 - The Far Pavillions, Mary Margaret Kaye
1978 - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
1980 - A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
1980 - The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
1980 - So Long, See you Tomorrow, William Maxwell
1982 - Zami, Audre Lorde
1983 - Look At Me, Anita Brookner
1983 - The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
1983 - Waterland, Graham Swift
1984 - Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984 - The Lover, Marguerite Duras
1984 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
1985 - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
1985 - Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1987 - Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
1987 - The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
1987 - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
1987 - More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow
1988 - The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
1988 - Samarkand, Amin Maalouf
1988 - Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1989 - The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
1990 - Possession, A.S. Byatt
1990 - The Silent Duchess, Dacia Maraini
1992 - A Heart So White, Javier Marias
1992 - The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
1993 - The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
1995 - The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
1995 - The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
1999 - The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
1999 - All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
1999 - Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
2002 - Atonement, Ian McEwan
2004 - Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2006 - The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Science fiction
1564 - Gargantua and Pantagruel (series), Francois Rabelais
1764 - The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
1786 - Vathek, William Beckford
1794 - The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
1796 - The Monk, Matthew Lewis
1798 - Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown
1818 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
1818 - Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
1820 - Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin
1824 - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
1851 - House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864 - Uncle Silas, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
1871 - The Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1871 - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
1872 - Erewhon, Samuel Butler
1885 - After London; or, Wild England, Richard Jefferies
1886 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
1889 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
1890 - News from Nowhere, William Morris
1895 - The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
1897 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
1898 - The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
1898 - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
1908 - The Man who was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
1909 - Institute Benjamenta, Robert Walser
1915 - Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1917 - A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1920 - A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
1925 - The Trial, Franz Kafka
1926 - Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
1927 - We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
1928 - Orlando, Virginia Woolf
1932 - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1932 - A Glastonbury Romance (part of a series), John Cowper Powys
1937 - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
1937 - Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
1938 - The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White
1940 - The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
1943 - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1943 - The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
1946 - Titus Groan (part of a series), Mervyn Peake
1948 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
1951 - Foundation (part of a series), Isaac Asimov
1951 - Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
1952 - The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
1953 - Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke
1953 - The Victorian Chaise-longue, Marghanita Laski
1953 - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
1954 - The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
1954 - I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
1955 - Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1956 - The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
1956 - The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
1957 - The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
1957 - The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
1958 - Non-Stop, Brian W Aldiss
1959 - Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
1959 - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
1959 - Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
1960 - Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
1960 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller Jr
1961 - The Old Men at the Zoo, Angus Wilson
1961 - Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
1961 - Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
1962 - The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
1962 - The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
1963 - A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
1965 - Dune (part of a series), Frank L Herbert
1966 - Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
1966 - The Magus, John Fowles
1967 - The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
1967 - The Einstein Intersection, Samuel R Delaney
1968 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
1968 - Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch
1969 - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
1969 - Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
1970 - The Female Man, Joanna Russ
1970 - Ringworld (part of a series), Larry Niven
1973 - Red Shift, Alan Garner
1973 - Crash, J.G. Ballard
1974 - Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing
1974 - The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
1975 - Hello Summer, Goodbye, Michael G Coney
1977 - The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter
1977 - The Shining, Stephen King
1979 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (part of a series), Douglas Adams
1979 - Kindred, Octavia Butler
1980 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
1982 - The End of the World News, Anthony Burgess
1983 - The Book of the New Sun (series), Gene Wolfe
1984 - Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
1984 - The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
1984 - Neuromancer, William Gibson
1985 - The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
1987 - Weaveworld, Clive Barker
1987 - Consider Phlebas (part of a series), Iain M. Banks
1987 - In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster
1987 - Beloved, Toni Morrison
1988 - Mother London, Michael Moorcock
1988 - The Influence, Ramsey Campbell
1988 - Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
1988 - Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
1989 - Hyperion (part of a series), Dan Simmons
1990 - The Earthsea Series, Ursula Le Guin
1991 - The Famished Road, Ben Okri
1992 - Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
1992 - The Children of Men, P.D. James
1992 - The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
1992 - Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite
1993 - Vurt (part of a series), Jeff Noon
1994 - Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
1995 - The Prestige, Christopher Priest
1995 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
1995 - Blindness, Jose Saramago
1995 - The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
1995 - The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
1996 - Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
1996 - Pig Tales, Marie Darrieussecq
1996 - The Insult, Rupert Thomson
1997 - Ingenious Pain, Andrew Miller
1997 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (part of a series), J.K. Rowling
1998 - Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
1998 - Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
1999 - Darwin's Radio (part of a series), Greg Bear
1999 - Affinity, Sarah Waters
2000 - Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
2000 - The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
2000 - House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
2000 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 - Under the Skin, Michel Faber
2000 - His Dark Materials (series), Philip Pullman
2000 - How the Dead Live, Will Self
2001 - Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones
2001 - American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2002 - The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson
2002 - Light, M. John Harrison
2003 - The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
2003 - The Scar, China Mieville
2003 - Millennium People, J.G. Ballard
2004 - Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
2004 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2005 - Air, Geoff Ryman
2005 - Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
2006 - The Road, Cormac McCarthy
2007 - Ascent, Jed Mercurio
2007 - Darkmans, Nicola Barker
2008 - The Night Sessions, Ken Macleod
2011 - The Discworld Series, Terry Pratchett
State of the nation
1688 - Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, Aphra Behn
1722 - Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
1800 - Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
1816 - Headlong Hall, Thomas Love Peacock
1827 - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
1830 - The Red and the Black, Stendhal
1839 - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
1845 - Sybil or The Two Nations, Benjamin Disraeli
1847 - La Comedie Humaine (series), Honore de Balzac
1848 - Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
1848 - Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
1849 - Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853 - Bleak House, Charles Dickens
1853 - Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
1854 - Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1855 - North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
1857 - Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens
1859 - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
1861 - Silas Marner, George Eliot
1862 - Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
1864 - Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867 - The Last Chronicle of Barset (part of a series), Anthony Trollope
1869 - The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869 - Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
1872 - Middlemarch, George Eliot
1875 - The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
1876 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
1879 - The Red Room, August Stringberg
1881 - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1885 - Germinal (part of a series), Emile Zola
1885 - Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
1886 - The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
1890 - La Bete Humaine (part of a series), Emile Zola
1891 - New Grub Street, George Gissing
1893 - The Odd Women, George Gissing
1894 - Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
1899 - McTeague, Frank Norris
1900 - Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
1905 - The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
1906 - The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
1907 - Mother, Maxim Gorky
1914 - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
1916 - The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore
1918 - Clayhanger (series), Arnold Bennett
1918 - The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
1920 - Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
1922 - Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
1924 - A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
1924 - The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
1925 - The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide
1926 - Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
1929 - The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
1929 - Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
1929 - The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
1929 - Passing, Nella Larsen
1930 - USA, John Dos Passos
1931 - Afternoon Men, Anthony Powell
1932 - Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
1932 - The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
1933 - Love on the Dole, Walter Greenwood
1934 - They Were Counted (part of a series), Miklos Banffy
1935 - Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand
1936 - Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith
1936 - South Riding, Winifred Holtby
1937 - Rickshaw Boy, Lao She
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1939 - The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
1946 - Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
1946 - Animal Farm, George Orwell
1947 - The Plague, Albert Camus
1947 - Of Love & Hunger, Julian Maclaren-Ross
1947 - A Girl in Winter, Philip Larkin
1948 - Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
1949 - The Kingdom of this World, Alejo Carpentier
1949 - The Moon and the Bonfire, Cesare Pavese
1950 - The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
1951 - The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
1952 - Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
1953 - Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
1955 - The Recognitions, William Gaddis
1956 - The Ragazzi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
1956 - The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
1957 - Room at the Top, John Braine
1958 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
1958 - The Leopard, Giuseppi di Lampedusa
1959 - Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
1959 - Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
1959 - Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
1960 - This Sporting Life, David Storey
1960 - God's Bit of Wood, Ousmane Sembene
1960 - A Kind of Loving, Stan Barstow
1962 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1963 - The Group, Mary McCarthy
1964 - Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr
1966 - To Each his Own, Leonardo Sciascia
1967 - Z, Vassilis Vassilikos
1968 - A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines
1968 - Couples, John Updike
1970 - Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
1971 - Chronicle in Stone, Ismael Kadare
1975 - The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
1977 - Staying On, Paul Scott
1978 - The Virgin in the Garden (part of a series), A.S. Byatt
1979 - A Dry White Season, Andre Brink
1979 - A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
1980 - Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
1980 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
1981 - Lanark, Alastair Gray
1981 - July's People, Nadine Gordimer
1981 - Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
1983 - Shame, Salman Rushdie
1985 - White Noise, Don DeLillo
1987 - Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
1987 - The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
1989 - London Fields, Martin Amis
1990 - Amongst Women, John McGahern
1990 - Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
1993 - Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
1993 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
1994 - How Late it Was, How Late, James Kelman
1994 - What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe
1995 - Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
1995 - Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 - A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
1997 - Underworld, Don DeLillo
1997 - American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1999 - Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
2000 - The Human Stain, Philip Roth
2000 - White Teeth, Zadie Smith
2001 - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
2003 - Personality, Andrew O'Hagan
2004 - The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
2004 - GB84, David Peace
War and travel
1599 - Monkey, Wu Ch'eng-en
1719 - Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
1735 - Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
1751 - The History of Pompey the Little, Francis Coventry
1759 - Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
1759 - Candide, Voltaire
1768 - A Sentimental Journey, Lawrence Sterne
1785 - The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rudolp Erich Raspe
1820 - Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
1839 - The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
1844 - The Three Musketeers (part of a series), Alexandre Dumas
1847 - The Children of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat
1851 - Moby-Dick or, The Whale, Herman Melville
1864 - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
1869 - War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
1873 - Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
1877 - Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
1883 - Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
1884 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
1885 - King Solomon's Mines (part of a series), Henry Rider Haggard
1886 - Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
1887 - She: A History of Adventure (part of a series), Henry Rider Haggard
1892 - The Debacle (part of a series), Emile Zola
1894 - The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope
1895 - The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
1896 - The Island of Dr Moreau, H.G. Wells
1900 - Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
1902 - The Virginian, Owen Wister
1903 - The Call of the Wild, Jack London
1903 - Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
1904 - Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
1905 - The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1917 - South Wind, Norman Douglas
1920 - Queen Lucia (part of a series), E. F. Benson
1920 - Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos
1921 - Sacaramouche (part of a series), Rafael Sabatini
1922 - Captain Blood (part of a series), Rafael Sabatini
1922 - One of Ours, Willa Cather
1923 - The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek
1924 - Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
1924 - The Mark of Zorro (part of a series), Johnston McCulley
1929 - All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
1929 - Death of a Hero, Richard Aldington
1929 - A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
1932 - Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
1933 - La Condition Humaine, Andre Malraux
1934 - Burmese Days, George Orwell
1935 - The African Queen, C.S. Forester
1935 - Auto-da-Fe, Elias Canetti
1938 - Count Belisarius, Robert Graves
1940 - Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
1940 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
1942 - Put Out More Flags, Evelyn Waugh
1942 - Suite Francaise (series), Irene Nemirovsky
1942 - Darkness Falls from the Air, Nigel Balchin
1943 - The Ship, C.S. Forester
1943 - The Crab with the Golden Claws (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1944 - Fair Stood the Wind for France, H.E. Bates
1946 - Williwaw, Gore Vidal
1947 - Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener
1947 - The Slaves of Solitude, Patrick Hamilton
1948 - The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw
1948 - The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
1949 - The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
1950 - A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
1951 - The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1951 - The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
1952 - Men at Arms (part of a series), Evelyn Waugh
1952 - From Here to Eternity, James Jones
1955 - Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
1956 - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Joao Guimaraes Rosa
1957 - The Guns of Navarone, Alistair MacLean
1957 - On the Road, Jack Kerouac
1957 - The Hunters, James Salter
1957 - Justine (part of a series), Lawrence Durrell
1957 - Voss, Patrick White
1959 - The Tin Drum (part of a series), Gunter Grass
1959 - Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman
1960 - Tintin in Tibet (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1960 - Fortunes of War (series), Olivia Manning
1961 - Covenant with Death, John Harris
1961 - Asterix the Gaul (part of a series), Rene Goscinny
1963 - The Castafiore Emerald (part of a series), Georges Remi Herge
1964 - The Valley of Bones (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1965 - The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
1966 - The Soldier's Art (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1967 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1968 - The Military Philosophers (part of a series), Anthony Powell
1969 - Slaughter-House Five, Kurt Vonnegut
1969 - Master and Commander (part of a series), Patrick O'Brian
1969 - The Bamboo Bed, William Eastlake
1970 - Deliverance, James Dickey
1970 - Bomber, Len Deighton
1972 - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
1973 - Carrie's War, Nina Bawden
1973 - Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
1974 - History, Elsa Morante
1974 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
1975 - The Machine-Gunners, Robert Westall
1979 - Confederates, Thomas Keneally
1979 - Sophie's Choice, William Styron
1980 - To The Ends of the Earth trilogy, William Golding
1981 - Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell
1981 - A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone
1982 - When the Wind Blows, Raymond Briggs
1982 - Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
1982 - An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
1984 - Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
1985 - Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1986 - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
1986 - If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
1990 - Silver Stallion, Junghyo Ahn
1990 - The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
1991 - Maus (series), Art Spiegelman
1991 - Regeneration, Pat Barker
1992 - All the Pretty Horses (part of a series), Cormac McCarthy
1993 - Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
1994 - The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
1995 - Enigma, Robert Harris
1995 - The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
1996 - The Beach, Alex Garland
1997 - Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
1998 - Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
1998 - The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
1999 - Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
2001 - Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
2002 - Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
2003 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
2005 - Flashman (series), George MacDonald Fraser
2005 - A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
2006 - De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
2007 - Day, A.L. Kennedy
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