| Titles | Order |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction |
| 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff | Memoirs |
| Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole | Thrillers |
| The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler | Modern Fiction |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Classic Fiction |
| The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420 by Georges Duby | History |
| The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell | Modern Fiction |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll | Children's Fiction |
| Amiel's Journal by Henri Frédéric Amiel | Memoirs |
| Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul | Travel Writing |
| And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss | Children's Fiction |
| Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949 (Penguin Modern Classics) by André Gide | Memoirs |
| An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame | Memoirs |
| The Annals by Tacitus | History |
| Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery | Children's Fiction |
| Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez | Travel Writing |
| The Armada by Garrett Mattingly | History |
| At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald | Children's Fiction |
| Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald | Modern Fiction |
| Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti | Modern Fiction |
| Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III (Collected Works of W B Yeats) by W. B. Yeats | Memoirs |
| Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda | Memoirs |
| The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini | Memoirs |
| Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope | Classic Fiction |
| Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler | Modern Fiction |
| The Beast in Man by Émile Zola | Classic Fiction |
| The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake | Thrillers |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | Modern Fiction |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin | Modern Fiction |
| The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood | Modern Fiction |
| The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing | Thrillers |
| Birdsong by Sebastian C. Faulks | Modern Fiction |
| Black Beauty by Anna Sewell | Children's Fiction |
| Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin | Memoirs |
| The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat | Modern Fiction |
| Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield | Classic Fiction |
| Blood Sport by Dick Francis | Thrillers |
| The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter | Modern Fiction |
| The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald | Modern Fiction |
| Bones and silence by Reginald Hill | Thrillers |
| Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan | Modern Fiction |
| The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe | Memoirs |
| Born Victim by Hillary Waugh | Thrillers |
| Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette | Memoirs |
| Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl | Memoirs |
| Brain Wave by Poul Anderson | Science Fiction |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Science Fiction |
| The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich | Thrillers |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Modern Fiction |
| Brief Lives by John Aubrey | Memoirs |
| The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz | Modern Fiction |
| Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham | Modern Fiction |
| Candide by Voltaire | Classic Fiction |
| The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Classic Fiction |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller | Science Fiction |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières | Modern Fiction |
| The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole | Classic Fiction |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Modern Fiction |
| Changing Places by David Lodge | Modern Fiction |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl | Children's Fiction |
| Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | Children's Fiction |
| Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson | History |
| The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg | History |
| Childhood, Youth and Exile (The World's Classics) by Alexander Herzen | Memoirs |
| The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen | Thrillers |
| Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys | History |
| A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | Classic Fiction |
| Chéri by Colette | Modern Fiction |
| Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama | History |
| City by Clifford D. Simak | Science Fiction |
| The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt | History |
| Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson | Classic Fiction |
| A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | Science Fiction |
| Cold Heaven by Brian Moore | Modern Fiction |
| The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel | Modern Fiction |
| Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson | History |
| The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett | Children's Fiction |
| The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm | Children's Fiction |
| The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen | Children's Fiction |
| The Complete Short Stories by Saki | Modern Fiction |
| Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe | Classic Fiction |
| The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear | Children's Fiction |
| Confessions by Saint Augustine | Memoirs |
| The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Memoirs |
| Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo | Modern Fiction |
| The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen | Modern Fiction |
| Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino | Science Fiction |
| Couples by John Updike | Modern Fiction |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Classic Fiction |
| The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London | Travel Writing |
| The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf | History |
| The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard | Science Fiction |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon | Children's Fiction |
| Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino | History |
| Danube by Claudio Magris | Travel Writing |
| The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey | Thrillers |
| The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham | Science Fiction |
| De omweg naar Santiago by Cees Nooteboom | Travel Writing |
| De Profundis by Oscar Wilde | Memoirs |
| Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson by Nicholas Rankin | Travel Writing |
| Deadlock by Sara Paretsky | Thrillers |
| Death in the Wrong Room by Anthony Gilbert | Thrillers |
| Death of My Aunt by C. H. B. Kitchin | Thrillers |
| The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler | History |
| The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester | Science Fiction |
| Der seekranke Walfisch oder Ein Israeli auf Reisen. by Ephraim Kishon | Travel Writing |
| Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone by Jan Morris | Travel Writing |
| Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly by John Franklin Bardin | Thrillers |
| The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka | Memoirs |
| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | Memoirs |
| The Diary Of Alice James by Alice James | Memoirs |
| The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys | Memoirs |
| Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | Modern Fiction |
| A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman | History |
| The Diviners by Margaret Laurence | Modern Fiction |
| Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado | Modern Fiction |
| Donovans Brain by Curt Siodmak | Science Fiction |
| Double Indemnity by James M. Cain | Thrillers |
| Dover One (Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novels) by Joyce Porter | Thrillers |
| Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell | Memoirs |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker | Classic Fiction |
| Dune by Frank Herbert | Science Fiction |
| Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt | Science Fiction |
| Embers by Sandor Marai | Modern Fiction |
| Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner | Children's Fiction |
| The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama | History |
| Enduring Love by Ian McEwan | Modern Fiction |
| The Engagement by Georges Simenon | Thrillers |
| The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký | Modern Fiction |
| The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje | Modern Fiction |
| Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake | Travel Writing |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous | Classic Fiction |
| Erewhon by Samuel Butler | Science Fiction |
| The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | Modern Fiction |
| The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor | History |
| Fanny Hill by John Cleland | Classic Fiction |
| Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler | Thriller |
| The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes | History |
| Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse | Memoirs |
| Felicia's journey by William Trevor | Modern Fiction |
| The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien | Children's Fiction |
| Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz | Modern Fiction |
| Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges | Modern Fiction |
| Fifth Business by Robertson Davies | Modern Fiction |
| The File on H.: A Novel by Ismail Kadare | Modern Fiction |
| Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh | Thrillers |
| A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Modern Fiction |
| Five Children and It by E. Nesbit | Children's Fiction |
| Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter | History |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Classic Fiction |
| From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts 1-3 (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 4) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Memoirs |
| From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant | Modern Fiction |
| Frozen Desire by James Buchan | History |
| Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers | Thrillers |
| Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin | Modern Fiction |
| The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse | Modern Fiction |
| The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest by Peter Dickinson | Thrillers |
| God's First Love: Christians and Jews Over Two Thousand Years (Phoenix Giants) by Friedrich Heer | History |
| God's Grace by Bernard Malamud | Modern Fiction |
| The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman | Children's Fiction |
| Golden Earth: Travels in Burma by Norman Lewis | Travel Writing |
| The Golden Notebook by Doris May Lessing | Modern Fiction |
| The Golem by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Children's Fiction |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor | Modern Fiction |
| The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | Modern Fiction |
| Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake | Modern Fiction |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | Modern Fiction |
| The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux | Travel Writing |
| The Green Child by Sir Herbert Edward Read | Science Fiction |
| A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis | Memoirs |
| The Group by Mary McCarthy | Modern Fiction |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | Classic Fiction |
| Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe | Modern Fiction |
| Hamlet, revenge! by Michael Innes | Thrillers |
| The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Science Fiction |
| The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde | Children's Fiction |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling | Children's Fiction |
| He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr | Thrillers |
| The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | Modern Fiction |
| Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Classic Fiction |
| Heidi by Johanna Spyri | Children's Fiction |
| Herzog by Saul Bellow | Modern Fiction |
| A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes | Modern Fiction |
| Hiroshima by John Hersey | History |
| The Histories by Herodotus | History |
| The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | History |
| A History of Warfare by John Keegan | History |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Science Fiction |
| Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock | History |
| The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert | History |
| The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary | Modern Fiction |
| Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss | Science Fiction |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Classic Fiction |
| The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Aries | History |
| A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett | Modern Fiction |
| A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul | Modern Fiction |
| The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | Classic Fiction |
| How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar | Thrillers |
| Howards End by E. M. Forster | Classic Fiction |
| The Human Comedy by William Saroyan | Children's Fiction |
| The Human Stain by Philip Roth | Modern Fiction |
| Hunger by Knut Hamsun | Modern Fiction |
| I Am Legend by Richard Matheson | Science Fiction |
| I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933–1941 by Victor Klemperer | Memoirs |
| I, Robot by Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction |
| If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino | Modern Fiction |
| The Iliad by Homer | Classic Fiction |
| An Imaginary Life by David Malouf | Modern Fiction |
| In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin | Travel Writing |
| In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of A. V (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Stephen Vizinczey | Modern Fiction |
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Classic Fiction |
| In the Castle of my Skin by George Lamming | Memoirs |
| In The Last Analysis by Amanda Cross | Thrillers |
| Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice | Modern Fiction |
| Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon | Travel Writing |
| The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Science Fiction |
| Inverted World by Christopher Priest | Science Fiction |
| Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis | History |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells | Science Fiction |
| Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright | Science Fiction |
| It by Stephen King | Modern Fiction |
| Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler | Children's Fiction |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Classic Fiction |
| Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton | Memoirs |
| Journal of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield | Memoirs |
| Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke | Travel Writing |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne | Science Fiction |
| Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Modern Fiction |
| The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson | Travel Writing |
| Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy | Classic Fiction |
| A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell | Thrillers |
| July's People by Nadine Gordimer | Modern Fiction |
| Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling | Children's Fiction |
| Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Classic Fiction |
| The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin | Children's Fiction |
| King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard | Classic Fiction |
| The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier | Modern Fiction |
| Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl | Travel Writing |
| La Ciudad y los Perros by Mario Vargas Llosa | Modern Fiction |
| La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Modern Library Exploration) by Francis Parkman | Travel Writing |
| Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Classic Fiction |
| Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon | Science Fiction |
| The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey | Thrillers |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. | Modern Fiction |
| The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford | Travel Writing |
| The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle | Children's Fiction |
| The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall | Thrillers |
| Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier | Modern Fiction |
| Le poisson-scorpion by Nicolas Bouvier | Travel Writing |
| The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction |
| The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa | Modern Fiction |
| Les malheurs de Sophie by Comtesse de Ségur | Children's Fiction |
| Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | Classic Fiction |
| Les Rois maudits, tome 1 : Le Roi de fer by Maurice Druon | History |
| Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp | Science Fiction |
| The Letters by Pliny the Younger | Memoirs |
| Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin | History |
| Life of Pi by Yann Martel | Modern Fiction |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis | Children's Fiction |
| The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Children's Fiction |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Children's Fiction |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | Modern Fiction |
| London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd | History |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Modern Fiction |
| Lost Horizon by James Hilton | Modern Fiction |
| The Lover by Marguerite Duras | Modern Fiction |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | Classic Fiction |
| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | Modern Fiction |
| The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Modern Fiction |
| Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles | Thrillers |
| The Man in the Net by Patrick Quentin | Thrillers |
| The Man Who Killed Himself by Julian Symons | Thrillers |
| The Man who Loved Children by Christina Stead | Modern Fiction |
| The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton | Classic Fiction |
| The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction |
| Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers | Children's Fiction |
| The Master by Colm Tóibín | Modern Fiction |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Modern Fiction |
| Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne | History |
| The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel | History |
| Memoirs by Pablo Neruda | Memoirs |
| Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir | Memoirs |
| Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar | Modern Fiction |
| Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung | Memoirs |
| The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick | Modern Fiction |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | Classic Fiction |
| Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | History |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville | Classic Fiction |
| The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins | Classic Fiction |
| More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon | Science Fiction |
| More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham | Thrillers |
| The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin | Thrillers |
| Mr Weston's Good Wine by T. F. Powys | Modern Fiction |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie | Thrillers |
| The Murder Room by P. D. James | Thrillers |
| My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell | Memoirs |
| My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel | Travel Writing |
| My Left Foot by Christy Brown | Memoirs |
| My Place by Sally Morgan | Memoirs |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux | Thrillers |
| Nadja by André Breton | Modern Fiction |
| The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience, Vol. 4) by Peter Gay | History |
| Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs | Modern Fiction |
| The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Modern Fiction |
| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe | Science Fiction |
| The Nephew by James Purdy | Modern Fiction |
| Neuromancer by William Gibson | Science Fiction |
| Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat | Travel Writing |
| The Neverending Story by Michael Ende | Modern Fiction |
| The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster | Modern Fiction |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | Science Fiction |
| No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase | Thrillers |
| Nobody's boy by Hector Malot | Children's Fiction |
| North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell | Classic Fiction |
| Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | Classics |
| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | Modern Fiction |
| On Fiji Islands (Travel Library) by Ronald Wright | Travel Writing |
| On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan by Lesley Downer | Travel Writing |
| Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff | Modern Fiction |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Modern Fiction |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson | Memoirs |
| The Origins of The Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor | History |
| The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal | History |
| Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey | Modern Fiction |
| Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet | Modern Fiction |
| Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens | Classics |
| Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis | Science Fiction |
| An Oxford Tragedy by J. C. Masterman | Thrillers |
| Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox | History |
| The Palm-wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola | Modern Fiction |
| Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers by Humphrey Jennings | History |
| A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | Modern Fiction |
| Paula by Isabel Allende | Memoirs |
| Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire by James Morris | History |
| Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo | Modern Fiction |
| Pentimento by Lillian Hellman | Memoirs |
| The People Trap by Robert Sheckley | Science Fiction |
| A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn | History |
| Pereira declares by Antonio Tabucchi | Modern Fiction |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind | Modern Fiction |
| The Periodic Table by Primo Levi | Modern Fiction |
| Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault | Children's Fiction |
| Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie | Children's Fiction |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Classic Fiction |
| The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | Children's Fiction |
| A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse | Thrillers |
| Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi | Children's Fiction |
| Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren | Children's Fiction |
| Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle | Science Fiction |
| The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer | History |
| Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch | History |
| The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley | Thrillers |
| The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | Classic Fiction |
| Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson | Memoirs |
| Possession by A. S. Byatt | Modern Fiction |
| The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | Modern Fiction |
| The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene | Classic Fiction |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | Modern Fiction |
| The Progress of Love by Alice Munro | Modern Fiction |
| Psycho by Robert Bloch | Thrillers |
| The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson | Travel Writing |
| The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Memoirs |
| Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser | Thrillers |
| The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth | Modern Fiction |
| A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes | Thrillers |
| Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta: Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban), Emissary (Grade 9), 87th of the Period of the Last Days by Doris May Lessing | Science Fiction |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi | Memoirs |
| Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | Modern Fiction |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin | Children's Fiction |
| The Red and the Black by Stendhal | Classic Fiction |
| The Red Box by Rex Stout | Thrillers |
| A Red Death by Walter Mosley | Thrillers |
| Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett | Thrillers |
| The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne | Thrillers |
| The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker | Modern Fiction |
| The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | Modern Fiction |
| Ringworld by Larry Niven | Science Fiction |
| Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins | History |
| The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron | Travel Writing |
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Classic Fiction |
| Rosaura a Las Diez by Marco Denevi | Thrillers |
| A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee | Travel Writing |
| Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje | Memoirs |
| Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum | Travel Writing |
| The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie | Modern Fiction |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Classic Fiction |
| The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima | Modern Fiction |
| The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch | Modern Fiction |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Children's Fiction |
| Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | Classic Fiction |
| Seven Gothic Tales by Tania Blixen | Modern Fiction |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence | History |
| The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton | Memoirs |
| Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer | Travel Writing |
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer | Thrillers |
| The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner | Science Fiction |
| Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas | History |
| A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby | Travel Writing |
| A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe | Classic Fiction |
| Slan by A. E. Van Vogt | Science Fiction |
| Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | Science Fiction |
| The Sleeping Car Murders by Sébastien Japrisot | Thrillers |
| Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg | Thrillers |
| The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen | Travel Writing |
| Solaris by Stanisław Lem | Science Fiction |
| Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas | Modern Fiction |
| Sophie's Choice by William Styron | Modern Fiction |
| Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder | Children's Fiction |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Classic Fiction |
| The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | Modern Fiction |
| Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov | Memoirs |
| The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré | Thrillers |
| Staying On by Paul Scott | Modern Fiction |
| The Steam Pig by James McClure | Thrillers |
| The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin | Science Fiction |
| Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov | Classic Fiction |
| The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | Modern Fiction |
| The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting | Children's Fiction |
| The Story of English by Robert McCrum | History |
| The Story of My Life by Helen Keller | Memoirs |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson | Classic Fiction |
| A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille | Science Fiction |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | Modern Fiction |
| Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | Science Fiction |
| The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy | History |
| Suicide Excepted by Cyril Hare | Thrillers |
| The Sunday Woman by Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini | Thrillers |
| Surfacing by Margaret Atwood | Modern Fiction |
| Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome | Children's Fiction |
| The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks | Modern Fiction |
| The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White | Children's Fiction |
| Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis | Modern Fiction |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter | Children's Fiction |
| Tales from the Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous | Classic Fiction |
| Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Modern Fiction |
| The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien | Modern Fiction |
| Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Classics |
| The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction |
| Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell | Thrillers |
| The Time Traders by Andre Norton | Science Fiction |
| The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | Modern Fiction |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | Classic Fiction |
| To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer | Science Fiction |
| Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | Classic Fiction |
| Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce | Children's Fiction |
| The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay | Memoirs |
| A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain | Travel Writing |
| The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands by Patrick Leigh Fermor | Travel Writing |
| The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah | Travel Writing |
| The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo | Travel Writing |
| Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennas by Robert Louis Stevenson | Travel Writing |
| Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck | Travel Writing |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | Children's Fiction |
| Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley | Thrillers |
| The Trial by Franz Kafka | Modern Fiction |
| Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley | Thrillers |
| The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone | History |
| Tschiffely's Ride by A. F. Tschiffely | Travel Writing |
| Two Planets by Kurd Laßwitz | Science Fiction |
| Ulysses by James Joyce | Modern Fiction |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | Modern Fiction |
| Underworld by Don DeLillo | Modern Fiction |
| Unless by Carol Shields | Modern Fiction |
| Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell | Thrillers |
| The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus by Cyril Connolly | Memoirs |
| Utopia by Thomas More | Classic Fiction |
| The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Freya Stark | Travel Writing |
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Classic Fiction |
| Vathek by William Beckford | Classic Fiction |
| Vendetta by Michael Dibdin | Thrillers |
| The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith | Classic Fiction |
| Victory by Joseph Conrad | Modern Fiction |
| Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer | Travel Writing |
| Voss by Patrick White | Modern Fiction |
| The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin | Travel Writing |
| Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Memoirs |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Classic Fiction |
| The War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud | Children's Fiction |
| The Wars by Timothy Findley | Modern Fiction |
| Waverley by Walter Scott | Classic Fiction |
| Ways of Escape by Graham Greene | Memoirs |
| The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner | Children's Fiction |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver | Modern Fiction |
| Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz | Modern Fiction |
| Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak | Children's Fiction |
| The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas | Modern Fiction |
| Who Goes There by John W. Campbell | Science Fiction |
| Wildlife by Richard Ford | Modern Fiction |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Children's Fiction |
| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson | Modern Fiction |
| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | Children's Fiction |
| The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum | Children's Fiction |
| The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins | Thrillers |
| Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence | Modern Fiction |
| The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles | History |
| The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre | Memoirs |
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | Modern Fiction |
| The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon | History |
| A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | Children's Fiction |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Classic Fiction |
