Titles | Order |
52 Pick-Up by Elmore Leonard | Crime |
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes | State of the nation |
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler | Love |
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge | Comedy |
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Adam Bede by George Eliot | Love |
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow | Comedy |
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett | Comedy |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | War and travel |
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle {complete} by Tobias Smollett | Comedy |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain | State of the nation |
Affinity by Sarah Waters | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The African Queen by C. S. Forester | War and travel |
After London: Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell | State of the nation |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | Love |
Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel | Family and self |
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said | Love |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque | War and travel |
All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom | Love |
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy | War and travel |
Alms for Oblivion, Volume 1 by Simon Raven | Comedy |
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Ambassadors by Henry James | Family and self |
American Gods by Neil Gaiman | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
American Pastoral by Philip Roth | State of the nation |
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis | Crime |
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | Crime |
Amongst Women by John McGahern | State of the nation |
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie | Crime |
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor | War and travel |
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton | Crime |
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor | Family and self |
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson | Comedy |
Animal Farm by George Orwell | State of the Nation |
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Love |
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe | State of the nation |
Any Human Heart by William Boyd | Family and self |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne | War and travel |
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante | Love |
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | Family and self |
Ascent by Jed Mercurio | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman | Comedy |
The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett | Crime |
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud | Family and self |
Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny | War and travel |
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien | Family and self |
Atonement by Ian McEwan | Love |
Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford | Comedy |
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald | War and travel |
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti | War and travel |
The Awakening by Kate Chopin | Family and self |
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis | State of the nation |
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild | Family and self |
The Bamboo Bed by William Eastlake | War and travel |
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope | Comedy |
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray | Comedy |
The Beach by Alex Garland | War and travel |
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake | Crime |
The Beast Within by Émile Zola | State of the nation |
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata | Love |
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell | Comedy |
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro | Family and self |
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson | Family and self |
Being Dead by Jim Crace | Family and self |
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant | State of the nation |
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Family and self |
The Belles Lettres Papers by Charles Simmons | Comedy |
Beloved by Toni Morrison | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul | State of the nation |
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin | State of the nation |
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni | State of the nation |
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos | Crime |
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy | Crime |
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | Crime |
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse | State of the nation |
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks | War and travel |
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin | Crime |
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell | War and travel |
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch | Family and self |
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris | Crime |
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky | Crime |
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín | Family and self |
Bleak House by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Blindness by José Saramago | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | War and travel |
Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky | Crime |
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe | Comedy |
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald | Love |
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon | Crime |
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison | Family and self |
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Bomber by Len Deighton | War and travel |
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill | Crime |
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | State of the nation |
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan | Love |
The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow | State of the nation |
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera | Love |
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge | Comedy |
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum | Crime |
Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert | Comedy |
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote | Love |
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut | Comedy |
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler | Love |
Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon | Comedy |
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding | Comedy |
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney | Comedy |
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene | Crime |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Family and self |
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann | Family and self |
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi | Family and self |
Burmese Days by George Orwell | War and travel |
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart | Love |
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk | War and travel |
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham | Comedy |
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth | Family and self |
The Call of the Wild by Jack London | War and travel |
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Candide by Voltaire | War and travel |
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Caprice by Ronald Firbank | Comedy |
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini | War and travel |
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith | Love |
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden | War and travel |
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge | State of the nation |
The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake | Crime |
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin | Comedy |
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming | Crime |
The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé | War and travel |
The Castle by Franz Kafka | Comedy |
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth | State of the nation |
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood | Family and self |
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Comedy |
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Family and self |
Changing Places by David Lodge | Comedy |
Charade by John Mortimer | Comedy |
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal | War and travel |
The Chateau by William Maxwell | Family and self |
Cheese by Willem Elsschot | Comedy |
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan | Love |
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Children of Men by P. D. James | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Children of the New Forest by Captain Frederick Marryat | War and travel |
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare | State of the nation |
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Chéri by Colette | Love |
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee | Family and self |
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson | Love |
Claudine at School by Colette | Love |
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett | State of the nation |
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | Comedy |
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier | War and travel |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Family and self |
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle | Comedy |
The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans | Comedy |
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman | War and travel |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | Comedy |
Confederates by Thomas Keneally | War and travel |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré | Crime |
Cop Hater by Ed McBain | Crime |
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen | State of the nation |
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves | War and travel |
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père | Crime |
The Counterfeiters by André Gide | State of the nation |
Couples by John Updike | State of the nation |
Covenant with Death by John Harris | War and travel |
Cover Her Face by P. D. James | Crime |
The Crab with the Golden Claws by Hergé | War and travel |
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell | State of the nation |
Crash by J. G. Ballard | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime |
The Crime of Father Amaro by José Maria Eça de Queirós | Crime |
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley | Love |
The Crow Road by Iain Banks | Family and self |
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat | War and travel |
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton | State of the nation |
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon | Crime |
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson | War and travel |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon | Comedy |
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring by Anthony Powell | Comedy |
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot | Love |
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine | Crime |
Darkmans by Nicola Barker | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler | War and travel |
Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin | War and travel |
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey | Crime |
Day by A. L. Kennedy | War and travel |
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth | Crime |
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West | State of the nation |
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin | Crime |
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | Comedy |
Death and the Penguin by Andreï Kourkov | Comedy |
Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes | Crime |
Death in Summer by William Trevor | Family and self |
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann | Love |
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington | War and travel |
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen | Love |
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch | Family and self |
The Debacle by Émile Zola | War and travel |
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester | Comedy |
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
Deliverance by James Dickey | War and travel |
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin | Love |
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley | Crime |
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa | War and travel |
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | Love |
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith | Comedy |
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield | Comedy |
Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin | Crime |
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | State of the nation |
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom | Crime |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak | Love |
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King | Crime |
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis | Love |
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Comedy |
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain | Crime |
Dracula by Bram Stoker | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark | Comedy |
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
A Dry White Season by André Brink | State of the nation |
Dune by Frank Herbert | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess | State of the nation |
East Lynne by Ellen Wood | Love |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck | Family and self |
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann | Love |
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane | State of the nation |
The Egoist by George Meredith | Love |
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis | State of the nation |
Emma by Jane Austen | Love |
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard | War and travel |
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene | Love |
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan | Crime |
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Love |
England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell | Comedy |
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje | Love |
Enigma by Robert Harris | War and travel |
Ennui by Maria Edgeworth | Comedy |
Epileptic by David B. | Family and self |
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler | Crime |
Erewhon by Samuel Butler | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac | Family and self |
Evelina by Frances Burney | Family and self |
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer | War and travel |
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym | Comedy |
Exit Music by Ian Rankin | Crime |
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett | Comedy |
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard | Family and self |
The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe | Family and self |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates | War and travel |
A Fairy Tale of New York by J. P. Donleavy | Comedy |
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry | Family and self |
The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Family and self |
The Famished Road by Ben Okri | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Fantômas by Marcel Allain | Crime |
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark | Comedy |
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy | Love |
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye | Love |
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway | Love |
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine | Crime |
Fatherland by Robert Harris | Crime |
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | Family and self |
The Female Man by Joanna Russ | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | State of the nation |
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters | Crime |
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Comedy |
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul | Comedy |
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone | War and travel |
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser | War and travel |
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes | Comedy |
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway | War and travel |
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie | Love |
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson | Family and self |
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Foundation by Isaac Asimov | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West | Family and self |
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace | Crime |
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles | Love |
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman | Crime |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins | Crime |
From Here to Eternity by James Jones | War and travel |
Frost in May by Antonia White | Family and self |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel | Family and self |
G. by John Berger | Family and self |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani | Love |
Gargantua And Pantagruel by François Rabelais | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Gathering by Anne Enright | Family and self |
GB84 by David Peace | State of the nation |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady by Anita Loos | Love |
Germinal by Émile Zola | State of the nation |
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard | Crime |
The Getaway by Jim Thompson | Crime |
Gil Blas by Alain René Le Sage | Comedy |
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | Love |
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin | Love |
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin | State of the nation |
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark | Comedy |
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett | Crime |
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin | State of the nation |
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley | Love |
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | Family and self |
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene | State of the nation |
The Godfather by Mario Puzo | Crime |
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing | Family and self |
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming | Crime |
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Love |
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane | Family and self |
The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley | Family and self |
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd | Comedy |
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | Love |
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek | War and travel |
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood | State of the nation |
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith | Crime |
The Graduate by Charles Webb | Love |
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier | Love |
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | State of the nation |
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing | State of the nation |
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | War and travel |
Great Apes by Will Self | Comedy |
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Family and self |
The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning | War and travel |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Love |
The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim | Crime |
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson | Love |
Greenmantle by John Buchan | Crime |
The Group by Mary McCarthy | State of the nation |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | War and travel |
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene | Crime |
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean | War and travel |
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
Handley Cross by R. S. Surtees | Comedy |
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin | Crime |
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton | Crime |
Hard Revolution by George P. Pelecanos | Crime |
Hard Times by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
The Harpole Report by J. L. Carr | Comedy |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock | State of the nation |
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington | Comedy |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | Love |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | War and travel |
A Heart So White by Javier Marías | Love |
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen | Love |
Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G. Coney | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Herzog by Saul Bellow | Family and self |
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud | Family and self |
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby | Comedy |
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes | War and travel |
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
History by Elsa Morante | War and travel |
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury | Comedy |
The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells | Family and self |
The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry | War and travel |
A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes | Comedy |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau | Family and self |
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore | State of the nation |
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary | Comedy |
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle | Crime |
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul | Family and self |
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | State of the nation |
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn | Family and self |
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman | State of the nation |
How the Dead Live by Will Self | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Howards End by E. M. Forster | Family and self |
The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac | State of the nation |
The Human Stain by Philip Roth | State of the nation |
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow | Family and self |
Hunger by Knut Hamsun | Family and self |
The Hunters by James Salter | War and travel |
Hurrah for St. Trinian's and Other Lapses by Ronald Searle | Comedy |
Hyperion by Dan Simmons | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward | Family and self |
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd | War and travel |
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | State of the nation |
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi | War and travel |
Illywhacker by Peter Carey | Comedy |
The Immoralist by André Gide | Family and self |
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Family and self |
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Independence Day by Richard Ford | State of the nation |
An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer | Love |
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace | Comedy |
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Information by Martin Amis | Comedy |
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Insult by Rupert Thomson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino | War and travel |
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | State of the nation |
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann | Family and self |
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton | Crime |
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells | War and travel |
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott | War and travel |
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot | Comedy |
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Love |
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware | Family and self |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding | Comedy |
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler | Crime |
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne | War and travel |
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline | War and travel |
Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy | Love |
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell | Crime |
Julie, or the New Héloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Family and self |
July's People by Nadine Gordimer | State of the nation |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | State of the nation |
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton | Crime |
Just William by Richmal Crompton | Comedy |
Justine by Lawrence Durrell | War and travel |
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines | State of the nation |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson | War and travel |
Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Crime |
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow | State of the nation |
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The King of Torts by John Grisham | Crime |
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine | Crime |
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard | War and travel |
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier | State of the nation |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | War and travel |
The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks | Family and self |
L. A. Confidential by James Ellroy | Crime |
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Crime |
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence | Love |
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor | Comedy |
Lanark by Alasdair Gray | State of the nation |
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson | Family and self |
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope | State of the nation |
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby | State of the nation |
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter | Crime |
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen | State of the nation |
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall | Crime |
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout | Crime |
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes | Comedy |
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford | Family and self |
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | State of the nation |
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym | Comedy |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Love |
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman | War and travel |
The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon | Comedy |
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne | Comedy |
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec | Comedy |
Light by M. John Harrison | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Light Years by James Salter | Love |
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst | State of the nation |
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Family and self |
Little Women & Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott | Family and self |
The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi | Comedy |
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell | Crime |
Living by Henry Green | Love |
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark | Comedy |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | Love |
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
London Fields by Martin Amis | State of the nation |
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon | State of the nation |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore | Family and self |
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | War and travel |
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | Crime |
A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry | War and travel |
Look at Me by Anita Brookner | Love |
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad | War and travel |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore | Love |
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather | Love |
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Love for Lydia by H. E. Bates | Love |
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford | Love |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Love |
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood | State of the nation |
Love Story by Erich Segal | Love |
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
The Lover by Marguerite Duras | Love |
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis | Comedy |
Lush Life by Richard Price | Crime |
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall | War and travel |
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | Love |
The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon | Crime |
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | State of the nation |
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington | Family and self |
The Magus by John Fowles | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis | State of the nation |
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles | Crime |
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett | Family and self |
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett | Crime |
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy | Family and self |
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead | Family and self |
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren | Crime |
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil | Family and self |
Man's Fate by André Malraux | War and travel |
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon | Crime |
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir | Family and self |
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost | Love |
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett | Family and self |
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen | Love |
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif | Love |
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley | War and travel |
Married Man by Piers Paul Read | Family and self |
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens | Comedy |
Martin Eden by Jack London | Family and self |
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell | Family and self |
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler | Crime |
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian | War and travel |
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge | War and travel |
Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson | Love |
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | State of the nation |
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris | State of the nation |
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers | Family and self |
Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal | Family and self |
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen | Comedy |
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh | War and travel |
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland | State of the nation |
Middlemarch by George Eliot | State of the nation |
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides | Family and self |
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie | State of the nation |
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson | Comedy |
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell | War and travel |
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | Love |
Millennium People by J. G. Ballard | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble | Family and self |
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene | Crime |
Misery by Stephen King | Crime |
Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary | Comedy |
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | State of the nation |
Moby Dick by Herman Melville | War and travel |
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe | State of the nation |
Molloy by Samuel Beckett | Comedy |
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis | Comedy |
The Monk by Matthew Lewis | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Monkey: A Journey to the West by David Kherdian | War and travel |
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr | Love |
Moo by Jane Smiley | Comedy |
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese | State of the nation |
Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent | Love |
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins | Crime |
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow | Love |
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner | Family and self |
Mother by Maxim Gorky | State of the nation |
Mother London by Michael Moorcock | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem | Crime |
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy | Family and self |
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood | Comedy |
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins | Comedy |
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | Family and self |
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie | Crime |
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers | Crime |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie | Crime |
Music & Silence by Rose Tremain | Love |
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier | Crime |
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell | Family and self |
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok | Family and self |
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk | Crime |
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet | Family and self |
My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket | Comedy |
My Ántonia by Willa Cather | Love |
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie | Crime |
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain | Comedy |
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer | War and travel |
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Crime |
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse | Family and self |
Native Son by Richard Wright | Crime |
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke | Crime |
Neuromancer by William Gibson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
New Grub Street by George Gissing | State of the nation |
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster | Crime |
News from Nowhere by William Morris | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Nice Work by David Lodge | Comedy |
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens | Comedy |
The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters | Love |
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes | Love |
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace | Crime |
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace | Crime |
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage | War and travel |
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms | Comedy |
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy | Crime |
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase | Crime |
Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell | State of the nation |
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen | Love |
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami | Love |
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad | War and travel |
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | State of the nation |
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith | State of the nation |
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov | Comedy |
The Odd Women by George Gissing | State of the nation |
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham | Love |
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross | State of the nation |
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | Crime |
Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed | Comedy |
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | Family and self |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | Family and self |
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett | Family and self |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
On Beauty by Zadie Smith | Family and self |
On the Road by Jack Kerouac | War and travel |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | State of the nation |
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | Family and self |
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | War and travel |
One of Ours by Willa Cather | War and travel |
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson | Family and self |
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith | Family and self |
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn | State of the nation |
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey | Love |
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene | Comedy |
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński | War and travel |
The Painter of Signs by R. K. Narayan | Love |
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz | Family and self |
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | Comedy |
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson | Love |
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford | War and travel |
The Parasites by Daphne Du Maurier | Love |
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | State of the nation |
Passing by Nella Larsen | State of the nation |
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson | Love |
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller | Love |
Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno | Family and self |
Penrod by Booth Tarkington | Comedy |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind | Crime |
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan | State of the nation |
Persuasion by Jane Austen | Love |
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek | Love |
Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Comedy |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Family and self |
Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell | Comedy |
Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation by Marie Darrieussecq | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Pilgrimage I: Pointed Roofs / Backwater / Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson | Family and self |
The Plague by Albert Camus | State of the nation |
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion | State of the nation |
The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Crime |
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov | Comedy |
Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross | Crime |
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley | Crime |
The Polyglots by William Gerhardie | Comedy |
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe | Comedy |
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | Comedy |
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | Love |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | Family and self |
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt | Love |
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis | State of the nation |
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain | Crime |
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell | Crime |
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene | Family and self |
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | Family and self |
The Prestige by Christopher Priest | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Love |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | Comedy |
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette | Love |
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope | War and travel |
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Professor's House by Willa Cather | Family and self |
Puckoon by Spike Milligan | Comedy |
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain | Crime |
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Love |
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh | War and travel |
Quarantine by Jim Crace | Family and self |
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson | Comedy |
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory | Crime |
A Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike | Family and self |
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth | State of the nation |
The Ragazzi by Pier Paolo Pasolini | State of the nation |
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes | Crime |
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell | State of the nation |
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence | Love |
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson | War and travel |
Ratking by Michael Dibdin | Crime |
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink | Love |
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier | Love |
The Recognitions by William Gaddis | State of the nation |
The Rector's Daughter by F. M. Mayor | Family and self |
The Red and the Black by Stendhal | State of the nation |
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane | War and travel |
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris | Crime |
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett | Crime |
The Red Room by August Strindberg | State of the nation |
Red Shift by Alan Garner | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer | Love |
Regeneration by Pat Barker | War and travel |
The Reluctant Orphan = Orphan Bride by Sara Seale | Love |
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro | Love |
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf | State of the nation |
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter | Crime |
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills | Comedy |
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West | State of the nation |
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Les Revenentes by Georges Perec | Comedy |
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates | Love |
A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin | Crime |
Rickshaw Boy by She Lao | State of the nation |
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers | Crime |
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald | War and travel |
Ringworld by Larry Niven | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | War and Travel |
Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett | Comedy |
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household | Crime |
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Room at the Top by John Braine | State of the nation |
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker | Family and self |
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster | Love |
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe | Family and self |
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown | Love |
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell | Love |
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Viktor Pelevin | Comedy |
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf | Love |
Sanctuary by William Faulkner | Crime |
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe | State of the nation |
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño | War and travel |
The Scar by China Miéville | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini | War and travel |
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Love |
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy | War and travel |
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally | War and travel |
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr | Comedy |
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie | Crime |
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad | Crime |
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend | Family and self |
The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Crime |
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | Love |
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert | State of the nation |
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne | War and travel |
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal | Comedy |
Shame by Salman Rushdie | State of the nation |
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell | War and travel |
She by H. Rider Haggard | War and travel |
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | War and travel |
The Shining by Stephen King | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Ship by C. S. Forester | War and travel |
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx | Family and self |
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë | State of the nation |
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L. P. Hartley | Family and self |
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell | Crime |
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell | War and travel |
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle | Crime |
Silas Marner by George Eliot | State of the nation |
Silence by Shūsaku Endō | Family and self |
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason | Crime |
The Silent Duchess by Dacia Mariani | Love |
Silver Stallion by Jung-Hyo Ahn | War and travel |
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | State of the nation |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut | War and travel |
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton | War and travel |
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries | Comedy |
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg | Crime |
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico | Love |
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell | Love |
Solaris by Stanisław Lem | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell | War and travel |
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler | Comedy |
Something Fresh by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | Family and self |
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | Family and self |
Sophie's Choice by William Styron | War and travel |
The sorrow of war by Bao Ninh | War and travel |
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Love |
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | Family and self |
The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin | Family and self |
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo | Family and self |
South Riding by Winifred Holtby | State of the nation |
South Wind by Norman Douglas | War and travel |
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Spies by Michael Frayn | Family and self |
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter | Love |
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford | Family and self |
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré | Crime |
Squire Haggard's Journal (Prion Humour Classics) by Michael Green | Comedy |
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Staying On by Paul Scott | State of the nation |
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse | Family and self |
Strait is the Gate by André Gide | Love |
The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent by E. Phillips Oppenheim | Crime |
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Stranger by Albert Camus | Family and self |
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith | Crime |
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle | Crime |
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth | Family and self |
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky | War and travel |
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Love |
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe | War and travel |
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst | Love |
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss | Family and self |
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli | State of the nation |
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift | Comedy |
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | State of the nation |
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith | Crime |
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin | Comedy |
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener | War and travel |
A Taste for Death by P. D. James | Crime |
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburō Ōe | Family and self |
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Love |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | Love |
Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse | Comedy |
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | Love |
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy | State of the nation |
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett | Crime |
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | State of the nation |
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | War and travel |
The Third Man by Graham Greene | Crime |
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan | Crime |
This Sporting Life by David Storey | State of the nation |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley | Family and self |
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr | Crime |
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome | Comedy |
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père | War and travel |
The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier | Family and self |
The Three Sisters by May Sinclair | Family and self |
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos | War and travel |
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola | Crime |
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia | State of the nation |
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
A time to be born by Dawn Powell | Comedy |
A Time to Kill by John Grisham | Crime |
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass | War and travel |
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke | Crime |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré | Crime |
Tintin in Tibet by Hergé | War and travel |
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer | Comedy |
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia | State of the nation |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Crime |
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy by William Golding | War and travel |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | Family and self |
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell | State of the nation |
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes | Family and self |
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | Comedy |
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells | Comedy |
Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith | Comedy |
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins | Family and self |
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen | Crime |
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn | Comedy |
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay | Comedy |
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute | War and travel |
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh | State of the nation |
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard | Love |
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene | Comedy |
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | War and travel |
The Tree of Man by Patrick White | Family and self |
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley | Crime |
The Trial by Franz Kafka | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller | Love |
Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas | Comedy |
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey | Crime |
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles | Family and self |
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos | State of the nation |
Ulysses by James Joyce | Family and self |
The Unbearable Bassington by Saki | Comedy |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | Love |
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | State of the nation |
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett | Comedy |
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch | Comedy |
Under the Skin by Michel Faber | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | Family and self |
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad | Crime |
Underworld by Don DeLillo | State of the nation |
The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson | Family and self |
Unless by Carol Shields | Family and self |
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand | State of the nation |
V. by Thomas Pynchon | Crime |
The Vagabond by Colette | Family and self |
The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell | War and travel |
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann | Love |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | State of the nation |
Vathek by William Beckford | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Vatican Cellars by André Gide | Family and self |
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin | Crime |
Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer | Comedy |
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith | Family and self |
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Victory by Joseph Conrad | Love |
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh | Comedy |
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon | State of the nation |
The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt | State of the nation |
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides | Love |
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister | War and travel |
A Void by Georges Perec | Comedy |
Voss by Patrick White | War and travel |
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Vurt by Jeff Noon | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee | State of the nation |
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever | Family and self |
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | War and travel |
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Washington Square by Henry James | Family and self |
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Waterland by Graham Swift | Love |
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler | Family and self |
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope | State of the nation |
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver | Family and self |
We: A Novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann | Love |
Weaveworld by Clive Barker | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall | Love |
The Westminster Alice by Saki | Comedy |
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe | State of the nation |
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs | War and travel |
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie | Comedy |
White Man Falling by Mike Stocks | Comedy |
White Noise by Don DeLillo | State of the nation |
White Teeth by Zadie Smith | State of the nation |
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers | Crime |
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | Love |
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Williwaw by Gore Vidal | War and travel |
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams | Comedy |
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Comedy |
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James | Love |
Wise Children by Angela Carter | Family and self |
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike | Comedy |
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins | Crime |
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence | Love |
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy | Love |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Love |
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming | Crime |
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw | War and travel |
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos | State of the nation |
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde | Love |
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau | Comedy |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig | War and travel |
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo | Family and self |
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis | Love |
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm | Comedy |