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by Emma Donoghue

16,069 members

1,027 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, tkenderdine

2

Impossible Object (British Literature Series)

by Nicholas Mosley

171 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: Simone2, tkenderdine

3

Fire from Heaven

by Mary Renault

2,482 members

35 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

4

Life and Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

3,063 members

75 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

5

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

901 members

28 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

6

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1,336 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

7

The Famished Road

2,644 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

8

Clear Light of Day

792 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

9

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane

1,348 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

10

Something to Answer For

211 members

10 reviews

2.8

Member: tkenderdine

11

2,249 members

35 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

12

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

5,019 members

117 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

13

1,945 members

23 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

14

The Electric Michelangelo

896 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

15

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

13,537 members

153 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

16

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,975 members

135 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

17

Solomon Gursky Was Here

by Mordecai Richler

976 members

15 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

18

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

4,650 members

157 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

19

by Rohinton Mistry

10,024 members

271 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

20

The Children's Book

4,131 members

220 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

21

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,640 members

357 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

22

by Rohinton Mistry

2,725 members

54 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

23

Figures in a Landscape

by Barry England

102 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

24

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson

2,907 members

142 reviews

3

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

25

The Secret Scripture

by Sebastian Barry

3,117 members

168 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

26

585 members

21 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

27

by Eleanor Catton

5,922 members

268 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

28

1,172 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

29

The Testament of Mary

by Colm Tóibín

1,531 members

122 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

30

The Public Image

by Muriel Spark

352 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

31

From Scenes Like These

by Gordon Williams

60 members

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

32

John Brown's Body

by A. L. Barker

66 members

2 reviews

2.8

Member: tkenderdine

33

by Elizabeth Bowen

478 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

34

by Iris Murdoch

576 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

35

The Conjunction

by Terence Wheeler

28 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

36

by J. G. Farrell

1,659 members

55 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

37

The Birds on the Trees

147 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

38

The Bay of Noon

by Shirley Hazzard

337 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

39

The Driver's Seat

by Muriel Spark

1,210 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

40

by Patrick White

722 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

41

In a Free State

by V. S. Naipaul

1,251 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

42

by Thomas Kilroy

51 members

½ 2.3

Member: tkenderdine

43

St. Urbain's Horseman

by Mordecai Richler

616 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

44

Goshawk Squadron

by Derek Robinson

353 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

45

The Bird of Night

149 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

46

by David Storey

86 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

47

The Siege of Krishnapur

by J. G. Farrell

2,304 members

74 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

48

by Beryl Bainbridge

325 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

49

A Green Equinox

by Elizabeth Mavor

86 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

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by Stanley Middleton

199 members

8 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

51

by Kingsley Amis

330 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

52

In Their Wisdom

131 members

1 review

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

53

Gossip from the Forest

by Thomas Keneally

207 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

54

by David Storey

287 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

55

An Instant in the Wind

by André Brink

387 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

56

by R. C. Hutchinson

36 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

57

The Doctor's Wife

261 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

58

King Fisher Lives

by Julian Rathbone

29 members

4

Member: tkenderdine

59

The Children of Dynmouth

by William Trevor

444 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

60

960 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

61

Peter Smart's Confessions

38 members

½ 2.5

Member: tkenderdine

62

Great Granny Webster

by Caroline Blackwood

438 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

63

Shadows on Our Skin

by Jennifer Johnston

162 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

64

The Road to Lichfield

by Penelope Lively

319 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

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by Kingsley Amis

469 members

7 reviews

3.1

Member: tkenderdine

66

Gerugte van Reën

by André Brink

264 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

67

God on the Rocks

478 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

68

A Five Year Sentence

by Bernice Rubens

167 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

69

by Thomas Keneally

334 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

70

by Julian Rathbone

117 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

71

Rites of Passage

by William Golding

1,371 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

72

by Anthony Burgess

1,941 members

39 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

73

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

1,388 members

43 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

74

No Country for Young Men

by Julia O'Faolain

131 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

75

Pascali's Island

by Barry Unsworth

267 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

76

1,047 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

77

The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five

by Doris Lessing

696 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

78

157 members

2 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

79

Loitering with Intent

by Muriel Spark

976 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

80

Schindler's List

by Thomas Keneally

9,388 members

106 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

81

Silence Among the Weapons

65 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

82

An Ice-Cream War

by William Boyd

1,027 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

83

Constance, or Solitary Practices

by Lawrence Durrell

237 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

84

The 27th Kingdom

by Alice Thomas Ellis

154 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

85

Rates of Exchange

by Malcolm Bradbury

350 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

86

Flying to Nowhere

274 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

87

The Illusionist

103 members

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

88

by Salman Rushdie

2,639 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

89

394 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

90

1,310 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

91

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing

147 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

92

The Good Terrorist

by Doris Lessing

1,358 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

93

Last Letters from Hav

186 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

94

The Good Apprentice

by Iris Murdoch

805 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

95

by Kingsley Amis

1,499 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

96

Gabriel's Lament

112 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

97

An Insular Possession

308 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

98

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

1,237 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

99

by Peter Ackroyd

940 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

100

Circles of Deceit

134 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

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