José Eduardo Agualusa – The Book of Chameleons
Alaa Al Aswany – The Yacoubian Building
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Jane Austen – Emma
Julian Barnes – Arthur & George
Alan Bennet – The Uncommon Reader
Arnold Bennett – Anna of the Five Towns
RD Blackmore – Lorna Doone
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
Kevin Brooks – Black Rabbit Summer
AS Byatt – The Children’s Book
Kate Chopin – The Awakening
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
Anne Enright – The Gathering
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Susan Fletcher – Oystercatchers
David Gaffney – Never Never
Jane Gardam – Old Filth
Elisabeth Gaskell – North and South
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
Graham Greene – The Quiet American
Philippa Gregory – A Respectable Trade
Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native
Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris
Nick Hornby – The Polysyllabic Spree
Hillary Jordan – Mudbound
Liz Kettle – Broken Biscuits
David Lodge – Thinks…
Rosamund Lupton – Sister
Nicola Monaghan – The Killing Jar
1984 – George Orwell
Terry Pratchet – The Truth
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Catherine O’Flynn – What Was Lost
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Zadie Smith – On Beauty
Robert Louis Stevenson – The Master of Ballantrae
Rose Tremain – The Colour
Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
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