The List - Most Recent Version

1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling

2
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

3
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

4
1984
George Orwell

5
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving

6
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

7
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

8
A Room With A View
EM Forster

9
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

10
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

11
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer

12
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood

13
Double Vision
Pat Barker

14
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

15
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James

16
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd

17
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

18
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

19
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

20
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

21
Zorro
Isabel Allende

22
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

23
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

24
The Road
Cormac McCarthy

25
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester

26
Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco

27
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

28
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut

29
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

30
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie

31
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan

32
On The Road
Jack Kerouac

33
Possession
A. S. Byatt

34
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Doris Lessing

35
Time’s Arrow
Martin Amis

36
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Phillip K Dick

37
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracey Chevalier

38
The Same Sea
Amos Oz

39
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

40
If On Winter’s Night, A Traveller
Italo Calvino

41
The Infinite Plan
Isabelle Allende

42
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

43
Sleep, Pale Sister
Joanne Harris

44
The Count of Monte Christo
Alexandre Dumas

45
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby

46
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever

47
Nineteen Minutes
Jodie Picoult

48
The Ringmaster’s Daughter
Jostein Gaardner

49
The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart

50
The Sea
John Banville

51
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami

52
How the Dead Live
Will Self

53
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

54
The Outsider
Albert Camus

55
The Woods
Harlan Coben

56
Shakespeare’s Wife
Germaine Greer

57
Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

58
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield

59
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Thomas Kenneally

60
Life of Pi
Yann Martel

61
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

62
The Outsider
Albert Camus

63
The Trial
Franz Kafka

64
The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble

65
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

66
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby

67
On Beauty
Zadie Smith

68
The Green Man
Kingsley Amis

69
This Boy’s Life
Tobias Wolff

70
Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton

71
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson

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