146 13 All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West 38 A Darkling Plain Philip Reeve 65 Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya 125 Terrible Swift Sword Bruce Catton 11 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 131 The Other Side of Silence Andre Brink 15 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe 81 Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks 37 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 85 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 109 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 39 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 66 Noli Me Tangere Jos Rizal 68 East of Eden John Steinbeck 117 Brandy of the Damned Colin Wilson 92 Oh! To be in England H. E. Bates 35 The Golden Apples of the Sun Ray Bradbury 12 The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham 58 The Green Bay Tree Louis Bromfield 97 Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw 108 A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien 115 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 18 The Wives of Bath Susan Swan 25 Tiger! Tiger! Rudyard Kipling short story 106 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 114 Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham 136 The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley 30 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 82 Look to Windward Iain M. Banks 32 To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A. Heinlein 104 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 112 Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 21 The Stars' Tennis Balls Stephen Fry 53 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 130 An Instant In The Wind Andre Brink 142 Endless Night Agatha Christie 121 The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 143 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Agatha Christie 45 Blithe Spirit Noel Coward 20 Moab Is My Washpot Stephen Fry 63 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 34 Recalled to Life Reginald Hill 44 Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 101 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 102 This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 94 The Yellow Meads of Asphodel H. E. Bates 27 Recalled to Life Robert Silverberg 78 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 33 Some Buried Caesar Rex Stout 140 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 128 The Soldier's Art Anthony Powell 77 Mr Standfast John Buchan 17 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 129 What's Become of Waring Anthony Powell 24 The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 26 For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny 71 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 7 Ego Dominus Tuus William Butler Yeats 124 Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis 10 The Alien Corn (short story) W. Somerset Maugham 95 Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin 87 A Many-Splendoured Thing Han Suyin 29 The Monkey's Raincoat Robert Crais 3 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 69 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 4 If I Forget Thee Jerusalem William Faulkner 70 In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck 46 No Highway Nevil Shute 52 The World, the Flesh and the Devil Mary Elizabeth Braddon 83 Consider the Lilies Iain Crichton Smith 72 To a God Unknown John Steinbeck 119 No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe 2 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 90 How Sleep the Brave H. E. Bates 137 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley 141 Butter In a Lordly Dish Agatha Christie 6 Lilies of the Field William Edmund Barrett 113 O Jerusalem! Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins 42 Cover Her Face P. D. James 103 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 55 The Moon by Night Madeleine L'Engle 99 Bonjour Tristesse Fransoise Sagan 73 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 67 Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 60 The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman 122 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 105 Ah, Wilderness! Eugene O'Neill 19 Time of our Darkness Stephen Gray 43 The Skull Beneath the Skin P. D. James 61 Time To Murder And Create Lawrence Block 59 Number the Stars Lois Lowry 47 Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea Michael Morpurgo 9 Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 74 Death Be Not Proud John Gunther 145 Postern of Fate Agatha Christie 139 Those Barren Leaves Aldous Huxley 89 Fair Stood the Wind for France H. E. Bates 62 A Monstrous Regiment of Women Laurie R. King 36 I Sing the Body Electric Ray Bradbury 118 The Way Through the Woods Colin Dexter 132 Tiger! Tiger! - alternative title of The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 5 Shall not Perish William Faulkner 56 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 93 When the Green Woods Laugh H. E. Bates 98 Ring of Bright Water Gavin Maxwell 100 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor 49 Specimen Days Michael Cunningham 96 Such, Such Were the Joys George Orwell 120 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 14 The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 40 In a Dry Season Peter Robinson 8 O Pioneers! Willa Cather 107 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 48 Behold the Man Michael Moorcock 144 The Moving Finger Agatha Christie 79 Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee 88 The Daffodil Sky H. E. Bates 75 A Time to Kill John Grisham 28 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 54 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 80 The Proper Study Isaac Asimov 135 Beyond the Mexique Bay Aldous Huxley 146 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 91 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal H. E. Bates 51 Precious Bane Mary Webb 64 The Far-Distant Oxus Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock 111 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 57 The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck 1 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 16 Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 41 The Parliament of Man Paul Kennedy 23 Alien Corn (play) Sidney Howard 110 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 133 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Aldous Huxley 123 A che punto a la notte Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini 126 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 50 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 134 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 22 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 116 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 76 Great Work of Time John Crowley 127 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym 84 Fame Is the Spur Howard Spring 86 The Golden Bowl Henry James 138 Jesting Pilate Aldous Huxley 31 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein