Comparison Novels A Edwin A. Abbott – Flatland Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Nelson Algren - The Man With The Golden Arm Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace Margaret Atwood – The Edible Woman Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice B James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory David Brin - The Postman Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë - Shirley John Buchan - Mr Standfast Lothar-Günther Buchheim - Das Boot Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and the Margarita Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange William S. Burroughs - Junky William S. Burroughs - Queer C Albert Camus - The Plague Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s John le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Willa Cather - My Antonia Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower Kate Chopin - The Awakening Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd George Clayton Johnson and William F. Nolan - Logan’s Run Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness Douglas Coupland - Generation X Barry Crump - Wild Pork and Watercress D Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year Philip K Dick - Do androids dream of electric sheep? Philip K Dick - Flow Tears, the Policeman Said Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Fyodor Dostoevsky – Demons (also titled The Possessed or The Devils) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle - The Woman Who Walked into Doors Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo E Ralph Elison – Invisible Man Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero James Ellroy - American Tabloid James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides F Michel Faber - Under the Skin Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong Janet Fitch - White Oleander E.M. Forster - A Passage to India E.M. Forster - Maurice G Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South William Gibson - Neuromancer William Golding - Lord of the Flies Graham Greene - Brighton Rock John Grisham - A Time to Kill H Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness Dashiell Hammet - Red Harvest Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge Robert Harris - Fatherland Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Patricia Highsmith – Carol (previously published as The Price of Salt) Chester Himes - If He Hollers Let Him Go Susan Hill – The Woman in Black S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders Anne Holm - I am David Victor Hugo - Les Misérables Aldous Huxley - Brave New World I Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day J Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle P.D. James - The Children of Men Jennifer Johnston - How Many Miles to Babylon? Jennifer Johnston - The Illusionist James Joyce - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man K Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted Jack Kerouac - On the Road Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Stephen King - Carrie Stephen King - Misery Stephen King - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King – The Green Mile Stephen King - The Running Man Nancy H. Kleinbaum - Dead Poets Society L D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover Stephen R. Lawhead - Arthur Gert Ledig - The Stalin Organ Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness Lois Lowry - The Giver M Walter Macken - Brown Lord of the Mountain Bernard MacLaverty - Cal Deidre Madden - One by One in the Darkness Gregory Maguire - Wicked Richard Matheson - I am Legend George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings François Mauriac - Thérèse Desqueyroux Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy Cormac McCarthy – All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Robert McLiam Wilson - Eureke Street Eoin McNamee - Resurrection Man David C. Mitchell – Ghostwritten Brian Moore - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Toni Morrison – Beloved Toni Morrison – Jazz Mary Morrissy - Mother of Pearl N Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita Freidrich Neitzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra O Edna O'Brien – Down By The River Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds Tim O’Brien - The Things They Carried Frank O’Connor - Angela’s Ashes Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police George Orwell - Animal Farm George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four P Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club Charles Perry - Portrait of a Young Man Drowning Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Philip Pullman -The Amber Spyglass R Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea Robert Rodi - Closet Case S Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea Hubert Selby Jr. and Richard Price - Requiem for a Dream Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels Upton Sinclair – The Jungle Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Edward St Aubyn - Bad News John Steinbeck - East of Eden John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic T Donna Tartt - The Secret History Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me J. R. R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn V Kurt Vonnegut - Galápagos Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 W Alice Walker - The Color Purple Robert Penn Warren - All the King’s Men Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray John Williams - Butcher’s Crossing John Williams - Stoner Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse Richard Wright – Native Son Z Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

Twenty-First-Century Novels André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger Naomi Alderman - The Power A Jonathan Ames - Wake Up, Sir! M.T. Anderson - Feed Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why Kate Atkinson - Life After Life Kate Atkinson - Transcription Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood - The Testaments Jo Baker – Longbourn Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending Colin Barrett - Young Skins Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Beatlebone Sebastian Barry - Days Without End Sebastian Barry - On Canaan’s Side Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking B Sara Baume - Spill Simmer Falter Wither Darcey Bell - A Simple Favour Helen Benedict - Sand Queen Julie Berry - Lovely War Terence Blacker - Kill your Darlings Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses Matt Bondurant - The Wettest County in the World John Boyne - A History of Loneliness John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne - The Heart's Invisible Furies Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 Alexandra Bracken - The Darkest Minds Alex Brunkhorst - The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine Graheme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project - Milkman Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist - All the Beggars Riding Lucy Caldwell - Where They Were Missed M.R. Carey - The Girl with all the Gifts Joyce Carol Oates - Black Girl/White Girl Peter Cawdron - Retrograde Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay C Chip Cheek - Cape May Emma Cline - The Girls Ernest Cline - Ready Player One Jonathan Coe - Number 11 Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay Allie Condie - Matched John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things Douglas Coupland - Generation A Justin Cronin - The Passage Christina Dalcher - Vox Emily D. Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post Kamel Daoud - The Mersault Investigation D Sarah Davis-Goff - Last Ones Left Alive Juno Dawson - Meat Market Elizabeth Day - The Party Delphine De Vigan - No and Me Martina Devlin - About Sisterland Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Joël Dicker (trans. Sam Taylor) - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See Aidan Donnelley Rowley - The Ramblers Jennifer Donnelly - A Gathering Light Emma Donoghue – Room Emma Donoghue – The Wonder Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Lives of Women Christine Dwyer Hickey - The Narrow Land Phil Earle - The Bubble Wrap Boy Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms E Umberto Eco - Numero Zero Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad Dave Eggers - The Circle Val Emmich et al – Dear Evan Hansen - The Green Road Amy Ephron - One Sunday Morning Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods Joshua Ferris - Then We Came to the End Sebastian Faulks – Engleby Catherine Fisher – Incarceron Emma Flint - Little Deaths F Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects Ben Fountain - Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Karen Joy Fowler - We’re All Completely Beside Ourselves Therese Anne Fowler - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Jonathan Franzen – Freedom Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections Michael Frayn – Spies Emily Fridlund - History of Wolves Neil Gaiman - Coraline G D. Clark Gill - So Special in Dayville Dmitry Glukhovsky - Metro 2033 Alyn Glynn – Limitless (also entitled The Dark Fields) Giselle Green - Pandora’s Box John Green - Looking for Alaska John Green - The Fault in Our Stars Guy Gunaratne - In Our Mad and Furious City Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Chad Harbach - The Art of Fielding Frances Hardinge – The Lie Tree Matt Haig - How to Stop Time Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree Adam Hasslett - Imagine Me Gone Samantha Hayes – The Liar’s Wife Terry Hayes - I am Pilgrim H Paula Hawkins - The Girl On the Train Ronan Hessian - Leonard and Hungry Paul Charlie Higson - The Dead Charlie Higson - The Enemy Gerri Hill - Behind the Pine Curtain Jamie Holland - The Lies We Tell Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty Ninni Holmqvist - The Unit Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Ellen Hopkins – Crank Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down Nick Hornby – Slam Antony Horowitz - House of Silk Antony Horowitz – The Magpie Murders Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney - Serotonin Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings P.D. James - Death Comes to Pemberley Alison Jameson - Little Beauty Luke Jennings – Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle J Paulette Jiles - Enemy Women Jennifer Johnston – Shadowstory Edward P. Jones – The Known World Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip Sadie Jones - The Outcast Tayari Jones - An American Marriage Hillary Jordan - When She Woke Sebastian Junger – War Han Kang - The Vegetarian Susan Koefod - Naming the Stars K Edith Kostova - The Historian Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive Kevin Kwan - Crazy Rich Asians Mur Lafferty - Six Wakes Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake John Lanchester - The Wall Ali Land - Good Me Bad Me Jillian Larkin – Diva Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman Ursula K. Le Guin - The Other Wind L Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island Edan Lepucki – California Jem Lester – Shtum Andrea Levy – The Long Song Nell Leyshon - The Colour of Milk John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter Margot Livesey - The Flight of Gemma Hardy Atticus Lish - Preparation for the Next Life E. Lockhart - We Were Liars Tony Macaulay - Belfast Gate Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go Josh Malerman - Bird Box Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Yann Martel - Life of Pi George R. R. Martin - A Dance With Dragons George R. R. Martin - A Storm of Swords Valerie Martin – Property Imbolo Mbue - Behold the Dreamers Gillian McAllister - Everything But The Truth Eimear McBride - A Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men

Ian McEwan – Atonement

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

Bernie McGill - The Watch House M Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies Eoin McNamee - The Blue Tango Philipp Meyer - American Rust China Miéville - The City and the City - The Crossing Madeline Miller - Circe Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles Sue Monk Kidd – The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees Brian Moore - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Richard K Morgan - Altered Carbon Heather Morris - The Tattooist of Auschwitz Toni Morrison – God Help The Child Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation Jojo Moyes - Me Before You Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore Paul Murray – Skippy Dies Sarah Mussi – Breakdown Irène Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You N Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus David Nicholls - One Day Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller’s Wife Jennifer Niven - All the Bright Places Graham Norton - Holding Téa Obrecht - The Tiger’s Wife Ben Okri - Starbook O Louise O'Neill – Asking For It Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being R. J. Palacio - Wonder David Park – The Truth Commissioner Rachel Pastan - Alena: A Novel P Gin Phillips - Fierce Kingdom Jodi Picoult - My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little Stephanie Powell Watts - No One Is Coming To Save Us Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice Q Geraldine Quigley - Music Love Drugs War Bali Rai - City of Ghosts Shobha Rao - Girls Burn Brighter Ron Rash - Serena Philip Reeve - Here Lies Arthur Suzanne Rindell - The Other Typist R M. L. Rio - If We Were Villains Jeremy Robinson - Infinite Marilynn Robinson - Gilead Marilynn Robinson - Home Roxana Robinson - Sparta Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney - Normal People Philip Roth - Indignation Philip Roth - The Human Stain Philip Roth - The Plot against America Veronica Roth - Divergent Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man Donal Ryan - All We Shall Know Donal Ryan - The Thing About December Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated James Sallis - Drive George Saunders - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Simon Scarrow - Hearts of Stone Theresa Schwegel - The Lies We Tell Kaethe Schwehn - The Rending and the Nest Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk about Kevin S Neal Shusterman - Scythe Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story Kristen Simmons - Article 5 Kristen Simmons – The Glass Arrow Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep Leila Slimani – Lullaby (also entitled The Perfect Nanny or Chanson douce) Tom Rob Smith - The Secret Speech Tom Rob Smith - Child 44 Zadie Smith - White Teeth Marivi Soliven - The Mango Bride Nicholas Sparks - Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks – The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks - Two by Two Matthew Specktor – American Dream Machine Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven M.L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven Boys Kathryn Stockett - The Help Nic Stone - Dear Martin Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout - My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge Gabriel Tallent - My Absolute Darling Amy Tan - The Bonesetter’s Daughter Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch Kate Tempest - The Bricks that Built the Houses Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn Colm Tóibín – Nora Webster Paige Toon - The One We Fell In Love With T Justin Torres – We The Animals Amor Towles - Rules of Civility William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault Stuart Turton - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread V Ned Vizzini - It’s Kind of a Funny Story Willy Vlautin - The Motel Life Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle Jo Walton - Farthing Rachel Ward - Numbers Sarah Waters - Fingersmith W Sarah Waters – The Little Stranger S. J. Watson - Before I Go to Sleep Suzanne Weyn - Bar Code Rebellion Suzanne Weyn - The Bar Code Tattoo Andy Weir - The Martian Irvine Welsh - Skagboys Scott Westerfeld - Uglies Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad Lisa Williamson - The Art of Being Normal Y Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Francesca Zappia - Made you up Markus Zusak - The Book Thief Z