F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury Toni Morrison. A Pair of Blue Eyes Saul Bellow. The Adventures of Augie March John Williams. Stoner Richard Ford. The Sportswriter John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath JD Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye Anne Tyler. A Spool of Blue Thread Gabriel Garcia Márquez. A Hundred Years of Solitude Jorge Luis Borges. Ficciones

Ireland James Joyce. Dubliners Edna OBrien. The Country Girls JG Farrell. Troubles Robert McLiam Wilson. Ripley Bogle John McGahern. Amongst Women Anna Burns. Milkman Sebastian Barry. The Secret Scripture John Banville. The Sea Iris Murdoch. The Sea,the Sea Elizabeth Bowen. The Last September Flann O’Brien. The Third Policeman

Europe Italo Calvino. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Primo Levi. If this be a Man Herman Hesse. the Glass Bead Game Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The Shadow of the Wind. Albert Camus. The Outsider Gunter Grass. The Tin Drum Marguerite Duras. The Lover Jaroslav Hasek. The Good Soldier Svejk Collette. Cheri

Great Britain Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South Zadie Smith. Swing Time Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse Muriel Spark. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Pat Barker. Regeneration George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre Julian Barnes. Arthur and George Anthony Trollope. The Barchester Chronicles Thomas Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge

Rest of the world Arundhati Roy. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Nadine Gordimer. The Conservationist Peter Carey. The True History of the Kelly Gang Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart Anita Desai. In Custody Aravind Adiga. The White Tiger Tim Winton. Cloudstreet Leila Aboulela. The Kindness of Enemies J.M. Coetzee. Disgrace Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Half of a Yellow Sun