READING FOR FUN: THE BOHUNT 100

Great thrillers, spy and detective fiction The Dry, Jane Harper Missing Fay, Adam Thorpe The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler I Saw a Man, Owen Sheers Snowdrops, A D Miller Catch 22, Joseph Heller In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn The Lewis Man, Peter May The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan The Taxidermist’s Daughter, Kate Mosse The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson When Will there Be Good News? Kate Atkinson An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P D James

Gripping historical fiction Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel The Lie Tree, Francis Hardinge All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry The Outcast, Sadie Jones Birdcage Walk, Helen Dunmore Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan

Modern Classics Cocaine Nights, J G Ballard Generation X, Douglas Coupland Perfume, Patrick Suskind The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles On The road, Jack Kerouac Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger Brick Lane, Monica Ali If Nobody speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

Classics Retold Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood Exposure, Mal Peet A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Longbourn, Jo Baker Chasing the Stars, Malorie Blackman

Humour The Diary of a Nobody, G & W Grossmith The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons Bridget Jones’s Diary, Henry Fielding The Jeeves Omnibus, PG Wodehouse Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh The Rotters’ Club, Jonathon Coe The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Books Into Film

The Road, Cormac McCarthy Life of Pi, Yann Martel Mudbound, Hillary Jordan The Colour Purple, Alice Walker Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess Atonement, Ian McEwan Dracula, Bram Stoker One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey Room, Emma Donoghue The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

American Gods, Neil Gairman Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman The Earthsea Trilogy, Ursula Le Guin The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks The Trial, Frank Kafka The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake C, Tom McCarthy

Drama, Life, Relationships

Family Album, Anne Tyler A Place Called Winter, Patrick Gale Exit West, Mohsin Hamid The Dark Flood Rises, Margaret Drabble The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde A Room with a View, E M Forster The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund The Stranger’s Child, Alan Hollinghurst A year of Marvellous Ways, Sarah Winman The Pact, Jodi Picoult One Day, David Nicholls Non-Fiction

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Chris Packham H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald The Reason I jump, Naoki Higashida Bad Blood, Lorna Sage The Autobiography of Malcolm X Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden Touching the Void, Joe Simpson I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai Red Dust Road, Jackie Kay