□ 1788: the brutal truth of the first fleet – David Hill
□ 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
□ The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold
□ Animal Farm – George Orwell
□ Animal Kingdom: a crime story – Stephen Sewell
□ Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
□ Atonement – Ian McEwan
□ The Aunt’s Story – Patrick White
□ Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson □ Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson □ The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science – Norman
Doidge
□ Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
□ The Burial – Courtney Collins
□ By Nightfall – Michael Cunningham □ The Campus Trilogy (Changing Places, Small World,
Nice Work) – David Lodge
□ Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
□ The Children’s Bach – Helen Garner
□ Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee
□ Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
□ The Contract – Brett Hoffman
□ Cooee – Vivienne Kelly □ Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin
□ The da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
□ The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
□ A Dead Man in Deptford – Anthony Burgess
□ The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy □ The Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon
Grossmith □ The Dig Tree: the story of Burke & Wills –
Sarah Murgatroyd
□ Dissection – Jacinta Halloran
□ Dracula – Bram Stoker □ Eat, Pray, Love: one woman’s search for everything
– Elizabeth Gilbert
□ Eating Lolly – Corrie Hosking
□ Emma – Jane Austen
□ The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
□ Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
□ Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
□ Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
□ Gigi, and The Cat – Colette
□ Gilgamesh: a novel – Joan London
□ The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
□ The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
□ Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves □ The Great Escape – Paul Brickhill
□ Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
□ Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie □ The Happiest Refugee: the extraordinary true story of
a boy’s journey… – Anh Do □ The Hare with Amber Eyes: a hidden inheritance –
Edmund de Waal
□ Ulysses – James Joyce
□ The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett □ Unparalleled Sorrow: finding my way back from
depression – Barry Dickins
□ Unpolished Gem – Alice Pung
□ The Vagrants: a novel – Yiyun Li
□ Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
□ Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
□ We – Yevgeny Yamyatin □ What We Talk About When We Talk About Love –
Raymond Carver
□ White Fang – Jack London
□ The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
□ The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
□ The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
□ Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
□ Solar – Ian McEwan
□ Sold – Brendan Gullifer
□ The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
□ Stealing Picasso – Anson Cameron
□ The Story of a Marriage – Andrew Sean Greer □ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
– Robert Louis Stevenson
□ A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle □ Sum: 40 tales from the afterlives –
David Eagleman
□ The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper
□ Teach Us to Sit Still – Tim Parks
□ Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
□ Things We Didn’t See Coming – Steven Amsterdam
□ This is How – M.J. Hyland □ Three Cups of Tea: one man’s mission to promote peace one school at a time – Greg Mortenson &
David Oliver Relin
□ Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
□ The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
□ The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
□ The Time We Have Taken – Steven Carroll
□ The Tin Drum– Günther Grass
□ The Tivington Nott – Alex Miller
□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
□ To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
□ Today – David Miller
□ Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
□ The Harp in the South – Ruth Park □ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius –
Dave Eggers □ The History of Tom Jones; and The Female
Husband – Henry Fielding
□ Homer and Langley – E.L. Doctorow
□ I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
□ If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino □ In Cold Blood: a true account of multiple murder
and its consequences – Truman Capote
□ In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
□ Independent People – Haldor Laxness
□ Inferno – Dante Alighieri □ Infiltration: the true story of the man who cracked
the Mafia – Colin McLaren
□ The Interpretation of Murder – Jed Rubenfeld
□ An Iron Rose – Peter Temple
□ The Jerilderie Letter – Ned Kelly
□ King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
□ Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence □ The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa □ The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
– Laurence Sterne
□ Lilia’s Secret – Erina Reddan
□ Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
□ Look Who’s Morphing – Tom Cho
□ The Lost Mother – Anne Summers
□ Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
□ Lovesong – Alex Miller □ Marley & Me: life & love with the world’s worst dog
– Jon Grogan □ The Masque of the Red Death, & other stories –
Edgar Allan Poe
□ Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
□ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
□ Metamorphosis, & other stories – Franz Kafka □ Morse’s Greatest Mystery, and other stories –
Colin Dexter
□ Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
□ My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin
□ My Family & Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
□ Native Son – Richard Wright □ News from Nowhere, & other writings – William
Morris □ Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall –
Kazuo Ishiguro
□ North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
□ Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
□ The Odyssey – Homer; translated by Robert Fitzgerald
□ Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
□ Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
□ On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
□ On the Road – Jack Kerouac □ People Like Us: how arrogance is dividing Islam
& the west – Waleed Aly
□ The Pesthouse – Jim Crace
□ Piano Lessons – Anna Goldsworthy
□ The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde □ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James
Joyce
□ Possession – A.S. Byatt
□ Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
□ Raising My Voice – Malalai Joya
□ Ransom – David Malouf
□ The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
□ Remembering Babylon – David Malouf □ Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn: a thriller –
Marshall Browne
□ Restless – William Boyd □ Restoration – Rose Tremain
□ The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
□ The Road – Cormac McCarthy
□ Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe □ The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea –
Yukio Mishima
□ The Scent of the Night – Andrea Camilleri
□ The Secret History – Donna Tartt
□ The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
□ The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
□ The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes □ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian –
Marina Lewycka
□ Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
□ Silence (fictions) – Rodney Hall
□ The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas □ Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut □ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert
Persig