□ 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 –

□ 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 –

□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

□ To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

□ Today – David Miller

□ Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

□ The Harp in the South – □ 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 –

□ 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 –

□ 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) –

□ The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas □ Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut □ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert

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