Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read The Definitive Lis

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Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes - State of the nation
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler - Love
According to Queeney - Beryl Bainbridge - Comedy
Ada or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov - Science fiction and fantasy
Adam Bede - George Eliot - Love
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow - Comedy
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett - Comedy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - War and travel
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Tobias Smollett - Comedy
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett - Comedy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - State of the nation
Affinity - Sarah Waters - Science fiction and fantasy
After London; or, Wild England - Richard Jefferies - Science fiction and fantasy
Afternoon Men - Anthony Powell - State of the nation
The African Queen - CS Forester - War and travel
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - Love
Air - Geoff Ryman - Science fiction and fantasy
Alberta and Jacob - Cora Sandel - Family and self
Ali and Nino - Kurban Said - Love
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Science fiction and fantasy
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque - War and travel
All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom - Love
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy - War and travel
Alms for Oblivion - Simon Raven - Comedy
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon - Science fiction and fantasy
The Ambassadors - Henry James - Family and self
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - Science fiction and fantasy
American Pastoral - Philip Roth - State of the nation
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Crime
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser - Crime
Amongst Women - John McGahern - State of the nation
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Crime
Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor - War and travel
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton - Crime
Angel - Elizabeth Taylor - Family and self
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes - Angus Wilson - Comedy
Animal Farm - George Orwell - State of the nation
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Love
Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe - State of the nation
Any Human Heart - William Boyd - Family and self
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - War and travel
Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante - Love
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner - Family and self
Ascent - Jed Mercurio - Science fiction and fantasy
The Ascent of Rum Doodle - WE Bowman - Comedy
The Asphalt Jungle - WR Burnett - Crime
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud - Family and self
Asterix the Gaul [Astérix le Gaulois] - Rene Goscinny - War and travel
At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart - Love
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq - Science fiction and fantasy
Atonement - Ian McEwan - Love
At-Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien - Family and self
Augustus Carp, Esq. - Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man - Henry Howarth Bashford - Comedy
Austerlitz - WG Sebald - War and travel
Auto-da-Fe - Elias Canetti - War and travel
The Awakening - Kate Chopin - Family and self
B

Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis - State of the nation
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield - Family and self
The Bamboo Bed - William Eastlake - War and travel
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - Comedy
The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino - Science fiction and fantasy
The Beach - Alex Garland - War and travel
The Beast Must Die - Nicholas Blake - Crime
Beauty and Saddness - Yasunari Kawabata - Love
Before Lunch - Angela Thirkell - Comedy
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson - Family and self
Being Dead - Jim Crace - Family and self
Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant - State of the nation
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - Family and self
Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel - Charles Simmons - Comedy
Beloved - Toni Morrison - Science fiction and fantasy
A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul - State of the nation
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin - State of the nation
La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola - State of the nation
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni - State of the nation
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel - Science fiction and fantasy
The Big Blowdown - George Pelecanos - Crime
The Big Nowhere - James Ellroy - Crime
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler - Crime
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse - State of the nation
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - War and travel
Black and Blue - Ian Rankin - Crime
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell - War and travel
Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch - Family and self
Black Sunday - Thomas Harris - Crime
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin - Family and self
Blacklist - Sara Paretsky - Crime
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood - Science fiction and fantasy
Blindness - Jose Saramago - Science fiction and fantasy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy - War and travel
Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe - Comedy
The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald - Love
The Blue Room - Georges Simenon - Crime
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison - Family and self
Bold as Love Gwyneth Jones - Science fiction and fantasy
Bomber - Len Deighton - War and travel
Bones and Silence - Reginald Hill - Crime
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe - State of the nation
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan - Love
The Book of Daniel - EL Doctorow - State of the nation
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera - Love
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe - Science fiction and fantasy
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge - Comedy
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum - Crime
Bouvard et Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert - Comedy
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science fiction and fantasy
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote - Love
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - Comedy
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler - Love
Brewster's Millions - Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon) - Comedy
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - Comedy
Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney - Comedy
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene - Crime
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Family and self
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi - Family and self
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann - Family and self
Burmese Days - George Orwell - War and travel
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe - Science fiction and fantasy
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The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk - War and travel
Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard - W Somerset Maugham - Comedy
Call it Sleep - Henry Roth - Family and self
The Call of the Wild - Jack London - War and travel
Camp Concentration - Thomas M Disch - Science fiction and fantasy
Candide - Voltaire - War and travel
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr - Science fiction and fantasy
Caprice - Ronald Firbank - Comedy
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini - War and travel
Carrie's War - Nina Bawden - War and travel
The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge - State of the nation
The Case of the Gilded Fly - Edmund Crispin - Comedy
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - Crime
The Castafiore Emerald - Georges Remi Herge - War and travel
The Castle - Franz Kafka - Comedy
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole - Science fiction and fantasy
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth - State of the nation
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - Comedy
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Family and self
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood - Family and self
Changing Places - David Lodge - Comedy
Charade - John Mortimer - Comedy
The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal - War and travel
The Chateau - William Maxwell - Family and self
Cheese - Willem Elsschot - Comedy
Cheri - Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette - Love
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan - Love
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke - Science fiction and fantasy
The Children of Men - PD James - Science fiction and fantasy
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat - War and travel
Chronicle in Stone - Ismael Kadare - State of the nation
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Science fiction and fantasy
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee - Family and self
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson - Love
Claudine a l'ecole - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Love
Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett - State of the nation
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science fiction and fantasy
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - Science fiction and fantasy
The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - Comedy
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - War and travel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker - Family and self
La Comedie Humaine - Honore de Balzac - State of the nation
The Coming Race - EGEL Bulwer-Lytton - Science fiction and fantasy
The Commitments - Roddy Doyle - Comedy
La Condition Humaine - Andre Malraux - War and travel
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Comedy -
Confederates - Thomas Keneally - War and travel
Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo - Family and self
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain - Science fiction and fantasy
Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks - Science fiction and fantasy
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre - Crime
Cop Hater - Ed McBain - Crime
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - State of the nation
Count Belisarius - Robert Graves - War and travel
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Crime
The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide - State of the nation
Couples - John Updike - State of the nation
Covenant with Death - John Harris - War and travel
Cover Her Face - PD James - Crime
The Crab with the Golden Claws - Georges Remi Herge - War and travel
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell - State of the nation
Crash - JG Ballard - Science fiction and fantasy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime
The Crime of Father Amado - José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - Crime
Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley - Love
The Crow Road - Iain Banks - Family and self
The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat - War and travel
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton - State of the nation
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Crime
Cryptonomicon - Neil Stephenson - War and travel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - Comedy -
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A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell - Comedy
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot - Love
A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine - Crime
Darkmans - Nicola Barker - Science fiction and fantasy
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler - War and travel
Darkness Falls from the Air - Nigel Balchin - War and travel
Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear - Science fiction and fantasy
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey - Crime
Day - AL Kennedy - War and travel
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Crime
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - State of the nation
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham - Science fiction and fantasy
De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage - War and travel
Dead Lagoon - Michael Dibdin - Crime
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol - Comedy
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov - Comedy
Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes - Crime
Death in Summer - William Trevor - Family and self
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann - Love
Death of a Hero - Richard Aldington - War and travel
The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen - Love
The Death of Virgil - Hermann Broch - Family and self
The Debacle - Emile Zola - War and travel
The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester - Comedy
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
Deliverance - James Dickey - War and travel
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - Love
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley - Crime
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa - War and travel
Diary of a Mad Old Man - Junichiro Tanizaki - Love
Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith - Comedy
Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin - Crime
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett - Science fiction and fantasy
Disgrace - JM Coetzee - State of the nation
La Disparition - Georges Perec - Comedy
Dissolution - CJ Sansom - Crime
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick - Science fiction and fantasy
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak - Love
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King - Crime
Dom Casmurro Joaquim - Maria Machado de Assis - Love
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Comedy -
Double Indemnity - James M Cain - Crime
Dracula - Bram Stoker - Science fiction and fantasy
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark - Comedy
The Drowned World - JG Ballard - Science fiction and fantasy
A Dry White Season - Andre Brink - State of the nation
Dune - Frank L Herbert - Science fiction and fantasy
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Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess - State of the nation
The Earthsea Series - Ursula Le Guin - Science fiction and fantasy
East Lynne - Ellen Wood - Love
East of Eden - John Steinbeck - Family and self
The Echoing Grove - Rosamond Lehmann - Love
Effi Briest - Theodore Fontane - State of the nation
The Egoist - George Meredith - Love
The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R Delaney - Science fiction and fantasy
Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis - State of the nation
Emma - Jane Austen - Love
Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard - War and travel
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene - Love
The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess - Science fiction and fantasy
Enduring Love Ian McEwan - Crime
Enemies, a Love Story - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Love
Les Enfants Terrible - Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos - Love
England, Their England - AG Macdonell - Comedy
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje - Love
Enigma - Robert Harris - War and travel
Ennui - Maria Edgeworth - Comedy
Epileptic - David B - Family and self
Epitaph for a Spy - Eric Ambler - Crime
Erewhon - Samuel Butler - Science fiction and fantasy
Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac - Family and self
Evelina - Fanny Burney - Family and self
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathon Safran Foer - War and travel
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym - Comedy
Exit Music - Ian Rankin - Crime
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett - Comedy
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard - Family and self
F

The Face of Another - Kobo Abe - Family and self
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Science fiction and fantasy
Fair Stood the Wind for France - HE Bates - War and travel
A Fairy Tale of New York - JP Donleavy - Comedy
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry - Family and self
The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Family and self
The Famished Road - Ben Okri - Science fiction and fantasy
Fantomas - Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre - Crime
A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark - Comedy
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Love
The Far Pavillions - Mary Margaret Kaye - Love
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - Love
A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine - Crime
Fatherland - Robert Harris - Crime
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev - Family and self
The Female Man - Joanna Russ - Science fiction and fantasy
52 Pick-up - Elmore Leonard - Crime
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Science fiction and fantasy
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - State of the nation
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters - Crime
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce - Comedy
Fireflies - Shiva Naipaul - Comedy
First Love Ivan Turgenev - Love
A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone - War and travel
Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser - War and travel
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes - Comedy
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - Science fiction and fantasy
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway - War and travel
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie - Love
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - Science fiction and fantasy
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney - Henry Handel Richardson - Family and self
Fortunes of War - Olivia Manning - War and travel
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco - Science fiction and fantasy
Foundation - Isaac Asimov - Science fiction and fantasy
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West - Family and self
The Four Just Men - Edgar Wallace - Crime
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - Science fiction and fantasy
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles - Love
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman - Crime
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins - Crime
From Here to Eternity - James Jones - War and travel
Frost in May - Antonia White - Family and self
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel - Family and self
G

G - John Berger - Family and self
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis - Giorgio Bassani - Love
Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais - Science fiction and fantasy
The Gathering - Anne Enright - Family and self
GB84 - David Peace - State of the nation
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos - Love
Germinal - Emile Zola - State of the nation
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Crime
The Getaway - Jim Thompson - Crime
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson - Love
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin - Love
A Girl in Winter - Philip Larkin - State of the nation
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland - Science fiction and fantasy
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark - Comedy
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse - Science fiction and fantasy
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett - Crime
A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys - Science fiction and fantasy
The Go-Between - LP Hartley - Love
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin - State of the nation
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy - Family and self
The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Crime
God's Bit of Wood - Ousmane Sembene - State of the nation
Goldfinger - Ian Fleming - Crime
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing - Family and self
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Love
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane - Family and self
The Good Companions - JB Priestley - Family and self
A Good Man in Africa - William Boyd - Comedy
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford - Love
The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek - War and travel
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood - State of the nation
Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith - Crime
The Graduate - Charles Webb - Love
Le Grand Meaulnes - Henri Alain-Fournier - Love
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - State of the nation
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing - State of the nation
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon - War and travel
Great Apes - Will - Comedy
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Family and self
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Love
The Great Impersonation E Phillips Oppenheim - Crime
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - WH Hudson - Love
Greenmantle - John Buchan - Crime
The Group - Mary McCarthy - State of the nation
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - War and travel
A Gun for Sale - Graham Greene - Crime
The Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean - War and travel
H

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
Handley Cross - RS Surtees - Comedy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Science fiction and fantasy
The Hanging Gardens - Ian Rankin - Crime
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton - Crime
Hard Revolution - George Pelecanos - Crime
Hard Times - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
The Harpole Report - JL Carr - Comedy
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling - Science fiction and fantasy
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson - Science fiction and fantasy
Headlong Hall - Thomas Love Peacock - State of the nation
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington - Comedy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers - Love
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - War and travel
A Heart So White - Javier Marias - Love
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen - Love
Heavy Weather - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
Hello Summer, Goodbye - Michael G Coney - Science fiction and fantasy
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Science fiction and fantasy
Herzog - Saul Bellow - Family and self
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud - Family and self
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Comedy
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes - War and travel
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - Science fiction and fantasy
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage - Honore de Balzac - Family and self
History - Elsa Morante - War and travel
The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury - Comedy
The History of Mr Polly - HG Wells - Family and self
The History of Pompey the Little - Francis Coventry - War and travel
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes - Comedy
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Science fiction and fantasy
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Science fiction and fantasy
The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr - Crime
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore - State of the nation
The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary - Comedy
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle - Crime
A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul - Family and self
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski - Science fiction and fantasy
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - State of the nation
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Science fiction and fantasy
How Green was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn - Family and self
How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman - State of the nation
How the Dead Live - Will selfScience fiction and fantasy
Howards End - EM Forster - Family and self
The Human Stain - Philip Roth - State of the nation
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow - Family and self
Hunger - Knut Hamsun - Family and self
The Hunters - James Salter - War and travel
Hurrah for St Trinian's - Ronald Searle - Comedy
Hyperion - Dan Simmons - Science fiction and fantasy
I

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson - Science fiction and fantasy
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - Love
I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal - Comedy
An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd - War and travel
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - State of the nation
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi - War and travel
I'll Go to Bed at Noon - Gerard Woodward - Family and self
Illywhacker - Peter Carey - Comedy
The Immoralist - Andre Gide - Family and self
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster - Science fiction and fantasy
Independence Day - Richard Ford - State of the nation
The Infamous Army - Georgette Heyer - Love
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - Comedy
The Influence - Ramsey Campbell - Science fiction and fantasy
The Information - Martin Amis - Comedy
Ingenious Pain - Andrew Miller - Science fiction and fantasy
Institute Benjamenta - Robert Walser - Science fiction and fantasy
The Insult - Rupert Thomson - Science fiction and fantasy
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - War and travel
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison - State of the nation
Invitation to the Waltz - Rosamond Lehmann - Family and self
The Ipcress File - Len Deighton - Crime
The Island of Dr Moreau - HG Wells - War and travel
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - War and travel
J

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master - Denis Diderot - Comedy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Love
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware - Family and self
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke - Science fiction and fantasy
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding - Comedy
Journey into Fear - Eric Ambler - Crime
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine - War and travel
Joy in the Morning - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - Love
Judgment in Stone - Ruth Rendell - Crime
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Family and self
July's People - Nadine Gordimer - State of the nation
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair - State of the nation
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - Crime
Just William - Richmal Crompton - Comedy
Justine - Lawrence Durrell - War and travel
A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines - State of the nation
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - War and travel
Kim - Rudyard Kipling - Crime
A Kind of Loving - Stan Barstow - State of the nation
Kindred - Octavia Butler - Science fiction and fantasy
The King of Torts - John Grisham - Crime
King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine - Crime
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard - War and travel
The Kingdom of this World - Alejo Carpentier - State of the nation
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - War and travel
L

L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy - Crime
The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks - Family and self
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary E Braddon - Crime
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence - Love
Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor - Comedy
Lanark - Alastair Gray - State of the nation
Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson - Family and self
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope - State of the nation
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr - State of the nation
Last Seen Wearing - Colin Dexter - Crime
The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen - State of the nation
The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - Crime
The League of Frightened Men - Rex Stout - Crime
The Lecturer's Tale - James Hynes - Comedy
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin - Science fiction and fantasy
A Legacy - Sybille Bedford - Family and self
The Leopard - Giuseppi di Lampedusa - State of the nation
Less Than Angels - - Comedy
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Victor Hugo - State of the nation
Life and Fate - Vassily Grossman - War and travel
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil - Fay Weldon - Comedy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne - Comedy
Light - M John Harrison - Science fiction and fantasy
Light Years - James Salter - Love
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst - State of the nation
Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Science fiction and fantasy
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - Family and self
The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi - Comedy
Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell - Crime
Living - Henry Green - Love
Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark - Comedy
Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male - Vladimir Nabokov - Love
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Science fiction and fantasy
London Fields - Martin Amis - State of the nation
The Lonely Londoners - Samuel Selvon - State of the nation
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore - Family and self
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - War and travel
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler - Crime
A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry - War and travel
Look At Me - Anita Brookner - Love
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - War and travel
Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Science fiction and fantasy
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Science fiction and fantasy
Lorna Doone - RD Blackmore - Love
A Lost Lady - Willa Cather - Love
Lost Souls - Poppy Z Brite - Science fiction and fantasy
Love for Lydia - HE Bates - Love
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - Love
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love
Love on the Dole - Walter Greenwood - State of the nation
Love Story - Eric Segal - Love
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
The Lover - Marguerite Duras - Love
The Luck of Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray - Comedy
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis - Comedy
Lush Life - Richard Price - Crime
M

The Machine-Gunners - Robert Westall - War and travel
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Love
The Madman of Bergerac - Georges Simenon - Crime
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann - State of the nation
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington - Family and self
The Magus - John Fowles - Science fiction and fantasy
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis - State of the nation
Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles - Crime
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett - Family and self
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - Crime
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick - Science fiction and fantasy
The Man of Property - John Galsworthy - Family and self
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead - Family and self
The Man who was Thursday - GK Chesterton - Science fiction and fantasy
The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren - Crime
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil - Family and self
The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon - Crime
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir - Family and self
Manon Lescaut - Abbe Prevost - Love
Manservant and Maidservant - Ivy Compton-Burnett - Family and self
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - Love
The Map of Love Ahdaf Soueif - Love
The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley - War and travel
A Married Man - Piers Paul Read - Family and self
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens - Comedy
Martin Eden - Jack London - Family and self
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell - Family and self
The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler - Crime
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian - War and travel
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - Science fiction and fantasy
Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge - War and travel
Maurice Guest - Henry Handel Richardson - Love
Maus - Art Spiegelman - War and travel
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy - State of the nation
McTeague - Frank Norris - State of the nation
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin - Science fiction and fantasy
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers - Family and self
Memet my Hawk - Yasar Kemal - Family and self
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf - David Madsen - Comedy
Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing - Science fiction and fantasy
Men at Arms - Evelyn Waugh - War and travel
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland - State of the nation
Middlemarch - George Eliot - State of the nation
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - Family and self
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - State of the nation
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham - Science fiction and fantasy
The Mighty Walzer Howard - Jacobson - Comedy
The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell - War and travel
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Love
Millennium People - JG Ballard - Science fiction and fantasy
The Millstone - Margaret Drabble - Family and self
The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene - Crime
Les Miserables - Georges Perec - Comedy
Misery - Stephen King - Crime
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg - Crime
Mister Johnson - Joyce Cary - Comedy
Moby-Dick or, The Whale - Herman Melville - War and travel
Molesworth - Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle - Comedy
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - State of the nation
Molloy - Samuel Beckett - Comedy
Money - Martin Amis - Comedy
The Monk - Matthew Lewis - Science fiction and fantasy
Monkey - Wu Ch'eng-en - War and travel
A Month in the Country - JL Carr - Love
Moo - Jane Smiley - Comedy
The Moon and the Bonfire - Cesare Pavese - State of the nation
Moon over Africa - Pamela Kent - Love
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins - Crime
More Die of Heartbreak - Saul Bellow - Love
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner - Family and self
Mother - Maxim Gorky - State of the nation
Mother London - Michael Moorcock - Science fiction and fantasy
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem - Crime
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy - Family and self
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - Eric Hodgkins - Comedy
Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood - Comedy
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Family and self
The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie - Crime
Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy Le Sayers - Crime
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie - Crime
Music and Silence - Rose Tremain - Love
My Antonia - Willa Cather - Love
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier - Crime
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell - Family and self
My Name Is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok - Family and self
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk - Crime
My New York Diary - Julie Doucet - Family and self
My Search for Warren Harding - Robert Plunkett - Comedy
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe - Science fiction and fantasy
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie - Crime
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain - Comedy
N

The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer - War and travel
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs - Science fiction and fantasy
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Crime
Narziss and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse - Family and self
Native Son - Richard Wright - Crime
The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke - Crime
Neuromancer - William Gibson - Science fiction and fantasy
New Grub Street - George Gissing - State of the nation
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster - Crime
News from Nowhere - William Morris - Science fiction and fantasy
Nice Work - David Lodge - Comedy
The Night Sessions - Ken Macleod - Science fiction and fantasy
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters - Love
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock - Science fiction and fantasy
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter - Science fiction and fantasy
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes - Love
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - Science fiction and fantasy
Nineteen Seventy Four - David Peace - Crime
Nineteen Seventy Seven - David Peace - Crime
No Bed for Bacon - Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon - Comedy
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy - Crime
No Orchids for Miss Blandish - James Hadley Chase - Crime
Non-Stop - Brian W Aldiss - Science fiction and fantasy
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell - State of the nation
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Love
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami - Love
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad - War and travel
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - State of the nation
Novel on Yellow Paper - Stevie Smith - State of the nation
O

Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov - Comedy
The Odd Women - George Gissing - State of the nation
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham - Love
Of Love & Hunger - Julian Maclaren-Ross - State of the nation
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Crime
Office Politics - Wilfrid Sheed - Comedy
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway - Family and self
The Old Men at the Zoo - Angus Wilson - Science fiction and fantasy
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett - Family and self
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
On Beauty - Zadie Smith - Family and self
On the Road - Jack Kerouac - War and travel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - State of the nation
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Family and self
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - War and travel
One of Ours - Willa Cather - War and travel
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith - Science fiction and fantasy
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson - Family and self
Orlando - Virginia Woolf - Science fiction and fantasy
The Ordeal of Richard Feverek - George Meredith - Family and self
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave - Aphra Behn - State of the nation
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey - Love
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene - Comedy
The Outsider - Albert Camus - Family and self
P

The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - War and travel
The Painter of Signs - RK Narayan - Love
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz - Family and self
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - Comedy
Pamela - Samuel Richardson - Love
Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford - War and travel
The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier - Love
A Passage to India - EM Forster - State of the nation
Passing - Nella Larsen - State of the nation
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson - Love
The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter - Science fiction and fantasy
Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller - Love
Peace in War - Miguel de Unamuno - Family and self
Penrod - Booth Tarkington - Comedy
Le Pere Goriot - Jean Cocteau - Family and self
Perfume - Patrick Suskind - Crime
Personality - Andrew O'Hagan - State of the nation
Persuasion - Jane Austen - Love
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek - Love
Piccadilly Jim - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - Comedy
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Family and self
Pictures from an Institution - Randall Jarrell - Comedy
Pig Tales - Marie Darrieussecq - Science fiction and fantasy
The Plague - Albert Camus - State of the nation
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion - State of the nation
The Pledge - Friedrich Durrenmatt - Crime
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov - Comedy
Poetic Justice - Amanda Cross - Crime
Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson - Family and self
The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley - Crime
The Polygots - William Gerhardie - Comedy
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharpe - Comedy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - Family and self
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth - Comedy
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - Love
Possession - AS Byatt - Love
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - State of the nation
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain - Crime
Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell - Crime
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene - Family and self
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - Family and self
The Prestige - Christopher Priest - Science fiction and fantasy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Love
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - Comedy
The Princess of Cleves - Madame de Lafayette - Love
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Science fiction and fantasy
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - War and travel
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg - Science fiction and fantasy
The Professor's House - Willa Cather - Family and self
The Provincial Lady - EM Delafield - Comedy
Puckoon - Spike Milligan - Comedy
Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain - Crime
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford - Love
Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh - War and travel
Q

Quarantine - Jim Crace - Family and self
Queen Lucia - EF Benson - Comedy
A Quiet Belief in Angels - RJ Ellory - Crime
R

The Rabbit Omnibus - John Updike - Family and self
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth - State of the nation
The Ragazzi Pier - Paolo Pasolini - State of the nation
A Rage in Harlem - Chester Himes - Crime
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell - State of the nation
The Rainbow - DH Lawrence - Love
Rasselas - Samuel Johnson - War and travel
Ratking - Michael Dibdin - Crime
The Reader - Benhardq Schlink - Love
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier - Love
The Recognitions - William Gaddis - State of the nation
The Rector's Daughter - FM Mayor - Family and self
The Red and the Black - Stendhal - State of the nation
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane - War and travel
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Crime
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - Crime
The Red Room - August Stringberg - State of the nation
Red Shift - Alan Garner - Science fiction and fantasy
Regency Buck - Georgette Heyer - Love
Regeneration - Pat Barker - War and travel
The Reluctant Orphan - Aara Seale - Love
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - Love
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf - State of the nation
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust - Family and self
The Remorseful Day - Colin Dexter - Crime
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills - Comedy
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West - State of the nation
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - Science fiction and fantasy
Les Revenentes - Barbara Pym - Comedy
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates - Love
A Rich Full Death - Michael Dibdin - Crime
Richshaw Boy - Lao She - State of the nation
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers - Crime
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban - Science fiction and fantasy
The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald - War and travel
Ringworld - Larry Niven - Science fiction and fantasy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy - Science fiction and fantasy
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - War and travel
Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household - Crime
Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys - Science fiction and fantasy
Room at the Top - John Braine - State of the nation
Room Temperature - Nicholson Baker - Family and self
A Room with a View - EM Forster - Love
Roxana - Daniel Defoe - Family and self
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown - Love
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell - Love
S

Sacaramouche - Rafael Sabatini - War and travel
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf - Victor Pelevin - Comedy
Samarkand - Amin Maalouf - Love
Sanctuary - William Faulkner - Crime
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie - Science fiction and fantasy
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe - State of the nation
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano - War and travel
The Scar - China Mieville - Science fiction and fantasy
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Love
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy - War and travel
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally - War and travel
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
A Season in Sinji - JL Carr - Comedy
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie - Crime
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad - Crime
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend - Family and self
The Secret History - Donna Tartt - Crime
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - Love
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert - State of the nation
A Sentimental Journey - Lawrence Sterne - War and travel
Shame - Salman Rushdie - State of the nation
Sharpe's Eagle - Bernard Cornwell - War and travel
She: A History of Adventure - H Rider Haggard - War and travel
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles - War and travel
The Shining - Stephen King - Science fiction and fantasy
The Ship - CS Forester - War and travel
The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx - Family and self
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte - State of the nation
The Shrimp and the Anemone - LP Hartley - Family and self
Sidetracked - Henning Mankell - Crime
The Siege of Krishnapur - JG Farrell - War and travel
The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle - Crime
Silas Marner - George Eliot - State of the nation
Silence - Shusaku Endo - Family and self
Silence of the Grave - Arnadur Indridason - Crime
The Silent Duchess - Dacia Maraini - Love
Silver Stallion - Junghyo Ahn - War and travel
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - Science fiction and fantasy
Sister Carrie - Theodor Dreiser - State of the nation
Slaughter-House Five - Kurt Vonnegut - War and travel
The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton - War and travel
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo - Peter De Vries - Comedy
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - Science fiction and fantasy
The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico - Love
So Long, See you Tomorrow - William Maxwell - Love
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem - Science fiction and fantasy
The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell - War and travel
Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler - Comedy
Something Fresh - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison - Family and self
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence - Family and self
Sophie's Choice - William Styron - War and travel
The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh - War and travel
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Love
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner - Family and self
The Sound of my Voice - Ron Butlin - Family and self
Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo - Family and self
South Riding - Winifred Holtby - State of the nation
South Wind - Norman Douglas - War and travel
The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth - Science fiction and fantasy
Spies - Michael Frayn - Family and self
A Sport and a Passtime - James Salter - Love
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford - Family and self
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre - Crime
Squire Haggard's Journal - Michael Green - Comedy
Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon - Science fiction and fantasy
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester - Science fiction and fantasy
Staying On - Paul Scott - State of the nation
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse - Family and self
Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide - Love
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent - E Phillips Oppenheim - Crime
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Science fiction and fantasy
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein - Science fiction and fantasy
Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith - Crime
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - Crime
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - Family and self
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky - War and travel
Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Love
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolp Erich Raspe - War and travel
The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst - Love
Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss - Family and self
The Sword in the Stone - TH White - Science fiction and fantasy
Sybil or The Two Nations - Benjamin Disraeli - State of the nation
T

A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift - Comedy
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - State of the nation
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith - Crime
Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin - Comedy
Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener - War and travel
A Taste for Death - PD James - Crime
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness - Kezaburo Oe - Family and self
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald - Love
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Love
Thank You Jeeves - PG Wodehouse - Comedy
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - Love
Therese Raquin - Emile Zola - Crime
They Were Counted - Miklos Banffy - State of the nation
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett - Crime
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - State of the nation
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien - War and travel
The Third Man - Graham Greene - Crime
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien - Science fiction and fantasy
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan - Crime
This Sporting Life - David Storey - State of the nation
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley - Family and self
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome - Comedy
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - War and travel
The Three Paradoxes - Paul Hornschemeier - Family and self
The Three Sisters - May Sinclair - Family and self
Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos - War and travel
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll - Science fiction and fantasy
The Time Machine - HG Wells - Science fiction and fantasy
The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia - State of the nation
The Time Ships - Stephen Baxter - Science fiction and fantasy
A Time to be Born - Dawn Powell - Comedy
A Time to Kill - John Grisham - Crime
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - Science fiction and fantasy
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass - War and travel
The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke - Crime
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre - Crime
Tintin in Tibet - Georges Remi Herge - War and travel
Titmuss Regained - John Mortimer - Comedy
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake - Science fiction and fantasy
To Each his Own - Leonardo Sciascia - State of the nation
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Crime
To The Ends of the Earth trilogy - William Golding - War and travel
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Family and self
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell - State of the nation
Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes - Family and self
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding - Comedy
Tono Bungay - HG Wells - Comedy
Topper Takes a Trip - Thorne Smith - Comedy
The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins - Family and self
Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen - Crime
Towards the End of the Morning - Michael Frayn - Comedy
The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay - Comedy
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - War and travel
Toxic Shock - Sara Paretsky - Crime
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh - State of the nation
The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard - Love
Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene - Comedy
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - War and travel
The Tree of Man - Patrick White - Family and self
Trent's Last Case - EC Bentley - Crime
The Trial - Franz Kafka - Science fiction and fantasy
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller - Love
Tropic of Ruislip - Leslie Thomas - Comedy
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang - Peter Carey - Crime
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James - Science fiction and fantasy
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles - Family and self
U

Ulysses - James Joyce - Family and self
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki - Comedy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - Love
Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Science fiction and fantasy
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - State of the nation
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett - Comedy
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro - Science fiction and fantasy
Under the Net - Iris Murdoch - Comedy
Under the Skin - Michel Faber - Science fiction and fantasy
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry - Family and self
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad - Crime
Underworld - Don DeLillo - State of the nation
The Unfortunates - BS Johnson - Family and self
Unless - Carol Shields - Family and self
Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand - State of the nation
USA - John Dos Passos - State of the nation
V

V - Thomas Pynchon - Crime
The Vagabond - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Family and self
The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell - War and travel
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann - Love
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - State of the nation
Vathek - William Beckford - Science fiction and fantasy
The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide - Family and self
Vendetta - Michael Dibdin - Crime
Venus on the Half-Shell - Kilgore Trout - Comedy
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Family and self
The Victorian Chaise-longue - Marghanita Laski - Science fiction and fantasy
Victory: An Island Tale - Joseph Conrad - Love
La Vie Mode d'Emploi - Georges Perec - Comedy
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh - Comedy
Vilette - Charlotte Bronte - Love
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - State of the nation
The Virgin in the Garden - AS Byatt - State of the nation
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides - Love
The Virginian - Owen Wister - War and travel
Voss - Patrick White - War and travel
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay - Science fiction and fantasy
Vurt - Jeff Noon - Science fiction and fantasy
W

Waiting for the Barbarians - JM Coeztee - State of the nation
The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever - Family and self
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - War and travel
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells - Science fiction and fantasy
Washington Square - Henry James - Family and self
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - Science fiction and fantasy
Waterland - Graham Swift - Love
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler - Family and self
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope - State of the nation
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin - Science fiction and fantasy
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver - Family and self
The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann - Love
Weaveworld - Clive Barker - Science fiction and fantasy
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall - Love
The Westminster Alice - Saki - Comedy
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe - State of the nation
When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs - War and travel
Whisky Galore - Compton Mackenzie - Comedy
White Man Falling - Mike Stocks - Comedy
White Noise - Don DeLillo - State of the nation
White Teeth - Zadie Smith - State of the nation
Who Do You Think You Are? - Alice Munro - Family and self
Whose Body? - Dorothy L Sayers - Crime
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys - Love
Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown - Science fiction and fantasy
Williwaw - Gore Vidal - War and travel
The Wimbledon Poisoner - Nigel Williams - Comedy
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Comedy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami - Science fiction and fantasy
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James - Love
Wise Children - Angela Carter - Family and self
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike - Comedy
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Crime
Women in Love DH Lawrence - Love
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy - Love
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Love
Y

The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson - Science fiction and fantasy
You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming - Crime
The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw - War and travel
Z

Z - Vassilis Vassilikos - State of the nation
Zami - Audre Lorde - Love
Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau - Comedy
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig - War and travel
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis - Love
Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm - Comedy