The Fiction 500: The Most Influential Novels, Short Stories, Graphic Novels and Picture Books Since 1900

Things Fall Apart/ Chinua Achebe (1958)

Blood and Guts in High School/ Kathy Acker (1984)

Hawksmoor/ Peter Ackroyd (1985)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy/ Douglas Adams (1979)

Watership Down/ Richard Adams (1972)

Half of a Yellow Sun/ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
A Death in the Family/ James Agee (1957)

Dark Entries/ Robert Aickman (1964)

The Magnificent Meaulnes/ Alain-Fournier (1913)

Hothouse/ Brian Aldiss (1962)

The House of the Spirits/ Isabel Allende (1982)

The Mask of Dimitrios/ Eric Ambler (1939)

Lucky Jim/ Kingsley Amis (1954)

Money/ Martin Amis (1984)

Winesburg, Ohio/ Sherwood Anderson (1919)
The Enchanted April/ Elizabeth von Arnim (1922)

Foundation/ Isaac Asimov (1951)

Life After Life/ Kate Atkinson (2013)

The Handmaid’s Tale/ Margaret Atwood (1985)

The New York Trilogy/ Paul Auster (1985-6)

The Odessa Tales/ Isaac Babel (1931)

The Bottle Factory Outing/ Beryl Bainbridge (1974)

The Mezzanine/ Nicholson Baker (1988)

Go Tell it On the Mountain/ James Baldwin (1953)

High Rise/ JG Ballard (1975)

The Wasp Factory/ Iain Banks (1984)

The Sea/ John Banville (2005)

The Regeneration Trilogy/ Pat Barker (1991-5)

Nightwood/ Djuna Barnes (1936)

Flaubert’s Parrot/ Julian Barnes (1984)

Peter and Wendy/ JM Barrie (1911)
The Sot-Weed Factor/ John Barth (1960)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis/ Giorgio Bassani (1962)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/ L Frank Baum (1900)
She Came to Stay/ Simone de Beauvoir (1943)

The Molloy Trilogy/ Samuel Beckett (1951-3)
A Legacy/ Sybille Bedford (1956)
The Adventures of Augie March/ Saul Bellow (1953)

Petersburg/ Andrei Bely (1913)

Madeline/ Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)

The Old Wives’ Tale/ Arnold Bennett (1908)

Mapp and Lucia/ EF Benson (1931)

G/ John Berger (1972)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin/ Louis de Bernieres (1994)

The Stars, My Destination/ Alfred Bester (1957)

Anecdotes of Destiny/ Karen Blixen (1958)

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret?/ Judy Blume (1970)

The Enchanted Wood/ Enid Blyton (1939)

2666/ Roberto Bolano (2004)
A Bear Called Paddington/ Michael Bond (1958)

Fictions/ Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

The Heat of the Day/ Elizabeth Bowen (1948)

The Sheltering Sky/ Paul Bowles (1949)
The Ascent of Rum Doodle/ WE Bowman (1956)

Any Human Heart/ William Boyd (2002)

The History Man/ Malcolm Bradbury (1975)

Fahrenheit 451/ Ray Bradbury (1953)

Trout Fishing in America/ Richard Brautigan (1961)
When the Wind Blows/ Raymond Briggs (1982)
The Sleepwalkers/ Hermann Broch (1928-32)

Hotel du Lac/ Anita Brookner (1984)
Goodnight Moon/ Margaret Wise Brown (1948)

The Story of Babar/ Jean de Brunhoff (1931)

The Thirty Nine Steps/ John Buchan (1915)

The Good Earth/ Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Women/ Charles Bukowski (1978)

The Master and Margarita/ Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)

A Clockwork Orange/ Anthony Burgess (1962)

The Secret Garden/ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

Tarzan of the Apes/ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

Naked Lunch/ William S. Burroughs (1959)
The Tartar Steppe/ Dino Buzzati (1940)

Possession/ AS Byatt (1990)

The Postman Always Rings Twice/ James M. Cain (1934)

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller/ Italo Calvino (1979)

The Stranger/ Albert Camus (1942)

In Cold Blood/ Truman Capote (1966)

True History of the Kelly Gang/ Peter Carey (2000)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar/ Eric Carle (1969)

A Month in the Country/ JL Carr (1980)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold/ John le Carre (1963)

Nights at the Circus/ Angela Carter (1984)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love/ Raymond Carver (1981)

My Antonia/ Willa Cather (1918)

Journey to the End of the Night/ Louis Ferdinand Celine (1932)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay/ Michael Chabon (2000)

The Big Sleep/ Raymond Chandler (1939)

The Wapshot Chronicle/ John Cheever (1957)

In the Ravine/ Anton Chekhov (1900)

The Man Who Was Thursday/ GK Chesterton (1908)

The Riddle of the Sands/ Erskine Childers (1903)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Agatha Christie (1926)
The Death of Grass/ John Christopher (1956)

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell/ Susannah Clarke (2004)

Childhood's End/ Arthur C. Clarke (1953)

Ghost World/ Daniel Clowes (1997)

What a Carve Up!/ Jonathan Coe (1994) 

Life and Times of Michael K/ JM Coetzee (1983)

Cheri/ Colette (1920)

Pastors and Masters/ Ivy Compton-Burnett (1925)

Nostromo/ Joseph Conrad (1904)
The Dark is Rising/ Susan Cooper (1973)
Hopscotch/ Julio Cortazar (1963)

Just William/ Richmal Crompton (1922)

Little, Big/ John Crowley (1981)

The Hours/ Michael Cunningham (1998)

Matilda/ Roald Dahl (1988)

The House of Leaves/ Mark Danielewski (2000)

The Deptford Trilogy/ Robertson Davies (1970-5)

Varieties of Disturbance/ Lydia Davis (2007) 

The Ipcress File/ Len Deighton (1962)

The Diary of a Provincial Lady/ EM Delafield (1930)

Underworld/ Don Delillo (1997)

Fasting, Feasting/ Anita Desai (1999)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/ Junot Diaz (2007)

The Man in the High Castle/ Philip K. Dick (1962)
Deliverance/ James Dickey (1970)
Play It as It Lays/ Joan Didion (1970)

Berlin Alexanderplatz/ Alfred Doblin (1929)

Ragtime/ EL Doctorow (1975)

All the Light We Cannot See/ Anthony Doerr (2014)

The Gruffalo/ Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (1999)

The Ginger Man/ JP Donleavy (1955)
The USA Trilogy/ John Dos Passos (1930-6)

The Barrytown Trilogy/ Roddy Doyle (1987-91)

The Hound of the Baskervilles/ Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

The Millstone/ Margaret Drabble (1965)

Sister Carrie/ Theodore Dreiser (1900)

The Lover/ Marguerite Duras (1984)

The Alexandria Quartet/ Lawrence Durrell (1957-60)

The Name of the Rose/ Umberto Eco (1980)

A Visit from the Goon Squad/ Jennifer Egan (2011)

A Contract With God/ Will Eisner (1978)

American Psycho/ Brett Easton Ellis (1991)

Invisible Man/ Ralph Ellison (1952)

The Black Dahlia/ James Ellroy (1987)

Silence/ Shusako Endo (1966)

Heartburn/ Nora Ephron (1983)

The Virgin Suicides/ Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)

The Crimson Petal and the White/ Michel Faber (2002)

Alone in Berlin/ Hans Fallada (1947)

The Siege of Krishnapur/ JG Farrell (1973)

The Sound and the Fury/ William Faulkner (1929)

Birdsong/ Sebastian Faulks (1993)

The Neapolitan Novels/ Elena Ferrante (2012-5)

Bridget Jones’ Diary/ Helen Fielding (1996)

The Great Gatsby/ F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Blue Flower/ Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café/ Fannie Flagg (1987)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North/ Richard Flanagan (2013)

Casino Royale/ Ian Fleming (1953)

Everything is Illuminated/ Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)

The Sportswriter/ Richard Ford (1986)

The Good Soldier/ Ford Madox Ford (1915)

A Passage to India/ EM Forster (1924)

The Day of the Jackal/ Frederick Forsyth (1971)

The French Lieutenant's Woman/ John Fowles (1969)

Faces in the Water/ Janet Frame (1961)

The Corrections/ Jonathan Franzen (2001)

Flashman/ George MacDonald Fraser (1969)
Spies/ Michael Frayn (2002)
The Death of Artemio Cruz/ Carlos Fuentes (1962)

The Recognitions/ William Gaddis (1955)

The Sandman/ Neil Gaiman (1989-96)

The Forsyte Saga/ John Galsworthy (1906-21)
The Owl Service/ Alan Garner (1967)

Our Lady of the Flowers/ Jean Genet (1943)

The Glass Palace/ Amitav Ghosh (2000)

Cold Comfort Farm/ Stella Gibbons (1932)

Neuromancer/ William Gibson (1984)

The Immoralist/ Andre Gide (1902)

Lord of the Flies/ William Golding (1954)

The Princess Bride/ William Goldman (1973)
Burger's Daughter/ Nadine Gordimer (1979) 

Asterix the Gaul/ Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (1961)

The Wind in the Willows/ Kenneth Grahame (1908)

The Tin Drum/ Gunther Grass (1959)

I, Claudius/ Robert Graves (1934)
Lanark/ Alasdair Gray (1981)

Loving/ Henry Green (1945)

The Power and the Glory/ Graham Greene (1940)

Life and Fate/ Vassily Grossman (1960)
The Left Hand of Darkness/ Ursula K. le Guin (1969)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time/ Mark Haddon (2003)

The Well of Loneliness/ Radclyffe Hall (1928)

Hangover Square/ Patrick Hamilton (1941)

The Maltese Falcon/ Dashiell Hammett (1930)

The Go Between/ LP Hartley (1953)

The Good Soldier Svejk/ Jaroslav Hasek (1923)

Stranger in a Strange Land/ Robert A. Heinlein (1961)

Catch 22/ Joseph Heller (1961)

The Sun Also Rises/ Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Cabbages and Kings/ O Henry (1904)

Dune/ Frank Herbert (1965)

Tintin in Tibet/ Herge (1960)

Love and Rockets/ Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez (1982- )

The Glass Bead Game/ Herman Hesse (1943)

The Grand Sophy/ Georgette Heyer (1950)

Strip Tease/ Carl Hiaasen (1993)

The Talented Mr. Ripley/ Patricia Highsmith (1955)
The Woman in Black/ Susan Hill (1983)
Lost Horizon/ James Hilton (1933)

The Outsiders/ SE Hinton (1967)

Riddley Walker/ Russell Hoban (1980)

The Line of Beauty/ Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

The Kite Runner/ Khaled Hosseini (2003)

Atomised/ Michel Houellebecq (1998)

Rogue Male/ Geoffrey Household (1939)

The Cazalet Chronicles/ Elizabeth Jane Howard (1990-2013)

I Served the King of England/ Bohumil Hrabal (1971)

High Wind in Jamaica/ Richard Hughes (1929)

Dogger/ Shirley Hughes (1977)

Their Eyes Were Watching God/ Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

Brave New World/ Aldous Huxley (1931)

The World According to Garp/ John Irving (1978)

The Berlin Stories/ Christopher Isherwood (1935-9)

The Remains of the Day/ Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle/ Shirley Jackson (1962)
The Finkler Question/ Howard Jacobson (2010)

The Ambassadors/ Henry James (1903)

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad/ MR James (1904)

Children of Men/ PD James (1992)

The Summer Book/ Tove Jansson (1972)

Heat and Dust/ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)

The Unfortunates/ BS Johnson (1969)

Harold and the Purple Crayon/ Crockett Johnson (1955)
Fear of Flying/ Erica Jong (1973)

Ulysses/ James Joyce (1922)
The Phantom Tollbooth/ Norton Juster (1961)

The General of the Dead Army/ Ismail Kadare (1963)

The Trial/ Franz Kafka (1925)
Emil and the Detectives/ Erich Kastner (1929)
Snow Country/ Yasunari Kawabata (1948)
Good Behaviour/ Molly Keane (1981)

How Late It Was, How Late/ James Kelman (1994)

Schindler’s Ark/ Thomas Keneally (1982)

On the Road/ Jack Kerouac (1957)

The Tiger Who Came to Tea/ Judith Kerr (1968)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest/ Ken Kesey (1962)

Flowers for Algernon/ Daniel Keyes (1966)

The Stand/ Stephen King (1978)

The Poisonwood Bible/ Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

Kim/ Rudyard Kipling (1901)

My Struggle/ Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009-11)

Darkness at Noon/ Arthur Koestler (1940)
The Painted Bird/ Jerzy Kosinksi (1965) 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being/ Milan Kundera (1984)

The Buddha of Suburbia/ Hanif Kureishi (1990)

A Wrinkle in Time/ Madeline L’Engle (1962)

The Leopard/ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
The Stone Angel/ Margaret Laurence (1964)

Sons and Lovers/ DH Lawrence (1913)

Independent People/ Halldor Laxness (1934-5)

To Kill a Mockingbird/ Harper Lee (1960)

The Weather in the Streets/ Rosamond Lehmann (1936)

Solaris/ Stanislaw Lem (1961)

La Brava/ Elmore Leonard (1983)

The Golden Notebook/ Doris Lessing (1962)

Rosemary’s Baby/ Ira Levin (1967)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/ CS Lewis (1950)

Babbitt/ Sinclair Lewis (1922)

Tarr/ Wyndham Lewis (1928)

Pippi Longstocking/ Astrid Lindgren (1945)

Agua Viva/ Clarice Lispector (1973)

Moon Tiger/ Penelope Lively (1987)

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter/ Mario Vargas Llosa (1977)

Frog and Toad are Friends/ Arnold Lobel (1970)

Changing Places/ David Lodge (1975)

The Call of the Wild/ Jack London (1903)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/ Anita Loos (1925)
Zami: a New Spelling of My Name/ Audre Lorde (1982)

At the Mountains of Madness/ HP Lovecraft (1931)

Under the Volcano/ Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Call to Arms/ Lu Xun (1922)

Goodnight Mr. Tom/ Michelle Magorian (1981)
The Cairo Trilogy/ Naghib Mahfouz (1956-7)

The Executioner's Song/ Norman Mailer (1979)

The Fixer/ Bernard Malamud (1966)

The Magic Mountain/ Thomas Mann (1924)
The Balkan Trilogy/ Olivia Manning (1960-5)

The Garden Party and Other Stories/ Katherine Mansfield (1922)

Wolf Hall/ Hilary Mantel (2009)

One Hundred Years of Solitude/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)

Life of Pi/ Yann Martel (2001)

A Song of Ice and Fire/ George RR Martin (1996- )
Property/ Valerie Martin (2003)

I Am Legend/ Richard Matheson (1954)

Of Human Bondage/ W Somerset Maugham (1915)

Tales of the City/ Armistead Maupin (1978)
Rebecca/ Daphne du Maurier (1938)
So Long, See You Tomorrow/ William Maxwell (1980)

Blood Meridian/ Cormac McCarthy (1985)
The Group/ Mary McCarthy (1963)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/ Carson McCullers (1940)

Atonement/ Ian McEwan (2001)

Amongst Women/ John McGahern (1990)

Lonesome Dove/ Larry McMurtry (1985)

The Dark Knight Returns/ Frank Miller (1986)

Tropic of Cancer/ Henry Miller (1934)

The Song of Achilles/ Madeline Miller (2011)

A Canticle for Leibowitz/ Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)

Winnie the Pooh/ AA Milne (1926)

Confessions of a Mask/ Yukio Mishima (1949)

A Fine Balance/ Rohinton Mistry (1995)

Cloud Atlas/ David Mitchell (2004)

Gone With the Wind/ Margaret Mitchell (1936)

The Pursuit of Love/ Nancy Mitford (1945)
Red Sorghum/ Mo Yan (1986)

Missing Person/ Patrick Modiano (1980)

Anne of Green Gables/ Lucy M. Montgomery (1908)

The Dancers at the End of Time/ Michael Moorcock (1972-6)

From Hell/ Alan Moore and Eddie Chapman (1999)

The Conformist/ Alberto Moravia (1951)

Beloved/ Toni Morrison (1987)
Cities of Salt/ Abdul Rahman Munif (1984)

Runaway/ Alice Munro (2004)

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle/ Haruki Murakami (1995)

The Bell/ Iris Murdoch (1958)

The Man Without Qualities/ Robert Musil (1930-43)

Lolita/ Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

A House for Mr. Biswas/ VS Naipaul (1961)

The Malgudi Days Trilogy/ RK Narayan (1935-45)

Suite Francaise/ Irene Nemirovsky (2004)

The Railway Children/ E Nesbit (1906)

A Grain of Wheat/ Ngugi wa Thiong' O (1967)

Delta of Venus/ Anais Nin (1977)

Ringworld/ Larry Niven (1970)

The Borrowers/ Mary Norton (1952)

Master and Commander/ Patrick O’ Brian (1969)

The Country Girls/ Edna O’ Brien (1960)

At Swim-Two-Birds/ Flann O’ Brien (1939)

Wise Blood/ Flannery O’ Connor (1952)
Guests of the Nation/ Frank O' Connor (1931)
Appointment in Samarra/ John O' Hara (1934)

them/ Joyce Carol Oates (1969)

The Famished Road/ Ben Okri (1991)

The English Patient/ Michael Ondaatje (1992)

Nineteen Eighty-Four/ George Orwell (1949)

My Michael/ Amos Oz (1968)

Fight Club/ Chuck Palahnuik (1996)
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute/ Grace Paley (1974)

My Name is Red/ Orhan Pamuk (1998)
Doctor Zhivago/ Boris Pasternak (1957)

Bel Canto/ Ann Patchett (2001)

Cry, the Beloved Country/ Alan Paton (1948)

The Moon and the Bonfires/ Cesare Pavese (1949)

The Gormenghast Trilogy/ Mervyn Peake (1946-59)

Tom’s Midnight Garden/ Philippa Pearce (1958)
The Moviegoer/ Walker Percy (1961)

Life: a User’s Manual/ Georges Perec (1978)

The Book of Disquiet/ Fernando Pessoa (1982)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/ Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

The Bell Jar/ Sylvia Plath (1963)
The Foundation Pit/ Andrey Platonov (1987)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit/ Beatrix Potter (1902)

A Dance to the Music of Time/ Anthony Powell (1951-75)

Wolf Solent/ John Cooper Powys (1929)

Mort/ Terry Pratchett (1987)

The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories/ VS Pritchett (1932)

The Shipping News/ E Annie Proulx (1993)

In Search of Lost Time/ Marcel Proust (1913-27)

His Dark Materials/ Philip Pullman (1995-2000)

The Godfather/ Mario Puzo (1969)

Excellent Women/ Barbara Pym (1952)

Gravity’s Rainbow/ Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Exercises in Style/ Raymond Queneau (1947)
Fortress Besieged/ Qian Jhongshu (1947)

Atlas Shrugged/ Ayn Rand (1957)

Swallows and Amazons/ Arthur Ransome (1930)
Alms For Oblivion/ Simon Raven (1964-76)

All Quiet on the Western Front/ Erich Maria Remarque (1929)

Fire From Heaven/ Mary Renault (1969)

A Judgement in Stone/ Ruth Rendell (1977)

Wide Sargasso Sea/ Jean Rhys (1966)
Interview With the Vampire/ Anne Rice (1976)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz/ Mordechai Richler (1959)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge/ Rainer Maria Rilke (1910)

Shantaram/ Gregory David Roberts (2003)

Housekeeping/ Marilynn Robinson (1980)
We're Going On a Bear Hunt/ Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (1987)

Call it Sleep/ Henry Roth (1934)

The Radetzky March/ Joseph Roth (1932)

Portnoy’s Complaint/ Philip Roth (1969)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/ JK Rowling (1997)

The God of Small Things/ Arundhati Roy (1997)
Pedro Paramo/ Juan Rulfo (1955)

Guys and Dolls/ Damon Runyon (1932) 

Midnight’s Children/ Salman Rushdie (1981)

Holes/ Louis Sachar (1998)

All Passion Spent/ Vita Sackville-West (1931)

Bonjour Tristesse/ Francois Sagan (1954)

The Patrick Melrose Novels/ Edward St. Aubyn (1992-2012) 

The Little Prince/ Antoine Saint Exupery (1943)

Beasts and Super Beasts/ Saki (1914)

The Catcher in the Rye/ JD Salinger (1951)

Light Years/ James Salter (1975)

Blindness/ Jose Saramago (1995)

Nausea/ Jean Paul Sartre (1938)

Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man/ Siegfried Sassoon (1928)

Persepolis/ Marjane Satrapi (2000-4)

Lincoln in the Bardo/ George Saunders (2017)

Gaudy Night/ Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)

The Reader/ Bernard Schlink (1995)

The Raj Quartet/ Paul Scott (1965-75)

Austerlitz/ WG Sebald (2001)
Last Exit to Brooklyn / Hubert Selby Jr. (1964)

Where the Wild Things Are/ Maurice Sendak (1963)

A Suitable Boy/ Vikram Seth (1993)

Oh, the Places You'll Go!/ Dr Seuss (1990)

Porterhouse Blue/ Tom Sharpe (1974)

The Stone Diaries/ Carol Shields (1993)

We Need to Talk About Kevin/ Lionel Shriver (2003)

A Town Like Alice/ Neville Shute (1950)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning/ Alan Sillitoe (1958)
The Giving Tree/ Shel Silverstein (1964)

Dirty Snow/ Georges Simenon (1948)

The Jungle/ Upton Sinclair (1904)

The Family Moskat/ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1950)

The Laughing Policeman/ Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (1968)

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept/ Elizabeth Smart (1945)
A Thousand Acres/ Jane Smiley (1991) 

The Accidental/ Ali Smith (2005)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/ Betty Smith (1943)

I Capture the Castle/ Dodie Smith (1948)

White Teeth/ Zadie Smith (2000)

Gorky Park/ Martin Cruz Smith (1981)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich/ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Sanshiro/ Natsume Soseki (1909)
The Magic Christian/ Terry Southern (1959)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/ Muriel Spark (1961)

Maus/ Art Spiegelman (1991)
The Man Who Loved Children/ Christina Stead (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath/ John Steinbeck (1939)

Snow Crash/ Neal Stephenson (1992)

Earth Abides/ George R Stewart (1949)
A Flag for Sunrise/ Robert Stone (1981)
Saville/ David Storey (1976)

Olive Kitteridge/ Elizabeth Strout (2008)

Roadside Picnic/ Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972)

The Confessions of Nat Turner/ William Styron (1967)

Perfume/ Patrick Suskind (1985)

Zeno’s Conscience/ Italo Svevo (1923)

Waterland/ Graham Swift (1983)
Journey By Moonlight/ Antal Szerb (1937)

The Home and the World/ Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
The Joy Luck Club/ Amy Tan (1989)
The Makioka Sisters/ Junichiro Tanizaki (1948)

The Secret History/ Donna Tartt (1992)

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont/ Elizabeth Taylor (1971)

The Man Who Fell to Earth/ Walter Tevis (1963)

The Daughter of Time/ Josephine Tey (1951)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/ Hunter S. Thompson (1972)

The Killer Inside Me/ Jim Thompson (1952)

The Master/ Colm Toibin (2004)

The Lord of the Rings/ JRR Tolkien (1954-5)

A Confederacy of Dunces/ John Kennedy Toole (1980)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾/ Sue Townsend (1982)
Mary Poppins/ PL Travers (1934)

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists/ Robert Tressell (1914)

The Story of Lucy Gault/ William Trevor (2002)

Young Adam/ Alexander Trocchi (1954)

Breathing Lessons/ Anne Tyler (1988)

The Rabbit Quartet/ John Updike (1960-90)

Burr/ Gore Vidal (1973)

Slaughterhouse-Five/ Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

The Color Purple/ Alice Walker (1982)

Infinite Jest/ David Foster Wallace (1996)
Lolly Willowes/ Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)

All the King’s Men/ Robert Penn Warren (1946)

Fingersmith/ Sarah Waters (2002)

Brideshead Revisited/ Evelyn Waugh (1945)

The Shape of Things to Come/ HG Wells (1933)

Trainspotting/ Irvine Welsh (1993)

The Optimist's Daughter/ Eudora Welty (1972) 

The Day of the Locust/ Nathaniel West (1939)

The Return of the Soldier/ Rebecca West (1918)

The Age of Innocence/ Edith Wharton (1920)
Charlotte’s Web/ EB White (1952)
A Boy's Own Story/ Edmund White (1982)

Voss/ Patrick White (1957)
The Once and Future King/ TH White (1958)

The Underground Railroad/ Colson Whitehead (2016)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey/ Thornton Wilder (1927)

Little House in the Big Woods/ Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
Molesworth/ Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle (1953-9)

Stoner/ John Williams (1965)

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit/ Jeanette Winterson (1985)
Cloudstreet/ Tim Winton (1991)

The Code of the Woosters/ PG Wodehouse (1938)

The Quest for Christa T/ Christa Wolf (1968)

The Book of the New Sun/ Gene Wolfe (1980-3)

The Bonfire of the Vanities/ Tom Wolfe (1987)

Mrs. Dalloway/ Virginia Woolf (1925)

Native Son/ Richard Wright (1940)

The Day of the Triffids/ John Wyndham (1951)

Revolutionary Road/ Richard Yates (1961)

Memoirs of Hadrian/ Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)

We/ Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
The Book Thief/ Marcus Zusak (2005)

Chess Story/ Stefan Zweig (1941)