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- Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim
- Atkinson, Kate, Life After Life
- Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Atwood, Margaret, Stone Mattress
- Austen, Jane, Persuasion
- Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending
- Beauregard, Mark, The Whale: A Love Story
- Boyd, William, Sweet Caress
- Boyden, Joseph, The Orenda
- Brooks, Geraldine, People of the Book
- Butler, Robert Olen, Perfume River
- Byatt, A. S., A Whistling Woman
- Carey, Peter, Jack Maggs
- Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries
- Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quijote
- Chabon, Michael, Telegraph Avenue
- Chopin, Kate, The Awakening
- Crace, Jim, Harvest
- Crompton, Richmal, Family Roundabout
- Crummey, Michael, Galore
- Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
- Cunningham, Michael, The Snow Queen
- Cusk, Rachel, Outline
- Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist
- Dickens, Monica, Mariana
- Doctorow, E. L., Andrew’s Brain
- Edugyan, Esi, Half-Blood Blues
- Egan, Jennifer, Look at Me
- Egan, Jennifer, A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Eliot, George, Middlemarch
- Enright, Anne, The Gathering
- Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides
- Farrell, J. G., The Siege of Krishnapur
- Farrell, J. G., Troubles
- Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William, The Hamlet
- Faulkner, William, The Mansion
- Faulkner, William, The Town
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, The Home-Maker
- Fitch, Janet, White Oleander
- Flanagan, Richard, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Ford, Ford Madox, Last Post
- Ford, Ford Madox, A Man Could Stand Up
- Ford, Ford Madox, No More Parades
- Ford, Ford Madox, Some Do Not
- Foulds, Adam, The Quickening Maze
- Fowler, Karen Joy, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Ghosh, Amitav, The Circle of Reason
- Ghosh, Amitav, River of Smoke
- Ghosh, Amitav, Sea of Poppies
- Gilbert, David, & Sons
- Glaspell, Susan, Fidelity
- Gordimer, Nadine, The House Gun
- Greig, Andrew, Fair Helen
- Harding, Paul, Enon
- Harding, Paul, Tinkers
- Hardy, Thomas, Far From the Madding Crowd
- Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Harrower, Elizabeth, The Watch Tower
- Haruf, Kent, Benediction
- Haruf, Kent, Our Souls at Night
- Head, Bessie, When Rain Clouds Gather
- Holtby, Winifred, The Crowded Street
- Holtby, Winifred, South Riding
- Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Hustvedt, Siri, The Blazing World
- Jackson, Shirley, Hangsaman
- Jelloun, Tahar Ben, The Happy Marriage
- Jensen, Carsten, We, The Drowned
- Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son
- Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar’s Children, The Known World
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day
- Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country
- Kay, I. J., Mountains of the Moon
- Keane, Molly, Good Behaviour
- Kennedy, Margaret, Troy Chimneys
- Kingsnorth, Paul, The Wake
- Krauss, Nicole, Great House
- Krauss, Nicole, The History of Love
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Lowland
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Unaccustomed Earth
- Lamb, Wally, The Hour I First Believed
- Laxness, Halldór, The Fish Can Sing
- Laxness, Halldór, Iceland’s Bell
- Laxness, Halldór, Independent People
- Laxness, Halldór, World Light
- Ledgard, J. M., Submergence
- MacKinnon, Amy, Tethered
- McBride, James, The Good Lord Bird
- McCullers, Carson, Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
- McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam
- McEwan, Ian, Sweet Tooth
- Malamud, Bernard, The Fixer
- Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
- Mantel, Hilary, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- Mantel, Hilary, Bring Up the Bodies
- Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall
- Mawer, Simon, The Glass Room
- Melville, Herman, Moby Dick or, The Whale
- Miller, Andrew, Pure
- Mitchell, David, Black Swan Green
- Mitchell, David, The Bone Clocks
- Mitchell, David, Ghostwritten
- Mitchell, David, Number9Dream
- Mitchell, David, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Moshfegh, Otessa, Eileen
- Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings, The View from Castle Rock
- Nabokov, Vladimir, Look at the Harlequins!
- Naslund, Sena Jeter, Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer
- Naslund, Sena Jeter, The Fountain of St. James Court or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
- Némirovsky, Iréne, Suite Française
- Obreht, Tea, The Tiger’s Wife
- O’Brien, Kate, That Lady
- O’Connor, Flannery, Wise Blood
- O’Connor, Joseph, Ghost Light
- O’Connor, Nuala, Miss Emily
- O’Donnell, Lisa, The Death of Bees
- Oliphant, Margaret, Miss Marjoribanks
- Oliphant, Margaret, The Perpetual Curate
- Oliphant, Margaret, The Rector and The Doctor’s Family
- Oliphant, Margaret, Salem Chapel
- Ondaatje, Michael, The Cat’s Table
- Oyeyemi, Helen, Boy, Snow, Bird
- Panter-Downes, Mollie, One Fine Day
- Percy, Walker, The Moviegoer
- Petterson, Per, I Curse the River of Time
- Powers, Richard, Orfeo
- Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead
- Robinson, Marilynne, Home
- Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping
- Robinson, Marilynne, Lila
- Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs
- Russo, Richard, Empire Falls
- Russo, Richard, Everybody’s Fool
- Ryan, Donal, The Spinning Heart
- Shafak, Elif, The Bastard of Istanbul
- Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra
- Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus
- Shakespeare, William, Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William, Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William, Othello
- Smiley, Jane, A Thousand Acres
- Smith, Ali, How to Be Both
- Smith, Zadie, NW
- Soffer, Jessica, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
- Soueif, Ahdaf, The Map of Love
- Strachey, Julia, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
- Strout, Elizabeth, Amy and Isabelle
- Strout, Elizabeth, Anything Is Possible
- Strout, Elizabeth, The Burgess Boys
- Strout, Elizabeth, My Name Is Lucy Barton
- Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge
- Taylor, Elizabeth, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
- Taylor, Elizabeth, A View of the Harbour
- Taylor, Elizabeth, A Wreath of Roses
- Thorpe, Adam, Ulverton
- Toíbín, Colm, The Empty Family
- Toíbín, Colm, House of Names
- Tóibín, Colm, The Master
- Tóibín, Colm, Nora Webster
- Toíbín, Colm, The Testament of Mary
- Trapido, Barbara, Brother of the More Famous Jack
- Trapido, Barbara, The Travelling Hornplayer
- Trollope, Anthony, Barchester Towers
- Trollope, Anthony, Doctor Thorne
- Trollope, Anthony, The Warden
- Tyler, Anne, A Spool of Blue Thread
- Urquhart, Jane, The Night Stages
- Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
- Whipple, Dorothy, Greenbanks
- Whipple, Dorothy, Someone at a Distance
- Whipple, Dorothy, They Knew Mr. Knight
- Williams, John, Stoner
- Williams, Niall, Four Letters of Love
- Williams, Niall, History of the Rain
- Wolitzer, Meg, The Interestings
- Wolitzer, Meg, The Wife
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
- Wyld, Evie, All the Birds, Singing
