144 | The Liar's Dictionary | Eley Williams |
143 | The Fortnight in September | RC Sherriff |
142 | North Woods | Daniel Mason |
141 | Bel Ami | Guy de Maupassant |
140 | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym |
139 | Frankie and Stankie | Barbara Trapido |
138 | The Falling Man | Don DeLillo |
137 | Old God's Time | Sebastian Barry |
136 | The Slowworm's Song | Andrew Miller |
135 | Lullaby | Leila Slimani |
134 | Antarctica | Claire Keegan |
133 | Amongst Women | John McGahern |
132 | The Lowlands | Jhumpa Lahiri |
131 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
130 | Lessons | Ian McEwan |
129 | Washington Square | Henry James |
128 | Oh William | Elizabeth Strout |
127 | Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford |
126 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov |
125 | The Promise | Damon Galgut |
124 | Ripley Underground | Patricia Highsmith |
123 | Good Behaviour | Molly Keane |
122 | To Calais In Ordinary Time | James Meek |
121 | Sanctuary | William Faulkner |
120 | Weather | Jenny Offil |
119 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
118 | On Chapel Sands | Laura Cumming |
117 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andric |
116 | Plainsong | Kent Haruf |
115 | Girl Woman Other | Bernadine Evaristo |
114 | A Complicated Kindness | Miriam Toews |
113 | The House in Paris | Elizabeth Bowen |
112 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
111 | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry |
110 | Fleischman is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser Akner |
109 | The Underground Railway | Colson Whitehead |
108 | Wise Children | Angela Carter |
107 | No Name | Wilkie Collins |
106 | Under the Volcano | Malcom Lowry |
105 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
104 | Crash | J. G. Ballard |
103 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
102 | Hardy Poems | Thomas Hardy |
101 | Birthday Letters/Sylvia Plath Poems | Sylvia Plath |
100 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
99 | The Blackwater Lightship | Colm Toibin |
98 | The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron |
97 | At Swim-Two-Birds | Brian O'Nolan |
96 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell |
95 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
94 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth |
93 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
92 | White Noise | Don DeLillo |
91 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley |
90 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
89 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
88 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
87 | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman |
86 | Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels |
85 | Gogol’s Stories | Nikolai Gogol |
84 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
83 | The Wine Dark Sea | Patrick O'Brian |
82 | A View of the Harbour | Elizabeth Taylor |
81 | A Bend in the River | V. S Naipaul |
80 | Jack Maggs | Peter Carey |
79 | Journey by Moonlight | Antal Szerb |
78 | The Master | Colm Toibin |
77 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
76 | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
75 | Gobseck | Honore de Balzac |
74 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga |
73 | Butcher’s Crossing | John Williams |
72 | A Patchwork Planet | Anne Tyler |
71 | A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler |
70 | The Human Comedy | William Saroyan |
69 | New Grubb Street | George Gissing |
68 | The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
67 | The Odd Women | George Gissing |
66 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann |
65 | Manservant and Maidservant | Ivy Compton-Burnett |
64 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
63 | What is the What? | Dave Eggers |
62 | Dr Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
61 | Murphy | Samuel Beckett |
60 | Life of Wittgenstein | Witgenstein |
59 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene |
58 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst |
57 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen |
56 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
55 | Canada | Richard Ford |
54 | Be Near Me | Andrew O'Hagan |
53 | The Yellow Birds | Kevin Powers |
52 | War and Peace | Tolstoy |
51 | Isaac Babel stories | Isaac Babel |
50 | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
49 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
48 | The Ladies’ Paradise | Emile Zola |
47 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton |
46 | Ridley Walker | Russell Hoban |
45 | The Prime Minister | Anthony Trollope |
44 | The Yacoubian Building | Alaa Al Aswany |
43 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor |
42 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
41 | By the Sea | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
40 | Rodinsky’s Room | Rachel Lichtenstein |
39 | Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton |
38 | Faith Fox | Jane Gardam |
37 | Stoner | John Williams |
36 | Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories | Katherine Mansfield |
35 | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches | Gaetan Soucy |
34 | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou |
33 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
32 | Father and Son | Edmund Gosse |
31 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
30 | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood |
29 | What Maisie Knew | Henry James |
28 | Slaughter House Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
27 | The Children Act | Ian McEwan |
26 | The Children | Edith Wharton |
25 | What Good Are the Arts? | John Carey |
24 | Effie Briest | Theodore Fontane |
23 | Runaway | Alice Munro |
22 | I Married a Communist | Philip Roth |
21 | The Human Stain | Philip Roth |
20 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
19 | Mrs Bridge | Evan S. Connell |
18 | Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh |
17 | Rabbit Redux | John Updike |
16 | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink |
15 | Humboldt’s Gift | Saul Bellow |
14 | Liber Amoris | William Hazlitt |
13 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald |
12 | The Sportswriter | Richard Ford |
11 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope |
10 | Measuring Time | Helon Habila |
9 | Annie’s Box | Randal Keynes |
8 | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
7 | Small Island | Andrea Levy |
6 | Ghostwritten | David Mitchell |
5 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
4 | The Master and his Emissary | Iain McGilchrist |
3 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
2 | The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro |
1 | Asylum | Patrick McGrath |