1946-1989

* Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
* A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
* A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
* Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
* Closely Observed Trains (or Closely Watched Trains) – Bohumil Hrabal
* Collected Stories – Saul Bellow
* Couples – John Updike
* Foe – J M Coetzee
* Ghost Writer – Philip Roth
* Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
* Hyperion – Dan Simmons
* I Am The Cheese – Robert Cormier
* Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
* Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
* Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
* Neuromancer – William Gibson
* One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
* Ragtime – E L Doctorow
* Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
* Satantango – Laszlo Kraznahorkai
* Scenes from Provincial Life – William Cooper
* Stoner – John Williams
* Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
* Sweet Thursday—John Steinbeck
* The Comedians—Graham Greene
* The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
* The Death of Grass – John Christopher
* The Discovery of Slowness – Sten Nadolny
* The French Lieutenant’s Woman
* The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood
* The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
* The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Le Guin
* The Leopard – Giuseppe di Lampedusa
* The Masters – C P Snow
* The Public Image—Muriel Spark
* The Siege of Krishnapur – J G Farrell
* The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
* The Woman in the Dunes – Kobo Abe
* Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene
* Troubles – J G Farrell
* True Grit – Charles Portis
* Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
* V For Vendetta – Alan Moore and David Lloyd (graphic novel)
* Watchmen (graphic novel) – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
* We Can Remember It For You Wholesale – Philip K Dick
* We Have Always Lived in the Castle—Shirley Jackson
* Wide Sargasso Sea—Jean Rhys
* Zuckerman Unbound – Philip Roth