Owls Do Cry Janet Frame
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Angel Elizabeth Taylor
The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen
From the Terrace John O’Hara
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
Naked Lunch William Burroughs
A Heritage and its History Ivy Compton-Burnett
The Little Disturbances of Man Grace Paley
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Balkan Trilogy (1960–65) Olivia Manning
The Rabbit Quartet (1960–90) John Updike
Jeeves in the Offing P. G. Wodehouse
(US: How Right You Are, Jeeves)
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Riders in the Chariot Patrick White
That’s How it Was Maureen Duffy
The Reivers William Faulkner
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
The Lonely Girl Edna O’Brien
(renamed Girl with Green Eyes 1964)
Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter
The Little Girls Elizabeth Bowen
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Le Carré
The Group Mary McCarthy
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Herzog Saul Bellow
Heartland Wilson Harris
Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr.
Memoirs of a Peon Frank Sargeson
The Interpreters Wole Soyinka
The Magus John Fowles
A Jest of God Margaret Laurence
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
The Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott
Cotters’ England Christina Stead
(US: Dark Places of the Heart 1967)
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass
The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch
The Unfortunates B. S. Johnson
Happiness Mary Lavin
The Godfather Mario Puzo
Fifth Business Robertson Davies
Master and Commander Patrick O’Brian
The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
St Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler
Black List, Section H Francis Stuart
The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty
The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell
Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
Ragtime E. L. Doctorow
Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Changing Places David Lodge
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood Alistair MacLeod
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice
Saville David Storey
Injury Time Beryl Bainbridge
Falconer John Cheever
A Book of Common Prayer Joan Didion
The Ice Age Margaret Drabble
Tirra Lirra by the River Jessica Anderson
Plumb Maurice Gee
The Human Factor Graham Greene
The Murderer Roy A. K. Heath
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan
From the Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant
Burger’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer
Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick
The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban
Lamb Bernard MacLaverty
So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Puffball Fay Weldon
Lanark Alasdair Gray
Red Dragon Thomas Harris
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
A Flag for Sunrise Robert Stone
On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin
Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally
(US: Schindler’s List)
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Boy’s Own Story Edmund White
Money Martin Amis
Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard
Flaubert’s Parrot Julian Barnes
In Custody Anita Desai
The Children’s Bach Helen Garner
Nation of Fools Balraj Khanna
Machine Dreams Jayne Anne Phillips
Family and Friends Anita Brookner
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Black Robe Brian Moore
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
A Dark-Adapted Eye Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons
Double Whammy Carl Hiaasen
Misery Stephen King
Beloved Toni Morrison
In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje