Disgrace — JM Coetzee
About Schmidt — Louis Begley
Music and Silence — Rose Tremain
The Story of Lucy Gault — William Trevor
The Kellys and the O’Kellys — Anthony Trollope
The English Teacher — RK Narayan
The Hours — Michael Cunningham
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Mark Haddon
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The Poor Mouth — Flann O’Brien
The Man Who Was Thursday — GK Chesterton
The Grass Is Singing — Doris Lessing
Behind the Scenes at the Museum — Kate Atkinson
Small Island — Andrea Levy
Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
Saturday — Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
Embers — Sándor Márai
Perfume — Patrick Süskind
Anil’s Ghost — Michael Ondaatje
The Ginger Man — JP Donleavy
The Fortress of Solitude — Jonathan Lethem
The Dead — James Joyce
The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
The Moor’s Last Sigh — Salman Rushdie
Property — Valerie Martin
In the Beauty of the Lilies — John Updike
Middlesex — Geoffrey Eugenides
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
Cider With Rosie — Laurie Lee
The Third Policeman — Flann O’Brien
Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
The Catastrophist — Ronan Bennett
The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy
To the Wedding — John Berger
Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
Stoner — John Williams
Out Stealing Horses — Per Petersen
Measuring the World — Daniel Kehlmann
Surfacing — Margaret Atwood
The Master — Colm Tóibín
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — John Boyne
Crossing to Safety — Wallace Stegner
Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
Dead Souls — Nikolay Gogol
The Secret Scripture — Sebastian Barry
My Antonía — Willa Cather
Persuasion — Jane Austen
The River — Rumer Godden
Echo Maker — Richard Powers
A River Runs Through It — William McLean
Howard’s End — EM Forster
Love and Summer — William Trevor
The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
Brooklyn — Colm Tóibín
A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift
Staying On — Paul Scott
Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
Troubles — JG Farrell
The Stone Carvers — Jane Urquart
Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey
Flaubert’s Parrot — Julian Barnes
Le Testament Français — Andreï Makine
In the Skin of a Lion — Michael Ondaatje
The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
Monsignor Quixote — Graham Greene
I Curse the River of Time — Per Petterson
Portrait of the Artist — James Joyce
L’Étranger — Albert Camus
Ghost Light — Joseph O’Connor
The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Years — Virginia Woolf
New Finnish Grammar — Diego Marani
Soldiers of Salamis — Javier Cercas
The Moviegoer — Walter Percy
Runaway — Alice Munro
Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
Sexing the Cherry — Jeanette Winterson
Pereira Maintains — Antonio Tabucchi
The Tiger’s Wife — Téa Obreht
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
The Twin — Gerbrand Bakker
Human Stain — Philip Roth
Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
Childhood of Jesus — JM Coetzee
Night Train to Lisbon — Pascal Mercier
Catch 22 — Joseph Heller
The Infatuations — Javier Marías
The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Transatlantic — Colm McCann
A House for Mr Biswas — VS Naipaul
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
The Blue Flower — Penelope Fitzgerald
Remembering Babylon — David Malouf
The Radetzky March — Joseph Roth
The Secret History — Donna Tartt
Let the Great World Spin — Colum McCann
All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell
In Paradise — Peter Mathieson
Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell
The Door — Magda Szabó
Plainsong — Kent Haruf
Snow — Orham Pamuk
The Hunting Gun — Yasushi Inoue
My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
The Blue Room — Georges Simenon
Gilead — Marilyn Robinson
Orfeo — Richard Powers
The Green Road — Anne Enright
The Sea, the Sea — Iris Murdoch
In the Light of What We Know — Zia Haider Rahman
East of the Mountains — David Gutterson
A Goat’s Song — Dermot Healy
A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
A Whole Life — Robert Seethaler
Austerlitz — WG Sebald
So Long, See You Tomorrow — William Maxwell
Langrishe, Go Down — Aidan Higgins
Old Filth — Jane Gardam
Fugitive Pieces — Anne Michaels
All We Shall Know — Donal Ryan
The Marquise of O — Heinrich von Kleist
Christ Stopped at Eboli — Carlo Levi
American Pastoral — Philip Roth
Bel Canto — Anne Patchett
A Star Called Henry — Roddy Doyle
Iza’s Ballad — Magda Szabó
The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Diaz
Voss — Patrick White
Midwinter Break — Bernard McClaverty
Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
Independence Day — Richard Ford
Swing Time — Zadie Smith
When Light Is Like Water — Molly McCloskey
The Masters — CP Snow
The Dark Flood Rises — Margaret Drabble
The Siege of Krishnapur — JG Farrell
A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles
The Last September — Elizabeth Bowen
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Moon Tiger — Penelope Lively
The Gustav Sonata — Rose Tremain
Burial Rites — Hannah Kent
Burger’s Daughter — Nadine Gordimer
The Golden Bowl — Henry James
The Hungry Grass — Richard Power
Familiar — J Robert Lennon
Monsieur Linh and His Child — Philippe Claudel
Beloved — Toni Morrison
Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout
Death and Nightingales — Eugene McCabe
Idaho — Emily Ruskovich
Losing Battles — Eudora Welty
The Dutch House — Ann Patchett