William Boyd Brazzaville Beach

Margaret Forster The Battle for Christabel

Michael Frayn Headlong

Robert Harris Fatherland

Reg Hill On Beulah Height

Val McDermid Wire in the Blood

Brian Moore Lies of Silence

Kathy Reichs Deja Dead

Minette Walters The Dark Room

Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities

Robertson Davies What’s Bred in the Bone

Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark

L P Hartley The Go-Between

Susan Howatch Glittering Images

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

Michele Roberts Daughters of the House

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

Rose Tremain Restoration

Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels

Martin Amis The Information

Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Beryl Bainbridge The Birthday Boys

Alan Bennett Talking Heads

J M Coetzee Disgrace

Patricia Cornwell From Potter’s Field

Michael Dobbs House of Cards

Ben Elton Popcorn

Fay Weldon Affliction

Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only Fruit

Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

Roddy Doyle The Van

Helen Fielding Bridget Jones' Diary

Esther Freud Hideous Kinky

Carl Hiaasen Stormy Weather

Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days

Armistead Maupin Tales of the City

Tom Sharpe Porterhouse Blue

Colin Shindler Manchester United Ruined My Life

Meera Syal Anita and Me

Joan Brady Theory of War

Raymond Carver Where I’m Calling From

Anne Fine Telling Liddy

Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey

Mei Ng Eating Chinese Food Naked

Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers

Caryl Philips Crossing the River

Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

Graham Swift Last Orders

Joanna Trollope Other People’s Children

Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Nick Hornby About A Boy

Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-pool Library

Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom

Tony Parsons Man and Boy

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Ahdaf Soueif A Map of Love

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Anne Tyler A Patchwork Planet

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County

Pat Barker Regeneration

Paul Britton The Jigsaw Man

Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange

Alex Garland The Beach

Lesley Glaister Trick or Treat

Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling

Stephen King Bag of Bones

Doris Lessing The Fifth Child

Patrick McGrath Dr Haggard’s Disease

Toni Morrison Beloved

Cristina Garcia Dreaming in Cuban

William Gibson Virtual Light

Jim Crace Quarantine

Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World

P D James Children of Men

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger – Harper of Pern

Iain Pears An Instance of the Fingerpost

Terry Pratchett Small Gods

Philip Pullman Northern Lights

Dava Sobel Longitude

David Almond Skellig

Carol Ann Duffy Stopping for Death

George Eliot Silas Marner

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain

Deric Longden Lost for Words

Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes

Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

Ruth Picardie Before I say Goodbye

Colm Toibin The Blackwater Lightship

Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride

Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters

John Banville The Book of Evidence

Peter Carey Jack Maggs

Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs

Ian McEwan Enduring Love

Candia McWilliam Debatable Land

Bernhard Schlink The Reader

Matthew Sweeney The Bridal Suite

Irvine Welsh Trainspotting