Margaret Forster The Battle for Christabel

Robert Harris Fatherland

Reg Hill On Beulah Height

Deborah Moggach Tulip Fever

Ian Rankin Dead Souls

Kathy Reichs Deja Dead

Bernard Schlink The Reader

Gerald Seymour The Killing Ground

William Trevor Felicia's Journey

Minette Walters The Scold’s Bridle

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark

Susan Howatch Glittering Images

L P Hartley The Go-Between

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces

Michele Roberts Daughters of the House

Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy

Rose Tremain Restoration

Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels

Martin Amis The Information

Julian Barnes England, England

Alan Bennett Writing Home

Patricia Cornwell Postmortem

Michael Dobbs House of Cards

Ben Elton Popcorn

Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire

Fay Weldon Affliction

Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only Fruit

Jane Austen Emma

Lionel Blue Bolts from the Blue

Roddy Doyle The Van

Helen Fielding Bridget Jones' Diary

Kathy Lette Girls’ Night Out

Maureen Lipman How Was it for You?

Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale

Tom Sharpe Porterhouse Blue

Barbara Trapido Brother of the More Famous Jack

Alan Warner The Sopranos

Patricia Cumper One Bright Child

Mike Gayle My Legendary Girlfriend

Jackie Kay Trumpet

Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey

Mary Morrissy Mother of Pearl

Blake Morrison When did you last see your father?

Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers

Graham Swift Last Orders

Adam Thorpe Ulverton

Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons

Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Romesh Gunesekera Reef

David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars

Nick Hornby High Fidelity

Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-pool Library

Angela Huth Land Girls

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Robert James Waller Love in Black and White

Pat Barker Regeneration

Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho

Sebastian Faulks Birdsong

Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland

Lesley Glaister The Private Parts of Women

Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling

Stephen King Bag of Bones

Brian Moore Lies of Silence

George Orwell 1984

Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire

Douglas Adams A Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

David Almond Skellig

Arthur C Clarke 2001

Jim Crace Quarantine

Alex Garland The Beach

Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World

Victoria Glendinning Electricity

Elizabeth Knox The Vintner’s Luck

Iris Murdoch The Bell

Terry Pratchett Small Gods

George Eliot Silas Marner

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain

Marian Keyes Rachel’s Holiday

Eric Lomax The Railway Man

Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes

Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

Ruth Picardie Before I say Goodbye

Terry Waite Taken on Trust

Edmund White The Farewell Symphony

Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride

Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie

Iain Banks Complicity

Angela Carter Wise Children

Peter Carey Jack Maggs

Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs

Armistead Maupin Maybe the Moon

Ian McEwan Enduring Love

Patrick McCabe The Dead School

Irving Welsh Trainspotting