The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Girl in a Swing – Richard Adams
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
Belle de Jour – Anonymous
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Complicity – Iain Banks
The Versions of Us – Laura Barnett
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood – Martin Booth
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Diary of a Provincial Lady – E. M. Delafield
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Queen of Subtleties – Suzannah Dunn
French Children Don’t Throw Food – Pamela Druckerman
The Crimson Petal and the White – Michael Faber
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Lady’s Maid – Margaret Forster
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
The Collector – John Fowles
Mary Queen of Scots – Antonia Fraser
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin
The Humans – Matt Haig
The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles) – Elizabeth Jane Howard
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The English Passenger – Matthew Kneale
The Dinner – Herman Koch
Nella Last’s War – Nella Last
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Mendel’s Dwarf – Simon Mawer
The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
White Heat – M J McGrath
The Children Act – Ian McKewan
How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Leipzig Affair – Fiona Rintoul
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
A Town Like Alice – Neville Shute
Child 44 – Tom Rob Smith
The Farm – Tom Rob Smith
The Essence of the Thing – Madeleine St John
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Life isn’t all ha ha hee hee – Meera Syal
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Lord of the Rings – J R R Tolkien
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2 – Sue Townsend
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf
Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth