ALL-TIME GREAT READS

Some classics that every booklover will want to own and treasure

A
The House of the Spirits / Isabel Allende
Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson

B
Empire of the Sun / J.G. Ballard
Jigsaw / Sybille Bedford
The Legacy / Sybille Bedford
The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow
The Last September / Elizabeth Bowen
The House in Paris / Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky / Paul Bowles
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
Earthly Powers / Anthony Burgess
Possession / A.S. Byatt

C
God’s Little Acre / Erskine Caldwell
Tobacco Road / Erskine Caldwell
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Truman Capote
Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes
Farewell, My Lovely / Raymond Chandler
The Moonstone / Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
Mrs Smith / Evan S. Connell
Nostromo / Joseph Conrad
The Prince of Tides / Pat Conroy
Pricksongs and Descants / Robert Coover

D
David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens

E
Middlemarch / George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss / George Eliot
The Waste Land / T.S. Eliot
Invinsible Man / Ralph Ellison

F
Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner
Light in August / William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower / Penelope Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India / E.M. Forster

G
New Grub Street / George Gissing
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
The House on Coliseum Street / Shirley Ann Grau
The Keepers of the House / Shirley Ann Grau
The Power and the Glory / Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter / Graham Greene
The End of the Affair / Graham Greene

H
A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway
The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea / Desmond Hogan
Tess of the D’Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy
The Transit of Venus / Shirley Hazzard
A High Wind in Jamaica / Richard Hughes
Birthday Letters / Ted Hughes

I
A Strong Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving
The World According to Garp / John Irving
The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro

J
The Golden Bowl / Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James
The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
What Maisie Knew / Henry James
Three Men in a Boat / Jerome K. Jerome

K
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera

M
Of Human Bondage / W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge / W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier
The Thorn Birds / Colleen McCullough
Amongst Women / John McGahern
A Fine Balance / Rohinton Mistry
The Stones of Summer / Dow Mossman
The Black Prince / Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea / Iris Murdoch
A Severed Head / Iris Murdoch

N
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
A Bend in the River / V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas / V.S. Naipaul

O
The English Patient / Michael Ondaatje

P
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute / Grace Paley
My Name is Red / Orhan Pamuk
The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
A Dance to the Music of Time / Anthony Powell
Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust

R
Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson
Call It Sleep / Henry Roth
American Pastoral / Philip Roth
Midnight’s Children / Salman Rushdie

S
Light Years / James Salter
The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
Angle of Repose / Wallace Stegner
The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck

T
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
Walden / Henry David Thoreau
The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
Music and Silence / Rose Tremain
First Love / Ivan Turgenev
Torrents of Spring / Ivan Turgenev
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

W
The Color Purple / Alice Walker
All the King’s Men / Robert Penn Warren
Scoop / Evelyn Waugh
The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth / Edith Wharton
The Tree of Man / Patrick White
Cloudstreet / Tim Winton
Dirt Music / Tim Winton
Look Homeward, Angel / Thomas Wolfe
You Can’t Go Home Again / Thomas Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities / Tom Wolfe
Mrs Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf

Y
Revolutionary Road / Richard Yates
The Easter Parade / Richard Yates