voter voter_type position title author in_top_100 rank_in_100 Adam Roberts author 1 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien False Adam Roberts author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Adam Roberts author 3 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Adam Roberts author 4 Earthsea Ursula K Le Guin False Adam Roberts author 5 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov False Adam Roberts author 6 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Adam Roberts author 7 The Heart of Midlothian Walter Scott False Adam Roberts author 8 The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells False Adam Roberts author 9 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Adam Roberts author 10 The Inverted World Christopher Priest False Adam Thirlwell author 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Adam Thirlwell author 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Adam Thirlwell author 3 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil True 67 Adam Thirlwell author 4 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Adam Thirlwell author 5 Orlando Virginia Woolf True 54 Adam Thirlwell author 6 I Served the King of England Bohumil Hrabal False Adam Thirlwell author 7 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 Adam Thirlwell author 8 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein False Adam Thirlwell author 9 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec False Adam Thirlwell author 10 Chéri Colette False Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 3 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa True 46 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 4 A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne False Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 5 Sudden Death Álvaro Enrigue False Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 6 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 7 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 8 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger False Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 9 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway True 83 Ahdaf Soueif author/journalist 10 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 2 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 3 The Go-Between LP Hartley True 99 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 4 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 6 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Aida Edemariam author/journalist 7 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin False Aida Edemariam author/journalist 8 Lives of Girls and Women Alice Munro False Aida Edemariam author/journalist 9 The Vagabond Colette False Aida Edemariam author/journalist 10 A House for Mr Biswas VS Naipaul True 78 Alain Mabanckou author/academic 1 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Alain Mabanckou author/academic 2 Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutuola False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 3 Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 4 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo True 96 Alain Mabanckou author/academic 5 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 Alain Mabanckou author/academic 6 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 7 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 8 If This Is a Man / the Truce Primo Levi False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 9 On the Road Jack Kerouac False Alain Mabanckou author/academic 10 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger False Alberto Manguel author 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Alberto Manguel author 2 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Alberto Manguel author 3 Hopscotch Julio Cortázar False Alberto Manguel author 4 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Alberto Manguel author 5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Alberto Manguel author 6 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Alberto Manguel author 7 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Alberto Manguel author 8 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu False Alberto Manguel author 9 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka True 48 Alberto Manguel author 10 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson False Alex Clark unknown 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Alex Clark unknown 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Alex Clark unknown 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Alex Clark unknown 4 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino False Alex Clark unknown 5 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing True 45 Alex Clark unknown 6 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison True 37 Alex Clark unknown 7 A Bend in the River VS Naipaul False Alex Clark unknown 8 Gilead Marilynne Robinson False Alex Clark unknown 9 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Alex Clark unknown 10 Still Life A. S. Byatt False Alex Needham journalist 1 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman True 91 Alex Needham journalist 2 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Alex Needham journalist 3 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor False Alex Needham journalist 4 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst True 87 Alex Needham journalist 5 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Alex Needham journalist 6 Mansfield Park Jane Austen True 56 Alex Needham journalist 7 A Rabbit Omnibus John Updike False Alex Needham journalist 8 Austerlitz WG Sebald True 73 Alex Needham journalist 9 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing True 45 Alex Needham journalist 10 Senseless Paul Golding False Alexandra Harris author/academic 1 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Alexandra Harris author/academic 2 The Waves Virginia Woolf True 55 Alexandra Harris author/academic 3 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy True 95 Alexandra Harris author/academic 4 Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf True 90 Alexandra Harris author/academic 5 My Ántonia Willa Cather True 100 Alexandra Harris author/academic 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Alexandra Harris author/academic 7 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Alexandra Harris author/academic 8 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford True 64 Alexandra Harris author/academic 9 The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel False Alexandra Harris author/academic 10 How to Be Both Ali Smith False Ali Smith author 1 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Ali Smith author 2 Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark False Ali Smith author 3 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 Ali Smith author 4 Invitation to a Beheading Vladimir Nabokov False Ali Smith author 5 After Midnight Irmgard Keun False Ali Smith author 6 Lanark Alasdair Gray False Ali Smith author 7 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 Ali Smith author 8 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist False Ali Smith author 9 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Ali Smith author 10 The Summer Book Tove Jansson False Amanda Craig author 1 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan False Amanda Craig author 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Amanda Craig author 3 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 Amanda Craig author 4 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Amanda Craig author 5 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry True 49 Amanda Craig author 6 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray True 47 Amanda Craig author 7 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Amanda Craig author 8 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin True 89 Amanda Craig author 9 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky False Amanda Craig author 10 Tom Lake Ann Patchett False Amit Chaudhuri author 1 The Enigma of Arrival VS Naipaul False Amit Chaudhuri author 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce False Amit Chaudhuri author 3 A House for Mr Biswas VS Naipaul True 78 Amit Chaudhuri author 4 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan False Amit Chaudhuri author 5 Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay False Amit Chaudhuri author 6 Samskara U. R. Anantha Murthy False Amit Chaudhuri author 7 Sport and a Pastime James Salter False Amit Chaudhuri author 8 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Amit Chaudhuri author 9 The Moviegoer Walker Percy False Amit Chaudhuri author 10 The Sportswriter Richard Ford False Andrew Solomon author 1 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Andrew Solomon author 2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Andrew Solomon author 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Andrew Solomon author 4 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Andrew Solomon author 5 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Andrew Solomon author 6 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster False Andrew Solomon author 7 Howards End EM Forster True 60 Andrew Solomon author 8 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton False Andrew Solomon author 9 Daniel Deronda George Eliot False Andrew Solomon author 10 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen False Anne Enright author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Anne Enright author 2 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Anne Enright author 3 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Anne Enright author 4 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Anne Enright author 5 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Anne Enright author 6 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Anne Enright author 7 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez False Anne Enright author 8 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys True 50 Anne Enright author 9 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford True 64 Anne Enright author 10 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell False Arifa Akbar journalist 1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Arifa Akbar journalist 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Arifa Akbar journalist 3 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Arifa Akbar journalist 4 Death in Venice Thomas Mann False Arifa Akbar journalist 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Arifa Akbar journalist 6 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek False Arifa Akbar journalist 7 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Arifa Akbar journalist 8 Wise Children Angela Carter False Arifa Akbar journalist 9 American Pastoral Philip Roth False Arifa Akbar journalist 10 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Beejay Silcox unknown 1 Praiseworthy Alexis Wright False Beejay Silcox unknown 2 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Beejay Silcox unknown 3 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro True 59 Beejay Silcox unknown 4 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Beejay Silcox unknown 5 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Beejay Silcox unknown 6 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams False Beejay Silcox unknown 7 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin True 89 Beejay Silcox unknown 8 The Stand Stephen King False Beejay Silcox unknown 9 Piranesi Susanna Clarke False Beejay Silcox unknown 10 Parable of the Sower Octavia E Butler False Ben Markovits author 1 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne False Ben Markovits author 2 Mansfield Park Jane Austen True 56 Ben Markovits author 3 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov False Ben Markovits author 4 Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell False Ben Markovits author 5 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Ben Markovits author 6 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Ben Markovits author 7 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Ben Markovits author 8 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike False Ben Markovits author 9 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Ben Markovits author 10 Seize the Day Saul Bellow False Ben Okri author 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Ben Okri author 2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Ben Okri author 3 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Ben Okri author 4 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Ben Okri author 5 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Ben Okri author 6 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Ben Okri author 7 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Ben Okri author 8 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison True 37 Ben Okri author 9 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Ben Okri author 10 La Princesse De Cleves Madame de La Fayette False Benjamin Myers author 1 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe False Benjamin Myers author 2 Hunger Knut Hamsun False Benjamin Myers author 3 Maurice E. M. Forster False Benjamin Myers author 4 Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan False Benjamin Myers author 5 Union Street Pat Barker False Benjamin Myers author 6 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin True 44 Benjamin Myers author 7 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis False Benjamin Myers author 8 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino False Benjamin Myers author 9 A Month in the Country J. L. Carr False Benjamin Myers author 10 The Slaves of Solitude Patrick Hamilton False Bernardine Evaristo author 1 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Bernardine Evaristo author 2 The Book of Night Women Marlon James False Bernardine Evaristo author 3 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss False Bernardine Evaristo author 4 The Joys of Motherhood Buchi Emecheta False Bernardine Evaristo author 5 The Bone People Keri Hulme False Bernardine Evaristo author 6 Quicksand Nella Larsen False Bernardine Evaristo author 7 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett False Bernardine Evaristo author 8 Ordinary People Diana Evans False Bernardine Evaristo author 9 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Bernardine Evaristo author 10 Kindred Octavia E Butler True 71 Blake Morrison author 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Blake Morrison author 2 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Blake Morrison author 3 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Blake Morrison author 4 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Blake Morrison author 5 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence False Blake Morrison author 6 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Blake Morrison author 7 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Blake Morrison author 8 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Blake Morrison author 9 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift False Blake Morrison author 10 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe False Candice Carty Williams author 1 Citizen Claudia Rankine False Candice Carty Williams author 2 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding False Candice Carty Williams author 3 Nightcrawling Leila Mottley False Candice Carty Williams author 4 Where We Come From Oscar Casares False Candice Carty Williams author 5 Poor Caleb Femi False Candice Carty Williams author 6 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Candice Carty Williams author 7 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka True 48 Candice Carty Williams author 8 Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman False Candice Carty Williams author 9 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Candice Carty Williams author 10 Sister Outsider Audre Lorde False Catherine Taylor author 1 A Model Childhood Christa Wolf False Catherine Taylor author 2 The Makioka Sisters Jun'ichirō Tanizaki False Catherine Taylor author 3 The Golden Bowl Henry James True 52 Catherine Taylor author 4 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Catherine Taylor author 5 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Catherine Taylor author 6 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga True 74 Catherine Taylor author 7 All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg False Catherine Taylor author 8 The Rainbow DH Lawrence True 77 Catherine Taylor author 9 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad False Catherine Taylor author 10 Villette Charlotte Brontë False Charlotte Higgins journalist 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Charlotte Higgins journalist 2 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Charlotte Higgins journalist 3 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Charlotte Higgins journalist 4 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Charlotte Higgins journalist 5 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Charlotte Higgins journalist 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Charlotte Higgins journalist 7 Villette Charlotte Brontë False Charlotte Higgins journalist 8 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray True 47 Charlotte Higgins journalist 9 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Charlotte Higgins journalist 10 The 39 Steps John Buchan False Charlotte Mendelson author 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Charlotte Mendelson author 2 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 Charlotte Mendelson author 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Charlotte Mendelson author 4 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Charlotte Mendelson author 5 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel False Charlotte Mendelson author 6 Villette Charlotte Brontë False Charlotte Mendelson author 7 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard True 53 Charlotte Mendelson author 8 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin True 44 Charlotte Mendelson author 9 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen False Charlotte Mendelson author 10 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson False Charlotte Northedge journalist 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Charlotte Northedge journalist 2 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Charlotte Northedge journalist 3 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Charlotte Northedge journalist 4 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Charlotte Northedge journalist 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Charlotte Northedge journalist 6 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro True 59 Charlotte Northedge journalist 7 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Charlotte Northedge journalist 8 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante True 51 Charlotte Northedge journalist 9 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie True 62 Charlotte Northedge journalist 10 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Chigozie Obioma author 1 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy True 68 Chigozie Obioma author 2 Hunger Knut Hamsun False Chigozie Obioma author 3 Arrow of God Chinua Achebe False Chigozie Obioma author 4 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton False Chigozie Obioma author 5 The Waves Virginia Woolf True 55 Chigozie Obioma author 6 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Chigozie Obioma author 7 Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih False Chigozie Obioma author 8 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan False Chigozie Obioma author 9 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque False Chigozie Obioma author 10 Thirst for Love Yukio Mishima False Chloe Aridjis author 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Chloe Aridjis author 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Chloe Aridjis author 3 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann True 42 Chloe Aridjis author 4 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka True 48 Chloe Aridjis author 5 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad True 41 Chloe Aridjis author 6 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Chloe Aridjis author 7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Chloe Aridjis author 8 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Chloe Aridjis author 9 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Chloe Aridjis author 10 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce False Chris Power author 1 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Chris Power author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Chris Power author 3 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Chris Power author 4 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Chris Power author 5 2666 Roberto Bolaño False Chris Power author 6 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Chris Power author 7 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Chris Power author 8 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Chris Power author 9 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy True 70 Chris Power author 10 Septology Jon Fosse False Christobel Kent author 1 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa True 46 Christobel Kent author 2 Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert True 92 Christobel Kent author 3 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Christobel Kent author 4 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton False Christobel Kent author 5 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway True 83 Christobel Kent author 6 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Christobel Kent author 7 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray True 47 Christobel Kent author 8 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni False Christobel Kent author 9 Rabbit, Run John Updike False Christobel Kent author 10 The Birthday Boys Beryl Bainbridge False Claire Armitstead unknown 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Claire Armitstead unknown 2 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Claire Armitstead unknown 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Claire Armitstead unknown 4 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Claire Armitstead unknown 5 The Color Purple Alice Walker True 65 Claire Armitstead unknown 6 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Claire Armitstead unknown 7 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Claire Armitstead unknown 8 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Claire Armitstead unknown 9 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Claire Armitstead unknown 10 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Claire Messud author 1 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Claire Messud author 2 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Claire Messud author 3 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Claire Messud author 4 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Claire Messud author 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Claire Messud author 6 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Claire Messud author 7 The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald True 61 Claire Messud author 8 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald False Claire Messud author 9 Underworld Don DeLillo False Claire Messud author 10 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry True 49 Clare Clark author 1 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Clare Clark author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Clare Clark author 3 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Clare Clark author 4 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Clare Clark author 5 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Clare Clark author 6 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Clare Clark author 7 The Go-Between LP Hartley True 99 Clare Clark author 8 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry True 49 Clare Clark author 9 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Clare Clark author 10 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel True 34 Colm Tóibín author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Colm Tóibín author 2 The Golden Bowl Henry James True 52 Colm Tóibín author 3 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Colm Tóibín author 4 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 Colm Tóibín author 5 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann True 81 Colm Tóibín author 6 The Outsider Albert Camus False Colm Tóibín author 7 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Colm Tóibín author 8 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Colm Tóibín author 9 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway False Colm Tóibín author 10 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton True 38 Colum McCann author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Colum McCann author 2 Proxopera Benedict Kiely False Colum McCann author 3 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien False Colum McCann author 4 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison True 40 Colum McCann author 5 Coming Through Slaughter Michael Ondaatje False Colum McCann author 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Colum McCann author 7 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Colum McCann author 8 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck False Colum McCann author 9 Ragtime EL Doctorow True 88 Colum McCann author 10 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf False Daisy Johnson author 1 Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Høeg False Daisy Johnson author 2 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Daisy Johnson author 3 The Shipping News Annie Proulx False Daisy Johnson author 4 The Bone People Keri Hulme False Daisy Johnson author 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Daisy Johnson author 6 Women Talking Miriam Toews False Daisy Johnson author 7 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Daisy Johnson author 8 Watership Down Richard Adams False Daisy Johnson author 9 Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima False Daisy Johnson author 10 Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi False Damian Barr author 1 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin True 44 Damian Barr author 2 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 Damian Barr author 3 The Color Purple Alice Walker True 65 Damian Barr author 4 Dracula Bram Stoker True 76 Damian Barr author 5 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde False Damian Barr author 6 A Boy's Own Story Edmund White False Damian Barr author 7 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Damian Barr author 8 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway False Damian Barr author 9 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Damian Barr author 10 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky False Daniel Kehlmann author 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Daniel Kehlmann author 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Daniel Kehlmann author 3 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Daniel Kehlmann author 4 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth False Daniel Kehlmann author 5 Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe False Daniel Kehlmann author 6 Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe False Daniel Kehlmann author 7 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky False Daniel Kehlmann author 8 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann True 42 Daniel Kehlmann author 9 Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen False Daniel Kehlmann author 10 Ragtime EL Doctorow True 88 David Diop academic 1 Black Boy Richard Wright False David Diop academic 2 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 David Diop academic 3 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar False David Diop academic 4 Seasons of Anomy Wole Soyinka False David Diop academic 5 Allah Is Not Obliged Ahmadou Kourouma False David Diop academic 6 A River Called Time Mia Couto False David Diop academic 7 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 David Diop academic 8 Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah False David Diop academic 9 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior False David Diop academic 10 Tar Baby Toni Morrison False David Nicholls author 1 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 David Nicholls author 2 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 David Nicholls author 3 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 David Nicholls author 4 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 David Nicholls author 5 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson True 43 David Nicholls author 6 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 David Nicholls author 7 Howards End EM Forster True 60 David Nicholls author 8 Sula Toni Morrison False David Nicholls author 9 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 David Nicholls author 10 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard True 53 David Shariatmadari journalist 1 The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies False David Shariatmadari journalist 2 Couples John Updike False David Shariatmadari journalist 3 The Bell Iris Murdoch False David Shariatmadari journalist 4 The Go-Between LP Hartley True 99 David Shariatmadari journalist 5 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy True 95 David Shariatmadari journalist 6 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan False David Shariatmadari journalist 7 A Compass Error Sybille Bedford False David Shariatmadari journalist 8 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa True 46 David Shariatmadari journalist 9 Waterland Graham Swift False David Shariatmadari journalist 10 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin False Derek Owusu author 1 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison True 37 Derek Owusu author 2 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov False Derek Owusu author 3 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Derek Owusu author 4 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin True 79 Derek Owusu author 5 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Derek Owusu author 6 White Teeth Zadie Smith True 63 Derek Owusu author 7 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad True 41 Derek Owusu author 8 The Grass Is Singing Doris Lessing False Derek Owusu author 9 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein False Derek Owusu author 10 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami False Diana Evans author 1 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Diana Evans author 2 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende False Diana Evans author 3 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Diana Evans author 4 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Diana Evans author 5 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison True 40 Diana Evans author 6 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides False Diana Evans author 7 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Diana Evans author 8 The Emperor's Babe Bernardine Evaristo False Diana Evans author 9 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie True 62 Diana Evans author 10 Another Country James Baldwin False Dinah Birch unknown 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Dinah Birch unknown 2 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Dinah Birch unknown 3 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 Dinah Birch unknown 4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Dinah Birch unknown 5 Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope False Dinah Birch unknown 6 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain False Dinah Birch unknown 7 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Dinah Birch unknown 8 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison True 40 Dinah Birch unknown 9 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Dinah Birch unknown 10 Northern Lights Philip Pullman False Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 1 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 2 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 3 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 4 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 5 Dracula Bram Stoker True 76 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 6 The Dirty Dust Máirtín Ó Cadhain False Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 7 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier True 80 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 8 The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald True 61 Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 9 The Gathering Anne Enright False Doireann Ní Ghríofa author 10 Nora Webster Colm Tóibín False Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 1 U.s.a. John Dos Passos False Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 2 Libra Don DeLillo False Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 3 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 4 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad True 41 Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 5 Ragtime EL Doctorow True 88 Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 6 American Pastoral Philip Roth False Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 7 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 8 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel False Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 9 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst True 87 Dorian Lynskey author/journalist 10 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton True 38 Douglas Stuart author 1 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Douglas Stuart author 2 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy True 70 Douglas Stuart author 3 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Douglas Stuart author 4 Disgrace JM Coetzee True 58 Douglas Stuart author 5 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines False Douglas Stuart author 6 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst True 87 Douglas Stuart author 7 Trainspotting Irvine Welsh False Douglas Stuart author 8 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante True 51 Douglas Stuart author 9 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman False Douglas Stuart author 10 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Eimear McBride author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Eimear McBride author 2 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky True 69 Eimear McBride author 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Eimear McBride author 4 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Eimear McBride author 5 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Eimear McBride author 6 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann True 42 Eimear McBride author 7 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Eimear McBride author 8 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Eimear McBride author 9 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Eimear McBride author 10 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Elif Batuman author 1 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Elif Batuman author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Elif Batuman author 3 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Elif Batuman author 4 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Elif Batuman author 5 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Elif Batuman author 6 The Makioka Sisters Jun'ichirō Tanizaki False Elif Batuman author 7 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin False Elif Batuman author 8 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 Elif Batuman author 9 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Elif Batuman author 10 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Elif Shafak author 1 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Elif Shafak author 2 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Elif Shafak author 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Elif Shafak author 4 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka True 48 Elif Shafak author 5 Orlando Virginia Woolf True 54 Elif Shafak author 6 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Elif Shafak author 7 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath False Elif Shafak author 8 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco False Elif Shafak author 9 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier True 80 Elif Shafak author 10 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov True 66 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 1 Howards End EM Forster True 60 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 3 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray True 47 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 4 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 5 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 6 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Elizabeth Day author/journalist 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe False Elizabeth Day author/journalist 8 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn False Elizabeth Day author/journalist 9 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie False Elizabeth Day author/journalist 10 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard False Ella Creamer journalist 1 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Ella Creamer journalist 2 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante True 51 Ella Creamer journalist 3 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Ella Creamer journalist 4 The Rainbow DH Lawrence True 77 Ella Creamer journalist 5 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Ella Creamer journalist 6 The Road to the City Natalia Ginzburg False Ella Creamer journalist 7 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez False Ella Creamer journalist 8 Outline Rachel Cusk False Ella Creamer journalist 9 Moderato Cantabile Marguerite Duras False Ella Creamer journalist 10 The Discomfort of Evening Lucas Rijneveld False Emma Loffhagen journalist 1 The Color Purple Alice Walker True 65 Emma Loffhagen journalist 2 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie True 62 Emma Loffhagen journalist 3 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Emma Loffhagen journalist 4 White Teeth Zadie Smith True 63 Emma Loffhagen journalist 5 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Emma Loffhagen journalist 6 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Emma Loffhagen journalist 7 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Emma Loffhagen journalist 8 The Vegetarian Han Kang True 85 Emma Loffhagen journalist 9 Intermezzo Sally Rooney False Emma Loffhagen journalist 10 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Esi Edugyan author 1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Esi Edugyan author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Esi Edugyan author 3 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Esi Edugyan author 4 The Plague Albert Camus False Esi Edugyan author 5 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Esi Edugyan author 6 A Bend in the River VS Naipaul False Esi Edugyan author 7 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje False Esi Edugyan author 8 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy True 68 Esi Edugyan author 9 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard True 53 Esi Edugyan author 10 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante False Fiona Sampson author 1 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Fiona Sampson author 2 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić False Fiona Sampson author 3 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Fiona Sampson author 4 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell False Fiona Sampson author 5 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Fiona Sampson author 6 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane False Fiona Sampson author 7 Pig Earth John Berger False Fiona Sampson author 8 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Elizabeth Smart False Fiona Sampson author 9 Zone Mathias Enard False Fiona Sampson author 10 Omeros Derek Walcott False Fiona Sturges journalist 1 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Fiona Sturges journalist 2 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel True 34 Fiona Sturges journalist 3 Leviathan Paul Auster False Fiona Sturges journalist 4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Fiona Sturges journalist 5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee False Fiona Sturges journalist 6 Atonement Ian McEwan False Fiona Sturges journalist 7 Possession A. S. Byatt False Fiona Sturges journalist 8 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 Fiona Sturges journalist 9 James Percival L. Everett False Fiona Sturges journalist 10 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Florence Knapp author 1 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry True 49 Florence Knapp author 2 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara False Florence Knapp author 3 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery False Florence Knapp author 4 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini False Florence Knapp author 5 North and South Elizabeth Gaskell False Florence Knapp author 6 The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden False Florence Knapp author 7 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell False Florence Knapp author 8 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee False Florence Knapp author 9 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan False Florence Knapp author 10 Wonder R. J. Palacio False Freya Johnston academic 1 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Freya Johnston academic 2 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Freya Johnston academic 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Freya Johnston academic 4 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Freya Johnston academic 5 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 Freya Johnston academic 6 Little Boy Lost Marghanita Laski False Freya Johnston academic 7 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor False Freya Johnston academic 8 Dr Gully Elizabeth Jenkins False Freya Johnston academic 9 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith False Freya Johnston academic 10 Quartet in Autumn Barbara Pym False Geoff Dyer author 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Geoff Dyer author 2 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry False Geoff Dyer author 3 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Geoff Dyer author 4 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Geoff Dyer author 5 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton True 38 Geoff Dyer author 6 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 Geoff Dyer author 7 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard True 53 Geoff Dyer author 8 The Names Don DeLillo False Geoff Dyer author 9 Voyage in the Dark Jean Rhys False Geoff Dyer author 10 On the Road Jack Kerouac False Guy Gunaratne author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Guy Gunaratne author 2 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Guy Gunaratne author 3 The Waves Virginia Woolf True 55 Guy Gunaratne author 4 Murphy Samuel Beckett False Guy Gunaratne author 5 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison True 40 Guy Gunaratne author 6 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner False Guy Gunaratne author 7 The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald True 61 Guy Gunaratne author 8 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow False Guy Gunaratne author 9 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin True 44 Guy Gunaratne author 10 The Years Annie Ernaux False Hermione Lee author/academic 1 Latecomers Anita Brookner False Hermione Lee author/academic 2 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Hermione Lee author/academic 3 The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton False Hermione Lee author/academic 4 My Ántonia Willa Cather True 100 Hermione Lee author/academic 5 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald False Hermione Lee author/academic 6 Family and Friends Anita Brookner False Hermione Lee author/academic 7 Reading Turgenev William Trevor False Hermione Lee author/academic 8 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Hermione Lee author/academic 9 A Month in the Country J. L. Carr False Hermione Lee author/academic 10 Nora Webster Colm Tóibín False Houman Barekat unknown 1 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Houman Barekat unknown 2 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Houman Barekat unknown 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Houman Barekat unknown 4 Nostromo Joseph Conrad False Houman Barekat unknown 5 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh False Houman Barekat unknown 6 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Houman Barekat unknown 7 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Houman Barekat unknown 8 Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow False Houman Barekat unknown 9 The Loser Thomas Bernhard False Houman Barekat unknown 10 The Black Prince Iris Murdoch False Ian McEwan author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Ian McEwan author 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Ian McEwan author 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Ian McEwan author 4 The Plague Albert Camus False Ian McEwan author 5 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka True 48 Ian McEwan author 6 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Ian McEwan author 7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Ian McEwan author 8 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann True 42 Ian McEwan author 9 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens True 72 Ian McEwan author 10 Rabbit at Rest John Updike False Ian Patterson author/academic 1 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Ian Patterson author/academic 2 The Golden Bowl Henry James True 52 Ian Patterson author/academic 3 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Ian Patterson author/academic 4 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Ian Patterson author/academic 5 Molloy Samuel Beckett False Ian Patterson author/academic 6 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil True 67 Ian Patterson author/academic 7 Caught Henry Green False Ian Patterson author/academic 8 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward False Ian Patterson author/academic 9 Elders and Betters Ivy Compton-Burnett False Ian Patterson author/academic 10 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen False Ian Rankin author 1 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Ian Rankin author 2 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson False Ian Rankin author 3 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 Ian Rankin author 4 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler False Ian Rankin author 5 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky True 69 Ian Rankin author 6 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell False Ian Rankin author 7 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison True 40 Ian Rankin author 8 Money Martin Amis False Ian Rankin author 9 Lanark Alasdair Gray False Ian Rankin author 10 Life After Life Kate Atkinson False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 1 A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K Le Guin False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 2 Fire and Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 3 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 4 Kindred Octavia E Butler True 71 Imogen Russell Williams unknown 5 The Hounds of the Morrigan Pat O'Shea False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 6 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Imogen Russell Williams unknown 7 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Imogen Russell Williams unknown 8 The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 9 Northern Lights Philip Pullman False Imogen Russell Williams unknown 10 Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie False Jack Edwards unknown 1 Sula Toni Morrison False Jack Edwards unknown 2 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Jack Edwards unknown 3 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Jack Edwards unknown 4 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford True 64 Jack Edwards unknown 5 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara False Jack Edwards unknown 6 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Jack Edwards unknown 7 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde False Jack Edwards unknown 8 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Jack Edwards unknown 9 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys True 50 Jack Edwards unknown 10 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar False Jacqueline Rose author/academic 1 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 2 Daniel Deronda George Eliot False Jacqueline Rose author/academic 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 4 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 5 The Golden Bowl Henry James True 52 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 6 The Waves Virginia Woolf True 55 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 7 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride False Jacqueline Rose author/academic 8 Milkman Anna Burns False Jacqueline Rose author/academic 9 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Jacqueline Rose author/academic 10 A Question of Power Bessie Head False James Meek author/journalist 1 Disgrace JM Coetzee True 58 James Meek author/journalist 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 James Meek author/journalist 3 The Busconductor Hines James Kelman False James Meek author/journalist 4 Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope False James Meek author/journalist 5 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino True 93 James Meek author/journalist 6 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 James Meek author/journalist 7 Outline Rachel Cusk False James Meek author/journalist 8 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann True 42 James Meek author/journalist 9 Mansfield Park Jane Austen True 56 James Meek author/journalist 10 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen False Jan Carson author 1 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Jan Carson author 2 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Jan Carson author 3 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Jan Carson author 4 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier True 80 Jan Carson author 5 Dracula Bram Stoker True 76 Jan Carson author 6 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson False Jan Carson author 7 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders False Jan Carson author 8 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie False Jan Carson author 9 The Millstone Margaret Drabble False Jan Carson author 10 The End of the Affair Graham Greene True 82 Jeet Thayil author 1 Rig Veda Anonymous False Jeet Thayil author 2 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri False Jeet Thayil author 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Jeet Thayil author 4 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Jeet Thayil author 5 2666 Roberto Bolaño False Jeet Thayil author 6 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Jeet Thayil author 7 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Jeet Thayil author 8 White Teeth Zadie Smith True 63 Jeet Thayil author 9 All About H. Hatterr G. V. Desani False Jeet Thayil author 10 Silent Spring Rachel Carson False Jem Calder author 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Jem Calder author 2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Jem Calder author 3 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Jem Calder author 4 Suttree Cormac McCarthy False Jem Calder author 5 The Easter Parade Richard Yates False Jem Calder author 6 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Jem Calder author 7 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen False Jem Calder author 8 Angel Elizabeth Taylor False Jem Calder author 9 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace False Jem Calder author 10 The Tunnel William H. Gass False Jennifer Egan author/journalist 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 3 Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson False Jennifer Egan author/journalist 4 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison True 37 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 5 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 6 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 7 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison True 75 Jennifer Egan author/journalist 8 Underworld Don DeLillo False Jennifer Egan author/journalist 9 Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope False Jennifer Egan author/journalist 10 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton False Jo Hamya author/academic 1 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Jo Hamya author/academic 2 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Jo Hamya author/academic 3 Lolly Willowes, Or, the Loving Huntsman Sylvia Townsend Warner False Jo Hamya author/academic 4 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys True 50 Jo Hamya author/academic 5 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai False Jo Hamya author/academic 6 Transit Rachel Cusk False Jo Hamya author/academic 7 The Millstone Margaret Drabble False Jo Hamya author/academic 8 The Bloater Rosemary Tonks False Jo Hamya author/academic 9 Passing Nella Larsen False Jo Hamya author/academic 10 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Joanne Harris author 1 Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury False Joanne Harris author 2 Nights at the Circus Angela Carter False Joanne Harris author 3 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson False Joanne Harris author 4 The Outsider Albert Camus False Joanne Harris author 5 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Joanne Harris author 6 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers False Joanne Harris author 7 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake False Joanne Harris author 8 The Famished Road Ben Okri False Joanne Harris author 9 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami False Joanne Harris author 10 Small Island Andrea Levy False Joe Dunthorne author 1 The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald True 61 Joe Dunthorne author 2 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy True 68 Joe Dunthorne author 3 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson True 43 Joe Dunthorne author 4 White Noise Don DeLillo False Joe Dunthorne author 5 Two Serious Ladies Jane Bowles False Joe Dunthorne author 6 The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith True 84 Joe Dunthorne author 7 Ragtime EL Doctorow True 88 Joe Dunthorne author 8 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Joe Dunthorne author 9 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey False Joe Dunthorne author 10 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien False John Boyne author 1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 John Boyne author 2 The Slap Christos Tsiolkas False John Boyne author 3 The Cider House Rules John Irving False John Boyne author 4 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 John Boyne author 5 The Secret History Donna Tartt False John Boyne author 6 Cloudstreet Tim Winton False John Boyne author 7 Howards End EM Forster True 60 John Boyne author 8 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis False John Boyne author 9 The Razor's Edge William Somerset Maugham False John Boyne author 10 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie False John Lanchester author 1 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 John Lanchester author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 John Lanchester author 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 John Lanchester author 4 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 John Lanchester author 5 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 John Lanchester author 6 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa True 46 John Lanchester author 7 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky False John Lanchester author 8 The Story of the Stone, or the Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin False John Lanchester author 9 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin True 89 John Lanchester author 10 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell False John Mullan academic 1 Emma Jane Austen True 13 John Mullan academic 2 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 John Mullan academic 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 John Mullan academic 4 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 John Mullan academic 5 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 John Mullan academic 6 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 John Mullan academic 7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 John Mullan academic 8 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 John Mullan academic 9 Tess of the D'urbervilles Thomas Hardy False John Mullan academic 10 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 John Self unknown 1 Something Happened Joseph Heller False John Self unknown 2 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 John Self unknown 3 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 John Self unknown 4 Summertime J. M. Coetzee False John Self unknown 5 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald False John Self unknown 6 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino True 93 John Self unknown 7 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut False John Self unknown 8 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 John Self unknown 9 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh False John Self unknown 10 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving False Jon Day author/academic/journalist 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Jon Day author/academic/journalist 2 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald False Jon Day author/academic/journalist 3 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Jon Day author/academic/journalist 4 The Last Samurai Helen Dewitt False Jon Day author/academic/journalist 5 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga True 74 Jon Day author/academic/journalist 6 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien False Jon Day author/academic/journalist 7 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Jon Day author/academic/journalist 8 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Jon Day author/academic/journalist 9 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane False Jon Day author/academic/journalist 10 The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst False Joshua Cohen author 1 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens False Joshua Cohen author 2 Trilby George du Maurier False Joshua Cohen author 3 Roxana Daniel Defoe False Joshua Cohen author 4 The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis False Joshua Cohen author 5 Parade's End Ford Madox Ford False Joshua Cohen author 6 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope False Joshua Cohen author 7 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh False Joshua Cohen author 8 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley False Joshua Cohen author 9 Stamboul Train Graham Greene False Joshua Cohen author 10 Dracula Bram Stoker True 76 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 2 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 3 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 4 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 5 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad True 41 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 6 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 7 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 8 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky True 69 Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 9 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa False Juan Gabriel Vasquez author 10 Light in August William Faulkner False Jude Cook journalist 1 Mansfield Park Jane Austen True 56 Jude Cook journalist 2 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Jude Cook journalist 3 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray True 47 Jude Cook journalist 4 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy True 95 Jude Cook journalist 5 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton True 38 Jude Cook journalist 6 The Waves Virginia Woolf True 55 Jude Cook journalist 7 Tender Is the Night F Scott Fitzgerald False Jude Cook journalist 8 Herzog Saul Bellow False Jude Cook journalist 9 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Jude Cook journalist 10 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi False Julie Myerson author 1 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Julie Myerson author 2 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Julie Myerson author 3 All That Is James Salter False Julie Myerson author 4 Fingersmith Sarah Waters False Julie Myerson author 5 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Julie Myerson author 6 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Julie Myerson author 7 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Julie Myerson author 8 Felicia's Journey William Trevor False Julie Myerson author 9 Strangers Anita Brookner False Julie Myerson author 10 The Turn of the Screw Henry James True 86 Justine Jordan journalist 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Justine Jordan journalist 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Justine Jordan journalist 3 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Justine Jordan journalist 4 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Justine Jordan journalist 5 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens True 72 Justine Jordan journalist 6 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Justine Jordan journalist 7 Samuel Beckett Trilogy Molloy; Malone Dies; the Unnamable Samuel Beckett False Justine Jordan journalist 8 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Justine Jordan journalist 9 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel True 34 Justine Jordan journalist 10 Catch-22 Joseph Heller True 97 Kate Mosse author 1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Kate Mosse author 2 Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie False Kate Mosse author 3 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison True 75 Kate Mosse author 4 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver False Kate Mosse author 5 The Turn of the Screw Henry James True 86 Kate Mosse author 6 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu False Kate Mosse author 7 The Street Ann Petry False Kate Mosse author 8 The Amazing Mr Blunden Antonia Barber False Kate Mosse author 9 The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan False Kate Mosse author 10 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Katharine Viner journalist 1 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Katharine Viner journalist 2 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Katharine Viner journalist 3 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen False Katharine Viner journalist 4 Orlando Virginia Woolf True 54 Katharine Viner journalist 5 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez False Katharine Viner journalist 6 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Katharine Viner journalist 7 David Copperfield Charles Dickens True 33 Katharine Viner journalist 8 Small Island Andrea Levy False Katharine Viner journalist 9 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie True 62 Katharine Viner journalist 10 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk False Katherine Rundell author 1 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Katherine Rundell author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Katherine Rundell author 3 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Katherine Rundell author 4 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Katherine Rundell author 5 Gilead Marilynne Robinson False Katherine Rundell author 6 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll False Katherine Rundell author 7 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Katherine Rundell author 8 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel True 34 Katherine Rundell author 9 Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson False Katherine Rundell author 10 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas False Kathryn Hughes academic 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Kathryn Hughes academic 2 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Kathryn Hughes academic 3 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Kathryn Hughes academic 4 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Kathryn Hughes academic 5 Orlando Virginia Woolf True 54 Kathryn Hughes academic 6 Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell False Kathryn Hughes academic 7 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh False Kathryn Hughes academic 8 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Kathryn Hughes academic 9 Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes False Kathryn Hughes academic 10 The Turn of the Screw Henry James True 86 Kevin Power unknown 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Kevin Power unknown 2 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov True 25 Kevin Power unknown 3 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Kevin Power unknown 4 Money Martin Amis False Kevin Power unknown 5 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner True 57 Kevin Power unknown 6 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad True 41 Kevin Power unknown 7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Kevin Power unknown 8 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen False Kevin Power unknown 9 Herzog Saul Bellow False Kevin Power unknown 10 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Kieran Goddard author 1 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence False Kieran Goddard author 2 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Kieran Goddard author 3 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Kieran Goddard author 4 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Kieran Goddard author 5 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Kieran Goddard author 6 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy True 70 Kieran Goddard author 7 Herzog Saul Bellow False Kieran Goddard author 8 Austerlitz WG Sebald True 73 Kieran Goddard author 9 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson True 43 Kieran Goddard author 10 Disgrace JM Coetzee True 58 Kit de Waal author/academic 1 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Kit de Waal author/academic 2 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Kit de Waal author/academic 3 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes False Kit de Waal author/academic 4 Great Expectations Charles Dickens True 35 Kit de Waal author/academic 5 The End of the Affair Graham Greene True 82 Kit de Waal author/academic 6 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Kit de Waal author/academic 7 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Kit de Waal author/academic 8 The Road Cormac McCarthy True 98 Kit de Waal author/academic 9 The Thing About December Donal Ryan False Kit de Waal author/academic 10 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré False Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 3 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 4 The Rainbow DH Lawrence True 77 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 5 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 6 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing True 45 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 7 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 8 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 9 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Lara Feigel author/academic/journalist 10 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Laura Wilson author 1 Clarissa Harlowe Samuel Richardson False Laura Wilson author 2 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Laura Wilson author 3 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Laura Wilson author 4 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Laura Wilson author 5 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll False Laura Wilson author 6 Charlotte's Web E. 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M. Forster False Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 3 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens True 72 Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 4 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 5 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery False Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 6 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin True 79 Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 7 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 8 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 9 The Sellout Paul Beatty False Shahidha Bari academic/journalist 10 Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse False Sian Cain journalist 1 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton True 38 Sian Cain journalist 2 The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel False Sian Cain journalist 3 Catch-22 Joseph Heller True 97 Sian Cain journalist 4 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Sian Cain journalist 5 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood True 36 Sian Cain journalist 6 The Collector John Fowles False Sian Cain journalist 7 Praiseworthy Alexis Wright False Sian Cain journalist 8 The Secret History Donna Tartt False Sian Cain journalist 9 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Sian Cain journalist 10 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Sinéad Gleeson author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Sinéad Gleeson author 2 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Sinéad Gleeson author 3 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston True 39 Sinéad Gleeson author 4 Lolly Willowes, Or, the Loving Huntsman Sylvia Townsend Warner False Sinéad Gleeson author 5 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Sinéad Gleeson author 6 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark True 31 Sinéad Gleeson author 7 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore False Sinéad Gleeson author 8 The Lover Marguerite Duras False Sinéad Gleeson author 9 Amongst Women John McGahern False Sinéad Gleeson author 10 Hotel Du Lac Anita Brookner False Siri Hustvedt author 1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Siri Hustvedt author 2 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Siri Hustvedt author 3 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Siri Hustvedt author 4 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Siri Hustvedt author 5 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Siri Hustvedt author 6 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Siri Hustvedt author 7 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne False Siri Hustvedt author 8 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Siri Hustvedt author 9 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Siri Hustvedt author 10 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee False Sophie Mackintosh author 1 Light Years James Salter False Sophie Mackintosh author 2 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Sophie Mackintosh author 3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Sophie Mackintosh author 4 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek False Sophie Mackintosh author 5 Heart so White Javier Marías False Sophie Mackintosh author 6 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin True 44 Sophie Mackintosh author 7 The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter False Sophie Mackintosh author 8 The End of the Affair Graham Greene True 82 Sophie Mackintosh author 9 The Vegetarian Han Kang True 85 Sophie Mackintosh author 10 Morvern Callar Alan Warner False Stephen King author 1 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Stephen King author 2 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Stephen King author 3 Light in August William Faulkner False Stephen King author 4 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers False Stephen King author 5 The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie False Stephen King author 6 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor False Stephen King author 7 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain False Stephen King author 8 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Stephen King author 9 Nana Émile Zola False Stephen King author 10 McTeague Frank Norris False Steven Poole author/journalist 1 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Steven Poole author/journalist 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Steven Poole author/journalist 3 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Steven Poole author/journalist 4 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Steven Poole author/journalist 5 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Steven Poole author/journalist 6 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford True 64 Steven Poole author/journalist 7 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway True 83 Steven Poole author/journalist 8 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald False Steven Poole author/journalist 9 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson False Steven Poole author/journalist 10 Frankenstein Mary Shelley True 30 Stuart Kelly unknown 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Stuart Kelly unknown 2 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Stuart Kelly unknown 3 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Stuart Kelly unknown 4 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Stuart Kelly unknown 5 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski False Stuart Kelly unknown 6 A Void Georges Perec False Stuart Kelly unknown 7 Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose False Stuart Kelly unknown 8 Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark False Stuart Kelly unknown 9 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell False Stuart Kelly unknown 10 The City & the City China Miéville False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 1 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 2 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 3 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy True 70 Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 4 Germinal Émile Zola False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 5 A House for Mr Biswas VS Naipaul True 78 Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 6 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil True 67 Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 7 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 8 Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal False Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 9 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 Sukhdev Sandhu author/academic 10 The Fish Can Sing Halldór Laxness False Susanna Rustin journalist 1 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf True 14 Susanna Rustin journalist 2 Emma Jane Austen True 13 Susanna Rustin journalist 3 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James True 21 Susanna Rustin journalist 4 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Susanna Rustin journalist 5 The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark False Susanna Rustin journalist 6 Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro False Susanna Rustin journalist 7 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Susanna Rustin journalist 8 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Susanna Rustin journalist 9 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Susanna Rustin journalist 10 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante True 51 Tahmima Anam author 1 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Tahmima Anam author 2 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Tahmima Anam author 3 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Tahmima Anam author 4 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe True 22 Tahmima Anam author 5 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Tahmima Anam author 6 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Tahmima Anam author 7 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Tahmima Anam author 8 Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain False Tahmima Anam author 9 The Vegetarian Han Kang True 85 Tahmima Anam author 10 My Ántonia Willa Cather True 100 Tanjll Rashid unknown 1 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 Tanjll Rashid unknown 2 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Tanjll Rashid unknown 3 The Enigma of Arrival VS Naipaul False Tanjll Rashid unknown 4 The Improvement of Human Reason Ibn Tufayl False Tanjll Rashid unknown 5 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann False Tanjll Rashid unknown 6 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa True 46 Tanjll Rashid unknown 7 One Thousand and One Nights Anonymous False Tanjll Rashid unknown 8 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Tanjll Rashid unknown 9 Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay False Tanjll Rashid unknown 10 Operation Shylock Philip Roth False Tessa Hadley author 1 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Tessa Hadley author 2 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Tessa Hadley author 3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë True 8 Tessa Hadley author 4 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Tessa Hadley author 5 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Tessa Hadley author 6 A Guest of Honour Nadine Gordimer False Tessa Hadley author 7 Parade's End Ford Madox Ford False Tessa Hadley author 8 The Rainbow DH Lawrence True 77 Tessa Hadley author 9 The Ambassadors Henry James False Tessa Hadley author 10 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen False Tom Crewe author 1 The Palliser Novels Anthony Trollope False Tom Crewe author 2 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy True 6 Tom Crewe author 3 The Red and the Black Stendhal False Tom Crewe author 4 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac False Tom Crewe author 5 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Tom Crewe author 6 Mansfield Park Jane Austen True 56 Tom Crewe author 7 Miss Marjoribanks Margaret Oliphant False Tom Crewe author 8 Les Misérables Victor Hugo False Tom Crewe author 9 Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens False Tom Crewe author 10 The Ambassadors Henry James False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 1 Memory of Fire Eduardo Galeano False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 2 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 3 The Known World Edward P Jones True 94 Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 4 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 5 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 6 Slave Old Man Patrick Chamoiseau False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 7 Ceremony Leslie Silko False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 8 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 9 Minor Detail Adania Shibli False Uzma Aslam Khan author/academic 10 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf False Valeria Luiselli author 1 The Road Cormac McCarthy True 98 Valeria Luiselli author 2 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo True 96 Valeria Luiselli author 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Valeria Luiselli author 4 Disgrace JM Coetzee True 58 Valeria Luiselli author 5 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati False Valeria Luiselli author 6 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo False Valeria Luiselli author 7 Cartucho Nellie Campobello False Valeria Luiselli author 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell True 16 Valeria Luiselli author 9 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Valeria Luiselli author 10 The Empty Book Josefina Vicens False William Boyd author 1 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 William Boyd author 2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 William Boyd author 3 Emma Jane Austen True 13 William Boyd author 4 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 William Boyd author 5 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens True 72 William Boyd author 6 Scoop Evelyn Waugh False William Boyd author 7 Mill on the Floss George Eliot False William Boyd author 8 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne True 19 William Boyd author 9 The Trial Franz Kafka True 27 William Boyd author 10 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë True 20 Xan Brooks author/journalist 1 Cannery Row John Steinbeck False Xan Brooks author/journalist 2 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald True 11 Xan Brooks author/journalist 3 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov True 29 Xan Brooks author/journalist 4 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Xan Brooks author/journalist 5 My Ántonia Willa Cather True 100 Xan Brooks author/journalist 6 Bleak House Charles Dickens True 12 Xan Brooks author/journalist 7 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison True 37 Xan Brooks author/journalist 8 A New Life Bernard Malamud False Xan Brooks author/journalist 9 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy True 68 Xan Brooks author/journalist 10 A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K Le Guin False Yael van der Wouden author 1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Yael van der Wouden author 2 Kindred Octavia E Butler True 71 Yael van der Wouden author 3 Maurice E. M. Forster False Yael van der Wouden author 4 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Yael van der Wouden author 5 Maus Art Spiegelman False Yael van der Wouden author 6 Bee Sting Paul Murray False Yael van der Wouden author 7 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver False Yael van der Wouden author 8 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich False Yael van der Wouden author 9 Fun Home Alison Bechdel False Yael van der Wouden author 10 Stag Dance Torrey Peters False Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 1 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez True 17 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 2 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie True 23 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 3 Beloved Toni Morrison True 2 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 4 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy True 32 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 5 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee False Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 6 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie True 62 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 7 White Teeth Zadie Smith True 63 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 8 Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah False Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 9 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro True 24 Yagnishsing Dawoor unknown 10 Septology Jon Fosse False Yan Lianke author/academic 1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes True 26 Yan Lianke author/academic 2 Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio Pu Songling False Yan Lianke author/academic 3 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Yan Lianke author/academic 4 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky True 28 Yan Lianke author/academic 5 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert True 10 Yan Lianke author/academic 6 Ulysses James Joyce True 3 Yan Lianke author/academic 7 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo True 96 Yan Lianke author/academic 8 The Castle Franz Kafka False Yan Lianke author/academic 9 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust True 5 Yan Lianke author/academic 10 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen True 9 Yiyun Li author/academic 1 Middlemarch George Eliot True 1 Yiyun Li author/academic 2 Persuasion Jane Austen True 18 Yiyun Li author/academic 3 Moby-Dick Herman Melville True 15 Yiyun Li author/academic 4 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy True 7 Yiyun Li author/academic 5 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf True 4 Yiyun Li author/academic 6 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway True 83 Yiyun Li author/academic 7 The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor False Yiyun Li author/academic 8 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard True 53 Yiyun Li author/academic 9 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson True 43 Yiyun Li author/academic 10 White Teeth Zadie Smith True 63