100 NOVELS YOU QUITE MIGHT LIKE TO READ IF YOU'VE A MIND TO AND WHICH YOU MIGHT QUITE LIKE TO TRY - BUT NO PRESSURE AND IT'S NOT LIKE A TEST OR A BLUMMIN COMPETITION OR ANYTHING'

The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut

The Dead Zone – Stephen King

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Ishwerwood

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers

A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White

The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

Another Country – James Baldwin

The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham

Ladder of Years – Anne Tyler

Maybe the Moon – Armistead Maupin

Lady Oracle – Margaret Atwood

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

The Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving

A Room with a View – E M Forster

Orlando – Virginia Woolf

Fluke – James Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

The Land of Laughs – Jonathan Carroll

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Flowers for Mrs Harris – Paul Gallico

While England Sleeps – David Leavitt

The Lights of Manchester – Tony Warren

Sabbath’s Theatre – Philip Roth

Mister Sandman – Barbara Gowdy

Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker

Queen of the Tambourine – Jane Gardam

The Persian Pickle Club – Sandra Dallas

Crocodile Soup – Julia Darling

Lives of the Monster Dogs – Kirsten Bakis

I am Legend – Richard Matheson

The Flight from the Enchanter – Iris Murdoch

The Wrong Boy – Willy Russell

If I’ve Told You Once – Judy Budnitz

To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer

Behold the Man – Michael Moorcock

Our Lady of Darkness – Fritz Leiber

Madensky Square – Eva Ibbotson

Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr

Carnivale – M R Lovric

Fallen Angel – Kim Wilkins

Dancer – Colin McCann

The Love Machine – Jacqueline Susann

Dancer from the Dance – Andrew Holleran

Mabel Stark – Robert Hough

Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Angel – Elizabeth Taylor

Mr Starlight – Laurie Graham

The Pursuit of Happiness – Douglas Kennedy

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

The Fortnight in September

The Particolored Unicorn – John DeCles

A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Ship Who Sang – Anne McCaffrey

The Rings of Saturn – W G Sebald

The Easy Way Out – Stephen McCauley

In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

Lucia, Lucia – Adriana Trigiani

The House Next Door – Ann Rivers Siddons

The Arizona Game – Georgina Hammick

Poor Cow – Nell Dunn

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

The Princess Bride – William Goldman

Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger

The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery

The Magicians – Lev Grossman

Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom – Julie Cohen

The Nutmeg Tree – Margery Sharp

At Bertram’s Hotel – Agatha Christie

Auntie Mame – Patrick Dennis

One Day – David Nicholls

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

The Borrower – Rebecca Makkai

Wrapped up in You – Carole Matthews

The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory

Rough Music – Patrick Gale

Cuckoo – Julia Crouch

Diary of a Nobody – George and Weedon Grosssmith

War of the Worlds – H G Wells

All Fall Down – James Leo Herlihy

Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

On What Grounds – Cleo Coyle

Dune – Frank Herbert

The Last Stormlord – Glenda Larke

Dark Matter – Michelle Paver

Heft – Liz Moore

The Hour Between – Sebastian Stuart

The Paris Wife – Paula McLain

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris – Jenny Colgan

Longbourn – Jo Baker

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt