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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
White Teeth by Zadie Smith


Love, Sex & Romance
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Forever by Judy Blume
Riders by Jilly Cooper
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson


Adventure
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Mr Standfast by John Buchan
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Aubrey/Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien


Life, Death & Other Worlds
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Dune by Frank L Herbert
The Earthsea Series by Ursula K Le Guin
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Astonishing The Gods by Ben Okri
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley


Politics, Power & Protest
Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
V For Vendetta by Alan Moore Illustrated by David Lloyd
Strumpet City by James Plunkett
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Unless by Carol Shields
The Color Purple by Alice Walker


Class & Society
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Poor Cow by Nell Dunn
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck


Coming of Age
Golden Child by Claire Adam
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery
Swami and Friends by RK Narayan
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend


Family & Friendship
Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton


Crime & Conflict
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
American War by Omar El Akkad
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Children of Men by PD James
Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa


Rule Breakers
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Bartleby by Herman Melville
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Habibi by Craig Thompson
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Psmith Journalist by PG Wodehouse
Orlando by Virginia Woolf