Reading fiction

For me, reading fiction is one of life's great pleasures. Here's a record of the novels and short story collections that I've enjoyed over recent years.

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Books are listed alphabetically by author.

  1. Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
  2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003) by Mitch Albom
  3. Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
  4. Take a Girl Like You (1960) by Kingsley Amis
  5. The Old Devils (1986) by Kingsley Amis
  6. Money (1984) by Martin Amis
  7. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
  8. Case Histories (2004) by Kate Atkinson
  9. Shrines of Gaiety (2022) by Kate Atkinson
  10. Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood
  11. The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
  12. Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
  13. Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen
  14. The New York Trilogy (1987) by Paul Auster
  15. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
  16. The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
  17. Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
  18. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1993) by Louis de Bernières
  19. Out of Africa (1937) by Karen Blixen
  20. On Love (1993) by Alain de Botton
  21. The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
  22. The Heat of the Day (1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
  23. Any Human Heart (2002) by William Boyd
  24. Restless (2006) by William Boyd
  25. Waiting for Sunrise (2012) by William Boyd
  26. Trio (2020) by William Boyd
  27. Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980) by Erna Brodber
  28. Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
  29. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
  30. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
  31. Possession (1990) by A. S. Byatt
  32. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
  33. Fold (2011) by Tom Campbell
  34. The Outsider (1942) by Albert Camus
  35. The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
  36. The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus
  37. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) by Truman Capote
  38. Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
  39. A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr
  40. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
  41. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) by John le Carré
  42. The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) by John le Carré
  43. Smiley's People (1979) by John le Carré
  44. A Perfect Spy (1986) by John le Carré
  45. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
  46. Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll
  47. Wise Children (1991) by Angela Carter
  48. Leading the Cheers (1998) by Justin Cartwright
  49. The Promise of Happiness (2005) by Justin Cartwright
  50. Other People's Money (2011) by Justin Cartwright
  51. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) by Raymond Carver
  52. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
  53. The Wife of Bath's Tale (1405-10) by Geoffrey Chaucer
  54. Stories (1903) by Anton Chekhov
  55. The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov
  56. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G. K. Chesterton
  57. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) by G. K. Chesterton
  58. The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) by G. K. Chesterton
  59. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
  60. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie
  61. The Girls (2016) by Emma Cline
  62. The Accidental Woman (1987) by Jonathan Coe
  63. What a Carve Up! (1994) by Jonathan Coe
  64. The House of Sleep (1997) by Jonathan Coe
  65. The Rotters’ Club (2001) by Jonathan Coe
  66. The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho
  67. Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee
  68. Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
  69. The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
  70. The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
  71. I, Tituba (1986) by Maryse Condé
  72. Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
  73. Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
  74. The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
  75. Generation X (1991) by Douglas Coupland
  76. Life After God (1994) by Douglas Coupland
  77. All Families are Psychotic (2001) by Douglas Coupland
  78. Hey Nostradamus! (2003) by Douglas Coupland
  79. The Power of One (1989) by Bryce Courtenay
  80. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (1977) by Roald Dahl
  81. Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) by Roald Dahl
  82. Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl
  83. Last Bus to Woodstock (1975) by Colin Dexter
  84. Last Seen Wearing (1976) by Colin Dexter
  85. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1977) by Colin Dexter
  86. Service of All the Dead (1979) by Colin Dexter
  87. The Dead of Jericho (1981) by Colin Dexter
  88. The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983) by Colin Dexter
  89. The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986) by Colin Dexter
  90. The Wench is Dead (1989) by Colin Dexter
  91. The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) by Colin Dexter
  92. Trust (2022) by Hernan Diaz
  93. David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickins
  94. Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickins
  95. Ragtime (1975) by E. L. Doctorow
  96. All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr
  97. Crime and Punishment (1867) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  98. The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  99. The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  100. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
  101. Paddy Clark, Ha Ha Ha (1993) by Roddy Doyle
  102. The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
  103. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
  104. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
  105. The Bafut Beagles (1954) by Gerald Durrell
  106. My Family and Other Animals (1956) by Gerald Durrell
  107. A Heartwarming Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers
  108. Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
  109. The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
  110. Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
  111. Lara (1997) by Bernardine Evaristo
  112. The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
  113. As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
  114. Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
  115. The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989) by Sebastian Faulks
  116. Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
  117. Charlotte Gray (1998) by Sebastian Faulks
  118. Human Traces (2005) by Sebastian Faulks
  119. Engleby (2007) by Sebastian Faulks
  120. A Week in December (2009) by Sebastian Faulks
  121. A Possible Life (2012) by Sebastian Faulks
  122. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013) by Sebastian Faulks
  123. Where My Heart Used to Beat (2015) by Sebastian Faulks
  124. Snow Country (2021) by Sebastian Faulks
  125. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) by Helen Fielding
  126. The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  127. The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  128. Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  129. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  130. The Crack-Up (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  131. The Lost Decade (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  132. Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
  133. Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
  134. The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
  135. Parade’s End (tetralogy) (1948) by Ford Madox Ford
  136. The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
  137. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) by E. M. Forster
  138. A Room with a View (1908) by E. M. Forster
  139. Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster
  140. A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
  141. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain
  142. The Collector (1963) by John Fowles
  143. The Magus (1965) by John Fowles
  144. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles
  145. The Ebony Tower (1974) by John Fowles
  146. The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
  147. Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
  148. Hideous Kinky (1992) by Esther Freud
  149. The Solitaire Mystery (1990) by Jostein Gaarder
  150. Sophie’s World (1991) by Jostein Gaarder
  151. The Christmas Mystery (1992) by Jostein Gaarder
  152. The Promise (2021) by Damon Galgut
  153. The Snow Goose (1941) by Paul Gallico
  154. The Beach (1996) by Alex Garland
  155. The Tesseract (1998) by Alex Garland
  156. Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
  157. The Greengage Summer (1958) by Rumer Godden
  158. The Peacock Spring (1975) by Rumer Godden
  159. Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
  160. The Spire (1964) by William Golding
  161. Rites of Passage (1980) by William Golding
  162. The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
  163. I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
  164. Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
  165. The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
  166. The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
  167. The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
  168. Twenty-One Stories (1954) by Graham Greene
  169. The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
  170. Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene
  171. A Sense of Reality (1963) by Graham Greene
  172. Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) by David Guterson
  173. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
  174. The Midnight Library (2020) by Matt Haig
  175. Wessex Tales (1988) by Thomas Hardy
  176. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
  177. Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris
  178. Enigma (1995) by Robert Harris
  179. Archangel (1998) by Robert Harris
  180. The Ghost (2007) by Robert Harris
  181. The Second Sleep (2019) by Robert Harris
  182. The Go-Between (1953) by L. P. Hartley
  183. The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  184. Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
  185. The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
  186. Men Without Women (1927) by Ernest Hemingway
  187. A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
  188. Green Hills of Africa (1935) by Ernest Hemingway
  189. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) by Ernest Hemingway
  190. To Have and Have Not (1937) by Ernest Hemingway
  191. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
  192. Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
  193. The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway
  194. The Prodigy (1906) by Hermann Hesse
  195. Gertrude (1910) by Hermann Hesse
  196. The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
  197. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
  198. I’m the King of the Castle (1970) by Susan Hill
  199. The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill
  200. A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) by Barry Hines
  201. The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini
  202. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
  203. What I Loved (2003) by Siri Hustvedt
  204. Chrome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley
  205. Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
  206. Eyeless in Gaza (1936) by Aldous Huxley
  207. A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
  208. The World According To Garp (1978) by John Irving
  209. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving
  210. Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood
  211. The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  212. When We Were Orphens (2000) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  213. Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  214. Nocturnes (2009) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  215. Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  216. The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
  217. The Aspern Papers (1888) by Henry James
  218. Selected Short Stories (1896) by Henry James
  219. The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
  220. Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome
  221. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009) by Jonas Jonasson
  222. The Prophet and the Idiot (2022) by Jonas Jonasson
  223. Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
  224. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
  225. Metamorphosis and Other Stories (1915) by Franz Kafka
  226. The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
  227. The Perfect Stranger (1966) by P. J. Kavanagh
  228. On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
  229. The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac
  230. Maggie Cassidy (1959) by Jack Kerouac
  231. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
  232. The Secret Life of Bees (2001) by Sue Monk Kidd
  233. The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver
  234. The Lacuna (2009) by Barbara Kingsolver
  235. Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver
  236. Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
  237. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
  238. The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  239. Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
  240. The Atom Station (1948) by Halldór Laxness
  241. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
  242. Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
  243. Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis
  244. Perelandra (1943) by C. S. Lewis
  245. That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis
  246. Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (1955) by C. S. Lewis
  247. Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
  248. Narnia: The Horse and His Boy (1954) by C. S. Lewis
  249. Narnia: Prince Caspian (1951) by C. S. Lewis
  250. Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) by C. S. Lewis
  251. Narnia: The Silver Chair (1953) by C. S. Lewis
  252. Narnia: The Last Battle (1956) by C. S. Lewis
  253. Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively
  254. The Photograph (2003) by Penelope Lively
  255. Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
  256. Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
  257. Bring Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
  258. Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai
  259. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  260. Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
  261. The Piano Tuner (2002) by Daniel Mason
  262. Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
  263. Cakes and Ale (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
  264. Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
  265. My Cousin Rachel (1951) by Daphne du Maurier
  266. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998) by Alexander McCall Smith
  267. Tears of the Giraffe (2000) by Alexander McCall Smith
  268. Morality for Beautiful Girls (2001) by Alexander McCall Smith
  269. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
  270. The Innocent (1990) by Ian McEwan
  271. Enduring Love (1997) by Ian McEwan
  272. Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan
  273. Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
  274. Saturday (2005) by Ian McEwan
  275. On Chesil Beach (2007) by Ian McEwan
  276. Solar (2010) by Ian McEwan
  277. Sweet Tooth (2012) by Ian McEwan
  278. Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) by Herman Melville
  279. Focus (1945) by Arthur Miller
  280. Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
  281. Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
  282. Private Peaceful (2003) by Michael Morpurgo
  283. Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
  284. The Love of a Good Woman (1998) by Alice Munro
  285. Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami
  286. Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
  287. The Bell (1958) by Iris Murdock
  288. The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdock
  289. The Sea, the Sea (1978) by Iris Murdoch
  290. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
  291. Pnin (1957) by Vladimir Nabokov
  292. Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
  293. A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
  294. A Bend in the River (1979) by V. S. Naipaul
  295. The River Between (1965) by Ngugi Ngugi
  296. One Day (2009) by David Nicholls
  297. Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara
  298. Yonnondio (1974) by Tillie Olsen
  299. The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
  300. Down and Out in London and Paris (1933) by George Orwell
  301. Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
  302. 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
  303. The Thursday Murder Club (2020) by Richard Osman
  304. The Man Who Died Twice (2021) by Richard Osman
  305. The Bullet that Missed (2022) by Richard Osman
  306. The Last Devil to Die (2023) by Richard Osman
  307. Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) by Delia Owens
  308. Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton
  309. The Bees (2014) by Laline Paull
  310. The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
  311. The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (aged 37 3/4) (1987) by Adrian Plass
  312. The Visit (1999) by Adrian Plass
  313. Silver Birches (2009) by Adrian Plass
  314. The Shadow Doctor (2017) by Adrian Plass
  315. The Shadow Doctor: The Past Awaits (2019) by Adrian Plass
  316. The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
  317. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe
  318. A Question of Upbringing (1951) by Anthony Powell
  319. A Buyer’s Market (1952) by Anthony Powell
  320. The Acceptance World (1955) by Anthony Powell
  321. At Lady Molly’s (1957) by Anthony Powell
  322. Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960) by Anthony Powell
  323. The Kindly Ones (1962) by Anthony Powell
  324. The Valley of Bones (1964) by Anthony Powell
  325. The Soldier’s Art (1966) by Anthony Powell
  326. The Military Philosophers (1968) by Anthony Powell
  327. Books Do Furnish a Room (1971) by Anthony Powell
  328. Temporary Kings (1973) by Anthony Powell
  329. Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975) by Anthony Powell
  330. The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx
  331. The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo
  332. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
  333. Exercises in Style (1947) by Raymond Queneau
  334. Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome
  335. The Evenings (1947) by Gerard Reve
  336. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
  337. The Lightning Thief (2005) by Rick Riordan
  338. Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
  339. Gilead (2004) by Marilynne Robinson
  340. American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
  341. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling
  342. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) by J. K. Rowling
  343. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) by J. K. Rowling
  344. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) by J. K. Rowling
  345. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) by J. K. Rowling
  346. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) by J. K. Rowling
  347. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) by J. K. Rowling
  348. The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
  349. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
  350. Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar
  351. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
  352. For Esmé ~ With Love and Squalor (1953) by J. D. Salinger
  353. Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
  354. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters / Seymour: an Introduction (1963) by J. D. Salinger
  355. The Norfolk Mystery (2013) by Ian Sansom
  356. Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  357. Clouds of Witness (1926) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  358. Unnatural Death (1927) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  359. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  360. Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  361. Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  362. Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  363. The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  364. Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  365. The Tobacconist (2012) by Robert Seethaler
  366. Funny Boy (1994) by Shyam Selvadurai
  367. The Lonely Londoners (1956) by Sam Selvon
  368. Richard II (1595) by William Shakespeare
  369. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-96) by William Shakespeare
  370. Romeo and Juliet (1597) by William Shakespeare
  371. Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare
  372. Othello (1603) by William Shakespeare
  373. King Lear (1606) by William Shakespeare
  374. The Tempest (1610-11) by William Shakespeare
  375. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver
  376. I Capture the Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith
  377. Gorky Park (1981) by Martin Cruz Smith
  378. White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
  379. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  380. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
  381. Golden Hill (2016) by Francis Spufford
  382. Treasures of the Snow (1950) by Patricia St John
  383. Tortilla Flat (1935) by John Steinbeck
  384. Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
  385. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
  386. Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
  387. The Pearl (1947) by John Steinbeck
  388. East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
  389. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen (1767) by Laurence Sterne
  390. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  391. Perfume (1985) by Patrick Süskind
  392. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
  393. The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt
  394. The Little Friend (2002) by Donna Tartt
  395. The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
  396. The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  397. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  398. LOTR: The Two Towers (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  399. LOTR: The Return of the King (1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  400. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
  401. Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
  402. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2006) by Paul Torday
  403. The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce (2008) by Paul Torday
  404. The Girl on the Landing (2009) by Paul Torday
  405. Rules of Civility (2011) by Amor Towles
  406. A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) by Amor Towles
  407. The Lincoln Highway (2021) by Amor Towles
  408. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982) by Sue Townsend
  409. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) by Sue Townsend
  410. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
  411. Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
  412. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
  413. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain
  414. Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
  415. Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike
  416. The Enchanted April (1922) by Elizabeth Von Armin
  417. Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
  418. Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
  419. A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
  420. Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
  421. Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
  422. The Complete Short Stories (1962) by Evelyn Waugh
  423. Sword of Honour (trilogy) (1965) by Evelyn Waugh
  424. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) by Nathanael West
  425. The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
  426. The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
  427. The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
  428. The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) by Oscar Wilde
  429. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde
  430. Stoner (1965) by John Williams
  431. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
  432. My Man Jeeves (1919) by P. G. Wodehouse
  433. The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) by P. G. Wodehouse
  434. Carry on, Jeeves (1925) by P. G. Wodehouse
  435. Thank you, Jeeves (1934) by P. G. Wodehouse
  436. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) by P. G. Wodehouse
  437. The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P. G. Wodehouse
  438. Joy in the Morning (1947) by P. G. Wodehouse
  439. The Mating Season (1949) by P. G. Wodehouse
  440. Jeeves in the Offing (1960) by P. G. Wodehouse
  441. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963) by P. G. Wodehouse
  442. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
  443. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
  444. To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
  445. Orlando (1928) by Virginia Woolf
  446. The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
  447. Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
  448. The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  449. The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak
  450. Chess (1943) by Stefan Zweig
  451. Twentieth-Century Short Stories (1959) by [Various authors]
  452. The Art of the Tale (1986) by [Various authors]
  453. Tales from the Beach House (2021) by [Various authors]