Reading

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. (Books are listed alphabetically by author.) See my recommended books page for content and design related non-fiction.

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