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