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 over recent years.

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Books are listed alphabetically by author.

  • Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003) by Mitch Albom
  • Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
  • Take a Girl Like You (1960) by Kingsley Amis
  • The Old Devils (1986) by Kingsley Amis
  • Money (1984) by Martin Amis
  • Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
  • Case Histories (2004) by Kate Atkinson
  • Shrines of Gaiety (2022) by Kate Atkinson
  • Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood
  • The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
  • Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen
  • The New York Trilogy (1987) by Paul Auster
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
  • The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
  • Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1993) by Louis de Bernières
  • Out of Africa (1937) by Karen Blixen
  • On Love (1993) by Alain de Botton
  • The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
  • The Heat of the Day (1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Any Human Heart (2002) by William Boyd
  • Restless (2006) by William Boyd
  • Waiting for Sunrise (2012) by William Boyd
  • Trio (2020) by William Boyd
  • Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980) by Erna Brodber
  • Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
  • Possession (1990) by A. S. Byatt
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
  • Fold (2011) by Tom Campbell
  • The Outsider (1942) by Albert Camus
  • The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
  • The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) by Truman Capote
  • Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
  • A Month in the Country (1980) by J. L. Carr
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) by John le Carré
  • The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) by John le Carré
  • Smiley's People (1979) by John le Carré
  • A Perfect Spy (1986) by John le Carré
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
  • Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll
  • Wise Children (1991) by Angela Carter
  • Leading the Cheers (1998) by Justin Cartwright
  • The Promise of Happiness (2005) by Justin Cartwright
  • Other People's Money (2011) by Justin Cartwright
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) by Raymond Carver
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
  • Stories (1903) by Anton Chekhov
  • The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie
  • The Girls (2016) by Emma Cline
  • The Accidental Woman (1987) by Jonathan Coe
  • What a Carve Up! (1994) by Jonathan Coe
  • The House of Sleep (1997) by Jonathan Coe
  • The Rotters’ Club (2001) by Jonathan Coe
  • The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho
  • Foe (1986) by J. M. Coetzee
  • Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
  • The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
  • The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
  • I, Tituba (1986) by Maryse Condé
  • Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
  • Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Generation X (1991) by Douglas Coupland
  • Life After God (1994) by Douglas Coupland
  • All Families are Psychotic (2001) by Douglas Coupland
  • Hey Nostradamus! (2003) by Douglas Coupland
  • The Power of One (1989) by Bryce Courtenay
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (1977) by Roald Dahl
  • Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) by Roald Dahl
  • Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl
  • Last Bus to Woodstock (1975) by Colin Dexter
  • Last Seen Wearing (1976) by Colin Dexter
  • The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1977) by Colin Dexter
  • Service of All the Dead (1979) by Colin Dexter
  • The Dead of Jericho (1981) by Colin Dexter
  • The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983) by Colin Dexter
  • The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986) by Colin Dexter
  • The Wench is Dead (1989) by Colin Dexter
  • The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) by Colin Dexter
  • Trust (2022) by Hernan Diaz
  • David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickins
  • Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickins
  • Ragtime (1975) by E. L. Doctorow
  • All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr
  • Crime and Punishment (1867) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
  • Paddy Clark, Ha Ha Ha (1993) by Roddy Doyle
  • The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
  • The Bafut Beagles (1954) by Gerald Durrell
  • My Family and Other Animals (1956) by Gerald Durrell
  • A Heartwarming Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers
  • Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
  • The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Lara (1997) by Bernardine Evaristo
  • The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
  • As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
  • Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
  • The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Charlotte Gray (1998) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Human Traces (2005) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Engleby (2007) by Sebastian Faulks
  • A Week in December (2009) by Sebastian Faulks
  • A Possible Life (2012) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Where My Heart Used to Beat (2015) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Snow Country (2021) by Sebastian Faulks
  • Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) by Helen Fielding
  • The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Crack-Up (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Lost Decade (1935) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
  • Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
  • The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
  • Parade’s End (tetralogy) (1948) by Ford Madox Ford
  • The Sportswriter (1986) by Richard Ford
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) by E. M. Forster
  • A Room with a View (1908) by E. M. Forster
  • Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster
  • A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
  • Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain
  • The Collector (1963) by John Fowles
  • The Magus (1965) by John Fowles
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles
  • The Ebony Tower (1974) by John Fowles
  • The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
  • Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
  • Hideous Kinky (1992) by Esther Freud
  • The Solitaire Mystery (1990) by Jostein Gaarder
  • Sophie’s World (1991) by Jostein Gaarder
  • The Christmas Mystery (1992) by Jostein Gaarder
  • The Promise (2021) by Damon Galgut
  • The Snow Goose (1941) by Paul Gallico
  • The Beach (1996) by Alex Garland
  • The Tesseract (1998) by Alex Garland
  • Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
  • The Greengage Summer (1958) by Rumer Godden
  • Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
  • The Spire (1964) by William Golding
  • Rites of Passage (1980) by William Golding
  • The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
  • I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
  • Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
  • The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
  • The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
  • The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
  • Twenty-One Stories (1954) by Graham Greene
  • The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
  • Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene
  • A Sense of Reality (1963) by Graham Greene
  • Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) by David Guterson
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
  • The Midnight Library (2020) by Matt Haig
  • Wessex Tales (1988) by Thomas Hardy
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
  • Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris
  • Enigma (1995) by Robert Harris
  • Archangel (1998) by Robert Harris
  • The Ghost (2007) by Robert Harris
  • The Second Sleep (2019) by Robert Harris
  • The Go-Between (1953) by L. P. Hartley
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
  • Men Without Women (1927) by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
  • Green Hills of Africa (1935) by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) by Ernest Hemingway
  • To Have and Have Not (1937) by Ernest Hemingway
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
  • Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Prodigy (1906) by Hermann Hesse
  • Gertrude (1910) by Hermann Hesse
  • The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
  • The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
  • I’m the King of the Castle (1970) by Susan Hill
  • The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill
  • A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) by Barry Hines
  • The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
  • What I Loved (2003) by Siri Hustvedt
  • Chrome Yellow (1921) by Aldous Huxley
  • Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
  • Eyeless in Gaza (1936) by Aldous Huxley
  • The World According To Garp (1978) by John Irving
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving
  • Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • When We Were Orphens (2000) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Nocturnes (2009) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
  • The Aspern Papers (1888) by Henry James
  • Selected Short Stories (1896) by Henry James
  • The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
  • Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009) by Jonas Jonasson
  • The Prophet and the Idiot (2022) by Jonas Jonasson
  • Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories (1915) by Franz Kafka
  • The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
  • The Perfect Stranger (1966) by P. J. Kavanagh
  • On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
  • The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac
  • Maggie Cassidy (1959) by Jack Kerouac
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
  • The Secret Life of Bees (2001) by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Lacuna (2009) by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
  • The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Atom Station (1948) by Halldór Laxness
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
  • Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
  • Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis
  • Perelandra (1943) by C. S. Lewis
  • That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (1955) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Horse and His Boy (1954) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: Prince Caspian (1951) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Silver Chair (1953) by C. S. Lewis
  • Narnia: The Last Battle (1956) by C. S. Lewis
  • Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively
  • The Photograph (2003) by Penelope Lively
  • Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
  • Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
  • Bring Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
  • Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
  • The Piano Tuner (2002) by Daniel Mason
  • Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Cakes and Ale (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
  • My Cousin Rachel (1951) by Daphne du Maurier
  • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998) by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Tears of the Giraffe (2000) by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Morality for Beautiful Girls (2001) by Alexander McCall Smith
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
  • The Innocent (1990) by Ian McEwan
  • Enduring Love (1997) by Ian McEwan
  • Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan
  • Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
  • Saturday (2005) by Ian McEwan
  • On Chesil Beach (2007) by Ian McEwan
  • Solar (2010) by Ian McEwan
  • Sweet Tooth (2012) by Ian McEwan
  • Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) by Herman Melville
  • Focus (1945) by Arthur Miller
  • Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
  • Private Peaceful (2003) by Michael Morpurgo
  • Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
  • The Love of a Good Woman (1998) by Alice Munro
  • Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami
  • Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch
  • The Bell (1958) by Iris Murdock
  • The Black Prince (1973) by Iris Murdock
  • The Sea, the Sea (1978) by Iris Murdoch
  • Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Pnin (1957) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
  • A Bend in the River (1979) by V. S. Naipaul
  • The River Between (1965) by Ngugi Ngugi
  • One Day (2009) by David Nicholls
  • Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O’Hara
  • Yonnondio (1974) by Tillie Olsen
  • The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
  • Down and Out in London and Paris (1933) by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
  • 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
  • The Thursday Murder Club (2020) by Richard Osman
  • The Man Who Died Twice (2021) by Richard Osman
  • The Bullet that Missed (2022) by Richard Osman
  • The Last Devil to Die (2023) by Richard Osman
  • Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) by Delia Owens
  • Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton
  • The Bees (2014) by Laline Paull
  • The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
  • The Visit (1999) by Adrian Plass
  • Silver Birches (2009) by Adrian Plass
  • The Shadow Doctor (2017) by Adrian Plass
  • The Shadow Doctor: The Past Awaits (2019) by Adrian Plass
  • The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe
  • A Question of Upbringing (1951) by Anthony Powell
  • A Buyer’s Market (1952) by Anthony Powell
  • The Acceptance World (1955) by Anthony Powell
  • At Lady Molly’s (1957) by Anthony Powell
  • Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960) by Anthony Powell
  • The Kindly Ones (1962) by Anthony Powell
  • The Valley of Bones (1964) by Anthony Powell
  • The Soldier’s Art (1966) by Anthony Powell
  • The Military Philosophers (1968) by Anthony Powell
  • Books Do Furnish a Room (1971) by Anthony Powell
  • Temporary Kings (1973) by Anthony Powell
  • Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975) by Anthony Powell
  • The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx
  • The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
  • Exercises in Style (1947) by Raymond Queneau
  • Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome
  • The Evenings (1947) by Gerard Reve
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
  • The Lightning Thief (2005) by Rick Riordan
  • Housekeeping (1980) by Marilynne Robinson
  • Gilead (2004) by Marilynne Robinson
  • American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) by J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) by J. K. Rowling
  • The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
  • Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
  • Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
  • For Esmé ~ With Love and Squalor (1953) by J. D. Salinger
  • Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
  • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters / Seymour: an Introduction (1963) by J. D. Salinger
  • The Norfolk Mystery (2013) by Ian Sansom
  • Whose Body? (1923) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Clouds of Witness (1926) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Unnatural Death (1927) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Tobacconist (2012) by Robert Seethaler
  • Funny Boy (1994) by Shyam Selvadurai
  • The Lonely Londoners (1956) by Sam Selvon
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver
  • I Capture the Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith
  • Gorky Park (1981) by Martin Cruz Smith
  • White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
  • Golden Hill (2016) by Francis Spufford
  • Treasures of the Snow (1950) by Patricia St John
  • Tortilla Flat (1935) by John Steinbeck
  • Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
  • Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
  • The Pearl (1947) by John Steinbeck
  • East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen (1767) by Laurence Sterne
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Perfume (1985) by Patrick Süskind
  • Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
  • The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt
  • The Little Friend (2002) by Donna Tartt
  • The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
  • The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • LOTR: The Two Towers (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • LOTR: The Return of the King (1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
  • Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2006) by Paul Torday
  • The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce (2008) by Paul Torday
  • The Girl on the Landing (2009) by Paul Torday
  • Rules of Civility (2011) by Amor Towles
  • A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) by Amor Towles
  • The Lincoln Highway (2021) by Amor Towles
  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982) by Sue Townsend
  • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) by Sue Townsend
  • The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
  • Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain
  • Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
  • Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike
  • The Enchanted April (1922) by Elizabeth Von Armin
  • Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
  • A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
  • Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
  • Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Complete Short Stories (1962) by Evelyn Waugh
  • Sword of Honour (trilogy) (1965) by Evelyn Waugh
  • Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) by Nathanael West
  • The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathanael West
  • The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
  • The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton
  • The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) by Oscar Wilde
  • Stoner (1965) by John Williams
  • My Man Jeeves (1919) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Carry on, Jeeves (1925) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thank you, Jeeves (1934) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Joy in the Morning (1947) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Mating Season (1949) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Jeeves in the Offing (1960) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963) by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
  • To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
  • Orlando (1928) by Virginia Woolf
  • The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
  • Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
  • The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak
  • Chess (1943) by Stefan Zweig
  • Twentieth-Century Short Stories (1959) by [Various authors]
  • The Art of the Tale (1986) by [Various authors]
  • Tales from the Beach House (2021) by [Various authors]