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