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Atonement – Ian McEwan
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Complicity – Iain Banks
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carr?
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Years – Virginia Woolf
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hard
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Middlemarch – George Eliot
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bront?
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe