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Novels by author surname
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Naomi Alderman (1974 – …)
The Power, 2019
Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995)
Lucky Jim, 1953 [goodreads]
Adiga Aravind (1974 – …)
The White Tiger, 2008 [goodreads]
Kate Atkinson (1951 – …)
Life after Life, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner]
A God in Ruins, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2015 – Winner]
Margaret Atwood (1939 – …)
The Handmaid’s Tale, 1985
The Testaments, 2019 [Recent prize winner 2019 – Short List]
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Pride and Prejudice, 1813 [ download ]
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J.G. Ballard (1930 – 2009)
Empire of the Sun, 1984
John Banville (1945 – …)
The Sea, 2005 [goodreads]
Pat Barker (1943 – …)
Regeneration (Regeneration #1), 1991 (project war – World War I)
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration #2), 1993 (project war – World War I)
The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3), 1995 (project war – World War I)
Toby’s Room, 2012 (project war – World War I)
The Silence of the Girls, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2019 – Short List]
Julian Barnes (1946 – …)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, 1989 [goodreads]
A Sense of an Ending, 2011 [Recent prize winner 2011 – Winner]
Sebastian Barry (1955 – …)
Days without End, 2016 [Recent Prize Winner, Costa Book Award 2016] (project war – American Civil War)
Paul Beatty (1946 – …)
The Sellout, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2016 – Winner]
Ray Bradbury (1920 – 2012)
Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855)
Jane Eyre, 1847 [ download ]
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)
Wuthering Heights, 1847 [ download ]
William Boyd (1952 – …)
Restless, 2007 (project war – World War II)
Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993)
A Clockwork Orange, 1962
Anna Burns (1962 – …)
Milkman, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2018 – Winner]
A.S. Byatt (1936 – …)
Possession, 1990
The Children’s Book, 2009 [goodreads]
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John le Carré (1931 – …)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963 [goodreads]
Peter Carrey (1931 – …)
True History of the Kelly Gang , 1963 [goodreads]
Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)
Alice in Wonderland, 1865 [½] [ download ]
Through the Looking Glass, 1871 [½] [ download ]
Eleanor Catton (1985 – …)
The Luminaries, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner] [goodreads]
Chuck Palahniuk (1962 – …)
Fight Club, 1996
Chris Cleave (1973 – …)
Little Bee [The Other Hand], 2008 (project war – African Conflicts)
J.M. Coetzee (1940 – …)
Waiting for the Barbarians, 1980
Life & Times of Michael K , 1983 [goodreads]
The Childhood of Jesus, 2013 [goodreads]
Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)
The Moonstone, 1868[ download ]
Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)
The Heart of Darkness, 1899 [ download ] [goodreads]
Diane Cook (1976 – …)
The New Wilderness, 2020 (Recent Prize Winner)
Jim Crace (1946 – …)
Harvest, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Short List]
Michael Cunningham (1952 – …)
The Hours, 1998
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Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
Robinson Crusoe, 1719[ download ]
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Oliver Twist, 1838 [ download ]
A Christmas Carol, 1843 [ download ] [goodreads] [½]
A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 ] [ download ] [goodreads]
Great Expectations, 1861 [ download ]
Anthony Doerr (1973- …)
All the Light We Cannot See, 2014, [Recent prize winner 2015 – Winner]
Emma Donoghue (1969 – …)
Room, 2010, [Recent prize winner 2010 – Short List]
Roddy Doyle (1958 – …)
Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha, 1993 [goodreads]
Helen Dunmore (1952-2017)
The Siege, 2001 (project war – World War II)
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Brett Easton Ellis (1964 – …)
American Psycho, 1991 [goodreads]
Dave Eggers (1970 – …)
What’s the What, 2006 (project war – African Conflicts)
Louise Erdrich (1954 – …)
The Night Watchman, 2021
Ben Elton (1959 – …)
The First Casualty, 2005 (project war – World War I)
Anne Enright (1962 – …)
The Gathering, 2007 [goodreads]
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Sebastian Faulks (1953 – …)
Birdsong, 1993 (project war – World War I)
Charlotte Gray, 1998, (project war – World War II)
A Possible Life, 2012 (project war – World War II)
Nathan Filer (1980 – …)
The Shock of the Fall, 2013, [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner]
Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
The History of Tom Jones, 1749 [ download ] [goodreads]
Richard Flanagan (1961 – …)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2014 – Winner] (project war – World War II)
Jonathan Safran Foer (1977 – …)
Everything is Illuminated, 2001 [goodreads]
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005
E.M. Forster (1878 – 1970)
A Room with a View, 1908 [goodreads]
Passage to India, 1924 [goodreads]
Ben Fountain (1958 – …)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 2012 (project war – Iraq War)
Charles Frazier (1950 – …)
Cold Mountain, 1997 (project war – American Civil War)
John Fowles (1926 – 2005)
The Collector, 1963
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969
Claire Fuller
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John Gardner (1933 – 1982)
Grendel, 1970 [goodreads]
Steven Galloway (1975 – …)
The Cellist of Sarajevo, 2008
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 1865)
North and South, 1854 [ download ] [goodreads]
Arthur Golden (1956 – …)
Memoirs of a Geisha, (1997)
William Golding (1911 – 1993)
Lord of the Flies, 1954
Robert Graves (1895 – 1985)
I Claudius, 1934 [goodreads]
Joanne Greenberg / Hannah Green (1932- …)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 1964
Graham Greene
The Quiet American, 1955
Our Man in Havana, 1958 [goodreads]
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Mohsin Hamid (1971 -…)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007
Chad Harbach (1975 – …)
The Art of Fielding, 2011 [goodreads]
Thomas Hardy (1840-1926)
Jude the Obscure, 1895 [download] [goodreads]
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter, 1850 [download] [goodreads]
Martha Hall Kelly (1957 – …)
Lilac Girls, 2016 (project war – World War II)
Mohsin Hamid (1971 – …)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007 (project war – Terrorism)
Exit West, 2017 (project war – Other Wars)
Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999)
Catch-22, 1961
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
A Farewell to Arms, 1929 (project war – World War I)
*The Sun also Rises, 1926 [goodreads]
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 (project war – Spanish Civil War)
The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 [½]
Susan Hill (1942 – …)
I’m the King of the Castle, 1970
Gail Honeyman (1972 – …)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, 2017
Emma Hooper (1980 – …)
Etta and Otto and Russell and James, 2015
Nick Hornby (1957 – …)
About a Boy, 2000 [goodreads]
A long way down, 2006 [goodreads]
Khaled Hosseini (1965 – …)
The Kite Runner, 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Brave New World, 1932
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Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-…)
The Remains of the Day, 1989
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Howard Jacobson (1942 – …)
The Finkler Question, 2010 [goodreads]
Henry James (1843 – 1916)
The Turn of the Screw, 1898 [download] [goodreads] [½]
Portrait of a lady, 1881 [download] [goodreads]
Marlon James (1970 – …)
A Brief History of Seven Killings, 2014 [goodreads] [Recent prize winner 2015- Winner]
James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 [goodreads]
Rachel Joyce (1962 – ….)
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Thomas Keneally (1935 – …)
Schindler’s Ark/List, 1982 (project war – World War II)
Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969)
On the Road, 1957 [goodreads]
Ken Kesey (1935 – 2001)
One flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest, 1962
Barbara Kingsolver (1955 – …)
The Poisonwood Bible, 1998 [goodreads]
Jezry Kosinski (1933-1991)
The Painted Bird, 1965 (project war – World War II)
Nicole Krauss (1974 – …)
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John Lanchester (1962 – …)
The Wall, 2019
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
Sons and Lovers, 1913 [goodreads]
Lady Chatterley’s lover, 1928 [goodreads]
Harper Lee (1926-2016)
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
The Grass is Singing, 1950 [goodreads]
The Fifth Child, 1988 [goodreads] [½]
Ira Levin (1929 – 2007)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1953 [goodreads]
This Perfect Day, 1970
The Boys from Brazil, 1976
Atticus Lish (1972 – …)
Preparation for the Next Life, 2014 (project war – Afghan War)
Jack London (1876 – 1916)
The Iron Heel, 1908 [download]
Valeria Luiselli (1983- …)
Lost Children Archive, 2019
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Bernard MacLaverty,
Cal, 1989 (project war – The Troubles)
Norman Mailer (1926 – 2007)
The Naked and the Dead, 1948 (project war – World War II)
Hillary Mantel (1952 – …)
Wolf Hall, 2009 [Recent prize winner 2009 – Winner]
Bring up the Bodies, 2012 [goodreads]
Yann Martel (1963 – …)
Life of Pi, 2006
Cormac McCarthy (1933 – …)
All the Pretty Horses, 1992 [goodreads]
No Country for Old Men, 2005 [goodreads]
Frank McCourt (1930 – 2009)
Angela’s Ashes, 1996 [goodreads]
Ian McEwan (1948 – …)
The Cement Garden, 1978
The Child in Time, 1987 [goodreads]
The Children’s Act, 2014 [goodreads]
Machines Like Me, 2019
Jon McGregor (1976 – …)
Reservoir 13, 2017 [Recent prize winner 2017- Winner]
Bernard McLaverty (1942 – …)
Cal, 1998 [goodreads]
Madeline Miller (1978 – …)
The Song of Achilles, 2011
David Mitchell (1969 – …)
Cloud Atlas, 2004
Alison Moore (1971 – …)
The Lighthouse, 2012
Brian Moore (1921 – 1999)
Lies of Silence, 1990
Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019)
Home, 2012 (project war – Korean War) [½]
Kate Morton (1975 – …)
The Secret Keeper, 2012 (project war – World War II)
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977)
Lolita, 1955
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977 – …)
Americanah, 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006 (project war – African Conflicts)
Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971 – …)
The Sympathizer, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2016] (project war – Vietnam War)
Audrey Niffenegger (1963 – …)
The Time Traveler’s Wife, 2003
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Téa Obreht (1985 – …)
The Tiger’s Wife, 2011
Michael Ondaatje (1943 …)
The English Patient, 1992
George Orwell (1903 – 1950)
Animal Farm, 1945 [½]
Ruth Ozeki (1956 – …)
A Tale for the Time Being, 2013 (project war – World War II)
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Alan Paton (1903 – 1988)
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963)
The Bell Jar, 1963
Donald Ray Pollock (1954 – …)
The Devil All the Time, 2011, (project war – World War II)
Chaim Potok (1929 – 2002)
The Chosen, 1967
Kevin Powers
The Yellow Birds, 2012
Richard Powers (1957 – …)
The Overstory, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2019- Winner]
Annie Proulx (1935 – …)
Barkskins, 2016 [goodreads]
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Brynne Rebele-Henry
Orpheus Girl, 2019
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 [½]
Sally Rooney (1991 – …)
Conversation with Friends, 2017 [goodreads]
Normal People, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2018 – Winner]
Tatiana de Rosnay (1961 – …)
Philip Roth
American Pastoral, 1997 [goodreads]
The Plot Against America, 2004
Salman Rushdie (1947 – …)
Midnight’s Children, 1981
Donal Ryan (1976 – …)
From a Low and Quiet Sea, 2018, [Recent prize winner 2018 – Short List]
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J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)
The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
James Salter (1925 – 2015)
The Hunters, 1956 (project war – Korean War)
George Saunders (1958 – …)
Lincoln in the Bardo, 2017 [goodreads] [Recent prize winner 2017 – Winner]
Sapphire (1950 – …)
Push, 1996 [goodreads] [½]
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
The Great Gatsby, 1925
Alice Sebold (1963 – …)
The Lovely Bones, 2002
Rachel Seiffert (1971-…)
The Dark Room, 2001 (project war – World War II)
Kamila Shamsie (1973 – …)
Home Fire, 2017
Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851)
Frankenstein, 1818 download ]
The Last Man, 1826 [ download ]
Alan Sillitoe (1928 – 2010)
The Loneliness of a Long-distance Runner, 1959 [goodreads]
Graeme Simsion (1956 – …)
The Rosie Project, 2013
Ali Smith (1962 – …)
How to be Both, 2014 [Recent prize winner 2014 – Winner (2x)]
John Steinbeck (1902 – …)
Of Mice and Men, 1937 [½]
The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886 [ download ] [½]
Emily St. John Mandel (1979 – …)
Station Eleven, 2015
Kathryn Stockett (1969 – …)
The Help, 2009
Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912)
Dracula, 1897 [ download ]
William Styron (1925-2006)
Sophie’s Choice, 1992 (project war – World War II)
Graham Swift (1969 – …)
Mothering Sunday, 2016 [goodreads]
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Gulliver’s Travels, 1726 [ download ]
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Tan Twang Eng
The Garden of Evening Mists, 2011 [Recent Prize Winner – Man Booker 2012 Shortlist]
Donna Tartt (1963 – …)
The Goldfinch, 2013 [goodreads]
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
The Lord of the Rings, 1954
The Silmarillion, 1977 [goodreads]
Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976)
Johnny Got His Gun, 1939 (project war – World War I)
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007)
Player Piano, 1952
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Alice Walker (1944 – …)
The Color Purple, 1982
Nico Walker (1985 – …)
Cherry, 2018 (project war – Iraq War)
Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966)
A Handful of Dust, 1977 [goodreads]
Men at Arms, 1952 (project war – World War II)
Fay Weldon (1931 – …)
The Life and Loves of a She-devil, 1983 [goodreads]
H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946)
The Time Machine, 1895 [ download ] [½]
War of the Worlds, 1898 [ download ] [goodreads]
Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
Age of Innocence, 1920
Colson Whitehead (1969 – …)
The Underground Railroad, 2016 [Recent prize winner 2017 – Winner]
The Nickel Boys, 2019 [Recent prize winner 2020 – Winner]
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 [ download] [goodreads]
John Williams (1922 – 1994)
Jeannette Winterson (1959 – …)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985
Virginia Woolf (1182 – 1941)
Mrs Dalloway, 1925
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Hanya Yanagihara (1974 – …)
A Little Life, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2015- Shortlist]
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Markus Zusak (1975 – …)
The Book Thief, 2005
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