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Abe, Kobo – The Face of Another [1964]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Woman in the Dunes [1962]
Ackerman, Jennifer – The Genius of Birds [2016]
Adam, Claire – Golden Child [2019]
Alvarez, Julia – Before We Were Free [2002]
Alt, Matt – Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World? [2020]
Anbinde, Tyler – Five Points [2002]
Angela, Alberto – A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome [2007]
Ayatsuji, Yukito – The Decagon House Murders [1987]
B
Babington, Anthony – Shell-Shock [1997]
Bakker, Gerbrand – The Detour [2010]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Twin [2006]
Balzac, Honore – Lost Illusions [1843]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Black Sheep [1842]
–//–//–//–//–// – Le Père Goriot [1835]
Barley, Nigel – The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut [1983]
Bassani, Giorgio – The Garden of the Finzi-Continus [1962]
Becker, Ernest – The Denial of Death [1973]
Bedford, Sybille – A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Odyssey [1953]
Berry, David – A People’s History of Tennis [2020]
Bolano, Roberto – Amulet [1999]
Brandon, Craig – The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History [1999]
Brookner, Anita – Hotel du Lac [1984]
Burnet, Graeme Macrae – The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau [2014]
Burton, Jessie – The Miniaturist [2014]
Burton-Hill, Clemency – Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day [2017]
Buzzati, Dino – Catastrophe & Other Stories [1965]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Tartar Steppe [1940]
C
Calvino, Italo – The Baron in the Trees [1957]
Carpentier, Alejo – The Lost Steps [1953]
Caspary, Vera – Laura [1943]
Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927]
–//–//–//–//–// – A Lost Lady [1923]
Catton, Eleanor – The Luminaries [2013]
Celestin, Ray – The Axeman’s Jazz [2014]
Chamoiseau, Patrick – Texaco [1992]
Chang, Eileen – Half a Lifelong Romance [1950]
Clarke, Susanna – Piranesi [2020]
–//–//–//–//–// – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [2004]
Cliff, Nigel – Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story [2016]
Condé, Maryse – Crossing the Mangrove [1989]
Contreras, Rojas Ingrid – Fruit of the Drunken Tree [2018]
Costa, Albert – The Bilingual Brain [2017]
D
Dard, Frederic – Bird in a Cage [1961]
David-Neel, Alexandra – Magic & Mystery in Tibet [1929]
de Queiros, Jose Maria Eca – The City and the Mountains [1901]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Crime of Father Amaro [1875]
DeWitt, Patrick – French Exit [2018]
Dick, Philip K. – A Scanner Darkly [1977]
–//–//–//–//–// – A Maze of Death [1970]
–//–//–//–//–// – Dr Bloodmoney [1965]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch [1964]
Dickens, Charles – Little Dorrit [1857]
Drori, Jonathan – Around the World in 80 Plants [2021]
–//–//–//–//–// – Around the World in 80 Trees [2018]
du Maurier, Daphne – The Scapegoat [1957]
Duckworth, William – Talking Music [1995]
E
Eco, Umberto – Foucault’s Pendulum [1988]
Edugyan, Esi – Washington Black [2018]
Edwards, Martin (ed.) – Miraculous Mysteries [2017]
–//–//–//–//–// – Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries [2015]
Eliade, Mircea – Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy [1951]
Ellis, Richard – Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea [2001]
Endō, Shūsaku – The Sea and Poison [1958]
F
Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [1987]
Fuller, Claire – Bitter Orange [2018]
Füssel, Stephan (ed.) – Hogenberg & Braun’s Cities of the World [2015]
G
Gardiner, John Eliot – Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of J. S. Bach [2013]
Gary, Romain – The Roots of Heaven [1956]
Gerhmann, Kristina – The Jungle [2018]
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins – The Yellow Wallpaper [1892]
Grubb, Davis – The Night of the Hunter [1953]
H
Ham, Paul – Hiroshima Nagasaki [2011]
Hamid, Mohsin – Moth Smoke [2000]
Hamsun, Knut – Mysteries [1892]
–//–//–//–//–// – Hunger [1890]
Harding, Christopher – The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives [2020]
Hardy, Thomas – The Woodlanders [1887]
Harkup, Kathryn – A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie [2015]
Harper, Jane – The Dry [2016]
Harrington, Joel – The Faithful Executioner [2013]
Hashimi, Nadia – A House Without Windows [2016]
Head, Bessie – When Rain Clouds Gather [1969]
Highsmith, Patricia – Edith’s Diary [1977]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Tremor of Forgery [1969]
Holland, Tom – Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic [2003]
Homans, Jennifer – Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet [2010]
Houghton, Claude – I Am Jonathan Scrivener [1930]
Hustvedt, Siri – The Blazing World [2014]
I
Inglis, Lucy – Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium [2018]
Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [1820]
Ishiguro, Kazuo – Klara and the Sun [2021]
–//–//–//–//–// – A Pale View of Hills [1982]
J
Jackson, Shirley – The Lottery [1948]
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw [1898]
–//–//–//–//–// – Daisy Miller [1879]
Japrisot, Sebastien – Trap for Cinderella [1963]
Jiles, Paulette – News of the World [2016]
K
Kalweit, Holger – Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men [1987]
Kent, Hannah – Burial Rites [2013]
Keyes, Daniel – The Minds of Billy Milligan [1981]
Kim, Angie – Miracle Creek [2019]
Kim, Young-ha – I Have The Right to Destroy Myself [1996]
King, Maxwell – The Good Neighbour: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers [2018]
Kingsland, James – Am I Dreaming? [2019]
Kneale, Matthew – Rome: A History in Seven Sackings [2017]
Koerner, Brendan – The Skies Belong to Us [2013]
Kristensen, Tom – Havoc [1930]
Kurlansky, Mark – The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History of New York [2006]
L
Lang Lang – Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story [2008]
Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko [2017]
Lem, Stanislaw – Solaris [1961]
León-Portilla, Miguel – The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico [1959]
Leroux, Gaston – The Mystery of the Yellow Room [1907]
Lewis-Williams, David – The Mind in the Cave [2002]
Lima, Manuel – The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge [2017]
–//–//–//–//–// – The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge [2014]
Lispector, Clarice – The Hour of the Star [1977]
Llosa, Mario Vargas – The Time of the Hero [1963]
Lomax, Eric – The Railway Man [1995]
Lumet, Sidney – Making Movies [1995]
M
Mangan, Christine – Tangerine [2018]
Mankell, Henning – Faceless Killers [1991]
Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain [1924]
Manzoni, Alessandro – The Betrothed [1827]
Martin, Valerie – Property [2003]
Mayne, Peter – A Year in Marrakesh [1953]
Michaud, Stephen and Aynesworth, Hugh – The Only Living Witness [1983]
Mitchell, David – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet [2010]
Moon, Fabio (with Gabriel Ba) – Daytripper [2011]
Morante, Elsa – Arturo’s Island [1957]
Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus [2011]
Murakami, Haruki – 1Q84 [2009]
N
Nabokov, Vladimir – The Luzhin Defense [1929]
Nagami, Pamela – The Woman with a Worm in Her Head [2002]
Natsume, Soseki – The Three-Cornered World [1906]
Nothomb, Amelie – Sulphuric Acid [2005]
–//–//–//–//–// – Fear and Trembling [1999]
O
Obioma, Chigozie – The Fishermen [2015]
Oe, Kenzaburo – The Silent Cry [1967]
–//–//–//–//–// – Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids [1958]
Ogawa, Yoko – The Memory Police [1994]
Ooka, Shohei – Fires on the Plain [1951]
Orange, Tommy – There There [2018]
P
Palmer, R. R. – Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in The French Revolution [1941]
Pamuk, Orhan – My Name Is Red [1998]
Parrado, Nando – Miracle in the Andes [2006]
Pavese, Cesare – The Moon and The Bonfire [1949]
Penny, Louise – The Beautiful Mystery [2012]
Perry, Sarah – Melmoth [2018]
Prentiss, Molly – Tuesday Nights in 1980 [2016]
Price, Bill – The History of Chess in 50 Moves [2015]
Pulley, Natasha – The Bedlam Stacks [2017]
R
Ramachandran, V. S. – Phantoms in the Brain [1998]
Rash, Ron – Serena [2008]
Ravn, Olga – The Employees [2018]
Robbe-Grillet, Alain – The Erasers [1953]
Rosenblum, Bruce and Kuttner, Fred – Quantum Enigma [2011]
Rowley, Steven – The Editor [2019]
Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things [1997]
Ruskovich, Emily – Idaho [2017]
S
Sanghera, Sathnam – Empireland: How Imperialism Shaped Modern Britain [2021]
Savage, Thomas – The Power of the Dog [1967]
Saviano, Roberto – Gomorrah [2006]
Seth – Clyde Fans [2019]
Shafak, Elif – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World [2019]
Shin, Kyung-sook – Please Look After Mother [2008]
Sparrow, Giles – A History of the Universe in 21 Stars [2020]
Staaf, Danna – Monarchs of the Sea [2020]
Stuart, David – Dangerous Garden [2004]
Sublette, Ned – The World That Made New Orleans [2008]
Suchet, John – Mozart: The Man Revealed [2016]
Sukegawa, Durian – Sweet Bean Paste [2013]
T
Tawada, Yoko – The Last Children of Tokyo [2014]
Terry, Philip (ed.) – The Penguin Book of Oulipo [2019]
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Tuchman, Barbara – A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century [1978]
Tunbridge, Laura – Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces [2020]
Turton, Stuart – The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle [2018]
V
Vance, J. D. – Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis [2016]
Vijay, Madhuri – The Far Field [2019]
W
Wainwright, Tom – Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel [2016]
Walker, Alan – Fryderyck Chopin [2018]
Watts, Alan – The Way of Zen [1957]
Weatherford, Jack – Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World [2004]
Webb, Stephen – If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens…Where is Everybody? [2015]
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Whitaker, Robert – Mad in America [2002]
Whitehead, Colson – The Nickel Boys [2019]
Whyte, David (ed.) – How Corrupt is Britain? [2015]
Wolitzer, Meg – The Interestings [2013]
Y
Yanagihara, Hanya – A Little Life [2015]
–//–//–//–//–// – The People in the Trees [2013]
Yokomizo, Seishi – The Honjin Murders [1973]
Yoshimura, Akira – Shipwrecks [1982]
Yoshino, Genzaburo – How Do You Live? [1937]
Z
Zadra, Antonio and Stickgold, Robert – When Brains Dream: Exploring The Science of Sleep [2021]
Zola, Emile – The Ladies’ Paradise [1883]
Zweig, Stefan – Letter from an Unknown Woman [1922]
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