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Literature in English read since Sep 1, 1995

Douglas Adams,
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (A Trilogy in Four Parts)
Margery Allingham,
The Tiger in the Smoke
Martin Amis,
The Information
Money
Time's Arrow
Robert Antoni,
My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales
Kate Atkinson,
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice
Iain Banks,
The Wasp Factory
The Bridge
Espedair Street
The Crow Road
Complicity
Whit
The Business
Dead Air
Iain M. Banks,
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
The Algebraist
L. Frank Baum,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
John Berendt,
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Ray Bradbury,
The Martian Chronicles
Melvyn Bragg,
Credo
John Brunner,
Stand on Zanzibar
A. S. Byatt,
Possession
Babel Tower
The Biographer's tale
Orson Scott Card,
Wyrms
Pastwatch
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
The Memory of Earth
The Call of Earth
The Ships of Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn
John le Carré,
Our Game
The Tailor of Panama
Lewis Carroll,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Count Baldesar Castiglione,
The Book of the Courtier (transl. by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke)
Vikram Chandra,
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee,
Rama II
Susanna Clarke,
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
J. M. Coetzee,
Boyhood
Joseph Conrad,
Nostromo
Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; The End of the Tether
Wendy Cope,
Serious Concerns
Mark Z. Danielewski,
House of Leaves
Philip K. Dick,
Valis
John Dos Passos,
Manhattan Transfer
Roddy Doyle,
The Commitments
The Snapper
The Van
Lawrence Durrell,
Monsieur
Livia
Constance
Sebastian
Quinx
Umberto Eco,
Foucault's Pendulum
Baudolino
Max Egremont,
Dear Shadows
George Eliot,
Daniel Deronda
T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land
Four Quartets
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
E.M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Longest Journey
A Room with a View
Howards End
Maurice
A Passage to India
Neil Gaiman,
Neverwhere
American Gods
Coraline
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett,
Good Omens
William Gibson,
Idoru
All Tomorrow's Parties
Pattern Recognition
Kathleen Ann Goonan,
Crescent City Rhapsody
Nadine Gordimer,
None to Accompany Me
Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows
John Grisham
The Brethren
George & Weedon Grossmith,
Diary of a Nobody
Peter F. Hamilton,
The Reality Dysfunction
The Neutronium Alchemist
The Naked God
The Nano Flower
Fallen Dragon
The Misspent Youth
John Harvey,
Lonely Hearts
Rough Treatment
Cutting Edge
Off Minor
Seamus Heaney,
New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Joseph Heller,
Closing Time
Homer,
The Iliad (transl. by George Chapman 1610-1)
The Odyssey (transl. by George Chapman 1614-5)
Kazuo Ishiguro,
The Unconsoled
The Remains of the Day
Henry James,
The Turn of the Screw
P. D. James,
Original Sin
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
The Skull beneath the Skin
K. W. Jeter,
Noir
James Joyce,
Dubliners
Ulysses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hanif Kureishi,
The Buddha of Suburbia
Ellen Kushner,
Thomas the Rhymer
J. Sheridan Le Fanu,
In a Glass Darkly
Ursula Le Guin
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu
The Telling
Doris Lessing,
The Four-Gated City
Mara and Dann
Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
C. S. Lewis,
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and his Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
Ken MacLeod,
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light: Cosmonaut Keep
Engines of Light: Dark Light
Newton's Wake
Bernard Malamud,
The Assistant
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte Darthur
Christopher Marlowe,
The Plays
  • The First Part of Tamburlane The Great
  • The Second Part of Tamburlane The Great
  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (The A-text, 1604)
  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (The B-text, 1616)
  • The Jew of Malta
  • Edward the Second
  • The Massacre at Paris
  • The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage
Frank McCourt,
Angela's Ashes
China Miéville,
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
Pankaj Mishra,
The Romantics
Rohinton Mistry,
A Fine Balance
Walter Mosley,
Devil in a Blue Dress
A Red Death
White Butterfly
Haruki Murakami,
A Wild Sheep Chase
Iris Murdoch,
The Black Prince
The Sea, the Sea
The Philosopher's Pupil
The Message to the Planet
Larry Niven,
The Integral Trees
Destiny's Road
Jeff Noon,
Automated Alice
Michael Ondaatje,
In the Skin of a Lion
The English Patient
Ovid,
Metamorphoses (Transl. by John Dryden and others)
Alan Paton,
Cry, The Beloved Country
James Patterson & Peter De Jonge,
The Beach House
Tim Powers,
The Anubis Gate
Last Call
Terry Pratchett,
Hogfather
E. Annie Proulx,
The Shipping News
Accordion Crimes
Philip Pullman,
The Golden Compass
François Rabelais,
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Transl. by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, 1653, 1693-1708)
Ian Rankin,
Strip Jack
The Black Book
Mortal Causes
Kathy Reichs,
Grave Secrets
Ruth Rendell,
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
Simisola
Kim Stanley Robinson,
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Years of Rice and Salt
Fr. Rolfe (Frederick Baron Corvo),
Hadrian the VII
J. K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Arundhati Roy,
The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie,
East, West
The Moor's Last Sigh
Sir Walter Scott,
Waverley
Vikram Seth,
A Suitable Boy
An Equal Music
William Shakespeare,
Plays: (The Oxford Shakespeare)
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)
  • The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)
  • The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
  • The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1 henry VI)
  • The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
  • Venus andAdonis (poem)
Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
Clifford D. Simak,
The Werewolf Principle
Dan Simmons,
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Michael Marshall Smith,
Only Forward
Zadie Smith,
White Teeth
The Autograph Man
Neal Stephenson,
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Lawrence Sterne,
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Bram Stoker,
Dracula
Graham Swift,
Last Orders
Waterland
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Henry David Thoreau,
Walden
Anthony Trollope,
The Warden
Anne Tyler,
Back When We Were Grownups
Barbara Vine,
The Blood Doctor
Chris Ware,
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited
Fay Weldon,
Affliction
Irvine Welsh,
Trainspotting
Gillian White,
Rich Deceiver
Patrick White,
The Aunt's Story
T.H. White,
The Once & Future King:
  • The Sword in the Stone
  • The Witch in the Wood
  • The Ill-Made Knight
  • The Candle in the Wind
  • The Book of Merlyn
Tad Williams,
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Otherland: River of Blue Fire
Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass
Otherland: Sea of Silver Light
Robert McLiam Wilson,
Eureka Street
Virginia Woolf,
Orlando
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We (Transl. by Mirra Ginsburg)
Roger Zelazny,
Nine Princes in Amber
The Guns of Avalon
Sign of the Unicorn
The Hand of Oberon
The Courts of Chaos
Trumps of Doom
Blood of Amber
Sign of Chaos
Knight of Shadows
Prince of Chaos
David Zindell,
Neverness
The Broken God
The Wild
War in Heaven

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