Book List

Detective Fiction

1. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
4. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
5. Robert B. Parker, Early Autumn
6. Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
7. Ruth Rendell, Road Rage
8. Sara Paretsky, Tunnel Vision
9. Martin Cruz Smith Gorky Park
10. Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden

Mystery

11. Wilke Collins, The Woman in White
12. John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
13. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
14. Graham Greene, The Third Man
15. Dick Francis, Straight
16. Robert Goddard, Into the Blue
17. Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
18. John Grisham, The Firm
19. Nicci French, The Memory Game
20. Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow

The Secret World: spies and secret agents

21. Erskine Childers Riddle of the Sands 1903,
22. John Buchan, Greenmantle
23. Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy
24. Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love
25. Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin
26. John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
27. Graham Greene, The Human Factor
18. Robert Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol
29. Robert Harris, Enigma
30. Andy McNab, Remote Control

The Romance Novel

31. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
32. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
33. Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck
34. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
35. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
36. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
37. Any Mills & Boon, Harlequin, Silhouette etc
38. A.S. Byatt, Possession
39. Nora Roberts, Sea Swept
40. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

Man Booker Prize 1996-2005

41. John Banville, The Sea 2005
42. Alan Hollinghurst,The Line of Beauty 2004
43. DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little 2003
44. Yann Martel, Life of Pi 2002
45. Peter Carey, True history of the Kelly Gang 2001
46. Margaret Atwood, The blind assassin 2000
47. M. Coetzee, Disgrace 1999
48. Ian McEwan, Amsterdam 1998<
49. Arundhati Roy, The god of small things 1997
50. Graham Swift, Last orders 1996