The Gawker top 50 passwords as plain text

I got these from The Wall Street Journal but couldn't find them as plain text. So I typed them and put them up here. I'll tweet them in batches as @njr in a minute, too.

(I've worked on the assumption that the WSJ was saving our blushes when it said f---you was the password, and correcting it to what I guess it was really.)

123456
password
12345678
lifehack
qwerty
abc123
111111
monkey
consumer
12345
0
letmein
trustno1
dragon
1234567
baseball
superman
iloveyou
gizmodo
sunshine
1234
princess
starwars
whatever
shadow
cheese
123123
nintendo
football
computer
fuckyou
654321
blahblah
passw0rd
master
soccer
michael
666666
jennifer
gawker
Password
jordan
pokemon
michelle
killer
pepper
welcome
batman
kotaku
internet

Proportional Influence

At the time of writing, the results declared for yesterday’s election are as follows:

Party	Seats	Votes	Votes Per Seat	Weight
Democratic Unionist Party	8	168,216	21,027	0.49
Labour	251	8,335,311	33,208	0.78
Conservative	294	10,296,598	35,022	0.82
Social Democratic & Labour Party	3	107,396	35,799	0.84
Sinn Fein	4	150,638	37,660	0.88
Alliance Party	1	42,325	42,325	0.99
Plaid Cymru	3	165,394	55,131	1.29
Scottish National Party	6	482,823	80,471	1.89
Liberal Democrat	52	6,518,970	125,365	2.94
Green	1	271,294	271,294	6.37
Overall	623	26,538,965	42,599	1.00

Obviously, it’s well-known that our first-past-the-post electoral system often produces highly non-proportional results, and this illustrates this: whereas it took only about 21,000 votes to elect each DUP member (on average) it took over 270,000 votes to elect Caroline Lucas, Brighton’s new Green MP.

There are many alternatives to first-past-the-post, each having with different degrees of “proportionality” and strengths and weaknesses. Ignoring people who don’t even in principle support proportionality, the strengths and weaknesses of various systems generally revolve around the following points

• Many people dislike list systems (particularly closed lists) because voters lose the ability to favour particular candidates (arguing against pure list systems and AMS)
• Many people feel the geographic link is important, and with those, many also prefer single-member constituencies (arguing against lists and STV)
• Some people dislike voters being asked to do more than mark a single cross by a single candidate (arguing against STV, AMS, AV)
• Some people dislike hybrid systems like AMS because they create “two classes” of MPs (geographically elected MPs and top-up/list MPs).
• Some people worry about tiny parties with little support gaining seats (arguing for some de minimis, while feeling this should not be arbitrary).

All of the electoral systems I know focus on achieving proportionality of influence (by party) by allocating seats proportionately.

It occurred to me today (as, no doubt, it has to others before) that a a more direct alternative would be to weight the influence of MPs so that proportionality of influence within parliament is achieved without needing to change the voting mechanism from the present one at all.

The last column in the table of results shows the weight that would be given to MPs of different parties under this variation, on the assumption that all MPs from a given party would be weighted equally. So here, Lib Dems MPs would each get votes weighted at 2.94 whereas Labour MPs would get votes weighted at 0.78.

The system could be refined further by making the influence of MPs within their own party proportional to their constiuency success, as measured either by the number of votes they receive, or the proportion of the vote they achieve. Given the different constituency sizes, the latter is probably better.

With this refinement, if one Labour MP got 50% of the vote in his/her constituency and another got only 25%, the first MP’s vote would be worth twice as much as that of the second.

The obvious “disadvantage” with this scheme is that it adds some complexity to voting within parliament. But this seems like a tiny disadvantage compared with its advantages (to me).

The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read

The Guardian ran an interesting series last week entitled 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. Unfortunately, they not only split it up into some rather strange sections (Love, Crime etc.), and then further broke each of those into several parts on the web, but also hid well over a hundred of them in less obvious minor sections. So as a public service, I have integrated and sorted the list, and indeed counted the frequency for each author on it (see here). I can confirm that there are exactly 1,000 in the list.

For what it's worth, it misses off a number of my favourite novels, including:

• Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (1996)
• Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
• Angela Carter: While they did include three (The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children), I would have included all of her novels—Shadow Dance (1966), The Magic Toyshop (1967), Several Perceptions (1968), Heroes and Villains (1969), Love (1971) and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (2006)

[UPDATE:As Mark points out in the comments, The Guardian has now published its own "definitive list" here, which differs slightly from this one. I explain in my reply comment how I assembled this list. I guess you pays your money and takes your choice . . .]

The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

Author	Title	Year
Kobo Abe	The Face of Another	1964
Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart	1958
Chinua Achebe	Anthills of the Savannah	1987
Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1979
Junghyo Ahn	Silver Stallion	1990
Latifa al-Zayyat	al-Bab al-Maftouh	1960
Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	1868
Richard Aldington	Death of a Hero	1929
Brian W Aldiss	Non-Stop	1958
Nelson Algren	The Man with the Golden Arm	1949
Eric Ambler	Epitaph for a Spy	1938
Eric Ambler	The Mask of Dimitrios	1939
Eric Ambler	Journey into Fear	1940
Kingsley Amis	Lucky Jim	1954
Martin Amis	Money	1984
Martin Amis	London Fields	1989
Martin Amis	The Information	1995
Mulk Raj Anand	Untouchable	1935
Isaac Asimov	Foundation	1951
Kate Atkinson	Behind the Scenes at the Museum	1995
Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	1985
Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	1988
Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	2000
Paul Auster	The New York Trilogy	1985-86
Paul Auster	In the Country of Last Things	1987
Jane Austin	Sense and Sensibility	1811
Jane Austin	Pride and Prejudice	1813
Jane Austin	Mansfield Park	1814
Jane Austin	Emma	1815
Jane Austin	Northanger Abbey	1817
Jane Austin	Persuasion	1817
Beryl Bainbridge	The Bottle Factory Outing	1974
Beryl Bainbridge	Master Georgie	1998
Beryl Bainbridge	According to Queeney	2001
Nicholson Baker	Room Temperature	1990
Nigel Balchin	Darkness Falls from the Air	1942
James Baldwin	Go Tell It On the Mountain	1953
James Baldwin	Giovanni's Room	1957
JG Ballard	The Drowned World	1962
JG Ballard	Crash	1973
JG Ballard	Empire of the Sun	1984
JG Ballard	Millennium People	2003
Honoré de Balzac	La Comédie Humaine	1830-1848
Honoré de Balzac	Eugénie Grandet	1833
Honoré de Balzac	Le Père Goriot	1835
Miklos Banffy	They Were Counted	1934
Iain M Banks	Consider Phlebas	1987
Iain Banks	The Wasp Factory	1984
Iain Banks	The Crow Road	1992
Lynne Reid Banks	The L-Shaped Room	1960
Clive Barker	Weaveworld	1987
Nicola Barker	Darkmans	2007
Pat Barker	Regeneration	1991
Djuna Barnes	Nightwood	1936
Julian Barnes	Flaubert's Parrot	1984
Julian Barnes	A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters	1989
Sebastian Barry	A Long Long Way	2005
Stan Barstow	A Kind of Loving	1960
Henry Howarth Bashford	Augustus Carp, Esq By Himself — Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man	1924
Giorgio Bassani	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	1962
HE Bates	Fair Stood the Wind for France	1944
HE Bates	Love for Lydia	1952
Nina Bawden	Carrie's War	1973
Stephen Baxter	The Time Ships	1995
Greg Bear	Darwin's Radio	1999
Alison Bechdel	Fun Home	2006
Samuel Beckett	Malone Dies	1951
Samuel Beckett	Molloy	1951
William Beckford	Vathek	1786
Sybille Bedford	A Legacy	1956
Max Beerbohm	Zuleika Dobson	1911
Aphra Behn	Oroonoko or The Royal Slave	1688
Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	1953
Saul Bellow	Herzog	1964
Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift	1975
Saul Bellow	More Die of Heartbreak	1987
Alan Bennett	The Uncommon Reader	2007
Arnold Bennett	The Old Wives' Tale	1908
Arnold Bennett	Clayhanger	1910
EF Benson	Queen Lucia	1920
EC Bentley	Trent's Last Case	1913
John Berger	G.	1972
Anthony Berkeley	The Poisoned Chocolates Case	1929
Thomas Bernhard	Extinction	1986
Alfred Bester	The Stars My Destination	1956
RD Blackmore	Lorna Doone	1869
Nicholas Blake	The Beast Must Die	1938
Roberto Bolaño	The Savage Detectives	1998
Elizabeth Bowen	The Last September	1929
Elizabeth Bowen	The Death of the Heart	1938
Elizabeth Bowen	The Heat of the Day	1948
Jane Bowles	Two Serious Ladies	1943
Paul Bowles	The Sheltering Sky	1949
WE Bowman	The Ascent of Rum Doodle	1956
William Boyd	A Good Man in Africa	1981
William Boyd	An Ice-Cream War	1982
William Boyd	Any Human Heart	2002
Malcolm Bradbury	The History Man	1975
Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	1953
Mary E Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret	1862
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon	No Bed for Bacon	1941
John Braine	Room at the Top	1957
Patrick O'Brian	Master and Commander	1969
Flann O'Brien	At Swim-Two-Birds	1939
Flann O'Brien	The Third Policeman	1967
Tim O'Brien	The Things they Carried	1990
Raymond Briggs	When the Wind Blows	1982
André Brink	A Dry White Season	1979
Poppy Z Brite	Lost Souls	1992
Hermann Broch	The Death of Virgil	1945
Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	1847
Charlotte Brontë	Shirley	1849
Charlotte Brontë	Villette	1853
Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	1847
Anita Brookner	Look at Me	1983
Charles Brockden Brown	Wieland	1798
Rita Mae Brown	Rubyfruit Jungle	1973
John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps	1915
John Buchan	Greenmantle	1916
Algis Budrys	Rogue Moon	1960
Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	1966
Edward Bulwer-Lytton	The Coming Race	1871
Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	1960
Anthony Burgess	Earthly Powers	1980
Anthony Burgess	The End of the World News	1982
James Lee Burke	The Neon Rain	1987
James Lee Burke	The Tin Roof Blowdown	2007
Ivy Compton-Burnett	Manservant and Maidservant	1947
WR Burnett	The Asphalt Jungle	1949
Fanny Burney	Evelina	1778
Edgar Rice Burroughs	A Princess of Mars	1912
William Burroughs	Naked Lunch	1959
Octavia Butler	Kindred	1979
Samuel Butler	Erewhon	1872
Samuel Butler	The Way of All Flesh	1903
Ron Butlin	The Sound of My Voice	1987
AS Byatt	The Virgin in the Garden	1978
AS Byatt	Possession	1990
David B	Epileptic	1996-2003
Louis-Ferdinand Céline	Journey to the End of the Night	1932
James M Cain	The Postman Always Rings Twice	1934
James M Cain	Double Indemnity	1943
Erskine Caldwell	Tobacco Road	1932
Italo Calvino	The Baron in the Trees	1957
Italo Calvino	Invisible Cities	1974
Ramsey Campbell	The Influence	1988
Albert Camus	The Outsider	1942
Albert Camus	The Plague	1947
Elias Canetti	Auto-da-Fé	1935
Truman Capote	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1958
Peter Carey	Illywhacker	1985
Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	1988
Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	2000
Alejo Carpentier	The Kingdom of This World	1949
John le Carré	The Spy Who Came in From the Cold	1963
John le Carré	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	1974
John le Carré	The Constant Gardener	2001
Leonora Carrington	The Hearing Trumpet	1976
Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1865
Lewis Carroll	Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There	1871
JL Carr	A Season in Sinji	1967
JL Carr	The Harpole Report	1972
JL Carr	A Month in the Country	1980
John Dickson Carr	The Hollow Man	1935
Angela Carter	The Passion of New Eve	1977
Angela Carter	Nights at the Circus	1984
Angela Carter	Wise Children	1991
Joyce Cary	Mister Johnson	1939
Joyce Cary	The Horse's Mouth	1944
Willa Cather	My Antonia	1918
Willa Cather	One Of Ours	1922
Willa Cather	A Lost Lady	1923
Willa Cather	The Professor's House	1925
Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	1605
Michael Chabon	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay	2000
Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep	1939
Raymond Chandler	The Long Goodbye	1953
James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish	1939
John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle	1957
GK Chesterton	The Man Who Was Thursday	1908
Erskine Childers	The Riddle of the Sands	1903
Kate Chopin	The Awakening	1899
Agatha Christie	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	1920
Agatha Christie	The Secret Adversary	1922
Agatha Christie	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	1926
Agatha Christie	The Murder at the Vicarage	1930
Agatha Christie	And Then There Were None	1939
Arthur C Clarke	Childhood's End	1953
Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell	2004
Jean Cocteau	Les Enfants Terribles	1929
JM Coetzee	Waiting for the Barbarians	1980
JM Coetzee	Disgrace	1999
Jonathan Coe	What a Carve Up!	1994
Sidone-Gabrille Colette	Chéri	1920
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	Claudine à l'école	1900
Colette	The Vagabond	1910
Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White	1860
Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone	1868
Richard Condon	The Manchurian Candidate	1959
Michael G Coney	Hello Summer, Goodbye	1975
Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim	1900
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	1902
Joseph Conrad	Nostromo	1904
Joseph Conrad	The Secret Agent	1907
Joseph Conrad	Under Western Eyes	1911
Joseph Conrad	Victory: An Island Tale	1915
Bernard Cornwell	Sharpe's Eagle	1981
Patricia Cornwell	Postmortem	1990
Douglas Coupland	Microserfs	1995
Douglas Coupland	Girlfriend in a Coma	1998
Francis Coventry	The History of Pompey the Little	1751
Jim Crace	Quarantine	1997
Jim Crace	Being Dead	1999
Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage	1895
Michael Crichton	The Andromeda Strain	1969
Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park	1990
Edmund Crispin	The Case of the Gilded Fly	1944
Richmal Crompton	Just William	1922
Amanda Cross	Poetic Justice	1970
Alfred Döblin	Berlin Alexanderplatz	1929
Friedrich Dürrenmatt	The Pledge	1958
Mark Danielewski	House of Leaves	2000
Marie Darrieussecq	Pig Tales	1996
Simone de Beauvoir	The Mandarins	1954
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz	The Crime of Father Amaro	1875
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	1782
Madame de Lafayette	The Princess of Clèves	1678
Guy de Maupassant	Bel-Ami	1885
Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry	The Little Prince	1943
Peter De Vries	Slouching towards Kalamazoo	1983
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	1719
Daniel Defoe	Moll Flanders	1722
Daniel Defoe	Roxana	1724
Len Deighton	The Ipcress File	1962
Len Deighton	Bomber	1970
EM Delafield	The Provincial Lady	1930
Samuel R Delaney	The Einstein Intersection	1967
Don DeLillo	White Noise	1985
Don DeLillo	Underwold	1997
Colin Dexter	Last Seen Wearing	1976
Colin Dexter	The Remorseful Day	1999
Giuseppe di Lampedusa	The Leopard	1958
Michael Dibdin	A Rich Full Death	1986
Michael Dibdin	Ratking	1988
Michael Dibdin	Dirty Tricks	1991
Michael Dibdin	Dead Lagoon	1994
Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	1837
Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	1838
Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	1844
Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	1848
Charles Dickens	Bleak House	1852-53
Charles Dickens	Hard Times	1854
Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	1855-57
Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	1859
Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	1861
James Dickey	Deliverance	1970
Philip K Dick	The Man in the High Castle	1962
Philip K Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	1968
Denis Diderot	Jacques the Fatalist and His Master	1796
Joan Didion	Play It As It Lays	1970
Thomas M Disch	Camp Concentration	1968
Benjamin Disraeli	Sybil or The Two Nations	1845
EL Doctorow	The Book of Daniel	1971
JP Donleavy	A Fairy Tale of New York	1973
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Notes from Underground	1864
Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Idiot	1868
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	1866
Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	1880
Julie Doucet	My New York Diary	1999
Norman Douglas	South Wind	1917
Arthur Conan Doyle	A Study in Scarlet	1887
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Sign of Four	1890
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	1902
Roddy Doyle	The Commitments	1987
Margaret Drabble	The Millstone	1965
Theodore Dreiser	Sister Carrie	1900
Theodore Dreiser	An American Tragedy	1925
Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca	1938
Daphne du Maurier	The Parasites	1949
Daphne du Maurier	My Cousin Rachel	1951
Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	1844-45
Alexandre Dumas	The Three Musketeers	1844
Marguerite Duras	The Lover	1984
Gerald Durrell	My Family and Other Animals	1956
Lawrence Durrell	Justine	1957
William Eastlake	The Bamboo Bed	1969
Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	1980
Umberto Eco	Foucault's Pendulum	1988
Maria Edgeworth	Castle Rackrent	1800
Maria Edgeworth	Ennui	1809
Enayat el-Zayyat	Al-Hubb w'al-Samt	1967
George Eliot	Adam Bede	1859
George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss	1860
George Eliot	Silas Marner	1861
George Eliot	Middlemarch	1872
George Eliot	Daniel Deronda	1876
Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	1953
Bret Easton Ellis	American Psycho	1991
RJ Ellory	A Quiet Belief in Angels	2007
James Ellroy	The Big Nowhere	1988
James Ellroy	LA Confidential	1990
Willem Elsschot	Cheese	1933
Shusaku Endo	Silence	1966
Anne Enright	The Gathering	2007
Jeffrey Eugenides	The Virgin Suicides	1993
Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex	2002
Michel Faber	Under the Skin	2000
JG Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	1973
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	1929
William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	1930
William Faulkner	Sanctuary	1931
Sebastian Faulks	Birdsong	1993
Helen Fielding	Bridget Jones's Diary	1996
Henry Fielding	Joseph Andrews	1742
Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	1749
Ronald Firbank	Caprice	1917
F Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	1925
F Scott Fitzgerald	Tender is the Night	1934
Penelope Fitzgerald	The Blue Flower	1995
Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	1856
Gustave Flaubert	Sentimental Education	1869
Gustave Flaubert	Bouvard and Pécuchet	1881
Ian Fleming	Casino Royale	1953
Ian Fleming	Goldfinger	1959
Ian Fleming	You Only Live Twice	1964
Jonathan Safran Foer	Everything Is Illuminated	2002
Theodor Fontane	Effi Briest	1896
Ford Madox Ford	The Good Soldier	1915
Ford Madox Ford	Parade's End	1924-28
Richard Ford	The Sportswriter	1986
Richard Ford	Independence Day	1996
CS Forester	The African Queen	1935
CS Forester	The Ship	1943
EM Forster	A Room With a View	1908
EM Forster	Howards End	1910
EM Forster	A Passage to India	1924
Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal	1971
Henri Alain-Fournier	Le Grand Meaulnes	1913
John Fowles	The Magus	1966
John Fowles	The French Lieutenant's Woman	1969
Jonathan Franzen	The Corrections	2001
George MacDonald Fraser	Flashman	1969
Michael Frayn	Towards the End of Morning	1967
Michael Frayn	Spies	2002
Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain	1997
Esther Freud	Hideous Kinky	1992
William Gaddis	The Recognitions	1955
Neil Gaiman	American Gods	2001
Paul Gallico	The Snow Goose	1941
John Galsworthy	The Man of Property	1906
Alex Garland	The Beach	1996
Alan Garner	Red Shift	1973
Elizabeth Gaskell	Mary Barton	1848
Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	1853
Elizabeth Gaskell	Ruth	1853
Elizabeth Gaskell	North and South	1855
William Gerhardie	The Polyglots	1925
Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm	1932
Lewis Grassic Gibbon	Sunset Song	1932
William Gibson	Neuromancer	1984
André Gide	The Immoralist	1902
André Gide	Strait Is the Gate	1909
André Gide	The Vatican Cellars	1914
André Gide	The Counterfeiters	1925
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Herland	1915
George Gissing	New Grub Street	1891
George Gissing	The Odd Women	1893
Johann Wolfgang Goethe	The Sorrows of Young Werther	1774
Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls	1842
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	1954
William Golding	To the Ends of the Earth trilogy	1980-89
Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	1766
Ivan Goncharov	Oblomov	1859
Nadine Gordimer	July's People	1981
Maxim Gorky	Mother	1906
René Goscinny	Asterix the Gaul	1959
Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	1908
Günter Grass	The Tin Drum	1959
Robert Graves	Count Belisarius	1938
Alasdair Gray	Lanark	1981
Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)	Brewster's Millions	1902
Graham Greene	A Gun For Sale	1936
Graham Greene	Brighton Rock	1938
Graham Greene	The Power and the Glory	1940
Graham Greene	The Ministry of Fear	1943
Graham Greene	The Third Man	1950
Graham Greene	The End of the Affair	1951
Graham Greene	Our Man in Havana	1958
Graham Greene	Travels With My Aunt	1969
Walter Greenwood	Love on the Dole	1933
Henry Green	Living	1929
Michael Green	Squire Haggard's Journal	1975
John Grisham	A Time to Kill	1989
John Grisham	The King of Torts	2003
Vasily Grossman	Life and Fate	1960
George Grossmith	Diary of a Nobody	1892
Giovanni Guareschi	The Little World of Don Camillo	1948
Ursula K Le Guin	The Earthsea series	1968-1990
Ursula K Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	1969
Peter Høeg	Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow	1992
Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	2003
Andrew O'Hagan	Personality	2003
CT Rawi Hage	De Niro's Game	2006
H Rider Haggard	King Solomon's Mines	1885
H Rider Haggard	She	1887
Joe Haldeman	The Forever War	1974
Radclyffe Hall	The Well of Loneliness	1928
Patrick Hamilton	Hangover Square	1941
Patrick Hamilton	The Slaves of Solitude	1947
Dashiell Hammett	Red Harvest	1929
Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon	1930
Dashiell Hammett	The Glass Key	1931
Dashiell Hammett	The Thin Man	1934
Knut Hamsun	Hunger	1890
Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	1874
Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge	1886
Thomas Hardy	The Woodlanders	1887
Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	1891
Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	1895
M John Harrison	Light	2002
John Harris	Covenant with Death	1961
Robert Harris	Fatherland	1992
Robert Harris	Enigma	1995
Thomas Harris	Black Sunday	1975
Thomas Harris	Red Dragon	1981
LP Hartley	The Shrimp and the Anemone	1944
LP Hartley	The Go-Between	1953
Jaroslav Hasek	The Good Soldier Svejk	1923
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The House of the Seven Gables	1851
Shirley Hazzard	The Transit of Venus	1980
Robert A Heinlein	Stranger in a Strange Land	1961
Joseph Heller	Catch-22	1961
Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms	1929
Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	1940
Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	1952
Frank Herbert	Dune	1965
Hergé	The Crab with the Golden Claws	1941
Hergé	Tintin in Tibet	1960
Hergé	The Castafiore Emerald	1963
Hermann Hesse	Steppenwolf	1927
Hermann Hesse	Narziss and Goldmund	1930
Hermann Hesse	The Glass Bead Game	1943
Georgette Heyer	Regency Buck	1935
Georgette Heyer	The Infamous Army	1937
Carl Hiaasen	Tourist Season	1986
George V Higgins	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	1972
Patricia Highsmith	Strangers on a Train	1950
Patricia Highsmith	The Talented Mr Ripley	1955
Reginald Hill	Bones and Silence	1990
Chester Himes	A Rage in Harlem	1957
Barry Hines	A Kestrel for a Knave	1968
Russell Hoban	Riddley Walker	1980
Eric Hodgins	Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House	1946
James Hogg	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	1824
Alan Hollinghurst	The Swimming-Pool Library	1988
Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	2004
Winifred Holtby	South Riding	1936
Anthony Hope	The Prisoner of Zenda	1894
Nick Hornby	High Fidelity	1995
Paul Hornschemeier	The Three Paradoxes	2006
Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner	2003
Michel Houellebecq	Atomised	1998
Geoffrey Household	Rogue Male	1939
Bohumil Hrabal	I Served the King of England	1983
WH Hudson	Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest	1904
Richard Hughes	A High Wind in Jamaica	1929
Thomas Hughes	Tom Brown's School Days	1857
Victor Hugo	Les Misérables	1862
Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	1937
Aldous Huxley	Crome Yellow	1921
Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	1932
James Hynes	The Lecturer's Tale — A Novel	2001
Frances Iles	Malice Aforethought	1931
Arnaldur Indridason	Silence of the Grave	2001
Michael Innes	Death at the President's Lodging	1936
John Irving	A Prayer for Owen Meany	1989
Christopher Isherwood	Mr Norris Changes Trains	1935
Christopher Isherwood	Goodbye to Berlin	1939
Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	1989
Kazuo Ishiguro	The Unconsoled	1995
Shirley Jackson	The Haunting of Hill House	1959
Howard Jacobson	The Mighty Walzer	1999
Henry James	Washington Square	1880
Henry James	Portrait of a Lady	1881
Henry James	The Turn of the Screw	1898
Henry James	The Wings of the Dove	1902
Henry James	The Ambassadors	1903
PD James	Cover Her Face	1962
PD James	A Taste for Death	1986
PD James	The Children of Men	1992
Randall Jarrell	Pictures from an Institution	1954
Richard Jefferies	After London; Or, Wild England	1885
Elfriede Jelinek	The Piano Teacher	1983
Elizabeth Jenkins	The Tortoise and the Hare	1954
Jerome K Jerome	Three Men in a Boat	1899
BS Johnson	The Unfortunates	1969
Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	1759
Gwyneth Jones	Bold as Love	2001
James Jones	From Here to Eternity	1951
James Joyce	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	1916
James Joyce	Ulysses	1922
James Joyce	Finnegans Wake	1939
Layla al-Juhani	Jahiliyya	2006
Ismail Kadare	Chronicle in Stone	1971
Franz Kafka	The Trial	1925
Franz Kafka	The Castle	1926
MacKinlay Kantor	Andersonville	1955
Yasunari Kawabata	Beauty and Sadness	1964
MM Kaye	The Far Pavilions	1978
Nikos Kazantzakis	Zorba the Greek	1946
Molly Keane	Good Behaviour	1981
Garrison Keillor	Lake Wobegon Days	1985
James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	1994
Yashar Kemal	Memed, My Hawk	1955
Harry Kemelman	Friday the Rabbi Slept Late	1964
Thomas Keneally	Confederates	1979
Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	1982
AL Kennedy	Day	2007
Pamela Kent	Moon over Africa	1955
Jack Kerouac	On the Road	1957
Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1962
Daniel Keyes	Flowers for Algernon	1966
Colette Khoury	Ayyam Ma'ah	1959
Stephen King	The Shining	1977
Stephen King	Misery	1987
Stephen King	Dolores Claiborne	1992
Rudyard Kipling	Kim	1901
Arthur Koestler	Darkness at Noon	1940
Jerzy Kosinski	The Painted Bird	1965
Milan Kundera	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	1978
Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	1982
Hanif Kureishi	The Buddha of Suburbia	1990
Andrey Kurkov	Death and the Penguin	1996
John Lanchester	The Debt to Pleasure	1996
Philip Larkin	A Girl in Winter	1947
Nella Larsen	Passing	1929
Marghanita Laski	The Victorian Chaise-longue	1953
DH Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	1913
DH Lawrence	The Rainbow	1915
DH Lawrence	Women in Love	1920
DH Lawrence	Lady Chatterley's Lover	1960
Harper Lee	To Kill A Mockingbird	1960
Laurie Lee	Cider with Rosie	1959
Rosamond Lehmann	Invitation to the Waltz	1932
Rosamond Lehmann	The Weather in the Streets	1936
Rosamond Lehmann	The Echoing Grove	1953
Stanislaw Lem	Solaris	1961
Elmore Leonard	52 Pick-Up	1974
Elmore Leonard	Get Shorty	1990
Alain-René Lesage	L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane	1715-1735
Doris Lessing	The Grass is Singing	1950
Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook	1962
Doris Lessing	Memoirs of a Survivor	1974
Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn	1999
Primo Levi	If Not Now, When?	1982
CS Lewis	The Chronicles of Narnia	1950-56
MG Lewis	The Monk	1796
Sinclair Lewis	Main Street	1920
Sinclair Lewis	Elmer Gantry	1927
David Lindsay	A Voyage to Arcturus	1920
Richard Llewellyn	How Green Was My Valley	1939
David Lodge	Changing Places	1975
David Lodge	Nice Work	1988
Jack London	The Call of the Wild	1903
Jack London	Martin Eden	1909
Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1925
Audre Lorde	Zami	1982
Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano	1947
Robert Ludlum	The Bourne Identity	1980
Alison Lurie	Foreign Aff airs	1984
Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	1967
Gabriel García Márquez	Love in the Time of Cholera	1985
Amin Maalouf	Samarkand	1989
Rose Macaulay	The Towers of Trebizond	1956
AG Macdonnell	England, Their England	1933
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis	The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas	1871
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis	Dom Casmurro	1899
Colin MacInnes	Absolute Beginners	1959
Compton Mackenzie	Whisky Galore	1947
Julian Maclaren-Ross	Of Love and Hunger	1947
Alastair Maclean	The Guns of Navarone	1957
Ken MacLeod	The Night Sessions	2008
David Madsen	Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf	1995
Naguib Mahfouz	Cairo trilogy	1956-57
Naguib Mahfouz	Palace Walk	1956
Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead	1948
Bernard Malamud	The Assistant	1957
David Malouf	Remembering Babylon	1993
André Malraux	La Condition Humaine	1933
Henning Mankell	Sidetracked	1995
Olivia Manning	The Fortunes of War novels	1960-80
Thomas Mann	Buddenbrooks	1901
Thomas Mann	Death in Venice	1912
Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	1924
Hilary Mantel	Beyond Black	2005
Alessandro Manzoni	The Betrothed	1827
Javier Marías	A Heart So White	1992
Dacia Maraini	The Silent Duchess	1990
Frederick Marryat	The Children of the New Forest	1847
Michael Marshall Smith	Only Forward	1994
Richard Matheson	I Am Legend	1954
Charles Maturin	Melmoth the Wanderer	1820
Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage	1915
W Somerset Maugham	Cakes and Ale — Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard	1930
Armistead Maupin	Tales of the City	1978
William Maxwell	Chateau	1961
William Maxwell	So Long, See You Tomorrow	1980
FM Mayor	The Rector's Daughter	1924
Ed McBain	Cop Hater	1956
Patrick McCabe	The Butcher Boy	1992
Cormac McCarthy	Blood Meridian	1985
Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses	1992
Cormac McCarthy	No Country for Old Men	2005
Cormac McCarthy	The Road	2006
Mary McCarthy	The Group	1963
Carson McCullers	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	1940
Carson McCullers	The Member of the Wedding	1946
Johnston McCulley	The Mark of Zorro	1919
Ian McEwan	The Child in Time	1987
Ian McEwan	Enduring Love	1997
Ian McEwan	Atonement	2001
John McGahern	Amongst Women	1990
Jay McInerney	Bright Lights, Big City	1984
Larry McMurtry	Lonesome Dove	1985
Herman Melville	Moby-Dick or, The Whale	1851
Jed Mercurio	Ascent	2007
George Meredith	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel	1859
George Meredith	The Egoist	1879
China Miéville	The Scar	2002
James Michener	Tales of the South Pacific	1847
Walter M Miller Jr	A Canticle for Leibowitz	1960
Andrew Miller	Ingenious Pain	1997
Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	1934
Isabel Miller	Patience and Sarah	1969
Spike Milligan	Puckoon	1963
Magnus Mills	The Restraint of Beasts	1998
Rohinton Mistry	A Fine Balance	1995
Rohinton Mistry	Family Matters	2002
David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas	2004
Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind	1936
Nancy Mitford	The Pursuit of Love	1945
Nancy Mitford	Love in a Cold Climate	1949
Nicholas Monsarrat	The Cruel Sea	1951
Michael Moorcock	Mother London	1988
Brian Moore	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	1955
Elsa Morante	Arturo's Island: A Novel	1957
Elsa Morante	History	1974
Alberto Moravia	The Time of Indifference	1929
Toni Morrison	The Bluest Eye	1970
Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon	1977
Toni Morrison	Beloved	1987
William Morris	News From Nowhere	1890
John Mortimer	Charade	1947
John Mortimer	Titmuss Regained	1990
Walter Mosley	Devil in a Blue Dress	1990
Timothy Mo	Sour Sweet	1982
Alice Munro	Who Do You Think You Are?	1978
Haruki Murakami	Norwegian Wood	1987
Haruki Murakami	The Wind-up Bird Chronicle	1995
Iris Murdoch	Under the Net	1954
Iris Murdoch	The Black Prince	1973
Robert Musil	The Man Without Qualities	1930-32
Irène Némirovsky	Suite Française	2004
Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male	1955
Vladimir Nabokov	Pnin	1957
Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	1962
Vladimir Nabokov	Ada or Ardor	1969
Shiva Naipaul	Fireflies	1970
VS Naipaul	A House for Mr Biswas	1961
VS Naipaul	A Bend in the River	1979
RK Narayan	The Painter of Signs	1976
Audrey Niffenegger	The Time Traveler's Wife	2003
Bao Ninh	The Sorrow of War	1994
Anaïs Nin	Delta of Venus	1978
Larry Niven	Ringworld	1970
Jeff Noon	Vurt	1993
Cees Nooteboom	All Souls Day	1999
Frank Norris	McTeague	1899
Kenzaburo Oe	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness	1969
Ben Okri	The Famished Road	1991
Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	1992
E Phillips Oppenheim	The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent	1934
E Phillips Oppenhein	The Great Impersonation	1920
Baroness Emmuska Orczy	The Scarlet Pimpernel	1905
George Orwell	Burmese Days	1934
George Orwell	Animal Farm	1945
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-four	1949
Chuck Palahniuk	Fight Club	1996
Orhan Pamuk	My Name Is Red	1998
Sara Paretsky	Toxic Shock	1988
Sara Paretsky	Blacklist	2003
Pier Paolo Pasolini	The Ragazzi	1955
John Dos Passos	Three Soldiers	1921
John Dos Passos	U.S.A.	1930-36
Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago	1957
Alan Paton	Cry, The Beloved Country	1948
Cesare Pavese	The Moon and the Bonfire	1949
David Peace	Nineteen Seventy-Four	1999
David Peace	Nineteen Seventy Seven	2000
David Peace	GB84	2004
Thomas Love Peacock	Headlong Hall	1816
Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey	1818
Mervyn Peake	Titus Groan	1946
George Pelecanos	The Big Blowdown	1996
George Pelecanos	Hard Revolution	2004
Victor Pelevin	The Sacred Book of the Werewolf	2008
Walker Percy	The Moviegoer	1961
Georges Perec	La Disparition	1969
Georges Perec	Les Revenentes	1972
Georges Perec	La Vie mode d'emploi	1978
Robert M Pirsig	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	1974
Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar	1963
Robert Plunkett	My Search for Warren Harding	1983
Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth	The Space Merchants	1953
Chaim Potok	My Name is Asher Lev	1972
Anthony Powell	Afternoon Men	1931
Anthony Powell	A Dance to the Music of Time	1951-75
Anthony Powell	The Valley of Bones	1964
Anthony Powell	The Soldier's Art	1966
Anthony Powell	The Military Philosophers	1968
Dawn Powell	A Time to Be Born	1942
John Cowper Powys	A Glastonbury Romance	1932
Abbé Prévost	Manon Lescaut	1731
Terry Pratchett	The Discworld series	1983-
Richard Price	Lush Life	2008
JB Priestley	The Good Companions	1929
Christopher Priest	The Prestige	1995
Annie Proulx	The Shipping News	1993
Marcel Proust	Remembrance of Things Past	1913-27
Philip Pullman	His Dark Materials	1995-2000
Mario Puzo	The Godfather	1969
Barbara Pym	Excellent Women	1952
Barbara Pym	Less Than Angels	1955
Thomas Pynchon	V	1963
Thomas Pynchon	The Crying of Lot 49	1966
Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow	1973
Thomas Pynchon	Vineland	1990
Raymond Queneau	Zazie in the Metro	1959
François Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel	1532-34
Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	1794
Ian Rankin	Black & Blue	1997
Ian Rankin	The Hanging Garden	1998
Ian Rankin	Exit Music	2007
Rudolf Erich Raspe	The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen	1785
Simon Raven	Alms for Oblivion	1964-76
Piers Paul Read	A Married Man	1979
Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	1929
Ruth Rendell	Judgment in Stone	1977
Ruth Rendell	Live Flesh	1986
Alastair Reynolds	Revelation Space	2000
Jean Rhys	Wide Sargasso Sea	1966
Dorothy Richardson	Pointed Roofs	1915
Henry Handel Richardson	Maurice Guest	1908
Henry Handel Richardson	The Fortunes of Richard Mahony	1930
Samuel Richardson	Pamela	1740
Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	1748
Mordecai Richler	Solomon Gursky Was Here	1990
Kim Stanley Robinson	The Years of Rice and Salt	2002
Marilynne Robinson	Gilead	2004
Jooundso Guimaroundses Rosa	The Devil to Pay in the Backlands	1956
Henry Roth	Call It Sleep	1934
Joseph Roth	The Radetzky March	1932
Philip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint	1969
Philip Roth	American Pastoral	1997
Philip Roth	The Human Stain	2000
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse	1761
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	1997
Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	1997
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	1981
Salman Rushdie	Shame	1983
Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses	1988
Joanna Russ	The Female Man	1975
Geoff Ryman	Air	2005
Rafael Sabatini	Scaramouche	1921
Rafael Sabatini	Captain Blood His Odyssey	1922
Françoise Sagan	Bonjour Tristesse	1954
Kurban Said	Ali and Nino	1928
Saki	The Westminster Alice	1902
Saki	The Unbearable Bassington	1912
JD Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	1951
James Salter	The Hunters	1956
James Salter	A Sport and a Pastime	1967
James Salter	Light Years	1975
Cora Sandel	Alberta and Jacob	1926
CJ Sansom	Dissolution	2003
José Saramago	Blindness	1995
Dorothy L Sayers	Whose Body?	1923
Dorothy L Sayers	Murder Must Advertise	1933
Bernhard Schlink	The Reader	1995
Leonardo Sciascia	To Each His Own	1966
Paul Scott	Staying On	1977
Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	1819
Aara Seale	The Reluctant Orphan	1947
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle	Molesworth	2000
Ronald Searle	Hurrah for St Trinian's	1948
WG Sebald	The Rings of Saturn	1995
WG Sebald	Austerlitz	2001
Erich Segal	Love Story	1970
Hubert Selby Jr	Last Exit to Brooklyn	1964
Will Self	Great Apes	1997
Will Self	How the Dead Live	2000
Samuel Selvon	The Lonely Londoners	1956
Ousmane Sembène	God's Bit of Wood	1960
Victor Serge	The Case of Comrade Tulayev	1950
Vikram Seth	A Suitable Boy	1993
Anna Sewell	Black Beauty	1877
Tom Sharpe	Porterhouse Blue	1974
Tom Sharpe	Blott on the Landscape	1975
Irwin Shaw	The Young Lions	1949
Wilfred Sheed	Office Politics	1966
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	1818
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	Uncle Silas	1864
Lao She	Rickshaw Boy	1936
Carol Shields	Unless	2002
Lionel Shriver	We Need to Talk About Kevin	2003
Nevil Shute	A Town Like Alice	1950
Alan Sillitoe	Saturday Night & Sunday Morning	1958
Georges Simenon	The Madman of Bergerac	1932
Georges Simenon	The Blue Room	1965
Charles Simmons	Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel	1987
Dan Simmons	Hyperion	1989
May Sinclair	The Three Sisters	1914
Upton Sinclair	The Jungle	1906
Isaac Bashevis Singer	The Family Moskat	1950
Isaac Bashevis Singer	Enemies, a Love Story	1972
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö	The Laughing Policeman	1968
Elizabeth Smart	At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept	1945
Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres	1991
Jane Smiley	Moo	1995
Dodie Smith	I Capture the Castle	1948
Martin Cruz Smith	Gorky Park	1981
Stevie Smith	Novel on Yellow Paper	1936
Thorne Smith	Topper Takes a Trip	1932
Zadie Smith	White Teeth	2000
Zadie Smith	On Beauty	2005
Tobias Smollett	The Adventures of Roderick Random	1748
Tobias Smollett	The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle	1751
Tobias Smollett	The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom	1753
Tobias Smollett	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker	1771
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	1962
Ahdaf Soueif	The Map of Love	1999
Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre	Fantômas	1911
Muriel Spark	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	1961
Muriel Spark	The Girls of Slender Means	1963
Muriel Spark	The Driver's Seat	1970
Muriel Spark	Loitering With Intent	1981
Muriel Spark	A Far Cry from Kensington	1988
Art Spiegelman	Maus: A Survivor's Tale	1973-1991
Olaf Stapledon	Star Maker	1937
Christina Stead	The Man Who Loved Children	1940
John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	1937
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	1939
John Steinbeck	East of Eden	1952
Stendhal	The Red and the Black	1830
Stendhal	The Charterhouse of Parma	1839
Neal Stephenson	Snow Crash	1992
Neal Stephenson	Cryptonomicon	1999
Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	1759
Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey	1768
Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	1883
Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	1886
Robert Louis Stevenson	The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde	1886
Mike Stocks	White Man Falling	2006
Bram Stoker	Dracula	1897
Robert Stone	A Flag for Sunrise	1981
David Storey	This Sporting Life	1960
Rex Stout	The League of Frightened Men	1935
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	1852
Noel Streatfeild	Ballet Shoes	1936
August Strindberg	The Red Room	1879
William Styron	Sophie's Choice	1979
Patrick Suüskind	Perfume	1985
RS Surtees	Handley Cross	1843
Jacqueline Susann	Valley of the Dolls	1966
Italo Svevo	Confessions of Zeno	1923
Graham Swift	Waterland	1983
Jonathan Swift	A Tale of a Tub	1704
Colm Tóibín	The Blackwater Lightship	1999
Rabindranath Tagore	The Home and the World	1916
Junichiro Tanizaki	Diary of a Mad Old Man	1961
Booth Tarkington	Penrod	1914
Booth Tarkington	The Magnificent Ambersons	1918
Donna Tartt	The Secret History	1992
Elizabeth Taylor	Angel	1957
Josephine Tey	The Daughter of Time	1951
William Makepeace Thackeray	The Luck of Barry Lyndon	1844
William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	1848
Angela Thirkell	Before Lunch	1939
Leslie Thomas	Tropic of Ruislip	1974
Flora Thompson	Lark Rise to Candleford	1945
Jim Thompson	The Getaway	1959
Rupert Thomson	The Insult	1996
JRR Tolkien	The Hobbit	1937
JRR Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings	1954-55
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	1869
Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	1877
John Kennedy Toole	A Confederacy of Dunces	1980
Sue Townsend	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4	1982
Rose Tremain	Music and Silence	1999
Robert Tressell	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists	1914
William Trevor	Death in Summer	1998
Anthony Trollope	Barchester Towers	1857
Anthony Trollope	The Last Chronicle of Barset	1867
Anthony Trollope	The Way We Live Now	1875
Kilgore Trout	Venus on the Half-Shell	1974
Ivan Turgenev	First Love	1860
Ivan Turgenev	Fathers and Sons	1862
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	1876
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1885
Mark Twain	A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court	1889
Mark Twain	Pudd'nhead Wilson	1894
Mark Twain	The Mysterious Stranger	1916
Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist	1985
Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons	1988
Miguel de Unamuno	Peace in War	1897
John Updike	The Rabbit Omnibus	1960-90
John Updike	Couples	1968
John Updike	The Witches of Eastwick	1984
Vassilis Vassilikos	Z	1967
Jules Verne	A Journey to the Centre of the Earth	1864
Jules Verne	Around the World in Eighty Days	1873
Gore Vidal	Williwaw	1946
Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye	1986
Barbara Vine	A Fatal Inversion	1987
Barbara Vine	King Solomon's Carpet	1991
Voltaire	Candide	1759
Kurt Vonnegut	Sirens of Titan	1959
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five	1969
Kurt Vonnegut	Breakfast of Champions	1973
Alice Walker	The Color Purple	1982
David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	1996
Edgar Wallace	The Four Just Men	1905
Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto	1764
Robert Walser	Institute Benjamenta	1909
Chris Ware	Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth	2000
Alan Warner	Morvern Callar	1995
Sylvia Townsend Warner	Lolly Willowes	1926
Keith Waterhouse	Billy Liar	1959
Sarah Waters	Affinity	1999
Sarah Waters	Fingersmith	2002
Sarah Waters	The Night Watch	2006
Evelyn Waugh	Decline and Fall	1928
Evelyn Waugh	Vile Bodies	1930
Evelyn Waugh	Black Mischief	1932
Evelyn Waugh	A Handful of Dust	1934
Evelyn Waugh	Scoop	1938
Evelyn Waugh	Put Out More Flags	1942
Evelyn Waugh	The Loved One	1948
Evelyn Waugh	Men at Arms	1952
Charles Webb	The Graduate	1963
Fay Weldon	The Life and Loves of a She-Devil	1983
HG Wells	The Time Machine	1895
HG Wells	The Island of Dr Moreau	1896
HG Wells	The War of the Worlds	1898
HG Wells	Tono Bungay	1909
HG Wells	The History of Mr Polly	1910
Irvine Welsh	Trainspotting	1993
Robert Westall	The Machine-Gunners	1975
Nathanael West	The Day of the Locust	1939
Rebecca West	The Return of the Soldier	1918
Rebecca West	The Fountain Overflows	1957
Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	1905
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence	1920
Antonia White	Frost in May	1933
Patrick White	The Tree of Man	1955
Patrick White	Voss	1957
TH White	The Sword in the Stone	1938
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	1891
Nigel Williams	The Wimbledon Poisoner	1990
Angus Wilson	Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	1956
Angus Wilson	The Old Men at the Zoo	1961
Jeanette Winterson	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	1985
Jeanette Winterson	The Passion	1987
Owen Wister	The Virginian	1902
PG Wodehouse	Something Fresh	1915
PG Wodehouse	Piccadilly Jim	1918
PG Wodehouse	Heavy Weather	1933
PG Wodehouse	Thank You Jeeves	1934
PG Wodehouse	The Code of the Woosters	1938
PG Wodehouse	Joy in the Morning	1947
Gene Wolfe	The Book of the New Sun	1980-83
Tom Wolfe	The Bonfire of the Vanities	1987
Gerard Woodward	I'll Go to Bed at Noon	2004
Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	1861
Virginia Woolf	Mrs Dalloway	1925
Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	1927
Virginia Woolf	Orlando	1928
Herman Wouk	The Caine Mutiny	1951
Richard Wright	Native Son	1940
Wu Cheng'en	Monkey	1590s
John Wyndham	Day of the Triffids	1951
John Wyndham	The Midwich Cuckoos	1957
Johann David Wyss	The Swiss Family Robinson	1812
Richard Yates	Revolutionary Road	1961
Yevgeny Zamyatin	We	1924
Émile Zola	Therese Raquin	1867
Émile Zola	Germinal	1885
Émile Zola	La Bête Humaine	1890
Émile Zola	The Debacle	1892

Author by frequency

Author	Frequency
Charles Dickens	9
Evelyn Waugh	8
Graham Greene	8
PG Wodehouse	6
Joseph Conrad	6
Jane Austin	6
HG Wells	5
Mark Twain	5
Muriel Spark	5
Anthony Powell	5
Henry James	5
Thomas Hardy	5
George Eliot	5
Agatha Christie	5
Émile Zola	4
Tobias Smollett	4
Thomas Pynchon	4
Vladimir Nabokov	4
Cormac McCarthy	4
DH Lawrence	4
Dashiell Hammett	4
André Gide	4
Elizabeth Gaskell	4
Fyodor Dostoevsky	4
Michael Dibdin	4
Willa Cather	4
Saul Bellow	4
JG Ballard	4
Virginia Woolf	3
Sarah Waters	3
Kurt Vonnegut	3
Barbara Vine	3
John Updike	3
Anthony Trollope	3
Robert Louis Stevenson	3
John Steinbeck	3
James Salter	3
Salman Rushdie	3
Philip Roth	3
Ian Rankin	3
Georges Perec	3
David Peace	3
George Orwell	3
Toni Morrison	3
Ian McEwan	3
Thomas Mann	3
Doris Lessing	3
Rosamond Lehmann	3
Stephen King	3
James Joyce	3
PD James	3
Hermann Hesse	3
Hergé	3
Ernest Hemingway	3
EM Forster	3
Ian Fleming	3
Gustave Flaubert	3
William Faulkner	3
Daphne du Maurier	3
Arthur Conan Doyle	3
Daniel Defoe	3
Angela Carter	3
JL Carr	3
John le Carré	3
Peter Carey	3
Anthony Burgess	3
Charlotte Brontë	3
William Boyd	3
Elizabeth Bowen	3
Honoré de Balzac	3
Beryl Bainbridge	3
Margaret Atwood	3
Martin Amis	3
Eric Ambler	3
John Wyndham	2
Jeanette Winterson	2
Angus Wilson	2
Patrick White	2
Edith Wharton	2
Rebecca West	2
Jules Verne	2
Anne Tyler	2
Ivan Turgenev	2
Leo Tolstoy	2
JRR Tolkien	2
William Makepeace Thackeray	2
Booth Tarkington	2
Laurence Sterne	2
Neal Stephenson	2
Stendhal	2
Zadie Smith	2
Jane Smiley	2
Isaac Bashevis Singer	2
Georges Simenon	2
Tom Sharpe	2
Will Self	2
WG Sebald	2
Dorothy L Sayers	2
Saki	2
Rafael Sabatini	2
Samuel Richardson	2
Henry Handel Richardson	2
Ruth Rendell	2
Barbara Pym	2
George Pelecanos	2
Thomas Love Peacock	2
John Dos Passos	2
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