Why This Is Hell

Set up as books on travel, with some of them ending up as war. Also: "This twist-laden thriller, later adapted into a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, popularised the previously little-known story of Bletchley Park." Yeah, right. 25 out of 129 books

Read, unfinished, hated


Junghyo Ahn, Silver Stallion (1990)
Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero (1929)
Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie (1998)
Nigel Balchin, Darkness Falls from the Air (1942)
JG Ballard, Empire of the Sun (1984)
Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)
Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (2005)
HE Bates, Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944)
Nina Bawden, Carrie's War (1973)
Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (1998)
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (1949)
William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War (1982)
Raymond Briggs, When the Wind Blows (1982)
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1974)
Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé (1935)
Willa Cather, One Of Ours (1922)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
Wu Cheng'en, Monkey (1590s)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (1904)
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Eagle (1981)
Francis Coventry, The History of Pompey the Little (1751)
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Len Deighton, Bomber (1970)
James Dickey, Deliverance (1970)
John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers (1921)
Norman Douglas, South Wind (1917)
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)
Lawrence Durrell, Justine (1957)
William Eastlake, The Bamboo Bed (1969)
JG Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1993)
Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End (1924-28)
CS Forester, The African Queen (1935)
CS Forester, The Ship (1943)
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (1969)
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (1997)
Alex Garland, The Beach (1996)
William Golding, To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (1980-89)
René Goscinny, Asterix the Gaul (1959)
Günter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959)
Robert Graves, Count Belisarius (1938)
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (1960)
CT Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game (2006)
H Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885)
H Rider Haggard, She (1887)
Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude (1947)
John Harris, Covenant with Death (1961)
Robert Harris, Enigma (1995)
Jaroslav Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk (1923)
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hergé, The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941)
Hergé, Tintin in Tibet (1960)
Hergé, The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929)
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759)
James Jones, From Here to Eternity (1951)
MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville (1955)
Thomas Keneally, Confederates (1979)
Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark (1982)
AL Kennedy, Day (2007)
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940)
Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (1965)
Primo Levi, If Not Now, When 1982)
Jack London, The Call of the Wild (1903)
Alastair Maclean, The Guns of Navarone (1957)
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985)
Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (1919)
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948)
André Malraux, La Condition Humaine (1933)
Olivia Manning, The Fortunes of War novels (1960-80)
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Frederick Marryat, The Children of the New Forest (1847)
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (1985)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale (1851)
James Michener, Tales of the South Pacific (1847)
Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea (1951)
Elsa Morante, History (1974)
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française (2004)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (1994)
Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (1969)
Tim O'Brien, The Things they Carried (1990)
Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
George Orwell, Burmese Days (1934)
Robert M Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers (1968)
Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art (1966)
Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones (1964)
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Rudolf Erich Raspe, The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1785)
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
João Guimarães Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (1921)
Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood His Odyssey (1922)
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
James Salter, The Hunters (1956)
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)
WG Sebald, The Rings of Saturn (1995)
WG Sebald, Austerlitz (2001)
Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions (1949)
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice (1950)
Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1973-1991)
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999)
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (1886)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (1981)
William Styron, Sophie's Choice (1979)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
Jules Verne, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
Gore Vidal, Williwaw (1946)
Voltaire, Candide (1759)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags (1942)
Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms (1952)
HG Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
Robert Westall, The Machine-Gunners (1975)
Patrick White, Voss (1957)
Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902)
Émile Zola, The Debacle (1892)

Read, unfinished, hated

Look - Thomas Love Peacock. 134 titles? Have I missed something? There was odd formatting with ff s and fi s. I've read 16.

Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Martin Amis, London Fields (1989)
Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935)
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953)
Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie Humaine (1830-1848)
Miklos Banffy, They Were Counted (1934)
Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving (1960)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko or The Royal Slave (1688)
Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger (1910)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929)
John Braine, Room at the Top (1957)
André Brink, A Dry White Season (1979)
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849)
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980)
AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden (1978)
Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road (1932)
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World (1949)
Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! (1994)
JM Coetzee, Disgrace (1999)
JM Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (1995)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Don DeLillo, Underwold (1997)
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-53)
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848)
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1855-57)
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays (1970)
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil or The Two Nations (1845)
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
EL Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1971)
John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (1930-36)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868)
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1953)
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education (1869)
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (1896)
Richard Ford, Independence Day (1996)
EM Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001)
William Gaddis, The Recognitions (1955)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (1853)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855)
André Gide, The Counterfeiters (1925)
George Gissing, The Odd Women (1893)
George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891)
Nadine Gordimer, July's People (1981)
Maxim Gorky, Mother (1906)
Alasdair Gray, Lanark (1981)
Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole (1933)
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave (1968)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004)
Winifred Holtby, South Riding (1936)
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone (1971)
James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958)
Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter (1947)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (1950)
Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry (1927)
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920)
Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners (1959)
Mary McCarthy, The Group (1963)
John McGahern, Amongst Women (1990)
Joaquim Maria, Machado de Assis
Julian Maclaren-Ross, Of Love and Hunger (1947)
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (1993)
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924)
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (1827)
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami (1885)
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995)
Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference (1929)
VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River (1979)
Frank Norris, McTeague (1899)
Andrew O'Hagan, Personality (2003)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ragazzi (1955)
Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)
Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfire (1949)
Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall (1816)
David Peace, GB84 (2004)
Anthony Powell, Afternoon Men (1931)
Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March (1932)
Philip Roth, American Pastoral (1997)
Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)
Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own (1966)
Paul Scott, Staying On (1977)
Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Ousmane Sembène, God's Bit of Wood (1960)
Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1950)
Lao She, Rickshaw Boy (1936)
Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1958)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper (1936)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Stendhal:The Red and the Black (1830)
David Storey, This Sporting Life (1960)
August Strindberg, The Red Room (1879)
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World (1916)
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914)
Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
John Updike, Couples (1968)
Vassilis Vassilikos, Z (1967)
Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar (1959)
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993)
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918)
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Émile Zola, Germinal (1885)
Émile Zola, La Bête Humaine (1890)

A good day to be teaching about the Great Tradition today. 149 titles - too many of them by Waugh and Wodehouse and - good grief - Phil Farmer. Read, unfinished, hated. 24 out of 149? A few movies and tv versions as well.

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Martin Amis, The Information (1995)
Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney (2001)
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984)
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq By Himself — Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924)
Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1951)
Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader (2007)
EF Benson, Queen Lucia (1920)
WE Bowman, The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956)
William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa (1981)
Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man (1975)
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, No Bed for Bacon (1941)
Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985)
JL Carr, A Season in Sinji (1967)
JL Carr, The Harpole Report (1972)
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet (1976)
Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson (1939)
Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)
Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
Richmal Crompton, Just William (1922)
EM Delafield, The Provincial Lady (1930)
Peter De Vries, Slouching towards Kalamazoo (1983)
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837)
Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (1796)
JP Donleavy, A Fairy Tale of New York (1973)
Roddy Doyle, The Commitments (1987)
Maria Edgeworth, Ennui (1809)
Willem Elsschot, Cheese (1933)
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749)
Ronald Firbank, Caprice (1917)
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
Michael Frayn, Towards the End of Morning (1967)
William Gerhardie, The Polyglots (1925)
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (1842)
Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (1859)
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon), Brewster's Millions (1902)
Michael Green, Squire Haggard's Journal (1975)
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana (1958)
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt (1969)
George Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo (1948)
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Eric Hodgins, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1946)
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (1995)
Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England (1983)
James Hynes, The Lecturer's Tale — A Novel (2001)
Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935)
Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer (1999)
Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution (1954)
Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1899)
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
Franz Kafka, The Castle (1926)
Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin (1996)
John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure (1996)
Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) (1715-1735)
David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
David Lodge, Nice Work (1988)
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
AG Macdonnell, England, Their England (1933)
Compton Mackenzie, Whisky Galore (1947)
David Madsen, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (1995)
W Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale — Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (1978)
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
Spike Milligan, Puckoon (1963)
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (1998)
John Mortimer, Charade (1947)
John Mortimer, Titmuss Regained (1990)
Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (1954)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies (1970)
Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2008)
Georges Perec, La Disparition (1969)
Georges Perec, Les Revenentes (1972)
Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (1978)
Robert Plunkett, My Search for Warren Harding (1983)
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75)  [cheat!]
Dawn Powell, A Time to Be Born (1942)
Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952)
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels (1955)
Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro (1959)
Simon Raven, Alms for Oblivion (1964-76)
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1990)
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Saki, The Westminster Alice (1902)
Saki, The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
Ronald Searle, Hurrah for St Trinian's (1948)
Will Self, Great Apes (1997)
Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue (1974)
Tom Sharpe, Blott on the Landscape (1975)
Wilfred Sheed, Office Politics (1966)
Charles Simmons, Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel (1987)
Jane Smiley, Moo (1995)
Thorne Smith, Topper Takes a Trip (1932)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
Mike Stocks, White Man Falling (2006)
RS Surtees, Handley Cross (1843)
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)
WM Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch (1939)
Leslie Thomas, Tropic of Ruislip (1974)
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half-Shell (1974)
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (1934)
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1928)
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (1932)
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (1938)
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One (1948)
Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)
HG Wells, Tono Bungay (1909)
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, Molesworth (2000)
Nigel Williams, The Wimbledon Poisoner (1990)
Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (1915)
P.G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim (1918)
P.G. Wodehouse, Thank You Jeeves (1934)
P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather (1933)
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters (1938)
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning (1947)

Yes, well: bold means I've read it, italic on author means started but didn't finish, struck through hated it. Yes, a low score of read - out of somethin g like 145..

Henri Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913)
Layla al-Juhani, Jahiliyya (2006)
Latifa al-Zayyat, al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1957)
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962)
HE Bates, Love for Lydia (1952)
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (1938)
Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Anita Brookner, Look at Me (1983)
AS Byatt, Possession (1990)
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
JL Carr, A Month in the Country (1980)
Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
Willa Cather, A Lost Lady (1923)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Claudine à l'école (1900)
Sidone-Gabrille Colette, Chéri (1920)
Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale (1915)
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (1678)
Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites (1949)
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (1984)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Enayat el-Zayyat, Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967)
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides (1993)
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)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
EM Forster, A Room With a View (1908)
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose (1941)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (1853)
André Gide, Strait Is the Gate (1909)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (1932)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Henry Green, Living (1929)
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887)
LP Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus (1980)
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Georgette Heyer, The Infamous Army (1937)
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck (1935)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
WH Hudson, Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (1983)
Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness (1964)
MM Kaye, The Far Pavilions (1978)
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (1946)
Pamela Kent, Moon over Africa (1955)
Colette Khoury, Ayyam Ma'ah (1959)
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978)
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982)
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782)
DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1960)
DH Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915)
DH Lawrence, Women in Love (1920)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Echoing Grove (1953)
Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)
Audre Lorde, Zami (1982)
Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs (1984)
Amin Maalouf, Samarkand (1989)
Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo trilogy (1956-57)
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912)
Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess (1990)
Javier Marías, A Heart So White (1992)
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915)
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Ian McEwan, The Child in Time (1987)
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Isabel Miller, Patience and Sarah (1969)
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
Elsa Morante, Arturo's Island: A Novel (1957)
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (1987)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male (1955)
RK Narayan, The Painter of Signs (1976)
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1978)
Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day (1999)
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut (1731)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
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