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- Abbott, Edwin A : "Flatland"
- Abercrombie, Joe : "The Blade Itself" and "Before They Are Hanged"
- Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie: 'A Girl Made of Dust'
- Aboulela, Leila : "Minaret"
- Adams, Lorraine : "Harbor"
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi : 'Half of a Yellow Sun'
- Alderman, Naomi : "Disobedience"
- Alexander, Alma : "The Secrets of Jin-Shei"
- Alison, Rosie: 'The Very Thought of You'
- Applebaum, Anne : "Gulag: A History"
- Arnason, Eleanor : "Ordinary People"
- Arnold, Gaynor: 'Girl in a Blue Dress'
- Atkinson, Kate : "Behind the Scenes at the Museum"
- Atwood, Margaret : "Surfacing"
- Atwood, Margaret : "The Edible Woman"
- Atwood, Margaret : 'The Penelopiad'
- Auster, Paul : "The New York Trilogy"
- Bacigalupi, Paolo : "Pump Six"
- Ballard, JG: 'Crash'
- Banti, Anna : "Artemisia"
- Barker, Nicola : 'Darkmans'
- Barrico, Alessandro : "Silk"
- Barry, Sebastian : "A Long Long Way"
- Baxter, Stephen : "The H-Bomb Girl"
- Berger, John - G
- Beukes, Lauren : "Zoo City"
- Bi, Feiyu : "Three Sisters"
- Birrell, Anne : "New Songs from a Jade Terrace"
- Biskind, Peter : "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"
- Black, Holly : "White Cat"
- Blish, James : "Cities in Flight"
- Bloom, Harold : "A Map of Misreading"
- Borges, Jorge Luis : "Fictions"
- Bower, Sarah : 'The Needle in the Blood'
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth : 'Lady Audley's Secret'
- Brooks, Geraldine : "Year of Wonders"
- Brown, George Mackay : "Greenvoe"
- Brown, George Mackay: 'Vinland'
- Brown, George Mackay: 'Winter Tales'
- Buchan, John : "The Thirty-Nine Steps"
- Bujold, Lois McMaster : "Paladin of Souls"
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: 'A Dog's Heart'
- Byatt, A.S. : 'The Children's Book'
- Byatt, A.S.: "Ragnarok"
- Cameron, Deborah: 'The Myth of Mars and Venus'
- Cao, Xueqin : "The Story of the Stone"
- Carey, Peter : "Theft"
- Cashore, Kristin : "Graceling"
- Castiglione, Baldesar : "The Book of the Courtier"
- Chabon, Michael : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"
- Chabon, Michael : 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union'
- Chandra, Vikram : "Red Earth and Pouring Rain"
- Chang, Eileen : "Red Rose, White Rose"
- Cicero : "Selected Works"
- Claudel, Philippe: 'Brodeck's Report'
- Cobo, Bernabe : "Inca Religion and Customs"
- Coe, Jonathan : 'The Rain Before It Falls'
- Collins, Suzanne : "The Hunger Games"
- Connelly, Karen : 'The Lizard Cage'
- Cook, Elizabeth : "Achilles"
- Cusk, Rachel : 'Arlington Park'
- Davies, Nick : "Flat Earth News"
- Davies, Robertson: "Tempest-Tost"
- Dawkins, Richard : 'The God Delusion'
- de Abaitua, Matthew : "The Red Men"
- de Cervantes, Miguel : "Don Quixote"
- de las Casas, Bartolomé : "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies"
- de Loo, Tessa : "The Twins"
- de Waal, Edmund: "The Hare with the Amber Eyes"
- Defoe, Gideon: "The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists"
- Desai, Kiran : "The Inheritance of Loss"
- Dick, Philip K. : "A Scanner Darkly"
- Dickens, Charles : "Nicholas Nickleby"
- Dillard, Annie : 'The Maytrees'
- Docx, Edward : 'Self Help'
- Donaldson, Stephen : "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"
- Donoghue, Emma: 'Room'
- Duncan, Hal : "Vellum"
- Dunmore, Helen : "House of Orphans"
- Dunnett, Dorothy : "The Ringed Castle"
- Enright, Anne : 'The Gathering'
- Eskridge, Kelley : "Solitaire"
- Evaristo, Bernadine : "The Emperor's Babe"
- Eyrbyggja Saga
- Fallon, Jennifer : "Wolfblade"
- Farooki, Roopa : 'Bitter Sweets'
- Farooki, Roopa: 'The Way Things Look To Me'
- Faulkner, William : "As I Lay Dying"
- Feist, Raymond E. : "At the Gates of Darkness"
- Feist, Raymond E. : "Rides a Dread Legion"
- Fforde, Jasper : "The Eyre Affair"
- Field, Ophelia : "The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough"
- Firdawsi : "The Legend of Seyavash"
- Fletcher, Richard : "The Cross and the Crescent" (scroll down)
- Fletcher, Susan: 'Corrag'
- Forbeck, Matt : "Amortals"
- Ford, John M. : "Heat of Fusion" (1)
- Ford, John M. : "Heat of Fusion" (2)
- Foulds, Adam : "The Quickening Maze"
- Gaiman, Neil : "The Graveyard Book"
- Gappah, Petina: 'An Elegy for Easterly'
- Grahame-Smith, Seth (& Jane Austen) : "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
- Grass, Gunter: 'The Tin Drum'
- Graves, Robert : "I, Claudius"
- Greer, Andrew Sean : 'The Story of a Marriage'
- Grenville, Kate : "The Secret River"
- Griffith, Nicola : "Slow River"
- Griffith, Nicola : "With Her Body"
- Grimwood, Jon Courtenay : "End of the World Blues"
- Groff, Lauren : 'The Monsters of Templeton'
- Groppi, Susan Marie, and David Moles : "Twenty Epics"
- Grushin, Olga : "The Dream Life of Sukhanov"
- Guo, Xiaolu : "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers"
- Hall, Sarah : "The Carhullan Army"
- Hall, Sarah: 'How to Paint A Dead Man'
- Hall, Sarah: The Beautiful Indifference
- Hall, Steven : "The Raw Shark Texts"
- Hamid, Mohsin : 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'
- Harris, Jane : "The Observations"
- Harrison, Kathryn : "The Seal Wife"
- Harrison, M. John : 'Nova Swing'
- Harvey, Samantha: 'The Wilderness'
- Hesiod - The Theogony and Works and Days
- Hesse, Hermann : "The Glass Bead Game"
- Hickman, Katie : "Daughters of Britannia"
- Hickman, Katie : "Courtesans"
- Hill, Rosemary : 'God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain'
- Hill, Susan : "The Woman in Black"
- Hobb, Robin : "Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy 2)"
- Hobb, Robin : "Ship of Destiny" (Liveship Traders 3)
- Hoffman, Paul : "The Left Hand of God"
- Hogan, Edward: 'Blackmoor'
- Holdstock, Robert : "Avilion"
- Holdstock, Robert : "The Hollowing"
- Holloway, Richard: 'Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt'
- Hosseini, Khaled : 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
- Hughart, Barry : "Bridge of Birds"
- Hughes, Ted : "The Birthday Letters"
- Hurley, Kameron : "God's War"
- Huston, Nancy : 'Fault Lines'
- Huysmans, J-K : "The Damned (La-Bas)"
- Hyland, M.J.: 'This is How'
- Irving, John : "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
- Jemisin, N.K. : "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms"
- Johnson, Samuel : "Selected Works"
- Jones, Gail : "Dreams of Speaking"
- Jones, Gwyneth : "Spirit"
- Jones, Lloyd : 'Mister Pip'
- Jones, Sadie : 'The Outcast'
- Kavan, Anna : "Ice"
- Kay, Guy Gavriel : "Under Heaven"
- Kay, Guy Gavriel : "Ysabel"
- Kiernan, Celine : "The Poison Throne"
- Kingsolver, Barbara : "The Poisonwood Bible"
- Krauss, Nicole : "The History of Love"
- Kundera, Milan : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
- Kushner, Ellen : "Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners"
- La Farge, Paul : "The Facts of Winter"
- Lady Hyegyong : "The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong"
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : "Selected Letters"
- Lahiri, Jhumpa : "The Namesake"
- Lalami, Laila: 'Secret Son'
- Larsson, Stieg:'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
- Laven, Mary : "Virgins of Venice"
- Laxness, Halldor : "Independent People"
- Le Guin, Ursula : "Lavinia"
- Lee, Tanith : "Drinking Sapphire Wine"
- Leppin, Paul : "Severin's Journey Into the Dark"
- Lessing, Doris : "This Was the Old Chief's Country"
- Lessing, Doris : 'The Cleft'
- Lessing, Doris: 'A Proper Marriage'
- Li, Yiyun : "A Thousand Years of Good Prayer"
- Link, Kelly : "Magic for Beginners"
- Mackay, Shena : "Heligoland"
- MacLeod, Ian R. : "Song of Time"
- MacLeod, Ian R. : "The Summer Isles"
- MacLeod, Ken : "Learning the World"
- MacLeod, Ken : "The Execution Channel"
- Madame de Sévigné : "Selected Letters"
- Makkai, Rebecca: "The Borrower"
- Mandeville : "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville"
- Mantel, Hilary : "Beyond Black"
- Masters, Alexander : 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'
- Matar, Hisham : "In the Country of Men"
- McAuley, Paul : "The Quiet War"
- McCann, Maria: 'The Wilding'
- McCarthy, Cormac : "The Road"
- McCrea, Barry : 'The First Verse'
- McDonald, Ian : "Brasyl"
- McDonald, Ian : "River of Gods"
- McEwan, Ian : 'On Chesil Beach'
- McKenna, Juliet E. : "The Warrior's Bond"
- McKillip, Patricia : "The Riddlemaster's Game"
- Mendelson, Charlotte : 'When We Were Bad'
- Mendlesohn, Farah : "On Joanna Russ"
- Miano, Sarah Emily : "Encyclopaedia of Snow"
- Mieville, China : "The City & the City"
- Mieville, China : "The Scar"
- Miller, Andrew : "Ingenious Pain"
- Miller, Karen : "The Prodigal Mage"
- Miller, Karen : "The Reluctant Mage"
- Miller, Madeline: The Song of Achilles
- Millet, Lydia : 'Oh Pure and Radiant Heart'
- Mitchell, David : "Cloud Atlas"
- Mohamed, Nadifa: 'Black Mamba Boy'
- Moore, Alan : "V for Vendetta"
- Moran, Caitlin: 'How to Be A Woman'
- Morgan, Richard : "Black Man"
- Morris, Jan : "Hav"
- Murakami, Haruki : "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
- Márai, Sándor : "Embers"
- Ness, Patrick : "Monsters of Men"
- Ness, Patrick : "The Knife of Never Letting Go" and "The Ask and the Answer"
- Niffenegger, Audrey : "The Time-Traveller's Wife"
- Norfolk, Lawrence : "The Pope's Rhinoceros"
- North, Rachel : 'Out of the Tunnel'
- Obreht, Tea: 'The Tiger's Wife'
- O'Brian, Patrick : 'HMS Surprise'
- O'Brian, Patrick : 'Master and Commander'
- O'Flynn, Catherine : 'What Was Lost'
- O'Neill, Heather : 'Lullabies for Little Criminals'
- Oates, Joyce Carol : "Rape: A Love Story"
- Oates, Joyce Carol : "The Tattooed Girl"
- Orringer, Julie: 'The Invisible Bridge'
- Orwell, George : 'Animal Farm'
- Oyeyemi, Helen : "White is for Witching"
- Parrish, P.J. : "Dead of Winter"
- Pavord, Anna : "The Tulip"
- Peacock, Thomas Love : "Nightmare Abbey"
- Pears, Iain : "The Dream of Scipio"
- Peile, Anne: 'Repeat It Today With Tears'
- Plato : "Protagoras and Meno"
- Platonov, Andrey : "The Foundation Pit"
- Polansky, Daniel : "The Straight Razor Cure"
- Powers, Richard : "Generosity"
- Pratchett, Terry : "Going Postal"
- Pratchett, Terry : "Making Money"
- Prichard, Caradog: 'One Moonlit Night'
- Priest, Christopher : "The Prestige"
- Pushkin, Alexander : "The Queen of Spades and Other Stories"
- Rankin, Ian: The Complaints
- Rapoport, Yossef : "Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society"
- Redfern, Elizabeth : "The Music of the Spheres"
- Redworth, Glyn : "The She-Apostle"
- Reynolds, Alastair : "House of Suns"
- Roberts, Adam : "Gradisil"
- Roberts, Adam : "Yellow Blue Tibia"
- Roberts, Michèle : "Daughters of the House"
- Robinson, Kim Stanley : "Galileo's Dream"
- Robinson, Kim Stanley : "Pacific Edge"
- Robinson, Marilynne : "Gilead"
- Rogers, Jane : "The Testament of Jessie Lamb"
- Rushdie, Salman : The Enchantress of Florence
- Russ, Joanna : "The Adventures of Alyx" and "Extra(ordinary) People"
- Russ, Joanna : "The Female Man"
- Russ, Joanna : "We Who Are About To..."
- Russell, Karen : "Swamplandia"
- Russell, Mary Doria : "A Thread of Grace"
- Ryman, Geoff : "Air"
- Sapkowski, Andrzej : "Blood of Elves"
- Satrapi, Marjane : "Persepolis"
- Scalzi, John : "Old Man's War"
- Schlink, Bernhard : "The Reader"
- Scott, Sir Walter : "Waverley"
- Seneca : "Four Tragedies and Octavia"
- Seth, Vikram : "A Suitable Boy"
- Shahar, Shulamith: Growing Old in the Middle Ages
- Shoneyin, Lola: "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives"
- Singh, Vandana : "Distances" and "Of Love and Other Monsters"
- Sinisalo, Johanna : "Not Before Sundown"
- Sittenfield, Curtis : "Prep"
- Smith, Ali : "Girl meets boy"
- Smith, Ali : "The Accidental"
- Smith, Zadie : "On Beauty"
- Snyder, Maria V. : "Touch of Power"
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr : 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'
- St Aubyn, Edward : "Mother's Milk"
- Starling, Belinda : 'The Journal of Dora Damage'
- Stasiuk, Andrzej : "Tales of Galicia"
- Stephenson, Neal : "Anathem"
- Stross, Charles : "Accelerando"
- Sullivan, Tricia : "Maul"
- Swainston, Steph : "The Year of Our War"
- Sweet, Caitlin : "A Telling of Stars"
- Sweet, Caitlin : "The Silences of Home"
- Taylor, D.J. : 'Kept'
- Taylor, Laini : "Daughter of Smoke and Bone"
- Tchaikovsky, Adrian : "Blood of the Mantis"
- Tchaikovsky, Adrian : "Dragonfly Falling"
- Tchaikovsky, Adrian : "Empire in Black and Gold"
- Tchaikovsky, Adrian : "Salute the Dark"
- Thackeray, William Makepeace : "Vanity Fair"
- The Tale of the Heike
- Theroux, Marcel : "Far North"
- Thomas, Diane : "The Year the Music Changed"
- Thompson, Alice: 'The Falconer'
- Tiffany, Carrie : "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living"
- Tiptree Jr., James : "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"
- Tomalin, Claire : 'Samuel Pepys, The Unequalled Self'
- Tremain, Rose : 'The Road Home'
- Turgenev, Ivan : "Faust"
- Twain, Mark : "The Diary of Adam and Eve"
- Tyler, Anne : 'Digging to America'
- Unsworth, Barry : "Sacred Hunger"
- Valente, Catherynne M. : "The Labyrinth"
- Vanderhooft, JoSelle : "The Tale of the Miller's Daughter"
- VanderMeer, Jeff : "Veniss Underground"
- Various : "English Mystery Plays"
- Vonarburg, Elisabeth : "The Silent City"
- Waters, Sarah : "Affinity"
- Waters, Sarah : "The Night Watch"
- Weeks, Brent : "The Black Prism"
- Wernham, Mark : "Martin Martin's on the Other Side"
- Whitfield, Kit : "In Great Waters"
- Wickham, Chris : "The Inheritance of Rome"
- Williams, Liz : "The Poison Master"
- Williams, Tad : "The War of the Flowers"
- Wilson, A.N. : 'The Victorians'
- Wilson, Robert Charles : "Spin"
- Wolfe, Gene : "Peace"
- Wood, Patricia : 'Lottery'
- Wooding, Chris : "Retribution Falls"
- Zamyatin, Yevgeny : "We"
- Zhu, Wen : "I Love Dollars"
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