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"The Thousand and One Nights"
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'
Aeschylus : "Prometheus Bound and Other Plays"
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"
Atkinson, Kate : "Life After Life"
Atwood, Margaret : "Surfacing"
Atwood, Margaret : "The Edible Woman"
Atwood, Margaret : 'The Penelopiad'
Austen, Jane : "Mansfield Park"
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
Bester, Alfred : "The Stars My Destination"
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"
Byatt, AS : "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"
Cameron, Deborah: 'The Myth of Mars and Venus'
Cao, Xueqin : "The Story of the Stone"
Carey, Peter : "Theft"
Cashore, Kristin : "Bitterblue"
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"
Chukovskaya, Lydia : "Sofia Petrovna"
Cicero : "Selected Works"
Claudel, Philippe: 'Brodeck's Report'
Cobo, Bernabe : "Inca Religion and Customs"
Coe, Jonathan : 'The Rain Before It Falls'
Collins, Suzanne : "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay"
Collins, Suzanne : "The Hunger Games"
Comyns, Barbara : "Sisters by a River"
Comyns, Barbara : "The Vet's Daughter"
Connelly, Karen : 'The Lizard Cage'
Cook, Elizabeth : "Achilles"
Courtemanche, Gil : "A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali"
Cusk, Rachel : 'Arlington Park'
Dasgupta, Rana : "Tokyo Cancelled"
Davies, Natalie Zemon : "The Return of Martin Guerre"
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"
Demick, Barbara : "Nothing to Envy: real lives in North Korea"
Desai, Kiran : "The Inheritance of Loss"
DeWitt, Helen : "Lightning Rods"
Dick, Philip K. : "A Scanner Darkly"
Dickens, Charles : "Little Dorrit"
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"
Fuller, John : "Flying to Nowhere"
Gaiman, Neil : "The Graveyard Book"
Gappah, Petina: 'An Elegy for Easterly'
Gaskell, Jane : "A Sweet, Sweet Summer"
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"
Griffith, Nicola: 'Hild'
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'
Hardinge, Frances: "A Face Like Glass"
Harris, Jane : "The Observations"
Harrison, Kathryn : "The Seal Wife"
Harrison, M. John : 'Nova Swing'
Hartman, Rachel : "Seraphina"
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'
Hope, Anna: Wake
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"
Ishiguro, Kazuo : "Never Let Me Go"
Jackson, Shirley : "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"
Jemisin, N.K. : "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms"
Johnson, Samuel : "Selected Works"
Jones, Cynan: The Dig
Jones, Gail : "Dreams of Speaking"
Jones, Gwyneth : "Spirit"
Jones, Lloyd : 'Mister Pip'
Jones, Sadie : 'The Outcast'
Kadare, Ismail : "The Palace of Dreams"
Kavan, Anna : "Ice"
Kay, Guy Gavriel : "Under Heaven"
Kay, Guy Gavriel : "Ysabel"
Kermode, Mark : "The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex"
Kiernan, Celine : "The Poison Throne"
Kingsolver, Barbara : "The Poisonwood Bible"
Kostova, Elizabeth : "The Historian"
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'
Lanagan, Margo : "Black Juice"
Lanagan, Margo : "The Brides of Rollrock Island"
Larsson, Stieg:'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Laven, Mary : "Virgins of Venice"
Laxness, Halldor : "Independent People"
Laxness, Halldor: 'The Fish Can Sing'
Le Guin, Ursula : "Lavinia"
Lee, Tanith : "Drinking Sapphire Wine"
Leppin, Paul : "Severin's Journey Into the Dark"
Leskov, Nikolai : "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"
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"
Locke, Attica: The Cutting Season
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"
May, Peter : "The Black House"
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'
McHugh, Maureen : "China Mountain Zhang"
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"
Mieville, China : "Embassytown"
Mohamed, Nadifa: 'Black Mamba Boy'
Moore, Alan : "V for Vendetta"
Moran, Caitlin: 'How to Be A Woman'
Morgan, Richard : "Black Man"
Morris, Jan : "Hav"
Moss, Sarah: Night Waking
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"
Parsipur, Shahrnush : "Women Without Men"
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"
Roffey, Monique : "Archipelago"
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"
Ryan, Shawna Yang : "Water Ghosts"
Ryman, Geoff : "Air"
Sackville, Amy : "Orkney"
Sanderson, Brandon : "Elantris"
Sapkowski, Andrzej : "Blood of Elves"
Satrapi, Marjane : "Persepolis"
Scalzi, John : "Old Man's War"
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang : "The Trauma of Defeat"
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"
Shriver, Lionel : "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
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"
Sofer, Dalia : "The Septembers of Shiraz"
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"
Summerscale, Kate : "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"
Swainston, Steph : "The Year of Our War"
Sweet, Caitlin : "A Telling of Stars"
Sweet, Caitlin : "The Silences of Home"
Swift, E.J. : "Osiris"
Szerb, Antal : "Journey By Moonlight"
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 : "Morality Play"
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"
Walton, Jo : "Among Others"
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"
Winchester, Simon : "Krakatoa"
Wolfe, Gene : "Peace"
Wood, Patricia : 'Lottery'
Wooding, Chris : "Retribution Falls"
Yu, Charles : "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe"
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Zhu, Wen : "I Love Dollars"
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