International Fiction
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Elif Shafak
A.
- Abide With Me | Elizabeth Strout
- The Absolute Book | Elizabeth Knox
Actress | Anne Enright- The Alexandra Quartet | Lawrence Durrell
- All the Little Live Things | Wallace Stegner
- American Fiancee | Eric Dupont
- American Wife | Curtis Sittenfeld
- Amy and Isabelle | Elizabeth Strout
- Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales
Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout- An Artist in the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro
- Arctic Summer | Damon Galgut
Ariadne | Jennifer Saint- Arlington Park | Rachel Cusk
Assembly | Natasha Brown- August Folly | Angela Thirkell
B.
- The Balkan Trilogy | Olivia Manning
- Barracoon | Zora Neal Hurston
- The Bastard of Istanbul | Elif Shafak
Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney- The Bee Sting | Paul Murray
- Before Lunch | Angela Thirkell
Bel Canto | Ann PatchettBewilderment | Richard Powers- Black Narcissus | Rumer Godden
- The Blazing World | Siri Hudsvedt
C.
- Casanova | Andrew Miller
- Cheerfulness Break In | Angela Thirkell
- The Children Act | Ian McEwan
- China Room | Sunjeev Sahota
Circe | Madeline MillerClock Dance | Anne Tyler- The Complete Short Stories of Saki | H.H. Munro
- The Complete Stories | Anita Desai
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | Xiaolu Guo
Coromandel Sea Change | Rumer Godden
D.
- The Day of the Scorpion | Paul Scott
- The Daylight Gate | Jeanette Winterson
- Delta of Venus | Anais Nin
- A Division of the Spoils | Paul Scott
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara- Ducks, Newburypost | Lucy Ellmann
- Dune | Frank Herbert (reread)
The Dutch House | Ann Patchett
E.
- The Enchantress of Florence | Salmon Rushdie
- An Experiment in Love | Hilary Mantel
F.
- The Famished Road | Ben Okri
- Fire From Heaven | Mary Renault
- Flaubert’s Parrot | Julian Barnes
- The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak
- Funeral Games | Mary Renault
G.
- G | John Berger
- The Gap of Time | Jeanette Winterson
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles- The Girl With the Louding Voice | Abi Dare
- The Glass Hotel | Emily St John Mandel
- Golden Hill | Francis Spufford
The Green Road | Anne Enright- Growing Up | Angela Thirkell
H.
- Hagseed | Margaret Atwood
Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell- The Headmistress | Angela Thirkell
The Heather Blazing | Colm Toibin- Heavens | Sandra Newman
High Rising | Angela Thirkell- The History of Rain | Niall Williams
- The House with the Stained-Glass Windows | Zanna Slomiowska
- How to Build a Boat | Elaine Feeney
I.
- I Give It To You | Valerie Martin
- I’d Die For You and other lost stories | F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Importance of Being Kennedy | Laurie Graham
- In Ascension | Martin MacInnes
In Love With George Eliot | Kathy O’Shaughnessy- Ingenious Pain | Andrew Miller
J.
- Jamrach’s Menagerie | Carol Birch
- The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott
- Juggling | Barbara Trapido
K.
- Kudos | Rachel Cusk
L.
- Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier- The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Last Stories by William Trevor- Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
- The Life of Rebecca Jones | Angharad Price
M.
The Magician | Colm ToibinMaisie Dobbs #14 To Die But Once | Jacqueline WinspearMaisie Dobbs #13 In This Grave Hour | Jacqueline WinspearThe Man Who Died Twice | Richard OsmanThe Man Who Saw Everything | Deborah Levy- Marling Hall | Angela Thirkell
- Mary and O’Neil | Justin Cronin
- The Master | Colm Toibin
- Medusa’s Ankles | A. S. Byatt
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur GoldenMemoirs of the Future | Siri HustvedtMidwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty- Milkman | Anna Burns
- Miss Bunting | Angela Thirkell
Miss Carter and the Ifrit | Susan Alice KerbyThe Monster’s We Deserve | Marcus Sedgwick- A Month in the Country | J L Carr
Motherhood | Sheila Heti- The Mountains Sing | Nguyen Phan Que Mai
- Murder in Midsummer
- Murder Takes a Holiday
- The Mysterious Mr Quinn | Agatha Christie
N.
- Narrow Land | Hickey
- The Native Heath | Elizabeth Fair
- The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich
- Noah’s Compass | Anne Tyler
- Nocturnes | Kazuo Ishiguro
Normal People | Sally RooneyNorthbridge Rectory | Angela Thirkell- Nothing But Blue Sky | Kathleen MacMahon
Nothing to See Here | Kevin WilsonNow We Shall Be Entirely Free | Andrew Miller
O.
- Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald
Olive, Again | Elizabeth StroutOn the Black Hill | Bruce Chatwin- One Morning Like a Bird | Andrew Miller
The Only Story | Julian Barnes- Outline | Rachel Cusk
The Overstory | Richard Powers
P.
Pachinko | Min Jin Lee- The Painted Drum | Louise Erdrich
The Parisian | Isabella Hammad- Peace Breaks Out | Angela Thirkell
- The Peacock Spring | Rumer Godden
The Penelopiad | Margaret Atwood- The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
- Philida | Andre Brink
Piranesi | Suzanne Clarke- A Place of Greater Safety | Hilary Mantell
- The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich
- Plan for Chaos | John Wyndham
- The Pleasure Seekers | Tishani Doshi
Pompeii | Robert Harris- The Powerbook | Jeanette Winterson
- Prophet Song | Paul Lynch
Q.
R.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonRedhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler- The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Restoration | Rose Tremain
- The Return of the Soldier | Rebecca West
- Rites of Passage by William Golding
- The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie
The Rotter’s Club by Jonathan Coe- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
S.
- Sansei and Sensibility | Karen Tei Yamashita
The Satapur Moonstone | Jujata Massey- Secret People | John Wyndham
- Seldon Seen | Sarah Ridgard
- Selected Stories Vol 2 | William Trevor
- The Siege of Krishnapur | J G Farrell
Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker- The Singapore Sling | J G Farrell
The Sisters Brothers | Patrick de WittThe Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller- The Sorrows of an American | Siri Hudsvedt
- South Riding | Winifred Holtby
Spam Together | Verily Anderson- The Spectator Bird | Wallace Stegner
- A Start in Life | Anita Brookner
- Strangers | Anita Brookner
- Summer Half | Angela Thirkell
T.
- Temples of Delight | Barbara Trapido
- The Temporary | Rachel Cusk
- They | Kay Dick
- To Calais in Ordinary Times | James Meek
- Tom Lake | Ann Patchett
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
- The Towers of Silence | Paul Scott
- Transit | Rachel Cusk
U.
- The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unicorn | Iris Murdoch
V.
The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett- The Virgin in the Garden | A S Byatt
W.
- Warlight | Michael Ondaatje
Washington Black | Esi Edugyan- Waterland | Graham Swift
- The Weatherhouse | Nan Shepherd
- The Western Wind | Samantha Harvey
- When I Lived in Modern Times | Linda Grant
Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia OwensWhite Houses | Amy Bloom- White Teeth | Zadie Smith
- Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead | Barbara Comyns
The Widows of Malabar Hill | Jujata Massey- Wild Strawberries | Angela Thirkell
X.
Y.
The Year Without Summer | Guinevere Glasfurd- Yellowface | Rebecca F Kuang
Z.
- The Zigzag Way | Anita Desai
The Second-Hand Inheritance TBR – from the libraries of Mr Books’ parents and secondhand book finds of mine.
- Tales from Chaucer in Prose | Charles Cowden Clarke (first published 1833)
- Mary Anne | Daphne du Maurier (1955 – first published 1954)
- The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot (inscribed 13/5/1906 – first published 1860)
- A Modern Comedy | John Galsworthy (1952 – first published 1929)
- Madame Castel’s Lodger | Frances Parkinson Keyes (1963 – first published 1962))
- The Last Days of Pompeii | Lord Lytton (inscribed Xmas 1936 – first published 1834)
- Mauprat | George Sand (1923 – first published 1837)
- The Story of Early English Travel & Discovery | A Waddington Seers (1928 – first published 1923)
- Beyond the Black Stump | Nevil Shute (1956)
- Requiem For a Wren | Nevil Shute (1955)
- Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson (1947 – first published 1886)
- Easter and Other Plays | August Strinberg (1929 – first published 1901))
- The Heritage of Poetry | edited by Philip Wayne (1945 – first published 1940)