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Introduction
List of titles in order of publication
THE MODERN LIBRARY
Chinua Achebe 1930–
1958 Things Fall Apart
Kingsley Amis 1922–1995
1954 Lucky Jim
Martin Amis 1949–
1984 Money
Mulk Raj Anand 1905–2004
1953 Private Life of an Indian Prince
Jessica Anderson 1916–2010
1978 Tirra Lirra by the River
Margaret Atwood 1939–
1996 Alias Grace
Beryl Bainbridge 1934–2010
1977 Injury Time
James Baldwin 1924–1987
1953 Go Tell it on the Mountain
J. G. Ballard 1930–2009
1984 Empire of the Sun
John Banville 1945–
1989 The Book of Evidence
Pat Barker 1943–
1991–1995 The Regeneration Trilogy
Julian Barnes 1946–
1984 Flaubert’s Parrot
Samuel Beckett 1906–1989
1955–1958 The Molloy Trilogy
Sybille Bedford 1911–2006
1956 A Legacy
Sam Hanna Bell 1909–1990
1951 December Bride
(1) Saul Bellow 1915–2005
1953 The Adventures of Augie March
(2) Saul Bellow 1915–2005
1964 Herzog
Elizabeth Bowen 1899–1973
1963 The Little Girls
T. Coraghessan Boyle 1948–
1995 The Tortilla Curtain
Anita Brookner 1928–
1985 Family and Friends
Anthony Burgess 1917–1993
1980 Earthly Powers
William Burroughs 1914–1998
1959 Naked Lunch
A. S. Byatt 1936–
1990 Possession
Peter Carey 1943–
1988 Oscar and Lucinda
Angela Carter 1940–1992
1991 Wise Children
Raymond Carver 1938–1988
1988 Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Chandler 1888–1959
1953 The Long Good-Bye
Bruce Chatwin 1940–1989
1982 On the Black Hill
Amit Chaudhuri 1962–
1991 A Strange and Sublime Address
John Cheever 1912–1982
1977 Falconer
Agatha Christie 1890–1976
1950 A Murder is Announced
Jonathan Coe 1961–
1994 What a Carve Up!
(US: The Winshaw Legacy)
J. M. Coetzee 1940–
1990 Age of Iron
Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–1969
1959 A Heritage and its History
Jim Crace 1946–
1997 Quarantine
Michael Cunningham 1952–
1990 A Home at the End of the World
Robertson Davies 1913–1995
1970 Fifth Business
Louis de Bernières 1954–
1994 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
(US: Corelli’s Mandolin)
Don DeLillo 1936–
1997 Underworld
Anita Desai 1937–
1984 In Custody
Pete Dexter 1943–
1988 Paris Trout
Joan Didion 1934–
1977 A Book of Common Prayer
Isak Dinesen 1885–1962
1958 Anecdotes of Destiny
E. L. Doctorow 1931–
1975 Ragtime
Roddy Doyle 1958–
1990 The Snapper
Margaret Drabble 1939–
1977 The Ice Age
Maureen Duffy 1933–
1962 That’s How it Was
Daphne du Maurier 1907–1989
1951 My Cousin Rachel
Bret Easton Ellis 1964–
1991 American Psycho
Ralph Ellison 1914–1994
1952 Invisible Man
Jeffrey Eugenides 1960–
1993 The Virgin Suicides
J. G. Farrell 1935–1979
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
William Faulkner 1897–1962
1962 The Reivers: A Reminiscence
Sebastian Faulks 1953–
1993 Birdsong
Penelope Fitzgerald 1916–2000
1995 The Blue Flower
Thomas Flanagan 1923–2002
1979 The Year of the French
Richard Ford 1944–
1986 The Sportswriter
Frederick Forsyth 1938–
1971 The Day of the Jackal
John Fowles 1926–2005
1966 The Magus
Janet Frame 1924–2004
1957 Owls Do Cry
Charles Frazier 1950–
1997 Cold Mountain
William Gaddis 1922–1998
1955 The Recognitions
Mavis Gallant 1922–
1979 From the Fifteenth District
Helen Garner 1942–
1984 The Children’s Bach
William H. Gass 1924–
1968 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
(revised edition 1981)
Maurice Gee 1931–
1978 Plumb
Kaye Gibbons 1960–
1987 Ellen Foster
William Golding 1911–1993
1954 Lord of the Flies
Nadine Gordimer 1923–
1979 Burger’s Daughter
Alasdair Gray 1934–
1981 Lanark: A Life of Four Books
Henry Green 1905–1973
1950 Nothing
Graham Greene 1904–1991
1978 The Human Factor
Patrick Hamilton 1904–1962
1951 The West Pier
Elizabeth Hardwick 1916–2007
1979 Sleepless Nights
Frank Hardy 1917–1994
1950 Power Without Glory
Thomas Harris 1941–
1981 Red Dragon
Wilson Harris 1921–
1964 Heartland
L. P. Hartley 1895–1972
1953 The Go-Between
Shirley Hazzard 1931–
1980 The Transit of Venus
Roy A. K. Heath 1926–2008
1978 The Murderer
Joseph Heller 1923–1999
1961 Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961
1952 The Old Man and the Sea
Georgette Heyer 1902–1974
1950 The Grand Sophy
Carl Hiaasen 1953–
1987 Double Whammy
Patricia Highsmith 1921–1995
1955 The Talented Mr Ripley
Oscar Hijuelos 1951–
1989 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Russell Hoban 1925–
1980 Riddley Walker
Alan Hollinghurst 1954–
1994 The Folding Star
Kazuo Ishiguro 1954–
1986 An Artist of the Floating World
P. D. James 1920–
1994 Original Sin
Elizabeth Jenkins 1905–2010
1954 The Tortoise and the Hare
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1927–
1975 Heat and Dust
B. S. Johnson 1933–1973
1969 The Unfortunates
Elizabeth Jolley 1923–2007
1988 The Sugar Mother
James Kelman 1946–
1994 How Late it Was, How Late
Thomas Keneally 1935–
1982 Schindler’s Ark
(US: Schindler’s List)
Jack Kerouac 1922–1969
1957 On the Road
Balraj Khanna 1940–
1984 Nation of Fools: Or Scenes from Indian Life
Stephen King 1948–
1987 Misery
Margaret Laurence 1926–1987
1966 A Jest of God
Mary Lavin 1912–1996
1969 Happiness
John le Carré 1931–
1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Harper Lee 1926–
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
Rosamond Lehmann 1901–1990
1953 The Echoing Grove
Elmore Leonard 1925–
1990 Get Shorty
Doris Lessing 1919–
1962 The Golden Notebook
David Lodge 1935–
1975 Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
Bernard MacLaverty 1942–
1980 Lamb
Alistair MacLeod 1936–
1976 The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Eugene McCabe 1930–
1992 Death and Nightingales
Patrick McCabe 1955–
1992 The Butcher Boy
Cormac McCarthy 1935–
1985 Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West
Mary McCarthy 1912–1989
1963 The Group
Carson McCullers 1917–1967
1951 The Ballad of the Sad Café
Ian McEwan 1948–
1978 The Cement Garden
John McGahern 1934–2006
1990 Amongst Women
Patrick McGrath 1950–
1996 Asylum
Larry McMurtry 1936–
1985 Lonesome Dove
Norman Mailer 1923–2007
1979 The Executioner’s Song
Bernard Malamud 1914–1986
1952 The Natural
David Malouf 1934–
1990 The Great World
Olivia Manning 1908–1980
1960–1965 The Balkan Trilogy
William Maxwell 1908–2000
1980 So Long, See you Tomorrow
Gita Mehta 1942–
1993 A River Sutra
Rohinton Mistry 1952–
1995 A Fine Balance
Timothy Mo 1950–
1991 The Redundancy of Courage
Brian Moore 1921–1999
1985 Black Robe
Frank Moorhouse 1938–
1988 Forty-Seventeen
Toni Morrison 1931–
1987 Beloved
Alice Munro 1931–
1990 Friend of My Youth
Iris Murdoch 1919–1999
1968 The Nice and the Good
Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977
1955 Lolita
(1) V. S. Naipaul 1932–
1961 A House for Mr Biswas
(2) V. S. Naipaul 1932–
1979 A Bend in the River
R. K. Narayan 1906–2001
1952 The Financial Expert
Patrick O’Brian 1914–2000
1970 Master and Commander
Edna O’Brien 1932–
1962 The Lonely Girl
Flannery O’Connor 1925–1964
1952 Wise Blood
John O’Hara 1905–1970
1958 From the Terrace
Michael Ondaatje 1943–
1987 In the Skin of a Lion
Grace Paley 1922–2007
1959 The Little Disturbances of Man
Jayne Anne Phillips 1952–
1984 Machine Dreams
Sylvia Plath 1932–1963
1963 The Bell Jar
Katherine Anne Porter 1890–1980
1962 Ship of Fools
Anthony Powell 1905–2000
1951–1975 A Dance to the Music of Time
A Question of Upbringing (1951), A Buyer’s Market (1952)
The Acceptance World (1955), At Lady Molly’s (1957),
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960), The Kindly Ones (1962),
The Valley of Bones (1964), The Soldier’s Art (1966),
The Military Philosophers (1968), Books Do Furnish a Room (1971),
Temporary Kings (1973), Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)
V. S. Pritchett 1900–1997
1998 The Lady from Guatemala
E. Annie Proulx 1935–
1993 The Shipping News
Mario Puzo 1920–1999
1969 The Godfather
Thomas Pynchon 1937–
1973 Gravity’s Rainbow
Jean Rhys 1894–1979
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea
Anne Rice 1941–
1976 Interview with the Vampire
Mordecai Richler 1931–2001
1971 St Urbain’s Horseman
Marilynne Robinson 1943–
1980 Housekeeping
Philip Roth 1933–
1997 American Pastoral
Norman Rush 1933–
1991 Mating
Salman Rushdie 1947–
1981 Midnight’s Children
J. D. Salinger 1919–2010
1951 The Catcher in the Rye
Frank Sargeson 1903–1982
1965 Memoirs of a Peon
Paul Scott 1920–1978
1966 The Jewel in the Crown
Hubert Selby Jr. 1928–2004
1964 Last Exit to Brooklyn
Will Self 1961–
1993 My Idea of Fun
A Cautionary Tale
Vikram Seth 1952–
1993 A Suitable Boy
Bapsi Sidhwa 1938–
1988 Ice-Candy-Man
(US: Cracking India)
Alan Sillitoe 1928–2010
1958 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Iain Sinclair 1943–
1991 Downriver (or the Vessels of Wrath):
A Narrative in Twelve Tales
Khushwant Singh 1915–
1956 Train to Pakistan
Jane Smiley 1951–
1991 A Thousand Acres
Wole Soyinka 1934–
1965 The Interpreters
Muriel Spark 1918–2006
1961 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Christina Stead 1902–1983
1966 Cotters’ England
(US: Dark Places of the Heart)
John Steinbeck 1902–1968
1952 East of Eden
Robert Stone 1931–
1981 A Flag for Sunrise
David Storey 1933–
1976 Saville
Francis Stuart 1902–2000
1971 Black List, Section H
William Styron 1925–2006
1967 The Confessions of Nat Turner
Graham Swift 1949–
1996 Last Orders
Amy Tan 1952–
1989 The Joy Luck Club
Donna Tartt 1964–
1992 The Secret History
Elizabeth Taylor 1912–1975
1957 Angel
Peter Taylor 1917–1994
1986 A Summons to Memphis
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 1938–
1967 A Grain of Wheat
John Kennedy Toole 1937–1969
1980 A Confederacy of Dunces
William Trevor 1928–
1991 Reading Turgenev
Amos Tutuola 1920–1997
1953 The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town
Anne Tyler 1941–
1988 Breathing Lessons
John Updike 1932–2009
1960–1990 The Rabbit Quartet
Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) 1930–
1986 A Dark-Adapted Eye
Alice Walker 1944–
1982 The Color Purple
Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893–1978
1954 The Flint Anchor
Evelyn Waugh 1903–1966
1952–1961 The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Fay Weldon 1933–
1980 Puffball
Irvine Welsh 1958–
1993 Trainspotting
Eudora Welty 1909–2006
1972 The Optimist’s Daughter
Rebecca West 1892–1983
1957 The Fountain Overflows
Edmund White 1940–
1982 A Boy’s Own Story
Patrick White 1912–1990
1961 Riders in the Chariot
Jeanette Winterson 1959–
1985 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Tim Winton 1960–
1991 Cloudstreet
P. G. Wodehouse 1881–1975
1960 Jeeves in the Offing
(US: How Right You Are, Jeeves)
Tom Wolfe 1931–
1988 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tobias Wolff 1945–
1996 The Night in Question
Francis Wyndham 1924–
1987 The Other Garden
Autobiographies and Memoirs
TWENTY OF THE BEST WRITTEN SINCE 1950
Literary Biographies
TWENTY OF THE BEST WRITTEN SINCE 1950
Poetry
TWENTY OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS PUBLISHED SINCE 1950
Autobiographies and memoirs by novelists chosen in this book
Literary biographies of novelists chosen in this book
Literary Prizewinners
BOOKER PRIZE
THE CNA AWARD
COMMONWEALTH PRIZE
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD
HUGHES & HUGHES IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD
MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
PRIX FEMINA ÉTRANGER
PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER
PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
STAKIS PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH WRITER OF THE YEAR
SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR
WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD
WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD
Acknowledgements
Index of Titles
About the Author
