1. Jane Austen: Persuasion
2. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
3. Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
4. Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
5. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
7. Terry Pratchett: The Night Watch
8. Neville Shute: A Town like Alice
9. Daphne Du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
10. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
11. Andrea Levy: Small Island
12. Homer: The Odyessy
13. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
14. Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London
15. Arthur Upfield: The Bone is Pointed
16. Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
17. John Buchan: Thirty-Nine Steps
18. Tony Hillerman: Listening Woman
19. J R R Tolkien: The Hobbit
20. Jane Harper: The Dry
21. John Preston: The Dig
22. Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
23. Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers
24. John Le Carre: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
25. Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger