Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Library of Babel/Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Outsider by Albert Camus

The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Beloved by Toni Morrison

1984 by George Orwell

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Blindness by José Saramago

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Candide by Voltaire

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

Chocky by John Wyndham