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- 1. 'Real World' by Natsuo Kirino
- 2. 'Manhattan Nocturne' by Colin Harrison
- 3. 'The Life of Hunger' by Amélie Nothomb
- 4. 'Songs of Blue and Gold' by Deborah Lawrenson
- 5. 'Something Childish But Very Natural' by Katherine Mansfield
- 6. 'My Dream of You' by Nuala O'Faolain
- 7. 'Bad Traffic' by Simon Lewis
- 8. 'Diary of a Bad Year' by J.M. Coetzee
- 9. 'A Woman of My Age' by Nina Bawden
- 10. 'A Mere Interlude' by Thomas Hardy
- 11. 'In a Summer Season' by Elizabeth Taylor
- 12. 'The Other Hand' by Chris Cleave
- 13. 'Matrimony' by Joshua Henkin
- 14. 'The Murder Farm' by Andrea Maria Schenkel
- 15. 'Out of a Clear Sky' by Sally Hinchcliffe
- 16. 'Wanting' by Richard Flanagan
- 17. 'Shadow' by Karin Alvtegen
- 18. 'PopCo' by Scarlett Thomas
- 19. 'What To Do When Someone Dies' by Nicci French
- 20. 'Until It's Over' by Nicci French
- 21. 'To Siberia' by Per Petterson
- 22. 'The Poison That Fascinates' by Jennifer Clement
- 23. 'The Gates' by Jennifer Johnston
- 24. 'The Secret Scripture' by Sebastian Barry
- 25. 'Time After Time' by Molly Keane
- 26. 'Kill & Cure' by Stephen Davison
- 27. 'Molly Fox's Birthday' by Deirdre Madden
- 28. 'The Preacher' by Camilla Läckberg
- 29. 'Monster Love' by Carol Topolski
- 30. 'The Second Plane' by Martin Amis
- 31. 'In the Woods' by Tana French
- 32. 'The Wilderness' by Samantha Harvey
- 33. 'In the Wake of the Boatman' by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
- 34. 'The Journalist and the Murderer' by Janet Malcolm
- 35. 'Selling Light' by Effie Gray
- 36. 'Once Upon A Time in England' by Helen Walsh
- 37. 'All Names Have Been Changed' by Claire Kilroy
- 38. 'Hot House Flower' by Margot Berwin
- 39. 'Guardian Work' by Ian Carpenter
- 40. 'The Chrysalids' by John Wyndham
- 41. 'Journey into the Past' by Stefan Zweig
- 42. 'Snuff' by Chuck Palahniuk
- 43. 'The Book of Rapture' by Nikki Gemmell
- 44. 'The Harrowing' by Robert Dinsdale
- 45. 'Personal Velocity' by Rebecca Miller
- 46. 'My Last Confession' by Helen FitzGerald
- 47. 'Dancing Backwards' by Salley Vickers
- 48. 'Once & Then' by Morris Gleitzman
- 49. 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath
- 50. 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' by Paolo Giordano
- 51. 'Explorers of the New Century' by Magnus Mills
- 52. 'Netherland' by Joseph O'Neill
- 53. 'Scoop-Wallah' by Justine Hardy
- 54. 'The Shiralee' by D'Arcy Niland
- 55. 'The Pages' by Murray Bail
- 56. 'A Drinking Life' by Pete Hamill
- 57. 'The Death of Bunny Munro' by Nick Cave
- 58. 'The Gift' by Pete Hamill
- 59. 'Voice Over' by Celine Curiol
- 60. 'Not Untrue & Not Unkind' by Ed O'Loughlin
- 61. 'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín
- 62. 'Eight Months on Ghazzah Street' by Hilary Mantel
- 63. 'Arctic Chill' by Arnaldur Indriðason
- 64. 'The Texicans' by Nina Vida
- 65. 'I Served the King of England' by Bohumil Hrabal
- 66. 'Pretty Monsters' by Kelly Link
- 67. 'Trauma' by Patrick McGrath
- 68. 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' by Shirley Jackson
- 69. 'Quartet' by Jean Rhys
- 70. 'Legend of a Suicide' by David Vann
- 71. 'A Far Cry From Kensington' by Muriel Spark
- 72. 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson
- 73. 'Let The Great World Spin' by Colum McCann
- 74. 'The Space Between Us' by John MacKenna
- 75. 'Winterland' by Alan Glynn
- 76. 'The Lonely Londoners' by Sam Selvon
- 77. 'Truth or Fiction' by Jennifer Johnston
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