Thank you for your help in compiling this information. The list was determined 25 May 2011.

The Public Libraries Stock Quality Health Check (SQHC) is a practical tool which enables public libraries to undertake an assessment of the relevance, depth and range of collection stock in relation to the communities they service. More information about this project is available from here.

For the first phase of this project we need to identify 500 adult fiction titles which together are indicative of a healthy adult fiction collection. This is not a shopping list of titles, but an indicative list. There will be a very broad range of titles in this list from the very popular to the very literary.

Your help is requested for compiling this list.

Have a look at the pages which are linked below and suggest titles and authors for consideration for this list of 500 titles. Look at who is there already, and add your suggestions. Keep in mind that the aim of the final 500 list is to produce a list of 500 adult fiction titles which are indicative of a healthy fiction collection.

The hundreds and hundreds of titles suggested will be whittled down to 500 titles (clustered in categories) at a meeting in late May (date yet to be confirmed). There will be call for fiction subject specialists to participate in this meeting.

The aim is to have each title only mentioned once in the list (but it will be the job of the project team to sort this out). At present the project team needs help with suggestions. Please add your suggested authors and titles to the wiki in dark blue. Do not delete or edit (unless to correct spelling) the work of others as we need as many suggestions as possible so that the final list is indicative and robust.

Are there other categories which should be included? Can some of these be collapsed together? Please add these ideas and comments (and the associated suggested titles on the page set aside for this.

Action/Adventure
Australasian
Chick Lit
Classics
Comedy
Family Saga
Fantasy
Gay and Lesbian
Historical
Historical Romance
Horror
Indigenous
Inspirational
Lad Lit
Literary Fiction
Magic realism
Military/War
Mills and Boon
Mystery and crime
Old favourites
Paranormal Romance
Romance
Science fiction
Short Stories
Thrillers
Westerns
World writing
Suggestions for other categories

Don't forget to think of new authors as well.

Ellen Forsyth for the Stock Quality Health Check Project Team