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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 literacy. Find out more about the project here.

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• Michael Frayn The tin men
• P G Wodehouse (title suggestions needed)
• Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
• Stephen Fry (title suggestions needed)
• Ben Elton Popcorn
• Tom Sharpe (title suggestions needed)
• John Kennedy Toole A confederacy of dunces
• (author and title suggestions needed)
• Please put your ideas and suggestions here
• Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• Terry Pratchett - Discworld series : Soul Music
• Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
• Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon series
• Carl Hiaasen
• Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
• Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum series
• Ian McEwan - Solar
• David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
• Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
• Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is illuminated
• Zoe Heller - The Believers
• Meg Wolitzer - The Wife
• Marina Lewycka - A Short history of tractors in Ukranian
• Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
• Peter Carey - Illywhacker
• Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
• David Lodge - Nice Work
• Armistead Maupin - Tales of the city
• Will Self - Great Apes
• Kerry Greenwood - Corinna Chapman Earthly delights series
• Mal Odom - The Librarian
• Jasper Fforde - First among sequels
• P.G. Wodehouse - My man Jeeves
• Spike Milligan - Bedside Milligan
• Rudd Steele - Dad and Dave
• Nino Culotta - They're a weird mob
• Tom Holt - You don't have to be evil to workl here, but it helps
• Ben Elton - Stark
• Tom Sharpe - Wilt
• Kate Jacobs - Friday night knitting club
• Kathy Lette - How to kill your husband
• Kathy Lette - To love, honour and betray
• Helen fielding - Bridget Jones' diary
• Marian Keyes - Under the duvet
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