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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.

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.

• Catherine Cookson (title suggestions needed)
• Maeve Binchy (title suggestions needed)
• Rosamund Pilcher (title suggestions needed) The Shell Seekers
• Danielle Steele (title suggestions needed)
• Jackie Collins (title suggestions needed)
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• John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
• Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy
• Louis De Bernieres - Captain Corellis Mandolin
• Ian McEwan - Attonement
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  Monica McInerney - Those Faraday Girls
• Helen Forrester - Liverpool (series)
• Tamara McKinley - Jacaranda Wines
• Gabriel Garcia Marqueuz - One hundred Years of Solitude
• Jeffrey Eugides – Middlesex
• Pat Conroy – Prince of Tides
• Jeffrey Archer – Kane and Abel
• Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
• Barbara Taylor Bradford – A Woman of Substance
• John Crowley- Little, big
• VC Andrew – Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind
• Alex Haley – Roots
• Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
• Isabel Allende – The House of Spirits
• Ann-Marie MacDonald –Fall on Your Knees
• Abraham Veegere – Cutting For Stone
• John Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga
• Steig Larsson – The Girls With the Dragon Tattoo
• Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
• Elizabeth Jane Howard – Marking Time; Confusion; The Light Years
• Susan Howatch – Wheel of Fortune
• Amy Tan Joy Luck Club
• Penny Vincenzi – Into Temptation
• V. Stuart (William Stuart Long) – the Australians series
• Ruth Park - Poor man's orange
• Ken Follett - Fall of giants
• Barbara Taylor Bradford - A woman of substance
• Jodi Picoult - Perfect match
• Jodi Picoult - My sister's keeper
• We need to talk about Kevin - Anita Shreve
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