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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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• Armisted Maupin Tales of the city
• Janette Winterson Oranges are not the only fruit
• Sarah Waters Tipping the velvet
• James Baldwin Giovanni’s room
• Tim Connigrave Holding the man
• David Leavitt - Lost Language of Cranes
• Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance
• Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray
• Edmund White - A boy's own story
• Patrick Gale - Rough Music
• Laura Agiri - The god in flight
• Christopher Isherwood - A single man
• Fannie Flagg - Fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe
• Tom Robbins - Even cowgirls get the blues
• Emma Donoghue - Hood
• Sarah Schulman - Rat Bohemia
• JM Redmann - Water mark
• Claire McNab - Accidental Murder

• Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
• Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina
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• Dorothy Porter - The Monkey's mask
• Patricia Highsmith - Carol
• Ellen Hart - Sweet poison
• David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy
• Christopher Bram - Father of Frankenstein
• Graeme Aitken - 50 ways to say fabulous
• Michael Thomas Ford - The Way home
• Andre Aciman - Call me by your name