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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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Definition of Inspirational Fiction: Books which highlight people overcoming adversity or reaching new levels of understanding either by their own efforts or with the aid of a higher power.

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• Paulo Coehlo - The Alchemist
• Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
  
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• Paulo Coelho - Veronica Decides to Die
• Toni Jordan - Addition
• F Scott Fitzgerald - The great Gatsby
• Utopia - Thomas Moore
• S.E. Hinton- The Outsiders
• Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Joan Brady - God on a harley
• Mitch Albom - For one more day
• Daniel Gottlieb - Letters for Sam