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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.


Q: what is LadLit? Definition please ..........

• Nick Hornby (title suggestions needed) Juliet, Naked, About a Boy
  
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• Geoffrey McGeachin, DED Dead, Sensetive new age spy, Dead and Kicking
  
• Patrick O'Brian - Master & Commander series
  
• Dominic Knight - Disco Boy
  
• Mike Gayle - Turning Thirty
  
• Nick Earls - Headgames
  
• Ben Elton - Inconceivable
  
• Nicholas Evans - The Smoke jumper
  
• Thomas Berger - Best friends
  
• William Boyd - Any human heart
  
• Paul Auster - Moon palace
  
• Ralph Ellison - Invisible man
• Charles Bukowski - Women
• Raymond Carver - What we talk about when we talk about love
• James Dickey - Deliverance
• Cormac McCarthy - Blood meridian
• Edward P Jones - The Known world
• Matthew Reilly - Ice Station
• Peter Carey - Bliss
• Frank Moorhouse - Forty-Seventeen
• Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
• James Patterson - Tick tock
• Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho
• Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
• John Sandford - Wicked Prey (Prey series.)
• William Golding - Lord of the Flies
• Don Delillo - White Noise
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
• James Jones - The Thin red line
• John Knowles - A Separate peace
• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
• Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage
• Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
• Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
• Tom Clancy - The hunt for Red October
• Mathew Reilly - Hovercraft Racer
• James Patterson - Maximum ride
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