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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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• James Joyce - Portrait of the artist as a young man; Ulysses
• Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
• Michael Cunningham - The hours
• Kazuo Ishigaro - Remains of the day
• Ernest Hemingway - For whom the bell tolls; The old man and the the sea
• William Faulkner - Sound and the fury
• Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• (author and title suggestions needed)
• J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the rye
• Martin Amis - London Fields
• Peter Carey - Bliss
• Ian McEwan - Saturday ; On Chesil Beach ; Atonement
• Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
• E Anne Proulx - The shipping news
• Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's rainbow, Vineland
• Graham Greene - The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Third Man
• Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
• A. S. Byatt - Possession
• Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire
• Please put your ideas and suggestions here
• Orhan Pamuk : Snow
• Extremely loud and incredibly close : Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Sportswriter: Richard Ford
• Andrew O'Hagan: Be near me
• Union Atlantic: Adam Haslett
• Freedom: Jonathan Franzen
• The Corrections: Jonathan Franzen
• Paul Auster: Leviathan (or other suggested titles)
• Suri Hustvedt : What I have loved
• American Rust: Philip Meyer
• The Road : Cormac McCarthy
• Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
• Arundhati Roy - God of small things
• Zoology - Ben Dolnick
• Heliopolis - James Scudamore
• Apples - Richard Milward
• Twitterature - Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• The secret history by Donna Tartt
• Ransom - David Malouf
  
• David Mitchel - Cloud Atlas
• Paul Coelho - Veronika decides to die
• Alice Sebold - The lovely bones
• Lori Lansens - The girls
• Murray Ball - Eucalyptus
• Adiga, Aravind - The white tiger
• Anne Tyler - Digging to America/Noahs Compass/The Amature Marriage
  

Note: I have some concerns here with authors/titles which exceed the 10 yr publication date, whilst they are undoubtedly classic examples of literary fiction it is worth remaining cautious of some of these titles unless they are reasonably gauaranteed of being regularly reprinted. (CatyJ)