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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.

• Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s honor, Richard Sharpe series (also in Historical suggestions)
• Stephen Coonts (title suggestions needed)
• CS Forester Lieutenant Hornblower
• Douglas Reeman (title suggestions needed)
• Joseph Hellers Catch 22
• Tom Clancy The hunt for Red October
• Alastair McLean (title suggestions needed) Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone (query age of titles...)
• WB Griffin (title suggestions needed)
• Alexander Kent (title suggestions needed)
• J D Hunter (title suggestions needed)
• (author and title suggestions needed)
• Patrick O'Brian - Master & Commander series
• Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
• Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk
• Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace
• Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
• Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
• Thomas Keneally - Schindlers Ark
• Joseph Heller -Catch 22
• A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (or possibly lit.fict)
• Le Carre, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Julian Stockwin - Thomas Kydd series
• Paul Brickhill - The Great Escape
• Duncan Harding - Sink the Bismark
• Kit Denton - Breaker
• Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
• Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
• Stephen Pressfield - Gates of Fire
• Leon Uris - Battle Cry
• Leo Kessler -
• Dale Brown -
• Clive Egleton - The Alsos Mission
• Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
• James Dickey - To the white sea
• Graham Greene - The Quiet American
• Nelson DeMille - Up Country
• Tim O'Brien - The Things they carried
• Louis De Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Fiction
• Elizabeth Speller - The return of Captain John Emmett