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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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• Ian Rankin (title suggestions needed)
  
• Ellis Peters (title suggestions needed)
  
• Lee Child (title suggestions needed)
  
• Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the Nile
  
• Michael Connolly The poet
  
• John Connelly (title suggestions needed)
  
• Arthur Conan Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles
  
• Steig Larsson The girl with the dragon tattoo
  
• Colin Dexter (title suggestions needed)
  
• Patricia Cornwell Blowfly
  
• Reginald Hill On Beulah Heights
  
• P D James (title suggestions needed)
  
• John Grisham The firm/ The confession The Partner
  
• Sue Grafton R is for ricochet
  
• Kathy Reichs Bare bones
  
• Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer (title suggestions needed)
  
• Kerry Greenwood Cocaine Blues
  
• Peter Temple The broken shore
  
• Peter Corris (title suggestions needed)
  
• Christopher West (title suggestions needed)
  
• George Pelecarnos (title suggestions needed)
  
• George Simeon (title suggestions needed)
  
• Lillian Jackson Braun The cat who (title suggestions needed)
  
• Ed McBain Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man
  
• MC Beaton - Hamish MacBeth series
  
• Ruth Rendell (title suggestions needed)
  
• Barbara Vine (title suggestions needed)
  
• James Ellroy LA Confidential
  
• Brett Easton Ellis Less than zero
  
• Raymond Chandler The big sleep, The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye
  
• James M Payne (title suggestions needed)
  
• Carl Hiassen Skinny Dip
  
• Sandra Brown The witness, Fat Tuesday
  
• Dan Brown The Da Vinci code
  
• Patrica Highsmith The talented Mr Ripley, Deep Water
  
• Josephine Tey The daughter of time
  
• Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series - One for the money
  
• Colin Cotteral (title suggestions needed)
  
• Karen Altvtegen (title suggestions needed)
  
• Henning Mankell (title suggestions needed)
  
• Asa Larson (title suggestions needed)
  
• Liza Maklund (title suggestions needed)
  
• Reny Airth (title suggestions needed)
  
• Jonathan Kellerman (title suggestions needed)
  
• Donna Leon A Question of belief
  
• H R Keating (title suggestions needed)
  
• Elmore Leonard Get Shorty
  
• Stuart Wood (title suggestions needed)
  
• Gabrielle Lord (title suggestions needed)
  
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• Michael Robotham - Shatter
  
• Barry Maitland - Dark mirror
  
• Peter Hoeg - Smillas Sense of Snow
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
  
• Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
  
• Leonardo Sciascia - To each his own
  
• Mario Puzo - The Godfather
  
• Umburto Eco - The name of the rose
  
• Raymond Chandler - The big Sleep
  
• James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
  
• Stuart MacBride - Shatter the Bones
  
• Henning Mankell - The troubled Man
  
• Alexander McCall-Smith - The No 1 Ladies detective Agency
  
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  
• Fred Vargas - Seeking whom he may devour
  
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of thBaskerville
  
• Peter Corris - Deep Water
  
• Agatha Christie - The murder of Roger Ackroyd
  
• Val McDermid -
  
• Deborah Crombie - Leave the Grave Green
  
• James Lee Burke - Dave Robicheaux series, Tin Roof Blowdown, Dixie City Jam
  
• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key
  
• Patrick Suskind - Perfume: the Story of a Murdere
  
• Colin Falconer - Venom
  
• Mary Higgins Clark - Daddy's little girl
  
• Mary Higgins Clark - No place like home
  
• Angela S. Choi - Hello Kitty Must Die
  
• Anne Perry - William Monk series
  
• Tin roof blowdown - James Lee Burke
  
• Louise Penny - The brutal telling/ Bury your dead
  
• Elly Griffiths - The crossing places/ The Janus stone/ The house at sea's end
  
• Tess Gerritsen - In their footsteps
  
• Tana French - In the woods/ The likeness/ Faithful place
• Peter May - The blackhouse
• Faye Kellerman - Straight into darkness
• Harlan Coben - Promise me

• Lisa Jackson - Chosen to die
  
• Fred Vargas - The chalk circle man
  
• David Hewson - City of fear
  
• Kate Atkinson - When will there be good news?
• Lindsey Davis - The silver pigs/Falco series
• Jill Paton Walsh - thrones Dominations/A presumption of death
• Tony Park - African Sky
• Anthea Fraser - Eleven that went up to heaven
• Austin Wright - Tony and Susan
• Walter Mosley - Walkin' the dog
• James Patterson - Along came a spider
• JD Robb - Naked in death
• Peter Temple - In the evil day
• Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
• Patricia Cornwell - Post mortem
• Dan Brown - The da vinci code
• Lee Child - Worth dying for
• Sue Graft - A is for alibi
• Dick Francis - Blood sport
• Iris Johansen - Fire story
• Louise Penny - Dead cold
• James Lee Burke - Glass rainbow
• PJ Tracy - Monkey wrench
• Jonathan Kellermn - Monster
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