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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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• Nam Lee The boat
• Katherine Mansfield The garden party
• The best Australian short stories 2010
• Stories : all new tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
• Alice Munro - Runaway
• Franz Kafka
• Peter Carey's Collected Stories
• (author/editor title suggestions needed)
• Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth , Interpreter of Maladies
• Karen Russell Swamplandia
• Nathan Englander View from the Seventh Layer
• Kevin Brockmeier how we avenged the Blums
• George Saunders In Persuasion Nation
• NJ Ayres Rust
• Dan Chaon Await your reply
• E Annie Proulx - Close Range; Wyoming Stories
• JD Salinger - For Esme with love and squalor
• Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Fiodor Doystoyevsky - White nights
• Louis Auchincloss - The atonement and other stories
• James Lasdun - It's beginning to hurt
• Tom Cho - Look Who's Morphing
• Steampunk Anthology
• Yearn by Tobsha Learner
• The turning - Tim Winton
• Joyce Carol Oates - Dear husband
• Oscar Wilde -
• Stephen King - Just after sunset ; Night Shift (compilation of stories)
• Angela Carter -
• Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
• Wil Wheaton Sunken treasure
• Annie Proulx - Brokeback mountain