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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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• Salman Rushdie Midnight’s children
• Isabelle Allende The house of spirits
• Michael Ondatje The English patient
• Chinua Achebe Things fall apart
• Herman Hesse The glass bead game
• Haruki Murakami Norwegian wood
• Gabrielle Garcia Marquez One hundred years of solitude/Love in the Time of Cholera
• Orhan Parmuk My Name is Red, Snow
• Jumpa Lahiri The Namesake
• Monical Ali Brick Lane
• Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Yann Martel Life of Pi
• Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
• Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
• Vikram Seth An Equal Music
• Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
• Alexander McCall Smith The Tears of the Giraffe
• Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
• Gao Xingjian Soul Mountain
• David Mitchell Cloud Atlas (Contemporary British)
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• Aravind Adiga The white tiger
• Ben Okri - The famished road
• Rohinton Mistry A fine balance
• Bernhard Schlink The reader
• Johnathan Franzen - The corrections
• Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
• Emile Zola - Nana
• Emile Zola - L'assommoir
• Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
• Philippe Claudel - Grey Souls
• Per Petterson - Out Stealing Horses
• Marcel Proust - In search of lost time
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
• Khaled Hosseini - a Thousand Splendid Suns
• Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin
• The Kite runner: Khaled Hosseini
• Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Flanders panel
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
• The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
• Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind, Angel's Game
  
• Jose Saramago - Blindness, Death at Intervals,
  
• Ryu Murakami - In the Miso Soup
  
• Vikas Swarup - Q & A(aka Slumdog Millionaire)
• Khaled Housseini - The kite runner
• Ken Follett - Fall of giants
• Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a geisha
• Irene Nemirovski - Suite Francaise