Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

Boris Akunin, The Death of Achilles

J.G.Ballard, The Empire of the Sun

John Banville, The Untouchable

*Dick Barnes, A Word like Fire

Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Pinckney Benedict, Town Smokes

John Berger, To the Wedding

*Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern

Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco

Ted Chiang, Stories of your Life and Others

*Sandra Cisneros, Caramelo

*John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

*Jim Crace, The Gift of Stones

*Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park

*Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics

*Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

James Dickey, Deliverance

E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

Jim Dodge, Rain on the River

Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

Lawrence Durrell, Esprit de Corps

Margaret Edson, Wit

Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

Fumiko Enchi, Masks

María Amparo Escandón, Esperanza’s Box of Saints

Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide

Brian Friel, Translations

Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

Gabriel García Márquez, A Hundred Years of Solitude

*Alex Garland, The Beach

Lorna Goodison, Goldengrove

Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Han Shaogong, A Dictionary of Maqiao

Adam Haslett, You Are Not a Stranger Here

*Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996

Frank Herbert, Dune

Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys

Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down

Patricia Highsmith, Ripley’s Game

Ted Hughes, Crow

Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River

*Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

Ursula Le Guin, Incredible Good Fortune

Sebastien Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement

Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

*Steve Lopez, The Soloist

Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

*Carson McCullers, A Member of the Wedding

*Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes

Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

Les Murray, Learning Human: Selected Poems

V.S.Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas

*Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water

Terry Pratchett. Night Watch

Manuel Puig, The Kiss of the Spider Woman

Spencer Reece, The Clerk’s Tale

Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping: A Novel

Philip Roth, Sabbath’s Theater

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

*Jack Schaefer. Monte Walsh

Paul Scott, Staying On

Luis Sepulveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Nicholas Shakespeare, The Dancer Upstairs

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

*William Stafford, The Darkness Around us is Deep

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

*William Styron, Sophie’s Choice

Graham Swift, Last Orders

Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Jim Thompson, The Grifters

*Colm Tóbín, The Heather Blazing

Zoé Valdés, I Gave You All I Had

Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

Derek Walcott, Omeros

Tim Winton, The Turning: Stories

*Tobias Wolff, The Story Begins

*James Wright, Above the River

Mo Yan, Red Sorghum