Reading List: Modern/Contemporary Fiction

Titles listed are not done so in order of merit.

A Sad Affair – Wolfgang Koeppen
Time Will Darken It – William Maxwell
The Ghost Writer – John Harwood
After You’d Gone – Maggie O’Farrell
Notes On A Scandal – Zoe Heller
About The Author – John Colapinto
Blue Angel – Francine Prose
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift – Elinor Lipman
The Cutting Room – Louise Welsh
Half in Love – Justin Cartwright
Back Trouble - Clare Chambers
The Trail of True Love – William Nicholson
A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Bank
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Eva – Peter Dickinson
Chocky – John Wyndam
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths – Barbara Comyns
The Calligrapher – Edward Docx
The Diary of a Provincial Lady – E.M. Delafield
The Night Listener – Armistead Maupin
The Enderby Trilogy – Anthony Burgess
The Lake of Darkness – Ruth Rendell
The Rachel Papers – Martin Amis
Before She Met me – Julian Barnes
A Book of Matches – Nicholson Baker
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Elidor - Alan Garner
The Collector – John Fowles
Curtain – Agatha Christie
The Hollow Man – John Dickson Carr
Couples – John Updike
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – Patrick Hamilton
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold – Evelyn Waugh
Of Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham
An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
Caught – Henry Green
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
On the Beach – Nevil Shute
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Fan’s Notes – Frederick Exley
Jill – Philip Larkin
The Case of Mr Crump – Ludwig Lewisohn