A severed head
Iris Murdoch
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Thomas Mann
Blind man with a pistol
Chester B. Himes
Captain Corelli's mandolin
Louis De Bernières
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dead babies
Martin Amis
Elizabeth Costello
J. M. Coetzee
Farewell, my lovely
Raymond Chandler
In the heart of the country
Life & times of Michael K.
London fields
Pale fire: a novel
Vladimir Nabokov
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the grass
Isak Dinesen
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Portnoy's complaint
Philip Roth
Pnin
The cement garden
Ian McEwan
The English patient: a novel
Michael Ondaatje
The human stain
The Maltese falcon
Dashiell Hammett
The Magic Mountain
The master of Petersburg
The quiet American
Graham Greene
The Sea
John Banville
The sputnik sweetheart: a novel
Haruki Murakami
Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offense
Under the net
Waiting for the Barbarians
Youth
White teeth: a novel
Zadie Smith
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved: a novel
Toni Morrison
American pastoral
The Fall
Albert Camus
Exile and the Kingdom
Wild Town
Jim Thompson
Texas by the Tail
A Swell-Looking Babe
South of Heaven
Savage Night
Roughneck
Pop. 1280
Now and On Earth
Nothing More Than Murder
The Nothing Man
The Kill-Off
A Hell of a Woman
The Golden Gizmo
Cropper's Cabin
The Criminal
The Alcoholics
Our Friends from Frolix 8
Philip K. Dick
The stars my destination
Alfred Bester
The demolished man
Ubik
The divine invasion
Solar lottery
Flow my tears, the policeman said
Confessions of a crap artist