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Leila Aboulela
Bird Summons
Chantel Acevedo
The Living Infinite
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Things Fall Apart
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mi Adebayo
Stay With Me
Kaouther Adimi
A Bookshop in Algiers
Leo Adley
If At First
Lisa Allen-Agostini
The Bread the Devil Knead
Selja Ahava
Things That Fall from the Sky
Omar Ahmad (and eight others)
Shatila Stories
Molly Aitken
The Island Child
Shahnaz Ahsan
Hashim & Family
Pushpita Alam and Arunava Sinha (eds)
The Book of Dhaka
Naomin Alderman
The Power
Andre Alexis
Fifteen Dogs
Monica Ali
Love Marriage
Isabel Allende
A Long Petal of the Sea
Selva Almada
The Wind That Lays Waste
Selva Almada
Dead Girls
Rabih Almeddine
An Unnecessary Woman
Elisa Albert
After Birth
Rajaa Alsanea
Girls of Riyadh
Ahmet Altan
Like a Sword Wound
Lisa Alther
Other Women
Judith Amanthis
Dirt Clean
Steven Amsterdam
The Easy Way Out
Carol Anshaw
Right after the Weather
Ksenia Anske
Irkadura
Eleanor Anstruther
A Perfect Explanation
Jessica Anthony
Enter the Aardvark
Nathacha Appanah
The Sky Above The Roof
Reine Arcache Melvin
The Betrayed
Michael Arditti
The Breath of Night
Alba Arikha
Where to Find Me
Clive Aslet
The Birdcage
Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins
Odafe Atogun
Taduno's Song
Juan Gracia Armendáriz
The Plimsoll Line
Sarah Armstrong
The Insect Rosary
Sarah Armstrong
The Devil in the Snow
Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron
Isabel Ashdown
Summer of ‘76
Jenn Ashworth
Fell
Nadeem Aslam
The Golden Legend
Ayesha Harruna Attah
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Sefi Atta
The Bead Collector
Jami Attenberg
All Grown Up
Margaret Atwood
Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood
Hag-seed
Margaret Atwood
The Testaments
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
The God Child
Shokoofeh Azar
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Mariama Bâ
So Long a Letter
Fredrick Backman
A Man Called Ove
Ali Bacon
In the Blink of an Eye
Yaba Badoe
A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
Paul Bailey
At the Jerusalem
Virginia Baily
The Fourth Shore
Sam Baker
The Woman Who Ran
Jesse Ball
A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball How to Set a Fire and Why
Jesse Ball
The Divers’ Game
Jesse Ball
Census
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
The Yogini
Andrés Barba
Such Small Hands
Alessandro Barbero
The Athenian Women
Pat Barker
Regeneration
Pat Barker
Border Crossing
Joanna Barnard
Precocious
Gabrielle Barnby
The Oystercatcher Girl
Julian Barnes
The Noise of Time
Julian Barnes
The Only Story
Laura Barnett
The Versions of Us
Judith Barrow
The Memory
Judith Barrow
Sisters
Mark Barry
The Night Porter
Sebastian Barry
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Yvonne Battle-Felton
Remembered
Elif Batuman
The Idiot
Sara Baume
Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Richard Bausch
Before, During, After
Agustina Bazterrica
Tender Is the Flesh
Jen Beagin
Pretend I’m Dead
Susan Beale
The Good Guy
Louise Beech How to be Brave
Bénédicte Belpois
Suiza
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Consent
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Here Comes the Sun
Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half
Ronan Bennett
Zugzwang
Peter Benson
The South in Winter
Anya Bergman
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David Bezmozgis
The Betrayers
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Adam Biles
Feeding Time
Stephanie Bishop
The Other Side of the World
Carol Birch
Orphans of the Carnival
Emily Bitto
The Strays
Louise Soraya Black
The Water Garden
Georgia Blain
Between a Wolf and a Dog
Amy Bloom
Lucky Us
Jenna Blum
Those Who Save Us
Piero Boitani
A New Sublime
Marc Bojanowski
Journeyman
Dave Boling
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Michael Bond
Wayfinding
Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo de Cataldo
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Alain de Botton
The Course of Love
John Boyne
A History of Loneliness
John Boyne
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
John Boyne
A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom
Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Sister The Serial Killer
Carys Bray
A Song for Issy Bradley
Alina Bronsky
My Grandmother’s Braid
Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë
The Professor
Rhidian Brook
The Aftermath
Xan Brooks
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times
Geraldine Brooks
Year of Wonders
Liam Brown
Real Monsters
Liam Brown
Broadcast
Sylvia Brownrigg
The Delivery Room
Elizabeth Brundage All Things Cease to Appear
Elizabeth Buchan
I Can't Begin to Tell You
Elizabeth Buchan
The Museum of Broken Promises
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Starling Day
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Rebecca S Buck
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Lynn Buckle
What Willow Says
Tom Bullough
Addlands
Madeleine Bunting
Island Song
Roy M Burgess
The Fifth Tweet
Rebecca Burns
Beyond the Bay
Catherine Burns
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Sarah Burton
The Strange Adventures of H
Ron Butlin
Billionaires’ Banquet
Sarah Butler
Before The Fire
Sam Byers
Perfidious Albion
Robyn Cadwallader
The Anchoress
Peter Cameron
What Happens at Night
Andrea Camilleri The Revolution of the Moon
Andrea Camilleri
The Sacco Gang
Megan Campisi
The Sin Eater
Chris Cander
The Weight of a Piano
Joanna Cannon
Three Things about Elsie
Kirsty Capes
Careless
Peter Carey
Amnesia
Peter Carey
A Long Way from Home
Kristina Carlson
Mr Darwin’s Gardener
Natasha Carthew
All Rivers Run Free
Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie
Anthony Cartwright
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CJ Carey
Widowland
Elaine Castillo
America Is Not the Heart
Clare Chambers
Small Pleasures
Emma Chapman
How to Be a Good Wife
David Chariandy
Brother
Eve Chase
The Birdcage
Amit Chaudhuri Odysseus Abroad
Tracy Chevalier
New Boy
Judy Chichurel
This Beautiful
Alix Christie
Guttenberg's Apprentice
Alex Christofi
Glass
Yangsze Choo
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Clare Clark
In the Full Light of the Sun
Polly Clark
Larchfield
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Tiger
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
Philippe Claudel
The Tree of the Toraja
Chris Cleave Everyone Brave
Emma Cline
The Girls
Ajay Close
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Paula Cocozza
How to Be Human
Paula Cocozza
Speak to Me
Jonathan Coe
The House of Sleep
Paolo Cognetti
The Eight Mountains
Julie Cohen
Getting Away With It
Sandrine Collette
Nothing but Dust
Sandrine Collette
Just after the Wave
Sandrine Collette
The Forests
Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Stephan Collishaw
The Song of the Stork
Stephan Collishaw
A Child Called Happiness
Laetitia Colombani
The Braid
Juliet Conlin
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days
Alys Conran
Dignity
Elizabeth Cook
Lux
Carol Cooper
The Girls from Alexandria
Fran Cooper
The Two Houses
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The Tyranny of Lost Things
Isabel Costello
Paris Mon Amour
Isabel Costello
Scent
Mary Costello
Academy Street
Mary Costello
The River Capture
Cécile Coulon
A Beast in Paradise
Douglas Cowie
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
Jim Crace
The Melody
Alex Craigie
Someone Close to Home
Annalisa Crawford
Grace and Serenity
Annalisa Crawford
Small Forgotten Moments
Annalisa Crawford
The Clock in my Mother’s House
Annalisa Crawford
Cat and the Dreamer
Angie Cruz
Dominicana
Peter Cunningham
The Trout
Jeanine Cummins
American Dirt
Massimo Cuomo
Beautiful
Amanda Curtin
Elemental
Lauren Aimee Curtis
Dolores
Paula Daly
Keep Your Friends Close
Abi Dare
The Girl With The Louding Voice
John Darnielle
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle Universal Harvester
Kamel Daoud
The Meursault Investigation
Brenda Davies
The Girl Behind the Gates
Peter Ho Davies
The Fortunes
Brooke Davis
Lost and Found
Jennifer Dawson
The Ha-Ha
Jill Dawson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Luce d’Eramo
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Delphine de Vigan
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Delphine de Vigan
Gratitude
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy
Cherie Dimaline
Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline
The Marrow Thieves
Donatella di Pietrantonio
A Sister’s Story
EL Doctorow
Andrew's Brain
Emma Donoghue
Akin
Emma Donoghue
The Pull of the Stars
Elvira Dones
Sworn Virgin
Avni Doshi
Burnt Sugar
Louise Doughty
Black Water
Louise Doughty
Platform Seven
Jennifer Down Our Magic Hour
Rob Doyle
Here Are The Young Men
Margaret Drabble
The Dark Flood Rises
David Duchovny
Holy Cow
Austin Duffy
Ten Days
Sarah Duguid
The Wilderness
Dan J Snyder
The Tin Nose Shop
Sarah Dunant
In the Name of the Family
Ever Dundas
Hell Sans
Helen Dunmore
Exposure
Helen Dunmore
Birdcage Walk
Clara Dupont-Monod
The Revolt
Philippa East
Little White Lies
Will Eaves
Murmur
Sue Eckstein
The Cloths of Heaven
Esi Edugyan
Washington Black
Steffanie Edward
This Other Island
Emily Edwards
The Herd
Nana Ekvtimishvili
The Pear Field
Nawal el Saadawi
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Nawal el Saadawi
Love in the Kingdom of Oil
Nawal el Saadawi
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal el Saadawi
Zeina
Anna Ellory
The Rabbit Girls
Willem Elsshot
Cheese
Juan Emar
Yesterday
Tracey Emerson
She Chose Me
Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater
Mathias Enard
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants
Anne Enright
The Green Road
Pamela Erens
The Virgins
Pamela Erens
Eleven Hours
Jenny Erpenbeck
The End of Days
Jenny Erpenbeck
Go, Went, Gone
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Hausfrau
Kate Evans
The Art of the Imperfect
Lissa Evans
Old Baggage
Lissa Evans
V for Victory
Bernadine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Mr Loverman
Percival Everett
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Paul Ewen
Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author
Michel Faber
The Book of Strange New Things
Jenni Fagan
Luckenbooth
Oisín Fagan
Nobber
Mia Farlane
Footnotes to Sex
Roopa Farooki
The Good Children
Lyn G Farrell
The Wacky Man
Sebastian Faulks
Human Traces
Gaël Faye
Small Country
Lara Feigel
The Group
Colette Fellous
This Tilting World
Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults
Sasha Filipenko
Red Crosses
Melanie Finn
Shame
Charlie Fish (ed)
The Best of Fiction on the Web
Charlie Fish
The Man Who Married Himself
CF Fisher
When We Were Alive
Boris Fishman
A Replacement Life
Richard Flanagan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
First Person
Richard Flanagan
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Patrick Flanery
I Am No One
Susan Fletcher
A Man I Knew
Tom Fletcher
Witch Bottle
Curdella Forbes
A Tall History of Sugar
Aminatta Forna
The Memory of Love
Emma Forrest
Royals
Julia Forster
What a Way to Go
Margaret Forster How to Measure a Cow
Ben Fountain
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Henri Alain Fournier
The Lost Estate
Karen Joy Fowler
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Booth
Janet Frame
Faces in the Water
Richard Francis
Laura Laura
Sarah Françoise
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Jorge Franco
Shooting Down Heaven
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
Peggy Frew
Hope Farm
Melissa Fu
Peach Blossom Spring
Claire Fuller
Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller
Swimming Lessons
Claire Fuller
Unsettled Ground
Gohril Gabrielsen
The Looking-Glass Sisters
David Gaffney
All the Places I’ve Ever Lived
Patrick Gale
A Place Called Winter
Damon Galgut
The Promise
Mia Gallagher
Beautiful pictures of the lost homeland
Marie Gameson
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (Deceased)
Jane Gardam
Last Friends
Alan Garner
Treacle Walker
Roxane Gay
An Untamed State
Peter Gardos
Fever at Dawn
Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Laurent Gaudé
Salina
Assaf Gavron
The Hilltop
Maggie Gee
Blood
Lisa Genova
Every Note Played
Amitav Ghosh
Gun Island
Jasper Gibson
The Octopus Man
Elisabeth Gifford
The Lost Lights of St Kilda
Ruth Gilligan
The Butchers
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Lesley Glaister
The Squeeze
Seni Glaister
The Museum of Things Left Behind
Guinevere Glasfurd
The Year without Summer
Olivia Glazebrook
The Frank Business
Tim Glencross
Barbarians
Victoria Glendinning
The Butcher’s Daughter
Luan Goldie
Nightingale Point
Julian Gough
Connect
Linda Grant
The Dark Circle
Luccia Gray
Ghost Wife
Joanne Greenberg
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Lavinia Greenlaw
In the City of Love’s Sleep
Garth Greenwell
What Belongs to You
Andrew Sean Greer
Less
Wioletta Greg
Swallowing Mercury
Anne Griffin
When All Is Said
Michael Grothaus
Epiphany Jones
Sam Guglani
Histories
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Waking Lions
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Liar
Batya Gur
The Saturday Morning Murder
Carlotta Gurt
Alone
Mahir Guven
Older Brother
Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom
Helon Habila
Travellers
Saleem Haddad
Guapa
Janice Hadlow
The Other Bennet Sister
Mandy Haggith
The Walrus Mutterer
Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Louisa Hall
Trinity
Sarah Hall
The Wolf Border
Sarah Hall
How to Paint a Dead Man
Craig Hallam
Oshibana Complex
Lisa Halliday
Asymmetry
Stacey Halls
Mrs England
Kamal Ben Hameda
Under the Tripoli Sky
Kate Hamer
The Girl in the Red Coat
Mohsin Hamid
Exit West
Isabella Hammad
The Parisian
Mohammed Hani
Red Birds
Iris Hanika
The Bureau of Past Management
James Hannah
The A-Z of You and Me
James Hannaham
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Georgina Harding
The Gun Room
Georgina Harding
Land of the Living
Georgina Harding
Harvest
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Dance Tree
Jane Harper
The Lost Man
Eve Harris
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Nathan Harris
The Sweetness of Water
Shelley Harris
Vigilante
Sarah Harris
The Definition of Us
Wilson Harris
Palace of the Peacock
M John Harrison
You Should Come With Me Now
Melissa Harrison
All Among the Barley
Natalie Hart
Pieces of Me
Kent Haruf
Our Souls At Night
Samantha Harvey
Dear Thief
Ariana Harwicz
Die, My Love
Nadia Hashimi
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Lindsay Hawdon
Jakob's Colours
Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train
Ashley Hay
A Hundred Small Lessons
Elizabeth Hay
His Whole Life
Elizabeth Haynes
The Murder of Harriet Monckton
Elizabeth Haynes
You, Me & The Sea
Simon Haywood
The Legend of Vortigern
Maria Dahvana Headley
The Mere Wife
Emma Healey
Elizabeth Is Missing
Emma Healey
Whistle in the Dark
Neil Hegarty
Inch Levels
Heinz Helle
Superabundance
Judith Heneghan
Snegurochka
Kerstin Hensel
Dance by the Canal
Mark Henshaw
The Snow Kimono
Victor Heringer
The Love of Singular Men
Judith Hermann
Where Love Begins
Willem Frederik Hermans
An Untouched House
Catherine Hernandez
Crosshairs
Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Lives of Women
Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Narrow Land
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Tatty
Sally Hinchcliffe
Hare House
Takashi Hiraide
The Guest Cat
Charlotte Hobson
The Vanishing Futurist
Paulus Hochgatterer
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero
Jennifer Hofmann
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
Verity Holloway
Pseudotooth
Ninni Holnqvist
The Unit
Antonia Honeywell
The Ship
Anna Hope
The Ballroom
Christopher Hope
Jimfish
Colleen Hoover
Reminders of Him
Nick Hornby
Funny Girl
Nicolai Houm
The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland
Sue Hubbard
Rainsongs
Sue Hubbard
Girl in White
Linda Huber
The Cold Cold Sea
Ricarda Huch
The Last Summer
Tammye Huf
A More Perfect Union
Amanda Huggins
All Our Squandered Beauty
Caoilinn Hughes
The Wild Laughter
Laird Hunt
Neverhome
Laird Hunt The Evening Road
Siri Hustvedt
The Sorrows of an American
Hwang Sok-yong
At Dusk