The 75

1-7. ‘In Search of Lost Time’ by Marcel Proust

  1. ‘Look Who’s Back’ by Timur Vermes
  2. ‘Red Rising’ by Pierce Brown
  3. ‘A Death in the Family’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard
    11. ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ by Thomas Pynchon
    12. ‘Titus Groan’ by Mervyn Peake
    13. ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ by Richard Flanagan
    14. ‘The Bone Clocks’ by David Mitchell
    15. ‘Anno Dracula’ by Kim Newman
    16. ‘Ship of Magic’ by Robin Hobb
    17. ‘Papillion’ by Henri Charrière
    18. ‘Ring’by Koji Suzuki
    19. ‘The Song of Achilles’ by Madeline Miller
    20. ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry
    21. ‘My Brilliant Friend’ by Elena Ferrante
    22. ‘Ancillary Justice’ by Ann Leckie
    23. ‘The Sisters Brothers’ by Patrick deWitt
    24. ‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yanagihara
    25. ‘The English Patient’ by Michael Ondaatje
    26. ‘Fates and Furies’ by Lauren Groff
    27. ‘Wilt’ by Tom Sharpe
    28. ‘End of the Affair’ by Graham Greene
    29. ‘Olive Ketteridge’ by Elizabeth Strout
    30. ‘Saville’ by David Storey
    31. ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri
    32. ‘The Sellout’ by Paul Beatty
    33. ‘The Axeman’s Jazz’ by Ray Celestin
    34. ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ by Ben Fountain
    35. ‘Of Human Bondage’ by W. Somerset Maugham
    36. ‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson
    37. ‘Children of Time’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    38. ‘The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’ by Becky Chambers
    39. ‘Temeraire’ by Naomi Novik
    40. ‘The Forever War’ by Joe Haldeman
    41. ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier
    42. ‘The Prestige’ by Christopher Priest
    43. ‘Hyperion’ by Dan Simmons
    44. ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern
    45. ‘The Black Dahlia’ by James Ellroy
    46. ‘A Prayer for Owen Meany’ by John Irving
    47. ‘Alone in Berlin’ by Hans Fallada
    48. ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
    49. ‘Never Mind’ by Edward St Aubyn
    50. ‘Different Class’ by Joanne Harris
    51. ‘Purple Hibiscus’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    52. ‘Fight Club’ by Chuck Palahniuk
    53. ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
    54. ‘Red Mars’ by Kim Stanley Robinson
    55. ‘Flights’ by Olga Tokarczuk
    56. ‘Wizard of the Crow’ by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    57. ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
    58. ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison
    59. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ by Kevin Kwan
    60. ‘The Golden Notebook’ by Dorris Lessing
    61. ‘Milkman’ by Anna Byrns
    62. ‘The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle’ by Stuart Turton
    63. ‘The Fifth Season’ by N.K. Jemisin
    64. ‘The Third Policeman’ by Flann O’Brien
    65. ‘Conversations with Friends’ by Sally Rooney
    66. ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt
    67. ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    68. ‘Runaway’ by Alice Munro
    69. ‘Kavalier and Clay’ by Michael Chabon
    70. ‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen
    71. ‘Offshore’ by Penelope Fitzgerald
    72. ‘Wool’ by Hugh Howey
    73. ‘Shadow of the Wind’ by Carlos Ruis Zafon
    74. ‘Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie
    75. ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov