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by Emma Donoghue

14,400 members

979 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, tkenderdine

2

Impossible Object

by Nicholas Mosley

145 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: Simone2, tkenderdine

3

Fire from Heaven

by Mary Renault

2,216 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

4

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,824 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

5

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

804 members

23 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

6

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1,255 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

7

The Famished Road

2,382 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

8

Clear Light of Day

721 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

9

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane

1,252 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

10

Something to Answer For

176 members

8 reviews

2.9

Member: tkenderdine

11

2,117 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

12

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

4,597 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

13

1,821 members

21 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

14

The Electric Michelangelo

861 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

15

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

12,104 members

140 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

16

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,811 members

130 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

17

Solomon Gursky Was Here

by Mordecai Richler

893 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

18

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

4,403 members

153 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

19

by Rohinton Mistry

9,195 members

255 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

20

The Children's Book

3,818 members

210 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

21

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,096 members

345 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

22

by Rohinton Mistry

2,565 members

53 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

23

Figures in a Landscape

by Barry England

86 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

24

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson

2,689 members

138 reviews

3

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

25

The Secret Scripture

by Sebastian Barry

2,868 members

154 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

26

532 members

21 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

27

by Eleanor Catton

5,056 members

248 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

28

1,085 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

29

The Testament of Mary

by Colm Tóibín

1,359 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

30

The Public Image

by Muriel Spark

317 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

31

From Scenes Like These

by Gordon Williams

36 members

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

32

John Brown's Body

by A. L. Barker

59 members

1 review

½ 2.6

Member: tkenderdine

33

by Elizabeth Bowen

441 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

34

by Iris Murdoch

527 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

35

The Conjunction

by Terence Wheeler

23 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

36

by J. G. Farrell

1,463 members

52 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

37

The Birds on the Trees

136 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

38

The Bay of Noon

by Shirley Hazzard

304 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

39

The Driver's Seat

by Muriel Spark

1,001 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

40

by Patrick White

645 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

41

In a Free State

by V. S. Naipaul

1,123 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

42

by Thomas Kilroy

45 members

½ 2.3

Member: tkenderdine

43

St. Urbain's Horseman

by Mordecai Richler

572 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

44

Goshawk Squadron

by Derek Robinson

321 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

45

The Bird of Night

138 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

46

by David Storey

78 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

47

The Siege of Krishnapur

by J. G. Farrell

2,094 members

68 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

48

by Beryl Bainbridge

301 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

49

A Green Equinox

by Elizabeth Mavor

44 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

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by Stanley Middleton

176 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

51

by Kingsley Amis

281 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

52

In Their Wisdom

121 members

1 review

2.9

Member: tkenderdine

53

Gossip from the Forest

by Thomas Keneally

185 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

54

by David Storey

256 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

55

An Instant in the Wind

by André Brink

352 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

56

by R. C. Hutchinson

32 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

57

The Doctor's Wife

235 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

58

King Fisher Lives

by Julian Rathbone

24 members

4

Member: tkenderdine

59

The Children of Dynmouth

by William Trevor

410 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

60

895 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

61

Peter Smart's Confessions

30 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

62

Great Granny Webster

by Caroline Blackwood

346 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

63

Shadows on Our Skin

by Jennifer Johnston

148 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

64

The Road to Lichfield

by Penelope Lively

289 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

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by Kingsley Amis

423 members

6 reviews

3

Member: tkenderdine

66

Rumours of Rain

by André Brink

243 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

67

God on the Rocks

426 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

68

A Five Year Sentence

by Bernice Rubens

150 members

10 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

69

by Thomas Keneally

295 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

70

by Julian Rathbone

106 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

71

Rites of Passage

by William Golding

1,240 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

72

by Anthony Burgess

1,797 members

39 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

73

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

1,270 members

40 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

74

No Country for Young Men

by Julia O'Faolain

122 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

75

Pascali's Island

by Barry Unsworth

241 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

76

902 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

77

The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five

by Doris Lessing

639 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

78

62 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

79

Loitering with Intent

by Muriel Spark

846 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

80

Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally

8,269 members

98 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

81

Silence Among the Weapons

60 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

82

An Ice-Cream War

by William Boyd

953 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

83

Constance, or Solitary Practices

by Lawrence Durrell

219 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

84

The 27th Kingdom

by Alice Thomas Ellis

140 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

85

Rates of Exchange

by Malcolm Bradbury

322 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

86

Flying to nowhere

253 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

87

The Illusionist

91 members

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

88

by Salman Rushdie

2,453 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

89

349 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

90

1,215 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

91

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing

132 members

1 review

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

92

The Good Terrorist

by Doris Lessing

1,254 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

93

Last Letters from Hav

172 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

94

The Good Apprentice

by Iris Murdoch

713 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

95

by Kingsley Amis

1,358 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

96

Gabriel's Lament

96 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

97

An Insular Possession

282 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

98

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

1,122 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

99

by Peter Ackroyd

885 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

100

Circles of Deceit

128 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

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