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by Emma Donoghue

14,727 members

988 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, tkenderdine

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Impossible Object

by Nicholas Mosley

151 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: Simone2, tkenderdine

3

Fire from Heaven

by Mary Renault

2,259 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

4

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,875 members

69 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

5

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

819 members

23 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

6

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1,274 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

7

The Famished Road

2,421 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

8

Clear Light of Day

733 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

9

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane

1,269 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

10

Something to Answer For

185 members

8 reviews

2.9

Member: tkenderdine

11

2,138 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

12

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

4,690 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

13

1,844 members

22 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

14

The Electric Michelangelo

865 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

15

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

12,373 members

141 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

16

The Secret River

by Kate Grenville

2,820 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

17

Solomon Gursky Was Here

by Mordecai Richler

909 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

18

The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

4,448 members

154 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

19

by Rohinton Mistry

9,346 members

256 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

20

The Children's Book

3,855 members

211 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

21

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,167 members

346 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

22

by Rohinton Mistry

2,590 members

53 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

23

Figures in a Landscape

by Barry England

93 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

24

The Finkler Question

by Howard Jacobson

2,724 members

139 reviews

3

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

25

The Secret Scripture

by Sebastian Barry

2,900 members

157 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, tkenderdine

26

537 members

21 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

27

by Eleanor Catton

5,204 members

249 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

28

1,096 members

72 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

29

The Testament of Mary

by Colm Tóibín

1,383 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, tkenderdine

30

The Public Image

by Muriel Spark

325 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

31

From Scenes Like These

by Gordon Williams

37 members

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

32

John Brown's Body

by Stephen Vincent Benét

916 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

33

by Elizabeth Bowen

449 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

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by Iris Murdoch

537 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

35

The Conjunction

by Terence Wheeler

25 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

36

by J. G. Farrell

1,502 members

51 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

37

The Birds on the Trees

138 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

38

The Bay of Noon

by Shirley Hazzard

309 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

39

The Driver's Seat

by Muriel Spark

1,030 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

40

by Patrick White

662 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: tkenderdine

41

In a Free State

by V. S. Naipaul

1,138 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

42

by Thomas Kilroy

46 members

½ 2.3

Member: tkenderdine

43

St. Urbain's Horseman

by Mordecai Richler

582 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

44

Goshawk Squadron

by Derek Robinson

331 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

45

The Bird of Night

143 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

46

by David Storey

80 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

47

The Siege of Krishnapur

by J. G. Farrell

2,140 members

68 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

48

by Beryl Bainbridge

301 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

49

A Green Equinox

by Elizabeth Mavor

52 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

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by Stanley Middleton

180 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

51

by Kingsley Amis

288 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

52

In Their Wisdom

123 members

1 review

2.9

Member: tkenderdine

53

Gossip from the Forest

by Thomas Keneally

187 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

54

by David Storey

265 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

55

An Instant in the Wind

by André Brink

357 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

56

by R. C. Hutchinson

33 members

3

Member: tkenderdine

57

The Doctor's Wife

237 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

58

King Fisher Lives

by Julian Rathbone

26 members

4

Member: tkenderdine

59

The Children of Dynmouth

by William Trevor

418 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

60

904 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

61

Peter Smart's Confessions

33 members

½ 2.3

Member: tkenderdine

62

Great Granny Webster

by Caroline Blackwood

357 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

63

Shadows on Our Skin

by Jennifer Johnston

150 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

64

The Road to Lichfield

by Penelope Lively

296 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

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by Kingsley Amis

432 members

6 reviews

3

Member: tkenderdine

66

Rumours of Rain

by André Brink

247 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

67

God on the Rocks

436 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

68

A Five Year Sentence

by Bernice Rubens

152 members

10 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

69

by Thomas Keneally

300 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

70

by Julian Rathbone

110 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

71

Rites of Passage

by William Golding

1,272 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

72

by Anthony Burgess

1,829 members

39 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

73

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

1,290 members

41 reviews

4

Member: tkenderdine

74

No Country for Young Men

by Julia O'Faolain

125 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

75

Pascali's Island

by Barry Unsworth

243 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

76

929 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: tkenderdine

77

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

by Doris Lessing

650 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

78

90 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

79

Loitering with Intent

by Muriel Spark

870 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

80

Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally

8,476 members

98 reviews

4.2

Member: tkenderdine

81

Silence Among the Weapons

62 members

1 review

3

Member: tkenderdine

82

An Ice-Cream War

by William Boyd

957 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

83

Constance, or Solitary Practices

by Lawrence Durrell

224 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: tkenderdine

84

The 27th Kingdom

by Alice Thomas Ellis

145 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

85

Rates of Exchange

by Malcolm Bradbury

331 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

86

Flying to nowhere

256 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

87

The Illusionist

95 members

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

88

by Salman Rushdie

2,483 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

89

351 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: tkenderdine

90

1,219 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

91

The Battle of Pollocks Crossing

135 members

1 review

3.8

Member: tkenderdine

92

The Good Terrorist

by Doris Lessing

1,280 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

93

Last Letters from Hav

177 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

94

The Good Apprentice

by Iris Murdoch

723 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

95

by Kingsley Amis

1,385 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

96

Gabriel's Lament

98 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: tkenderdine

97

An Insular Possession

287 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: tkenderdine

98

Anthills of the Savannah

by Chinua Achebe

1,147 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: tkenderdine

99

by Peter Ackroyd

890 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

100

Circles of Deceit

130 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: tkenderdine

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