prose
The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Outsider – Albert Camus
Burmese Days – George Orwell
Life of Pi – Yann Martell
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
Letters From Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
poetry
Elegies – Douglas Dunn
Averno – Louise Gluck
Rapture – Carol Ann Duffy
The Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin
Woods etc. – Alice Oswald