Slumdog millionaire

Paul Shipton

A thousand splendid suns

Khaled Hosseini

Great expectations

Charles Dickens

Chalcot Crescent

Fay Weldon

The help

Kathryn Stockett

Sea of poppies

Amitav Ghosh

The northern clemency

Philip Hensher

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

1984

George Orwell

Man gone down

Michael Thomas

The reluctant fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

What is the what

Dave Eggers

Birds without wings

Louis De Bernières

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

Slumdog millionaire

Vikas Swarup

Nineteen eighty-four

George Orwell

Lydia Fielding

Susan Sallis

Max Havelaar, or, The coffee auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

Multatuli

Friends indeed

Rose Doyle

Wild decembers

Edna O'Brien

The woman who walked into doors

Roddy Doyle

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Lyddie

Katherine Paterson

Dottie

Abdulrazak Gurnah

The mambo kings play songs of love

Oscar Hijuelos

The enigma of arrival

V.S. Naipaul

Cry freedom

John Briley

The Golden Gate

Vikram Seth

Davita's harp

Chaim Potok

Deadeye Dick

Kurt Vonnegut