A non-exhaustive list, in no particular order, of some of the books I have read in the last few years or so and loved unreservedly.
- Patrick Hamilton – Hangover Square
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
- Anne Peile – Repeat It Today With Tears
- Rosamond Lehmann – Invitation to the Waltz
- Rosamond Lehmann – The Weather in the Streets
- Diana Wynne Jones – Fire and Hemlock
- Zoe Heller – Notes on a Scandal
- Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
- Cormac McCarthy – The Road
- A.S. Byatt – The Children’s Book
- Nicola Barker – Darkmans
- Michel Faber – The Crimson Petal and the White
- Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
- Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled
- Kate Atkinson – Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- John Fowles – The Magus
- John Irving – The World According to Garp
- Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveller’s Wife
- Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
- Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
- Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
- Donna Tartt – The Secret History
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
