Book List

François Rabelais

 Gargantua and Pantagruel

1532

Ann Radcliffe

 The Mysteries of Udolpho

1794

Mary Shelley

 Frankenstein

1818

Thomas Love Peacock

 Nightmare Abbey

1818

Charles Maturin

 Melmoth the Wanderer

1820

James Hogg

 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

1824

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

 Uncle Silas

1864

Lewis Carroll

 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1865

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 The Coming Race

1871

Lewis Carroll

 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

1871

Samuel Butler

 Erewhon

1872

Richard Jefferies

 After London; Or, Wild England

1885

Robert Louis Stevenson

 The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1886

Mark Twain

 A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court

1889

William Morris

 News From Nowhere

1890

HG Wells

 The Time Machine

1895

Bram Stoker

 Dracula

1897

Henry James

 The Turn of the Screw

1898

HG Wells

 The War of the Worlds

1898

GK Chesterton

 The Man Who Was Thursday

1908

Robert Walser

 Institute Benjamenta

1909

Edgar Rice Burroughs

 A Princess of Mars

1912

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 Herland

1915

David Lindsay

 A Voyage to Arcturus

1920

Yevgeny Zamyatin

 We

1924

Franz Kafka

 The Trial

1925

Sylvia Townsend Warner

 Lolly Willowes

1926

Aldous Huxley

 Brave New World

1932

John Cowper Powys

 A Glastonbury Romance

1932

Olaf Stapledon

 Star Maker

1937

TH White

 The Sword in the Stone

1938

Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry

 The Little Prince

1943

Hermann Hesse

 The Glass Bead Game

1943

Mervyn Peake

 Titus Groan

1946

Isaac Asimov

 Foundation

1951

John Wyndham

 Day of the Triffids

1951

Arthur C Clarke

 Childhood’s End

1953

Marghanita Laski

 The Victorian Chaise-longue

1953

Richard Matheson

 I Am Legend

1954

William Golding

 Lord of the Flies

1954

Alfred Bester

 The Stars My Destination

1956

Italo Calvino

 The Baron in the Trees

1957

John Wyndham

 The Midwich Cuckoos

1957

Brian W Aldiss

 Non-Stop

1958

Kurt Vonnegut

 Sirens of Titan

1959

Shirley Jackson

 The Haunting of Hill House

1959

William Burroughs

 Naked Lunch

1959

Algis Budrys

 Rogue Moon

1960

Anthony Burgess

 A Clockwork Orange

1960

Walter M Miller Jr

 A Canticle for Leibowitz

1960

Robert A Heinlein

 Stranger in a Strange Land

1961

Stanislaw Lem

 Solaris

1961

Philip K Dick

 The Man in the High Castle

1962

Frank Herbert

 Dune

1965

Daniel Keyes

 Flowers for Algernon

1966

John Fowles

 The Magus

1966

Mikhail Bulgakov

 The Master and Margarita

1966

Flann O’Brien

 The Third Policeman

1967

Samuel R Delaney

 The Einstein Intersection

1967

Philip K Dick

 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968

Vladimir Nabokov

 Ada or Ardor

1969

Larry Niven

 Ringworld

1970

Alan Garner

 Red Shift

1973

Doris Lessing

 Memoirs of a Survivor

1974

Joe Haldeman

 The Forever War

1974

Michael G Coney

 Hello Summer, Goodbye

1975

Stephen King

 The Shining

1977

Douglas Adams

 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1979

Octavia Butler

 Kindred

1979

Russell Hoban

 Riddley Walker

1980

Gene Wolfe

 The Book of the New Sun

1980

Anthony Burgess

 The End of the World News

1982

Angela Carter

 Nights at the Circus

1984

Iain Banks

 The Wasp Factory

1984

William Gibson

 Neuromancer

1984

Clive Barker

 Weaveworld

1987

Iain M Banks

 Consider Phlebas

1987

Paul Auster

 In the Country of Last Things

1987

Toni Morrison

 Beloved

1987

Michael Moorcock

 Mother London

1988

Ramsey Campbell

 The Influence

1988

Salman Rushdie

 The Satanic Verses

1988

Umberto Eco

 Foucault’s Pendulum

1988

Dan Simmons

 Hyperion

1989

Ben Okri

 The Famished Road

1991

Neal Stephenson

 Snow Crash

1992

Patrick McCabe

 The Butcher Boy

1992

PD James

 The Children of Men

1992

Poppy Z Brite

 Lost Souls

1992

Jeff Noon

 Vurt

1993

Michael Marshall Smith

 Only Forward

1994

Christopher Priest

 The Prestige

1995

Haruki Murakami

 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

1995

José Saramago

 Blindness

1995

Kazuo Ishiguro

 The Unconsoled

1995

Stephen Baxter

 The Time Ships

1995

Chuck Palahniuk

 Fight Club

1996

Marie Darrieussecq

 Pig Tales

1996

Rupert Thomson

 The Insult

1996

Andrew Miller

 Ingenious Pain

1997

JK Rowling

 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

1997

Douglas Coupland

 Girlfriend in a Coma

1998

Michel Houellebecq

 Atomised

1998

Greg Bear

 Darwin’s Radio

1999

Sarah Waters

 Affinity

1999

Alastair Reynolds

 Revelation Space

2000

Margaret Atwood

 The Blind Assassin

2000

Mark Danielewski

 House of Leaves

2000

Michael Chabon

 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

2000

Michel Faber

 Under the Skin

2000

Will Self

 How the Dead Live

2000

Gwyneth Jones

 Bold as Love

2001

Neil Gaiman

 American Gods

2001

China Miéville

 The Scar

2002

Kim Stanley Robinson

 The Years of Rice and Salt

2002

M John Harrison

 Light

2002

Audrey Niffenegger

 The Time Traveler’s Wife

2003

David Mitchell

 Cloud Atlas

2004

Susanna Clarke

 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

2004

Hilary Mantel

 Beyond Black

2005

Cormac McCarthy

 The Road

2006

Jed Mercurio

 Ascent

2007

Nicola Barker

 Darkmans

2007

Ken MacLeod

 The Night Sessions

2008