1920

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920

Chéri by Sidone-Gabrille Colette 1920

Women in Love by DH Lawrence 1920

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley 1921

The Fox, by D.H. Lawrence 1923

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 1923

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 1925

Ali and Nino by Kurban Said 1928

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 1929

1930

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 1932

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller 1934

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann 1936

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 1937

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 1938

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen 1938

1940

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 1940

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico 1941

Gigi by Colette 1944

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1945

At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 1945

The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer 1946

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen 1948

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 1948

1950

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1951

Love for Lydia by HE Bates 1952

The Go-Between by LP Hartley 1953

The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann 1953

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan 1954

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 1955

Arturo’s Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante 1957

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 1958

1960

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence 1960

Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki 1961

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 1961

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani 1962

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata 1964

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 1966

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 1967

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles 1969

1970

Love Story by Erich Segal 1970

Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer 1972

The Princess Bride by William Goldman 1973

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 1973

Light Years by James Salter 1975

The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan 1976

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 1977

The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye 1978

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera 1978

1980

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell 1980

A Month in the Country by JL Carr 1980

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard 1980

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1982

Look at Me by Anita Brookner 1983

The Lover by Marguerite Duras 1984

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1984

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez 1985

More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow 1987

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 1987

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 1988

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989

1990

Possesion by AS Byatt 1990

The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini 1990

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 1992

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 1993

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 1995

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 1995

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 1996

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif 1999

Music and Silence by Rose Tremain 1999

2000

Atonement by Ian McEwan 2001

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 2002

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory 2002

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 2003

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2004

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 2005

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2005

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 2006

The Pact by Jodi Picoult 2006

Eat, PrAy, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 2007