Top 50 Books:
| Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| 1984 | George Orwell | Penguin | 0-14-118776-X |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | Penguin | 0-14-118260-1 |
| A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines | Penguin | 0-14-118498-1 |
| Alice in Wonderland & Through a Glass Darkly | Lewis Carrol | Penguin | 0-14-143976-9 |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | Macmillan | 0-330-31992-2 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote | Penguin | 0-14-118279-2 |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | Random | 0-099-47847-1 |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | Random | 0-09-947731-9 |
| Charlie & the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Penguin | 0-14-131130-4 |
| Close Range (inc. Brokeback Mountain) | Annie Proulx | HarperCollins | 0-00-720558-9 |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | Serpent's Tail | 1-85242-749-3 |
| Different Seasons (inc. Shawshank Redemption) | Stephen King | Hodder | 0-340-89907-7 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner) | Philip K. Dick | Orion | 0-75286-430-0 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | Random | 0-099-44842-4 |
| Empire of the Sun | JG Ballard | HarperCollins | 0-00-722152-5 |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | Random | 0-099-76521-7 |
| French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | Random | 0-099-47833-1 |
| Get Shorty | Elmore Leonard | Penguin | 0-14-013956-7 |
| Goldfinger | Ian Fleming | Penguin | 0-141-18752-2 |
| Goodfella's | Nicholas Pileggi | Bloomsbury | 0-7475-7863-X |
| Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now) | Joseph Conrad | OUP | 0-19-280172-4 |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley | Macmillan | 0-330-24382-9 |
| LA Confidential | James Ellroy | Random | 0-099-36671-1 |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Choderlos de Laclos | OUP | 0-19-283867-9 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Penguin | 0-141-18253-9 |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Faber | 0-57122767-8 |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | OUP | 0-19-283339-1 |
| One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | Penguin | 0-141-18788-3 |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf | Penguin | 0-14-118829-4 |
| Pride and Prejudiuce | Jane Austen | OUP | 0-19-280238-0 |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | Time Warner | 1-84408-038-2 |
| Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | Faber | 0-57115491-3 |
| Schindler's Ark | Thomas Keneally | Hodder | 0-340-33501-7 |
| Sin City vol 3 | Frank Miller | Dark Horse Comics - PGW | 1-593-07295-3 |
| Tess of the D'Urbevilles | Thomas Hardy | OUP | 0-19-284069-X |
| The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Penguin | 0-14-118541-4 |
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatjee | Bloomsbury | 0-7475-7259-3 |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo | Random | 0-09-942928-4 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | OUP | 0-19-283519-X |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | OUP | 0-19-283503-3 |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammet | Orion | 0-75286-533-1 |
| The Outsiders | S.E.Hinton | Penguin | 0-14-131252-1 |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | Penguin | 0-14-118142-7 |
| The Railway Children | E.Nesbit | Penguin | 0-14-062162-8 |
| The Spy who came in from the Cold | John Le Carre | Hodder | 0-340-73964-9 |
| The Talented Mr Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | Random | 0-09-928287-9 |
| The Vanishing | Tim Krabbe | Bloomsbury | 0-7475-6533-3 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Random | 0-09-941978-5 |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | Random | 0-09-946589-2 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | Penguin | 0-14-030601-3 |
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