literary fiction

Historical/Mythology:
Ian McEwan, AtonementElizabeth Gaskell, North and SouthAnna Hope, The BallroomMadeline Miller, The Song of AchillesMadeline Miller, CirceMadeline Miller, Galatea

Contemporary:
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings PlaybookAlan Bennett, The Uncommon ReaderCormac McCarthy, The RoadIan McEwan, The Comfort of StrangersA.L. Kennedy, Indelible ActsNorman Maclean, A River Runs Through ItZadie Smith, White TeethDonna Tartt, The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt, The GoldfinchMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's TaleNick Hornby, High FidelityMichael Chabon, Wonder BoysBryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful ThingsM.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

Classics:
J.D. Salinger, Franny and ZooeyAnthony Burgess, A Clockwork OrangeHerman Hesse, SteppenwolfF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonJohn Fowles, The CollectorCharlotte Brontë, Jane EyreEmily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, PersuasionFranz Kafka, The MetamorphosisGeorge Orwell, Animal FarmOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayKen Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestSylvia Plath, The Bell JarAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichHarper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Gothic:
Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (+ rest of series)Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill HouseShirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Magic Realism:
Angela Carter, The Magic ToyshopAngela Carter, The Bloody ChamberAngela Carter, Heroes and VillainsAngela Carter, BluebeardAngela Carter, LoveIsabel Allende, The House of SpiritsPatrick Ness, The Crane WifeAndrew Kaufman, All My Friends are SuperheroesAndrew Kaufman, Born WeirdAndrew Kaufman, The Tiny WifeShane Jones, Light BoxesLouis de Bernières, Señor Vivo and the Coca LordKeri Hulme, The Bone PeopleTim Winton, CloudstreetHaruki Murakami, Kafka on the ShoreToni Morrison, BelovedA.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy StoriesKaren Russell, Swamplandia!Haruki Murakami, The Strange LibraryNatasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (+ rest of series)

Bildungsroman:
Joe Dunthorne, SubmarineArthur Nersesian, The Fuck-UpD.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little

Romance:
David Nicholls, One DayAudrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's WifeTaylor Reid Jenkins, Daisy Jones & The Six

Fictionalised autobiography:
Laurie Lee, Cider with RosieJon Krakauer, Into the Wild