Family Badami, A Hero's Walk (India) Desai, Fasting Feasting (India) Enright, The Gathering (Ireland) Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth (Nigeria) O'Carrroll, Mammy (Ireland, humor) Roy, The God of Small Things (India) Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh (India) Smith, On Beauty, White Teeth Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Gothic Fiction Conrad, Heart of Darkness Gaskell, The Grey Woman James, Turn of the Screw Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Shelley, Frankenstein Stoker, Dracula (Ireland) Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mystery Atwood, Bodily Harm Christie, Murder of Roger Achroyd, Passenger to Frankfurt Greene, The Human Factor Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go MacBride, Flesh House O'Flynn, What Was Lost Sayers, Clouds of Witness, Lord Peter Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Zusak, I Am the Messenger
War Barker, Regeneration Blunden, Undertones of War (autobiography, WWI) Foden, The Last King of Scotland (Uganda, civil war) Forester, The African Queen (WWI) Golding, Rites of Passage (19th c. Royal Navy) Graves, Good-Bye to All That (autobiograhpy, WWI) Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, Remains of the Day (WWII) McEwan, Atonement (WWII) Ondaatje, The English Patient (WWII) Stevenson, Black Arrow (War of Roses, 1455-85) Woolf, Jacob's Room (WWI) Zusak, The Book Thief (WWII)
Adventure Barry, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (Ireland) Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim Golding, Rites of Passage Kipling, Kim, Captains Courageous Martel, Life of Pi (Canada) Stevenson, Treasure Island, Kidnapped Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Ireland)
Satirical/Science Fiction Burgess, Clockwork Orange Golding, Lord of the Flies Huxley, Brave New World Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Ireland) Wells, War of the Worlds
Romance Austen, Emma, Pride and Prejudice Bronte, C., Jane Ayre Bronte, E., Wuthering Heights Carey, Oscar and Lucinda Drabble, Realms of Gold (Autralia) Eliot, Middlemarch Ford, The Good Soldier Forrester, A Room with a View Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman Greene, The End of the Affair Hulme, The Bone People (New Zealand) Jhabvaia, Amrita (Indai, Interclass relationships) Larence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Painted Veil Ondaatje, The English Patient Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (West Indies) Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Social Life and Customs Bronte, C., Jane Ayre Bronte, E., Wuthering Heights Dickens, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield Elliot, Middlemarch Forrester, Howards End, Passage to India Okri, Famished Road Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Coming-of-Age Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria) Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Rhodesia) Dickens, Great Expectations Doyle, Paddy Clark, ha ha ha (Ireland) Fowles, Daniel Martin Franklin, My Brilliant Career (Australian) Hornby, About a Boy, Slam Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kincaid, Lucy (West Indies) Maugham, Of Human Bondage McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Ireland, autobiography) Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth (South Africa) Vakil, Beach Boy (India)
Science Fiction/Fantasy Clarke, 2001 : a Space Odyssey Pratchett, Wintersmith Rowling, Harry Potter Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Wells, The Time Machine