Orange Prize's 50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors (2004)
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 1989 |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1994 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1997 |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 |
| Being Dead | Jim Crace | 1999 |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | 1993 |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres | 1993 |
| Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | 1991 |
| Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | 1999 |
| Enduring Love | Ian McEwan | 1997 |
| Faith Singer | Rosie Scott | 2003 |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | 2002 |
| Fred and Edie | Jill Dawson | 2001 |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | 1996 |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 |
| Grace Notes | Bernard MacLaverty | 1997 |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 1995 |
| His Dark Materials Trilogy | ||
| Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) | Philip Pullman | 1995 |
| The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman | 1997 |
| The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | 2000 |
| Hotel World | Ali Smith | 2002 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 |
| Misery | Stephen King | 1987 |
| Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Peter Hoeg | 1992 |
| Money | Martin Amis | 1984 |
| Music and Silence | Rose Tremain | 1999 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1967 |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson | 1985 |
| Riders | Jilly Cooper | 1986 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 |
| The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1962 |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 |
| The House of Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1982 |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 1980 |
| The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | 1987 |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 1998 |
| The Rabbit Books | ||
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 1960 |
| Rabbit Redux | John Updike | 1971 |
| Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 |
| Rabbit at Rest | John Updike | 1990 |
| Rabbit Remembered | John Updike | 2001 |
| The Regeneration Trilogy | ||
| Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1990 |
| The Eye in the Door | Pat Barker | 1993 |
| The Ghost Road | Pat Barker | 1995 |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 1992 |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1993 |
| The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | 1991 |
| The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass | 1959 |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | 1994 |
| The Women's Room | Marilyn French | 1977 |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 1993 |
| Unless | Carol Shields | 2002 |
| What a Carve Up! | Jonathan Coe | 1994 |
| What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt | 2003 |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 2000 |