“Fiddle-de-dee’s not English.”

Converting things from spreadsheets is messy! Especially if you don’t want to use tables.

1. The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
2. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
3. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
4. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
5. Watership Down – Richard Adams
6. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse – John Joseph Adams (ed)
7. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander
   • The Book of Three
   • The Black Cauldron
   • The Castle of Llyr
   • Taran Wanderer
   • The High King
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
10. Skellig – David Almond
11. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol 1: The Pox Party – MT Anderson
12. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
13. Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
14. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
15. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
16. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
17. Empire of the Sun – JG Ballard
18. Darkmans – Nicola Barker
19. Arthur and George – Julian Barnes
20. One for Sorrow – Christopher Barzack
21. Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
22. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street – Jeanne Birdsall
23. Tithe: a modern faerie tale – Holly Black
24. 2666: A Novel – Roberto Bolano
25. The Children of Green Knowe – LM Boston
26. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
27. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
28. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
29. The Gideon Trilogy – Linda Buckley-Archer
    • Gideon the Cutpurse/The Time Travellers

    • The Tar Man/The Time Thief
    • Lord Luxon/The Splintering of Time
30. A Curse Dark as Gold – Elizabeth C Bunce
31. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
32. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
33. Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You – Peter Cameron
34. Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
35. Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
36. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
37. The Man who was Thursday – GK Chesterton
38. Shogun – James Clavell
39. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
40. A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski
42. The Explosionist – Jenny Davidson
43. The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies
44. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
45. The Onion Girl – Charles de Lint
46. Tam Lin – Pamela Dean
47. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
48. Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
49. The Truth About Forever – Sarah Dessen
50. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
51. The Ropemaker – Peter Dickinson
52. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
53. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
54. So You Want to be a Wizard – Diane Duane
55. Skin Hunger – Kathleen Duey
56. The House of Niccolò – Dorothy Dunnett
57. Race of the Scorpions
58. Scales of Gold
59. The Unicorn Hunt
60. To Lie with Lions
61. Caprice and Rondo
62. Gemini
63. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
64. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
65. The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
66. Charlotte Sometimes – Penelope Farmer
67. A Room with a View – EM Forster
68. Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
69. The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
70. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
71. The Sandman – Neil Gaiman
    • Fables and Reflections
    • Endless Nights
72. The Wolves in the Wall – Neil Gaiman
73. The Patron Saint of Butterflies – Cecilia Galante
74. Love in Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
75. The Owl Service – Alan Garner
76. Dragon Slippers – Jessica Day George
77. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
78. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
79. All Tomorrow’s Parties – William Gibson
80. Neuromancer – William Gibson
81. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
82. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
83. Paper Towns – John Green
84. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
85. The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
86. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
87. The Accidental Time Machine – Joe Haldeman
88. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
89. Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale
90. Fly by Night – Frances Hardinge
91. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
92. Surrender – Sonya Hartnett
93. The Court of Air – Stephen Hunt
94. Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
95. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
96. We Have Always Lived in a Castle – Shirley Jackson
97. Listening at the Gate – Betsy James
98. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K Jerome
99. Archer’s Goon – Diana Wynne Jones
100. Aunt Maria – Diana Wynne Jones
101. Dogsbody – Diana Wynne Jones
102. Power of Three – Diana Wynne Jones
103. The Game – Diana Wynne Jones
104. The Homeward Bounders – Diana Wynne Jones
105. The Ogre Downstairs – Diana Wynne Jones
106. The Year of the Griffin – Diana Wynne Jones
107. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
108. The Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
109. Tigana – Guy Gavriel Kay
110. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler – EL Konigsburg
111. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
112. The Time Quartet – Madeleine L’Engle
     • Many Waters
     • A Swiftly Tilting Planet
113. The Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
114. Gifted – Nikita Lalwani
115. Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
116. Fairest – Gail Carson Levine
117. The Screwtape Letters – CS Lewis
118. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
119. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E Lockheart
120. Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
121. Gossamer – Lois Lowry
122. Messenger – Lois Lowry
123. Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
124. The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
125. Red Seas Under Red Skies – Scott Lynch
126. The Republic of Thieves – Scott Lynch
127. Back Home – Michelle Magorian
128. Wicked – Gregory Maguire
129. Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
130. A Song of Ice and Fire – George RR Martin
     • A Storm of Swords
     • A Feast for Crows
131. Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
132. The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
133. Atonement – Ian McEwan
134. Alphabet of Thorn – Patricia A McKillip
135. Od Magic – Patricia A McKillip
136. Ombria in the Shadow – Patricia A McKillip
137. Solstice Wood – Patricia A McKillip
138. Song for the Basilisk – Patricia A McKillip
139. The Book of Atrix Wolfe – Patricia A McKillip
140. The Changeling Sea – Patricia A McKillip
141. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast – Robin McKinley
142. The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
143. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
144. Un Lun Dun – China Miéville
145. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore
146. Fablehaven – Brandon Mull
147. A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul
148. The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
149. Ways to Live Forever – Sally Nicholls
150. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
151. The Keys to the Kingdom – Garth Nix
     • Superior Saturday
     • Lord Sunday
152. Lolita – Vladimir Nobokov
153. Temeraire – Naomi Novik
     • Empire of Ivory
     • Victory of Eagles
154. Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
155. Z for Zachariah – Robert C O’Brien

rec by invocations (vicky)

156. The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
157. Airborn – Kenneth Oppel
158. 1984 – George Orwell
159. When the Emperor was Divine – Julie Otsuka
160. Auralia’s Colors – Jeffrey Overstreet
161. The Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
162. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
163. Hero’s Song: The First Song of Eirren – Edith Pattou
164. The Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake
165. The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E Pearson
166. The Sunne in Splendour – Sharon Kay Penman
167. Life as We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
168. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett
169. The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
170. The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
171. Lyra’s Oxford – Philip Pullman
172. Once Upon a Time in the North – Philip Pullman
173. Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
174. The Hungry City Chronicles – Philip Reeve
     • Infernal Devices
     • A Darkling Plain
175. The Persian Boy – Mary Renault
176. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) – Rick Riordan
177. The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson
178. What I Was – Meg Rosoff
179. The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 2 – Patrick Rothfuss
180. Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling
181. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
182. Septimus Heap – Angie Sage
     • Magyk

     • Flyte
     • Physik
     • Queste
183. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
184. Living Dead Girl – Elizabeth Scott
185. The Alchemyst: the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Michael Scott
186. The Book of Dead Days – Marcus Sedgwick
187. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
188. The Invention of Hugo Cabaret – Brian Selznick
189. Katherine – Anya Seton
190. The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shibiku
191. We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
192. Endymion – Dan Simmons
193. The Rise of Endymion – Dan Simmons
194. Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton
195. The Accidental – Ali Smith
196. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
197. Poison Study – Maria V Snyder
198. The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
199. The Edge Chronicles – Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
     • The Curse of the Gloamglozer
     • The Winter Knights
     • Clash of the Sky Galleons
     • Beyond the Deepwoods
     • Stormchaser
     • Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
     • The Last of the Sky Pirates
     • Vox
     • Freeglader
     • The Lost Barkscrolls
200. The Bartimaeus Trilogy – Jonathan Stroud
     • The Golem’s Eye
     • Ptolemy’s Gate
201. Three Bags Full – Leonie Swann
202. The Gift of Rain – Tan Twan Eng
203. Idylls of the King – Alfred Lord Tennyson
204. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
205. The New Policeman – Kate Thompson
206. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday
207. The Thief Trilogy – Megan Whalen Turner
     • The King of Attolia
208. The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden – Catherynne M Valente
209. The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice – Catherynne M Valente
210. Slaughterhouse V – Kurt Vonnegut
211. Affinity – Sarah Waters
212. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
213. The Winter Prince – Elizabeth Wein
214. Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog – Ysabeau S Wilce
215. To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis
216. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray – Chris Wooding
217. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
218. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
219. American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
220. The Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny
     • Nine Princes in Amber
     • The Guns of Avalon
     • Sign of the Unicorn
     • The Hand of Oberon
     • The Courts of Chaos
     • Trumps of Doom
     • Blood of Amber
     • Sign of Chaos
     • Knight of Shadows
     • Prince of Chaos

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[Last updated: 23 April 2009]