Section 1 The UK & Ireland
1. William Shakespeare : Hamlet
2. John Milton: Paradise Lost
3. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
4. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
5. Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles
6. George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
7. James Joyce : Eveline
8. T.S. Eliot: Waste Land
9. Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
10. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
11. William Golding : Lord of the Flies
12. V.S. Naipaul: A Way in the World
13. Doris Lessing: Through the Tunnel
14. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Section 2 The USA & Canada
15. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
16. Robert Frost: A Farmer Poet
17. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
18. Eugene O'Neil: The Emperor Jones
19. JosephHeller: Catch——22
20. Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior
21. Tony Morrison : Beloved
22. John Updike: A & P
23. Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women
24. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Section 3 Australia & New Zealand
25. Henry Lawson: Bush Ballads
26. Patrick White : Voss
27. Catherine Mansfield: The Garden Party
28. Janet Frame: The Reservoir
Section 4 South Africa & Nigeria
29. Nadine Gordimer: July's People
30. John M. Coetzee : Disgrace
31. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
32. Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman
Postscript