The Book List



  • The Lord of the Rings  J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Kite Runner  Khaled Hosseini

  • Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen

  • To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee

  • The Harry Potter series  JK Rowling

  • The Poisonwood Bible  Barbara Kingsolver

  • The Alchemist  Paulo Coelho

  • Life of Pi  Yann Martel

  • The Da Vinci Code  Dan Brown

  • The God of Small Things  Arundhati Roy

  • Memoirs of a Geisha  Arthur Golden

  • Spud  John van de Ruit

  • The Power of One  Bryce Courtenay

  • The Hobbit  J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin  Louis de Bernieres

  • Shantaram  Gregory David Roberts

  • Wuthering Heights  Emily Bronte

  • Catcher in the Rye  J.D. Salinger

  • Jane Eyre  Charlotte Bronte

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  Douglas Adams

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • Disgrace  J. M. Coetzee

  • My Sister’s Keeper  Jodi Picoult

  • The Time Traveller’s Wife  Audrey Niffenegger

  • Birdsong  Sebastian Faulks

  • Catch-22  Joseph Heller

  • Pillars of the Earth  Ken Follett

  • Gone with the Wind  Margaret Mitchell

  • Cry, the Beloved Country  Alan Paton

  • The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • A Fine Balance  Rohinton Mistry

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time  Mark Haddon

  • Great Expectations  Charles Dickens

  • Atonement  Ian McEwan

  • Atlas Shrugged  Ayn Rand

  • The Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck

  • The English Patient  Michael Ondaatje

  • Anna Karenina  Leo Tolstoy

  • Midnight’s Children  Salman Rushdie

  • Love in the Time of Cholera  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The Shadow of the Wind  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  • I Know This Much is True  Wally Lamb

  • A Suitable Boy  Vikram Seth

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four  George Orwell

  • War And Peace  Leo Tolstoy

  • Clan of the Cave Bear  Jean M. Auel

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being  Milan Kundera

  • The Little Prince  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • The Secret History  Donna Tartt

  • Possession  A. S. Byatt

  • Perfume  Patrick Suskind

  • The House of the Spirits  Isabel Allende

  • Chocolat  Joanne Harris

  • The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency  Alexander McCall Smith

  • Q & A  Vikas Swarup

  • Dune  Frank Herbert

  • Wind in the Willows  Kenneth Grahame

  • Fugitive Pieces  Anne Michaels

  • River God  Wilbur Smith

  • Little Women  Louisa May Alcott

  • Lord of the Flies  William Golding

  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  C.S. Lewis

  • Mort  Terry Pratchett

  • Crime and Punishment  Feodor Dostoyevsky

  • The Blind Assassin  Margaret Atwood

  • East of Eden  John Steinbeck

  • The Name of the Rose  Umberto Eco

  • The Other Boleyn Girl  Philippa Gregory

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  John Boyne

  • The Prince of Tides  Pat Conroy

  • Rebecca  Daphne du Maurier

  • Bridget Jones’ Diary  Helen Fielding

  • The Shipping News  E. Annie Proulx

  • Alice in Wonderland  Lewis Carroll

  • Animal Farm  George Orwell

  • The Red Tent  Anita Diamant

  • Watership Down  Richard Adams

  • Magician  Raymond E Feist

  • Middlemarch  George Eliot

  • The Day of the Jackal  Frederick Forsyth

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin  Lionel Shriver

  • The Magus  John Fowles

  • The Remains of the Day  Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Agaat  Marlene van Niekerk

  • The Count of Monte Cristo  Alexandre Dumas

  • The Shell Seekers  Rosamunde Pilcher

  • The Colour Purple  Alice Walker

  • The Beach House  James Patterson

  • Doctor Zhivago  Boris Pasternak

  • Kringe in ‘n Bos  Dalene Matthee

  • The World according to Garp  John Irving

  • Northen Lights  Phillip Pullman

  • Middlesex  Jeffrey Eugenides

  • Shades  Marguerite Poland

  • Kane and Abel  Jeffrey Archer

  • Fiela se kind  Dalene Matthee

  • Story of an African Farm  Olive Schreiner

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  Roald Dahl

  • The Magic Faraway Tree  Enid Blyton

  • Things Fall Apart  Chinua Achebe

  • Winnie-the-Pooh  A.A. Milne