The good fiction guide list

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This is a list from the Good Fiction Guide published by the Oxford University Press. The lists are divided into different topics, so there are repeats in the list. There are 12 books in each list apart from the glamour section which only has 6. The sections are, in order, Adventure, Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Black & White, Canada, Caribbean, Childhood, Classics, Crime, Family saga, Fantasy, Film adaptations, France, Germany, Glamour, Historical, Humour, India, Ireland, Magic realism, Romance, Russia, Science fiction, The Sea, Sexual politics, Short stories, Social issues, Spy, Supernatural, Teen, Thrillers, United States of America, War and Western.

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    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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    With Clive in India
    by G. A. Henty

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    King Solomon's Mines (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard

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    The Prisoner of Zenda
    by Anthony Hope

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    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers

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    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
    by John Buchan

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    The Mask of Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

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    No Highway
    by Nevil Shute

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    Airport - Copyright Arthur Hailey, Inc.
    by Arthur Hailey

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    Sharpe's Eagle
    by Bernard Cornwell

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    The Poor Christ of Bomba
    by Mongo Beti

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    God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series)
    by Sembene Ousmane

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    Arrow of God
    by Chinua Achebe

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    A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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    Petals of Blood
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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    Fragments (African Writers)
    by Ayi Kwei Armah

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    The Sun Between Their Feet
    by Doris Lessing

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    God Dies by the Nile: Second Edition
    by Nawal El Saadawi

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    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J M Coetzee

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    Nervous Conditions
    by Tsitsi Dangarembga

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  24. 25.
    My Brilliant Career
    by Miles Franklin

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    Stories
    by Katherine Mansfield

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    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

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    Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick White

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    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame

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    Miss Peabody's Inheritance
    by Elizabeth Jolley

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    The Children's Bach
    by Helen Garner

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    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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    Harland's Half Acre
    by David Malouf

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    The Playmaker
    by Thomas Keneally

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    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Carey Peter

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    Cloudstreet : A Novel
    by Tim Winton

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    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (American Century Series)
    by James Weldon Johnson

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    Corentyne Thunder (Caribbean Writers Series, 2)
    by Edgar Mittelholzer

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    a swarthy boy, edgar mittelholzer

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    Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Wright, Richard A.
    by Richard A. Wright

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    Black Shack Alley
    by Joseph Zobel

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    The Lonely Londoners (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Samuel Selvon

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    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison

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    Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Zee Edgell

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  44. 45.
    Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Edwidge Danticat

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    The Farming of Bones
    by Edwidge Danticat

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    In Another Place, Not Here
    by Dionne Brand

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    Buxton Spice
    by Oonya Kempadoo

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    Anne of Green Gables
    by L. M. Montgomery

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    The Stone Angel
    by Margaret Laurence

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Comments

sorry!! — 2 years ago

iv lost regular access to a computer, shall try and start updating again soon! it really sucks.


Untitled — 2 years ago

Would love to see the rest of this list!


No worries — 2 years ago

im not very experienced on the site, so i apriciate the help. noticed the authors name was the wrong way round aswel, but i didnt feel confident in fixing it.


dt123
Canberra

Great start — 2 years ago

Hope you don’t mind, I changed the version of Cloudstreet. I hate grey boxes but unfortunately they are a fact of life with a lot of Australian fiction.