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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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  1. 1.
    Treasure Island (Sterling Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  2. 2.
    With Clive in India
    by G. A. Henty
  3. 3.
    King Solomon's Mines (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. Rider Haggard
  4. 4.
    The Prisoner of Zenda
    by Anthony Hope
  5. 5.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad
  6. 6.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers
  7. 7.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
    by John Buchan
  9. 9.
    The Mask of Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler
  10. 10.
    No Highway
    by Nevil Shute
  11. 11.
    Airport - Copyright Arthur Hailey, Inc.
    by Arthur Hailey
  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    The Poor Christ of Bomba
    by Mongo Beti
  14. 14.
    God's Bits of Wood
    by Sembene Ousmane
  15. 15.
    Arrow of God
    by Chinua Achebe
  16. 16.
    A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  17. 17.
    Petals of Blood
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  18. 18.
    Fragments (African Writers Series)
    by Ayi Kwei Armah
  19. 19.
  20. 20.
    The Sun Between Their Feet
    by Doris May Lessing
  21. 21.
    God Dies by the Nile: Second Edition
    by Nawal El Saadawi
  22. 22.
    Waiting for the Rain (Zph Writers Series)
    by Charles Mungoshi
  23. 23.
    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J M Coetzee
  24. 24.
    Nervous Conditions
    by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  25. 25.
    My Brilliant Career
    by Miles Franklin
  26. 26.
    Stories (Vintage Classics)
    by Katherine Mansfield
  27. 27.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead
  28. 28.
    Riders in the Chariot (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Patrick White
  29. 29.
    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame
  30. 30.
    ?
    Miss Peabody's Inheritance
    by Elizabeth Jolley
  31. 31.
    ?
    The Children's Bach
    by Helen Garner
  32. 32.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme
  33. 33.
    Harland's Half Acre
    by David Malouf
  34. 34.
    Playmaker
    by Thomas Keneally
  35. 35.
    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Carey Peter
  36. 36.
    Cloudstreet: A Novel
    by Tim Winton
  37. 37.
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (American Century)
    by James Weldon Johnson
  38. 38.
    ?
    Corentyne Thunder (Caribbean Writers Series, 2)
    by Edgar Mittelholzer
  39. 39.
    ?
    a swarthy boy, edgar mittelholzer

  40. 40.
    ?
    Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Wright, Richard A.
    by Richard A. Wright
  41. 41.
    Black Shack Alley
    by Joseph Zobel
  42. 42.
    The Lonely Londoners (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
    by Samuel Selvon
  43. 43.
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
  44. 44.
    Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Zee Edgell
  45. 45.
    Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Edwidge Danticat
  46. 46.
    The Farming of Bones
    by Edwidge Danticat
  47. 47.
    In Another Place, Not Here
    by Dionne Brand
  48. 48.
    Buxton Spice (Bluestreak)
    by Oonya Kempadoo
  49. 49.
    Anne of Green Gables (All Aboard Reading)
    by L. M. Montgomery
  50. 50.
    The Stone Angel
    by Margaret Laurence

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weaponxgirl

sorry!! — 5 years ago

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

Nov 08, 06:55AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

tassini

Untitled — 5 years ago

Would love to see the rest of this list!

Aug 23, 02:52PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

weaponxgirl

No worries — 6 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.

May 09, 10:00AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

dt123

Great start — 6 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.

May 08, 06:34PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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