The List

1. Evelina - Fanny Burney
2. Downriver - Iain Sinclair (Library)
3. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair (Library)
4. Jonathan Swift - Victoria Glendinning (Library)
5. Sentimental Murder - John Brewer
6. The Life of George Crabbe by his son
7. Iain Sinclair - Lights Out for the Territory
8. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
9. Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Henry Fielding
10. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
11. Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld - ed Lucy Moore
12. Discovering Georgian London - Derek Brechin
13. Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London - A St John Adcock
14. In Search of London - H V Morton
15. H V Morton's London
16. Down and Out in Eighteenth Century London - Tim Hitchcock
17. London Bodies - Alex Werner
18. Boswell's London Journal
19. Dr Johnson and Company - Robert Lynd
20. George III - Christopher Hibbert
21. The People of the Abyss - Jack London
22. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage - Richard Holmes
23. Aristocrats - Stella Tillyard
24. Speak, Memory - Nabokov
25. London: a Social History - Roy Porter
26. Mother London - Michael Moorcock
27. The Collection - Peter Ackroyd
28. A History of London - Stephen Inwood
29. In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
30. Jonathan Swift - Directions to Servants
31. Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays
32. Jonathan Swift - Major Works
33. The Italian Boy - Sarah Wise
34. The Uses of Enchantment - Bruno Bettelheim
35. Like a Fiery Elephant: the Story of B S Johnson - Jonathan Coe
36. Will in the World - Stephen Greenblatt
37. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
38. Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
39. Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
40. That Old Ace in the Hole - Annie Proulx
41. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
42. An Accidental Marriage - Anne Tyler
43. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
44. Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
45. Pinkerton's Sister - Peter Rushforth
46. Old School - Tobias Wolf
47. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
48. When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
49. The Awkward Age - Henry James
50. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
51. The Western Coast - Paula Fox
52. The Puttermesser Papers - Cynthia Ozick
53. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
54. Classic New England Stories
55. Cape Cod Stories
56. Cape Cod - Thoreau
57. Precious Bane - Mary Webb
58. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
59. The Innocence of Father Brown - G K Chesterton
60. Dr Faustus - Thomas Mann
61. Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
62. The Spoils of Poynton - Henry James
63. The Dying Animal - Philip Roth
64. The Herb of Grace - Elizabeth Goudge
65. The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalbey
66. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
67. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
68. The Floating Opera - John Barth
69. The End of the Road - John Barth
70. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
71. Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore
72. The Girl at the Lion d'Or - Sebastian Faulks
73. Headlong - Michael Frayn
74. Modern Baptists - James Wilcox
75. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall
76. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
77. Foe - J M Coetzee
78. Miss Garnett's Angel - Salley Vickers
79. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
80. Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
81. Burr - Gore Vidal
82. Lincoln - Gore Vidal
83. Life of Pi - Yann Martell
84. The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
85. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
86. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
87. The Biographer's Tale - A S Byatt
88. The Salterton Trilogy - Robertson Davies
89. The Pickwick Papers - Dickens
90. Sketches by Boz - Dickens
91. The Karamazov Brothers - Dostoevsky
92. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
93. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
94. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
95. Ruth - Mrs Gaskell
96. Loving; Living; Party Going - Henry Green
97. The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy
98. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
99. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
100. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
101. The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
102. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
103. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
104. Dubliners - James Joyce
105. The Rainbow - D H Lawrence
106. Samarkand - Amin Maalouf
107. Therese - Francois Mauriac
108. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
109. Moby Dick - Melville
110. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
111. The Man Without Qualities - Rober Musil
112. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
113. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
114. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
115. Words - Jean-Paul Sartre
116. Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
117. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
118. Tales of the South Seas - Rober Louis Stevenson
119. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
120. The Stories of William Trevor
121. The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
122. Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
123. The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope
124. A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
125. Myra Breckinridge/Myron - Gore Vidal
126. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
127. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
128. 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare - James Shapiro
129. The Sound on the Page - Ben Pagoda
130. The History of Reading - Alberto Manguel
131. How to Read a Book - Adler and Van Doren
132. How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Foster
133. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
134. Shakespeare's History Plays - E M Tillyard
135. Boys and Girls Forever - Alison Lurie
136. Gathering Evidence - Thomas Bernhard
137. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
138. The Smoking Diaries - Simon Gray
139. My Life in Orange - Tim Parks
140. Autobiography - Benvenuto Cellini
141. Lucky - Alice Sebold
142. 1700: Scenes from London Life - Maureen Waller
143. Dr Johnson's London - Liza Picard
144. Illustrated English Social History Vol 3 - G M Trevelyan
145. English Society in the 18th Century - Roy Porter
146. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain - Daniel Defoe
147. London: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd
148. The England of Elizabeth - A L Rowse
149. The Meaning of Everything - Simon Winchester
150. Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
151. Stasiland - Anna Funder
152. Dylan's Visions of Sin - Christopher Ricks
153. Down the Highway; A Life of Bob Dylan - Howard Souness
154. Selected Prose - John Ashbery
155. Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
156. Mother Tongue: the English Language - Bill Bryson
157. The Purloined Clinic - Janet Malcolm
158. Tales of the New Babylon - Rupert Christiansen
159. An  Intimate History of Mankind - Theodore Zeldin
160. Essential Writings - Ralph Waldo Emerson
161. Jazz Cleopatra - Phylis Rose
162. The Arcanum - Janet Gleeson
163. Black Sea - Neal Ascherson
164. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
165. The Red Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
166. Mary Wollstonecraft - Claire Tomalin
167. Antonia White - Jane Dunn
168. Robert Graves: the Years with Laura Riding - Richard Perceval Graves
169. Jane Austen: A Life - Claire Tomalin
170. Eden Renewed - Peter Levi
171. Hans Christian Andersen - Jackie Wullschlager
172. Blake - Peter Ackroyd
173. A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
174. Daniel Defoe - Richard West
175. The Violent Effigy - John Carey
176. Dickens - Peter Ackroyd
177. George Eliot: the Last Victorian - Kathryn Hughes
178. The Life of Samuel Johnson - Boswell
179. The Life of John Milton - A N Wilson
180. Tolstoy - A N Wilson
181. Trollope - Victoria Glendinning
182. Edith Wharton - R W B Lewis
183. No Gifts from Chance - Shari Benstock
184. Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee
185. Dorothy Wordsworth - Gittings and Manton
186. William Wordsworth - Stephen Gill
187. John Clare - Jonathan Bate
188. The Passion of Emily Dickinson - Farr
189. Flaubert: a Life - Geoffrey Wall
190. Flaubert - Herbert Lotman
191. From the Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple
192. In Xanadu: a Quest - William Dalrymple
193. India - V S Naipaul
194. Love's Labours Lost - Shakespeare
195. Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
196. All's Well that Ends Well - Shakespeare
197. The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare
198. Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
199. Sonnets - Shakespeare
200. Shakespeare's Language - Frank Kermode
201. Paradise Lost - Milton
202. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
203. The Iliad - Homer
204. The Odyssey - Homer
205. Divine Comedy - Dante
206. Plays and Poems - Christopher Marlowe
207. The Prelude - William Wordsworth
208. The Work of Poetry - Hollander
209. The Making of a Poem - Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
210. How Poetry Works - Phil Roberts
211. Poetry and the Age - Randall Jarrell
212. The Well Wrought Urn - Cleanth Brooks
213. The Force of Poetry - Christopher Ricks
214. The Anxiety of Influence - Harold Bloom
215. Hamlet: Poem Unlimited - Harold Bloom
216. The Art of Reading Poetry - Harold Bloom
217. Allusion to the Poets - Christopher Ricks
218. Finders Keepers - Seamus Heaney
219. The Strength of Poetry - James Fenton
220. The Song of the Earth - Jonathan Bate
221. The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula le Guin
222. Collected Stories - Isaac Babel
223. Elementals - A S Byatt
224. Collected Stories - John Cheever
225. The Brontes - Juliet Barker
226. Collected Essays - Graham Greene
227. The Third Woman - William Cash
228. All Points North - Simon Armitage