'The Times' 50 Greatest British Writers..

One to read: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

One to read: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

One to read: To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (1980-89, which includes Rites of Passage)

One to read: Crow (1972)

One to read: The Golden Notebook (1961)

One to read: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

One to read: In a Free State (1971)

One to read: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

One to read: Take a Girl Like You (1960)

One to read: The Bloody Chamber (1979)

One to read: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

One to read: The Sea, The Sea (1978)

One to read: Midnight’s Children (1981)

One to read: Casino Royale (1953)

One to read: Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968)

One to read: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

One to read: The Wanting Seed (1956)

Read: The Gormenghast trilogy (1946-59)

One to read: Money (1984)

Read: The series A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-75)

One to read: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)

One to read: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)

One to read: The Blue Flower (1995)

One to read: Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)

One to read: Excellent Women (1952)

One to read: The Birthday Boys (1991)

One to read: Crash (1973)

One to read: The Owl Service (1967)

One to read: Lanark (1981)

One to read: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)

One to read: Omeros (1989)

One to read: The Remains of the Day (1989)

One to read: Hotel Du Lac (1984)

One to read: The Virgin in the Garden (1978)

One to read: The Child in Time (1987)

One to read: Mercian Hymns (1971)

One to read: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

One to read: The Wasp Factory (1984)

One to read: Magnus (1973)

One to read: The Trouble Makers (1957)

One to read: Russian Thinkers — which includes the essay The Hedgehog and the Fox (1978)

One to read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)

One to read: Northern Lights (1996)

One to read: Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)

One to read: In Siberia (1999)

One to read: On the Black Hill (1982)

One to read: Dart (2002)

One to read: Propa Propaganda (1996)

One to read: The Eagle of the Ninth (1954)

One to read: Mother London (1988)