- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
- Isabel Allende – The Stories of Eva Luna
- Maya Angelou – I know why the Caged Bird Sings
- Michael Anthony – Green Days by the River
- Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
- Robert Cormier – Heroes
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
- Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Gerald Durrell – My Family and other Animals
- Michael Frayn - Spies
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- Graham Greene – The Third Man or The Human Factor
- Ernest Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea
- Susan Hill – I’m the King of the Castle
- Barry Hines – A Kestral for a Knave
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Laurie Lee – Cider with Rosie
- Joan Lingard – Across the Barricades
- Anne McCaffrey – Dragon Riders of Pern (series)
- Brian Moore – Lies of Silence
- Beverley Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
- George Orwell – Animal Farm; Down and Out in Paris or London
- Edgar Allen Poe – Tales of the Unexpected
- R. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- Dai Sijie – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Alexander McCall Smith – No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (series)
- John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
- Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
- Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Richard Wright – Black Boy or Native Son
- John Wyndham – The Chysalids