1. Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
2. Poems
Christopher Smart
3. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
4. Bleak House
Charles Dickens
5. The Quest for Corvo
A.J.A. Symons
6. Le Baiser au Iepreux
François Mauriac
7. Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
8. The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse
9. Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935–1964
ed. Randall Jarrell
10. The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler