What better way to try and get back into the swing of posting more frequently than with a list? We all like lists, right?

Some time ago – December 2018 in fact – I put together a list of 50 of my then favourite works of fiction. Time has passed, more has been read – given I’ve averaged a good 30 books a year in the intervening rotations around the sun I’ll let you do the maths – and I’ve put together a second part to that list to bring it up to an even 100, just in time to share publication with The Guardian’s own list of ‘100 best novels of all time‘

So, once again, in no particular order other than alphabetical:

From the City to the Plough – Alexander Baron

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman – Louis de Bernières

The 7th Function of Language  – Laurence Binet

2666 – Roberto Bolaño

The Passenger – Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Outsider – Albert Camus

The Amazing Adventues of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

The Story of a Nobody – Anton Chekhov

The Killing Floor – Lee Child

The Courier – Kjell Ola Dahl

The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt

All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Invisible Man  – Ralph Ellison

Little Man, What Now? – Hans Fallada

Madame Bovery – Gustave Flaubert

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Dream Life of Sukhanov – Olga Grushin

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway

Saturnin – Zdeněk Jirotka

Out – Natsuo Kirino

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

IQ84  – Haruki Murakami

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

The Snowman – Jo Nesbø

The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yōko Ogawa

Small Gods – Terry Pratchett

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

Cather in the Rye – J.D Sallinger

Nausea – Jean-Paul Satre

Women – Mihail Sebastian

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck

Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Joker – Kaoru Takamura

The Makioka Sisters – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Rules of Civility – Amor Towles

Around The World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Laurus – Eugene Vodolazkin

Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut

Stoner – John Williams

How Do You Live? – Genzaburo Yoshino