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General works of fiction. New additions should be best-sellers, award-winners or otherwise significant with no more than six books per author.
Also see other Fiction subjects e.g. Fiction - Mystery, Crime and Thrillers, Fiction - Romance, Fiction - Science Fiction and Fantasy and the various Non-Fiction subjects.

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William Makepeace Thackeray
   wrote   
Vanity Fair
A satire of 19th century English society first published as a serial


William Morris
   wrote   
News from Nowhere

William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
Cities of the Red Night
Homosexual drug addicts seek freedom to live as they will while a supernatural disease spreads across the world.


William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
Exterminator!

William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
Junkie

William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
Naked Lunch
Extremely controversial for its subject matter and obscene language (child murder and pedophilia)


William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
Queer

William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
The Ticket That Exploded

William S. Burroughs
   wrote   
The Wild Boys

William Styron
   wrote   
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Pulitizer Prize, 1968


William Styron
   wrote   
Sophie's Choice
1979; American novelist and essayist, 1925-2006


William Trevor
   wrote   
Felicia’s Journey

William Trevor
   wrote   
Fools of Fortune

William Trevor
   wrote   
The Story of Lucy Gault

Will Self
   wrote   
Great Apes

Will Self
   wrote   
How the Dead Live

Winifred Watson
   wrote   
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Witi Ihimaera
   wrote   
The Matriarch

Witi Ihimaera
   wrote   
Pounamu, Pounamu

Witi Ihimaera
   wrote   
Sky Dancer

Witi Ihimaera
   wrote   
Tangi
Ihimaera was the first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel.


Witi Ihimaera
   wrote   
Whale Rider
Made into a film of the same name.


W. Somerset Maugham
   wrote   
Cakes and Ale

W. Somerset Maugham
   wrote   
Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
   wrote   
The Razor's Edge

Wyndham Lewis
   wrote   
The Apes of God

Wyndham Lewis
   wrote   
The Childermass

Wyndham Lewis
   wrote   
The Revenge for Love

Wyndham Lewis
   wrote   
Self Condemned

Wyndham Lewis
   wrote   
Tarr

Yann Martel
   wrote   
The Life of Pi

Yevgeny Zamyatin
   wrote   
We

Yukio Mishima
   wrote   
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea

Yukio Mishima
   wrote   
The Sea of Fertility

Yukio Mishima
   wrote   
The Sound of Waves

Yukio Mishima
   wrote   
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Zadie Smith
   wrote   
On Beauty

Zadie Smith
   wrote   
White Teeth

Zakes Mda
   wrote   
The Heart of Redness

Zora Neale Hurston
   wrote   
Their Eyes Were Watching God



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