Popular Fiction

Today morning, a friend sends me an SMS saying that she needs a list of popular fiction for a syllabus she is designing. She did not mention whether it should be India specific, or otherwise. And, I had to produce the list then and there, out of the thin air. This is the list produced out of thin air. Given time and motivation, I hope to expand it, or shorten it.

Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Murakami, Haruki. The Norwegian Woods
Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Millennium Trilogy)
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief
McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
Martel, Yann. Life of Pi
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian
McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex
Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera
Márquez, Gabriel García. Autumn of the Patriarch
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games Trilogy
Gaiman, Neil, American Gods
Gaiman, Neil, Stardust
Gaiman, Neil, Coraline
McEwan, Ian. Atonement
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club
Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones’s Diary
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Trilogy)
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus