Ending up

Kingsley Amis

The honorary consul

Graham Greene

The loft

Marlen Haushofer

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The children's crusade

Kurt Vonnegut (jr.)

I never promised you a rose garden

Joanne Greenberg

The collector

John Fowles

The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

Clock without hands

Carson McCullers

Giovanni's room

James Baldwin

The long view

Elizabeth Jane Howard

The talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

Nothing but the night

John Williams

The heart is a lonely hunter

Carson McCullers

The power and the glory

Graham Greene

Passing

Nella Larsen

The mill on the floss

George Eliot