- A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
- The Natural by Bernard Malamud
- The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
- The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
- December Bride by Sam Hanna Bell
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
- The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
- A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Owls do Cry by Janet Frame
- Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
- Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
- The Financial Expert by R.K. Narayan
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
- Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
- The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
- The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
- Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
- Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- The Beckett Trilogy ( Molloy Trilogy) by Samuel Beckett
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The titles below are listed in The Modern Library but are currently out of print and therefore unavailable for this promotion. However many of these books are available in the general library bookstock. Check the online catalogue on our website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie.
- Nothing by Henry Green
- Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
- The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton
- Private Life of an Indian Prince by Mulk Raj Anand
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Recognitions by William Gaddis
- From the Terrace by John O'Hara
- A Heritage and its History by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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