The TO READ/RECOMMENDED List:

Still Life ~ A.S. Byatt

The Plausibility Problem ~ Ed Shaw

Sensible Shoes ~ Sharon Garlough Brown

Vita & Virginia: The Lives & Love of Virginia Woolf
& Vita Sackville-West ~ Sarah Gristwood

MCL --

The Man Who Pays The Rent ~ Dame Judi Dench

The House of Fortune ~ Jessie Burton

No Boys Play Here... ~ Sally Bayley

Really good, actually ~ Monica Heisey (G)

Cursed Bread ~ Sophie Mackintosh

After The Funeral ~ Tessa Hadley

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Virginia Woolf:

Genius & Ink . Jacob’s Room. 

The Years . The Waves

A Writer’s Diary . The Common Reader

At The Hive Entrance ~ H. Storch

The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain & France ~ Robert Harvey

Sandra Newman: The Heavens | Julia 

Good Omens - Pratchett & Gaiman

Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster

Jeanette Winterson:

Sexing the Cherry | Tanglewreck | The Gap In Time

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

The Magus - John Fowles

Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi

Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys

Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz

Hag Seed - Margaret Atwood

Ragnarok - A.S. Byatt

Little Faith - Nickolas Butler

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Labrador Pact; The Last Family In England - Matt Haig

Fen; Everything Under ~ Daisy Johnson

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

Dusty Answer ~ Rosamond Lehmann

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing ~ Sofi Thanhauser

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life - Julia Briggs

Virginia Woolf & Her World - John Lehman

Gilead - Marilyn Robinson

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Annie Spence recommends 

Endless Love - Scott Spencer

Fates & Furies - Lauren Groff

Home Land ~ Sam Lipsyte

Love in Lowercase - Francesc Miralles

Mayumi & the Sea of Happiness - Jennifer Tseng

The Gold Bug Variations - Richard Powers

The Intimates - Ralph Sassone

When Tito Loved Clara - Jon Michaud

Women in Clothes - Shelia B Heti 

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Romantic Comedy ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - Kathleen Rooney

Where the Wild Winds Are - Nick Hunt

Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut

A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor

Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor

Milestones of the Master - Warren W. Wierbse

Time Lived, Without Its Flow - Denise Riley

A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

The Bees - Laline Paul

Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

The Reckoning ~ Charles Nicholl

Sleeping On Islands ~ Andrew Motion