Asimov's classic, laying down the laws by which robots must respect their human masters, but frequently don't, which often produces a murder. This is the film version...

....Baldwin. A leading black writer and activist's bitter experience of life in sixties America. Being gay didn't help either...

....My favourite of Dicken's works. A young boy caught up in circumstances that form him into an ambitious man. This works well because it track the innocence of youth into the corruption of maturity....

....Fitzgerald's classic look at the illusions of wealth and social status in early twentieth century America....

....Greene's hilarious story of a reluctant spy....

...a Canadian's account of his family's early struggles in their new country....

....not as difficult to understand as many have claimed, the frustrating trial of Kafka's hero acts as a metaphor for man's bewilderment in life....

....Moorcock's best know fantasy hero. The melancoly albino emperor does his bit for both sides in the war between the gods of Order and Chaos....

....Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian world of the future. At least it was the futre to him, writting in ruined Europe in 1948....

....my favourite of Robbin's sagas. The last days of the gunfighters, the early days of Hollywood's rise. Hokum, but good, solid hokum....

....In Tolkien's sprawling novel, the land of Middle Earth itself becomes as important and enduring a character as his Galaxy of strange heroes and villains....

....Little and fantastical, but memorable and re-readable, due to being very well done....

....One of the longest novels I've ever read: Tom's search for unattainable Sophia Weston, whose name also means "wisdom"....

....Millenia ago, blind Homer wrote this most enduring story of Odysseus's struggle to return across the Mediterranean to Ithica and his wife, Penelope....

Possibly the best novel by lawrence, who - very controversialy for the early 1900s - wrote on human love and sexuality

The latest offering from a writer who has produced a series of fine novels, usually dealing with war and intrigue.

Trollope - not appreciated as much as he should be amongst authors of the 1800s. A study of financial scheming that's very relevant nowadays.

An early Sci-Fi from the man recognised - along with HG Wells - as a Father of science fiction. Wells didn't only write Sci-Fi, but many novels examining the plight of the "little man," as in ....