The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Ulysses by James Joyce

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

In Custody by Anita Desai

​Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be “the best novel of all winners” on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.