Village Books: Impac Short list 2009

Our favourite books of all time

1984 by George Orwell
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
About the Author by John Colapinto
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Homesick Garden by Kate Cruise O' Brien
Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
Lost Souls by Michael Collins
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
Peoples Act of Love by James Meek
Plain Song by Ken Haruf
Sugar Cage by Connie May Fowler
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Dark by John Magahern
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Namesake by Juhumpa Lahiri
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle