Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.

Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.

The Remains of the Day (1989)is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It concerns Lord Darlington’s butler Stevens and his relationship with a housekeeper in the days leading up to World War II.

Arundhati Roy won the 1999 Man Booker for The God of Small Things (1997), Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss (2006), Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children (1981), and Yann Martel is Canadian.

Never Let Me Go (2005), The Buried Giant (2015), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), and The Unconsoled (1995) are all by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is by Kiran Desai.

Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000),a novel about two London families, race, immigration, love, and religion.

Kiran Desai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Hilary Mantel is the author of Bring up the Bodies (2012), A.S. Byatt is the author of Morpho Eugenia (1992), and Kate Atkinson is the author of Emotionally Weird (2000).

I, Claudius (1934) is a novel by the Latin/Greek translator and historical fiction author Robert Graves.

Kingsley Amis is the author of Lucky Jim (1954) (he was also Martin Amis's father), Ian McEwan is the author of First Love, Last Rites (1975), Thomas Hardy is the author of Jude the Obscure (1895), and Graham Greene is the author of The Third Man (1950).

Robert Graves's I, Claudius (1934)takes the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. It was the assassination of the Emperor Caligula that led to Claudius’ ascent to power. All of the other events listed here occurred well before the reign of Claudius.

The ancient Greek historian Plutarch as well as the Roman historian Suetonius provided much of the background material for I, Claudius (1934). None of the others writers would have had information about Emperor Claudius, since he was not born until after their deaths.

Atonement (2001) is Ian McEwan’s eighth novel.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of A Pale View of Hills (1982), Martin Amis is the author of Dead Babies (1975), Julian Barnes is the author of Arthur and George (2005), and Pat Barker is the author of the Regeneration Trilogy (1991, 1993, 1995).

Ian McEwan's Atonement was published in 2001, the same year that it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.