30 September 2025

July - September 2025


Parallel Lines - Edward St Aubyn
Gliff - Ali Smith
Five Go Adventuring Again - Enid Blyton 
That's Your Lot - Limmy (audiobook)
North Woods - Daniel Mason
I Love You, Byeee - Adam Buxton (audiobook)
All Fours - Miranda July
Flesh - David Szalay 
Kala - Colin Walsh
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
The Sleepwalkers - Scarlett Thomas
The Names - Florence Knapp
Five Run Away Together - Enid Blyton 
When the Going was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines - Graydon Carter
Ginseng Roots - Craig Thompson
Five Get into Trouble - Enid Blyton 
Audition - Katie Kitamura
The Kellerby Code - Jonny Sweet
The South - Tash Aw
Five Go to Smuggler's Top - Enid Blyton 
Love Forms - Claire Adam
The Rest of Our Lives - Ben Markovits

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30 June 2025

April - June 2025


Three Days in June - Anne Tyler
Final Cut - Charles Burns
Dream Count - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
World Without End - Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain
Universality - Natasha Brown
Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work - Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout
One Boat - Jonathan Buckley
The Plot Twist - Eleanor Goymer
The Western Wind - Samantha Harvey
Juice - Tim Winton
Albion - Anna Hope
Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton
Butter - Asako Yuzuki

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31 March 2025

January - March 2025

 
No Judgement: On Being Critical - Lauren Oyler
The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
Empty World - John Christopher
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
Mister Wonderful - Daniel Clowes
Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Rebel Girl - Kathleen Hanna
Bonehead - Mo Hayder
Young Hag - Isabel Greenberg
The Sequel - Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Art of Life Admin: How to Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More - Elizabeth Emens
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
We Do Not Part - Han Kang
The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami 

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31 December 2024

October - December 2024

 
This Strange Eventful History - Clare Messud
Tell Me Everything - Elizabeth Strout
Louis: Night Salad - Metaphrog
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
James - Percival Everett
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt
Blue Ruin - Hari Kunzru
Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
The Ends - James Smythe
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson

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30 September 2024

July - September 2024


Caledonian Road - Andrew O’Hagan
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Days Like These - Brian Bilston
Orbital - Samantha Harvey
The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes
All that Glitters - Orlando Whitfield
Fragrant Harbour - John Lanchester
Held - Anne Michaels
What Awaits Them - Liam Cobb
Sex Criminals, Volume Six: Six Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Alison - Lizzy Stewart
The Ballad of Halo Jones: Full Colour Omnibus Edition - Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
Enlightenment - Sarah Perry
My Friends - Hisham Matar
Headshot - Rita Bullwinkel
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden 
Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
Wild Houses - Colin Barrett
Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success - Miki Berenyi
Okinawa - Susumu Higa

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30 June 2024

April - June 2024


Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir - Werner Herzog (audiobook)
The Year of the Locust - Terry Hayes
Woman Life Freedom - Marjane Satrapi et al
The Fallback - Eleanor Goymer
The Future - Naomi Alderman
The Hunter - Tana French
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Baumgartner - Paul Auster
Providence (Compendium) - Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
The Last Murder at the End of the World - Stuart Turton
Day - Michael Cunningham
You Are Here - David Nicholls
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life - Anna Funder

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31 March 2024

January - March 2024

 
A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll
The Searcher - Tana French
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell
Ice Haven - Daniel Clowes
The Wych Elm - Tana French
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures - Ted Kessler
The Seventh Son - Sebastian Faulks
Cuddy - Benjamin Myers
Saga, Volume 11 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin
The Bullet that Missed - Richard Osman

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31 December 2023

October - December 2023


Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Doppelganger - Naomi Klein
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Roald Dahl
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
The Guest - Emma Cline
Red Plenty - Francis Spufford
Paper Girls, Volume 6: Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang et al
Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - Daniel Clowes
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
Pearl - Siân Hughes
Are You My Mother? - Alison Bechdel
Soldier Sailor - Claire Gilroy
Wilson - Daniel Clowes
Beverly - Nick Drnaso
Danny the Champion of the World - Ronald Dahl
The Crime of Sheila McGough - Janet Malcolm
Monica - Daniel Clowes
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon (audiobook) - Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons
The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson
Penance - Eliza Clark
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting - Guy Delisle
The List - Yomi Adegoke

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02 October 2023

July - September 2023


The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way - Rebecca Wait
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Yellowface - Rebecca F Kuang
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
Victory City - Salman Rushdie
Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
This Other Eden - Paul Harding
In Memoriam - Alice Winn
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

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04 July 2023

April - June 2023


Bewilderment - Richard Powers
The New Life - Tom Crewe
In the Distance - Hernan Diaz
Pandamonium! How Not to Run a Record Label - Simon Williams
We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins
Foster - Claire Keegan
The Caves of Night - John Christopher
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Slow Horses - Mick Herron
Shy - Max Porter
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny - Limmy
Levels of Life - Julian Barnes
You Be Mother - Meg Mason
The Sound of Being Human - Jude Rogers

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31 March 2023

January - March 2023


The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Good Pop, Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker
Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason
Can Everyone Please Calm Down? A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality - Mae Martin
Transformer - Ezra Furman
The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin
Oxygen Mask - Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries - Alan Bennett
Saga, Volume 10: Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
The Fell - Sarah Moss
Acting Class - Nick Drnaso
The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan
Companion Piece - Ali Smith
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Cold People - Tom Rob Smith

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31 December 2022

October - December 2022


Maps of our Spectacular Bodies - Maddie Mortimer
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
After Sappho - Selby Wynn Schwartz
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
Lucy by the Sea - Elizabeth Strout
The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
Lessons - Ian McEwan
Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley
Love and Let Die - John Higgs
We Had to Remove this Post - Hanna Bervoets
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius - Nick Hornby

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08 October 2022

July - September 2022


French Braid - Anne Tyler
Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin
The Colony - Audrey Magee
More than a Woman - Caitlin Moran
Burntcoat - Sarah Hall
The Trees - Percival Everett
Homes and Experiences - Liam Williams
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
Booth - Karen Joy Fowler
Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet
People Person - Candice Carty-Williams
The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid
Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
The Wolf Border - Sarah Hall

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26 June 2022

April - June 2022


Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
Several People are Typing - Calvin Kasulke
This Weightless World - Adam Soto
Theft - Luke Brown
The Instant - Amy Liptrot
Delicacy - Katy Wix
The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
Zikora - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Visit - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
William Blake vs the World - John Higgs
Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo
And Away… - Bob Mortimer
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
The Body Lies - Jo Baker
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay
The Candy House - Jennifer Egan

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03 April 2022

January - March 2022

 
Last Days in Cleaver Square - Patrick McGrath
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Theroux the Keyhole - Louis Theroux
The Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel
The Promise - Damon Galgut
Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
My Phantoms - Gwendoline Riley
Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
Treacle Walker - Alan Garner
Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen
To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) - Philippa Perry 

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31 December 2021

October - December 2021


Luster - Raven Leilani
Preacher, Book 5 - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Second Place - Rachel Cusk
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Preacher, Book 6 - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It - Oliver Burkeman
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Assembly - Natasha Brown
The Fortune Men - Nadifa Mohamed
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Archipelago - Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist 

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30 September 2021

July - September 2021


The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
The Mermaid of Black Conch - Monique Roffey
Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor
Fake Accounts - Lauren Oyler
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
Preacher, Book Three - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
An Island - Karen Jennings
The Freelance Introvert - Tom Albrighton
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Asylum Road - Olivia Sudjic
Why You Need a Content Team and How to Build One - Rachel McConnell
Double Blind - Edward St Aubyn
Exit - Belinda Bauer
China Room - Sunjeev Sahota
A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson
Preacher, Book Four - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Hot Stew - Fiona Mozley
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Mayflies - Andrew O’Hagan 

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29 June 2021

April - June 2021


Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
Foe - JM Coetzee
The Life of Hunger - Amélie Nothomb
The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine
Reality and Other Stories - John Lanchester
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
The Death of Francis Bacon - Max Porter
The Cockroach - Ian McEwan
XX - Rian Hughes
Girl A - Abigail Dean
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Expectation - Anna Hope
Independence Square - AD Miller
The Porpoise - Mark Haddon
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Summerwater - Sarah Moss
First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
Remain Silent - Susie Steiner
Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford
First You Write a Sentence. - Joe Moran
Summer - Ali Smith 

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30 March 2021

January - March 2021


Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
Ramble Book (audiobook) - Adam Buxton
Love and Other Thought Experiments - Sophie Ward
The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste
Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards - Bong Joon Ho
One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time - Craig Brown
How Much of These Hills is Gold - C Pam Zhang
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
The Ice Twins - SK Tremayne
The Edge - James Smythe
Pétronille - Amélie Nothomb
Content Strategy for the Web - Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach
Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
Preacher, Volume 4: Ancient History - Garth Ennis et al
Blackwood - Hannah Eaton
The Character of Rain - Amélie Nothomb
Middle England - Jonathan Coe
A Woman of Firsts - Edna Adan Ismail
The Book of Proper Names - Amélie Nothomb 

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30 December 2020

October - December 2020


Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
The Machine Stops - EM Forster
Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler
The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante
The New Wilderness - Diane Cook
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi
Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
This Mournable Body - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice - Janet Malcolm
Intimations: Six Essays - Zadie Smith
My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long
Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith
Paul is Dead: When The Beatles Lost McCartney - Paolo Baron and Ernesto Carbonetti
The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel
Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna

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02 October 2020

July - September 2020


No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics - Naomi Klein
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell 
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams 
Amy & Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout 
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters - Balli Kaur Jaswal 
Noise - Hari Kunzru 
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
Iphigenia in Forest Hills - Janet Malcoln
Life as a Unicorn - Amrou Al-Kadhi 

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03 July 2020

April - June 2020


A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal - Ben Macintyre
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past - John Higgs
The Trouble with Women - Jacky Fleming
Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
Dear World, How Are You? - Toby Little
The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Sulphuric Acid - Amélie Nothomb
The Good Body - Eve Ensler
New Boy - Tracy Chevalier
Another Country - Anjali Joseph
The Eye of the Heron - Ursula K Le Guin
Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on BS - Jess Phillips
The Guardians - John Christopher
Chomsky and Globalisation - Jeremy Fox
The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay - John Lanchester
Bodies of Light - Sarah Moss
I Am an Emotional Creature - Eve Ensler
The Dog - Kerstin Ekman
K&R - James Smythe
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Sun-Mi Hwang
Five Moral Pieces - Umberto Eco
Fishbowl - Bradley Somer
The Last Day - Andrew Hunter Murray
Crudo - Olivia Laing
The Shell Collector - Anthony Doerr

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29 March 2020

January - March 2020


The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Twenty-First Century - John Higgs
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Peter Kuper
The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy
The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman
Soulless: The Case Against R Kelly - Jim DeRogatis
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn - Brett Anderson
Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedt
Sleepwalk and Other Stories - Adrian Tomine
Coal Black Mornings - Brett Anderson
Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexievich
The Book of Dust, Volume Two: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
The Death of Jesus - JM Coetzee
Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls

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29 December 2019

October - December 2019


Love Is Blind - William Boyd
Kill 'Em All - John Niven
An Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma
Plume - Will Wiles
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays - Rebecca Solnit
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Death Ray - Daniel Clowes
Grand Union: Stories - Zadie Smith
Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
Welcome to America - Kinda Boström Knausgård
The Flash: Emergency Stop - Grant Morrison and Mark Millar
Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane
Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder - John Waters
Festive Spirits: Three Short Stories - Kate Atkinson
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay

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30 September 2019

July - September 2019


The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
Ordinary People - Diana Evans
Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan
Night Waking - Sarah Moss
Frankissstein - Jeanette Winterson
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
Paper Girls, Volume 4 - Brian K Vaughan et al
Sex Criminals, Volume 5: Five-Fingered Discount - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Lanny - Max Porter
Paper Girls, Volume 5 - Brian K Vaughan et al
The Wall - John Lanchester
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak
Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry
Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
Content Design - Sarah Richards
The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
Give Me Your Hand - Megan Abbott
The Distance Between Us - Maggie O'Farrell
Lethal White - Robert Galbreith
The Other Mother - Jen Brister
Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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03 July 2019

April - June 2019


Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
Lullaby - Leïla Slimani
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?: And 87 Other Serious Answers to Questions in Songs - James Ball
The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
Saga, Volume 9 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Identity - Milan Kundera
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Paper Girls, Volume 3 - Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang et al
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Spring - Ali Smith
Then It Fell Apart - Moby

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09 April 2019

January - March 2019


The Holy Vible - Elis James and John Robins
Southern Bastards, Volume 4: Gut Check - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
Stars and Bars - William Boyd
The Ghost Factory - Jenny McCartney
Can't and Won't - Lydia Davis
Sex Criminals, Volume 4: Fourgy! - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown
C - Tom McCarthy
This Must Be the Place - Maggie O'Farrell
Out of the Woods - Luke Turner
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime - Dan Hancox

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31 December 2018

October - December 2018


The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
Sabrina - Nick Drnaso
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
Trees, Volume 1: In Shadow - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Trees, Volume 2: Two Forests - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
Normal People - Sally Rooney
An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd
The Children's Book - AS Byatt
Art Matters - Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
Wiggaz With Attitude: My Life as a Failed White Rapper - Andrew Emery
Southern Bastards, Volume 3: Homecoming - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
How Does It Feel? - Mark Kermode

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01 October 2018

July - September 2018


The Closed Circle - Jonathan Coe
Heresy - SJ Parris
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession - Janet Malcolm
The Tunnel - Ernesto Sabato
The Scheme for Full Employment - Magnus Mills
Autumn - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Property: A Collection - Lionel Shriver
The Girls - Emma Cline
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Snap - Belinda Bauer
The Long Take - Robin Robertson
Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
In Our Mad and Furious City - Guy Gunaratne
Milkman - Anna Burns
Our Kind of Cruelty - Araminta Hall
From a Low and Quiet Sea - Donal Ryan
Summer Blonde - Adrian Tomine
Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
Saga, Volume Eight - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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29 June 2018

April - June 2018


Kate Bush: Under the Ivy - Graeme Thomson
The Whole Story - Julian Barnes
Southern Bastards, Volume One: Here Was a Man - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Southern Bastards, Volume Two: Gridiron - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
To Throw Away Unopened - Viv Albertine
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past - Simon Reynolds
City on Fire - Garth Risk Halberg
The Field of the Cloth of Gold - Magnus Mills
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
Living Together - Matt Thomas
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century - John Higgs
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] - Andrew Hankinson
Persons Unknown - Susie Steiner
The Rotter's Club - Jonathan Coe
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Saga, Volume Seven - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death - Maggie O'Farrell
Sweet Caress - William Boyd

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06 April 2018

January - March 2018


The Golden House - Salman Rushdie
For the Love of God, Marie! - Jade Sarson
I Still Dream - James Smythe
No Good Brother - Tyler Keevil
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - Janet Malcolm
Winter - Ali Smith
White Tears - Hari Kunzru
The Sculptor - Scott McCloud
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001 - 2011 - Lizzy Goodman
Madness is Better than Defeat - Ned Beauman
The Red-Haired Woman - Orhan Pamuk
How Not to Fuck Them Up - Oliver James
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
The Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young
Username: Evie - Joe Sugg et al

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31 December 2017

October - December 2017


The Lost Coast - Eli Horowitz and John Brandon
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume One: Cosmic Avengers - Brian Michael Bendis
The Baltimore Boys - Joel Dicker
The Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy
The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox - Fleet Street Fox
The Cossacks / Sevastopol Stories / Hadji Murat - Leo Tolstoy
Dunbar - Edward St Aubyn
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
The Forensic Records Society - Magnus Mills

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30 September 2017

July - September 2017


The Sandman, Volume 10: The Wake - Neil Gaiman et al 
Sex Criminals, Volume 3: Three the Hard Way - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky 
Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor
Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout
Paper Girls, Volume 2 - Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
The Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman et al 
Pregnancy for Men: The Whole Nine Months - Mark Woods 
Preacher, Book One - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds - John Higgs 
Last Look - Charles Burns
The Book of Other People - Zadie Smith (ed.)
Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World - Garth Ennis and Steven Dillon
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds 
Autumn - Ali Smith 
A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry 
The 7th Function of Language - Laurent Binet 
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie 
History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund 
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders 
Babies - Anne Enright
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Elmet - Fiona Mozley

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12 April 2017

April - June 2017


Hawksmoor - Peter Aykroyd 
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis 
Locke & Key, Volume 3: Crown of Shadows - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
Locke & Key, Volume 4: Keys to the Kingdom - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
A Wild Swan and Other Tales - Michael Cunningham 
The Power - Naomi Alderman
The Sandman: Overture - Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III
Porcelain - Moby 
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang 
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus - Lawrence Durrell 
Pussy - Howard Jacobson 
The Rise, The Fall, and the Rise - Brix Smith Start 
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
Locke & Key, Volume 5: Clockworks - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
Sounds: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found - Bella Bathurst 
Locke & Key, Volume 6: Alpha & Omega - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
Swing Time - Zadie Smith 
The Martian - Andy Weir 
I Hate the Internet - Jarett Kobek 

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22 March 2017

January - March 2017


The Outrun - Amy Liptrot
I'm Not With the Band - Sylvia Patterson 
The Light Between Oceans - ML Stedman 
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry 
London from Punk to Blair: Revised Second Edition - Joe Kerr and Andrew Gibson (eds.)
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr 
Way Down Dark - JP Smythe 
The Misunderstanding - Irene Nemirovsky 
Locke and Key, Volume 2: Head Games - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
Golden Hill - Francis Spufford 
Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer
The Uninvited - Liz Jensen
4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster 

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31 December 2016

October - December 2016


The Shadow Out of Time - INJ Culbard 
Signal to Noise - Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean 
Stasiland - Anna Funder 
Alice in Sunderland - Bryan Talbot 
Satellite Sam, Volume 2: Satellite Sam and the Kinescope Snuff - Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin 
The Childhood of Jesus - JM Coetzee 
The Bricks that Build the Houses - Kate Tempest 
The Sandman, Volume 9: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman 
Where My Heart Used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks 
Hystopia - David Means 
Portuguese Irregular Verbs - Alexander McCall Smith 
HHhH - Laurent Binet 
The Elephant in the Room - Jon Ronson 
Gut Symmetries - Jeanette Winterson 
Kingsmen - The Secret Service - Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons and Matthew Vaughan 
Alan Partridge: Nomad - Alan Partridge with Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan 
Nutshell - Ian McEwan 
Being Dead - Jim Crace 
Under the Skin - Michael Faber 
Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer 
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Authority - Jeff VanderMeer 
Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft - Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez 
About Grace - Anthony Doerr 

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26 October 2016

July - September 2016


Cancelled: The Strange, Disturbing Story of the Crisis at Southern Rail and What To Do About It - David Boyle
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar - Chris Packham
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer 
Anatomy of a Soldier - Harry Parker 
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop - Bob Stanley 
Pride of Baghdad - Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon 
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper - Bruce Robinson
Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Hot Milk - Deborah Levy 
The Sandman, Volume 7: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman 
Work Like Any Other - Virginia Reeves
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - INJ Culbard 
Y: The Last Man, Volume 7: Paper Dolls - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra 
Saga, Volume 6 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples 
The Schooldays of Jesus - JM Coetzee 
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien
The North Water - Ian McGuire 
Y: The Last Man, Volume 8: Kimono Dragons - Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra,  et al 
The Sellout - Paul Beatty 
The Last Man, Volume 9: Motherland - Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra et al
Patience - Daniel Clowes  
The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores - Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra et al 
The Sandman, Volume 8: Worlds' End - Neil Gaiman et al 
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh 
All That Man Is - David Szalay
The Many - Wyl Menmuir 
Paper Girls, Volume 1 - Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang 

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10 June 2016

April - June 2016


Missing, Presumed - Susie Steiner
All Involved - Ryan Gattis
Big Baby - Charles Burns 
Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Habibi - Craig Thompson 
Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift 
The Versions of Us - Laura Barnett
A Quiet Life - Natasha Walter 
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body - Sara Pascoe 
Natchez Burning - Greg Iles 
The Sea Change - Joanna Rossiter 
Wonder - RJ Palacio 
Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd 
The Blade Artist - Irvine Welsh 
The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante 
Shylock is My Name - Howard Jacobson 

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January - March 2016


The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
The Grownup - Gillian Flynn 
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein 
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara 
The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars - Robert Kirkman et al 
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima 
Safari Honeymoon - Jesse Jacobs 
Dancing in the Dark - Karl Ove Knausgaard 
Report from the Interior - Paul Auster
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Notebooks - Justin Richards et al
The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: The Ring of Truth - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra 
The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante 
Casanova: Luxuria - Matt Fraction and Gabriel Bá
A Book for Her - Bridget Christie
Black Hole - Charles Burns
The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner
X'ed Out - Charles Burns
Y: The Last Man, Volume 6: Girl on Girl - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra
Purity - Jonathan Franzen

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31 December 2015

October - December 2015


Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma
Asterix in Britain - Goscinny and Uderzo 
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Y: The Last Man, Volume One: Unmanned - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra 
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Good-bye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson 
Wind / Pinball: Two Novels - Haruki Murakami 
Ex Machina, Volume 4 - Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris
Saga, Volume 5 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples 
The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami 
Boyhood Island - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Absolute Pandemonium - Brian Blessed
Yes Please - Amy Poehler
Y: The Last Man, Volume 2: Cycles - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra
Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota 
Y: The Last Man, Book 2 - Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra 
Slade House - David Mitchell 
The Sandman, Volume 6: Fables and Reflections - Neil Gaiman
Troubling Love - Elena Ferrante
Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith 
Killing and Dying: Stories - Adrian Tomine 

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30 September 2015

July - September 2015


Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Ex Machina, Volume One - Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
Moranthology - Caitlin Moran
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
Ex Machina, Volume Two - Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris
The Monster of Florence - Magdalen Nabb
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker
How To Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Sex Criminals, Volume One: One Weird Trick - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
Superior - Mark Millar and Leinil Yu 
The Passage - Justin Cronin
We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas
Lost at Sea - Jon Ronson
Supercrooks - Mark Millar and Lenil Yu
The Fires of Autumn - Irène Némirovsky
Ex Machina, Volume Three - Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris
Satin Island - Tom McCarthy

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01 July 2015

April - June 2015


The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
Territorial Rights - Muriel Spark
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
A Man in Love - Karl Ove Knausgaard
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2 - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Pure - Andrew Miller
It's Egg and Cress, Do You Want It? - Fweng Ebola
Us - David Nicholls
The King in Yellow - Robert W Chambers
Not That Kind of Girl - Lena Dunham
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
Catching Fire - Suzanne Moore
Mockingjay - Suzanne Moore 
Jolly Lad - John Doran

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01 January 2015

January - March 2015


Building Stories - Chris Ware
Ayoade on Ayoade - Richard Ayoade 
The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes
World War Z - Max Brooks
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us - Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Nemesis - Mark Millar and Steve McNiven
Blue is the Warmest Colour - Julie Maroh
Saga Volume 1 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Three Brothers - Peter Ackroyd
Saga Volume 2 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
Saga Volume 3 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Lost for Words - Edward St Aubyn
Saga Volume 4 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Paradoxical Undressing- Kristin Hersh
I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
The Children Act - Ian McEwan
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey
Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
Fashion Beast - Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren, Antony Johnston and Facundo Percio
A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray

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10 December 2014

October - December 2014


The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgård
The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee 
The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
Fables Volume 1: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Way Inn - Will Wiles
Fables Volume 2: Animal Farm - Bill Willingham
How To Be Both - Ali Smith
The Farm - Tom Rob Smith
The Sandman Volume 4: Season of Mists - Neil Gaiman
The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye - Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
The Sandman Volume 5: A Game of You - Neil Gaiman
J - Howard Jacobson
The Zone of Interest - Martin Amis
The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
Vanishing - Gerard Woodward
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume 2 - Dan Lockwpod (ed.)
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell 

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30 September 2014

July - September 2014


The Machine - James Smythe
The Sandman Volume 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
Head-On/Repossessed - Julian Cope
I Murdered My Library - Linda Grant
Boxer, Beetle - Ned Beauman
The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
At Last - Edward St Aubyn
From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
History of the Rain - Niall Williams
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt
Orfeo - Richard Powers
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Stephen Grosz
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
No Harm Can Come to a Good Man - James Smythe
Straight White Male - John Niven
The Wife - Meg Wolitzer
Glow - Ned Beauman
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys - Viv Albertine
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick

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03 July 2014

April - June 2014


Robert Plant: A Life - Paul Rees
Ethel & Ernest - Raymond Briggs
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
A Contract with God - Will Eisner
When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume One - Dan Lockwood (Ed.)
Affluenza - Oliver James
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea - Guy Delisle 
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Promethia Book 1 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Promethia Book 2 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin 
Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
Promethia Book 3 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Wolf - Mo Hayder
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy - Marina Hyde
Promethia Book 4 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Promethia Book 5 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Wanted - Mark Millar, JG Jones and Paul Mounts
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards - Kristopher Jansma

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02 April 2014

January - March 2014


The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
Boneland - Alan Garner
Kick-Ass 2 - Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
The Embassy of Cambodia - Zadie Smith
The Echo - James Smythe
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Neonomicon - Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
The Circle - Dave Eggers
Autobiography - Morrissey
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories - Malcolm Bradbury (ed.)
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
& Sons - David Gilbert
One of Us - Melissa Benn
The Testament - James Smythe
Palestine - Joe Sacco
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
Stoner - John Williams
A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous

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31 December 2013

October - December 2013


We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo
The Explorer - James Smythe
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Kick-Ass - Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
Jezebel - Irene Nemirovsky
Emma - Jane Austen
Indiscretion - Charles Dubow
Hatchet Job - Mark Kermode
The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison
The Red House - Mark Haddon
Poets Ranked by Beard Weight - Upton Uxbridge Underwood

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27 August 2013

July - September 2013


Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Architects - Stefan Heym
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Help - Katherine Stockett
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Guns - Stephen King
Living, Thinking, Looking - Siri Hustvedt
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Gods Without Men - Hari Kunzru
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
The Dirt - Mötley Crüe: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss
The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin
The Shining - Stephen King
Harvest - Jim Crace
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

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01 July 2013

April - June 2013


The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
The Wine of Solitude - Irene Nemirovsky
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In - Magnus Mills
The Outsider - Albert Camus
My Cleaner - Maggie Gee
Hawthorn & Child - Keith Ridgway
Twitterature - Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin
The Teleportation Accident - Ned Beauman
Grimm Tales for Young and Old - Philip Pullman
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
The Lighthouse - Alison Moore
Poppet - Mo Hayder
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Chavs - Owen Jones
Homeland - Cory Doctorow
Mercy - Jussi Adler-Olsen
The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
Capital - John Lanchester

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01 April 2013

January - March 2013


Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
The Tin Men - Michael Frayn
The First Person and Other Stories - Ali Smith
River of Time - Jon Swain
Winter Journal - Paul Auster
Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
In the Freud Archives - Janet Malcolm
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Woolgathering - Patti Smith
A Possible Life - Sebastian Faulks
Collected Poems - Vladimir Nabakov
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson
The Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark
Bad Vibes - Luke Haines
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan

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31 December 2012

October - December 2012


The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Dogs at the Perimeter - Madeleine Thien
The Disappeared - Kim Echlin
1Q84: Books 1 & 2 - Haruki Murakami
It's Only a Movie - Mark Kermode
A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
Bed - David Whitehouse
Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre
Dawn of the Dumb - Charlie Brooker
The Road of Lost Innocence - Somaly Mam
The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
1Q84: Book 3 - Haruki Murakami
Screwtop Thompson and Other Tales - Magnus Mills
NW - Zadie Smith
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis

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01 October 2012

July - September 2012


The Death of Grass - John Christopher
Mr Phillips - John Lanchester
Tom Waits on Tom Waits - Paul Maher Jr (ed.)
The King's Last Song - Geoff Ryman
Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert
Three to See the King - Magnus Mills
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington
First They Killed My Father - Loung Eng
Shapes for Sounds - Timothy Donaldson
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Gate - Francois Bizot
The Untouchable - John Banville
The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm
Less than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
Today - David Miller
All Quiet on the Orient Express - Magnus Mills
The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse
Zero Day - David Baldacci
There but for the - Ali Smith

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20 July 2012

April - June 2012


The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
Ox Travels - Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence, Barnaby Rogerson (eds.)
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabakov
Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding - Keith Gessen
Never Mind the Quantocks - Stuart Maconie
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
The Maintenance of Headway - Magnus Mills
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Autofiction - Hitomi Kanehara
A Game of Thrones - George B Martin
Rock Crystal - Adalbert Stifter
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
An Inspector Calls - JB Priestley
Bossypants - Tina Fey
The Other Hand - Chris Cleave

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01 April 2012

January - March 2012


I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan - Alan Partridge
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Invisible Republic - Greil Marcus
Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics - Jarvis Cocker
My Ear At His Heart - Hanif Kureishi
The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
Reality and Dreams - Muriel Spark
Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex - Mark Kermode
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
The Damned United - David Peace
Empire State - Jason Shiga
Out - Natsuo Kirino
Snowdrops - AD Miller

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31 December 2011

October - December 2011


Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
The Song Before it is Sung - Justin Cartwright
SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Which Lie Did I Tell? - William Goldman
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
Makers - Cory Doctorow
Care of Wooden Floors - Will Wiles
Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith
The Alcoholic - Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
Red Dog - Louis de Bernieres
Player One - Douglas Coupland
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson
The Innocence of Father Brown - GK Chesterton

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30 September 2011

July - September 2011


Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda
Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
Witness the Night - Kishwar Desai
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth - Stephen Armstrong
Sunset Park - Paul Auster

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30 June 2011

April - June 2011


Wilt - Tom Sharpe
In Spite of the Gods - Edward Luce
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
Gone - Mo Hayder
Smut - Alan Bennett
A Pagan Place - Edna O'Brien
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
Everything and Nothing - Araminta Hall
Heliopolis - James Scudamore
In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
Hanging Hill - Mo Hayder
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
Starter for Ten - David Nicholls

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03 April 2011

January - March 2011


This Is How - MJ Hyland
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Racists - Kunal Basu
One Day - David Nicholls
Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Freedom in Exile - Dalai Lama of Tibet
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt
The Company of Women - Khushwant Singh
The Emperor's Ring - Satyajit Ray
Waiting for the Mahatma - RK Narayan
Trouble in Gangtok - Satyajit Ray
A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Ghost Story - Toby Litt
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamed
The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Transition - Iain Banks
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

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31 December 2010

October - December 2010


Redemption Falls - Joseph O'Connor
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Affinity - Sarah Waters
Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
India in Slow Motion - Mark Tully
An Education - Lynn Barber
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson
India - Sanjeev Bhaskar
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai
Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord - Louis de Bernieres
Bolt - Dick Francis
The Corner - David Simon and Ed Burns
Being Indian - Pavan K Varma
Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
Room - Emma Donoghue

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09 October 2010

July - September 2010


Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman
First of the Last Chances - Sophie Hannah
For the Win - Cory Doctorow
Slowly Down the Ganges - Eric Newby
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
Jezebel - Irene Nemirovsky
Amulet - Roberto Bolano

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01 July 2010

April - June 2010


The Humbling - Philip Roth
Granta Issue 109: Work - John Freeman (ed.)
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Solar - Ian McEwan
Monster Love - Carol Topolski
Blood Ninja - Nick Lake
Waltz With Bashir - Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Not Untrue and Not Unkind - Ed O'Loughlin
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
Invisible - Paul Auster
A Curious Earth - Gerard Woodward
So Much For That - Lionel Shriver
Push - Sapphire
The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
All Our Worldy Goods - Irene Nemirovsky
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary - Vivian Cook
Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris - Lucian Randall

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04 April 2010

January - March 2010


Taking Le Tiss: My Autobiography - Matt Le Tissier
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent - James Meek
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
And Another Thing... - Eoin Colfer
The Dogs and the Wolves - Irene Nemirovsky
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Hell of It All - Charlie Brooker
The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story - Paul Auster
In Europe - Geert Mak

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31 December 2009

October - December 2009


Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
August - Gerard Woodward
Travels With Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinski
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Summertime - JM Coetzee
In the Kitchen - Monica Ali

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01 October 2009

July - September 2009


The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Hungry Ghosts - Anne Berry
The Girl from HOPPERS - Jaime Hernandez
Skin - Mo Hayder
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Toppit - Charles Elton
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
Tales of Freedom - Ben Okri
Me Cheeta - James Lever
Mister Roberts - Alexei Sayle
Esther's Inheritance - Sandor Marai
I'll Go to Bed at Noon - Gerard Woodward
The Book of Fame - Lloyd Jones
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits - Zoe Street Howe
The Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie

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01 July 2009

April - June 2009


Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr
Kinski Uncut - Klaus Kinski
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
The Secret Ministry of Frost - Nick Lake
My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru
Blankets - Craig Thompson
Generation Kill - Evan Wright
The Courilof Affair - Irene Nemirovsky
The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru
Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
Towards the End of Morning - Michael Frayn
Dead Spy Running - Jon Stock
Maggie the Mechanic - Jamie Hernandez
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Dylan on Dylan: the Essential Interviews - Jonathan Cott (ed.)

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01 April 2009

January - March 2009


The Sorrows of an American - Siri Hustvedt
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
All the Living - CE Morgan
David Boring - Daniel Clowes
Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of the Fall - Dave Simpson
A Girl Made of Dust - Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Broken - Daniel Clay
The Best of Saki - Saki (HH Munro)
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
Chicago - Alaa Al Aswany

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31 December 2008

October - December 2008


Great Apes - Will Self
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
The Northern Clemency - Phillip Hensher
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
Confessions of a Fake Sheik - Mazher Mahmood
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
The Believers - Zoe Heller
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
Joker -Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
A Steroid Hit the Earth: The Catastrophic World of Misprints - Martin Toseland
Devil May Care - Sebastian Faulks
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama

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30 September 2008

July - September 2008


Up Above the World - Paul Bowles
The Road Home - Rose Tremain
The Eye of the Heron - Ursula Le Guin
Beastly Tales - Vikram Seth
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
N.P. - Banana Yoshimoto
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
Cuba: Land of Miracles - Stephen Smith
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez

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30 June 2008

April - June 2008


Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Ritual - Mo Hayder
The Nature of Passion - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Complete Prose - Woody Allen
Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
The Observer Book of Art - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo
The Naked Jape - Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves
The Observer Book of Books - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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31 March 2008

January - March 2008


Pelican Blood - Cris Freddi
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Matsuo Basho
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Lost Japan - Alex Kerr
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Go-Between - LP Hartley
The Dark Stuff - Nick Kent
In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami
Now You Know - Michael Frayn
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky
Day - AL Kennedy
Japrocksampler - Julian Cope
Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark
Le Bal - Irene Nemirovsky
Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland

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31 December 2007

October - December 2007


Animal's People - Indra Sinha
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Darkmans - Nicole Barker
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl - Siri Hustvedt
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
A Clue to the Exit - Edward St Aubyn
The Double - Jose Saramago
Welcome to Higby - Mark Dunn
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Adverbs - Daniel Handler
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey
The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
Diary of a Reluctant Green - Richard Hallows
The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett
1066 and All That - WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman
The History of Art - EH Gombrich

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30 September 2007

July - September 2007


A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
Screen Burn - Charlie Brooker
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Arlington Park - Rachael Cusk
Night Train - Martin Amis
Deception - Philip Roth
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
Spies - Michael Frayne
Symposium - Muriel Spark
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
The Observer Book of Scandal - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thomson
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
Vertigo - WG Sebald
Consolation - Michael Redhill
My Fat Mad Teenage Diary - Rae Earl
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
The Gathering - Anne Enright
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Guardian Book of April Fool's Day - Martin Wainwright
The Finishing School - Muriel Spark
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

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30 June 2007

April - June 2007


Anna Karenin - Leo Tolstoy
The Innocent - Ian McEwan
Paul Auster's City of Glass - Paul Karasik and David Mazzuechelli
Utopian Dreams - Tobias Jones
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 - Phil Baines
Bandalism - Julian Ridgway
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Death of a Murderer - Rupert Thomson
Under Orders - Dick Francis
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

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31 March 2007

January - March 2007


Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
District and Circle - Seamus Heaney
Restless - William Boyd
Rough Trade - Rob Young
Attention All Shipping - Charlie Connelly
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
Austerlitz - WG Sebald
Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
R. Crumb's Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Counterlife - Philip Roth
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

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31 December 2006

October - December 2006


Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
Mr Thundermug - Cornelius Medvei
Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee
So He Takes the Dog - Jonathan Buckley
The World of Karl Pilkington - Karl Pilkington
Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Some Hope - Edward St Aubyn
Hotel World - Ali Smith
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
The Post-Birthday World - Lionel Shriver
Lunar Park - Brett Easton Ellis

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30 September 2006

July - September 2006


Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyman - Philip Roth
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Discomfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen
The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
Other People - Martin Amis
Get a Life - Nadine Gordimer
Carry Me Down - MJ Hyland
The Perfect Man - Naeem Murr
The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
The Secret River - Kate Grenville

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30 June 2006

April - June 2006


The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Gangs - Tony Thompson
Eden Close - Anita Shreve
Guitar Man - Will Hodgkinson
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Vendor of Sweets - RK Narayan
The Sea - John Banville
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Staying On - Paul Scott
Headlong - Michael Frayn
Ex Chaos - James Wilkes
Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
number9dream - David Mitchell
High Windows - Philip Larkin
Pig Island - Mo Hayder
Jpod - Douglas Coupland
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

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31 March 2006

January - March 2006


Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
Margrove of the Marshes - John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
Maximum City: Bombay - Suketu Mehta
Londonstani - Gautam Malkani
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq
A Year in Marrakesh - Peter Mayne
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
I Married a Communist - Philip Roth
The Death of Grass - John Christopher

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31 December 2005

September - December 2005


American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
Dancing in the Dark - Caryl Phllips
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Tarantula - Bob Dylan
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Is It Cowardly To Pray for Rain? - Rob Smyth, Sean Ingle et al
Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabakov
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The Case for Christmas - Lee Strobel

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31 August 2005

May - August 2005


Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Don Quixote (part one) - Miguel de Cervantes
Brass - Helen Walsh
Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler
Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
The Red Notebook - Paul Auster
First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Platform - Michel Houellebecq
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Squeeze Play - Paul Benjamin
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina
The Accidental - Ali Smith
Don Quixote (part two) - Miguel de Cervantes

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30 April 2005

January - April 2005


Tales from the Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
So Many Books - Gabriel Zaid
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Saturday - Ian McEwan
M/F - Anthony Burgess
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Politics - Adam Thirlwell
Selected Poems - Rabindranath Tagore
Why Europe Will Run the 20th Century - Mark Leonard
The Daydreamer - Ian McEwan
Step Across This Line - Salman Rushdie
Foe - JM Coetzee
Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
The Smoking Diaries - Simon Gray
The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
The Zigzag Way - Anita Desai
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

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31 December 2004

September - December 2004


Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Coma - Alex Garland
Last Orders - Graham Swift
Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
The Maze - Panos Karnezis
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
The Master - Colm Toibin
Topics About Which I Know Nothing - Patrick Ness
Leviathan - Paul Auster
The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
Lanzarote - Michel Houellebecq
Clear - Nicola Barker
Chronicles: Volume One - Bob Dylan
The Secret Purposes - David Baddiel
The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
Thursbitch - Alan Garner
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Small Island - Andrea Levy
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

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31 August 2004

May - August 2004


Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
Embers - Sandor Marai
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante
Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S Thompson
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Burning Down My Master's House - Jayson Blair
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

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30 April 2004

January - April 2004


The Cheap-Eaters - Thomas Bernhard
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
Herzog - Saul Bellow
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
Birdman - Mo Hayder
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Treatment - Mo Hayder
A Pale View of the Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Tokyo - Mo Hayder
The Hack's Tale - David Hughes
Transmission - Hari Kunzru
Invisible - Jonathan Buckley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Siegfried - Harry Mulisch
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
That Which Was - Glenn Patterson
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

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31 December 2003

September - December 2003


Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
The Boy Looked at Johnny - Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons
The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
Money - Martin Amis
Candide - Voltaire
Dark Glasses - Blake Morrison
Woody Allen - Graham McCann
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Experience - Martin Amis
Waterland - Graham Swift
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Dorian - Will Self

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31 August 2003

June - August 2003


Gods, Demons and Others - RK Narayan
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - Julian Barnes
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Swami and Friends - RK Narayan
Unless - Carol Shields
Adventures in Capitalism - Toby Litt
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Beatniks - Toby Litt
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
London Fields - Martin Amis
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody - Michael Gerber
The House of Blue Mangoes - David Davidar
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Light of Day - Graham Swift
Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan
An Area of Darkness - VS Naipaul
Grimus - Salman Rushdie
Elizabeth Costello - JM Coetzee

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03 June 2003

January - May 2003


A Passage to India - EM Forster
Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
An Indian Summer - James Cameron
India: A Wounded Civilisation - VS Naipaul
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Guide - RK Narayan
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Beyond Purdah - Mark Tully
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Where Shall We Go This Summer? - Anita Desai
The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck
The Story of My Experiments with Truth - MK Gandhi
The Financial Expert - RK Narayan
Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Diamond Dust and Other Stories - Anita Desai
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr Sampath - RK Narayan
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
Karma Cola - Gita Mehta
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Field of 13 - Dick Francis
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
Fury - Salman Rushdie
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons - Elizabeth Bumiller
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Silver Castle - Clive James
India: A Million Mutinies Now - VS Naipaul

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31 December 2002

August - December 2002


The Witches - Roald Dahl
Positively 4th Street - David Hadju
Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
No Full Stops in India - Mark Tully
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

10 July 2002

Summer term 2002


Possession - AS Byatt
Moon Palace - Paul Auster
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung - Lester Bangs
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi

04 May 2002

Easter holiday 2002


'The Wizard of Oz' (BFI Modern Classics) - Salman Rushdie
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mercier and Camier - Samuel Beckett
Out of Sheer Rage - Geoff Dyer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Wise Children - Angela Carter
The Trilogy - Samuel Beckett

01 April 2002

Easter term 2002


Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Washington Square - Henry James
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

15 January 2002

Christmas holiday 2001-2002


Shame - Salman Rushdie
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
I Think Therefore I Laugh - John Allen Paulos
The Last Man - Mary Shelley

20 December 2001

Christmas term 2001


Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
Foucault and Queer Theory - Tamsin Spargo
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
'The Seventh Seal' (BFI Modern Classics) - Melvyn Bragg
Vermilion Sands - JG Ballard
Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelly

06 October 2001

Summer holiday 2001


The Smiling School for Calvinists - Bill Duncan
Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow - Paul Williams
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Made in America - Bill Bryson
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Virgin and the Gypsy - DH Lawrence
Frankenstein (1818) - Mary Shelley
The History of Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M Banks
The Edge - Dick Francis
The Damage Done - Warren Fellows

11 July 2001

Summer term 2001


Shamela - Henry Fielding
The Misanthrope - Moiere
Selected Poems - Andrew Marvell
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Country Wife - William Wycherley
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
Equus - Peter Shaffer
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory - Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Home Truths - David Lodge
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein

15 May 2001

Easter holiday 2001


The Last Battle - CS Lewis
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Blur: 3862 Days - Stuart Maconie
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin
The Man of Mode - George Etherege
Pamela - Samuel Richardson

04 April 2001

Easter term 2001


At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
Dr Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Stephen Hero - James Joyce
Tamburlaine - Christopher Marlowe
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
For Kicks - Dick Francis
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
Volpone - Ben Johnson
The Revenger's Tragedy - Cyril Tourneur

15 January 2001

Christmas holiday 2000-2001


American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer
Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland

15 December 2000

Christmas term 2000


The Celtic Twilight - WB Yeats
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anon
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth - WB Yeats
The Wife of Bath's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Bonecrack - Dick Francis
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello