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Top 10 Books of the Noughties
1.Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
2.In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century, Geert Mak (2007)
3.The Human Stain, Philip Roth (2000)
4.True Tales of American Life, ed. Paul Auster (2001)
5.Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky (2006)
6.The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford (2006)
7.Home, Marilynne Robinson (2008)
8.The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006)
9.The Collected Stories, Lorrie Moore (2008)
10.Havoc in its Third Year, Ronan Bennet (2004)

Favourite 5 books read in 2009
1. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
2. Home, Marilynne Robinson
3. Collected Stories, Lorrie Moore
4. Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
5. Akenfield, Ronald Blythe

Favourite 5 books read in 2010
1.Footnotes from Gaza - Joe Sacco
2.The Humbling - Philip Roth
3.The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
4.The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
5.Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Favourite 5 books read in 2011
1. Welcome to the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
2. The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
4. Towards Re-enchantment: place and its meanings - various
5. The Unofficial Countryside - Richard Mabley

Favourite 5 books read in 2012
1. Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
2. Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander
3. The Deadman's Pedal - Alan Warner
4. Billy Lyne's Long Half-time Walk - Ben Fountain
4. Lionel Asbo - Martin Amis

Favourite 5 books read in 2013
1. NW - Zadie Smith
2. Ours are the Streets - Sunjeev Sahota
3. The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
4. Hologram for a King - Dave Eggers
5. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri

Favourite 5 books read in 2014
1. The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
2. Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
3. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
4. Light Years - James Salter
5. Familiar - Robert L. Lennon

Favourite 5 books read in 2015
1. The Dog - Joseph O'Neill
2.The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
3. Infidelities - Kirsty Gunn
4. The Green Road - Anne Enright
5. London Overground - Iain Sinclair

Favourite 5 Books Read in 2016
1. White Sands - Geoff Dyer
2. A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
3. Slade House - David Mitchell
4. The Census-Taker - China Mieville

5. Addlands - Tom Bullough

Favourite 5 books in 2017
1. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
2. Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor
3. Midwinter Break - Bernard McLaverty
4. Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist - Paul Kingsnorth

5. The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexievich

Favourite 5 books in 2018
1. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
2. The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
3. Good Trouble - Joseph O'Neill
4. Murmur - Will Eaves
5. Census - Jesse Ball

Favourite 5 books in 2019
1. Ducks,Newburyport - Lucy Ellman
2. The Overstory - Richard Powers
3. The Porpoise - Mark Haddon
4. Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
5. On the Red Hill - Mike Parker

Top 10 Novels of the 2010s
1. NW - Zadie Smith
2. Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
3. The Overstory - Richard Powers
4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
5. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
6. Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor
7. The Dog - Joseph O'Neill
8. The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
9. The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
10. Leaving the Atocha Station- Ben Lerner

Top 10 Non-Fiction Reads of 2010s
1. Second-hand Time - Svetlana Alexievich
2. Findings - Kathleen Jamie
3. The Wife’s Tale - Aida Edemarian
4. The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
5. Deep Country - Neil Ansell
6. Climbing Days - Dan Richards
7. On the Red Hill - Mike Parker
8. Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
9. Black Apples of the Gower - Iain Sinclair

10. Connemara: Listening to the Wind - Tim Robinson

Favourite 5 books in 2020
1. Intimations - Zadie Smith
2. Underland - Robert MacFarlane
3. Apeirogon - Colum McCann
4. Barn 8 - Deb Olin Unferth

5. The Land of Maybe - Tim Ecott

Favourite 5 books in 2021
1. The Promise - Damon Galgut
2. The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk
3. Jack - Marilynne Robinson
4. Luckenbooth - Jenni Fagan
5. At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop

Favourite 5 books of 2022
1. The Years - Annie Ernaux
2. Every Body - Olivia Laing
3. Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit
4. Return of a Native - Vron Ware
5. After Lives - Abdulrazak Gurnah

Favourite 5 books of 2023
1. Kick the Latch - Kathryn Scanlan
2. Septology - Jon Fosse
3. Brian - Jeremy Cooper
4. Sarn Helen - Tom Bullough
5. Emergency - Daisy Hildyard

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Books in 2024
Smiling in Slow Motion - Derek Jarman
The Age of Surveillance Capital - Shoshana Zuboff
The City and the City - China Mieville
The Love of Singular Men - Victor Heringer
Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
The Life of Victoria Jones - Angharad Price
Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
This Other Eden - Paul Harding
Cuddy - Benjamin Myers
The Parade - Dave Eggers
Matrix - Lauren Groff
* The Swallowed Man - Edward Carey
Beyond the Sea - Paul Lynch
* The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
* Tracks - Louise Erdrich
Safiyah's War - Hiba Noor Khan
Roman Stories - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Manningtree Witches - AK Blakemore
* Portable Magic - Emma Smith

* Endurance - Alfred Lansing

Books in 2023
Kemosha of the Caribbean - Alex Wheatle
Foster - Clare Keegan
Kick the Latch - Kathryn Scanlan
*Satantango - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele - Olivier Guez
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Seeing Voices - Oliver Sachs
* The Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie
* Homesickness - Colin Barrett
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys
Needle - Patrice Lawrence
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart - Louise Finch
The Hero of This Book - Elizabeth McCracken
Lessons - Ian McEwan
* Readers' Block - Matt Rubery
* The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivisan
Mercia's Take - Daniel Wiles
* The Light in Everything - Katya Balen
Emergency - Daisy Hildyard
Scary Monsters - Michelle de Kretser
The Other Name - Jon Fosse
* Bloodchild - Octavia Butler
* The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
The Private Life of Trees - Alexandra Zamba
Funny Weather - Olivia Laing
* Shalash the Iraqi
* Man-eating Typewriter - Richard Milward
Pure Colour - Sheila Heti
The Home Child - Liz Berry
The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
Twilight World - Werner Herzog
Western Avenue - Chetna Maroo
The Perfect Golden Circle - Benjamin Myers
Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
Brian - Jeremy Cooper
* Next to Nature - Ronald Blythe
Beloved - Toni Morrison
I is Another - Jon Fosse
Sarn Helen - Tom Bullough
The Last Colony - Philippe Sands
A New Name - Jon Fosse
* Men and Apparitions - Lynn Tillman
On the Move - Oliver Sacks
Orfeo - Richard Powers
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks + Me - Bill Hayes
* A Spectre Haunting - China Mieville
Be Mine - Richard Ford
* The Free World - Louis Menand
* First Loves and Last Tales - Oliver Sacks
Awakenings - Oliver Sacks
Embers - Sandor Marais
The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright
The Screaming Sky - Charles Foster
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
A Leg to Stand On - Oliver Sacks
The Shards - Bret Easton Ellis
Scum - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Door of No Return - Kwame Alexander
Steady for This - Nathaneal Lessore
Crossing the Line - Tia Fisher
Wild Song - Candy Gourlay
Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell
* Rabbit Run - John Updike
Lublin - Manya Wilkinson
Ash Before Oak - Jeremy Cooper
(49 + 16)

Books in 2022
The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk
When Life Gives You Mangoes - Kereen Getten
The Last Bear - Hannah Gold
Memorial Drive - Natasha Trethewey
* I, Ada - Julia Gray
The Shipping News - Annie E. Proulx
Harrow - Joy Williams
* How to be Brave - Daisy Johnson
The Ghosts and Jamal - Bridget Blankley
The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
October, October - Katya Balen
Bewilderment - Richard Powers
One,Two,Three,Four, The Beatles in Time - Craig Brown
The Pornographer - John McGahern
The Spare Room - Helen Garner
* Xtabeth - David Keenan
Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit
Punching the Air - Ibi Zoboi
The Crossing - Manjeet Mann
When the Sky Falls - Phil Earle
Rebirding - Benedict MacDonald
Small Bodies of Water - Nina Mingya Powles
*Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McNulty
Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
Weather - Jenny Offill
I Belong Here - Anita Sethi
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enriquez
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
* When Women Kill - Alia Trebucco Zeran
Male Tears - Benjamin Myers
Hide and Run - Pankaj Mishra
* The Decameron Project - various
Little Eyes - Samantha Schweblin
After Lives - Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Hard Crowd - Rachel Kushner
Chouette - Claire Oshetsky
Songs for the Flames - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Blank Pages - Bernard McClaverty
* The Treeline - Ben Rawlence
* The Visitors - Jessi Jesewska Stevens
* Return of a Native - Vron Ware
War of the Poor - Eric Vuillard
Salt Lick - Lulu Allison
Pilgrim's Way - Abdulrazk Gurnah
* All That is Yours - Garth Greenwell
*The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
Reverse Engineering - ed. Tom Conaghan
Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
Memory of Departure - Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
Everybody: A Book About Freedom - Olivia Laing
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time v1 - Marcel Proust
Winnicott - Adam Phillips
Playing and Reality - D.W.W.Winnicott
Autumn - Karl Knausgaard
The Colony - Audrey Magee
* Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka
Love and Summer - William Trevor
On Photography - Susan Sontag
Azadi - Arundhati Roy
Send Nudes - Saba Sams
The Sea is Not Made of Water - Adam Nicolson
The Chess Game - Stefan Zweig
How to be Animal - Melanie Challenger
The People of the Sea - David Thomson
The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid
* Tank - Patrick Wright
* Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantell
Out of the Woods - Luke Turner
The Worlds We Leave Behind - AF Harrold
The Tyger - SF Said
Trees - Percival Everett
* The Ongoing Moment - Geoff Dyer
The Amur River - Colin Thubron
Lamb - Bernard Mac Laverty
Alexandria - Paul Kingsnorth
Widespread Panic - James Ellroy
Erasure - Percival Everett
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Phantoms - Gwendoline Riley
Reverse Engineering 2 - ed. Tom Conaghan
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Togaczuk
Black Hole - Charles Burns
The Years - Annie Ernaux
Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel
Happiness, As Such - Natalia Ginzburg
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
(74 + 15)

Books in 2021

Jack - Marilynne Robinson
* The Emigrants - W.G.Sebald
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage - Tim Robinson
* The Collection - Nina Leger
* Look at What You Could Have Won - Rachel Genn
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
* Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom - Tim Robinson
Sea State - Tabitha Lasley
The Distance - Ivan Vladislavic
Cosmopolis - Don Delillo
Cleanness - Garth Greenwell
The Mermaid of Black Conch - Monique Roffey
Run, Rebel - Manjeet Mann
Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
Look Both Ways - Jason Reynolds
Notes from Childhood - Norah Lange
The Girl Who Became a Tree - Joseph Coelho
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Girl Who Speaks Bear - Sophie Anderson
Permafrost - Eva Baltasar
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
The Best of Me - David Sedaris
Hamnet - Maggie Farrell
* Black and British - David Olusoga
Calling Broadsword Danny Boy - Jeff Dyer
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M John Harrison
The Order of the Day - Eric Vuillard
* In Memory of Memory - Maria Stepanova
* A Small Revolution in Germany - Philip Hensher
Under the Rainbow - James Attlee
A Dialogic Teaching Companion - Robin Alexander
* A Liar's Dictionary - Eley Williams
Whereabouts - Jhumpa Lahiri
A Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzberg
* Rotten Row - Pettina Gappah
Family Lexicon - Natalia Ginzberg
The Dark - John McGahern
Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century - Olga
Ravn
Luckenbooth - Jenni Fagan
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
* Keeping the House - Tice Cin
The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
Paris Trance - Geoff Dyer
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
Lean, Fall, Stand - Jon McGregor
The Leopard - di Lampedusa
When Shadows Fall - Sita Brahmachari
Postcards - E. Annie Proulx
Wildwood - Roger Deakin
*Bass Rock - Evie Wyld
The Promise - Damon Galgut
*Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments - Saidiya Hartman
Red Pill - Hari Kunzru
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Black Teacher - Beryl Gilroy
Oldladyvoice - Elisa Victoria
Passing - Nella Larsen
Bone Music - David Almond
Julia and the Shark - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
There, There - Tommy Orange
China Room - Sunjeev Sahota
Amongst Women - John McGahern
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
Dublin Palms - Hugo Hamilton
*One, Two, Three, Four - Craig Brown
* Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman
The Fortune Men - Nadifa Mohamed
Boy, Everywhere - A.M. Dassu
At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
The Last Paper Crane - Kerry Dowery
The Humiliations of Weldon Blake - Alex Wheatle
When the Sky Falls - Phil Earle
Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes
* The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk
* High Ground: Stories - John McGahern
Medusa - Jessie Burton
The Hideaway - Pam Smy
The Crossing - Manjeet Mann
Somebody Loves You - Mona Arsha
Assembly - Natasha Brown
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
Phenotypes - Paulo Scott
* The Shipping News - E.Annie Proulx
(69+17)

Books in 2020
Grand Union - Zadie Smith
In Your Own Words - Ed. Wasifari
In the Dream House - Maria Carmen Machado
Never Mind - Edward St Aubyn
Milkman - Anna Burns
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black - Marcus Sedgwick
Lampie and the Children of the Sea - Anna Schaap
Lark - Anthony McGowan
Girl. Boy. Sea - Chris Vick
Nowhere on Earth - Nick Lake
Memoirs of My Non-Existence - Rebecca Solnit
Apeirogon - Colm McCann
There's No Home - Alexander Baron
Barn 8 - Deb Olin Unferth
Wretchtchedness - Andrezej Tichy
* Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
Featherstone - Kirsty Gunn
Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips
* Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
Four Fields - Tim Dee
We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Expo 58 - Jonathan Coe
The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
Academy Street - Mary Costello
* Girl - Edna O'Brien
*The Good Hawk - Joseph Elliot
*The Survival Game - Nicky Singer
Deeplight - Frances Hardinge
Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
Kick the Moon - Muhammad Khan
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
Actress - Anne Enright
Dark Satanic Mills - Marcus + Julian Sedgwick
Louis Undercover - Fanny Britt/ Isabelle Arsenault
Lot - Bryan Washington
Outpost: A Journey to the Ends of the Earth - Dan Richards
Heroes of the Frontier - Dave Eggers
Out of Sheer Rage - Geoff Dyer
* To Calais, in Ordinary Time - James Meek
To the River - Olivia Laing
The Midnight Bell - Patrick Hamilton
Intimations - Zadie Smith
The Siege of Pleasure - Patrick Hamilton
The Plains of Cement - Patrick Hamilton
Stalingrad - Vasily Grossman
* The Seabird's Cry - Adam Nicholson
Sara Vedebeck - C.J.L. Almquist
The Land of Maybe - Tim Ecott
* Black, Listed - Jeffrey Boakye
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Owls of the Eastern Ice - Jonathan C. Slaght
Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
Underland - Robert MacFarlane
* Slash and Burn - Claudia Hernandez
The Cane Warriors - Alex Wheatle
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
Barkskins - Annie Proulx
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
You People - Nikita Lalwani
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Red House - Mark Haddon
Modern Nature - Derek Jarman
Snow - John Banville
That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
The Wake Up Call - John Micklethwait + Adrian Wooldridge
Waterland - Graham Swift
Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry
The Silence - Don Delillo
(61 + 10)

Books in 2019
*The Last Wolf - Robert Winder
Turbulence - David Szaly
Heads of the Colored People - Nafisa Thompson-Spires
No is Not Enough - Naomi Klein
The Monsters We Deserve - Marcus Sedgwick
Stet - Diane Athill
For the Good Times - David Keenan
Folk - Zoe Gilbert
To Leave with the Reindeer - Olivia Rosenthal
* Patient X - David Peace
Things I Don't Want to Know - Deborah Levy
Freshwater - Alwaeke Emeze
* The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson
The Abundance - Annie Dillard
Home Girl - Alex Wheatle
* Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories - ed. Jhumpa Lahiri
* The Polyglot Lovers - Lina Wolff
Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy - Serhii Plokhy
Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
* Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
Havergey - John Burnside
Beyond the Fell Wall - Richard Skelton
McGlue - Ottessa Moshfegh
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me - Kate Clanchy
Orison for a Curlew - Horatio Clare
Night at the Alexandra - William Trevor
Joe Quinn's Poltergeist - David Almond
After the Fire - Will Hill
Crow Country - Mark Cocker
The City of Ember (Graphic) - Jeanne DuPrau
Monstrous Child - Francesca Simon
The Murderer's Ape - Jakob Wegelius
Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
Illegal - Eoin Colfer
* The Truth About Lies - Tracey Darnton
* I Am Thunder - Muhammad Khan
On the Red Hill - Mike Parker
* Frankissstein - Jeanette Winterson
Empty Words - Mario Levrero
Travellers - Helon Habila
Living with Buildings - Iain Sinclair
Familiar Stranger - Stuart Hall
Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi
Stand By Me - Wendell Berry
* Family Lexicon - Natalia Ginzburg
The Lonely Londoners - Samuel Selvon
* Ground Work - ed. Tim Dee
* La Place de l'etoile - Patrick Modiano
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Building and Dwelling - Richard Sennett
Mud - Chris McCabe
* The Gifted, the Talented, and Me - William Sutcliffe
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Spec'd World - David Epstein
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman
The Offing - Ben Myers
* This Storm - James Ellroy
Wilding - Isabella Tree
* Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
* Where the River Runs Gold - Sita Brahmachari
10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World - Elif Shafak
Bad Behaviour - Mary Gaitskill
Lost Children Archive - Valerie Luisselli
The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
* Endland - Tim Etchells
Surfacing - Kathleen Jamie
Starve Acre - Andrew Michael Hurley
The Wall - John Lanchester
Stillicide - Cynan Jones
The Topeka School - Ben Lerner
* Don't Cry - Mary Gaitskill
This is Pleasure - Mary Gaitskill
*Collected Short Stories - Bernard McLaverty
* Theft - Luke Brown
Sing,Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
(55+20)

Books in 2018
4 3 2 1 - Paul Auster
* Overhead in a Balloon + Other Stories - Mavis Gallant
Trysting - Emmanuelle Pagano
Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid
The Goose Road - Rowena House
Where the World Ends - Geraldine McCaughrean
My Brigadista Year - Katherine Paterson
Rook - Anthony McGowan
Felix Culpa - Jeremy Gavron
Release - Patrick Ness
* River - Esther Kinsky
Brother in Ice - Alicia Kopf
Zebra Crossing Soul Song - Sita Brahmachari
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Who
Saw it - Jessie Greengrass
The Absent Therapist - Will Eaves
Saint Death - Marcus Sedgwick
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Thornhill - Pam Smy
Eight Ghosts - ed. Sarah Perry
The Reservoir Tapes - Jon McGregor
Sight - Jessie Greengrass
Rebound - Kwame Alexander
Travelling in a Strange Land - David Park
* The Unmapped Country - Ann Quin
* Berg - Ann Quin
A Boy in Winter - Rachel Seiffert
The Art of White Roses - Viviana Prado-Nunez
* Attrib - Eley Williams
* The World Ending Fire - Wendell Berry
Census - Jesse Ball
South and West - Joan Didion
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
Moonrise - Sarah Crossan
* Malacqua - Nicola Publiese
In Our Mad and Furious City - Guy Gunaratne
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
* Boys in Zinc - Svetlana Alexievich
* Four Fields - Tim Dee
The Beautiful Summer - Cesar Pavese
Miseducation - Diane Reay
The Song from Somewhere Else - A. F. Harrold + Levi Penfold
Last Stories - William Trevor
Murmur - Will Eaves
Sabrina - Nick Drnaso
Being a Beast - Charles Foster
People in the Room - Norah Lange
Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
Good Trouble - Joseph O'Neill
Crudo - Olivia Laing
Hold - Michael Donkor
First Person - Richard Flanagan
Madame Zero - Sarah Hall
The Missing of the Somme - Geoff Dyer
The Mars Room - Rachel Kusner
Another Great Day at Sea - Geoff Dyer
The Long Take - Robin Robertson
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
*Featherstone - Kirsty Gunn
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills - Neil Ansell
Forest Dark - Nicole Krauss
Homesick for a Different World - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Remainder - Alia Trabucco Zeran
The Lilac Crest - Christina Rivera-Garza
We See Everything - William Sutcliffe
The Colour of the Sun - David Almond
The Last Wilderness - Neil Ansell
Corey's Rock - Sita Brahmachari
The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall
1984 - George Orwell
Tentacle - Rita Indiana
* Slip of a Fish - Amy Arnold
A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
Cal - Bernard MacLaverty
* Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage - Tim Robinson
* The Limits of Critique - Rita Felski
Thinking with Literature - Terrance Cave
The Claude Glass - Tom Bullough
The Blue Fox - Sjon
On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
* Academy Street - Mary Costello
Night People - Barry Gifford
Nervous States - William Davies
New Dark Age - James Bridle
Brother - David Chariandy
From a Low and Quiet Sea - Donal Ryan
The Wife's Tale - Aida Edemariam
Dunbar - Patrick Melrose
(78 + 14)

Books in 2017
*Remainder - Tom McCarthy
Solar Bones - Mike McCormack
Falling Awake - Alice Oswald
* The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman
The Sleeper and the Spindle - Neil Gaiman
Swing Time - Zadie Smith
The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
* The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
In Other Words - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Tidal Zone - Sarah Moss
Release - Patrick Ness
Beck - Mal Peet, with Meg Rosoff
Thursday's Child - Sonya Hartnett
*Black Wave - Michelle Tea
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
* Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
The Transition - Luke Kennard
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist - Paul Kingsnorth
Clockwork - Philip Pullman
Symphony for the City of the Dead - P.T. Anderson
Max - Sarah Cohen-Scali
Soonchild - Russell Hoban
Stories of Your Life + Others - Ted Chiang
Lottery Boy - Michael Byrne
Monkey Wars - Richard Kurti
Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys
* Three Moments of an Explosion - China Mieville
Welcome to Nowhere - Elizabeth Laird
Saint Death -Marcus Sedgewick
The Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
Wolf Wilder - Katherine Rundell
The Last Days of New Paris - China Mieville
Paper Girls vol 1 - Brian K Vaughn
Welcome to Nowhere - Elizabeth Laird
Alpha - Bessora and Barroux
Geis: A Matter of Life and Death - Alexis Deacon
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer
Collected Stories - Bernard McLaverty
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill - Megan Sheppard
Sunflower and Bronze
Such Stuff - Michael Morpurgo
Hell and High Water - Tanya Landman
A Friend in the Dark - Pascal Ruter
Yoga for People who Can't be Bothered to do it - Geoff Dyer
The Way of the Hare - Marianne Taylor
Annihilation - Jeff Van der Meer
Elmet - Fiona Mozley
Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman
Reservoir 13 - Jon MacGregor
Midwinter Break - Bernard MacLaverty
*The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexievich
*Mavis Belfrage with Five Shorter Tales - Alasdair Gray
Transatlanic - Colum McCann
*The Pier Falls - Mark Haddon
After Rain - William Trevor
Factories of Learning - Christy Kulz
Liccle Bit - Alex Wheatle
Crongton Knights - Alex Wheatle
*Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays - Zadie Smith
Straight Outta Crongton - Alex Wheatle
H(A)PPY - Nicola Barker
*We That Are Young - Preta Taneja
(54 + 10)

Books in 2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
Postcapitalism: a Guide to our Future - Paul Mason
* A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Statistical Panic - Kathleen Woodward
The Pursuit of Happiness - Sara Ahmed
Touching Feeling - Eve Sedgwich Kosofsky
* The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
* The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge
At Hawthorn Time - Melissa Harrison
Progressively Worse - Robert Peal
Seven Myths About Education - Daisy Christadoulou
* The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
The Children of the King - Sonya Hartnett
The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
Wolf Border - Sarah Hall
* Cockfosters - Helen Simpson
Tinder - Sally Gardener
The Wallcreeper - Nell Zink
The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck
Sugar - Jewell Rhodes Parker
All That Man Is - David Szaly
The Girl of Ink and Stars - Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
The Nest - Kenneth Opel
*Fen - Daisy Johnson
Concentr8 - Will Sutcliffe
* Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexievich
The Middle of Nowhere - Geraldine McCaughrean
The Census-Taker - China Mieville
Refugee Tales - ed. David Herd
* God Help the Child - Toni Morrison
The Ghosts of Heaven - Marcus Sedgwick
White Sands - Geoff Dyer
Addlands - Tom Bullough
The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness
The Girls - Emma Cline
* Phoenix - SF Said
The Bone Sparrow - Zana Fraillon
The Many - Will Menmuir
Hot Milk - Debora Levy
The Illuminations - Andrew O'Hagan
The Sell-Out - Paul Beatty
Beast - Paul Kinsgnorth
Black Apples of Gower - Iain Sinclair
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoffy Dyer
The North Water - Ian McGuire
* Eileen - Otessa Moshfegh
Slade House - David Mitchell
* How to be a Public Author - Paul Ewen
* The Collected Stories - John Cheever
Dart - Alice Oswald
* The Vorrh - Brian Catling
All We Shall Know - Donal Ryan
* The Last Pool of Darkness - Tim Robinson
* The Lesser Bohemians - Eimar McBride
The Old King in HIs Exile - Arno Geiger
Second-Hand Time - Svetlana Alexievich
* Ten Nights Dreaming - Natsume Soseki
* What is Not Yours is Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi
Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett
Climbing Days - Dan Richards
(45 + 17)

Books in 2015
*Perfidia - James Ellroy
Let Me Be Frank With You - Richard Ford
* I am China - Guo Xiaolo
Adventures in Stationery - James Ward
* Leaving Berlin - Joseph Kanon
* The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker
* The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Here - Richard McGuire
The Almost Nearly Perfect People - Michael Booth
10: 04 - Ben Lerner
A Fortunate Man - John Berger
Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
Infidelities - Kirsty Gunn
Black Vodka - Deborah Levy
The Long Dry - Cynan Jones
* Falling Man - Don Delillo
Aquarium - David Vann
Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Off the Voortrekker Road - Barbara Bleiman
* The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
The Dog - Joseph O'Neill
* All Day Long - Joanna Biggs
Family Life - Akhil Sharma
The Last Word - Hanif Kureishi
Outline - Rachel Cusk
A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee
London Overground - Iain Sinclair
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets... Forever - Dave Eggers
* Telex From Cuba - Rachel Kushner
* Little Green - Walter Mosely
* Border Country - Raymond Williams
* In Hazard - Richard Hughes
Their Lips Talk of Mischief - Alan Warner
The Moons of Jupiter - Alice Munro
* Dear George - Helen Simpson
The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
The Year of the Runaways - Sanjeev Sahota
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
The Green Road - Anne Enright
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris
The Moor - William Atkins
I Saw A Man - Owen Sheers
Aya of Yop City - Marguerite Abouet
Harry Miller's Run - David Almond
Grief is a Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
* The Ultimate Good Luck Club - Richard Ford
* Connemara: Listening to the Wind - Tim Robinson
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
A Song for Ella Grey - David Almond
Life: An Exploded Diagram - Mal Peet
Chigozie Obiama - The Fishermen
The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
Line of Fire - Barroux
The Story of Crime and Punishment - A.B. Yoshanua
* Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
Vango - Timothee de Fombelle
* My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Beatlebone - Kevin Barry
(43 + 15)

Books in 2014
This Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan
The Tenth of December - George Saunders
A Delicate Truth - John Le Carre
*Why We Build - Rowan Moore
The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
*The Missing Ink - Philip Hensher
Familiar - J. Robert Lennon
Gossip from the Forest - Sara Maitland
The Fish Can Sing - Halldor Laxness
*A Naked Singularity - Sergio de la Cruz
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Every Day is For the Thief - Teju Cole
Reality Hunger - David Shields
Benediction - Kent Hanuf
Discipline and Learn - Megan Watkins
The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride
Solo - William Boyd
The News: A Users' Manual - Alain de Botton
* The Orchard of Sorrows - Nadifa Mohamed
Runaway - Alice Munro
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
All the Birds, Singing - Evie Wyld
* The Collected Stories - James Salter
The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth
Light Years - James Salter
* Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Vinland - George Mackay Brown
Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
Beastings - Benjamin Myers
In the Wolf's Mouth - Adam Foulds
* Nowhere People - Paulo Scott
The Children Act - Ian McEwan
Lila - Marilynne Robinson
Revolver - Marcus Sedgwick
Midwinterblood - Marcus Sedgwick
* White Crow - Marcus Sedgwick
Bark - Lorrie Moore
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
(32 + 8)

Books in 2013 (*unfinished)
The Old Ways - Robert MacFarlane
*Hawthorn and Child - Keith Ridgeway
NW - Zadie Smith
Ninteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Capital - John Lanchester
The Fault is in our Stars - John Green
The Promise of Happiness - Sara Ahmed
The Event of Literature - Terry Eagleton
The Colour of Milk - Nell Leyshon
HHhH - Lauren Binet
*The Gentrification of the Mind - Sarah Schulman
*Intimations of Postmodernity - Zygmunt Bauman
There but for the - Ali Smith
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Cultural Production of Emotion - Sara Ahmed
The Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds
The Overhaul - Kathleen Jamie
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Kathleen Boo
Granta 115: The F Word - various
You and I - Padgett Powell
The Book of Other People - ed. Zadie Smith
Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
The Childhood of Jesus - J.M.Coetzee
*Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson
The Wall - William Sutcliffe
Gone to the Forest - Katie Kitamura
The Hit - Melvin Burgess
Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013
Spring - David Szalay
Ours are the Streets - Sunjeev Sahota
The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem
It's Dark in London - ed. Oscar Zara
*Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
All That Is - James Salter
The Panopticon - Jenni Fagan
The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
*There was a Country:Personal History Biafra - Chinua Achebe
The Gigantic Beard that was Evil - Stephen Collins
Climbers - M. John Harrison
* The Rehearsal - Eleanor Catton
* Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys - various
Creativity, Language and Literature - eds. Swann, Carter and Pope
A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
Hologram for a King - Dave Eggers
Stoner - John Williams
Blood on the Altar - Tobias Jones
The Lowland - Jhumpra Lahiri
Harvest - Jim Crace
The Kills - Richard House
The Son - Philip Meyer
Species of Spaces - Georges Perec
The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft/Culbard
*I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Graphic Novel 1 - Denise Mina
Language Online - David Barton and Carmen Lee
*Why don't students like school? - Daniel T. Willingham
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Graphic Novel 2 - Denise Mina
Cosmopolis - Don Delillo
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing - Eimar McBride
Rustication - Charles Palliser
The Embassy of Cambodia - Zadie Smith
Goat Mountain - David Vann
(55 + 15)

Books in 2012 (* unfinished)
Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Villalobos
The Wandering Falcon - Jamil Ahmad
The Shadow Door (Elsewhere Chronicles) - Nykko/Bannister
Haweswater - Sarah Hall
Maybe This Time - Alois Hotschnig
* Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - Craig Taylor
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories - Don Delillo
* The Butterfly Isles - Patrick Barham
In the Orchard, Swallows - Peter Hobbs
Blood Red, Snow White - Marcus Sedgwick
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
* The Spirit Level - Wilkinson and Pickett
I'm not Scared - Nicolo Ammoniti
The Beautiful Indifference - Sarah Hall
The Young Inferno - John Agard & Satoshi Kitamura
* Self Comes to Mind - Antonio Damassio
The Debt Delusion - Mehdi Hassan
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
The Craftsman - Richard Sennett
When I was Joe - Keren David
Sightlines - Kathleen Jamie
*Unforgiving Years - Victor Serge
Waterlog - Roger Deakin
Uncreative writing - Kenneth Goldsmith
Imagine: how creativity works - Johah Lehrer
Canada - Richard Ford
Together: the rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation - Daniel Sennett
* Debt: the first 5000 years - David Graeber
Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room - Geoff Dyer
Dirt - David Vann
* The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Lionel Asbo - Martin Amis
What Money Can't Buy - Michael J. Sandel
* Walking Home: A Poet's Journey - Simon Armitage
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization - Jan Blommaert
* Big Music - Kirsty Gunn
Home - Toni Morrison
Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
Billy Lyne's Long Half-time Walk - Ben Fountain
*House of Rumours - Jake Arnott
*The Shipping News - Annie L. Proulx
Scarp - Nick Papadimitriou
Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander
*Pulphead - Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
Greenvoe - George Mackay Brown
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegutt
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
*The Emigrants - W.G.Sebald
The Deadman's Pedal - Alan Warner
Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
*The Monk - Matthew Lewis
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
Jekyll and Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
*Nocturnes - James Attlee
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
s that a Frog in your Ear? - David Bellos
The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare
Carrie - Stephen King
City of Glass - Karasik + Mazzucchelli adapt of Paul Auster
Lowlife - Alexander Baron
* Every Short Story - Alasdair Gray
(50 + 16)

Books in 2011 (* unfinished)
Caribou Island - David Vann
Nemesis - Philip Roth
Kiss the Dust - Elizabeth Laird
Just My Type - Simon Garfield
*The End of the Land - David Grossman
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
*The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Great House - Nicole Krauss
* Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Welcome to the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
* The Stars in the Night Sky - Alan Warner
The Holy Bible - James Frey
My Name is Mina - David Almond
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obrecht
Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
Waterline - Ross Raisin
Open City - Teju Cole
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
The Anatomy Lesson - Philip Roth
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliffe
* The Soul of Kindness - Elizabeth Taylor
The Ice Trilogy - Vladimir Sorokhin
The Fear Index - Robert Harris
The Prague Orgy - Philip Roth
In the Sea there are Crocodiles - Fabio Geda
What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami
Some Hope - Edward St Aubyn
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd
How Pleasure Works - Paul Bloom
Findings - Kathleen Jamie
Towards Re-enchantment: Place and its Meanings - various
The Savage - David Almond
This is not my nose - Michael Rosen
* The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
The Unofficial Countryside - Richard Mabley
(33 + 6)

Books in 2010

* yet to finish
The Switch - Elmore Leonard
The Glass Room- Simon Mawer
Fugitive Pieces - Ann Michaels
Allah is not obliged - Ahmadou Kourouma
The Road Home - Rose Tremain
The Vagrants - Yiyunn Li
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
The Clock Winder - Ann Tyler
The Humbling - Philip Roth
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
The Imposter - Damon Galgut
* Me Cheeta - James Lever
Footnotes from Gaza - Joe Sacco
The Post Office Girl - Stefan Zweig
* Herzog - Saul Bellow
Push: a novel - Sapphire
* Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
Away - Amy Bloom
* Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
* White Lightning - Justin Cartwright
Turnaround - George Pelacanos
* The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
The Pregnant Widow - Martin Amis
* The Singapore Grip - J.G.Farrell
* Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Youth - JM Coetzee
The Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
*Ulverton - Adam Thorpe
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
Zuckerman Unbound - Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
The Scarecrow and his Servant - Philip Pullman
In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
(27 + 9)

Books in 2009

*McMafia - Misha Glenny
The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley - David Kynaston
The Believers - Zoe Heller
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Fowler's End - Gerald Kersh
God's Own Country - Ross Raisin
Ascent - Jed Mercurio
Diary of a Bad Year - JM Coetzee
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
*How Fiction Works - James Wood
*A Void - Georges Perec, trans. Gilbert Adair
*Glister - John Burnside
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
*Watchmen - Alan Moore
*The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M.Coetzee
David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky
*Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Troubles - J.G. Farrell
*From A to X in Letters - John Berger
The Death of Grass - John Christopher
The Victorian Chaise-Longe - Marghanita Laski
Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
A Little Piece of Ground - Elizabeth Laird
The Child that Books Built - Francis Spufford
Not in Front of the Grown Ups - Alison Lurie
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
*Gate of the Sun - Elias Khoury
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
Leviathan, or The Whale - Philip Hoare
A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre
Indignation - Philip Roth
*Pity the Nation - Robert Fisk
Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau
Heartlands - Anthony Cartwright
Lush Life - Richard Price
*The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
*Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
Home - Marilyn Robinson
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama
*The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
Legend of a Suicide - David Vann
Foe - J M Coetzee
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard
It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong
Peace - Richard Bausch
* The Group - Mary McCarthy
Summertime - J.M. Coetzee
(43 + 14)

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