144 | The Liar's Dictionary | Eley Williams | UK | F | 2020 | Theresa | Theresa | Oct - 24 |
143 | The Fortnight in September | RC Sherriff | UK | M | 1931 | Brigid | Brigid | Sep - 24 |
142 | North Woods | Daniel Mason | America | M | 2023 | Maggie | Maggie | Jun - 24 |
141 | Bel Ami | Guy de Maupassant | France | M | 1885 | Charlotte | Charlotte | Apr-24 |
140 | Excellent Woman | Barbara Pym | UK | F | 1952 | Henrietta | Henrietta | Mar-24 |
139 | Frankie and Stankie | Barbara Trapido | South Africa | F | 2003 | Peter | Group | Jan-24 |
138 | The Falling Man | Don DeLillo | America | M | 2007 | Julian | Julian | Dec-23 |
137 | Old God's Time | Sebastian Barry | Ireland | M | 2023 | Theresa | Group | Nov-23 |
136 | The Slowworm's Song | Andrew Miller | UK | M | 2022 | Jeremy* | Jeremy | Sep-23 |
135 | Lullaby | Leila Slimani | France | F | 2016 | Julian | Group | Jun-23 |
134 | Antarctica | Claire Keegan | Ireland | F | 2000 | Theresa | Theresa | Apr-23 |
133 | Amongst Women | John McGahern | Ireland | M | 1990 | Julian | Julian | Mar-23 |
132 | The Lowlands | Jhumpa Lahiri | India | F | 2013 | Maggie | Group | Feb-23 |
131 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | America | F | 2012 | Jane | Jane | Jan-23 |
130 | Lessons | Ian McEwan | UK | M | 2022 | Peter | Group | Dec-22 |
129 | Washington Square | Henry James | America | F | 1880 | Henrietta | Group | Oct-22 |
128 | Oh William | Elizabeth Strout | America | F | 2021 | Brigid | Brigid | Sep-22 |
127 | Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford | UK | M | 2006 | Jane | Group | Jun-22 |
126 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | Ukraine | M | 1996 | Peter | Group | Apr-22 |
125 | The Promise | Damon Galgut | South Africa | M | 2021 | Jeremy | Group | Feb-22 |
124 | Ripley Underground | Patricia Highsmith | America | F | 1970 | Julian | Julian | Nov-21 |
123 | Good Behaviour | Molly Keane | Ireland | F | 1981 | Charlotte | Group | Oct-21 |
122 | To Calais In Ordinary Time | James Meek | UK | M | 2019 | Julian | Group | Sep-21 |
121 | Sanctuary | William Faulkner | America | M | 1931 | Peter | Peter | May-21 |
120 | Weather | Jenny Offil | America | F | 2020 | Jeremy | Jeremy | Apr-21 |
119 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell | Ireland | F | 2020 | Theresa | Group | Feb-21 |
118 | On Chapel Sands | Laura Cumming | UK | F | 2020 | Julian | Julian | Jan-21 |
117 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andric | Yugoslavia | M | 1945 | Maggie | Maggie | Nov-20 |
116 | Plainsong | Kent Haruf | America | M | 1999 | Jane | jane | Oct-20 |
115 | Girl Woman Other | Bernadine Evaristo | UK | F | 2019 | Charlotte | Group | Aug-20 |
114 | A Complicated Kindness | Miriam Toews | Canada | F | 2004 | Jeremy | Jeremy | Jul-20 |
113 | The House in Paris | Elizabeth Bowen | UK | F | 1949 | Henrietta | Henrietta | May-20 |
112 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte | UK | F | 1848 | Brigid | Brigid | Apr-20 |
111 | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | Ireland | M | 2008 | Julian | Julian | Mar-20 |
110 | Fleischman is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser Akner | America | F | 2019 | | | Jan-20 |
109 | The Underground Railway | Colson Whitehead | America | M | 2016 | | | Dec-19 |
108 | Wise Children | Angela Carter | uk | F | 1991 | Charlotte | Charlotte | Oct-19 |
107 | No Name | Wilkie Collins | UK | M | 1862 | | | Sep-19 |
106 | Under the Volcano | Malcom Lowry | UK | M | 1947 | | | |
105 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | America | M | 1915 | | | |
104 | Crash | J. G. Ballard | UK | M | 1973 | | | |
103 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | America | F | 1920 | | | |
102 | Hardy Poems | Thomas Hardy | UK | M | 1898 | | | |
101 | Birthday Letters/Sylvia Plath Poems | Sylvia Plath | America | F | 1998 | | | |
100 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | UK | M | 2005 | | | |
99 | The Blackwater Lightship | Colm Toibin | Ireland | M | 1999 | | | |
98 | The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron | UK | M | 1937 | | | |
97 | At Swim-Two-Birds | Brian O'Nolan | Ireland | M | 1939 | | | |
96 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | UK | F | 1854 | | | |
95 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Russia | M | 1880 | | | |
94 | The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | America | M | 2004 | | | |
93 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | UK | M | 1874 | | | |
92 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | America | M | 1985 | | | |
91 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | america | M | 1990 | | | |
90 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | America | M | 1961 | | | |
89 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | UK | F | 1817 | | | |
88 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | America | F | 1987 | | | |
87 | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | UK | M | 1995 | | | |
86 | Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | Canada | F | 1996 | | | |
85 | Gogol’s Stories | Nikolai Gogol | Russia | M | 1836 | Peter | Peter | Jun-15 |
84 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | India | M | 1981 | | | |
83 | The Wine Dark Sea | Patrick O'Brian | UK | M | 1993 | | | |
82 | A View of the Harbour | Elizabeth Taylor | UK | F | 1947 | Henrietta | Henrietta | |
81 | A Bend in the River | V. S Naipaul | India | M | 1979 | | | |
80 | Jack Maggs | Peter Carey | Australia | M | 1997 | | | |
79 | Journey by Moonlight | Antal Szerb | Hungary | M | 1937 | | | |
78 | The Master | Colm Toibin | Ireland | M | 2004 | | | |
77 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | America | M | 1850 | | | |
76 | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | America | M | 1997 | | | |
75 | Gobseck | Honore de Balzac | France | M | 1830 | | | Oct-14 |
74 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | India | M | 2008 | | | |
73 | Butcher’s Crossing | John Williams | America | M | 1960 | | | |
72 | A Patchwork Planet | Anne Tyler | America | F | 1998 | | | |
71 | A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler | America | F | 2015 | | | |
70 | The Human Comedy | William Saroyan | America | M | 1943 | | | |
69 | New Grubb Street | George Gissing | UK | M | 1891 | | | |
68 | The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Russia | M | 1869 | | | |
67 | The Odd Women | George Gissing | UK | M | 1893 | Peter | Peter | Jun-14 |
66 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | Germany | M | 1924 | | | |
65 | Manservant and Maidservant | Ivy Compton-Burnett | UK | F | 1947 | | | |
64 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | UK | F | 1927 | | | |
63 | What is the What? | Dave Eggers | America | M | 2006 | | | |
62 | Dr Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | Russia | M | 1957 | | | |
61 | Murphy | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | M | 1938 | | | |
60 | Life of Wittgenstein | Witgenstein | Germany | M | 1920 | | | |
59 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | UK | M | 1951 | | | |
58 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | UK | M | 2004 | | | |
57 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | America | M | 2010 | | | |
56 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | America | M | 2001 | | | |
55 | Canada | Richard Ford | America | M | 2012 | | | |
54 | Be Near Me | Andrew O'Hagan | UK | M | 2006 | | | |
53 | The Yellow Birds | Kevin Powers | America | M | 2012 | | | |
52 | War and Peace | Tolstoy | Russia | M | 1869 | | | |
51 | Isaac Babel stories | Isaac Babel | Russia | M | 1916 | Peter | Peter | Dec-12 |
50 | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | America | M | 1884 | | | |
49 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Russia | M | 1930 | John | | |
48 | The Ladies’ Paradise | Emile Zola | France | M | 1882 | | | |
47 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | America | F | 1913 | | | |
46 | Ridley Walker | Russell Hoban | America | M | 1980 | | | |
45 | The Prime Minister | Anthony Trollope | UK | M | 1876 | | | |
44 | The Yacoubian Building | Alaa Al Aswany | Egypt | M | 2002 | | | |
43 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | Ireland | M | 2002 | | | |
42 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | UK | F | 1954 | | | |
41 | By the Sea | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Tanzania | M | 2001 | | | |
40 | Rodinsky’s Room | Rachel Lichtenstein | UK | F | 1999 | | | |
39 | Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton | UK | M | 1941 | | | |
38 | Faith Fox | Jane Gardam | UK | F | 1996 | | | |
37 | Stoner | John Williams | America | M | 1965 | | | |
36 | Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories | Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand | F | 1922 | Peter | Group | May-11 |
35 | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches | Gaetan Soucy | Canada | M | 2004 | | | |
34 | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | America | M | 2018 | | | |
33 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Russia | M | 1862 | | | |
32 | Father and Son | Edmund Gosse | UK | M | 1907 | | | |
31 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | UK | F | 1905 | | | |
30 | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood | UK | M | 1935 | Peter | | May-10 |
29 | What Maisie Knew | Henry James | America | M | 1897 | | | |
28 | Slaughter House Five | Kurt Vonnegut | America | M | 1969 | | | |
27 | The Children Act | Ian McEwan | UK | M | 2014 | | | |
26 | The Children | Edith Wharton | America | F | 1928 | | Charlotte | Charlotte |
25 | What Good Are the Arts? | John Carey | UK | M | 2005 | | | |
24 | Effie Briest | Theodore Fontane | Germany | M | 1895 | | | |
23 | Runaway | Alice Munro | Canada | F | 2004 | | | |
22 | I Married a Communist | Philip Roth | America | M | 1998 | | | |
21 | The Human Stain | Philip Roth | America | M | 2000 | | | |
20 | American Pastoral | Philip Roth | America | M | 1996 | | | |
19 | Mrs Bridge | Evan S. Connell | America | M | 1959 | | | |
18 | Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh | UK | M | 2000 | | | |
17 | Rabbit Redux | John Updike | America | M | 1971 | | | |
16 | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink | Germany | M | 1995 | | | |
15 | Humboldt’s Gift | Saul Bellow | America | M | 1975 | | | |
14 | Liber Amoris | William Hazlitt | UK | M | 1823 | | | |
13 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald | UK | F | 1995 | | | |
12 | The Sportswriter | Richard Ford | America | M | 1986 | | | |
11 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | UK | M | 1875 | | | |
10 | Measuring Time | Helon Habila | Nigeria | F | 2008 | | | |
9 | Annie’s Box | Randal Keynes | UK | M | 2001 | | | |
8 | My Antonia | Willa Cather | America | F | 1918 | | | |
7 | Small Island | Andrea Levy | UK | F | 2004 | | | |
6 | Ghostwritten | David Mitchell | UK | M | 1999 | | | |
5 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | America | F | 2010 | | | |
4 | The Master and his Emissary | Iain McGilchrist | UK | M | 2009 | John | | |
3 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling | UK | M | 1900 | | | |
2 | The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | UK | M | 2015 | | | |
1 | Asylum | Patrick McGrath | UK | M | 1998 | | | |