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28 December 2001
Simon Napier-Bell's top 10 books on music
1. Rock and the Pop Narcotic by Joe Carducci
2. England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
3. Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman
4. Freakshow: Misadventures in the Counterculture, 1959-1971 by Albert Goldman
5. Waiting for the Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music by Harry Shapiro
6. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles
7. Altered State by Mathew Collin and John Gregory
8. Ball the Wall by Nik Cohn
9. Shots From the Hip by Charles Shaar Murray
10. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
 
13 December 2001
Terence Blacker's top 10 tales of literary villainy
1. New Grub Street by George Gissing
2. Middlemarch by George Eliot
3. U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
4. Bech at Bay by John Updike
5. Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
6. Is This Allowed? by William Donaldson
7. The Information by Martin Amis
8. Misery by Stephen King
9. In the Cut by Susanna Moore
10. A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
 
29 November 2001
Tom Shippey's top 10 books on JRR Tolkien
1. The Silmarillion edited by Christopher Tolkien (Grafton Books, £6.99)
2. The Annotated Hobbit with notes by Douglas R. Anderson
3. JRR Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (HarperCollins, £6.99)
4. Pictures by JRR Tolkien
5. The Road Goes Ever On: A Song-Cycle
6. An Introduction to Elvish by Jim Allan et al (Bran's Head Books, £10)
7. The Book of Lost Tales (2 volumes) by JRR Tolkien (Grafton Books, £8.99)
8. The Lost Road by JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (HarperCollins, £9.99)
9. Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F Hostetter (Greenwood Press, £43.95)
10. Meditations on Middle-earth edited by Karen Haber
 
15 November 2001
Kathy Lette's top 10 books to read when you hit 40
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. The Kama Sutra by Vatsysyana
3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4. 'Ithaca' in Collected Poems by Cavafy
5. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
6. The Summer of a Dormouse by John Mortimer
7. Crimes against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson
8. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
9. A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren by Simone de Beauvoir
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
01 November 2001
Ray Monk's top 10 philosophy books of the 20th century
1. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
2. Logic and Knowledge by Bertrand Russell
3. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
5. Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics by Ludwig Wittgenstein
6. Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
7. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
8. The Bounds of Sense by PF Strawson
9. An Autobiography by RG Collingwood
10. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
 
09 October 2001
Giles Foden's top 10 books on the Afghanistan crisis
1. The New Jackals: Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reeve (Andre Deutsch)
2. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism by John K Cooley (Pluto)
3. Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War On America by Yossef Bodansky (Prima)
4. Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (IB Tauris)
5. Dollars for Terror: The US and Islam by Richard Labeviere (Algora)
6. Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engleberg and William Broad (Simon & Schuster)
7. The New Terrorism by Walter Laqueur (Phoenix)
8. Usama Bin Laden's "Al-Qaida" by Yonah Alexander and Michael S Swetnam (Transnational)
9. Islam Today, by Akbar Ahmed (IB Tauris)
10. Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin (
 
20 September 2001
Dannie Abse's top 10 20th century poetry collections
1. Collected Poems by TS Eliot (Faber)
2. Poems from the Book of Hours by RM Rilke, translated from the German by Babette Deutsch (Vision Press)
3. Poems by George Seferis, translated from the Greek by Rex Warner (The Bodley Head)
4. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas (Faber)
5. Collected Poems by WH Auden (Faber)
6. Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas (Dent)
7. Collected Poems by Bernard Spencer (Oxford University Press)
8. Life Studies by Robert Lowell (Faber)
9. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (Faber)
10. View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Baranczak and Cavanagh (
 
12 September 2001
Frank McLynn's top 10 books about Mexico
1. The Poems of Juana de la Cruz (perhaps especially Rendonillas)
2. The Eagle and the Serpent by Martin Luis Guzman
3. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
4. The Plumed Serpent by DH Lawrence
5. Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
6. The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
7. Mornings in Mexico by DH Lawrence
8. Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
9. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
10. Beyond The Mexique Bay by Aldous Huxley
 
01 August 2001
Michael Moorcock's top 10 science fiction novels
1. Greybeard by Brian W Aldiss
2. The Drowned World by JG Ballard
3. The Knights of the Limits by Barrington Bayley (Wildwood e-book)
4. 334 by Thomas M Disch
5. The Female Man by Joanna Russ
6. Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester
7. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
8. The Space Merchants by Frederich Pohl
9. Roderick at Random by John Sladek
10. The Exploits of Engelbrecht by Maurice Richardson
 
25 July 2001
Phil Hogan's top 10 midlife crisis books
1. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
2. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
4. Women with Men by Richard Ford
5. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
6. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
7. The Beach by Alex Garland
8. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
9. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
10. American Beauty, screenplay by Alan Ball
 
25 July 2001
Jane Blanchard's top 10 midlife crisis books
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Rivals by Jilly Cooper
3. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
4. Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah by Victoria Wood
5. Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood
6. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
7. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
8. The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown
9. Recipes From a Greek Island by Susie Jacobs
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 
17 July 2001
Paul Burston's top 10 gay fiction books
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)
2. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (1943)
3. City of Night by John Rechy (1963)
4. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1978)
5. Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Holleran (1978)
6. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White (1982)
7. Queens by Pickles (1984)
8. Flesh And Blood by Michael Cunningham (1995)
9. Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas (1997)
10. Two Gentlemen Sharing by William Corlett (1997)
 
27 June 2001
Jayne Anne Phillips's top 10 books about motherhood
1. A Slant of Sun by Beth Kephart
2. Woolworth Madonna by Elizabeth Troop
3. The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
4. The Good Mother by Sue Miller
5. Hey Yeah Right Get A Life by Helen Simpson
6. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
7. The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
8. Tell Me A Riddle by Tillie Olsen
9. Crash Diet by Jill McCorkle
10. A Chapter From Her Upbringing by Ivy Goodman
 
20 June 2001
Andrew Morton's top 10 biographies
1. Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman
2. The Life of Kenneth Tynan by Kathleen Tynan
3. George VI by Sarah Bradford
4. Peter the Great by Robert K Massie
5. Oliver St John Gogarty by Ulick O'Connor
6. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
7. First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss
8. One of Us by Hugo Young
9. Asquith by Roy Jenkins
10. Churchill: The Struggle For Survival 1940-1965 by Lord Moran
 
07 June 2001
Douglas Rushkoff's top 10 books on designer reality
1. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R Buckminster Fuller
2. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
3. Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
4. Chaos and Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary
5. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht
6. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
7. Exodus in The Five Books of Moses (Fox translation)
8. The Turbulent Mirror by John Briggs and F David Peat
9. The Invisibles by Grant Morrison et al
10. Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs
 
06 June 2001
John Campbell's top 10 political biographies
1. Trotsky: The Prophet Armed by Isaac Deutscher
Trotsky: The Prophet Unarmed by Isaac Deutscher
Trotsky: The Prophet Outcast by Isaac Deutscher
2. Disraeli by Robert Blake
3. Gladstone Vol 1: Peel's Inheritor - 1809-1865 by Richard Shannon
4. Asquith by Roy Jenkins
5. The Young Lloyd George by John Grigg
6. Ramsay Macdonald by David Marquand
7. John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky
8. Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott
9. Mandela by Anthony Sampson
10. Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick
 
24 May 2001
Joan Smith's top 10 books for a more moral society
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
2. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
3. On the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
4. Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf
5. Values for a Godless Age by Francesca Klug
6. Hidden Agendas by John Pilger
7. Human Rights Watch, World Report 2001
8. No Logo by Naomi Klein
9. Captive State by George Monbiot
10. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
 
10 May 2001
Howard Sounes's top 10 music biographies
1. Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
2. The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso
3. Songwriters on Songwriting by Paul Zollo
4. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
5. Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
6. Dino: Living High in The Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches
7. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
8. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles
9. The Mansion on the Hill by Fred Goodman
10. Why Me? The Autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr. by Sammy Davis Jr. with Jane and Burt Boyar
 
25 April 2001
Martin Gorst's top 10 books on science
1. The Faber Book of Science edited by John Carey
2. Possible Worlds by J B S Haldane (Chatto and Windlass 1927)
3. The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
4. Zarafa by Michael Allin
5. Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
6. The Double Helix by James D Watson
7. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
8. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
9. Companion to the Cosmos by John Gribbin
10. Bold Science: Seven Scientists who are Changing Our World by Ted Anton
 
06 April 2001
Peter Singer's top 10 books
1. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
4. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
5. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
6. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
7. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
8. In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
9. Humanity by Jonathan Glover
10. Final Exit by Derek Humphrey
 
21 March 2001
Anne Enright's top 10 slim volumes
1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. The Newton Letter by John Banville
4. Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar
5. Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhari
6. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
7. The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
8. Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
9. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
10. A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankovitz
 
07 March 2001
Alison Hennegan's top 10 lesbian books
1. Sappho Through English Poetry, edited and introduced by Peter Jay and Caroline Lewis
2. What Sappho Would have Said, edited by Emma Donoghue
3. Love Shook My Senses, edited by Gillian Spraggs
4. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke by Charlotte Charke
5. I Know My Own Heart and No Priest But Love from The Diaries of Anne Lister, edited by Helena Whitbread
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning
9. On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Adrienne Rich
10. Collected Poems by Adrienne Rich
 
15 February 2001
David Walker and Polly Toynbee's top 10 books about politics
1. The Cunning of Unreason by John Dunn
2. Mandelson and the Making of New Labour by Donald MacIntyre
3. Primary Colors by Anonymous (Joe Klein)
4. Politics and the Pound by Philip Stephens
5. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (Greenwood Press, ISBN: 0837105765)
6. Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin
7. Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
8. The Prime Minister by Peter Hennessy
9. Paying for Progress by the Commission on Taxation and Citizenship (Fabian Society)
10. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
 
07 February 2001
Niall Griffiths's top 10 Welsh books
1. Selected Poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym
2. My People Blimey by Caradoc Evans
3. One Moonlit Night by Caradog Pritchard
4. In Parenthesis by David Jones
5. Collected Poems and Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas
6. Collected Poems by RS Thomas
7. So Long, Hector Bebb by Ron Berry
8. The Welsh Extremist by Ned Thomas
9. Red Landscapes: New and Selected Poems by Mike Jenkins
10. Edge Territory by Lloyd Robson
 
01 February 2001
Jonathan Maitland's top 10 business books
1. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
2. Amazon.com: Get Big Fast by Robert Spector
3. Rupert Murdoch by William Shawcross
4. StrikingItRich.com: Profiles of 23 Incredibly Successful Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of by Jaclyn Easton
5. What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark Macormack
6. The FT Guide To Interpreting Company Reports
7. Money For Life: Everyone's Guide To Financial Freedom by Alvin Hall
8. Funky Business by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom
9. Confessions of an S.O.B. by Al Neuharth (Signet)
10. Motley Fool: The Fool's Guide To Online Investing by Nigel Roberts (Boxtree, 2000)
 
17 January 2001
Matt Thorne's top 10 new puritan novels
1. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
2. Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas
3. Coast by Matthew Branton
4. A Certain Age by Rebecca Ray
5. The Beach by Alex Garland
6. Eight Minutes Idle by Matt Thorne
7. The Dope Priest by Nicholas Blincoe
8. The Royal Family by William T Vollmann
9. Corpsing by Toby Litt
10. A Sweetheart Deal by Ben Richards
 
17 January 2001
Jeff Noon's top 10 fluid fiction books
1. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
2. The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll, edited by Martin Gardner
3. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter
4. Digital Leatherette by Steve Beard
5. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
6. Rock Springs by Richard Ford
7. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
8. The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody
9. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
10. A Humument by Tom Phillips
 
12 January 2001
Gillian Slovo's top 10 South African books
1. Frontiers by Noel Mostert
2. The Master of Petersburg by JM Coetzee
3. Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk
4. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
5. Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog
6. The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
7. A Rainbow On The Paper Sky by Mandla Langa
8. Mandela by Anthony Sampson
9. Armed and Dangerous by Ronnie Kasrils
10. Olive Schreiner by Ruth First and Ann Scott
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