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11 December 2002
Wendy Perriam's top 10 seriously sexy books
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
3. Incest, from A Journal of Love, the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin
4. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
5. The Abundant Dreamer by Harold Brodkey
6. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
7. The Catholic by David Plante
8. Roger's Version by John Updike
9. Damage by Josephine Hart
10. The Bible
 
02 December 2002
Lisa Hilton's top 10 scandalous French novels
1. Nana by Emile Zola
2. The Claudine Novels by Colette
3. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
4. La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M by Catherine Millet
5. Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
6. 37°2 le Matin by Philippe Djian
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
9. The Butcher by Alina Reyes
10. Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
 
04 November 2002
William Cook's top 10 books by comedians
1. Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall By Spike Milligan
2. More Please by Barry Humphries
3. The Reluctant Jester by Michael Bentine
4. The Essential Lenny Bruce
5. The Complete Acid Drops by Kenneth Williams
6. Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner
7. No Cure For Cancer by Denis Leary
8. Self Help For The Bleak by Rich Hall
9. Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
10. Stand Up! On Being A Comedian by Oliver Double
 
28 October 2002
M John Harrison's top 10 books
1. Dream Dictionary (for the Modern Dreamer) by Tim Etchells
2. The School of Night by Alan Wall
3. How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin
4. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
5. The Vodi by John Braine
6. Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
7. The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams
8. Mercurius by Patrick Harpur
9. The Secret Life of Houses by Scott Bradfield
10. The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
 
22 October 2002
Julian Glover's top 10 political memoirs
1. My Early Life by Winston Churchill
2. Diaries: In Power by Alan Clark
3. The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
4. Glimmers of Twilight by Joe Haines (not yet published)
5. The Autobiography by John Major
6. Chips: the Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (ed Robert Rhodes James)
7. Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth
8. Diaries 1940-2002 (The Benn Diaries and Free At Last!) by Tony Benn
9. Journals of the Reigns of George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria by Charles Greville
10. The Time of My Life by Denis Healey
 
30 September 2002
Jean McNeil's top 10 art books
1. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
2. Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art by Francoise Gilot
3. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
4. The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh edited by Ronald de Leeuw
5. On Photography by Susan Sontag
6. Blimey, and This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings
7. Force Fields, Phases of the Kinetic by Guy Brett
8. Harland's Half-Acre by David Malouf
9. But Is It Art? by Cynthia Freeland
10. High Art Lite by Julian Stallabrass
 
11 September 2002
Andre Brink's top 10 novels
1. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
4. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
5. Independent People by Haldor Laxness
6. The Plague by Albert Camus
7. Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
8. The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
9. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
 
07 August 2002
Stella Duffy's top 10 tart noir books
1. Strawberry Tattoo by Lauren Henderson
2. Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds by 'Kathryn Kenny' (the many books of this series were mostly ghost-written)
3. Hell's Kitchen by Chris Niles
4. The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid
5. Legwork by Katy Munger
6. ReBecca by Vicki Hendricks (in Vox n' Roll Fiction for the 21st Century, ed. Richard Thomas)
7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
8. Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
9. Garnethill by Denise Mina
10. Manchester Slingback by Nicholas Blincoe
 
25 July 2002
Mike Gayle's top 10 male confessionals
1. Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
2. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
3. The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
4. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
6. Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
7. Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
8. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
9. Love and Nausea by David Wilson
10. Throwing The House Out of the Window by Ben Richards
 
24 July 2002
Hallgrímur Helgason's top 10 books
1. Independent People by Halldor Kiljan Laxness
2. The Icelandic Sagas
3. Das Gewicht Der Welt by Peter Handke
4. Ulysses by James Joyce
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
7. Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
8. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
9. Ibsen, A Biography by Michael Meyer
10. Les Elements Particulieres by Michel Houellebecq (Translated into English as Atomised)
 
17 July 2002
Randal Keynes's favourite books about evolution
On Evolution - The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin, edited by Thomas Glick and David Kohn
Victorian Sensation - The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by James Secord
In Mendel's Footnotes - An Introduction to the Science and Technologies of Genes and Genetics from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-Second by Colin Tudge
In the Name of Eugenics - Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles
The Beak of the Finch - A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Wonderful Life - The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
 
03 July 2002
Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novels
1. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
2. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
4. Nice Work and Changing Places by David Lodge
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
6. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
7. The Professor's House by Willa Cather
8. The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
9. Der Campus by Dietrich Schwanitz
10. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
 
25 June 2002
Philip Bobbitt's top 10 books on international affairs
1. The Iliad by Homer
2. The Pelopponesian War by Thucydides
3. The Discourses by Machiavelli
4. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
5. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
6. The Anarchical Society by Hedley Bull and The Expansion of International Society by Adam Watson and Hedley Bull
7. Collected Essays: War, ed. Lawrence Freedman or Makers of Modern Strategy, ed. Peter Paret
8. New and Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
9. The Causes of War by Michael Howard
10. Global Scenarios, ed. BS Flowers
 
13 June 2002
Andrew Dalby on lost and threatened languages
1. The Indus Valley script
2. Cornish
3. Egyptian
4. Eve's language
5. Cherokee
6. Irish
7. Welsh
8. Greek
9. French
10. English
 
12 June 2002
Tom Cox's top 10 coming-of-age books
1. Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
2. Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
3. The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
4. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
6. The Blue Suit by Richard Rayner
7. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
8. Bad Haircut by Tom Perrotta
9. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
10. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
 
23 May 2002
Christina Koning's top 10 comic novels
1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
3. Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
4. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
5. Lucia's Progress by EF Benson
6. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
7. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
8. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
9. The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
10. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
 
16 May 2002
China Miéville's top 10 weird fiction books
1. The Course of the Heart by M John Harrison
2. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
3. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
4. The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
5. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
6. The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski
7. Strange Evil by Jane Gaskell
8. Une Semaine de Bonte by Max Ernst
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
10. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
 
24 April 2002
Maggie O'Farrell's top 10 chillers
1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
2. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
4. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by RL Stevenson
5. The Dead by James Joyce
6. Hotel World by Ali Smith
7. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
8. Bartleby by Herman Melville
9. Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
 
20 March 2002
Sarah Waters's top 10 Victorian novels
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
3. Vanity Fair by WM Thackeray
4. New Grub Street by George Gissing
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
6. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
 
13 March 2002
Eoin Colfer's top 10 children's books
1. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
3. The Guns of Easter by Gerard Whelan
4. The Amber Spyglass by some guy!
5. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
6. Stig of the Dump by Clive King
7. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
9. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
10. The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn't by Siobhan Parkinson
 
22 February 2002
Peter Taylor's top 10 books on the Troubles
1. Lost Lives by David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeley and Chris Thornton
2. Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Hunger Strike by David Beresford
3. Man of War, Man of Peace? The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams by David Sharrock & Mark Devenport
4. Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh by Toby Harnden
5. The Fight for Peace: The Secret Story Behind the Irish Peace Process by Eamonn Mallie and David McKittrick
6. Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul by Kevin Toolis
7. The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions by Ruth Dudley Edwards
8. Trinity by Leon Uris
9. Journeyman Tailor by Gerry Seymour
10. Cal by Bernard Maclaverty
 
13 February 2002
Christopher Hart's top 10 erotica books
1. Song of Solomon
2. Ars Amatoria by Ovid
3. London Journal by Boswell
4. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, aka Fanny Hill by John Cleland
5. The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire
6. The She-Devils by Pierre Louys
7. The Magus by John Fowles
8. Merlin by Robert Nye
9. Story of O by Pauline Reage
10. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
 
05 February 2002
John Armstrong's top 10 books on love
1. The Symposium by Plato
2. First Letter to the Corinthians by St Paul
3. The Sonnets by Shakespeare
4. Roman Elegies by Goethe
5. Elective Affinities by Goethe
6. Love by Stendhal
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
9. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
10. Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
 
19 January 2002
John O'Farrell's top 10 funny books
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe
3. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
4. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
5. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
6. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
7. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
8. The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
9. Going Gently by David Nobbs
10. The Innocent Convict by Jeffrey Archer
 
17 January 2002
Peter Watson's top 10 20th century non-fiction books
1. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (1900)
2. The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois (1903)
3. The Mind of Primitive Man by Franz Boas (1911)
4. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922 in English)
5. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
6. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
7. Social Insurance and Allied Services by William Beveridge (1942)
8. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal (1944)
9. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
10. Local Knowledge by Clifford Geertz (1983)
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