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11 December 2008
Karl O Knausgaard's top 10 angel books
1 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
2 The Divine Comedy by Dante
3 Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin
4 Genesis
5 Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac
6 The Hexameron by St Basil the Great
7 Pig Earth by John Berger
8 The Valley of Confusion by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
9 The Nature of Angels by Antinous Bellori
10 Tears and Saints by EM Cioran
 
17 November 2008
Charlie English's top 10 snow books
1 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
2 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3 The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
4 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
5 Walden (or Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau
6 The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty by Kenneth Libbrecht and Patricia Rasmussen
7 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8 Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg
9 An Account of the Arctic Regions by William Scoresby Jnr
10 Snow by Ruth Kirk
 
31 October 2008
Peter Washington's top 10 ghost stories
RL Stevenson The Body-Snatcher
WW Jacobs The Monkey's Paw
MR James O Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Elisabeth Taylor Poor Girl
Nikolai Gogol The Nose and The Overcoat
PG Wodehouse Honeysuckle Cottage
Saki The Open Window
Edith Wharton The Looking Glass
Vladimir Nabokov The Visit to the Museum
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
 
23 October 2008
Justin Scroggie's top 10 secret signs
1. Luke 22: The Last Supper
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. The Gladstone Diaries
4. Lewis Carroll's Alice stories
5. Joshua 2: Rahab and the Scarlet Cord
6. The Name of the Rose
7. Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone
8. Sherlock Holmes & The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903)
9. The Scarlet Pimpernel
10. The Secret Seven
 
06 October 2008
Philip Hoare's top 10 whale tales
1. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale by Thomas Beale
3. An Account of the Arctic Regions by William Scoresby
4. Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams
5. The Year of the Whale by Victor B Scheffer
6. Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean by Hal Whitehead
7. Whales' Bones of the British Isles by Nicholas Redman
8. In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
9. Whales: A Celebration by Greg Gatenby
10. A Guide to Marine Mammals of the World by Randall R Reeves et al
 
29 September 2008
Roy and Lesley Adkins's top 10 Nelson books
1. Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
2. The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
3. Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
4. Nelson: The New Letters edited by Colin White
5. Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793-1815 by Brian Lavery
6. Nelson's Ships: A History of the Vessels in Which He Served 1771-1805 by Peter Goodwin
7. Nelson & Napoleon edited by Margarette Lincoln
8. Nelson: A Medical Casebook by Ann-Mary E Hills
9. The Story of Nelson's Portsmouth by Jane Smith
10. What's Left of Nelson by Leo Marriott
 
26 September 2008
Tana French's top 10 maverick mysteries
1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
2. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
3. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
4. Innocent Blood by PD James
5. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
7. The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
8. Hurting Distance by Sophie Hannah
9. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
10. A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
 
10 September 2008
Esther Woolfson's top 10 birds in fact and fiction
1. Spring in Washington by Louis J Halle
2. Jazz by Toni Morrison
3. Natural History by Pliny
4. Magpie Magic by April Wilson
5. Feeding Caged Birds by Kenton C Lint and Alice Marie Lint
6. A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris
7. The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson
8. Ravensong - A Natural and Fabulous History of Ravens and Crows by Catherine Feher Elston
9. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
10. In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M Marzluff and Tony Angel
 
27 August 2008
Peter K Austin's top 10 endangered languages
1. Jeru
2. N|u (also called Khomani)
3. Ainu
4. Thao
5. Yuchi
6. Oro Win
7. Kusunda
8. Ter Sami
9. Guugu Yimidhirr
10. Ket
 
19 August 2008
Eli Gottlieb's top 10 scenes from the battle of the sexes
1. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
2. Herzog by Saul Bellow
3. Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
4. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
6. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
7. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
8. The Collector by John Fowles
9. Miss Julie by August Strindberg
10. Tickets, Please by DH Lawrence
 
12 August 2008
Jessica Duchen's top 10 literary Gypsies
1. Carmen in Prosper Mérimée's Carmen
2. Esmeralda in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies in the traditional Scottish ballad
4. Kizzy in Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi
5. Mr Rochester (in disguise) in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
6. Emil in Louise Doughty's Fires in the Dark
7. Jasper Petulengro in George Borrow's Lavengro
8. Pepita in Vita Sackville-West's Pepita
9. Roux in Joanne Harris's Chocolat
10. Joe Boswell in DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy
 
06 August 2008
Clive Sinclair's top 10 westerns
1. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
2. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider
4. True Grit by Charles Portis
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
6. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
7. Close Range & Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 1 & 2 by Annie Proulx
8. Stories from Mesa Country by Jane Candia Coleman
9. Snow Mountain Passage by James D Houston
10. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
 
30 July 2008
Danny Fingeroth's top 10 graphic novels
1. Maus by Art Spiegelman
2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
3) The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel
4) A Contract with God by Will Eisner
5) It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken by Seth
6) Stop Forgetting to Remember by Peter Kuper
7) Kings in Disguise by James Vance and Dan Burr
8) Brooklyn Dreams by JM DeMatteis and Glenn Barr
9) Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot
10) Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
 
22 July 2008
Catherine Sampson's top 10 books on Beijing
1. Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
2. Please Don't Call Me Human by Wang Shuo
3. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
4. The Uninvited by Yan Geling
5. The Crazed by Ha Jin
6. The Last Empress by Anchee Min
7. Serve the People by Yan Lianke
8. I Love Dollars by Zhu Wen
9. The Dragon's Tail by Adam Williams
10. Beijing Doll by Chun Sue
 
16 June 2008
Lee Rourke's top 10 books about boredom
1. William Lovell by Ludwig Tieck
2. Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett
3. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
4. Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
5. Melancholy by Jon Fosse
6. Boredom by Alberto Moravia
7. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
8. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
9. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
10. Perfect Tense by Michael Bracewell
 
11 June 2008
Simon Critchley's top 10 philosophers' deaths
1. Heracleitus (540-480 BC)
2. Diogenes (d.320 BC)
3. Chrysippus (280-207BC)
4. Avicenna (980-1037)
5. Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274)
6. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
7. De la Mettrie (1709-1751)
8. Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
9. AJ Ayer (1910-1989)
10. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
 
14 May 2008
Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books
1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
3. An Historical Relation of Ceylon by Robert Knox
4. Island by Aldous Huxley
5. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
6. Miguel Street by V S Naipaul
7. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
8. At Home with Miss Vanesa by E A Markham
9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
10. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
 
09 May 2008
Charlie Higson's top 10 Bond villains
1. Blofeld
2. Goldfinger
3. Mr Wynt & 4. Mr Kidd
5. Rosa Klebb
6. Odd Job
7. Red Grant
8. Xenia Onatopp
9. Doctor No
10. Irma Bunt
 
30 April 2008
Andy Cave's top 10 books on Alpinism
1 Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
2 Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffat
3 Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage by Herman Buhl
4 The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
5 Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray
6 Savage Arena by Joe Tasker
7 The Shining Mountain by Pete Boardman
8 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
9 A Slender Thread by Stephen Venables
10 Felice Benuzzi, No Picnic on Mt Kenya
 
24 April 2008
Sarah Anderson's top 10 books about wilderness
1. The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
2. The Yosemite by John Muir
3. Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
4. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
5. Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
6. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
7. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
8. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
9. The Gary Snyder Reader
10. A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo Leopold
 
05 March 2008
Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil war
1. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
2. Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. I'm Explaining a Few Things by Pablo Neruda
5. Astraea by Jane Stevenson
6. Legion by David Harsent
7. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
8. Poetry and Revolution, edited by Peter Davidson
9. Complete Poems of Henry Vaughan
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
 
28 February 2008
Tim Harford's top 10 undercover economics books
1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
2. Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling
3. The Poetry of Robert Frost, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost
4. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
5. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
6. The Winner's Curse by Richard Thaler
7. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
8. The Hare and the Tortoise by John Kay
9. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
10. Why Buildings Fall Down by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
 
15 February 2008
James Hopkin's top 10 Polish books
1. The Collected Poems, Zbigniew Herbert (coming in November from Atlantic Books)
2. A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki (Dalkey Archive Press)
3. Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz (Marion Boyars)
4. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski (Abacus)
5. The Fictions of Bruno Schulz (Picador)
6. House of Day, House of Night - Olga Tokarczuk (Granta)
7. New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz (Archipelago Books)
8. Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk (Twisted Spoon)
9. Castorp by Pawel Huelle (Serpent's Tail)
10. Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin
 
13 February 2008
Freya North's top 10 romps and romances
1. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
2. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
3. Riders by Jilly Cooper
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
5. Herb'n'Lorna by Erik Kraft
6. After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
7. I'm a Believer by Jessica Adams
8. The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell
9. Not that Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
 
21 January 2008
Tim Butcher's top 10 books about Congo
1. Through The Dark Continent, Henry Morton Stanley (1878)
2. Five Years With The Congo Cannibals, Herbert Ward (1890)
3. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1899)
4. Remote People, by Evelyn Waugh (1931)
5. A Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene (1961)
6. African Trio, Georges Simenon, (1979)
7. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
8. The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett (1998)
9. The African Dream - The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo, Che Guevara (2000)
10. A Bend In The River, VS Naipaul (1979)
 
08 January 2008
Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books by and about Simone de Beauvoir
1. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
2. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
3. She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir
4. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
5. The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir
6. A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
7. Old Age by Simone de Beauvoir
8. Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
9. Beloved Chicago Man. Letters to Nelson Algren 1947-64 by Simone de Beauvoir
10. Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair
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