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19 December 2012
Charlie Fletcher's top 10 adventure classics
1. The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé
2. Red Rackham's Treasure by Hergé
3. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
6. Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
7. Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
8. The Sword in the Stone by TH White
9. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 
12 December 2012
Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts
1. Gaius Pompeius Trimalchio in The Satyricon by Petronius
2. Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
3. Madame la Marquise de Sainte-Euverte in In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
4. Odin in the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
5. The Duchess of Richmond in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Vanity Fair
6. Jean-Frédéric Taillefer in The Red Inn and The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
7. Mrs Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8. Truman Capote
9. Didier "Le Basque" Laxalt in Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
10. The Devil in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
 
05 December 2012
Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
3. The Armies by Evelio Rosero
4. Delirium by Laura Restrepo
5. Oblivion by Hector Abad Faciolince
6. The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
7. The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
8. Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling
9. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazonian Rain Forest by Wade Davis
10. The Train of Ice and Fire by Ramon Chao
 
28 November 2012
Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books
1. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Ronald Mallett
2. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip Thorne
3. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
5. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
6. The Time Machine by HG Wells
7. Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by J Richard Gott
8. The Chronic Argonauts by HG Wells
9. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
10. How To Build A Time Machine by Paul Davies
 
21 November 2012
Sophie McKenzie's top 10 teen thrillers
1. Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
2. The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall
3. Unrest by Michelle Harrison
4. Dead Time by Anne Cassidy
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
8. Sister by Rosamund Lupton
9. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
10. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
 
14 November 2012
Sara Maitland's top 10 books of the forest
1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. I-Spy Trees
3. The Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (translated by Jack Zipes)
4 Brendon Chase by BB
5. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
6. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
7. Woodlands by Oliver Rackham
8. Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
9. Wood by Andy Goldsworthy
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
07 November 2012
Jason Burke: the key books on Muslim extremism
1. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
2. A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America by Malise Ruthven
3. The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy
4. Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft
5. Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
6. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden by Stephen Coll
7. Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
8. The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left by Ed Husain
9. Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad – the Ten-year Search for Osama bin Laden by Peter Bergen
10. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
 
01 November 2012
Ronald Frame's top 10 reimagined classics
1. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
2. Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
3. Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
4. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus
5. Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. Don Quixote II by Miguel de Cervantes
3. The Wouldbegoods by E Nesbit
4. Henry IV Part II by William Shakespeare
5. Love in a Cold Climate/Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
 
24 October 2012
Simon Garfield's top 10 books with maps
1. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
2. An Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky
3. The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman by Grayson Perry
4. From Here To There: A Curious Collection From The Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski
5. Masquerade by Kit Williams
6. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
7. The Fourth Part of The World by Toby Lester
8. Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
9. Great Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
10. Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs
 
17 October 2012
DJ Taylor's top 10 literary parodies
1. Cyril Connolly on Brian Howard
2. Thackeray on Charles Lever
3. Evelyn Waugh on the Catholic Liturgy
4. Malcolm Bradbury on Iris Murdoch
5. Osbert Lancaster on 1920s poetry
6. JC Squire on HG Wells
7. Craig Brown on Anthony Powell
8. Hugh Kingsmill on AE Housman
9. Max Beerbohm on Henry James
10. David Lodge on Salman Rushdie
 
10 October 2012
Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories
1. The Song of Songs (200-100 BCE)
2. Of Cruelty by Michel de Montaigne (circa 1580)
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
4. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
5. On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1917)
6. A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes (1951)
7. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James Watson and Francis Crick (1953)
8. The Lorax by Dr Seuss (1971)
9. The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (1971)
10. Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (1984)
 
04 October 2012
Anthony Horowitz's top 10 apocalypse books
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
3. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
4. The Stand by Stephen King
5. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
6. When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
7. Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. The Passage by Justin Cronin
10. The Bible
 
26 September 2012
David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory
1. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume 3, by Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1964)
2. Mr. Tompkins in Paperback, by George Gamow (1993)
3. The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics, by PCW Davies and JR Brown (1986)
4. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg, by David Cassidy (1992)
5. Schrödinger: Life and Thought, by Walter Moore (1989)
6. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo (2009)
7. The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn, by Louisa Gilder (2008)
8. Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics, by Nick Herbert (1985)
9. The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics, by Robert Crease and Charles Mann (1986)
10. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, by Chad Orzel (2009)
 
19 September 2012
Lawrence Norfolk's top 10 food books of the 17th century
1. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Open'd
2. Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book
3. Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris by John Parkinson
4. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry by Thomas Tusser
5. The Accomplisht Cook by Robert May
6. Acetaria John Evelyn
7. The English Housewife by Gervase Markham
8. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary, being the Diary of Celia Fiennes
9. Food in England by Dorothy Hartley
10. The Garden of Cyrus by Sir Thomas Browne
 
13 September 2012
Miriam Darlington's top 10 literary otters
1. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
2. "An Otter" by Ted Hughes
3. "Otter" by Seamus Heaney
4. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
5. Edal by Gavin Maxwell
6. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
7. The Otter Book by Phyllis Kelway
8. The Life Story of an Otter by JC Tregarthen
9. Otter Moon by Tudor Humphries
10. The Utterly Otterleys by Mairi Hedderwick
 
05 September 2012
Simon Gough's top nine muses
Catullus
William Shakespeare and Mr WH
John Keats and Fanny Brawne
Thomas Hardy, Emma Gifford and Florence Dugdale
Yeats and Maud Gonne
F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald
Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes
Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac
Robert Graves and Margot Callas
 
29 August 2012
Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures
1. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Towards an Architecture by Le Corbusier
4. On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
5. Nadja by André Breton
6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
7. From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences by Ilya Prigogine
8. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
9. We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
10. Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías
 
18 July 2012
Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature
1. Satis House, in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. Des Esseintes' country house, in A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3. Bartlebooth's apartment, 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier in Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec
4. Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
5. The island museum in The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
6. Bucky Wunderlick's apartment in Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
7. Ruth's house in Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
8. Dr Jekyll's house in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Karl's father's house in A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
10. 124 Bluestone Road in Beloved by Toni Morrison
 
05 July 2012
Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes
1. Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing, 1974
2. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955
3. The Drowned World by JG Ballard, 1962
4. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, 1953
5. The Ice People by Maggie Gee, 1998
6. The Death of Grass by John Christopher, 1956
7. Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke, 1954
8. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 1951
9. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 1957
10. The Time Machine by HG Wells, 1895
 
27 June 2012
Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions
1. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by AS Byatt
2. The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
3. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
4. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
5. Shod by Mark Goodwin
6. The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
7. The Owl Service by Alan Garner
8. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
9. Winter Journey by Joel Lane
10. Sweet Bride by Kate Rusby
 
21 June 2012
Jasper Fforde's top 10 bedtime stories
1. More Pants by Giles Andrea and Nick Sharratt
2. Bear in the Air by Benedict Blathwayt
3. The Little House & Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
4. The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
5. Tiddler, Stick Man and Tabby McTat by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
6. Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young by AA Milne
7. The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
8. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
9. The Moomins by Tove Jansson, The Narnia series by CS Lewis, The Paddington books by Michael Bond
10. Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Tales of the Unexpected, Matilda by Roald Dahl
 
06 June 2012
Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books
1. The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
2. Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
3. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
4. "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac
5. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne
6. Collected Words by Richard Hamilton
7. The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley – Collected Writings, 1965-2009
8. The Story of Art by EH Gombrich
9. A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain, 1938-1955 by David Mellor
10. The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
 
16 May 2012
Fred Pearce's top 10 eco-books
1. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
2. The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
3. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
4. The Ultimate Resource by Julian L Simon
5. Waking the Giant by Bill McGuire
6. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
7. Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
8. The God Species by Mark Lynas
9. Hiroshima by John Hersey
10. Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz
 
11 May 2012
Josh Lacey's top 10 pseudonymous books
1. Tintin in Tibet by Hergé
2. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Robinson Crusoe
6. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
7. The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
8. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. The Storyteller by Saki
 
02 May 2012
Shehan Karunatilaka's top 10 cricket books
1. Beyond a Boundary, by CLR James
2. Rain Men: the Madness of Cricket, by Marcus Berkmann
3. Arm-ball to Zooter, by Lawrence Booth
4. War Minus the Shooting, by Mike Marqusee
5. Essaying Cricket, by Michael Roberts
6. The Art of Cricket, by Don Bradman
7. The Meaning of Sport, by Simon Barnes
8. A Lot of Hard Yakka, by Simon Hughes
9. By His Own Hand, by David Frith
10. All Round View, by Imran Khan
 
25 April 2012
Ewan Morrison's top 10 books about shopping malls
1. What Was Lost by Catherine O' Flynn
2. The Ladies Delight (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Émile Zola
3. Dawn of the Dead by George A Romero and Suzanna Sparrow
4. Mall Maker, Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream by M Jeffrey Hardwick
5. The Arcades Project (Das Passegen Werk) by Walter Benjamin
6. The Cave by José Saramago
7. Ten Spiritual Lessons I Learned at the Mall by James F Tyman
8. The Mall by SL Grey
9. Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City by Anna Minton
10. Kingdom Come by JG Ballard
 
18 April 2012
Bryan and Mary Talbot's top 10 graphic memoirs
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Spiral Cage by Al Davison
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Billy, Me and You by Nicola Streeten
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrape
To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner
Ethel and Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Dragonslippers by Rosalind B Penfold
 
11 April 2012
Seán McGrady's top 10 philosophers' novels
1. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
2. The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel by George Santayana
3. Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Candide by Voltaire
5. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
6. Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot
7. Thérèse Philosophe by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
8. The Stranger by Albert Camus
9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
10. Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
 
04 April 2012
Michael Crummey's top 10 literary feuds
1. Paradise Lost by John Milton
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
7. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
10. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
 
28 March 2012
Glenn Patterson's top 10 Belfast books
1. Call My Brother Back by Michael McLaverty
2. Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
3. Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
4. Buildings of Belfast, 1700-1914 by Charles Brett
5. Following Darkness by Forrest Reid
6. Monkeyface by Stephen Gilbert
7. The Klondyke Bar by Bill Kirk
8. The Emperor of Ice Cream by Brian Moore
9. The Belfast Anthology by Patricia Craig
10. Where They Were Missed by Lucy Caldwell
 
14 March 2012
Jeffrey Archer's top 10 romans-fleuves
1. The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
2. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
4. Strangers and Brothers by CP Snow
5. The Hornblower novels by CS Forester
6. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
7. The Swann saga by RF Delderfield
8. The Smiley trilogy by John le Carré
9. The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
10. The Clayhanger novels by Arnold Bennett
 
07 March 2012
Lloyd Shepherd's top 10 weird histories
1. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
11.22.63 by Stephen King
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
SS-GB by Len Deighton
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
 
29 February 2012
Shalom Auslander's top 10 comic tragedies
1. The Five Books of Moses
2. Candide by Voltaire
3. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
4. The Book of Job
5. Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
8. Anything by Samuel Beckett
9. Anything by Flannery O'Connor
10. Anything by Franz Kafka
 
22 February 2012
Paul Mason's top 10 books about China
1. The Real Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun (translated by Julia Lovell)
2. Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Mo Yan
3. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
4. The Plum in the Golden Vase (translated by David Tod Roy)
5. Wang in Love and Bondage by Xiaobo Wang
6. The Penguin History of Modern China by Jonathan Fenby
7. Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 by Philip Cunningham
8. Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour by Hsiao-Hung Pai
9. Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience by Charles A Laughlin
10. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 by Emily Honig
 
15 February 2012
Will Eaves's top 10 siblings' stories
1. The Book of Genesis
2. Antigone by Sophocles
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
6. Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
7. The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
8. Washington Square by Henry James
9. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
10. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
 
08 February 2012
Lars Iyer's top 10 literary frenemies
1. Cervantes' Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote
2. Samuel Beckett's Vladmir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot
3. Thomas Bernhard's Glenn Gould and Wertheimer in The Loser
4. DH Lawrence's Gerald Crich and Rupert Birking in Women in Love
5. JG Ballard's James Ballard and Robert Vaughan in Crash
6. Thomas Mann's Lodovico Settembrini and Leo Naphta in The Magic Mountain
7. Gene Wolfe's Badlanders and Dr Talos in The Book of the New Sun series
8. Patricia Highsmith's Bruno and Guy in Strangers on a Train
9. Saul Bellow's Charles Citrine and Von Humboldt Fleisher in Humboldt's Gift
10. Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 
01 February 2012
Alex Preston's top 10 literary believers
1. Franny in Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
2. Alyosha Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Samad Iqbal in White Teeth by Zadie Smith
4. Sir William Gull in From Hell by Alan Moore
5. Herr Naphtha in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. Oscar in Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
7. Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix in By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
8. Esti Kuperman in Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
9. Maurice Bendrix in The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
10. Margery Kempe in The Book of Margery Kempe
 
25 January 2012
Ian Marchant's top 10 books of the night
1. At Day's Close by A Roger Ekirch
2. Night by Al Alvarez
3. Night Haunts by Sukhdev Sandhu
4. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by MR James
5. Worst Journey in the World by Cherry Apsley-Garrard
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
7. The Family That Couldn't Sleep by DT Max
8. Sleepfaring by Jim Horne
9. Fireworks by George Plimpton
10. Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
 
18 January 2012
Ian Stewart's top 10 popular mathematics books
1. The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
3. The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner
4. Euclid in the Rainforest by Joseph Mazur
5. Four Colours Suffice by Robin Wilson
6. What is Mathematics Really? by Reuben Hersh
7. Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham
8. Games of Life by Karl Sigmund
9. Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder edited by Rudy Rucker
10. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
 
11 January 2012
John Naughton's top 10 books about the internet
1. The Internet Galaxy by Manuel Castells
2. The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
3. The Future of the Internet, and How To Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
4. Transmission by Hari Kunzru
5. Reamde by Neal Stephenson
6. You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
7. Republic.com by Cass Sunstein
8. The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov
9. Darwin Among the Machines: the evolution of global intelligence by George Dyson
10. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
 
06 January 2012
Megan Miranda's top 10 books set in a wintry landscape
1. Shiver by Maggie Steifvater
2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3. Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
4. The Devouring by Simon Holt
5. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
6. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
7. Need by Carrie Jones
8. Far From You by Lisa Schroeder
9. As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway
10. Frozen Fire by Tim Bowler
 
04 January 2012
Simon Lelic's top 10 lawyers in fiction
1. Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Matthew Shardlake in Dissolution by CJ Sansom
3. Sandy Stern in Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
4. Sergeant of the Lawe in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Dr Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
6. Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. Tom Hagen in The Godfather by Mario Puzo
8. Mitch McDeere in The Firm by John Grisham
9. George Edalji in Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
10. Herr Huld in The Trial by Franz Kafka
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