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2021

01 December
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy @bewaredorothy
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1997
Guardian Top 10s: Tiffany Murray's top 10 black comedies
 
02 December
Absolution by Patrick Flanery @PFlaneryAuthor
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2014
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2012
Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2012
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2012/2013
 
03 December
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1992
Guardian Top 10s: Dick Jude's top 10 science fiction books
Guardian Top 10s: Gwyneth Jones's top 10 science fiction by women writers
 
04 December
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas @calmandfearless
Boardman Tasker Prize Shortlist 2021
Duff Cooper Prize Shortlist 2020
 
05 December
Hold by Michael Donkor @MichaelDonkor
Desmond Elliott Shortlist 2019
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 bilingual books
 
06 December
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt @helendewitt
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist 2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 opening scenes in books
 
07 December
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick @BarbaraDemick
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 2010
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 73
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about tyrants
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about North Korea
 
08 December
Dear Life by Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford
Costa Biography Award Shortlist 2020
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2020
 
09 December
The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
Debut Crown Winner 2021
Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Longlist 2021
 
10 December
This Book Just Ate my Dog! by Richard Byrne @byRichardByrne
Children's Book Award Book for Younger Children Shortlist 2016
Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist 2016
 
11 December
Leila by Prayaag Akbar
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
12 December
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Selma Dabbagh's top 10 stories of reluctant revolutionaries
Guardian Top 10s: Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books about Paris
 
13 December
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1981
National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Finalist 1981
Fantasy Goldsmiths Prize
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Robin Houston's top 10 books on programming
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgetting
Guardian Top 10s: Philip Gross's top 10 writings from the edge of language
 
14 December
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2000
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Lives
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006 edition
Guardian Top 10s: Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude
Guardian Top 10s: Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures
Guardian Top 10s: Simon Garfield's top 10 books with maps
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about walking in Britain
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the unknowable
 
15 December
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Edgar Best First Novel Award Winner 1965
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
 
16 December
On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe @chikaunigwe
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Longlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales
 
17 December
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews @mkayandrews
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2003
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2003
 
18 December
The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon @katgordon1984
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2015/2016
 
19 December
The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Winner 1959
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1960
 
20 December
Contact by Carl Sagan
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Sci-Fi and Fantasy - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
21 December
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles @WillWiles
Betty Trask Award 2013
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2012
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2012/2013
 
22 December
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner 1998
Vote 100 Books 58
 
23 December
Feminists Don't Wear Pink and other lies by Scarlett Curtis @scarcurtis ‏
Young Adult Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards 2018
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2019
 
24 December
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy https://twitter.com/DerekLandy
Children's Book Award Winner 2008
Children's Book Award Book for Older Readers Winner 2008
 
25 December
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Guardian Top 10s: Guy Browning's top 10 Christmas books
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 loners in fiction
 
26 December
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Whitbread Novel Award 1992
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - British Classics - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Jordison's top ten books on place
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgetting
 
27 December
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
 
28 December
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
 
29 December
Gagarin & I by Stephen Blanchard
McKitterick Prize Winner 1996
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 1995
 
30 December
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani @GautamMalkani
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
Guardian Top 10s: Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books
 
31 December
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico illustrated by Angela Barrett
Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2009
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love

01 November
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild @Hannah71771890
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Winner 2016
Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2015/2016
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 01 June 2015
 
02 November
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen @mashagessen
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books on Vladimir Putin's Russia
 
03 November
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou @amabanckou translated by Helen Stevenson
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 99
 
04 November
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn @JaneMendelsohn
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 1997
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1998
  
05 November
And This is True by Emily Mackie
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2010
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2010/2011
  
06 November
Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1948
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
  
07 November
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer @npackerwrites
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2014/2015
 
08 November
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 1952
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 62
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
 
09 November
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer @zzpacker
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2004
Guardian First Book Award Also Commended 2004
 
10 November
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
BBC Big Read 157
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 90
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 28
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
All-TIME 100 Novels
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 23
Guardian Top 10s: Chris Hannan's top 10 tales of the American frontier
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 hospital stories
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about mental hospitals
Guardian Top 10s: From Dickens to Roth: top 10 novels about pariahs
 
11 November
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Norwegian Book Club World Library
The Novel 100 5
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 52
Abe Books 100 (Fiction) Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian Top 10s: James Meek's top 10 books of Russia
Guardian Top 10s: James Runcie's top 10 books about brothers
Guardian Top 10s: Murray's top 10 wicked clerics
Guardian Top 10s: Alex Preston's top 10 literary believers
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Arditti's top 10 novels about priests
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about God
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 toxic families in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: From Alice in Wonderland to the Hitchhiker's Guide: top 10 books about mathematics
  
12 November
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen @JaneYolen
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1992
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1993
Guardian Top 10s: Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions
  
13 November
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells @rwellswrites
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2000
NPR 100 Best Beach Books Ever 6
Guardian Top 10s: Cathy Cassidy's top 10 stories about sisters
  
14 November
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2013
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2014
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2013
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
  
15 November
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Costa Novel Award Shortlist 2016
Ondaatje Prize Shortlist 2017
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2017
Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
  
16 November
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld @csittenfeld
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2009
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about burning issues for young adults
  
17 November
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu @SJSindu
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Shortlist 2018
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2018
  
18 November
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts @arrroberts
BSFA Best Novel Award Winner 2012
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
 
19 November
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher @APitcherAuthor
Betty Trask Award 2012
Branford Boase Award Winner 2012
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2011
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2012
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Older Readers Shortlist 2012
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
  
20 November
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Whitbread Book of the Year 1994
Whitbread Novel Award 1994
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about voyeurs
 
21 November
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Norwegian Book Club World Library
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Lee Rourke's top 10 books about boredom
 
22 November
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah @larimah
9mobile Prize for Literature Shortlist 2017
Aspen Literary Prize Finalist 2018
  
23 November
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
National Geographic Extreme Classics 16
Guardian Top 10s: Carys Davies' top 10 wilderness books
Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best books about mountains – for a virtual climb
 
24 November
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction Winner 2020
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about recovery
  
25 November
Sister by Rosamund Lupton @Rosamundlupton
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2011/2012
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2011
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Winter 2010
Amazon US 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian Top 10s: Sophie McKenzie's top 10 teen thrillers
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 thrillers about siblings
 
26 November
Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2012
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2012
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2011/2012
  
27 November
An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones @ChrisMJAuthor
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2011/2012
  
28 November
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson @djdaisyjohnson
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2018
Shirley Jackson Award nominees 2018
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
 
29 November
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1961
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 67
  
30 November
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2009

01 October
Redgrove's Wife by Penelope Shuttle @penelopeshuttle
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2006
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2006
 
02 October
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 25
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 72
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
Guardian Top 10s: Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels
 
03 October
Hodd by Adam Thorpe
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2010
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2009
 
04 October
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
Gay Book Award Winner 1971
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
 
05 October
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley @nasubijutsu
Diverse Book Award Adult Longlist 2021
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2021
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2020
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 01 June 2020
 
06 October
An Unremarkable Body by Elisa Lodato
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2018
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2018/2019
  
07 October
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer translated by Katy Derbyshire @KatyDerbyshire
Man Booker International Longlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best novels set in Germany – that will take you there
 
08 October
The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson @ProfRGWilkinson & Kate Pickett @ProfKEPickett
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2010
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 79
 
09 October
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson @thrillkinson
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2020
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2020
Debut Crown Shortlist 2020
 
10 October
White Heat by MJ McGrath @mcgrathmj
Goldsboro Gold Dagger Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2011/2012
 
11 October
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2017
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2017
 
12 October
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner 2001
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2001
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 59
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 verse novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 random encounters in literature
 
13 October
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson @AntoniaHodgson
Endeavor Historical Dagger 2014
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2014
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2015
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2014
 
14 October
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Helena Frith Powell's top 10 sexy French books
 
15 October
Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon @JosephKanon
Edgar Best First Novel Award Winner 1998
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers - Best of the Rest
 
16 October
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
 
17 October
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1994
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
 
18 October
Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Andre Brink's top 10 novels
 
19 October
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter @MJCarter10
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2014
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2016
Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2014
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015
 
20 October
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty @NaturalistDara
Wainwright Prize Winner 2020
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Winner - British Book Awards 2021
Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist 2020
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2020
 
21 October
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin @ArmisteadMaupin
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
Waterstones Books of the Century 64
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World - Family & Friendship
Guardian Top 10s: Paul Burston's top 10 gay fiction books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 unlikely friendships in fiction
 
22 October
The Ruby Slippers by Keir Alexander @keiralexander
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2014/2015
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 10 March 2014
 
23 October
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Branford Boase Award Winner 2007
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2007
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlist 2007
 
24 October
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Paul Murray's top 10 gothic novels
 
25 October
Accabadora by Michela Murgia @KelleddaMurgia translated by Silvester Mazzarella
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
Elena Ferrante's top 40 books by female authors
 
26 October
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Macavity Best First Novel Award 2004
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2004
 
27 October
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
Royal Society Science Book Prize Winner 2017
Orwell Prize for Books Shortlist 2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about steroids
 
28 October
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher @LucyCAuthor
Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2010
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlist 2010
 
29 October
It's All in Your Head by Suzanne O'Sullivan @Suz_OSullivan
Wellcome Book Prize Winner 2016
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books to understand happiness
 
30 October
Clown by Quentin Blake @QuentinBlakeHQ
Kate Greenaway Medal Commended 1995
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Morpurgo's top 10 favourite books
 
31 October
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1994
Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist 1993

01 September
Silver by Chris Hammer
Gold Dagger Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2020
 
02 September
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty @PikettyLeMonde translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Waterstones Book of the Year Shortlist 2014
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 26
 
03 September
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan @rickriordan
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Children's Book Award Winner 2006
Children's Book Award Book for Older Readers Winner 2006
 
04 September
Being Billy by Phil Earle @philearle
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Older Readers Shortlist 2012
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2012
 
05 September
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes @Elizjhaynes
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2011/2012
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
 
06 September
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Guardian Top 10s: Francesca Simon's top 10 antiheroes
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Crummey's top 10 literary feuds
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 evil narrators
 
07 September
The Balloonist by MacDonald Harris
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1977
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Arctic novels
 
08 September
England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage @JonSavage1966
Guardian Top 10s: Alice Nutter's top 10 music books
Guardian Top 10s: Simon Napier-Bell's top 10 books on music
Guardian Top 10s: Billy Bragg's top 10 books on Englishness
Guardian Top 10s: Barry Miles's top 10 counterculture books
Guardian Top 10s: Bob Stanley's 10 best music histories
 
09 September
Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
Costa Novel Award Shortlist 2007
Guardian Top 10s: Aifric Campbell's top 10 jobs in fiction
 
10 September
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1994
Guardian Top 10s: Susheila Nasta's top 10 cultural journeys
 
11 September
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth @paulhowarth_
Debut Crown Shortlist 2019
Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Longlist 2019
Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommends 2019
 
12 September
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
13 September
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 12
Guardian Top 10s: Karl O Knausgaard's top 10 angel books
Guardian Top 10s: From Dante to I Love Dick: top 10 books about unrequited love
 
14 September
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best books set in Berlin
Guardian Top 10s: Rory MacLean's top 10 Berliners in literature
 
15 September
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2011
Royal Society Science Book Prize Longlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 opening scenes in books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the body
 
16 September
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2010
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
 
17 September
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead @MaggieShipstead
Dylan Thomas Prize Winner 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 holidays in fiction
 
18 September
The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi @annezouroudi
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2008
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2007/2008
 
19 September
City of Blood by MD Villiers @md_villiers
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2013
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2013/2014
 
20 September
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 tales from the frontier
 
21 September
Lyonesse by Jack Vance
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1983
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1984
 
22 September
Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2014
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 slangy crime novels
 
23 September
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles @amortowles
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 20 February 2017
 
24 September
Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor @crystalclearjt
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2013/2014
 
25 September
Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Novel 100 117
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Julith Jedamus's top 10 Japanese novels
Guardian Top 10s: Fiona Campbell's top 10 books set in Japan
Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best books set in Japan – that will take you there
 
26 September
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic @OliviaSudjic
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about social media
 
27 September
The Fan by Bob Randall
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 1978
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 modern epistolary novels
 
28 September
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 2012
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2011
 
29 September
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Julith Jedamus's top 10 Japanese novels
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Arditti's top 10 novels about priests
 
30 September
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford @humbird_fuil
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2019
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2019

01 August
Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about idleness
 
02 August
Larchfield by Polly Clark @MsPollyClark
Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommends 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018
 
03 August
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante @RomalynAnte
Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2021
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist 2021
 
04 August
A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa translated by Daniel Hahn @danielhahn02
International Dublin Literary Award Winner 2017
Man Booker International Shortlist 2016
 
05 August
How to live: A life of Montaigne in twenty questions and one attempt at an answer by Sarah Bakewell @Sarah_Bakewell
Duff Cooper Prize Winner 2010
Costa Biography Award Shortlist 2010
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about reading
 
06 August
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann @MirandaKaufmann
Wolfson History Prize Shortlist 2018
Non-Fiction Crown Longlist 2018
 
07 August
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Finalist 2008
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009
 
08 August
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans @LissaKEvans
Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2017
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2018
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Shortlist 2018
 
09 August
Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-1945 by Robert Gildea @RobertGildea
Wolfson History Prize Winner 2003
Orwell Prize for Books Shortlist 2003
Guardian Top 10s: Rupert Wright's top 10 books about France
 
10 August
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll @JessMKnoll
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017
 
11 August
Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2001
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2001
 
12 August
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Betty Trask Award 2000
John Llewellyn Rhys Shortlist 2000
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2000
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 human-animal relationships in literature
 
13 August
Nabeel’s Song by Jo Tatchell
Costa Biography Award Shortlist 2006
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist 2007
 
14 August
Marabou by Jane Yeh @JaneYeh3
Whitbread Poetry Award Shortlist 2005
Felix Dennis Prize (Forward) for Best First Collection Shortlist 2005
 
15 August
The Taxi Driver’s Daughter by Julia Darling
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
 
16 August
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave @nickcave
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
Guardian Top 10s: Peter James's top 10 books about Brighton
 
17 August
Brother by David Chariandy
Aspen Literary Prize Finalist 2019
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Longlist 2019
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
18 August
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
 
19 August
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779 by Captain James Cook
National Geographic Extreme Classics 21
Guardian Top 10s: Max Jones's top 10 books about exploration
 
20 August
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Whitbread Novel Award 1997
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1997
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1999
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
Guardian Top 10s: Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books
 
21 August
The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar @freddaguiar
Whitbread First Novel Award 1994
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
 
22 August
Happiness by Aminatta Forna @aminattaforna
Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2019
Ondaatje Prize Shortlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
23 August
The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-Booth @emilyhb
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Illustrated Book Shortlist 2019
Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist 2020
 
24 August
Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry @MElizabethLowry
Walter Scott Prize Longlist 2019
Sharpe Books Gold Crown Longlist 2019
 
25 August
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 by Mark Mazower
Duff Cooper Prize Winner 2004
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Shortlist 2005
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist 2005
 
26 August
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1971
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1972
 
27 August
Through The Dark Continent by Henry Morton Stanley
National Geographic Extreme Classics 32
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Butcher's top 10 books about Congo
 
28 August
The Killing Season by Mason Cross @MasonCrossBooks
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2014/2015
 
29 August
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner @SusieSteiner1
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2017
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2016
 
30 August
Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – African Classics
 
31 August
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce @harriet_tyce
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2020
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Winter 2020

01 July
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Shalom Auslander's top 10 comic tragedies
 
02 July
Falstaff by Robert Nye
Hawthornden Prize 1976
Guardian Fiction Prize 1976
 
03 July
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1990
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 1990
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
 
04 July
The Swimmer by Roma Tearne @RomaTearne
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2011
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about swimming
 
05 July
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
Guardian Top 10s: Dan Rhodes's top 10 short books
 
06 July
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell @danwaddell
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2009
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2009
 
07 July
The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
08 July
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam
John Llewellyn Rhys Shortlist 2004
Guardian First Book Award Also Commended 2004
 
09 July
The Starman and Me by Sharon Cohen @SCohen_Author
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2018
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2017/2018
 
10 July
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Novel 100 4
Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 6
Time Magazine 10 Greatest Books of All Time 8
Waterstones Books of the Century 33
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - European and Russian Classics
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Robert McCrum's top 10 books of the twentieth century
Guardian Top 10s: Andre Brink's top 10 novels
Guardian Top 10s: Lara Feigel's top 10 smelly books
Guardian Top 10s: Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts
Guardian Top 10s: Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books about Paris
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books on memory
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the seasons
 
11 July
Family Sayings (Family Lexicon) by Natalia Ginzburg translated by Jenny McPhee @Jennymcphee
Elena Ferrante’s top 40 books by female authors
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 hateful characters you love in literature
 
12 July
Parallel Worlds - The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku @michiokaku
Royal Society Science Book Prize Shortlist 2006
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist 2005
 
13 July
The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia by Richard Overy
Wolfson History Prize Winner 2005
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner 2005
 
14 July
The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield illustrated by Charles Keeping
Carnegie Medal Winner 1970
Kate Greenaway Medal Commended 1970
 
15 July
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan
Desmond Elliott Prize 2009
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2008
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2008/2009
 
16 July
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2015
National Book Award for Fiction Longlist 2015
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 runaway mothers in fiction
 
17 July
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1982
National Book Award for Fiction Hardback Finalist 1982
 
18 July
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie @ann_leckie
BSFA Best Novel Award Winner 2013
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 2013
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 2014
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 2014
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 spaceships in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about remaking the future
 
19 July
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee @deuceofgears
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2017
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2017
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2016

20 July
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss @David_Liss
Macavity Best First Novel Award 2001
Edgar Best First Novel Award Winner 2001
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002
 
21 July
The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo @BlckPorcelain
9mobile Prize for Literature Longlist 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
 
22 July
Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson translated by Philip Roughton
Man Booker International Longlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
 
23 July
Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel @ruthpadel
Whitbread Poetry Award Shortlist 2002
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2002
 
24 July
Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1973
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
 
25 July
Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Winner 2015
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2014/2015
 
26 July
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2008
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 29
Guardian Top 10s: Susheila Nasta's top 10 cultural journeys
 
27 July
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1978
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1978
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books set in the American midwest
 
28 July
Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan @imlcc
Orwell Prize for Books Shortlist 2013
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction Finalist 2013
 
29 July
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull
Whitbread Children's Book Award Shortlist 2004
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Quakers in fiction
 
30 July
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta @suketumehta
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2005
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2005
Guardian Top 10s: Manil Suri's top 10 books about Mumbai
 
31 July
At Home in the Dark by Greta Stoddart @GretaStoddart
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2002
Felix Dennis Prize (Forward) for Best First Collection Shortlist 2001

 01 June
The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian Top 10s: Peter Singer's top 10 books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the seasons
 
02 June
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Finalist 2012
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2012
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
 
03 June
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
National Geographic Extreme Classics 14
Guardian Top 10s: Peter F Stevens's top 10 nautical books
 
04 June
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis @missjanetellis
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017
 
05 June
The First Day by Phil Harrison @fillharrison
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about cheating
 
06 June
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2007
Guardian Top 10s: Brian McGilloway's top 10 modern Irish crime novels
 
07 June
A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Betty Trask Award 2002
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2002
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2004
 
08 June
Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews @owenmatth
Orwell Prize for Books Shortlist 2009
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2008
 
09 June
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2011
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
 
10 June
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 40
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read – Crime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime - Best of the Rest
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 locked-room mysteries
 
11 June
The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements @KL_Clements
Sharpe Books Gold Crown Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
12 June
The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham @RuthEastham1
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2011/2012
 
13 June
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana @jennyquintana95
Authors' Club Best First Novel Longlist 2018
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
 
14 June
Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop @jacqyallop
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2010/2011
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
 
15 June
The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1996
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1996
 
16 June
Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
Costa Biography Award 2006
PEN Ackerley Prize Winner 2007
 
17 June
The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2004
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2002
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2002
 
18 June
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1980
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 megacities in fiction
 
19 June
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh @SSCav
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2019
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
20 June
The Lost Colours of the Chameleon by Mandla Langa @mandla_langa
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Africa Regional Winner 2009
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
 
21 June
Tolstoy by AN Wilson
Whitbread Biography Award 1988
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 literary biographies
 
22 June
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin @sschweblin translated by Megan McDowell @meganalimcd
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
 
23 June
A Vengeful Longing by RN Morris @rnmorris
Duncan Lawrie Dagger Shortlist 2008
Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist 2008
 
24 June
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills @MarkMillsAuthor
Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist 2007
Richard & Judy Book Club - Summer 2007
 
25 June
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally @ThomasKeneally
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
 
26 June
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2004
 
27 June
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland @holland_tom
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner 2004
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2004
 
28 June
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
Duff Cooper Prize Winner 1992
NCR Book Award 1993
 
29 June
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Novel 100 87
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about idleness
 
30 June
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
Hawthornden Prize 1969
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1970

01 May
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson @Nalo_Hopkinson
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
 
02 May
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2011/2012
 
03 May
The Reactive by Masanda Ntshanga @mntshanga
Betty Trask Award 2018
9mobile Prize for Literature Longlist 2015
 
04 May
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2003
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2003
 
05 May
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 1991
Wolfson History Prize Winner 1992
 
06 May
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker @JoelDicker
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Summer 2015
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 02 June 2014
 
07 May
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz @lisalutz
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2009
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2009
 
08 May
Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik @RachelMalik99
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2018
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018
 
09 May
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 1950
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
10 May
Asghar and Zahra by Sameer Rahim @sameerahim
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2020
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2019/2020
 
11 May
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Linda Buckley-Archer's top 10 time-travelling stories
 
12 May
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Carnegie Medal Winner 1958
Guardian Top 10s: Linda Buckley-Archer's top 10 time-travelling stories
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books
 
13 May
Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Winner 2004
Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2002
 
14 May
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
BSFA Best Novel Award Winner 1969
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1969
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1968
 
15 May
The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1960
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
 
16 May
Atticus Claw Breaks the Law by Jennifer Gray @JenniferGrayBks
Children's Book Award Book for Younger Readers Winner 2014
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2013
 
17 May
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley @TheHorseCure
Guardian First Book Award Also Commended 2003
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2004
 
18 May
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2016
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
 
19 May
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Winner 2012
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
 
20 May
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Guardian Top 10s: John Naughton's top 10 books about the internet
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age
 
21 May
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan @nicolanovelist
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2006
Betty Trask Award 2006
Waverton Good Read Award 2006/2007
 
22 May
A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel @Mikepeeljourno
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2009
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2010
 
23 May
Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney @emmacsweeney
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017
 
24 May
Miss Jane by Brad Watson @WiltonBWatson
National Book Award for Fiction Longlist 2016
Wellcome Book Prize Longlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
 
25 May
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1952
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1952
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
 
26 May
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird @EMRLaird
Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2007
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2008
 
27 May
The End We Start From by Megan Hunter @meganfnhunter
Aspen Literary Prize Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
 
28 May
Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb @rebecca_cobb
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Illustrated Book Winner 2013
Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2013
 
29 May
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
James Fenimore Cooper Prize 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2012
 
30 May
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
31 May
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2010
Guardian Top 10s: Shalom Auslander's top 10 comic tragedies

01 April
Synners by Pat Cadigan @Cadigan
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 1992
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1991
Guardian Top 10s: Gwyneth Jones's top 10 science fiction by women writers
 
02 April
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book 1999 - South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2000
 
03 April
An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson @_tstevenson
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 2003
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2003/2004
  
04 April
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2004
Guardian Top 10s: Elise Valmorbida's top 10 books on the migrant experience
 
05 April
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin @MauriceRuffin
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2020
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Finalist 2020
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2021
Aspen Literary Prize Longlist 2020
 
06 April
Improvement by Joan Silber
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner 2018
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 2017
 
07 April
The Visible World by Mark Slouka @MarkSlouka
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009
Richard & Judy Book Club – 2008
 
08 April
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 11
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 81
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
Guardian Top 10s: Elise Tana French's top 10 maverick mysteries
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 kitchens in literature
 
09 April
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk @trofs
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Winter 2010
 
10 April
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti @sheilaheti
RSL Encore Award Shortlist 2013
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013
Guardian Top 10s: Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels about lost friendships
 
11 April
Compass by Mathias Enard translated by Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2019
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about insomnia
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Europe
 
12 April
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2003
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2004
 
13 April
The Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen Peters @farmgirlwriter
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2013
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2012/2013
 
14 April
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
Richard & Judy Book Club - 2007
 
15 April
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
BSFA Best Novel Award Winner 2004
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2005
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2005
 
16 April
Papillon by Henri Charriere translated by Patrick O'Brian
BBC Big Read 147
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 escapes in literature
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 escapes in books
 
17 April
The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton @denton_danny
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
18 April
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo @ChibunduOnuzo
Betty Trask Award 2013
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2012
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2012
9mobile Prize for Literature Longlist 2013
 
19 April
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by Philippe Sands @philippesands
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 2016
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2017
 
20 April
Startide Rising by David Brin @DavidBrin
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1984
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1983
 
21 April
The General Theory of Employment by John Maynard Keynes
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Money and Power
Guardian Top 10s: Peter Watson's top 10 20th century non-fiction books
Guardian Top 10s: David Smith's top 10 economics books
 
22 April
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1981
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
 
23 April
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - European and Russian Classics - Best of the Rest
Guardian Top 10s: Andy McSmith's top 10 books of the 1980s
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about tumultuous times
 
24 April
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2015
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2014
 
25 April
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Guardian Top 10s: John Tusa's top 10 books on culture
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Harford's top 10 undercover economics books
Guardian Top 10s: Fred Pearce's top 10 eco-books
Guardian Top 10s: Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about building cities
 
26 April
Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1995
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1995
 
27 April
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah @VascoDaGappah
McKitterick Prize 2016
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2016
 
28 April
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman @stevesilberman
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 2015
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2016
 
29 April
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1975
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Moorcock's top 10 science fiction novels
Guardian Top 10s: Gwyneth Jones's top 10 science fiction by women writers
 
30 April
The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Money and Power - Best of the Rest
Guardian Top 10s: David Charters's top 10 books about bankers

01 March
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell @BernardCornwell
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Guardian To 10s: Jude Fisher's top 10 tales of adventure
 
02 March
Attend by West Camel @west_camel
Polari First Book Prize Shortlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2019/2020
 
03 March
The Lover by Marguerite Duras translated by Barbara Bray
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Romance - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Elena Ferrante’s top 40 books by female authors
 
04 March
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
Bram Stoker Award Novel Winner 1987
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1988
 
05 March
The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman @ReedFColeman
Edgar Best Paperback Original Shortlist 2006
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2006
 
06 March
A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall @TorUdall
Authors' Club Best First Novel Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
 
07 March
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne @ballantyne_lisa
Edgar Best Paperback Original Shortlist 2014
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2012
 
08 March
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1961
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
 
09 March
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 41
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime

10 March
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1984
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about lies
 
11 March
Travelling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker8
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels about lost friendships
 
12 March
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
13 March
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Duff Cooper Prize Winner 1995
Whitbread Biography Award Shortlist 1995
 
14 March
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Guardian Top 10s: Robert Irwin's top 10 quest narratives
Guardian Top 10s: Thomas Asbridge’s top 10 knights in literature
 
15 March
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2005
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 71
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about old men
 
16 March
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 75
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 79
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1956
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
17 March
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 1983
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 unlikely friendships in fiction
 
18 March
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Mills's top 10 books about the darker side of adolescence
Guardian Top 10s: Anthony Clavane's top 10 football fictions
 
19 March
Tea with the Black Dragon by RA MacAvoy
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1984
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1983
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1984
 
20 March
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone @pauvrelapinou
Betty Trask Award 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
 
21 March
The Strangest Man – The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo @grahamfarmelo
Costa Biography Award 2009
Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2009
Guardian Top 10s: David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory
 
22 March
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick @JamesGleick
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner 2012
Royal Society Science Book Prize Winner 2012
 
23 March
Silent Joe by T Jefferson Parker @TJParkerauthor
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 2002
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2002
 
24 March
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates by Liz Pichon @LizPichon
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Winner 2012
Children's Book Award Book for Younger Readers Winner 2012
 
25 March
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk @Raymodraco
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1990
Duff Cooper Prize Winner 1991
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about great thinkers
 
26 March
The Road Home by Jim Harrison
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2000
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books set in the American midwest
 
27 March
The Murder of the Maharaja by HRF Keating
Gold Dagger 1980
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 97
 
28 March
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 16
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Robin Houston's top 10 books on programming
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about women and the sea
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about new beginnings
 
29 March
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Boardman Tasker Prize Shortlist 1997
National Geographic Extreme Classics 9
Guardian Top 10s: Jude Fisher's top 10 tales of adventure
Guardian Top 10s: Andy Cave's top 10 books on Alpinism
 
30 March
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014
 
31 March
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill @joe_hill
Lord Ruthven Award 2014
Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist 2013

1 February
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks @LJCruickshanks
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2014
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Shortlist 2013
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2013/2014
 
02 February
Scenes from Early Life by Philip Hensher @PhilipHensher
Ondaatje Prize 2013
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2014
 
03 February
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers @OliverJeffers
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Winner 2006
Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2005
 
04 February
For the Good Times by David Keenan @reversediorama
RSL Encore Award Shortlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
 
05 February
The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands
Betty Trask Award 1990
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1990
 
06 February
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic @EmmaViskic
Gold Dagger Shortlist 2018
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2018
 
07 February
Feather Boy by Nicky Singer @nickysingerwrit
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Winner 2002
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2003
 
08 February
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 64
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 80

09 February
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Forward Prize for Best Collection Winner 2015
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2015
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 43
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 verse novels
 
10 February
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky @SaraParetsky
Gold Dagger 2004
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read – Crime
Guardian Top 10s: CJ Box's top 10 US crime novelists who 'own' their territory
 
11 February
Black Car Burning by Helen Mort @HelenMort
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2019/2020
 
12 February
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2010/2011
 
13 February
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Royal Society Science Book Prize Winner 2009
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2009
 
14 February
The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul by Patrick French @PatrickFrench
Hawthornden Prize 2009
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2008
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 literary biographies
 
15 February
Family, Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson
Betty Trask Award 1986
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1986
 
16 February
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WW1's War Graves by David Crane
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Shortlist 2014
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2013
 
17 February
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 86
 
18 February
Lady into Fox by David Garnett
Hawthornden Prize 1923
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1922
 
19 February
Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure by Vashti Hardy @vashti_hardy
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2019
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Longlist 2019
Branford Boase Award Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2018/2019
 
20 February
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2013
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
 
21 February
Meat Market by Juno Dawson @junodawson
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 27 May 2019
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about burning issues for young adults
 
22 February
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner 2018
Costa Poetry Award Shortlist 2018
 
23 February
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2000
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1999
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001
 
24 February
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1999
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2001
 
25 February
The Book about Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
26 February
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
Carnegie Medal Winner 1944
Retro-Hugo Shortlist 1945/2020
 
27 February
The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson @LesleyjmThomson
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
 
28 February
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2000
BBC Big Read 127

01 January
Dogger by Shirley Hughes @ShirleyHughes_
Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 1977
Guardian Top 10s: David Almond: top 10 children's books
 
02 January
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Norwegian Book Club World Library
The Novel 100 9
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Alex Preston's top 10 literary believers
Guardian Top 10s: Lars Iyer's top 10 literary frenemies
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books given in books
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 hospital stories
Guardian Top 10s: From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war
 
03 January
The Holy Thief by William Ryan @WilliamRyan_
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2010
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2010/2011
 
04 January
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1985
Guardian Top 10s: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's top 10 cult SF novels
 
05 January
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2015
New Writer of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2016
9mobile Prize for Literature Longlist 2015
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2015
 
06 January
Here Gather the Stars (Way Station) by Clifford D Simak
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1964
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about remaking the future
 
07 January
The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig @ianduhig
Costa Poetry Award Shortlist 2007
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2007
 
08 January
To Each his Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
09 January
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Whitbread Novel Award 1985
Guardian Fiction Prize 1985
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Lloyd Shepherd's top 10 weird histories
 
10 January
Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale @matthewkneale_
Betty Trask Award 1986
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1988
 
11 January
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
Whitbread Biography Award 2000
PEN Ackerley Prize Winner 2001
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 89
Guardian Top 10s: Caradoc King's top 10 childhood memoirs
 
12 January
The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett @KMFollett
BBC Big Read 33
Oprah's Book Club 2007
 
13 January
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction Finalist 2011
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
 
14 January
News from Nowhere by William Morris
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Toby Green's top 10 utopias and dystopias
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the River Thames
 
15 January
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
Ellis Peters Historical Award Shortlist 2009
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2009
 
16 January
England, Their England by AG Macdonell
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1933
 
17 January
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Wesley Stace's top 10 ventriloquism books
 
18 January
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Whitbread Biography Award Shortlist 2003
Macavity Best Non-Fiction Award Shortlist 2004
Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Shortlist 2004
 
19 January
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
BBC Big Read 163
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006 edition
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about freedom
 
20 January
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award - Literature Shortlist 1996
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1997
 
21 January
Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2001
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001
 
22 January
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu @NzeluWrites
Betty Trask Award 2020
Desmond Elliott Shortlist 2020
Polari First Book Prize Shortlist 2020
 
23 January
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Branford Boase Award Winner 2005
Whitbread Children's Book Award Shortlist 2004
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2004/2005
Guardian Top 10s: Gemma Malley's top 10 dystopian novels for teenagers
Guardian Top 10s: Melvin Burgess's top 10 books written for teenagers
Guardian Top 10s: Belinda McKeon's top 10 farming novels
Guardian Top 10s: Anthony Horowitz's top 10 apocalypse books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 cousins in fiction
 
24 January
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting @MBunting_
Wainwright Prize Shortlist 2017
Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best travel books … for National Read a Book Day
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
 
25 January
A Book of Scars by William Shaw @william1shaw
Endeavor Historical Dagger Shortlist 2016
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
26 January
Weaveworld by Clive Barker @RealCliveBarker
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 1988
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
 
27 January
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Ellis Peters Historical Award 2007
Macavity Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel 2008
 
28 January
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1999
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 loners in fiction
 
29 January
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
Booker-McConnell Prize Longlist 2001
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003
 
30 January
The Histories by Herodotus
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Classics from Antiquity
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 41
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books of war reportage
 
31 January
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1992
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Romance - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 1993
Golden Man Booker Prize
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels of desert war
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 hospital stories
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 secrets in fiction

2020

01 December
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza @fatimafmirza
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
02 December
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 40
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
03 December
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2017
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 2018
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 04 September 2017
 
04 December
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller @lizziespeller
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2010/2011
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Summer 2011
 
05 December
Cowgirl by GR Gemin
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Shortlist 2015
Branford Boase Award Shortlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2014/2015
 
06 December
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley @trixh15
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1999
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001
 
07 December
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Leonardo Padura's top 10 Cuban novels
 
08 December
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival by Caroline Moorehead
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction Finalist 2012
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2012
 
09 December
46% Better than Dave by Alastair Puddick @HankShandy
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2020
 
10 December
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
The Independent 25 best books by female authors 9
 
11 December
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera @Sathnam
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2013
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2014
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015
 
12 December
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2013
Macavity Best Non-Fiction Award Shortlist 2013
 
13 December
Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John @elnathan_john
Betty Trask Award 2017
Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlist 2017
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
9mobile Prize for Literature Longlist 2016
 
14 December
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
15 December
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F John @Rebecca_Writer
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017

16 December
Skin Deep (A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest) by Peter Dickinson
Gold Dagger 1968
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1969
 
17 December
The Farm by Joanne Ramos @ramos_farm
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 13 May 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
 
18 December
Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
Whitbread Biography Award Shortlist 1997
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1998
 
19 December
The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed @MirzaWaheed
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2011
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2011

20 December
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward @GerardWoodward
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2004
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
 
21 December
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 28
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 62
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books writers should read
 
22 December
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 73
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
All-TIME 100 Novels
Guardian Top 10s: Jonathan Kellerman's top 10 LA noir novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Hollywood novels
 
23 December
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards @medwardsbooks
Macavity Best Non-Fiction Award 2016
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2016
 
24 December
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor @AndrewJRTaylor
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2003
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2005
Richard & Judy Book Club 2005
Guardian Top 10s: Matthew Pearl's top 10 books inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
 
25 December
The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
Costa Poetry Award Shortlist 2014
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2014
 
26 December
The Last Town On Earth by Thomas Mullen @Mullenwrites
James Fenimore Cooper Prize 2007
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Finalist 2007
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
 
27 December
The English Spy by Daniel Silva @danielsilvabook
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Shortlist 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017
 
28 December
How to Survive A Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 2017
Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner 2017
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2017
 
29 December
The Maze by Panos Karnezis @PanosKarnezis
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 2004
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006
 
30 December
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan translated by Labodalih Sembiring
Man Booker International Longlist 2016
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 ghost stories
 
31 December
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Shakespearean stories in modern fiction

01 November
A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – War and History
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
 
02 November
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 79
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
03 November
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2010
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2009
 
04 November
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon @DanielGAlarcon
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Runner-Up 2008
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009
 
05 November
The Magus by John Fowles
BBC Big Read 67
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 93
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 71
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Waterstones Books of the Century 60
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
Guardian Top 10s: Christopher Hart's top 10 erotica books
Guardian Top 10s: Lisa Tuttle's top 10 mould-breaking fantasy novels
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 summers in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 terrible houses in fiction
 
06 November
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
Cundill History Prize Winner 2017
Wolfson History Prize Shortlist 2017
 
07 November
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 70
Waterstones Books of the Century 93
Guardian Top 10s: Malcolm Pryce's top 10 expatriate tales
 
08 November
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 52
Guardian Top 10s: Terence Blacker's top 10 tales of literary villainy
Guardian Top 10s: Sarah Waters's top 10 Victorian novels
Guardian Top 10s: DJ Taylor's books for Orwell-lovers
 
09 November
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Cundill History Prize Finalist 2011
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2011
 
10 November
Dreamsnake by Vonda N McIntyre
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1979
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1978
 
11 November
Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Biography of the Year - British Book Awards 2003
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist 2002
Guardian Top 10s: Paul Addison's top 10 books on Churchill
 
12 November
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 runaway mothers in fiction
 
13 November
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2013
Richard & Judy Book Club 10th Anniversary List
Guardian Top 10s: Sophie Hannah's top 10 pageturners
 
14 November
Clarice Bean That's Me by Lauren Child
Kate Greenaway Medal Highly Commended 1999
Guardian Top 10s: Liz Pichon's top 10 funny books with pictures
 
15 November
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright @sewelliot
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2013/2014
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015
 
16 November
Never Never by David Gaffney @ggaffa
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2009
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2009/2010
 
17 November
Never Greener by Ruth Jones @ruthjonesREAL
Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
Zoe Ball Book Club - Summer 2018
 
18 November
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
PEN Ackerley Prize Winner 1994
Guardian Top 10s: Caradoc King's top 10 childhood memoirs
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about fathers
 
19 November
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2020
Walter Scott Prize Longlist 2019
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2018
 
20 November
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson @RupertThomson1
Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommends 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
21 November
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel @Laurie_Frankel
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Reese's Book Club October 2018
 
22 November
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Retro-Hugo Winner 1954/2004
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 77
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
 
23 November
Poems by Paul Celan
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Guardian Top 10s: Philip Gross's top 10 writings from the edge of language
 
24 November
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
BBC Big Read 82
Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 8
Vote 100 Books 15
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction #ThisBook 10
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Family & Friendship
Guardian Top 10s: Jacqueline Wilson's top 10 children's books
Guardian Top 10s: Wesley Stace's top 10 books about children aimed at adults
Guardian Top 10s: Freya North's top 10 romps and romances
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Baker's top 10 literary stepmothers
Guardian Top 10s: Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration
Guardian Top 10s: Cathy Cassidy's top 10 stories about sisters
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 kitchens in literature
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 best-dressed characters in fiction

25 November
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton @ORHamilton
Betty Trask Prize 2018
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
 
26 November
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane @HarrietLane_
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2012/2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
 
27 November
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Comedy - Best of the Rest
Guardian Top 10s: Christina Koning's top 10 comic novels
Guardian Top 10s: Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novels
Guardian Top 10s: Alexander McCall Smith's top 10 favourite humorous books
Guardian Top 10s: James Hawes' top 10 satires
 
28 November
Native Son by Richard Wright
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 20
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 27
The Novel 100 100
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
All-TIME 100 Novels
Guardian Top 10s: Neil Griffiths' top 10 books about outsiders
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about Chicago
 
29 November
Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1967
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
 
30 November
Darke by Rick Gekoski
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2018
McKitterick Prize Shortlist 2018
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018

01 October
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin @annamcpartlin
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 12 January 2015
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Spring 2015
 
02 October
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan @michaelpollan
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 55
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Food and Drink
 
03 October
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch @CarolBirch
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2011
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2011
 
04 October
Unless by Carol Shields
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2002
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2003
Vote 100 Books 73
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Politics, Power & Protest
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books for the broken-hearted
 
05 October
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2012
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
 
06 October
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers @CaroBrothers
McKitterick Prize Runner-up 2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
 
07 October
Dark Waters by Sara Bailey @baileysara
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
 
08 October
Dune by Frank L Herbert
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1966
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1965
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 14
BBC Big Read 39
Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without 52
Waterstones Books of the Century 51
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Independent 40 Books to Read Before You Die
BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Life, Death & Other Worlds
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels of desert war
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 imaginary drugs in fiction
 
09 October
Wade in the Water by Tracy K Smith
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2018
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2018
 
10 October
The Twelfth Juror by BM Gill
Gold Dagger 1984
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1985
 
11 October
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson @tinysunbird
Costa First Novel Award 2011
Waverton Good Read Award 2011/2012
 
12 October
Killing It by Asia Mackay @abmackster
Comedy Women in Print Prize Runner Up 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
 
13 October
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
 
14 October
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1961
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about psychiatry
 
15 October
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 15
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 83
BBC Big Read 91
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guardian Top 10s: Lisa Scottoline's top 10 books about justice
Guardian Top 10s: Simon Lelic's top 10 lawyers in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Crummey's top 10 literary feuds
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about the mafia
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about gangsters
 
16 October
Vurt by Jeff Noon @jeffnoon
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 1994
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's top 10 cult SF novels
Guardian Top 10s: Sebastian Beaumont's top 10 books about psychological journeys
Guardian Top 10s: Sam Leith's top 10 alternative realities
 
17 October
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon @MatthewCondon2
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
 
18 October
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
Gold Dagger 1990
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1991
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
 
19 October
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2010
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2010
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2012 edition
 
20 October
City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence @BenRawlence
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction Runner-Up 2017
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 refugees' stories
 
21 October
The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson @CatrionaMcP
Edgar Best Paperback Original Shortlist 2015
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2015
 
22 October
Kokoro by Soseki Natsume translated by Meredith McKinney
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Julith Jedamus's top 10 Japanese novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Japan
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Tokyo
 
23 October
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal @MaryRobinette
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 2019
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 2018
 
24 October
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li @winniemli
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Winner 2017
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2018
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2018
 
25 October
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little @elizabethlittle
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2015
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2015
 
26 October
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2019
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
 
27 October
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell
Wolfson History Prize Winner 2007
PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner 2007
BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist 2007
 
28 October
High-Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Winner 2020
Branford Boase Award Longlist 2020

29 October
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell @kdbrundell
Blue Peter Book Award Best Story Winner 2014
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner 2014
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers Winner 2014
Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2014
 
30 October
Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1998
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
31 October
Whip Hand by Dick Francis
Gold Dagger 1979
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1981

01 September
Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about old men
 
02 September
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin @AnneGriffin_
Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist 2020
Authors' Club Best First Novel Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2019/2020
 
03 September
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod @amendlocke
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 1999
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1999
Guardian Top 10s: Dick Jude's top 10 science fiction books
 
04 September
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
 
05 September
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
Guardian Top 10s: Jilly Cooper's top 10 romantic novels
 
06 September
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist 2003
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2002
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 stories of hubris
 
07 September
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah @BZephaniah
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Rosen's top 10 books
 
08 September
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen @viet_t_nguyen
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Winner 2016
Edgar Best First Novel Award Winner 2016
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2017
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2016
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 evil narrators
 
 09 September
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan @Egangoonsquad
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2018
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2018
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
National Book Award for Fiction Longlist 2017
 
10 September
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter @1JessWalter
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
Marie Claire magazine Best Books to Read Before You Die 8
Guardian Top 10s: John O’Farrell’s top 10 celebrity appearances in fiction
 
11 September
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 – 1837 by Linda Colley
Wolfson History Prize Winner 1993
Guardian Top 10s: Hugo Young's top 10 books on the EU
 
12 September
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2002
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2001
  
13 September
The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard @cathryanhoward
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2019
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
 
14 September
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee @DrSidMukherjee
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2017
Royal Society Science Book Prize Shortlist 2016
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2016
 
15 September
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes
Goldsboro Gold Dagger Shortlist 2013
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2014
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2013
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
 
16 September
Life: An Unauthorised Biography by Richard Fortey @RichardFortey
Royal Society Science Book Prize Shortlist 1998
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Radford's top 10 books on science
 
17 September
Future Popes of Ireland by Darragh Martin
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
 
18 September
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1966
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 1966
 
19 September
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1961
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's top 10 cult SF novels
 
20 September
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 77
 
21 September
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley @lucyfoleytweets
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
 
22 September
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012               
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
 
23 September
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich @s_alexievich translated by Bela Shayevich
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2016
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 3
 
24 September
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 2011
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2011
 
25 September
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
BBC Big Read 141
Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 73
Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – War and History
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Waterstones Books of the Century 74
BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guardian Top 10s: Michael Morpurgo's top 10 favourite books
Guardian Top 10s: Karl Marlantes's top 10 war stories
 
26 September
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan @SVaughanAuthor
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2019
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2018
 
27 September
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle @searleauthor
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2016/2017
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 18 January 2016
 
28 September
USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 23
The Novel 100 72
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Robert McCrum's top 10 books of the twentieth century- Top 10 US/English books of the last century
 
29 September
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew @OneNightStanzas
Gold Dagger Shortlist 2019
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2018/2019
Authors' Club Best First Novel Longlist 2019
 
30 September
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about long marriages

01 August
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 1993
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1993
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1992
 
02 August
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley @owenhatherley
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2011
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 political travel books
  
03 August
Henrik Ibsen by Michael Meyer
Whitbread Biography Award 1971
Guardian Top 10s: Hallgrimur Helgason's top 10 books
 
04 August
Galore by Michael Crummey @MichaelCrummey
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2010
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2011
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2010
 
05 August
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson @TouchingTheVoid
Boardman Tasker Prize Winner 1988
National Geographic Extreme Classics 69
Guardian Top 10s: Jude Fisher's top 10 tales of adventure
Guardian Top 10s: Andy Cave's top 10 books on Alpinism
Guardian Top 10s: Extreme adventures: the top 10 stories of real-life peril
 
06 August
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
Hawthornden Prize 2019
Non-Fiction Crown Shortlist 2019
Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist 2019
Cundill History Prize Longlist 2019
  
07 August
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Romance
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Ronald Frame's top 10 reimagined classics
 
08 August
Cables from Kabul by Sherard Cowper-Coles @sherardcc
Orwell Prize for Books Longlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan
 
09 August
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay @paulGtremblay
Bram Stoker Award Novel Winner 2015
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 2016
 
10 August
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman @sarahw
Macavity Best Non-Fiction Award 2019
Non-Fiction Crown Longlist 2019
 
11 August
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1973
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
  
12 August
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Fiona Campbell's top 10 books set in Japan
  
13 August
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2005
Guardian Top 10s: Markus Zusak's top 10 boxing books
Guardian Top 10s: Dea Brovig's top 10 Norwegian novels
 
14 August
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 47
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 59
Guardian Top 10s: Jonathan Kellerman's top 10 LA noir novels
 
15 August
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott @kgjephcott
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2019
McKitterick Prize Winner 2019
 
16 August
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg @GarthRisk
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 19 October 2015
  
17 August
The Quick by Lauren Owen
Lord Ruthven Award Winner 2015
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015
 
18 August
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own by Jonathan Rendall
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1998
Guardian Top 10s: Dominic Calder-Smith's top 10 boxing books
  
19 August
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf @JackWolfRawHead
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2014
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2013/2014
 
20 August
The Photographer by Meike Ziervogel @MeikeZiervogel
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommends 2018
  
21 August
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
National Geographic Extreme Classics 76
Guardian Top 10s: William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan
 
22 August
Salt by Earl Lovelace
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1998
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book Winner - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner – 1997
 
23 August
Witchmark by CL Polk @clpolk
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2018
World Fantasy Award Novel 2019
  
24 August
The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach translated by Anthea Bell
International Dagger Shortlist 2013
Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945
 
25 August
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2007
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2007
Guardian Top 10s: Tana French's top 10 maverick mysteries
 
26 August
Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yazzarf
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Shortlist 2019
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2019
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2019/2020
 
27 August
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
28 August
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls @Sally_Nicholls
Young Adult Book of the Year Shortlist- Specsavers National Book Awards 2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Quakers in fiction
 
29 August
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2008
 
30 August
The Journeyman Tailor by Gerald Seymour
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1994
Guardian Top 10s: Peter Taylor's top 10 books on the Troubles
 
31 August
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 18
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 28
Guardian Top 10s: Elizabeth Kostova's top 10 books for winter nights

01 July
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan @AusmaZehanat
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2016
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017

02 July
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1998
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1998
Man Booker Best of Beryl
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1999
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2000
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Europe and South Asia Regional Winner 1999
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 modern Victorian novels

03 July
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon @aleksandarhemon
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2008
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2008
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
Guardian Top 10s: Jon McGregor's top 10 dead bodies in literature
Guardian Top 10s: Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 assassination plots in fiction

04 July
At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Romance
Guardian Top 10s: Helen Humphreys' top 10 books on grieving

05 July
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt @ikillnovel
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2018
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommends 2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 toxic families in fiction

06 July
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 36
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime

07 July
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 1
TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 80
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Guardian Top 10s: Alex James's top 10 books
Guardian Top 10s: Matthew Pearl's top 10 books inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

08 July
The Sea and Summer by George Turner
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 1988
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner 1988

09 July
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan @HalaNAlyan
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Winner 2018
Aspen Literary Prize Longlist 2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017

10 July
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
New Writer of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2011/2012
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Summer 2011

11 July
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist 2010
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book - Europe and South Asia Regional Winner 2010
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2009
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2009
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2011
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about Pakistan

12 July
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's top 10 cult SF novels

13 July
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1985
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1984

14 July
Eye Level by Jenny Xie @jennymxie
Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist 2019
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about moving

15 July
Fudoki by Kij Johnson
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 2004
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about intelligent animals

16 July
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1998
Oprah's Book Club 1998

17 July
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2005
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007

18 July
Model Home by Eric Puchner
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012

19 July
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Paul Torday Memorial Prize Winner 2019
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2018
McKitterick Prize Shortlist 2019
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020

20 July
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown @bethunderdown
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Spring 2018
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about witch-hunts

21 July
The Big Fix by Roger L Simon @rogerlsimon
John Creasy New Blood Dagger 1974
Edgar Best Paperback Original Shortlist 1974

22 July
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist 2017
Vote 100 Books 96
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 31
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about unconventional families

23 July
Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 unlikely romantic heroes in fiction

24 July
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans translated by David McKay
Man Booker International Longlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love

25 July
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 59
Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
Guardian Top 10s: Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels

26 July
Resistance by Julian Fuks translated by Daniel Hahn @danielhahn02
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2019

27 July
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2012 edition
Richard & Judy Book Club 2006
Guardian Top 10s: Esther Freud's top 10 love stories

28 July
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran
Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2011
Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2011
British Book Awards - 30 from 30 Longlist
Vote 100 Books 91
Marie Claire magazine Best Books to Read Before You Die 31

29 July
In America by Susan Sontag
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 2000
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002

30 July
The Many by Wyl Menmuir @Wylmenmuir
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2016
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 seaside novels

31 July
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
National Book Award for Fiction Paperback Winner 1982
National Book Award for Fiction Hardback Finalist 1981
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1980
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist 1981
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World - Coming of Age
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 dogs' stories
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels on rural America
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books set in the American midwest

01 June
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo translated by Alan Blair
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1971
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 46

02 June
Broken by Daniel Clay
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2008
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2008/2009

03 June
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2018
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2018
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2018

04 June
Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot @EyeDotter illustrated by Bryan Talbot @bryan_talbot
Costa Biography Award 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 fictional takes on real lives

05 June
The Queen of Bloody Everything by Joanna Nadin @joannanadin
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2018/2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018

06 June
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
BBC Big Read 183
Newcomer of the Year - British Book Awards 1990

07 June
Where Angels Fear to Tread by EM Forster
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 98
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition

08 June
God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2007
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Winner 2008
Wolfson History Prize Winner 2008

09 June
Murmur by Will Eaves @WillEaves
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2018
Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
Republic of Consciousness Prize Winner 2019
Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist 2018

10 June
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005

11 June
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Pears's top 10 20th-century political novels
Guardian Top 10s: From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction

12 June
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton @JackieCopleton
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2016
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Summer 2016
BBC Radio 2 Book Club 24 August 2015

13 June
Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton @GlenErikH
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2016
Macavity Best First Novel Award 2016

14 June
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1968
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1967

15 June
Night of the Dance by James Hime
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2004
Macavity Best First Novel Award Shortlist 2004

16 June
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Novel 100 90
Guardian Top 10s: Julith Jedamus's top 10 Japanese novels

17 June
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson @DorothyKoomson
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
Richard & Judy Book Club Summer 2006

18 June
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Norwegian Book Club World Library
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - European and Russian Classics - Best of the Rest
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about riots

19 June
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane @dennis_lehane
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
Guardian Top 10s: Alex Barclay's top 10 psychological thrillers
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 twists in fiction

20 June
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2014
BBC Radio 2 Book Club 06 January 2014

21 June
Electric Souk by Rose McGinty @rosemcginty
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017

22 June
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo @MichaelMorpurg0
Whitbread Children's Book Award Shortlist 2003
TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 91
Guardian Top 10s: Richard Gwyn's top 10 books in which things end badly

23 June
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor @Nnedi
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2010
World Fantasy Award Novel Winner 2011

24 June
Air by Geoff Ryman @geoffryman
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006
Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 2006
BSFA Best Novel Award Winner 2005
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2005

25 June
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 92
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 classic spy novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about spies

26 June
The Good Negress by AJ Verdelle
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1997
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1996

27 June
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Adventure
Guardian Top 10s: Julia Golding's top 10 characters from children's historical fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 modern medieval tales

28 June
Sirens by Joseph Knox @josephknox__
Gold Dagger Longlist 2017
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2017
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2018
Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2018

29 June
Dart by Alice Oswald
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 60
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner 2002

30 June
Mothlight by Adam Scovell @AdamScovell
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2019/2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019

01 May
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
National Book Award for Fiction Hardback Finalist 1983
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1983
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1982
 
02 May
The Boy At The Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf @OnjaliRauf
Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2018/2019
 
03 May
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh
BBC Big Read 187
Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition
Waterstones Books of the Century 10
Guardian Top 10s: Elise Valmorbida's top 10 books with a happy ending
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about addiction
 
04 May
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1989
Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist 1989
  
05 May
The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie @VanessaGebbie
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2012/2013
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
  
06 May
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh @KavanaghTasha
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2015
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2015/2016
  
07 May
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2013
Betty Trask Award 2014
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2013
9mobile Prize for Literature Winner 2013
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 opening scenes in books
 
08 May
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 chases in literature
  
09 May
Watership Down by Richard Adams
BBC Big Read 42
Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 79
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Children’s Classics
Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without 94
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 60
Waterstones Books of the Century 40
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about intelligent animals
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 terrible houses in fiction
 
10 May
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 1962
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 60
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 49
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
All-TIME 100 Novels
  
11 May
Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway @waynex
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2019/2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
  
12 May
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 26
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 golden age detective novels
  
13 May
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama @simon_schama
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - War and History - Best of the Rest
  
14 May
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Thrillers
Guardian Top 10s: James Siegal's top 10 thrillers
  
15 May
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr @Damian_Barr
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2019/2020
 
16 May
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: James Hopkin's top 10 Polish books
  
17 May
Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels and stories about shame
  
18 May
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 78
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Lives 
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Linda Wagner-Martin's top 10 jazz age books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about lies
 
19 May
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Guardian First Book Award Longlist 1999
Guardian Top 10s: Phil Hogan's top 10 midlife crisis books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books for the broken-hearted
 
20 May
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors @DortheNors translated by Misha Hoekstra @mishap13
Man Booker International Shortlist 2017
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 modern Nordic books
  
21 May
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton @racrompton
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2014
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2013/2014
  
22 May
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson @HoJay92
Children's Fiction Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2020
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about burning issues for young adults
  
23 May
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson @suzyjoinson
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2012
  
24 May
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2004
Guardian Top 10s: DW Wilson's top 10 absent fathers in literature
  
25 May
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 2014
Shirley Jackson Award winner 2014
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 lighthouses in fiction
  
26 May
The Beach by Alex Garland
BBC Big Read 103
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Betty Trask Award 1997
Guardian Top 10s: Matt Thorne's top 10 new puritan novels
Guardian Top 10s: Phil Hogan's top 10 midlife crisis books
  
27 May
Blood Harvest by SJ Bolton @AuthorSJBolton
Goldsboro Gold Dagger Shortlist 2010
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2011
  
28 May
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi @azemezi
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2019
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020
Aspen Literary Prize Longlist 2019
  
29 May
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 65
The Novel 100 99
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Romance
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
Waterstones Books of the Century 54
Guardian Top 10s: Esther Freud's top 10 love stories
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 civil war novels
 
30 May
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Indian families
  
31 May
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

01 April
A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1988
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 female detectives in fiction

02 April
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness @Patrick_Ness
Children's Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2011
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011

03 April
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye @LyndsayFaye
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2017
Macavity Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel Shortlist 2017

04 April
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
National Book Award for Fiction Winner 1994
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1994

05 April
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1957
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 New York novels

06 April
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
Edgar Best First Novel Award Winner 2010
Macavity Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel Shortlist 2010

07 April
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry
Guardian Top 10s: Andrew Motion's top 10 poetry books
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 winters in literature

08 April
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Segun Afolabi's top 10 'on the move' books
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 summers in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about women and the sea

09 April
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Orange Prize for Fiction Winner 2011
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 2011
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist 2011

10 April
Frost in May by Antonia White
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
Vote 100 Books 5
Guardian Top 10s: Kit Whitfield's top 10 genre-defying novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 schoolchildren in fiction
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about boarding school

11 April
West by Carys Davies
Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
McKitterick Prize Runner-up 2019
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2018/2019
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love

12 April
Leadville by Edward Platt @ed_platt
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 2001

13 April
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 2000
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guardian Top 10s: Kit Whitfield's top 10 genre-defying novels
Guardian Top 10s: Halloween reading: Joseph D'Lacey's top 10 horror books
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands

14 April
Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006

15 April
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 44
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Brian Chikwava's top ten works by writers who had a score to settle with society

16 April
The Unforgotten by Laura Powell @laurapow1
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016

17 April
The Storyteller by Kate Armstrong @katejarmstrong
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2016
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2017

18 April
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
BBC Big Read 72
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Waterstones Books of the Century 62
Guardian Top 10s: George Monbiot's top 10 world-changing books
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Pears's top 10 20th-century political novels

19 April
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid @valmcdermid
Macallan Gold Dagger Shortlist 1999
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2001
Macavity Best Novel Award 2001
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women

20 April
The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett @BeckettSimon
Duncan Lawrie Dagger Shortlist 2006
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2008

21 April
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle @mcmonaglewriter
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2017
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017

22 April
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory @PhilippaGBooks
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2006
Guardian Top 10s: Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition

23 April
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2010
Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women

24 April
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

25 April
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley
Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love

26 April
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 2001
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2001

27 April
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende @isabelallende
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Latin American Classics
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Vote 100 Books 39
Guardian Top 10s: Susheila Nasta's top 10 cultural journeys

28 April
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1978
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 seaside novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 fictional booksellers

29 April
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1997
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1999

30 April
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter @SlaughterKarin
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2015
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2015

01 March
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron @MargaretMaron
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1993
Macavity Best Novel Award 1993

02 March
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2001
Guardian Top 10s: Catherine Sampson's top 10 Asian crime novels

03 March
Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans illustrated by Ronald Searle
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Comedy
Guardian Top 10s: Francesca Simon's top 10 antiheroes

04 March
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli @ValeriaLuiselli
International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2017
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2015

05 March
Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth
Ondaatje Prize Shortlist 2019
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Winner 2018

06 March
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
Gold Dagger 1975
Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 65

07 March
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga @efie41209591
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Africa Regional Winner 1989
Guardian Top 10s: Ian Holding's top 10 books that teach us something about southern Africa
Guardian Top 10s: Petina Gappah's top 10 books about Zimbabwe
 
08 March
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2012 edition
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2011

09 March
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2017
Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist 2016

10 March
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
BBC Big Read 130
The Novel 100 110
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 16
Waterstones Books of the Century 63
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel 7
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 21
Guardian Top 10s: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's top 10 cult SF novels
Guardian Top 10s: James Meek's top 10 books of Russia
Guardian Top 10s: Anna Shevchenko's top 10 novels set in Moscow
Guardian Top 10s: Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature
Guardian Top 10s: Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 talking animals in books
 
11 March
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse @katemosse
Endeavor Historical Dagger Shortlist 2015
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2015
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the night
 
12 March
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
BBC Big Read 73
Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 48
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books to understand happiness
 
13 March
Life Drawing by Robin Black @robin_black
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014
 
14 March
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai @elanmastai
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 06 March 2017
 
15 March
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin @LeeMartinAuthor
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007
 
16 March
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about building cities
 
17 March
Piece of my Heart by Peter Robinson @Inspector_Banks
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2008
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2007
 
18 March
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips @arthurphillips
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2013
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 Shakespearean stories in modern fiction
 
19 March
Homage to a Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 2002
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2003/2004
 
20 March
Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn @Sophie_van_L
Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2019
 
21 March
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o @NgugiWaThiongo_
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
 
22 March
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 8
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List
Guardian Top 10s: Tim Pears's top 10 20th-century political novels
Guardian Top 10s: Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages
Guardian Top 10s: John Sweeney's top 10 books on corruption
 
23 March
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif @asoueif
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1999
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love
 
24 March
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1967
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 1966
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
 
25 March
Staying On by Paul Scott
Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1977
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books 68
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the British in India
 
26 March
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999
BBC Big Read 62
Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without 39
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2012 editions
TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 84
 
27 March
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1994
 
28 March
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006 edition
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist 1999
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1999
 
29 March
The Girl Of Ink And Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave @Kiran_MH
Jhalak Prize Shortlist 2016
Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2016/2017
Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2017
 
30 March
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
BBC Big Read 58
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Guardian Top 10s: Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about horses – Jane Smiley picks her favourites
 
31 March
A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Lives
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Waterstones Books of the Century 59
Vote 100 Books 4

01 February
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2010
Desmond Elliott Shortlist 2009
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2009/2010
  
02 February
On Wings of Song by Thomas M Disch
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 1980
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1979

03 February
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about the Australian bush
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about strange towns
 
04 February
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2005
Ondaatje Prize 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007
Guardian Top 10s: Marcus Sedgwick's top 10 tales from cold climes
 
05 February
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
Costa Novel Award Shortlist 2011
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011
 
06 February
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - African Classics - Best of the Rest
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
07 February
Asylum by Patrick McGrath @PMcGrathNovels
Whitbread Novel Award Shortlist 1996
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1998
Guardian Top 10s: Alison MacLeod's top 10 stories about infidelity
 
08 February
The Passage by Justin Cronin @jccronin
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012
Guardian Top 10s: Anthony Horowitz's top 10 apocalypse books
 
09 February
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1996
Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 1996
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1998
Guardian Fiction Prize 1996
 
10 February
Us by Zaffar Kunial @ZaffarKunial
Costa Poetry Award Shortlist 2018
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2018
Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist 2019
 
11 February
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 91
 
12 February
You by Caroline Kepnes
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2015
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about voyeurs
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 stories of obsession
 
13 February
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 French Revolution novels
 
14 February
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar @JaroslavKalfar
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2018
 
15 February
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1993
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1996
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner 1994
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
 
16 February
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2000
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001
  
17 February
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
Edgar Best Novel Award Winner 1966
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 74
 
18 February
IQ by Joe Ide
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2018
Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2017
Macavity Best First Novel Award 2017
 
19 February
Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2012
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2013
 
20 February
The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2010, 2012 editions
 
21 February
Deafening by Frances Itani
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2005
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2004

22 February
The Sea by John Banville
Man Booker Prize Winner 2005
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – British Classics
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about forgetting
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 seaside novels

23 February
This Time of Dying by Reina James
 McKitterick Prize 2007
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2007/2008

24 February
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink 
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Summer 2016
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about freedom

25 February
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 clerics in fiction

26 February
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel
All-TIME 100 Novels

27 February
Memed my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
​Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self
Guardian Top 10s: Selcuk Altun's top 10 Turkish books

28 February
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket @lemonysnicket
Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Guardian Top 10s: Josh Lacey's top 10 pseudonymous books

29 February
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018
Jhalak Prize Winner 2019
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Winner 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
Dylan Thomas Prize Winner 2019
Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist 2018

01 January
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards 2014
Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist 2013
 
02 January
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph
 
03 January
The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2009
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2010
 
04 January
The Machine by James Smythe
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2014
 
05 January
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlist 2011
 
06 January
How to Eat by Nigella Lawson
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Food and Drink
Vote 100 Books 67
 
07 January
The Well by Catherine Chanter
John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2015
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2015/2016
WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Autumn 2015
 
08 January
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1995
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1996
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 1994
 
09 January
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2006
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels about 9/11
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 New York novels
 
10 January
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Toby Green's top 10 utopias and dystopias
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about tyrants
 
11 January
A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2019/2020
Desmond Elliott Longlist 2019
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019
 
12 January
The Never-Never by Kathryn Gray
Felix Dennis Prize (Forward) for Best First Collection Shortlist 2004
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2004
 
13 January
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Paul Burston's top 10 gay fiction books
Guardian Top 10s: Rowan Somerville's top 10 of good sex in fiction
 
14 January
Nucleus by Rory Clements
Endeavor Historical Dagger 2018
Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Shortlist 2018
 
15 January
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
Waverton Good Read Nomination 2013/2014
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015
Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2014
 
16 January
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2000
Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 2000
 
17 January
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
Waverton Good Read Longlist 2019/2020
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 golden age detective novels
 
18 January
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 2006
Macavity Best Novel Award Shortlist 2006
 
19 January
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 22
All-TIME 100 Novels
Guardian Top 10s: Frederic Raphael's top 10 talkative novels
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 restaurants and bars in modern literature
 
20 January
Violet by Selima Hill
Whitbread Poetry Award Shortlist 1997
Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 1997
 
21 January
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2000
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2000
 
22 January
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar translated by Sonia Soto
International Dagger Shortlist 2011
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 crime novels in translation
 
23 January
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner 2010
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry - Best of the Rest
 
24 January
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2013
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about women in the 1950s
 
25 January
Alligator by Lisa Moore
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Longlist 2007
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 2006
 
26 January
The Death of a Detective by Mark Smith
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1975
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 books about Chicago
 
27 January
Atomised (Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002
Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Hallgrimur Helgason's top 10 books
Guardian Top 10s: Lisa Hilton's top 10 scandalous French novels
Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 stories of hubris
 
28 January
The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Classics from Antiquity
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions
Guardian Top 10s: Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature
Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 fairytales
Guardian Top 10s: From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction
 
29 January
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss @theodoragoss
Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 2017
World Fantasy Award Novel Nomination 2018
 
30 January
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2020
Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018
Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2019
Sharpe Books Gold Crown Longlist 2018
 
31 January
The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey
Gold Dagger 1982
Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 27

2019

1st December	2nd December
Asylum by Marcus Low Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2019 9mobile Prize for Literature Shortlist 2017 BUY FROM AMAZON	The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango International Dagger Shortlist 2016 BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 15 June 2015 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
3rd December	​4th December
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Theory of War by Joan Brady Whitbread Book of the year 1993 Whitbread Novel Award 1993 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
​5th December	​6th December
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​7th December	​8th December
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2003 Nebula Best Novel Award Winner 2003 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Final Payments by Mary Gordon ​National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1978 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
9th December	​10th December
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​11th December	​12th December
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 clerics in fiction ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Secret Dream World of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella Guardian Top 10s: Marian Keyes's top 10 relationship books Guardian Top 10s: Jane Blanchard's top 10 midlife crisis books ​BUY FROM AMAZON
​13th December	​14th December
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Winner 2005 Guardian 100 best books of the 21st century 28 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	You Can Live Forever by Julie Maxwell Betty Trask Award 2007 Waverton Good Read Nomination 2007/2008 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
​15th December	​16th December
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​17th December	​18th December
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​19th December	​20th December
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​21st December	​22nd December
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​23rd December	​24th December
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​25th December	​26th December
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2014 Felix Dennis Prize (Forward) for Best First Collection Shortlist 2014 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2014 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
27th December	​28th December
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Costa Biography Award Shortlist 2014 Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2014 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	West End Final by Hugo Williams Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlist 2009 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlist 2009 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
​29th December	​30th December
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​31st December
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1st November	2nd November
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​3rd November	4th November
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​5th November	​6th November
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​7th November	​8th November
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9th November	​10th November
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​11th November	​12th November
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​13th November	​14th November
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​15th November	​16th November
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1993 Betty Trask Award 1992 Guardian Top 10: Ray French's top 10 black comedies ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Act Of Destruction by Ronald Hardy James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1962 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​17th November	​18th November
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award Shortlist 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2000 McKitterick Prize 1999 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1998 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women Marie Claire magazine Best Books to Read Before You Die 30 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 modern Victorian novels ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​19th November	​20th November
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​21st November	​22nd November
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011 Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 hospital stories ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time The Novel 100 65 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 70 UKTV Drama 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die 12 Guardian Top 10s: Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​23rd November	​24th November
The Healing by Gayl Jones National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1998 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Time Right Deadly by Sarah Gainham Crossed Red Herring Shortlist 1956 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​25th November	​26th November
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about South Korea ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy Guardian Top 10s: Michael Moorcock's top 10 science fiction novels ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
27th November	​28th November
A Taste for Death by PD James Silver Dagger 1986 Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1987 Macavity Best Novel Award 1987 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 53 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015 Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2014 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 depictions of British rain ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​29th November	​30th November
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2003 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​​BUY FROM AMAZON

1st October	2nd October
High Rise by JG Ballard Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – Sci-Fi and Fantasy 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 modernisers in literature Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about riots ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Downriver by Iain Sinclair 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1991 RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel - Voting List RSL Encore Award 1992 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​3rd October	​4th October
The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime - Best of the Rest ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​5th October	​6th October
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​7th October	​8th October
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9th October	​10th October
Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2005/2006 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​11th October	12th October
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13th October	14th October
Gilgamesh by Joan London Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 mothers, 'bad' and otherwise, in books ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	My Bird Sings by Oriel Malet John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1946 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​15th October	​16th October
Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Kohlmeier International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Iron Council by China Mieville Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2005 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​17th October	18th October
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​19th October	​20th October
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1952 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Christening Party by Francis Steegmuller National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1961 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​21st October	​22nd October
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson Gold Dagger 1960 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 1960 Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1962 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 89 Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English Norwegian Book Club World Library The Novel 100 61 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions All-TIME 100 Novels BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 24 Vote 100 Books 28 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction #ThisBook 18 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​23rd October	​24th October
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​25th October	​26th October
The Group by Mary McCarthy National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1964 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 cliques in fiction ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Accelerando by Charles Stross Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2006 Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlist 2006 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
27th October	​28th October
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​29th October	​30th October
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner 1992 Nebula Best Novel Award Shortlist 1991 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Crime - Best of the Rest Guardian Top 10s: Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​31st October
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Sci-Fi and Fantasy - Best of the Rest All-TIME 100 Novels Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 1994 Guardian Top 10s: Dick Jude's top 10 science fiction books Guardian Top 10s: Sam Leith's top 10 alternative realities ​​BUY FROM AMAZON

​1st September	​2nd September
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​3rd September	​4th September
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​5th September	6th September
The Devouring by James R Benn Macavity Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel Shortlist 2018 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Shogun by James Clavell BBC Big Read 116 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Japan ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​7th September	​8th September
Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1955 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce Waverton Good Read Nomination 2011/2012 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011 ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​9th September	10th September
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​11th September	12th September
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​13th September	​14th September
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​15th September	​16th September
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​17th September	​18th September
Speedboat by Renata Adler National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1976 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 opening scenes in books ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray National Geographic Extreme Classics 85 Guardian Top 10s: Andy Cave's top 10 books on Alpinism ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​19th September	20th September
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​21st September	​22nd September
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 1989 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 civil war novels ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye translated by John Fletcher International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2014 Vote 100 Books 88 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​23rd September	24th September
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​25th September	​26th September
Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Jhalak Prize Winner 2017 Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2018 New Writer of the Year Shortlist - Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year Shortlist - Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 ​​​BUY FROM AMAZON	Moo by Jane Smiley National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1995 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy ​​BUY FROM AMAZON
​27th September	​28th September
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​29th September	30th September
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1st August	2nd August
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 dodgy lawyers in literature BUY FROM AMAZON​	Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1997 Oprah's Book Club 1998 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
​3rd August	​4th August
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​7th August	8th August
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​9th August	​10th August
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Studs Lonigan by James T Farrell Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 29 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 restaurants and bars in modern literature ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson Somerset Maugham Award Winner 1991 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Winner 1991 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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​19th August	​20th August
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Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci Betty Trask Award 1991 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1990 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Peculiar Life Of A Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 1 December 2014 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
25th August	​26th August
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Mother And Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1955 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Last Seen in Massilia by Steven Saylor Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Shortlist 2001 Sunday Times 100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945 BUY FROM AMAZON​
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3rd July	4th July
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5th July	6th July
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh Waverton Good Read Nomination 2014/2015 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
7th July	8th July
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read – Comedy 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1965 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
9th July	10th July
Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2013 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Booker-McConnell Prize Longlist 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 2002 McKitterick Prize 2002 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
11th July	12th July
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 42 Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time 100 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 civil war novels ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Chin Kiss King by Ana Veciana-Suarez International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
13th July	14th July
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15th July	16th July
Empire Falls by Richard Russo Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus Costa Poetry Award Shortlist 2012 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
17th July	18th July
Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn Whitbread First Novel Award 1991 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
19th July	20th July
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris Somerset Maugham Award Winner 2011 Guardian First Book Award 2010 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
21st July	22nd July
Vault: an anti-novel by David Rose Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2011 Guardian Top 10s: Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels Guardian Top 10s: The 10 best books about cycling ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1948 Best of the James Tait Black Shortlist Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 40 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition All-TIME 100 Novels BBC 100 Greatest British Novels 72 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
23rd July	24th July
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1955 Guardian Top 10s: Will Eaves's top 10 siblings' stories Guardian Top 10s: Peter Murphy's top 10 literary preachers Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 chases in literature Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 real-life monsters in fiction ​BUY FROM AMAZON	All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom translated by Susan Massotty ​International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: 10 of the best books set in Berlin BUY FROM AMAZON
25th July	26th July
Holiday by Stanley Middleton Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1974 Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 seaside novels ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1970 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1970 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
27th July	28th July
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins ​Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 54 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Europe Central by William T Vollmann International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007 National Book Award for Fiction Winner 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2005 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
29th July	30th July
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​31st July
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1st June	2nd June
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3rd June	4th June
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5th June	6th June
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9th June	10th June
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11th June	12th June
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions BUY FROM AMAZON​	Water Babies by Charles Kingsley 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Randal Keynes's favourite books about evolutions BUY FROM AMAZON​
13th June	14th June
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15th June	16th June
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19th June	20th June
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James Modern Library 100 Best Novels Board's List 26 Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 69 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Ian MacKenzie's top 10 artworks in novels BUY FROM AMAZON​	Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron Hawthornden Prize 1988 BUY FROM AMAZON​
21st June	22nd June
Come All You Little Persons by John Agard, illustrated by Jessica Courtney-Tickle Jhalak Prize Longlist 2017 BUY FROM AMAZON​	A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2017/2018 WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club - Spring 2017 BUY FROM AMAZON​
23rd June	24th June
The Martyred by Richard E Kim National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1965 BUY FROM AMAZON​	The Return Home by Rachel Trickett John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1953 BUY FROM AMAZON​
25th June	26th June
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle BBC Big Read 199 Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 56 Guardian Top 10s: Shirley Hughes's top 10 picture book characters Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 bookworms' tales BUY FROM AMAZON​	All The Blood is Red by Leone Ross Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1997 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
27th June	28th June
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29th June	30th June
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​3rd May	​4th May
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The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan National Book Award for Fiction Paperback Finalist 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 1979 Guardian Top 10s: Frank Delaney's top 10 Irish novels ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Custer’s Brother’s Horse by Edwin Shrake International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time 55 Gold Dagger Shortlist 1960 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Lock In by John Scalzi International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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​15th May	​16th May
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​19th May	​20th May
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald Gold Dagger 1965 Edgar Best Novel Shortlist 1966 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Ignorance by Michele Roberts Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014 BUY FROM AMAZON
​21st May	22nd May
The Submission by Amy Waldman Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013 Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2011 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 novels about 9/11 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels Guardian Top 10s: Max Jones's top 10 books about exploration Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about Manchester ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1998 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1996 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Young Shoulders by John Wain Whitbread Novel Award 1982 BUY FROM AMAZON
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The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1996 BUY FROM AMAZON	Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido Man Booker Prize Longlist 2003 Whitbread Novel Award Shortlist 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005 BUY FROM AMAZON
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Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle Whitbread Biography Award 1974​ ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Position by Meg Wolitzer Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2006 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies by Sead Mahmutefendic International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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The Madolescents by Chrissie Glazebrook Guardian Top 10s: Julia Darling's top 10 books about northern England Guardian Top 10s: Ray French's top 10 black comedies ​BUY FROM AMAZON

1st April	2nd April
Home by Larissa Behrendt ​Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book - South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner 2005 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 1955 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 rural Irish books BUY FROM AMAZON
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Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen National Book Award for Fiction Winner 2008 BUY FROM AMAZON	Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014 Commonwealth Book Prize - Asia Regional Winner 2013 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
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Emile, Or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008,2010, 2012 editions ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2018 BUY FROM AMAZON
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Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 novels about women's political awakening​ BUY FROM AMAZON	Immoral by Brian Freeman John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2006 Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 2006 Macavity Best First Novel Award 2006 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
11th April	12th April
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13th April	14th April
Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge Waverton Good Read Longlist 2017/2018 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017 BUY FROM AMAZON
15th April	16th April
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17th April	18th April
Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about tyrants ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Stag’s Leap by Sharon Old Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about betrayal Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about cheating ​BUY FROM AMAZON
19th April	20th April
Madame by Antoni Libera International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2002 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	All That Matters by Wayson Choy International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
21st April	22nd April
The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2006 Guardian Top 10s: Don Mullan's top 10 books on heroes ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Builder by Edith L Tiempo International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005
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The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1983 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	Family Dancing by David Leavitt PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 1984 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
25th April	26th April
In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83 by James Fenton Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1984 ​BUY FROM AMAZON	The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2018 Waverton Good Read Longlist 2018/2019 Desmond Elliott Longlist 2018 Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2019 New Writer of the Year Shortlist - Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Debut Crown Longlist 2018 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
27th April	28th April
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29th April	30th April
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1st March	2nd March
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Stoner by John Williams Waterstones Book of the Year 2013 Guardian Top 10s: Colum McCann's top 10 novels on poets Guardian Top 10s: Belinda McKeon's top 10 farming novels Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books about teaching Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 deaths in fiction ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	The Bird Artist by Howard Norman International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1994 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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Strike for a Kingdom by Menna Gallie Crossed Red Herring Shortlist 1959 Guardian Top 10s: Dai Smith's top 10 Welsh alternatives to Dylan Thomas ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Shame by Karin Alvtegen International Dagger Shortlist 2007 Guardian Top 10s: Camilla Lackberg's top 10 Swedish crime novels ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Joke by Milan Kundera 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006 edition Guardian Top 10s: Tibor Fischer's top 10 eastern European novels Guardian Top 10s: Ray French's top 10 black comedies Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 parallel narratives ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2017 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2017 ​ ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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By Gaslight by Steven Price Endeavor Historical Dagger Shortlist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Wake by Anna Hope Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2014/2015 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2014 BBC Radio 2 Book Club 27 January 2014 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
​11th March	​12th March
Abomination by Robert Swindells Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award Shortlist 1998 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Dulang Washer by Paul Callan International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Guardian Top 10s: Richard Grant's top 10 books about wandering Guardian Top 10s: Philip Connors's top 10 wilderness books ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
​15th March	​16th March
The Famished Road by Ben Okri Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1991 Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	The Case of Emily V by Keith Oatley Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book 1994 - Europe and South Asia Regional Winner ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist 1990 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Guardian First Book Award Also Commended 2003 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson Guardian Top 10s: Julian Roach's top 10 books on Percy Bysshe Shelley Guardian Top 10s: Billy Bragg's top 10 books on Englishness Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 books of radical history ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich John Creasy New Blood Dagger 1995 Edgar Best First Novel Shortlist 1995 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Passing by Nella Larsen Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Top 10 lost women's classics ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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Doubting Thomas by Atle Naess International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002 ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010 Guardian Not the Booker Prize Longlist 2009 Guardian Top 10s: Stephen Kelman's top 10 outsiders' stories ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions ​BUY FROM AMAZON​	As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top 10s: Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age ​BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox Costa First Novel Award Shortlist 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008 Guardian Top 10s: The top 10 neo-Victorian novels ​BUY FROM AMAZON

1st February	​2nd February
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013 BUY FROM AMAZON​	10:04 by Ben Lerner International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016 Folio Prize Shortlist 2015 BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Guardian Top10: Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration           Guardian Top10: Top 10 books about consciousness BUY FROM AMAZON​	A Second Life by Dermot Bolger International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996 BUY FROM AMAZON​
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Dispatches by Michael Herr Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - War and History - Best of the Rest 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions Guardian Top10: Andrew Sharples' top 10 war memoirs Guardian Top10: Top 10 books on 1960s America BUY FROM AMAZON​	So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman John Creasy New Blood Dagger Longlist 2012 BUY FROM AMAZON​
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2018 Zoe Ball Book Club Summer 2018 BUY FROM AMAZON​	Extinction by Thomas Bernhard Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions BUY FROM AMAZON​
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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Guardian Top10: Lara Feigel's top 10 smelly books Guardian Top10: The top 10 books about houses BUY FROM AMAZON​	CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson Whitbread Biography Award 1973 ​BUY FROM AMAZON
15th February	16th February
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2018

01 January 2018
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
 
02 January 2018
Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
 
03 January 2018
The Town that Drowned by Riel Nason
 
04 January 2018
The Theory of Clouds by Stephane Audeguy
 
05 January 2018
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
 
06 January 2018
Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
 
07 January 2018
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
 
08 January 2018
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
 
09 January 2018
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
 
10 January 2018
Don’t Try This At Home by Katie Pearson
 
11 January 2018
Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas
 
12 January 2018
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
 
13 January 2018
The Would-be Gentleman by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
 
14 January 2018
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
 
15 January 2018
I will have vengeance by Maurizio di Giovanni
 
16 January 2018
Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster
 
17 January 2018
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
 
18 January 2018
Sam’s Story by Elmo Jayawardena
 
19 January 2018
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
 
20 January 2018
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
 
21 January 2018
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
 
22 January 2018
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein
 
23 January 2018
Shadow Child by PF Thomese
 
24 January 2018
C by Tom McCarthy
 
25 January 2018
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
 
26 January 2018
F by Daniel Kehlmann
 
27 January 2018
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
 
28 January 2018
Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter
 
29 January 2018
J by Howard Jacobson
 
30 January 2018
K by Bernardo Kucinski
 
31 January 2018
Q by Luther Blissett
 
01 February 2018
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
 
02 February 2018
Forever a Stranger by Hella Haasse
 
03 February 2018
S. by Doug Dorst & JJ Abrams
 
04 February 2018
Fly Away Home by Gillian Tindall
 
05 February 2018
As If I Am Not There (S.: A Novel about the Balkans) by Slavenka Drakulic
 
06 February 2018
V by Thomas Pynchon
 
07 February 2018
W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
 
08 February 2018
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
 
09 February 2018
Z – a Love Story by Vigdis Grimsdottir
 
10 February 2018
Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery
 
11 February 2018
Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock
 
12 February 2018
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
 
13 February 2018
The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick
 
14 February 2018
Natural Causes by James Oswald
 
15 February 2018
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury
 
16 February 2018
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
 
17 February 2018
The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan
 
18 February 2018
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
 
19 February 2018
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
 
20 February 2018
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
 
21 February 2018
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
 
22 February 2018
Florida by Christine Schutt
 
23 February 2018
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
 
24 February 2018
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
 
25 February 2018
The Gathering by Anne Enright
 
26 February 2018
The Reinvention of Ivy Brown by Roberta Taylor
 
27 February 2018
Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok
 
28 February 2018
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
 
01 March 2018
Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting
 
02 March 2018
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
 
03 March 2018
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
 
04 March 2018
LA Confidential by James Ellroy
 
05 March 2018
Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
 
06 March 2018
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
 
07 March 2018
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
 
08 March 2018
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
 
09 March 2018
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
 
10 March 2018
Louisiana by Erna Brodber
 
10 March 2018
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
 
11 March 2018
City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit by Elmore Leonard
 
12 March 2018
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger
 
13 March 2018
Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll
 
14 March 2018
A Foreign Country by Francine Stock
 
15 March 2018
Faceless by Amma Darko
 
16 March 2018
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
 
17 March 2018
Neuromancer by William Gibson
 
18 March 2018
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
 
19 March 2018
Voyage to the North Star by Peter Nichols
 
20 March 2018
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
 
21 March 2018
Burning Ground by Pearl Luke
 
22 March 2018
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
 
23 March 2018
Jefferson Selleck by Carl Jonas
 
24 March 2018
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
 
25 March 2018
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
 
26 March 2018
Fear and Loathing in las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
 
27 March 2018
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
 
28 March 2018
Mother by Maxim Gorky
 
29 March 2018
Of Beasts And Beings by Ian Holding
 
30 March 2018
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
 
31 March 2018
Bartleby and Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
 
01 April 2018
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
 
02 April 2018
Charlotte's Web by EB White
 
03 April 2018
The Cathedral by Oles Honchar
 
04 April 2018
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
 
05 April 2018
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
 
06 April 2018
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
 
07 April 2018
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani
 
08 April 2018
Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
 
09 April 2018
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
 
10 April 2018
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
 
11 April 2018
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
 
12 April 2018
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
 
13 April 2018
Contemporary Slovene Short Stories by Drago Jancar
 
14 April 2018
Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
 
15 April 2018
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
 
16 April 2018
Panorama by Dušan Šarotar
 
17 April 2018
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
 
18 April 2018
The Laments by George Hagen
 
19 April 2018
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
 
20 April 2018
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
 
21 April 2018
In the Tennessee Country by Peter Taylor
 
22 April 2018
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa
 
23 April 2018
All the Worlds’ Mornings by Pascal Quignard
 
24 April 2018
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
 
25 April 2018
Dark Market by Misha Glenny
 
26 April 2018
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
 
27 April 2018
The Virginian by Owen Wister
 
28 April 2018
Washington Shadow by Aly Monroe
 
29 April 2018
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
 
30 April 2018
Ringworld by Larry Niven
 
01 May 2018
Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
 
02 May 2018
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by E Annie Proulx
 
03 May 2018
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
 
04 May 2018
Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
 
05 May 2018
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
 
06 May 2018
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) by Alain-Rene Lesage
 
07 May 2018
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
 
07 May 2018
Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker
 
08 May 2018
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
 
09 May 2018
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
 
10 May 2018
Wheat That Springeth Green by JF Powers
 
11 May 2018
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
 
12 May 2018
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
 
13 May 2018
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
 
14 May 2018
In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
 
15 May 2018
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
 
16 May 2018
Eloise by Judy Finnigan
 
17 May 2018
Love and a Dozen Roast Potatoes by Simon Wan
 
18 May 2018
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
 
19 May 2018
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
 
20 May 2018
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
 
21 May 2018
In the Shadow of the Tamarind Tree by Matthew S Friedman
 
22 May 2018
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
 
23 May 2018
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
 
24 May 2018
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismael Kadare
 
25 May 2018
Rapeseed by Alwyn Marriage
 
26 May 2018
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
 
27 May 2018
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
 
28 May 2018
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
 
29 May 2018
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
 
30 May 2018
1940 by Jay Neugeboren
 
31 May 2018
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
 
01 June 2018
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
 
02 June 2018
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
 
03 June 2018
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
 
04 June 2018
The Life of a Banana by PP Wong
 
05 June 2018
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
 
06 June 2018
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
 
07 June 2018
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
 
08 June 2018
The Promise Seed by Cass Moriarty
 
09 June 2018
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
 
10 June 2018
Splash by Stephen Glover
 
11 June 2018
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
 
12 June 2018
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
 
13 June 2018
The Paperchase (The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase) by Marcel Theroux
 
14 June 2018
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
 
15 June 2018
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
 
16 June 2018
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
 
17 June 2018
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
 
18 June 2018
Dare to Fall by Estelle Maskame
 
19 June 2018
Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
 
20 June 2018
Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen
 
21 June 2018
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
 
22 June 2018
The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
 
23 June 2018
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
 
24 June 2018
Hit and Run by Lawrence Block
 
25 June 2018
Something to Answer For by PH Newby
 
26 June 2018
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
 
27 June 2018
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
 
28 June 2018
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
 
29 June 2018
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
 
30 June 2018
Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu
 
01 July 2018
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
 
02 July 2018
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klima
 
03 July 2018
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
 
04 July 2018
The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
 
05 July 2018
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
 
06 July 2018
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
 
07 July 2018
Carolina Moon by Jill McCorkle
 
08 July 2018
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
 
09 July 2018
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
 
10 July 2018
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi
 
11 July 2018
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
 
12 July 2018
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
 
13 July 2018
The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
 
14 July 2018
The Shelf Life of Happiness by David Machado
 
15 July 2018
A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
 
16 July 2018
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
 
17 July 2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
 
18 July 2018
Trolls’ Cathedral by Olafur Gunnarsson
 
19 July 2018
This Part of the World by Samuel Hazo
 
20 July 2018
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
 
21 July 2018
The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil DA Stewart
 
22 July 2018
Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock
 
23 July 2018
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
 
24 July 2018
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
 
25 July 2018
Call It Dog by Marli Roode
 
26 July 2018
Dark Asset by Adrian Magson
 
27 July 2018
My Name is Bosnia by Madeleine Gagnon
 
28 July 2018
The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
 
29 July 2018
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
 
30 July 2018
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
 
31 July 2018
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
 
01 August 2018
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas
 
02 August 2018
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
 
03 August 2018
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution by Lindsey Hilsum
 
04 August 2018
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
 
05 August 2018
How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
 
06 August 2018
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
 
07 August 2018
What Does This Button Do? by Bruce Dickinson
 
08 August 2018
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
 
09 August 2018
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
 
10 August 2018
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
 
11 August 2018
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
 
12 August 2018
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
 
13 August 2018
The Castle by Franz Kafka
 
14 August 2018
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister
 
15 August 2018
Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
 
16 August 2018
The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price
 
17 August 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
 
18 August 2018
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
 
19 August 2018
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
 
20 August 2018
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
 
21 August 2018
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
 
22 August 2018
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
 
23 August 2018
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
 
24 August 2018
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith
 
25 August 2018
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
 
26 August 2018
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
 
27 August 2018
Fortunate Slaves by Tom Lanoye
 
28 August 2018
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
 
29 August 2018
The Known World by Edward P Jones
 
30 August 2018
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
 
31 August 2018
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
 
01 September 2018
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
 
02 September 2018
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
 
03 September 2018
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
 
04 September 2018
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
 
05 September 2018
Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
 
06 September 2018
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
 
07 September 2018
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer
 
08 September 2018
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
 
09 September 2018
The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
 
10 September 2018
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
 
11 September 2018
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
 
12 September 2018
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans
 
13 September 2018
The Bees by Laline Paull
 
14 September 2018
A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig
 
15 September 2018
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
 
16 September 2018
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson illustrated by Axel Scheffler
 
17 September 2018
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
 
18 September 2018
Ru by Kim Thúy
 
19 September 2018
About Time by Penelope Mortimer
 
20 September 2018
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
 
21 September 2018
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
 
22 September 2018
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
 
23 September 2018
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore
 
24 September 2018
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
 
25 September 2018
Tongues of Flames by Tim Parks
 
26 September 2018
Last Orders by Graham Swift
 
27 September 2018
Left of North by James Friel
 
28 September 2018
Phoenix by John Connor
 
29 September 2018
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
 
30 September 2018
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
 
01 October 2018
The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
 
02 October 2018
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
 
03 October 2018
The Honorary Patron by Jack Hodgins
 
04 October 2018
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
 
05 October 2018
Escher’s Loops by Zoran Zivkovic
 
06 October 2018
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
 
07 October 2018
Happy Now? by Katherine Shonk
 
08 October 2018
Jewel by Bret Lott
 
09 October 2018
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
 
10 October 2018
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
 
11 October 2018
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
 
12 October 2018
The Shore by Sara Taylor
 
13 October 2018
Right as Rain by George Pelecanos
 
14 October 2018
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
 
15 October 2018
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding by Beatrix Potter
 
16 October 2018
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
 
17 October 2018
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
 
18 October 2018
Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
 
19 October 2018
World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
 
20 October 2018
70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado
 
21 October 2018
Double Cross Blind by Joel Ross
 
22 October 2018
The Black Glove by Geoffrey Miller
 
23 October 2018
The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
 
24 October 2018
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
 
25 October 2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
 
26 October 2018
The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People by Neil Bennun
 
27 October 2018
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
 
28 October 2018
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
 
29 October 2018
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
 
30 October 2018
The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline by Flora Fraser
 
31 October 2018
Apples by Richard Milward
 
01 November 2018
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
 
02 November 2018
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
 
03 November 2018
Islands by Dan Sleigh
 
04 November 2018
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
 
05 November 2018
The Bells of Basel by Louis Aragon
 
06 November 2018
She Was Nice to Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I's Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians by Alexandra Sheedy
 
07 November 2018
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman
 
08 November 2018
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
 
09 November 2018
Blood Trail by CJ Box
 
10 November 2018
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
 
11 November 2018
Leaden Wings by Jie Zhang
 
12 November 2018
Sapphires by Sara Dowse
 
13 November 2018
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
 
14 November 2018
Elle by Douglas Glover
 
15 November 2018
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
 
16 November 2018
The Uninvited by Geling Yan
 
17 November 2018
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
 
18 November 2018
Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield
 
19 November 2018
Exley by Brock Clarke
 
20 November 2018
Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
 
21 November 2018
Snowdrops by AD Miller
 
22 November 2018
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
 
23 November 2018
In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod
 
24 November 2018
The March Fence by Matthew Yorke
 
25 November 2018
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
 
26 November 2018
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff
 
27 November 2018
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
 
28 November 2018
The Life And Times Of Maf The Dog And His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan
 
29 November 2018
The Slant Door by George Szirtes
 
30 November 2018
Woof, Woof, Dear Lord by Sotiris Dimitriou
 
01 December 2018
Between a Mother and her Child by Elizabeth Noble
 
02 December 2018
Drop City by TC Boyle
 
03 December 2018
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
 
04 December 2018
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
 
05 December 2018
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
 
06 December 2018
A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven by Karl Ove Knausgard
 
07 December 2018
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
 
08 December 2018
South Wind by Norman Douglas
 
09 December 2018
Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Gioconda Belli
 
10 December 2018
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
 
11 December 2018
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
 
12 December 2018
Beastings by Benjamin Myers
 
13 December 2018
Don’t call it Night by Amos Oz


14 December 2018
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

15 December 2018
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
 
16 December 2018
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
 
17 December 2018
The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye
 
18 December 2018
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
 
19 December 2018
Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
 
20 December 2018
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

 
21 December 2018
Flesh and Blood by John Harvey

22 December 2018
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
 
23 December 2018
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
 
24 December 2018
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
 
25 December 2018
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
 
26 December 2018
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

 
27 December 2018
The Last Plague by Meja Mwangi
 
28 December 2018
Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning
 
29 December 2018
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
 
30 December 2018
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins


31 December 2018
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz​

2017
01 January 2017
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
 
02 January 2017
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
 
03 January 2017
G by John Berger
 
04 January 2017
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
 
05 January 2017
Ragtime by EL Doctorow
 
06 January 2017
Possession by AS Byatt
 
07 January 2017
The Plague by Albert Camus
 
08 January 2017
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
 
09 January 2017
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
 
10 January 2017
The Accidental by Ali Smith
 
11 January 2017
The Yips by Nicola Barker
 
12 January 2017
The Stand by Stephen King
 
13 January 2017
Spies by Michael Frayn
 
14 January 2017
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
 
15 January 2017
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
 
16 January 2017
The BFG by Roald Dahl
 
17 January 2017
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
 
18 January 2017
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
 
19 January 2017
Small Island by Andrea Levy
 
20 January 2017
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
 
23 January 2017
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
 
24 January 2017
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
 
25 January 2017
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
 
26 January 2017
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
 
27 January 2017
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
 
29 January 2017
The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
 
30 January 2017
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
 
31 January 2017
Elegies by Douglas Dunn
 
01 February 2017
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
 
02 February 2017
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
 
03 February 2017
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
 
04 February 2017
Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
 
05 February 2017
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
 
06 February 2017
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
 
07 February 2017
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
08 February 2017
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
 
09 February 2017
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
 
10 February 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley & Malcolm X
 
11 February 2017
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
 
12 February 2017
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
 
14 February 2017
King George V by Kenneth Rose
 
15 February 2017
Light Years by James Salter
 
16 February 2017
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
 
17 February 2017
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
 
18 February 2017
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms & SJ Simon
 
19 February 2017
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
 
20 February 2017
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
 
21 February 2017
Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
 
22 February 2017
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
 
23 February 2017
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
 
24 February 2017
Restless by William Boyd
 
25 February 2017
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
 
26 February 2017
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
 
27 February 2017
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
 
28 February 2017
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
 
01 March 2017
Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
 
02 March 2017
Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean
 
03 March 2017
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
 
04 March 2017
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
 
05 March 2017
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
 
06 March 2017
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
 
07 March 2017
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
 
08 March 2017
East Lynne by Ellen Wood
 
09 March 2017
Southern Seas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
 
10 March 2017
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
 
11 March 2017
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
 
12 March 2017
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
 
13 March 2017
On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy
 
14 March 2017
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
 
15 March 2017
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
 
16 March 2017
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
 
17 March 2017
Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
 
18 March 2017
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
 
19 March 2017
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
 
20 March 2017
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
 
21 March 2017
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
 
22 March 2017
The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne
 
23 March 2017
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
 
24 March 2017
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
 
25 March 2017
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
 
26 March 2017
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
 
27 March 2017
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
 
28 March 2017
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
 
29 March 2017
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
 
30 March 2017
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
 
31 March 2017
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 
01 April 2017
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
 
02 April 2017
Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk
 
03 April 2017
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
 
04 April 2017
The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton
 
05 April 2017
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
 
06 April 2017
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
 
07 April 2017
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
 
08 April 2017
Hard Landing by Stephen Leather
 
09 April 2017
The Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
 
10 April 2017
God's Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene
 
11 April 2017
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
 
12 April 2017
Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac
 
13 April 2017
Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
 
14 April 2017
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
 
15 April 2017
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
 
16 April 2017
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
 
17 April 2017
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
 
18 April 2017
Water Street by Crystal E Wilkinson
 
19 April 2017
Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel
 
20 April 2017
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
 
21 April 2017
Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn
 
22 April 2017
Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy
 
23 April 2017
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
 
24 April 2017
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
 
25 April 2017
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
 
26 April 2017
Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean
 
27 April 2017
The Castafiore Emerald by Herge
 
28 April 2017
Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
 
29 April 2017
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by John Arbuthnot & Alexander Pope
 
30 April 2017
Simon and the Oak Trees by Marianne Fredriksson
 
01 May 2017
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
 
02 May 2017
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
 
03 May 2017
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
 
04 May 2017
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
 
05 May 2017
Manchester Slingback by Nicholas Blincoe
 
06 May 2017
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
 
07 May 2017
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
 
08 May 2017
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
 
09 May 2017
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
 
10 May 2017
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
 
11 May 2017
Cherry by Matt Thorne
 
12 May 2017
Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
 
13 May 2017
The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri
 
14 May 2017
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
 
15 May 2017
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
 
16 May 2017
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
 
17 May 2017
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
 
18 May 2017
Rogue Eagle by James H McClure
 
19 May 2017
Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
 
20 May 2017
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
 
21 May 2017
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
 
22 May 2017
Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
 
23 May 2017
Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins
 
24 May 2017
The Seahorse by Anthony Masters
 
25 May 2017
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
 
26 May 2017
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
 
27 May 2017
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
 
28 May 2017
The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedeyat
 
29 May 2017
Selkirk’s Island by Diana Souhami
 
30 May 2017
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
 
31 May 2017
The Damned United by David Peace
 
01 June 2017
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay
 
02 June 2017
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
 
03 June 2017
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
 
04 June 2017
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
 
05 June 2017
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
 
06 June 2017
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
 
07 June 2017
The Villa Triste by Lucretia Grindle
 
08 June 2017
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
 
09 June 2017
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
 
10 June 2017
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
 
11 June 2017
The Expats by Chris Pavone
 
12 June 2017
Whoops! by John Lanchester
 
13 June 2017
I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos
 
14 June 2017
The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
 
15 June 2017
Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon
 
16 June 2017
Odyssey by Homer
 
17 June 2017
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
 
18 June 2017
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
 
19 June 2017
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
 
20 June 2017
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
 
21 June 2017
The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly
 
22 June 2017
The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov
 
23 June 2017
The Cast Iron Shore by Linda Grant
 
24 June 2017
Trawl by BS Johnson
 
25 June 2017
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
 
26 June 2017
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates
 
27 June 2017
The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley
 
28 June 2017
One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
 
29 June 2017
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron
 
30 June 2017
The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
 
01 July 2017
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
 
02 July 2017
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
 
03 July 2017
Death Among the Dons by Janet Neel
 
04 July 2017
Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
 
05 July 2017
Blood on the Saddle by Rafael Reig
 
06 July 2017
Sunk by a Mine by Michael Richey
 
07 July 2017
Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
 
08 July 2017
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
 
09 July 2017
Beyond a Boundary by CLR James
 
10 July 2017
Tono Bungay by HG Wells
 
11 July 2017
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
 
12 July 2017
Walden by Henry Thoreau
 
13 July 2017
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
 
14 July 2017
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
 
15 July 2017
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
 
16 July 2017
The Priest of Evil by Matti Joensuu
 
17 July 2017
Lime's Photograph by Leif Davidsen
 
18 July 2017
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 
19 July 2017
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
 
20 July 2017
The Rainbow Singer by Simon Kerr
 
21 July 2017
With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
 
22 July 2017
The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry
 
23 July 2017
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
 
24 July 2017
Queen Lucia by EF Benson
 
25 July 2017
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson
 
26 July 2017
All About H. Hatterr by GV Desani
 
27 July 2017
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
 
28 July 2017
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
 
29 July 2017
Bloomsbury Ballerina by Judith Mackrell
 
30 July 2017
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
 
31 July 2017
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
 
01 August 2017
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
 
02 August 2017
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
 
03 August 2017
A Tuesday Like Today by Cecilia Urbina
 
04 August 2017
The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident by JP Cuenca
 
04 August 2017
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
 
05 August 2017
Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
 
06 August 2017
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
 
07 August 2017
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
 
08 August 2017
Magpie Hall by Rachael King
 
09 August 2017
The Librarians of Alexandra by Alessandra Lavagnino
 
10 August 2017
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart
 
11 August 2017
Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegria
 
11 August 2017
The Succubus by Vlado Zabot
 
12 August 2017
The Middle Sister by Bonnie J Glover
 
13 August 2017
Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold
 
14 August 2017
The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
 
15 August 2017
The Luxury of Exile by Louis Caron Buss
 
16 August 2017
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
 
17 August 2017
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
 
18 August 2017
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
 
19 August 2017
A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto
 
20 August 2017
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
 
21 August 2017
Bucket of Tongues by Duncan McLean
 
22 August 2017
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
 
23 August 2017
The Sandcastle Girls by Christopher Bohjalian
 
24 August 2017
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
 
25 August 2017
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
 
26 August 2017
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
 
27 August 2017
The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay
 
28 August 2017
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
 
30 August 2017
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre
 
31 August 2017
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
 
01 September 2017
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
 
02 September 2017
The Schooldays of Jesus by JM Coetzee
 
03 September 2017
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
 
04 September 2017
A Pawn for the Queen by Ken Lake
 
05 September 2017
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
 
06 September 2017
The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
 
07 September 2017
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
 
08 September 2017
Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins
 
09 September 2017
The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
 
10 September 2017
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
 
11 September 2017
Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
 
12 September 2017
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
 
13 September 2017
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
 
14 September 2017
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L Carter
 
15 September 2017
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 
16 September 2017
Chess Story (Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig
 
17 September 2017
The Death's Head Chess Club by John Donoghue
 
18 September 2017
The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen
 
19 September 2017
Red Leaves by Thomas H Cook
 
20 September 2017
The Chess Men by Peter May
 
21 September 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for His Hat by Oliver Sacks
 
22 September 2017
Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
 
23 September 2017
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
 
24 September 2017
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
 
25 September 2017
The Ship by Antonia Honeywell
 
26 September 2017
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
 
27 September 2017
The Shadow Run by Desmond Lowden
 
28 September 2017
The Fossil Pits by Tim Corballis
 
29 September 2017
Soothing Music for Stray Cats by Jayne Joso
 
30 September 2017
A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
 
01 October 2017
Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo
 
02 October 2017
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
 
03 October 2017
Refusal Shoes by Tony Saint
 
04 October 2017
Riders by Jilly Cooper
 
05 October 2017
The Cannon was Red Hot by Vladimir Kecmanovic
 
06 October 2017
The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt
 
07 October 2017
Ironweed by William Kennedy
 
08 October 2017
The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis
 
09 October 2017
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
 
10 October 2017
The Kindly One by Jonathan Littell
 
11 October 2017
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
 
12 October 2017
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
 
13 October 2017
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
 
14 October 2017
Maus by Art Spiegelman
 
15 October 2017
Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny & Albert Uderzo
 
16 October 2017
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
 
17 October 2017
Ritual Murder by ST Haymon
 
18 October 2017
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
 
19 October 2017
The River and the Source by Margaret A Ogola
 
20 October 2017
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
 
21 October 2017
Holes by Louis Sachar
 
22 October 2017
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
 
23 October 2017
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
 
24 October 2017
Disappearance by David Dabydeen
 
25 October 2017
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
 
26 October 2017
The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock
 
27 October 2017
The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
 
28 October 2017
We Go Around in the Night Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant
 
29 October 2017
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
 
30 October 2017
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
 
31 October 2017
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
 
01 November 2017
The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
 
02 November 2017
The Windvale Sprites by Mackenzie Crook
 
03 November 2017
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
 
04 November 2017
Strange Music by Laura Fish
 
05 November 2017
Naked Without a Hat by Jeanne Willis
 
06 November 2017
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
 
07 November 2017
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
 
08 November 2017
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
 
09 November 2017
Fashion Victim by Sam Baker
 
10 November 2017
In Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
 
11 November 2017
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
 
12 November 2017
It’s All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
 
13 November 2017
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
 
14 November 2017
Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
 
15 November 2017
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A Skomsvold
 
17 November 2017
Zami by Audre Lorde
 
18 November 2017
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
 
19 November 2017
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa
 
20 November 2017
Death in Sardinia by Marco Vichi
 
21 November 2017
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
 
22 November 2017
Be Mine by Laura Kasischke
 
23 November 2017
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
 
24 November 2017
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
 
25 November 2017
Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights by Laurie Graham
 
26 November 2017
Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser
 
27 November 2017
I could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady
 
28 November 2017
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
 
29 November 2017
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
 
30 November 2017
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
 
01 December 2017
The Grosvenor Square Goodbye by Francis Clifford
 
02 December 2017
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger
 
03 December 2017
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
 
04 December 2017
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
 
05 December 2017
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
 
06 December 2017
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
 
07 December 2017
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
 
08 December 2017
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
 
09 December 2017
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
 
10 December 2017
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
 
11 December 2017
In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
 
13 December 2017
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
 
14 December 2017
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
 
15 December 2017
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
 
16 December 2017
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
 
17 December 2017
Something Like a House by Sid Smith
 
18 December 2017
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
 
19 December 2017
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
 
20 December 2017
The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
 
21 December 2017
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
 
22 December 2017
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
 
23 December 2017
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
 
24 December 2017
On Purpose by Nick Laird
 
27 December 2017
Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin​