Guardian Top 10s - ibrowsebooks

24 August 2022
Top 10 Books About Israel

17 August 2022
Top 10 Books About Starting Afresh

10 August 2022
Top 10 Books About Women Written Out of History

03 August 2022
Top 10 Books About Cybercrime

27 July 2022
Top 10 Stories of Modern India

20 July 2022
Top 10 21st-Century Fantasy Novels

13 July 2022
Top 10 Books About Twins

06 July 2022
Top 10 Funny Comic Books

29 June 2022
Top 10 Stories of Male Friendship

22 June 2022
Top 10 books about terrible jobs

15 June 2022
Top 10 forests in fiction

08 June 2022
Top 10 novels about things that go horribly wrong on islands

01 June 2022
Top 10 books about listening to nature

25 May 2022
Top 10 novels about inheritance

18 May 2022
Top 10 trans love stories

11 May 2022
Top 10 novels about neighbours

04 May 2022
Top 10 wilderness stories

27 April 2022
Top 10 books about performance – the lives of actors and musicians

20 April 2022
Top 10 books about gardening

13 April 2022
Top 10 novels about postwar Germany

06 April 2022
Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction

30 March 2022
Top 10 Northern Irish novels

23 March 2022
Top 10 mirrored lives in fiction

16 March 2022
Top 10 novels about toxic friendships

09 March 2022
Top 10 books about suffering artists

02 March 2022
Top 10 world-spanning novels

23 February 2022
Top 10 books about Welsh identity

16 February 2022
Top 10 buildings in fiction

09 February 2022
Top 10 single mothers in fiction

02 February 2022
Top 10 cooks in fiction

26 January 2022
Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths

19 January 2022
Top 10 books about US Presidents

12 January 2022
Top 10 books about amnesia

5 January 2022
Top 10 books about musical subcultures

29 December 2021
Top 10 books about self-improvement

22 December 2021
Top 10 Christmas poems

15 December 2021
Top 10 cosy crime novels

08 December 2021
Top 10 books about the Roman empire

01 December 2021
Top 10 novels about novelists

24 November 2021
Top 10 novels and stories of the 1970s

17 November 2021
Top 10 books about Calcutta

10 November 2021
From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction

03 November 2021
Top 10 postmodern books

28 October 2021
Top 10 books on neocolonialism

20 October 2021
Top 10 true crime novels

13 October 2021
Top 10 urban legends in literature

06 October 2021
Michael Billington’s top 10 books about theatre

29 September 2021
Top 10 books about human consciousness

22 September 2021
Top 10 novels of the 1930s

15 September 2021
Top 10 books about lies and liars

08 September 2021
Top 10 books about long-distance relationships

01 September 2021
Top 10 magical short stories

25 August 2021
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 gripes in literature

18 August 2021
Top 10 books about family life

11 August 2021
Top 10 bookworms in fiction

04 August 2021
Top 10 millennial heroines in fiction

28 July 2021
Top 10 stories about bored teenagers

21 July 2021
Top 10 books about Sicily

14 July 2021
Top 10 books about the aftermath of empire

07 July 2021
Top 10 platonic friendships in fiction

30 June 2021
Top 10 books about circuses and spectacle

23 June 2021
Top 10 books of everyday social anthropology

16 June 2021
Top 10 books about public spaces

09 June 2021
Top 10 novels told in a single day

02 June 2021
Top 10 books for a greener economy

26 May 2021
Top 10 books about ballet

19 May 2021
Top 10 books about depression

12 May 2021
Top 10 books about duels

05 May 2021
Top 10 books about Colombia

28 April 2021
Top 10 books about museums

21 April 2021
Top 10 books about brothers

14 April 2021
Top 10 books about revenge

07 April 2021
Top 10 homecomings in fiction

31 March 2021
Top 10 books about New York

24 March 2021
Top 10 novels set in villages

17 March 2021
Top 10 matriarchs in fiction

10 March 2021
Top 10 books about the body

03 March 2021
Top 10 books about roots

24 February 2021
Top 10 books about castaways

17 February 2021
Top 10 classic stories retold

10 February 2021
Top 10 books about the Irish war of independence

03 February 2021
Top 10 books about football

27 January 2021
Top 10 books about children fending for themselves

20 January 2021
Top 10 books about spirit mediums

13 January 2021
Top 10 unconventional essays

06 January 2021
Top 10 books about the unknowable

30 December 2020
Top 10 most dislikable characters in fiction

23 December 2020
Top 10 Christmas crime stories

16 December 2020
Top 10 house parties in fiction

09 December 2020
Top 10 books about mermaids

02 December 2020
Top 10 Shakespearean books

25 November 2020
Top 10 books about consent

18 November 2020
Top 10 books about great thinkers

11 November 2020
Top 10 books about Lebanon

04 November 2020
Top 10 books about books

28 October 2020
Top 10 horror novels

21 October 2020
Top 10 books about the Himalayas

14 October 2020
Top 10 books about creative writing

07 October 2020
Top 10 underrated Agatha Christie novels

30 September 2020
Top 10 verse novels

23 September 2020
Top 10 books about social media

16 September 2020
Top 10 books of autofiction

09 September 2020
Top 10 goddesses in fiction

02 September 2020
Top 10 books about space travel

26 August 2020
Top 10 books about Florence

19 August 2020
Top 10 cousins in fiction

12 August 2020
Top 10 books about the Grand Tour

05 August 2020
Top 10 books about probation

29 July 2020
Top 10 books by Charles Dickens

22 July 2020
Top 10 books about adventures

21 July 2020
10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there

15 July 2020
Top 10 books about recovery

15 July 2020
10 of the best novels set in Germany – that will take you there

08 July 2020
Top 10 books about tumultuous times

07 July 2020
10 of the best novels set in Russia – that will take you there

01 July 2020
Top 10 best-dressed characters in fiction

30 June 2020
10 of the best books set in Japan – that will take you there

24 June 2020
Top 10 books about remaking the future

23 June 2020
10 of the best books set in Ireland – that will take you there

17 June 2020
Top 10 books about witch-hunts

16 June 2020
10 of the best books set in India – that will take you there

10 June 2020
Top 10 books about Tokyo

09 June 2020
10 of the best Latin American novels – that will take you there

03 June 2020
Top 10 four-dimensional novels

02 June 2020
10 of the best novels set in Portugal – that will take you there

27 May 2020
Top 10 Scottish crime novels

26 May 2020
10 of the best books about mountains – for a virtual climb

20 May 2020
Top 10 books about silence

19 May 2020
10 of the best novels set in Greece – that will take you there

13 May 2020
Top 10 books about Iran

12 May 2020
10 of the best novels set in Spain – that will take you there

06 May 2020
Top 10 books about nursing

05 May 2020
10 of the best novels set in Italy – that will take you there

29 April 2020
Top 10 novels about moving

28 April 2020
10 of the best novels about France – that will take you there

22 April 2020
Top 10 Latin American short stories

15 April 2020
Top 10 novels about unconventional families

08 April 2020
Top 10 books about Londoners

01 April 2020
Top 10 Irish gothic novels

25 March 2020
Top 10 novels and stories about shame

18 March 2020
Top 10 books about boarding school

11 March 2020
Top 10 books about the Windrush generation

04 March 2020
Top 10 mentors in fiction

26 February 2020
Top 10 books about imaginary friends

19 February 2020
Top 10 random encounters in literature

12 February 2020
Top 10 books of eco-fiction

05 February 2020
Top 10 tales about the rich

29 January 2020
From Homer to Alexievich: top 10 books about the human cost of war

22 January 2020
Top 10 political travel books

15 January 2020
Top 10 books about trouble in Los Angeles

08 January 2020
Top 10 books about toxic masculinity

01 January 2020
Top 10 books about new beginnings

25 December 2019
Top 10 books about loneliness

18 December 2019
Top 10 novels about adultery

11 December 2019
Top 10 dinner parties in fiction

04 December 2019
Top 10 books about comedy, from Eric and Ernie to Lee and Herring

27 November 2019
Top 10 eyewitness accounts of 20th-century history

20 November 2019
Top 10 books about vegetarians

13 November 2019
Top 10 golden age detective novels

06 November 2019
From Alice in Wonderland to the Hitchhiker's Guide: top 10 books about mathematics

30 October 2019
Top 10 books about graveyards

23 October 2019
Top 10 books about the night

16 October 2019
Top 10 lighthouses in fiction

09 October 2019
Top 10 books about Europe

02 October 2019
Top 10 books about black radicalism

25 September 2019
Top 10 escapes in books

18 September 2019
Top 10 novels about burning issues for young adults

11 September 2019
Top 10 culinary memoirs

04 September 2019
Top 10 books about fake news

28 August 2019
Top 10 ghost stories

21 August 2019
Out of sadness into empathy: the top 10 caregivers in fiction

14 August 2019
From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction

07 August 2019
Top 10 true crime books

31 July 2019
From Bag End to Babel: Top 10 libraries in fiction

24 July 2019
Top 10 books about Baltimore

17 July 2019
Top 10 queer rural books

10 July 2019
Top 10 books about Burma

03 July 2019
Top 10 books about walking in Britain

26 June 2019
Top 10 books about the River Thames

19 June 2019
Top 10 books about cults

12 June 2019
Top 10 houseguests in fiction

05 June 2019
From Dickens to Roth: top 10 novels about pariahs

29 May 2019
Top 10 teenage friendships in fiction – from Dickens to Ferrante

22 May 2019
Top 10 books about angry women

15 May 2019
Top 10 books about Sudan

08 May 2019
Top 10 end-of-the-world novels – from Ballard to Pratchett

01 May 2019
Top 10 books about psychotherapy

24 April 2019
Top 10 thrillers about siblings

17 April 2019
Top 10 bilingual books

10 April 2019
Top 10 books set in the American Midwest

03 April 2019
Top 10 fictional takes on real lives

27 March 2019
Top 10 evil narrators

20 March 2019
Top 10 toxic families in fiction

13 March 2019
Top 10 books about building cities

06 March 2019
Top 10 books about Hollywood

27 February 2019
Top 10 books about women and the sea

20 February 2019
From Tales of the City to Tipping the Velvet: top 10 books about coming out

13 February 2019
Top 10 genre-twisting novels

06 February 2019
Top 10 books about idleness

30 January 2019
Top 10 books about the Troubles

23 January 2019
Top 10 musical novels

16 January 2019
Top 10 books about Trinidad and Tobago

09 January 2019
Top 10 Quakers in fiction

02 January 2019
Top 10 books about insomnia

24 December 2018
From Brideshead to Bond: top 10 books on booze

19 December 2018
Top 10 Irish science fiction authors

12 December 2018
Top 10 fictional booksellers

05 December 2018
Top 10 books about the seasons

28 November 2018
From Hound of the Baskervilles to the Essex Serpent: top 10 folk tales in fiction

21 November 2018
Top 10 books about Japan

14 November 2018
From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war

07 November 2018
Top 10 modern Victorian novels

31 October 2018
Top 10 deaths in fiction

24 October 2018
Top 10 books about steroids

17 October 2018
Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition

10 October 2018
Top 10 books about psychiatry

03 October 2018
Top 10 poetry anthologies

26 September 2018
Top 10 books about Old Shanghai

19 September 2018
Top 10 real-life monsters in fiction

12 September 2018
From Orient Express to The Railway Children: top 10 trains in novels

05 September 2018
Atwood? Shakespeare? Harry Potter? Top 10 false identities in fiction

29 August 2018
Top 10 cliques in fiction

22 August 2018
Top 10 books about strange towns

15 August 2018
Top 10 books about Americans abroad

08 August 2018
Top 10 novels about riots

01 August 2018
Sjón's top 10 artificial humans in fiction

25 July 2018
Top 10 tales from the frontier

18 July 2018
From Catullus to Dylan Thomas: the top 10 elegies

11 July 2018
Top 10 books about self-reinvention

04 July 2018
Top 10 books about gangsters

27 June 2018
From Dante to I Love Dick: top 10 books about unrequited love

20 June 2018
Top 10 books about the afterlife

13 June 2018
Top 10 lost women's classics

06 June 2018
Top 10 working-class heroes in books

30 May 2018
Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age

23 May 2018
Top 10 books about cricket

16 May 2018
Top 10 books to understand happiness

09 May 2018
Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books

02 May 2018
Top 10 books about North Korea

25 April 2018
Top 10 books about council housing

18 April 2018
Amy Sackville on the top 10 novels about painters

11 April 2018
Top 10 books about miscarriages of justice

04 April 2018
Top 10 books about horses – Jane Smiley picks her favourites

28 March 2018
Top 10 books based in Tangier

21 March 2018
Top 10 runaway mothers in fiction

14 March 2018
Bank heists, political satire and Ngugi wa Thiong’o: top 10 books about Kenya

07 March 2018
Top 10 parallel narratives
1. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (1967)

28 February 2018
Top 10 spaceships in fiction

21 February 2018
Top 10 books about cheating

14 February 2018
Top 10 books about South Korea

07 February 2018
Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands

31 January 2018
Top 10 errant teenagers in fiction

24 January 2018
Top 10 books about the body

17 January 2018
Top 10 conspiracy theories in fiction

10 January 2018
Top 10 books about time

03 January 2018
Buy a cat, stay up late, don't drink: top 10 writers’ tips on writing

27 December 2017
Top 10 experimental thrillers

20 December 2017
Top 10 books about the unconscious

13 December 2017
Top 10 books about growing old

06 December 2017
Top 10 novels about God

29 November 2017
Top 10 books about high-tech

22 November 2017
Top 10 books about mental hospitals

15 November 2017
Top 10 talking animals in books

08 November 2017
Top 10 books about royal families

31 October 2017
Martin Luther's children: the top 10 Protestants in fiction

25 October 2017
Top 10 books about pastoral life

18 October 2017
Top 10 imaginary drugs in fiction

11 October 2017
Top 10 modern Nordic books

04 October 2017
Top 10 human-animal relationships in literature

27 September 2017
Top 10 brothers and sisters in fiction

20 September 2017
Top 10 books about consciousness

13 September 2017
Top 10 contemporary short stories

06 September 2017
10 of the best travel books … for National Read a Book Day

06 September 2017
Top 10 books about teaching

30 August 2017
Top 10 books on postwar France

23 August 2017
Top 10 books about tyrants

16 August 2017
Top 10 twists in fiction

09 August 2017
Top 10 books about birds

02 August 2017
Top 10 parties in fiction

26 July 2017
Top 10 female detectives in fiction

19 July 2017
Top 10 opening scenes in books

12 July 2017
Top 10 secrets in fiction

05 July 2017
Top 10 books about swimming

28 June 2017
Top 10 Shakespearean stories in modern fiction

21 June 2017
Top 10 books about lies

14 June 2017
Top 10 modern epistolary novels

07 June 2017
Top 10 books about Westminster politics

31 May 2017
Top 10 books about Weimar and Nazi Berlin

24 May 2017
Top 10 unlikely romantic heroes in fiction

17 May 2017
Top 10 novels about Pakistan

10 May 2017
Top 10 books about psychoanalysis

03 May 2017
Top 10 campus novels

26 April 2017
Top 10 terrible houses in fiction

19 April 2017
Top 10 books about trees

12 April 2017
Top 10 books about the Russian Revolution

05 April 2017
Top 10 books about Manchester

29 March 2017
Top 10 books about fathers

22 March 2017
Top 10 stories of obsession

15 March 2017
Top 10 novels on rural America

08 March 2017
Top 10 fantasy fiction universes

01 March 2017
Top 10 books about adopted children

22 February 2017
Top 10 Hollywood novels

15 February 2017
Top 10 books about the Vikings

08 February 2017
Top 10 books about the apocalypse

01 February 2017
Top 10 authentic romances

25 January 2017
Top 10 books about voyeurs

18 January 2017
Top 10 megacities in fiction

11 January 2017
Top 10 books about wild women

04 January 2017
Top 10 unreliable narrators

28 December 2016
Top 10 slangy crime novels

21 December 2016
Top 10 escapes in literature

14 December 2016
Top 10 dictionaries

07 December 2016
Top 10 cats in literature

07 December 2016
Top 10 travel books for Christmas

30 November 2016
Top 10 books about postwar Britain

23 November 2016
Top 10 books about women in the British empire

16 November 2016
Cynan Jones's top 10 books about the hostile ocean

09 November 2016
Top 10 books about the Himalayas

03 November 2016
Top 10 books about exile

26 October 2016
Top 10 books of radical history

19 October 2016
Top 10 books about borders

12 October 2016
Top 10 books about intelligent animals

05 October 2016
Top 10 books about old men

28 September 2016
Top 10 stories of hubris

21 September 2016
John Sweeney's top 10 books on corruption

14 September 2016
Top 10 mothers, 'bad' and otherwise, in books

07 September 2016
Top 10 dodgy lawyers in literature

31 August 2016
Top 10 books featuring parks

24 August 2016
Top 10 seaside novels

17 August 2016
Top 10 books about long marriages

10 August 2016
Top 10 books writers should read

03 August 2016
Top 10 philosophers' fictions

27 July 2016
Top 10 books about the Australian bush

20 July 2016
Top 10 books about gardens

13 July 2016
Top 10 books about the Iraq war

06 July 2016
Top 10 novels about deranged killers

29 June 2016
Top 10 New York novels

22 June 2016
Top 10 books about the Beatles

15 June 2016
Top 10 books about middle age

08 June 2016
Top 10 books about guilt

01 June 2016
Greg Jackson's top 10 books to make you a better person

25 May 2016
Top 10 chases in literature

18 May 2016
Top 10 refugees' stories

11 May 2016
Top 10 novels about women's political awakening

04 May 2016
Top 10 landmarks in gay and lesbian literature

27 April 2016
KJ Orr's top 10 stories of crossing boundaries

20 April 2016
Top 10 books on Vladimir Putin's Russia

13 April 2016
Top 10 books about freedom

06 April 2016
Top 10 depictions of British rain

30 March 2016
Top 10 books on 1960s America

23 March 2016
Alexei Sayle's top 10 books about revolutionaries

16 March 2016
Top 10 books about the dangers of the web

09 March 2016
Top 10 books about breasts

02 March 2016
Top 10 hateful characters you love in literature

24 February 2016
The top 10 books of war reportage

17 February 2016
Top 10 Arctic novels

10 February 2016
Top 10 books for the broken-hearted

03 February 2016
Top 10 books about cancer

27 January 2016
Top 10 clerics in fiction

20 January 2016
Top 10 books about the cold war

13 January 2016
Top 10 failed romances in fiction

30 December 2015
Top 10 modern medieval tales

23 December 2015
Top 10 kitchens in literature

16 December 2015
Top 10 books about justice and redemption

09 December 2015
Top 10 uncanny graphic novels

02 December 2015
Top 10 novels about unfaithful wives

25 November 2015
Top 10: the best dialogue in crime fiction

18 November 2015
John O’Farrell’s top 10 celebrity appearances in fiction

11 November 2015
Top 10 books about bankers

04 November 2015
Top 10 assassination plots in fiction

28 October 2015
Top 10 memorable meals in literature

21 October 2015
Top 10 transgender books

14 October 2015
Petina Gappah's top 10 books about Zimbabwe

07 October 2015
The best LGBT sex in literature

30 September 2015
Top 10 books about forgetting

23 September 2015
Top 10 books about Thatcherism

16 September 2015
Top 10 literary biographies

09 September 2015
Top 10 schoolchildren in fiction

02 September 2015
Top 10 cricket scenes in fiction

26 August 2015
Top 10 dogs' stories

19 August 2015
Top 10 conservative novels

12 August 2015
Top 10 books about food

05 August 2015
Top 10 literary hoaxes

29 July 2015
Top 10 wartime love stories

22 July 2015
Top 10 books about migrants

15 July 2015
Top 10 books about spies

10 July 2015
The 10 best books about cycling

08 July 2015
Top 10 gleeful adulterers in literature

01 July 2015
The top 10 books about the mafia

24 June 2015
The top 10 summers in fiction

18 June 2015
Top 10 life lessons from books of the past

10 June 2015
Top 10 books about being alone

03 June 2015
Jesse Armstrong’s top 10 comic war novels

27 May 2015
Top 10 unlikely friendships in fiction

20 May 2015
Top 10 rural noir novels

13 May 2015
Peter James's top 10 books about Brighton

06 May 2015
Lindsey Davis's top 10 books about ancient Rome

29 April 2015
Top 10 books about working life

22 April 2015
Top 10 books about betrayal

15 April 2015
Top 10 books about the British in India

09 April 2015
The top 10 books about style

01 April 2015
The top 10 books about Italy

25 March 2015
The top 10 treasure hunts in fiction

18 March 2015
Andrew Sharples' top 10 war memoirs

11 March 2015
Thomas Asbridge’s top 10 knights in literature

04 March 2015
Top 10 books about women in the 1950s

25 February 2015
Matt Sumell’s top 10 fictional troublemakers

18 February 2015
The top 10 books about rivers

11 February 2015
The top 10 books about addiction

04 February 2015
The top 10 novels featuring works of art

28 January 2015
The top 10 books about returning from war

21 January 2015
The top 10 novels about lost friendships

14 January 2015
Neel Mukherjee’s top 10 books about revolutionaries

07 January 2015
The top 10 books about the suffragettes

31 December 2014
Extreme adventures: the top 10 stories of real-life peril

24 December 2014
The top 10 winters in literature

17 December 2014
The top 10 novels about 9/11

10 December 2014
The top 10 neo-Victorian novels

03 December 2014
Lynne Truss’s top 10 gothic novels

26 November 2014
The top 10 books of rural Wales

19 November 2014
The top 10 words invented by writers

12 November 2014
The top 10 books about reading

05 November 2014
Top 10 books about the 1970s

29 October 2014
The top 10 vampire books

22 October 2014
The top 10 civil war novels

15 October 2014
The top 10 modernisers in literature

08 October 2014
The top 10 fairytales

01 October 2014
The top 10 rural Irish books

25 September 2014
The top 10 walks in books

17 September 2014
The top 10 stories of mothers and daughters

10 September 2014
The top 10 books about Nigeria

03 September 2014
The top 10 books about trains

27 August 2014
The top 10 fictitious biographies

20 August 2014
The top 10 restaurants and bars in modern literature

13 August 2014
The top 10 hotel novels

06 August 2014
The top 10 novels about childbirth

30 July 2014
Top 10 war poems

23 July 2014
Top 10 holidays in fiction

16 July 2014
The top 10 books about Chicago

09 July 2014
Top 10 books of the Midlands

02 July 2014
Philip Hensher's top 10 parallel narratives

25 June 2014
Top 10 books about Indian families

18 June 2014
The top 10 hospital stories

11 June 2014
The top 10 feminist books

04 June 2014
William Atkins's top 10 books of the moor

28 May 2014
The top 10 bookworms' tales

27 May 2014
William Sutcliffe's top 10 books to read aloud to children

21 May 2014
Dea Brøvig's top 10 Norwegian novels

14 May 2014
The top 10 loners in fiction

07 May 2014
Top 10 John Updike short stories

30 April 2014
Top 10 novels inspired by Shakespeare

23 April 2014
The top 10 writers to see live

16 April 2014
The top 10 novels of desert war

09 April 2014
Top 10 books about missing persons

02 April 2014
Top 10 books on memory

26 March 2014
Top 10 books about intelligent animals

19 March 2014
Top 10 books about Cambodia

12 March 2014
The top 10 impostors in fiction

05 March 2014
Top 10 books about Alaska

26 February 2014
Rory MacLean's top 10 Berliners in literature

19 February 2014
Vikram Chandra's top 10 computer books

12 February 2014
The top 10 difficult love stories

05 February 2014
The best fiction featuring real writers

29 January 2014
The top 10 locked-room mysteries

22 January 2014
The top 10 crime novels in translation

15 January 2014
The top 10 books about houses

08 January 2014
Rosa Rankin-Gee's top 10 novellas about love

01 January 2014
Travis Elborough's top 10 literary diarists

24 December 2013
Sophie Hannah's top 10 pageturners

18 December 2013
Bob Stanley's 10 best music histories

11 December 2013
Ewan Morrison's top 10 books about communes

04 December 2013
The top 10 books given in books

27 November 2013
The top 10 sports books

20 November 2013
The top 10 unsinkable characters in literature

13 November 2013
The top 10 books about servants

11 November 2013
Sam Angus's top 10 war books

06 November 2013
Dangerous Age: the best books on 18th-century London's perils

30 October 2013
Halloween reading: Joseph D'Lacey's top 10 horror books

23 October 2013
DJ Taylor's top 10 counter-factual novels

16 October 2013
Top 10 books for Black History month

09 October 2013
Mark Forsyth's top 10 lost words

02 October 2013
Charles Graeber's top 10 true crime books

25 September 2013
Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books about Paris

18 September 2013
DW Wilson's top 10 absent fathers in literature

11 September 2013
Tessa Hadley's top 10 short stories

04 September 2013
Alison MacLeod's top 10 stories about infidelity

28 August 2013
Lisa Tuttle's top 10 mould-breaking fantasy novels

14 August 2013
Michael Arditti's top 10 novels about priests

07 August 2013
Nigel Williams's top 10 books about suburbia

31 July 2013
The top 10 books about Austria-Hungary

24 July 2013
Rachel Kushner's top 10 books about 1970s art

19 July 2013
The top 10 inclusive children's books

17 July 2013
The top 10 literary works about ancestors

10 July 2013
The top 10 French Revolution novels

03 July 2013
The top 10 books about disability

26 June 2013
The top 10 classic spy novels

19 June 2013
James Davies's top 10 psychiatry critiques

12 June 2013
Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs

29 May 2013
Wu Ming's top 10 utopias

22 May 2013
Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels
1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

15 May 2013
Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti

08 May 2013
Rory MacLean's top 10 books on Burma

26 April 2013
Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities

10 April 2013
Helen Humphreys' top 10 books on grieving

03 April 2013
Kate Worsley's top 10 East Anglian tales

27 March 2013
William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan

20 March 2013
Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes

13 March 2013
Manil Suri's top 10 books about Mumbai

06 March 2013
Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings

27 February 2013
Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels

13 February 2013
Valentine's Day reading: Dan Rhodes's top 10 marriage tales

06 February 2013
Howard Goodall's top 10 music books

23 January 2013
Sheila Heti's top 10 books that began as speech

16 January 2013
Peter Murphy's top 10 literary preachers

09 January 2013
Platform's top 10 journeys on the Oil Road

19 December 2012
Charlie Fletcher's top 10 adventure classics

12 December 2012
Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts

05 December 2012
Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories

28 November 2012
Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books

21 November 2012
Sophie McKenzie's top 10 teen thrillers

14 November 2012
Sara Maitland's top 10 books of the forest

07 November 2012
Jason Burke: the key books on Muslim extremism

01 November 2012
Ronald Frame's top 10 reimagined classics

24 October 2012
Simon Garfield's top 10 books with maps

17 October 2012
DJ Taylor's top 10 literary parodies

10 October 2012
Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories

04 October 2012
Anthony Horowitz's top 10 apocalypse books

26 September 2012
David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory

19 September 2012
Lawrence Norfolk's top 10 food books of the 17th century

13 September 2012
Miriam Darlington's top 10 literary otters

05 September 2012
Simon Gough's top nine muses

29 August 2012
Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures

18 July 2012
Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature

05 July 2012
Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes

27 June 2012
Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions

21 June 2012
Jasper Fforde's top 10 bedtime stories

06 June 2012
Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books

16 May 2012
Fred Pearce's top 10 eco-books

11 May 2012
Josh Lacey's top 10 pseudonymous books

02 May 2012
Shehan Karunatilaka's top 10 cricket books

25 April 2012
Ewan Morrison's top 10 books about shopping malls

18 April 2012
Bryan and Mary Talbot's top 10 graphic memoirs

11 April 2012
Seán McGrady's top 10 philosophers' novels

04 April 2012
Michael Crummey's top 10 literary feuds

28 March 2012
Glenn Patterson's top 10 Belfast books

14 March 2012
Jeffrey Archer's top 10 romans-fleuves

07 March 2012
Lloyd Shepherd's top 10 weird histories

29 February 2012
Shalom Auslander's top 10 comic tragedies

22 February 2012
Paul Mason's top 10 books about China

15 February 2012
Will Eaves's top 10 siblings' stories

08 February 2012
Lars Iyer's top 10 literary frenemies

01 February 2012
Alex Preston's top 10 literary believers

25 January 2012
Ian Marchant's top 10 books of the night

18 January 2012
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