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        • McDermid Debut Award
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      • Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
        • Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of Winners
      • Barbellion Prize
      • Betty Trask Award
      • Blue Peter Book Award Best Story
        • Blue Peter Book Award Best Book with Facts
      • Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
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        • Best of Bookers
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        • Narrative Non-Fiction - British Book Awards
        • Pageturner of the Year - British Book Awards
        • Discover Book of the Year - British Book Awards
        • 30 From 30 - British Book Awards
        • Discontinued - British Book Awards
      • BSFA Best Novel Award
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      • Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
        • Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration
      • Children's Book Award
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      • CrimeFest eDunnit Award
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      • Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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      • Desmond Elliott Prize
      • Diverse Book Awards - Adults
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        • Diverse Book Awards - Picture Book
      • DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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        • Edgar Best Paperback Original
      • Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
      • RSL Encore Award
    • F
      • Forward Prize for Poetry
        • Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
    • G
      • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
      • Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
      • Goldsmiths Prize
        • Fantasy Goldsmiths Prize
      • Goodreads Choice Award Best Fiction
      • Gordon Burn Prize
      • Guardian First Book Award
      • Guardian Fiction Prize
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      • Hawthornden Prize
      • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
      • PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
      • Hugo Award for Best Novel
        • Retro-Hugos
    • I
      • Ignyte Award Best Novel Adult
    • J
      • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
        • Best of the James Tait Black
      • Jhalak Prize
        • Jhalak Prize Children's and Young Adult
        • Jhalak Prize Poetry
      • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
    • K
      • Kirkus Prize Fiction
      • Kitchies Award Red Tentacle (Novel)
        • Kitchies Award Gold Tentacle (Debut)
    • L
      • Lord Ruthven Award
    • M
      • Macavity Awards
        • Macavity Best First Novel Award
        • Macavity Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel
        • Macavity Best Non-Fiction Award
      • McIlvanney Prize
        • Scottish Crime Debut of the Year
      • McKitterick Prize
      • Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize
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      • NCR Book Award
      • Nebula Best Novel Award
      • Nero Book Award
        • Nero Book Award Children's Fiction
        • Nero Book Award Debut Fiction
        • Nero Book Award Fiction
        • Nero Book Award Non-Fiction
      • 9mobile Prize for Literature
      • Not the Booker Prize
    • O
      • Ondaatje and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prizes
      • Orwell Prize
        • Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
    • P
      • Paul Torday Memorial Prize
      • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
      • Polari Prize
        • Polari First Book Prize
        • Polari Children’s and YA Prize
      • Portico Prize
      • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    • Q
      • The Queen's Knickers Award
    • R
      • Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
      • Richard Jefferies Award
    • S
      • Royal Society Science Book Prize
      • Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection
      • Shirley Jackson Award
      • Hatchards Best First Biography Prize Shortlist
      • Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
      • Somerset Maugham Award
      • South Bank Sky Arts Award Literature Prize
      • Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award
        • Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award
        • Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award
    • T
      • Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
        • McDermid Debut Award
      • TS Eliot Prize for Poetry
    • V
      • Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize
    • W
      • Wainwright Prize
        • Wainwright Prize for Global Conservation Writing
        • Wainwright Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature & Conservation
      • Wales Book of the Year
        • Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award
        • Wales Book of the Year Fiction Award
        • Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award
        • Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award
        • Wales Book of the Year Children and Young People Award
      • Walter Scott Prize
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        • Waterstones Children's Book Prize Illustrated Book
      • Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
      • Waverton Good Read Award
        • Children's Waverton Good Read Award
      • Wellcome Book Prize
      • Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
      • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
      • Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
      • Wolfson History Prize
      • Women's Prize for Fiction
        • Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
        • Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of Winners
        • Orange Award for New Writers
      • World Fantasy Award Novel
      • Writers' Prize
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          • BBC Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die
          • Big Jubilee Read
          • BBC The Big Read
        • Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf
        • Eurovision Book Contest
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          • Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
          • Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without
          • Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
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          • Independent 25 Best Books by Female Authors
        • Marie Claire magazine Best Books to Read Before You Die
        • Nation's Favourite Second Novel
        • Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939
        • Penguin 100 Must-Read Classic Books
        • Telegraph Lists
          • Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read
          • The Perfect Library: 110 Best Books by the Telegraph
        • TES Teachers' Top 100 Books
        • Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
        • The Top 100 Sunday Times Bestsellers
        • UKTV Drama 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die
        • Waterstones Books of the Century
        • Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction #ThisBook
        • Vote 100 - The Pool & Hay Festival 100 Books by Women since 1918
        • Elena Ferrante’s Top 40 Books by Female Authors
        • Booktrust 100 Best Children's Books
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      • Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
      • Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books
      • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
        • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Board's List
        • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List
        • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe's List
      • National Geographic Extreme Classics
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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

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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

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17 June 2020
Top 10 books about witch-hunts
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16 June 2020

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

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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

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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
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​22 April 2020

Top 10 Latin American short stories

​15 April 2020

Top 10 novels about unconventional families

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08 April 2020
​Top 10 books about Londoners

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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

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19 February 2020
Top 10 random encounters in literature
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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

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01 January 2020
Top 10 books about new beginnings
25 December 2019
Top 10 books about loneliness
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18 December 2019

Top 10 novels about adultery
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​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
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20 November 2019
Top 10 books about vegetarians
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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
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02 October 2019
Top 10 books about black radicalism
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25 September 2019
Top 10 escapes in books

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

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04 September 2019
Top 10 books about fake news

28 August 2019
​Top 10 ghost stories

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21 August 2019
Out of sadness into empathy: the top 10 caregivers in fiction
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14 August 2019
From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction ​
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07 August 2019
Top 10 true crime books
 
31 July 2019
From Bag End to Babel: Top 10 libraries in fiction
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24 July 2019
​Top 10 books about Baltimore

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17 July 2019
Top 10 queer rural books

​10 July 2019
Top 10 books about Burma
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03 July 2019
Top 10 books about walking in Britain 

26 June 2019
Top 10 books about the River Thames
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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
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29 May 2019
Top 10 teenage friendships in fiction – from Dickens to Ferrante
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22 May 2019
Top 10 books about angry women
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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
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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
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03 April 2019
Top 10 fictional takes on real lives 
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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 
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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 
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07 November 2018
Top 10 modern Victorian novels

31 October 2018
Top 10 deaths in fiction
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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
 
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