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      • Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
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      • Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
        • McDermid Debut Award
      • TS Eliot Prize for Poetry
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      • Ackerley Prize
      • Arthur C Clarke Award
      • Aspen Words Literary Prize
      • Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
    • B
      • 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
      • Booker Prize
        • Best of Bookers
      • Booker Prize International
      • Books Are My Bag Readers Award Readers Choice
        • Books Are My Bag Readers Award Fiction
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        • Books Are My Bag Readers Award Children's Fiction
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      • Bram Stoker Award, Novel
      • Branford Boase Award
      • British Academy Book Prize
      • British Book Awards
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        • Fiction - British Book Awards
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        • Children's - British Book Awards
        • Children's Illustrated & Non Fiction - British Book Awards
        • Chidren's Illustrated Book of the Year - British Book Awards
        • Lifestyle Non-Fiction - British Book Awards
        • 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
        • Children's Book Award Book for Older Readers
        • Children's Book Award Book for Younger Readers
        • Children's Book Award Picture Book
        • Children's Book Award Book for Younger Children
        • Children's Book Award Book for Confident Readers
      • Christopher Bland Prize
      • Comedy Women in Print Prize
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      • Commonwealth Book Prize
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      • Costa Book Awards
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        • Costa First Novel Award
        • Costa Biography Award
        • Costa Poetry Award
        • Costa Children's Book Award
      • CrimeFest eDunnit Award
        • CrimeFest Debut Award
      • Crime Fiction Lover Best Novel Award
        • Crime Fiction Lover Best Debut Award
        • Crime Fiction Lover Best Novel in Translation Award
      • HWA Gold Crown
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      • Cundill History Prize
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      • CWA Daggers
        • Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
        • John Creasey New Blood Daggers
        • Crime Fiction in Translation Daggers
        • Historical Daggers
        • Non-Fiction Daggers
        • Whodunnit Dagger
        • Twisted Dagger
      • Dayton Literary Peace Prize
        • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Non-Fiction
      • Desmond Elliott Prize
      • Diverse Book Awards - Adults
        • Diverse Book Awards - Children's
        • Diverse Book Awards - Young Adult
        • Diverse Book Awards - Picture Book
      • DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
      • International Dublin Literary Award
      • Duff Cooper Prize
      • Dylan Thomas Prize
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      • Edgar Awards
        • Edgar Best First Novel Award
        • 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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        • Crime - National Book Awards
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        • Biography - National Book Awards
        • Food & Drink - National Book Awards
      • National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award
        • National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for First Book
      • 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
      • Waterstones Book of the Year
      • Waterstones Children's Book Prize
        • Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Older Readers
        • Waterstones Children's Book Prize Book for Younger Readers
        • 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
        • The Writers' Prize - Fiction
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        • The Writers' Prize - Non-Fiction
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      • Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award
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        • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
      • Lists of 100(ish) Books
        • Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
        • BBC lists
          • BBC 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
          • BBC 100 Greatest British Novels
          • 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
        • Guardian Lists
          • Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
          • Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
          • Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without
          • Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English
        • Independent Lists
          • Independent 40 Books to Read Before You Die
          • 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
      • Guardian Top 10s
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        • 2022 Guardian Top 10s
        • 2021 Guardian Top 10s
        • 2020 Guardian Top 10s
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    • Europe Lists
      • Norwegian Book Club World Library
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      • Abe Books Lists
        • Abe Books 100 (Fiction) Books to Read in a Lifetime
        • Abe Books 50 Essential Historical Fiction Books
        • Abe Books 50 Essential Non-Fiction Books
        • Abe Books 50 Essential Science Fiction Books
        • Abe Books 50 Essential YA Books
      • Amazon US Lists
        • Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
        • Amazon US 100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime
        • Amazon US 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
        • Amazon US 100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime
      • 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
      • The Novel 100
      • NPR Lists
        • NPR Top 100 Killer Thrillers
        • NPR 100 Best Beach Books Ever
        • NPR Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
      • Readers Digest Lists
        • Readers Digest 100 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime
        • Readers Digest The Most Iconic Book Set in Every State
        • Readers Digest The 50 Books to Read Before You’re 50
      • All-TIME 100 Novels
      • Time Magazine 10 Greatest Books of All Time
    • Crime Lists
      • Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
      • Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time
      • Sunday Times 100 Best Crime novels and Thrillers since 1945
      • Guardian 50 Great Thrillers by Women
      • 100 Best Crime and Thriller Books - Dead Good Books
    • Book Clubs
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        • Richard and Judy Book Club 10th Anniversary List
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February 2025
​One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Redemption by Jack Jordan
My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes
First Wife’s Shadow by Adele Parks
The Suspect by Rob Rinder
Winter 2024
The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner
An Ideal Husband by Erica James
In A Place Of Darkness by Stuart MacBride
The Search Party by Hannah Richell
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Autumn 2024
Geneva by Richard Armitage
Day One by Abigail Dean
Close To Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Woman On The Ledge by Ruth Mancini
Every Move You Make by CL Taylor
Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera
Summer 2024
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
The Edge by David Baldacci
Our Holiday by Louise Candlish
The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris

April 2024
The List by Yomi Adegoke
All Of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins
A Song Of Me & You by Mike Gayle
A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Go as a River by Shelley Read
Spring 2024
The Last Passenger by Will Dean
Over Sharing by Jane Fallon
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
No One Saw A Thing by Andrea Mara
The Trial by Rob Rinder
Winter 2023
Eye For An Eye by MJ Arlidge
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
The Escape by Ruth Kelly
The Last Resort by Heidi Perks

This Could Be Everything by Eva Rice
Freeze by Kate Simants
Autumn 2023
The Traitor by Ava Glass
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz
Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies
If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Summer 2023
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
Love Untold by Ruth Jones
Cat Lady by Dawn O'Porter
The Prisoner by BA Paris

April 2023
Agent Seventeen by John Brownlow
The House in the Woods by Mark Dawson
With A Mind To Kill by Anthony Horowitz
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
The Guilty Couple by CL Taylor
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Spring 2023
The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
The Midnight House by Amanda Geard
Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough
Truly, Darkly, Deeply by Victoria Selman
Stepping Up by Sarah Turner
The Blackbird by Tim Weaver

Winter 2022
The French House by Jacquie Bloese
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
The Match by Harlen Coben
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold
The Favour by Nora Murphy

Autumn 2022
Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay
The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas
The Herd by Emily Edwards
One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner
Little Wing by Freya North
Payday by Celia Walden

Summer 2022
One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke
How To Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott
Never by Ken Follett
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Lily by Rose Tremain
April 2022
Out Of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The Beloved Girls by Harriet Evans
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
Tell Me Your Lies by Kate Ruby
Spring 2022
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Killing Kind by Jane Casey
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson
I Have Something to Tell You by Susan Lewis
The Twins by LV Matthews

Winter 2021
One Hundred Years of Lenni & Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Searcher by Tana French
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
False Witness by Karin Slaughter
Autumn 2021
The Survivors by Jane Harper
A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore
Sugar by Bernice L McFadden
Blackout by Simon Scarrow
Burning Girls by CJ Tudor
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Summer 2021
V2 by Robert Harris
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
That Night by Gillian McAllister
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
When She Was Good by Michael Robotham

April 2021
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Because of You by Dawn French
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter
The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor

Spring 2021
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Playing Nice by JP Delaney
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Sight of You by Holly Miller
The Holdout by Graham Moore
The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

December 2020
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
The Glass House by Eve Chase
Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah
The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd
Just my Luck by Adele Parks
Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

Christmas 2020
The Split by Sharon Bolton
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior
A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs
Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope

Autumn 2020
The Confession by Jessie Burton
Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
The Boy From The Woods by Harlan Coben
Can You Hear Me by Jake Jones
Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
The Heatwave by Kate Riordan

Summer 2020
Queen Bee by Jane Fallon
The Lying Room by Nicci French
Second Sleep by Robert Harris
Expectation by Anna Hope
We Know You Know by Erin Kelly
So Lucky by Dawn O'Porter

Spring 2020
​Half a World Away by Mike Gayle

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
No One Home by Tim Weaver
Winter 2020
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
Autumn 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley
Sleep by CL Taylor
July 2019
​How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran

Absolute Proof by Peter James
One Minute Later by Susan Lewis
The Holiday by TM Logan
Marked for Death by Tony Kent
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton by Anstey Harris
Summer 2019
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

An Unsuitable Woman by Kat Gordon
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadma
Spring 2019
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The Last Thing She Told Me by Linda Green
Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
Now You See Her by Heidi Perks
Winter 2018
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder by Sarah J Harris
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Love, Iris by Elizabeth Noble
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve

Autumn 2018
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
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Summer 2018
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Together by Julie Cohen
The Party by Elizabeth Day
The Wildflowers by Harriet Evans
The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jefferies
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner
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Spring 2018
The Child by Fiona Barton
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Thirst by Jo Nesbø
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown

Autumn 2017
Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
The Betrayals by Fiona Neill
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys


Summer 2017
Miss You by Kate Eberlen
The Trespasser by Tana French
Conclave by Robert Harris
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
 
Spring 2017
I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjork
The Muse by Jessie Burton
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart
 
Autumn 2016
The Widow by Fiona Barton
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
 
Summer 2016
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
According to Yes by Dawn French
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girls by Lisa Jewell
Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink
 
Spring 2016
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
The Samaritan by Mason Cross
Moving by Jenny Eclair
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
 
Autumn 2015
Life After You by Lucie Brownlee
The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
The Ice Twins by SK Tremayne
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
 
Summer 2015
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
Summertime by Vanessa LaFaye
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Us by David Nicholls
 
Spring 2015
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Book of You by Claire Kendal
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
 
Autumn 2014
The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
Under a Mackerel Sky by Rick Stein
The Martian by Andy Weir
 
Summer 2014
Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
Dear Thing by Julie Cohen
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse
 
Spring 2014
Longbourn by Jo Baker
A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
 
Autumn 2013
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
The Twins by Saskia Sarginson
Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver
 
Summer 2013
The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie
Natural Causes by James Oswald
The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
 
Spring 2013
Gold by Chris Cleave
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Dark Winter by David Mark
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
After the Fall by Charity Norman
 
Autumn 2012
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
Fault Line by Robert Goddard
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
Between a Mother and her Child by Elizabeth Noble
Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
 
Summer 2012
The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall
Tideline by Penny Hancock
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
 
Spring 2012
Yesterday's Sun by Amanda Brooke
Midwinter Sacrifice by Mons Kallentoft
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
 
Autumn 2011
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Everything and Nothing by Araminta Hall
Next of Kin by David Hosp
The Blackhouse by Peter May
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
 
Summer 2011
The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzannah Dunn
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
 
Spring 2011
This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
Hothouse Flower by Lucinda Riley
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Trespass by Rose Tremain
 
Winter 2010
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
The Wilding by Maria McCann
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
 
Richard & Judy Book Club
2009
Book of the Year
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
 
List
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway
The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
December by Elizabeth H Winthrop
 
Summer 2009
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
Guernica by Dave Boling
Palace Council by Stephen L Carter
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
The Piano Teacher by Janice YK Lee
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
 
2008
Book of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
 
List
Blood River by Tim Butcher
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Random Acts Of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
 
Summer 2008
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Down River by John Hart
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Addition by Toni Jordan
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
 
2007
Book of the Year
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
 
List
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Restless by William Boyd
This Book Will Save Your Life by AM Homes
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Semi-detached by Griff Rhys Jones
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde
 
Summer 2007
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon
Relentless by Simon Kernick
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
How to talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
 
2006
Book of the Year
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
 
List
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Farm by Richard Benson
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
 
Summer 2006
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
 
2005
Book of the Year
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
 
List
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 
Summer 2005
The Food of Love by Anthony Capella
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
The Laments by George Hagen
The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Good News, Bad News by David Wolstencroft
 
2004
Book of the Year
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
 
List
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Know by Martina Cole
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
The Bookseller of Kabul by Ǻsne Seierstad
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
 
Summer 2004
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen
The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards
Want to Play? by PJ Tracy
 
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