The Books
|
Order |
Book |
Author |
From |
M/F |
Published |
Presented By |
Chosen By |
Date |
|
145 |
The Mountain Lion |
Jean Stafford |
America |
F |
1947 |
Peter |
Peter |
Dec-24 |
|
144 |
The Liar's Dictionary |
Eley Williams |
UK |
F |
2020 |
Theresa |
Theresa |
Oct-24 |
|
143 |
The Fortnight in September |
RC Sherriff |
UK |
M |
1931 |
Brigid |
Brigid |
Sep-24 |
|
142 |
North Woods |
Daniel Mason |
America |
M |
2023 |
Maggie |
Maggie |
Jun-24 |
|
141 |
Bel Ami |
Guy de Maupassant |
France |
M |
1885 |
Charlotte |
Charlotte |
Apr-24 |
|
140 |
Excellent Woman |
Barbara Pym |
UK |
F |
1952 |
Henrietta |
Henrietta |
Mar-24 |
|
139 |
Frankie and Stankie |
Barbara Trapido |
South Africa |
F |
2003 |
Peter |
Group |
Jan-24 |
|
138 |
The Falling Man |
Don DeLillo |
America |
M |
2007 |
Julian |
Julian |
Dec-23 |
|
137 |
Old God's Time |
Sebastian Barry |
Ireland |
M |
2023 |
Theresa |
Group |
Nov-23 |
|
136 |
The Slowworm's Song |
Andrew Miller |
UK |
M |
2022 |
Jeremy* |
Jeremy |
Sep-23 |
|
135 |
Lullaby |
Leila Slimani |
France |
F |
2016 |
Julian |
Group |
Jun-23 |
|
134 |
Antarctica |
Claire Keegan |
Ireland |
F |
2000 |
Theresa |
Theresa |
Apr-23 |
|
133 |
Amongst Women |
John McGahern |
Ireland |
M |
1990 |
Julian |
Julian |
Mar-23 |
|
132 |
The Lowlands |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
India |
F |
2013 |
Maggie |
Group |
Feb-23 |
|
131 |
The Round House |
Louise Erdrich |
America |
F |
2012 |
Jane |
Jane |
Jan-23 |
|
130 |
Lessons |
Ian McEwan |
UK |
M |
2022 |
Peter |
Group |
Dec-22 |
|
129 |
Washington Square |
Henry James |
America |
F |
1880 |
Henrietta |
Group |
Oct-22 |
|
128 |
Oh William |
Elizabeth Strout |
America |
F |
2021 |
Brigid |
Brigid |
Sep-22 |
|
127 |
Light Perpetual |
Francis Spufford |
UK |
M |
2006 |
Jane |
Group |
Jun-22 |
|
126 |
Death and the Penguin |
Andrey Kurkov |
Ukraine |
M |
1996 |
Peter |
Group |
Apr-22 |
|
125 |
The Promise |
Damon Galgut |
South Africa |
M |
2021 |
Jeremy |
Group |
Feb-22 |
|
124 |
Ripley Underground |
Patricia Highsmith |
America |
F |
1970 |
Julian |
Julian |
Nov-21 |
|
123 |
Good Behaviour |
Molly Keane |
Ireland |
F |
1981 |
Charlotte |
Group |
Oct-21 |
|
122 |
To Calais In Ordinary Time |
James Meek |
UK |
M |
2019 |
Julian |
Group |
Sep-21 |
|
121 |
Sanctuary |
William Faulkner |
America |
M |
1931 |
Peter |
Peter |
May-21 |
|
120 |
Weather |
Jenny Offil |
America |
F |
2020 |
Jeremy |
Jeremy |
Apr-21 |
|
119 |
Hamnet |
Maggie O'Farrell |
Ireland |
F |
2020 |
Theresa |
Group |
Feb-21 |
|
118 |
On Chapel Sands |
Laura Cumming |
UK |
F |
2020 |
Julian |
Julian |
Jan-21 |
|
117 |
The Bridge on the Drina |
Ivo Andric |
Yugoslavia |
M |
1945 |
Maggie |
Maggie |
Nov-20 |
|
116 |
Plainsong |
Kent Haruf |
America |
M |
1999 |
Jane |
jane |
Oct-20 |
|
115 |
Girl Woman Other |
Bernadine Evaristo |
UK |
F |
2019 |
Charlotte |
Group |
Aug-20 |
|
114 |
A Complicated Kindness |
Miriam Toews |
Canada |
F |
2004 |
Jeremy |
Jeremy |
Jul-20 |
|
113 |
The House in Paris |
Elizabeth Bowen |
UK |
F |
1949 |
Henrietta |
Henrietta |
May-20 |
|
112 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Anne Bronte |
UK |
F |
1848 |
Brigid |
Brigid |
Apr-20 |
|
111 |
The Secret Scripture |
Sebastian Barry |
Ireland |
M |
2008 |
Julian |
Julian |
Mar-20 |
|
110 |
Fleischman is in Trouble |
Taffy Brodesser Akner |
America |
F |
2019 |
Jan-20 |
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|
109 |
The Underground Railway |
Colson Whitehead |
America |
M |
2016 |
Dec-19 |
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|
108 |
Wise Children |
Angela Carter |
uk |
F |
1991 |
Charlotte |
Charlotte |
Oct-19 |
|
107 |
No Name |
Wilkie Collins |
UK |
M |
1862 |
Sep-19 |
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|
106 |
Under the Volcano |
Malcom Lowry |
UK |
M |
1947 |
|||
|
105 |
The Good Soldier |
Ford Madox Ford |
America |
M |
1915 |
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|
104 |
Crash |
J. G. Ballard |
UK |
M |
1973 |
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|
103 |
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
America |
F |
1920 |
|||
|
102 |
Hardy Poems |
Thomas Hardy |
UK |
M |
1898 |
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|
101 |
Birthday Letters/Sylvia Plath Poems |
Sylvia Plath |
America |
F |
1998 |
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|
100 |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
UK |
M |
2005 |
|||
|
99 |
The Blackwater Lightship |
Colm Toibin |
Ireland |
M |
1999 |
|||
|
98 |
The Road to Oxiana |
Robert Byron |
UK |
M |
1937 |
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|
97 |
At Swim-Two-Birds |
Brian O'Nolan |
Ireland |
M |
1939 |
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|
96 |
North and South |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
UK |
F |
1854 |
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|
95 |
The Brothers Karamazov |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Russia |
M |
1880 |
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|
94 |
The Plot Against America |
Philip Roth |
America |
M |
2004 |
|||
|
93 |
Far From the Madding Crowd |
Thomas Hardy |
UK |
M |
1874 |
|||
|
92 |
White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
America |
M |
1985 |
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|
91 |
Devil in a Blue Dress |
Walter Mosley |
america |
M |
1990 |
|||
|
90 |
Revolutionary Road |
Richard Yates |
America |
M |
1961 |
|||
|
89 |
Persuasion |
Jane Austen |
UK |
F |
1817 |
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|
88 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
America |
F |
1987 |
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|
87 |
Northern Lights |
Philip Pullman |
UK |
M |
1995 |
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|
86 |
Fugitive Pieces |
Anne Michaels |
Canada |
F |
1996 |
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|
85 |
Gogol’s Stories |
Nikolai Gogol |
Russia |
M |
1836 |
Peter |
Peter |
Jun-15 |
|
84 |
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
India |
M |
1981 |
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|
83 |
The Wine Dark Sea |
Patrick O'Brian |
UK |
M |
1993 |
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|
82 |
A View of the Harbour |
Elizabeth Taylor |
UK |
F |
1947 |
Henrietta |
Henrietta |
|
|
81 |
A Bend in the River |
V. S Naipaul |
India |
M |
1979 |
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|
80 |
Jack Maggs |
Peter Carey |
Australia |
M |
1997 |
|||
|
79 |
Journey by Moonlight |
Antal Szerb |
Hungary |
M |
1937 |
|||
|
78 |
The Master |
Colm Toibin |
Ireland |
M |
2004 |
|||
|
77 |
The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
America |
M |
1850 |
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|
76 |
Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
America |
M |
1997 |
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|
75 |
Gobseck |
Honore de Balzac |
France |
M |
1830 |
Oct-14 |
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|
74 |
The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
India |
M |
2008 |
|||
|
73 |
Butcher’s Crossing |
John Williams |
America |
M |
1960 |
|||
|
72 |
A Patchwork Planet |
Anne Tyler |
America |
F |
1998 |
|||
|
71 |
A Spool of Blue Thread |
Anne Tyler |
America |
F |
2015 |
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|
70 |
The Human Comedy |
William Saroyan |
America |
M |
1943 |
|||
|
69 |
New Grubb Street |
George Gissing |
UK |
M |
1891 |
|||
|
68 |
The Idiot |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Russia |
M |
1869 |
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|
67 |
The Odd Women |
George Gissing |
UK |
M |
1893 |
Peter |
Peter |
Jun-14 |
|
66 |
The Magic Mountain |
Thomas Mann |
Germany |
M |
1924 |
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|
65 |
Manservant and Maidservant |
Ivy Compton-Burnett |
UK |
F |
1947 |
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|
64 |
To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
UK |
F |
1927 |
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|
63 |
What is the What? |
Dave Eggers |
America |
M |
2006 |
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|
62 |
Dr Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
Russia |
M |
1957 |
|||
|
61 |
Murphy |
Samuel Beckett |
Ireland |
M |
1938 |
|||
|
60 |
Life of Wittgenstein |
Witgenstein |
Germany |
M |
1920 |
|||
|
59 |
The End of the Affair |
Graham Greene |
UK |
M |
1951 |
|||
|
58 |
The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
UK |
M |
2004 |
|||
|
57 |
Freedom |
Jonathan Franzen |
America |
M |
2010 |
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|
56 |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
America |
M |
2001 |
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|
55 |
Canada |
Richard Ford |
America |
M |
2012 |
|||
|
54 |
Be Near Me |
Andrew O'Hagan |
UK |
M |
2006 |
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|
53 |
The Yellow Birds |
Kevin Powers |
America |
M |
2012 |
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|
52 |
War and Peace |
Tolstoy |
Russia |
M |
1869 |
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|
51 |
Isaac Babel stories |
Isaac Babel |
Russia |
M |
1916 |
Peter |
Peter |
Dec-12 |
|
50 |
Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
America |
M |
1884 |
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|
49 |
The Master and Margarita |
Mikhail Bulgakov |
Russia |
M |
1930 |
John |
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|
48 |
The Ladies’ Paradise |
Emile Zola |
France |
M |
1882 |
|||
|
47 |
The Custom of the Country |
Edith Wharton |
America |
F |
1913 |
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|
46 |
Ridley Walker |
Russell Hoban |
America |
M |
1980 |
|||
|
45 |
The Prime Minister |
Anthony Trollope |
UK |
M |
1876 |
|||
|
44 |
The Yacoubian Building |
Alaa Al Aswany |
Egypt |
M |
2002 |
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|
43 |
The Story of Lucy Gault |
William Trevor |
Ireland |
M |
2002 |
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|
42 |
Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
UK |
F |
1954 |
|||
|
41 |
By the Sea |
Abdulrazak Gurnah |
Tanzania |
M |
2001 |
|||
|
40 |
Rodinsky’s Room |
Rachel Lichtenstein |
UK |
F |
1999 |
|||
|
39 |
Hangover Square |
Patrick Hamilton |
UK |
M |
1941 |
|||
|
38 |
Faith Fox |
Jane Gardam |
UK |
F |
1996 |
|||
|
37 |
Stoner |
John Williams |
America |
M |
1965 |
|||
|
36 |
Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories |
Katherine Mansfield |
New Zealand |
F |
1922 |
Peter |
Group |
May-11 |
|
35 |
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches |
Gaetan Soucy |
Canada |
M |
2004 |
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|
34 |
Bad Blood |
John Carreyrou |
America |
M |
2018 |
|||
|
33 |
Fathers and Sons |
Ivan Turgenev |
Russia |
M |
1862 |
|||
|
32 |
Father and Son |
Edmund Gosse |
UK |
M |
1907 |
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|
31 |
The House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton |
UK |
F |
1905 |
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|
30 |
Mr Norris Changes Trains |
Christopher Isherwood |
UK |
M |
1935 |
Peter |
May-10 |
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29 |
What Maisie Knew |
Henry James |
America |
M |
1897 |
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|
28 |
Slaughter House Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
America |
M |
1969 |
|||
|
27 |
The Children Act |
Ian McEwan |
UK |
M |
2014 |
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|
26 |
The Children |
Edith Wharton |
America |
F |
1928 |
Charlotte |
Charlotte |
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|
25 |
What Good Are the Arts? |
John Carey |
UK |
M |
2005 |
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|
24 |
Effie Briest |
Theodore Fontane |
Germany |
M |
1895 |
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|
23 |
Runaway |
Alice Munro |
Canada |
F |
2004 |
|||
|
22 |
I Married a Communist |
Philip Roth |
America |
M |
1998 |
|||
|
21 |
The Human Stain |
Philip Roth |
America |
M |
2000 |
|||
|
20 |
American Pastoral |
Philip Roth |
America |
M |
1996 |
|||
|
19 |
Mrs Bridge |
Evan S. Connell |
America |
M |
1959 |
|||
|
18 |
Decline and Fall |
Evelyn Waugh |
UK |
M |
2000 |
|||
|
17 |
Rabbit Redux |
John Updike |
America |
M |
1971 |
|||
|
16 |
The Reader |
Bernhard Schlink |
Germany |
M |
1995 |
|||
|
15 |
Humboldt’s Gift |
Saul Bellow |
America |
M |
1975 |
|||
|
14 |
Liber Amoris |
William Hazlitt |
UK |
M |
1823 |
|||
|
13 |
The Blue Flower |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
UK |
F |
1995 |
|||
|
12 |
The Sportswriter |
Richard Ford |
America |
M |
1986 |
|||
|
11 |
The Way We Live Now |
Anthony Trollope |
UK |
M |
1875 |
|||
|
10 |
Measuring Time |
Helon Habila |
Nigeria |
F |
2008 |
|||
|
9 |
Annie’s Box |
Randal Keynes |
UK |
M |
2001 |
|||
|
8 |
My Antonia |
Willa Cather |
America |
F |
1918 |
|||
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7 |
Small Island |
Andrea Levy |
UK |
F |
2004 |
|||
|
6 |
Ghostwritten |
David Mitchell |
UK |
M |
1999 |
|||
|
5 |
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
Jennifer Egan |
America |
F |
2010 |
|||
|
4 |
The Master and his Emissary |
Iain McGilchrist |
UK |
M |
2009 |
John |
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3 |
Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
UK |
M |
1900 |
|||
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2 |
The Buried Giant |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
UK |
M |
2015 |
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1 |
Asylum |
Patrick McGrath |
UK |
M |
1998 |
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