Here’s everything we’ve read together – quite a range in terms of genre, style and theme.
The only criteria we set are: the book has to be available in paperback and survive the voting.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 253 | Geoff Ryman |
| 31 Songs | Nick Hornby |
| 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem | Ruth Padel |
| Abbess of Crewe, The | Muriel Spark |
| Agent Zigzag | Ben MacIntyre |
| All Families Are Psychotic | Douglas Coupland |
| All Involved | Ryan Gattis |
| All Points North | Simon Armitage |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
| Alone in Berlin | Hans Fallada |
| Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The | Michael Chabon |
| American Tabloid | James Ellroy |
| Angel | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Anti-Social | Nick Pettigrew |
| Arthur and George | Julian Barnes |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Attention All Shipping; A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast | Charlie Connolly |
| Audacity of Hope, The | Barack Obama |
| Auntie Mame | Patrick Dennis |
| Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution | Laurence Rees |
| Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The | Carson McCullers |
| Bear Comes Home, The | Rafi Zabor |
| Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter |
| Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Birds of America | Lorrie Moore |
| Birthday Letters | Ted Hughes |
| Black Book, The | Orhan Pamuk |
| Black Diamonds | Catherine Bailey |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| Blind Assassin, The | Margaret Attwood |
| Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The | Milan Kundera |
| Book of Sheffield, The | Various |
| Book Thief, The | Marcus Zusak |
| Boys in the Boat, The | Daniel James Brown |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Brick Lane | Monica Ali |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene |
| Burrow | Manzu Islam |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown |
| By Heart, 101 Poems | Ted Hughes ed. |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Berniere |
| Carol | Patricia Highsmith |
| Casino Royale | Ian Fleming |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| Chalk Circle Man, The | Fred Vargas |
| Chavs; the Demonisation of the Working Class | Owen Jones |
| Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith |
| China Bird, The | Bryony Doran |
| Chronicles Vol. 1 | Bob Dylan |
| Circe | Madeline Miller |
| Cleaner of Chartres, The | Sally Vickers |
| Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys Boys, Boys | Viv Albertine |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| Coin Locker Babies | Ryu Murakami |
| Columbine | Dave Cullen |
| Conclave | Robert Harris |
| Cone Gatherers, The | Robin Jenkins |
| Constant Gardener, The | John Le Carre |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata |
| Corrections, The | Jonathan Franzen |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Crowded Street, The | Winifred Holtby |
| Cruising Paradise | Sam Shepard |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The | Mark Haddon |
| Day of the Triffids, The | John Wyndham |
| Day the Falls Stood Still, The | Cathy Marie Buchanan |
| Days Without End | Sebastian Barry |
| Dear Tom, Letters from Home | Tom Courtney |
| Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov |
| Debt to Pleasure, The | John Lanchester |
| Diana | Julie Burchill |
| Digging to America | Anne Tyler |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler |
| Disgrace | JM Coetzee |
| Dispossessed, The | Ursula K Le Guin |
| Divided Soul : The Life of Marvin Gaye | David Ritz |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K Dick |
| Doctor’s Wife, The | Brian Moore |
| Doll Factory, The | Elizabeth McNeal |
| Dr Haggard’s Disease | Patrick McGrath |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Drawing Blood | Poppy Z Brite |
| Dutch House, The | Ann Patchett |
| East West Street | Philippe Sands |
| Easy Peasy | Lesley Glaister |
| Eileen | Otessa Moshfegh |
| Elegance of the Hedgehog, The | Muriel Barbery |
| Ella Minnow Pea | Mark Dunn |
| Elmet | Fiona Mozley |
| Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat, The | Ryszard Kapuscinski |
| End of Mr Y, The | Scarlett Thomas |
| End of the Affair, The | Graham Greene |
| Essex Serpent, The | Sarah Perry |
| Exposure | Helen Dunmore |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Fall, The | Claire McGowan |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| Fatal Englishman, The | Sebastian Faulks |
| Fatherland | Robert Harris |
| Fault in Our Stars, The | John Green |
| Fifty Fifty | Steve Cavanagh |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters |
| Firewatching | Russ Thomas |
| Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain | Barney Norris |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| French Lieutenant’s Woman, The | John Fowles |
| Frost in May | Antonia White |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels |
| Galileo’s Daughter | Dava Sobel |
| Gentleman in Moscow, A | Amor Towles |
| Girl on the Train, The | Paula Hawkins |
| Girl With the Pearl Earring, The | Tracy Chevalier |
| Glorious Heresies, The | Lisa McInerney |
| Go Between, The | LP Hartley |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| God in Ruins, A | Kate Atkinson |
| God of Small Things, The | Arundhati Roy |
| Golden Hill | Francis Spufford |
| Good Man is Hard to Find, A | Flannery O’Connor |
| Good Soldier, The | Ford Madox Ford |
| Grass is Singing, The | Doris Lessing |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| Guernica | Dave Boling |
| Gum Thief, The | Douglas Coupland |
| Half Blood Blues | Esi Edugyan |
| Hallucinating Foucault | Patricia Duncker |
| Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | JK Rowling |
| His Bloody Project | Graeme Macrae Burnet |
| History Man, The | Malcolm Bradbury |
| Hobbit, The | JRR Tolkein |
| Hood | Emma Donoghue |
| Hours, The (and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) | Michael Cunningham |
| House Gun, The | Nadine Gordimer |
| House of the Spirits, The | Isabel Allende |
| Housekeeping | Marilyn Robinson |
| How Not to be a Boy | Robert Webb |
| How to be a Woman | Caitlin Moran |
| Human Croquet | Kate Atkinson |
| Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The | Jonas Jonasson |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris: Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry | Leanne Shapton |
| Imposters, The | Tom Rachman |
| In Patagonia | Bruce Chatwin |
| Insult, The | Rupert Thomson |
| Interpreter, The | Suki Kim |
| Iris | John Bayley |
| Isle of Joy | Don Winslow |
| Jar City | Arnaldur Indridason |
| Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware |
| Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell | Susannah Clarke |
| Karl Marx | Francis Wheen |
| Kite Runner, The | Khaled Hosseini |
| Kolymsky Heights | Lionel Davidson |
| LA Confidential | James Ellroy |
| Lacuna, The | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Ladies of Grace Adieu, The | Susannah Clarke |
| Last Days of Leda Grey, The | Essie Fox |
| Last Orders | Graham Swift |
| Last Resort, The | Alison Lurie |
| Leopard, The | Giuseppe di Lampedusa |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Choderlos de Laclos |
| Les Parisiennes | Anne Sebba |
| Levanter, The | Eric Ambler |
| Light in August | William Faulkner |
| Light of Day, The | Graham Swift |
| Little Friend, The | Donna Tartt |
| Little Infamies | Panos Karnezis |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Loney, The | Andrew Michael Hurley |
| Long Firm, The | Jake Arnott |
| Long View, The | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| Look Who’s Back | Timur Vermes |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Lovely Bones, The | Alice Sebold |
| Lullaby Beach | Stella Duffy |
| Luminaries, The | Eleanor Catton |
| Man Crazy | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Manningtree Witches, The | AK Blakemore |
| Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser |
| Member of the Wedding, The | Carson McCullers |
| Merivel: A Man of His Time | Rose Tremain |
| Metroland | Julian Barnes |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| Midwives | Chris Bohjalian |
| Ministry of Fear, The | Graham Greene |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Monkey Among Crocodiles, A | Brian Thompson |
| Morality Play | Barry Unsworth |
| Mornings in Jenin | Susan Abulhawa |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem |
| Mr Palomar | Italo Calvino |
| Much Depends On Dinner | Margaret Visser |
| Murder of Quality, A | John Le Carré |
| My Absolute Darling | Gabriel Tallent |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather |
| My Brilliant Career | Miles Franklin |
| My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite |
| Name of the Rose, The | Umberto Eco |
| Narrow Road to the Deep North, The | Richard Flanagan |
| Nature of Blood, The | Caryl Phillips |
| Necropolis Railway, The | Andrew Martin |
| Never Coming Back | Tim Weaver |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| New York Trilogy, The | Paul Auster |
| Next Life Might Be Kinder | Howard Norman |
| Night Listener, The | Armistead Maupin |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Pascal Mercier |
| No Logo | Naomi Klein |
| No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, The | Alexander McCall-Smith |
| North Woods | Daniel Mason |
| Northanger Abbey | Val McDermid |
| Northern Lights | Phillip Pullman |
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
| Notes from an Exhibition | Patrick Gale |
| Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller |
| Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick |
| Novel On Yellow Paper | Stevie Smith |
| Olive Kitteridge | Elisabeth Strout |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| One for the Money | Janet Evanovich |
| Ordinary Thunderstorms | William Boyd |
| Out of Bounds | Val McDermid |
| Outsider, The | Albert Camus |
| Overstory, The | Richard Powers |
| Paris Trout | Pete Dexter |
| Passenger, The | Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz |
| Perfect Storm, The | Sebastian Junger |
| Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, The | Clarissa Goenawan |
| Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathan Fairfax, The | Christopher Shevlin |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi |
| Playing to the Gallery | Grayson Perry |
| Possession | AS Byatt |
| Postman Always Rings Twice, The | James M Cain |
| Prayer for Owen Meany, A | John Irving |
| Pride & Prejudice & Zombies | Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith |
| Problemski Hotel | Dimitri Verhulst |
| Property | Valerie Martin |
| Pure | Andrew Miller |
| Pursuit of Happiness, The | Douglas Kennedy |
| Queen’s Fool, The | Philippa Gregory |
| Queen of the Tambourine | Jane Gardam |
| Reader, The | Bernhard Schlink |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| Red Plenty | Francis Spufford |
| Right Stuff, The | Tom Wolfe |
| Rings of Saturn | WG Sebald |
| Road, The | Cormac McCarthy |
| Room | Emma Donoghue |
| Round Heeled Woman, A | Jane Juska |
| Russian Interpreter, The | Michael Frayn |
| Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth |
| Safekeep, The | Yael van der Wouden |
| Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | Claire Tomalin |
| Saturday | Ian McEwan |
| Secret Hours, The | Mick Herron |
| Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The | Stuart Turton |
| Sexing the Cherry | Jeanette Winterson |
| Shadow of the Wind, The | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts |
| Shock of the Fall, The | Nathan Filer |
| Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, A | Marina Lewycka |
| Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Silk | Alessandro Barico |
| Silverview | John Le Carré |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Sixteen Trees of the Somme, The | Lars Mytting |
| Slade House | David Mitchell |
| Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan |
| Solar Bones | Mike McCormack |
| Song of Achilles, The | Madeline Miller |
| Spanish Steps | Tim Moore |
| Spies | Michael Frayn |
| Spy Who Came in From the Cold, The | John le Carré |
| Station Eleven | Emily St John Mandel |
| Still Life | Sarah Winman |
| Stirrings, The – A Memoir in Northern Time | Catherine Taylor |
| Storied Life of AJ Fikry, The | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Stranger’s Child, The | Alan Hollinghurst |
| Stupid White Men | Michael Moore |
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Summer Book, The | Tove Jansson |
| Super Sad True Love Story | Gary Shteyngart |
| Swim in a Pond in the Rain, A | George Saunders |
| Ten Men Dead | David Beresford |
| Tender is the Night | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Testament of Jessie Lamb, The | Jane Rogers |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance | Richard Powers |
| Thursday Murder Club, The | Richard Osman |
| Tie That Binds, The | Kent Haruf |
| Time Traveler’s Wife, The | Audrey Niffenegger |
| Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, The | Ian Mortimer |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Tortilla Curtain, The | T Coraghessan Boyle |
| Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, The | Joël Dikker |
| Two Brothers | Ben Elton |
| Two Guys From Verona | James Kaplan |
| Under the Frog | Tibor Fischer |
| Under the Skin | Michel Faber |
| Underground Railroad, The | Colson Whitehead |
| Unfeeling | Ian Holding |
| Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The | Rachel Joyce |
| Unsheltered | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Vanishing Half, The | Brit Bennett |
| Vaporetto 13 | Robert Girardi |
| Venomous Lumpsucker | Ned Beauman |
| Voss | Patrick White |
| Vox | Christina Dalcher |
| Wandering Souls | Cecile Pin |
| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver |
| What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt |
| What Was Lost | Catherine O’Flynn |
| When We Were Bad | Charlotte Mendelson |
| When We Were Orphans | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Where I’m Calling From | Raymond Carver |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens |
| Where Three Roads Meet | Salley Vickers |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang |
| Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| Woman in Black, The | Susan Hill |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Year of Magical Thinking, The | Joan Didion |
| Year of the Runaways, The | Sunjeev Sahota |
| Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
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