Reading

2024
The trumpeter of Krakow – Eric P. Kelly
The Christmas guest – Peter Swanson
All the colours of the dark – Chris Whitaker
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The ministry of time – Kaliane Bradley
Down cemetery road – Mick Herron
Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
A good place to hide a body – Laura Marshall
Gabriel’s moon – William Boyd
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
A voyage around the Queen – Craig Brown
Deadly animals – Marie Tierney
Strange flowers – Donal Ryan
D is for death – Harriet F Townson
Frank and Red – Matt Coyne
Death at the sign of the rook – Kate Atkinson
The end of summer – Charlotte Philby
The understudy – David Nicholls
The year of the locust – Terry Hayes
The inimitable Jeeves – PG Wodehouse
Wild olives – William Graves
The boy from the woods – Harlan Coben
A change of circumstance – Susan Hill
Kala – Colin Walsh
The Phoenix ballroom – Ruth Hogan
Big sky – Kate Atkinson
Ordinary time – Cathy Rentzenbrink
Started early, took my dog – Kate Atkinson
When will there be good news? – Kate Atkinson
One good turn – Kate Atkinson
Case histories – Kate Atkinson
How to solve murders like a lady – Hannah Dolby
Piglet – Lottie Hazell
The actor – Chris MacDonald
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The husbands – Holly Gramazio
Glorious exploits – Ferdia Lennon
The last word – Elly Griffiths
The hours – Michael Cunningham
The man who died twice – Richard Osman
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The women could fly – Megan Giddings
Wifedom – Anna Funder
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day – Winifred Watson
The emperor’s babe – Bernadine Evaristo
Happiness falls – Angie Kim
Isaac and the Egg – Bobby Palmer
Unprocessed (audio)- Kimberley Wilson
Delicacy – Katy Wix
North Woods – Daniel Mason
Days at the morisaki bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
The last list of Mabel Beaumont – Laura Pearson
The decagon house murders – Yukito Ayatsuji
My year of meats – Ruth Ozeki
The accidental detectorist – Nigel Richardson
The three dahlias – Katy Watson
A Christmas party – Georgette Heyer
Leave the world behind – Rumen Alam

2023
Tick tock – Simon Mayo
Went to London, took the dog – Nina Stibbe
Difficult women (audio) – Helen Lewis
Untold love – Ruth Jones
The 12 days of murder – Andreina Cordani
Running like a girl (audio) – Alexandra Heminsley
Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention – Johann Hari
The library of the dead – TL Huchu
The amber fury – Natalie Haynes
Assembly – Natasha Brown
Our spoons came from Woolworths – Barbara Comyns
The ink black heart – Robert Galbraith
Below stairs – Margaret Powell
When the dust settles (audio) – Lucy Easthope
The list – Yomi Adegoke
The book of form and emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
The house keepers – Alex Hay
The girls of summer – Katie Bishop
False witness – Karin Slaughter
Thirsty animals – Rachelle Atalla
How Iceland changed the world – Egill Bjarnason
The woods – Harlan Coben
Old baggage – Lissa Evans
The mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Wish you were here – Jodi Picoult
Birnam wood – Eleanor Catton
George (audio) – Frieda Hughes
The road – Cormac McCarthy
Cleopatra and Frankenstein – Coco Mellors
Gallows view – Peter Robinson
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Homecoming – Kate Morton
The fever of the world – Phil Rickman
Hags – Victoria Smith
No life for a lady – Hannah Dolby
The silence of the girls – Pat Barker
Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent
Nothing stays buried – PJ Tracy
The theory of (not quite) everything – Kara Gnodde
Femlandia – Christina Dalcher
Lowborn – Kerry Hudson
City of the lost – Kelley Armstrong
All the beauty in the world (audio) – Patrick Bringley
Old babes in the wood – Margaret Atwood
Old god’s time – Sebastian Barry
The bandit queens – Parini Shroff
Land of plenty – Charlie Pye-Smith
The things we do to our friends – Heather Darwent
Slow horses – Mick Herron
Bleeding heart yard – Elly Griffiths
A thousand ships (audio) – Natalie Haynes
Mothers boy – Patrick Gale
Dark, salt, clear – Lamorna Ash
The Anna Karenina fix – Viv Groskop
Take my hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Cannery row – John Steinbeck
The postscript murders – Elly Griffiths
The marriage portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
Grave’s end – William Shaw
The Christmas chronicles – Nigel Slater
The stranger diaries – Elly Griffiths
Devotion – Hannah Kent
Wintering – Katherine May
A slow flame burning – Paula Hawkins
The murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Deadland – William Shaw
The seven moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka

2022
Silent scream – Angela Marsons
Gaudy night – Dorothy L Sayers
The distant echo – Val McDermid
Stone Blind (audio) – Natalie Haynes
The island of missing trees – Elif Shafak
Growing goats and girls – Rosanne Hodin
1979 – Val McDermid
Shrines of gaiety – Kate Atkinson
The appeal – Janice Hallett
The light years – Elizabeth Jane Howard
The house on vesper sands – Paraic O’Donnell
A tidy ending – Joanna Cannon
My name is Lucy Barton- Elizabeth Strout
Nomadland – Jessica Bruder
Find them dead – Peter James
Malibu rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cult classic – Sloane Crosley
Dreaming the eagle – Manda Scott
Found – Erin Kinsley
Freakonomics – Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
Diplomatic baggage – Brigid Keenan
The gran tour (audio) – Ben Aitken
Before the coffee gets cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The marmalade diaries (audio) – Ben Aitken
Hideous kinky – Esther Freud
London, with love- Sarra Manning
Stillhouse lake – Rachel Caine
The death of faith – Donna Leon
Lessons in chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
The big sleep (audio) – Raymond Chandler
Salt lane – William Shaw
Troubled blood – Robert Galbraith
High ground and other stories – John McGahern
Slammerkin – Emma Donaghue
In the woods – Tana French
English passengers – Matthew Kneale
Did I say that out loud? – Fi Glover and Jane Garvey
All that remains – Sue Black
The searcher – Tana French
The familiars – Stacey Halls
All of a winter’s night – Phil Rickman
The wreckage of my presence (audio) – Casey Wilson
The wicked cometh – Laura Carlin
The magicians – Lev Grossman
The monogram murders – Sophie Hannah
The sound of laughter (audio) – Peter Kay
A place called winter – Patrick Gale

2021

A gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
The fell – Sarah Moss
The husband’s secret – Liane Moriarty
Conversations with friends – Sally Rooney
Maybe you should talk to someone – Lori Gottlieb
The night she disappeared – Lisa Jewell
Project hail Mary (audio) – Andy Weir
Madame Burova – Ruth Hogan
The Janus stone – Elly Griffiths
When we were orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
Looking good dead – Peter James
Re-educated – Lucy Kellaway
Battle hymn of the tiger mother – Amy Chua
Girl, woman, other – Bernadine Evaristo
Where the wild ladies are – Aoko Matsuda
Ferryman – Claire McFall
Friends of the dusk – Phil Rickman
The crossing places- Elly Griffiths
Lab girl – Hope Jahren
Pop goes the weasel – MJ Arlidge
Every day is mother’s day – Hilary Mantel
11.22.63 – Stephen King
Eight detectives -Alex Pavesi
The code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
The huntress – Kate Quinn
Don’t let me in – Phil Kurthausen
Alanna, the first adventure – Tamora Pierce
The heart’s invisible furies – John Boyne
The honjin murders – Seishi Yokomizo
After you’d gone – Maggie O’Farrell
The girl with the loading voice – Abi Daré
Untamed – Glennon Doyle
The midnight library – Matt Haig
The house in the cerulean sea – TJ Klune
Small pleasures – Clare Chambers
The October man – Ben Aaaranovitch
When red meets black – Qiu Xiaolong
Jane and Prudence – Barbara Pym
We should get together – Kat Vellos
Ten green bottles – Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Becoming (audio) – Michelle Obama
The salt path – Raynor Winn
Ghosts – Dolly Alderton
History of wolves – Emily Fridlund
Strange weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami
A bird in the hand -Anne Cleeves
The island of sea women – Lisa See
Death’s end – Cixin Liu

2020
The house of Susan Lulham – Phil Rickman
The Thursday murder club – Richard Osman
Christmas is murder – Val McDermid
The art of rest – Claudia Hammond
Apple tree yard – Louise Doughty
Shine, Pamela! Shine! – Kate Atkinson
The dutch house – Ann Patchett
Thank you, Jeeves – PG Wodehouse
Poppyland – Raffaella Barker
The dark forest – Cixin Liu
Circe – Madeline Miller
The three-body problem – Cixin Liu
Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
American dirt – Jeanine Cummins
Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
Talking to my daughter: a brief history of capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis
The couple next door – Shari Lapina
The message – Mai Jia
The antidote – Oliver Burkeman
The magpie murders – Anthony Horowitz
Three things about Elsie – Joanne Cannon
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
The overdue life of Amy Byler – Kelly Harms
Killing the shadows -Val McDermid
Boy swallows universe – Trent Dalton
Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
The bedlam stacks – Natasha Pulley
Names for the sea – Sarah Moss
Where the crawdads sing – Delia Owens
The psychology of time travel – Kate Mascarenhas
The cruellest month – Louise Penny
The diary of a bookseller – Shaun Bythell
Hens dancing – Raffaella Barker
The world of wolf hall –
The mirror and the light – Hilary Mantel
Bring up the bodies – Hilary Mantel
Wolf hall – Hilary Mantel
Acqua Alta – Donna Leon
Cop town – Karin Slaughter
The luminaries – Eleanor Catton
The season of the witch – Arni Thorarinsson
Educated – Tara Westover
Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death – James Runcie
Northern lights – Philip Pullman

2019
The meaning of rice – Michael Booth
One day in December – Josie Silver
Three women – Lisa Taddeo
Vinegar girl – Anne Tyler
Etiquette and espionage – Gail Carriger
The truants – Kate Weinberg
City of devils – Paul French
Ordinary grace – William Kent Krueger
Big magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
The promise – Teresa Driscoll
Nutshell – Ian McEwan
Sweet sorrow – David Mitchell
A fatal grace – Louise Penny
Pretty girl in crimson rose – Sandy Balfour
The benefit of hindsight – Susan Hill
Is that fat foreigner rich? – Graeme Allen
The broken girls – Simone St James
Mao’s last dancer – Li Cunxin
Queen Malone’s paradise hotel – Ruth Hogan
What you did – Claire McGowan
Revenge – Susan Hill
The carer – Deborah Moggach
Secret service – Tom Bradby
A friend of the family – Lisa Jewell
The pearl that broke its shell – Nadia Hashimi
City of girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
An American marriage – Tayari Jones
Because internet – Gretchen McCulloch
Edge of nowhere – Michael Ridpath
The tidal zone – Sarah Moss
The magus of Hay – Phil Rickman
Big sky – Kate Atkinson
When all is said – Anne Griffin
Whisky from small glasses – Denzil Meyrick
In the days of rain – Rebecca Stott
My sister the serial killer – Oyinkan Braithwate
Empire of the sun – JG Ballard
Ma’am darling – Craig Brown
The uncommon reader – Alan Bennett
The girl on the page – John Purcell
The binding – Bridget Collins
Burial rites – Hannah Kent
No tomorrow – Luke Jennings
Codename Villanelle – Luke Jennings
Bookworm – Lucy Mangan
Normal people – Sally Rooney
A loyal character dancer – Qiu Xiaolong
Crazy rich asians – Kevin Kwan
Tangerine – Christine Mangan
Lies sleeping – Ben Aaranovitch
The storyteller – Jodi Picoult
Dead simple – Peter James
Still life – Louise Penney
Transcription – Kate Atkinson
The immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
The ghost – Robert Harris
Tooth for a tooth – TF Muir
The trauma cleaner – Sarah Krasnostein
The good daughter – Karin Slaughter
Skin deep – Liz Nugent
To dream of the dead – Phil Rickman
The shock of the fall – Nathan Filer
Middle England – Jonathan Coe
The keeper of lost things – Ruth Hogan
Snow flower and the secret fan – Lisa See
Ghost wall – Sarah Moss

2018
Cold kill – PJ Tracy
Cold earth – Sarah Moss
Nore mythology – Neil Gaiman
For all the tea in China – Sarah Rose
The woman in the window – AJ Finn
The comforts of home – Susan Hill
The tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
Shark’s fin and Sichuan pepper – Fuchsia Dunlop
We are called to rise – Laura McBride
Death of a red heroine – Qiu Xiaolong
Emma – Jane Austen
Lethal white – Robert Galbraith
Last train to Istanbul – Ayse Kulin
Aberystwyth mon amour – Malcolm Pryce
Street of Eternal Happiness – Rob Schmitz
I found you – Lisa Jewell
Thirteen – Steve Cavanagh
Thetruth about the Harry Quebert affair – Joel Dicker
Hand for a hand – TF Muir
The wildflowers – Harriet Evans
Whistle in the dark – Emma Healey
Sweet pea – CJ Skuse
The swimming pool – Louise Candlish
This is going to hurt – Adam Kay
Signs for lost children – Sarah moss
Little fires everywhere – Celeste Ng
The hunger games – Suzanne Collins
The soul of discretion – Susan Hill
Barbarian days – William Finnegan
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susannah Clarke
I am I am I am – Maggie O’Farrell
Friend request – Laura Marshall
Don’t let go – Harlan Coben
The fabric of sin – Phil Rickman
The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
The first emperor of China – Jonathan Clements
A long way gone – Ishmael Beah
Central reservation – Will le Fleming
The hog’s back mystery – Freeman Wills Croft
Paradise Lodge – Nina Stibbe
Tony and Susan – Austin Wright
A breach of security – Susan Hill
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine – Gail Honeyman
The sunne in splendour – Sharon Penman
Eat, pray, love – Elizabeth Gilbert
The furthest station – Ben Aaranovitch

2017
A Venetian reckoning – Donna Leon
See you in September – Charity Norman
A quiet life in the country – TE Kinsey
The watch – Tyner Gillies
The break – Marian Keyes
The binding chair – Kathryn Harrison
The remains of an altar – Phil Rickman
The girl before – JP Delaney
Freelancing on the road – Rachel Stuckey
The fire maker – Peter May
Eligible – Curtis Sittenfeld
The hand that first held mine – Maggie O’Farrell
Crimes against a book club – Kathy Cooperman
Last bus to Woodstock – Colin Dexter
Hearthstone – CJ Sansom
The smile of a ghost – Phil Rickman
The Sunday philosophy club – Alexander McCall Smith
Wideacre – Philippa Gregory
I am pilgrim – Terry Hayes
Get your sh*t together – Sarah Knight
First frost – Sarah Addison Allen
Misunderstood – the impact of growing up overseas in the 21st century – Tanya Crossman
I see you – Claire Mackintosh
A tale for the time being – Ruth Ozeki
Deep work – Cal Newport
The power – Naomi Alderman
Dragon springs road – Janie Chang
The stranger – Harlan Coben
Black water lilies – Michel Bussi
Winging it – Annie Dalton
Home – Harlan Coben
The body – Stephen King
Verdigris deep – Frances Hardinge
A room with a view – EM Forster
The ice twins – SK Tremayne
wild – Cheryl Strayed
Disobedience – Naomi Alderman
A thousand days in Venice – Marlena da Blasi
The loney- Andrew Michael Hurley
Everything I never told you – Celeste Ng
Coffin road – Peter May
When breath becomes air – Paul Kalanithi
A place of execution – Val McDermid
The forgetting time – Sharon Guskin
Un Lun dun- China Mieville
The good neighbor – AJ Banner
Bodies of light – Sarah Moss

2016

A question of identity – Susan Hill
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – Agatha Christie
Beyond black – Hilary Mantel
The betrayal of trust – Susan Hill
The moonstone – Wilkie Collins
The shadows in the street – Susan Hill
The vows of silence – Susan Hill
Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children – Ransom Riggs
Notes from an exhibition – Patrick Gale
Slade house – David Mitchell
This must be the place – Maggie O’Farrell
Spectacles – Sue Perkins
The amber shadows – Lucy Ribchester
The glorious heresies – Lisa McInerney
The risk of darkness – Susan Hill
War and peace – – Leo Tolstoy
The pure in heart – Susan Hill
Black light – KA Bedford
The various haunts of men – Susan Hill
Cursed – Benedict Jacka
Bridget Jones mad about the boys – Helen Fielding
The spy who came in from the cold –Kohn le Carré
Six four – Hideo Yokoyama
Bad food Britain – Joanna Blythman
The prayer of the night shepherd – Phil Rickman
Behind the scenes at the museum – Kate Atkinson
The shepherd’s crown – Terry Pratchett
Behind closed doors – Elizabeth Haynes
City of bones – Cassandra Clare
Rush oh! Shirley Barrett
The hunt = TJ Lebbon
The watchmaker of filigree street – Natasha Pulley
Pretty girls – Karin Slaughter
The lie tree – Frances Hardinge
The lamp of the wicked – Phil Rickman
The politics of washing: real life in Venice – Polly Coles
Disclaimer – Renée Knight
I let you go – Clare Mackintosh
Fated – Benedict Jacka
The life-changing magic of tidying – Marie Kondo
Our zoo – June Mottershead
The Rosie project – Graeme Simsion
Christmas at cold comfort farm – Stella Gibbons

2015

Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
The dark is rising – Susan Cooper
Cross stitch – Diane Gabaldon
Career of evil – Robert Galbraith
The skeleton road – Val McDermid
Lady Chatterley’s lover – DH Lawrence
The silkworm – Robert Galbraith
How to build a girl – Caitlin Moran
The wire in the blood – Val McDermid
Foxglove summer – Ben Aaronovitch
Elizabeth is missing – Emma Healey
Orbital burn – KA Bedford
Eeny Meeny – MJ Arlidge
The ladies’ paradise – Emile Zola
The cuckoo’s calling – Robert Galbraith
The girl with all the gifts – MR Carey-
A god in ruins –Kate Atkinson
Dreams of gods and monsters – Laini Taylor
Beneath the bleeding – Val McDermid
Cross and burn – Val McDermid
Poppyland – Raffaella Barker

H is for hawk –  Helen MacDonald

Broken homes – Ben Aaronovitch
A map of nowhere – Martin Bannister
Far from the madding crowd – Thomas Hardy
The flight – MR Hall
The mysterious affair at styles – Agatha Christie
Heartless – Gail Carriger
The casual vacancy – JK Rowling
The rehearsal – Eleanor Catton
The glass room – Ann Cleeves
The mysteries – Lisa Tuttle
Just my type – Simon Garfield
The abomination – Jonathan Holt
We need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver
Whispers underground – Ben Aaranovitch
We are all completely beside ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
The luminaries – Eleanor Catton
Mr Mac and me – Esther Freud
Knitting yarns – Ann Hood (ed.)
The drugs don’t work – Professor Dame Sally Davies, Jonathan Grant
The fault in our stars – John Green
Christmas pudding – Nancy Mitford
Summertime – Raffaella Barker
The cure of souls – Phil Rickman

2014
A Christmas carol – Charles Dickens
The miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier
Revolutionary road – Richard Yates
Flowers for algernon – Daniel Keyes
The anonymous venetian – Donna Leon
Man at the helm – Nina Stibbe
Moon over soho – Ben Aaranovitch
The paying guests – Sarah Waters
The pedant in the kitchen – Julian Barnes
Hens dancing – Raffaella Barker
The children act – Ian McEwan
The last temptation – Val McDermid
Stonemouth – Iain Banks
Rivers of London – Ben Aaranovitch
Where d’you go Bernadette – Maria Semple
Chaplin and company – Mave Fellowes
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
When she woke – Hillary Jordan
The magpies – Mark Edwards
Human remains – Elizabeth Haynes
The sea sisters – Lucy Clarke
The chessmen – Peter May
Dust – Arthur Slade
Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
The lie – Helen Dunmore
Midwinter of the spirit – Phil Rickman
How to be a good wife – Emma Chapman
Unseen – Karin Slaughter
Days of blood and starlight – Laini Taylor
The last letter from your lover – Jojo Moyes
The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society – Mary Ann Shaffer
Fallout – Sadie Jones
Sisterland – Curtis Sittenfeld
All the birds, singing – Evie Wyld
Wonder – RJ Palacio
The mermaids singing – Val McDermid
The disappearing act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
The torment of others – Val McDermid
Longbourn – Jo Baker
Daughter of smoke and bone – Laini Taylor
A monster calls – Patrick Ness
The crow trap – Ann Cleeves
Frog music –Emma Donaghue
And only to deceive – Tasha Alexander
The jewels of paradise – Donna Leon
Now you’re one of us – Asa Nonami
Almost english – Charlotte Mendelson
Just what kind of mother are you? – Paula Daly
Fallen – Lauren Kate
Regeneration – Pat Barker
The bat – Jo Nesbo
Lost lake – Sarah Addison Allen
Love, nina – Nina Stibbe
The goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Butterflies in November – Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
The confusion of karen carpenter – Jonathan Harvey
Death in a strange country – Donna Leon
Ribblestrop – Andy Mulligan
The sugar queen – Sarah Addison Allen
The blind assassin – Margaret Atwood
Not buying it – Judith Levine
The long earth – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Bring up the bodies –Hilary Mantel

2013

I capture the castle – Dodie Smith
Trick of the dark – Val McDermid
Electric brae Andrew Greig
Two evils PJ Tracy
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The best exotic marigold hotel Deborah Moggach
Silent voices Ann Cleeves
The dinner Herman Koch
The retribution Val McDermid
The somnambulist – Essie Fox
Fever of the bone Val McDermid
The bridges of Madison county – Robert James Waller
The big over easy – Jasper Fforde
Instructions for a heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell
Dreams and shadows – C Robert Cargill
Captain Corelli’s mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Gone girl – Gillian Flynn
Thorn in my side – Karin Slaughter
Death at la fenice – Donna Leon
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Eye for an eye – TF Muir
The silent wife – ASA Harrison
The testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rogers
Die trying – Lee Child
Tigers in red weather – Liza Klaussmann
Wife 22 – Melanie Gideon
The other side of you – Salley Vickers
Calling me home – Julie Kibler
The bridge – Iain Banks
Sanctus part one – Simon Toyne
Criminal – Karin Slaughter
A crown of lights – Phil Rickman
The snow child – Eowyn Ivey
Night waking – Sarah Moss
The stepford wives – Ira Levin
Life after life – Kate Atkinson
River of destiny – Barbara Erskine
The Lewis man – Peter May
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared- Jonas Jonasson
The Handmaid’s tale – Margaret Atwood
You had me at hello – Mhairi McFarlane
1st to die – James Patterson
The still point – Amy Sackville
Is it just me? – Miranda Hart
Reasons to be cheerful – Mark Steel
The pirates! In an adventure with the romantics – Gideon Defoe
The sense of an ending – Julian Barnes
The invisible ones – Stef Penney
The secret history – Donna Tartt
Fallen – Karin Slaughter
Killing floor – Lee Child
The woodcutter – Kate Danley
Fate – LR Fredericks
66 north – Michael Ridpath
A mind of its own – Cordelia Fine
The hotel New Hampshire – John Irving
2012
Night circus – Erin Morgenstern
The moth diaries – Rachel Klein
Flambards – KM Peyton
Revelation – CJ Sansom
The girl who chased the moon – Sarah Addison Allen
The heat of the sun – David Rain
Never look away – Linwood Barclay
The happy hooker – Debbie Stoller
The eye collector – Sebastian Fitzek
The hobbit – JRR Tolkein
How it all began – Penelope Lively
Blameless – Gail Carriger
The peach keeper – Sarah Addison Allen
A clash of kings – George RR Martin
Nurture shock – Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
The etymologicon – Mark Forsyth
Sworn to silence – Linda Castillo
A game of thrones – George RR Martin
Across the nightingale floor – Lian Hearn
Meltwater – Michael Ridpath
Garden spells – Sarah Addison Allen
How to climb mont blanc in a skirt – Mick Conefrey
The disappeared – MR Hall
The radleys – Matt Haig
The song of achilles – Madeline Miller
Here she lies – Katia Lief
Snatched – Karin Slaughter
Delirium – Lauren Oliver
The playdate – Louise Millar
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
The coroner – MR Hall
Inheritance – Christopher Paolini
Before I go to sleep – SJ Watson
Death comes to pemberley – PD James
Me before you – Jojo Moyes
Major Pettigrew’s last stand – Helen Simonson
Lucky break – Esther Freud
Pure – Andrew Miller
The psychopath test – Jon Ronson
The history keepers – Damian Dibben
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Snowdrops – AD Miller
The wine of angels- Phil Rickman
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
The girl with glass feet – Ali Shaw
Cuckoo – Julia Crouch
Snuff – Terry Pratchett
Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Catching fire – Suzanne Collins
The secrets of pain – Phil Rickman

2011

To kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee
When god was a rabbit – Sarah Winman
Help! – Oliver Burkeman
Where the shadows lie – Michael Ridpath
The graveyard book – Neil Gaiman
Sovereign – CJ Sansom
Cool, calm parent – Hollie Smith
To kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee
The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ – Philip Pullman
Alison wonderland – Helen Smith
Changeless – Gail Carriger
How to be a woman – Caitlyn Moran
A pale view of hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Missing – Karin Alvtegen
The hunger games – Suzanne Collins
The blackhouse – Peter May
The help – Kathryn Stockett
Dark fire – CJ Sansom
Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate – Gail Carriger
Getting rid of Matthew – Jane Fallon
Holes – Louis Sachar
Great expectations – Charles Dickens
Sovereign – CJ Sansom
The bad beginning – Lemony Snicket
Look back in hunger – Jo Brand
Bulldog Drummond – Sapper
Divorced, beheaded, died – Kevin Flude
Dissolution – CJ Sansom
The brightest star in the sky – Marian Keyes
Into the darkest corner – Elizabeth Haynes
The hand that first held mine – Maggie O’Farrell
Unseen academicals – Terry Pratchett
Wifework – Susan Maushart
The penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
Port mortuary – Patricia Cornwell
One day – David Nicholls
The weirdstone of brisingamen – Alan Garner
Detoxing childhood – Sue Palmer
Shades of grey – Jasper Fforde
Let the right one in – John Ajvide Lindqvist
The tenth circle – Jodi Picoult
The long song – Andrea Levy
Delusions of gender – Cordelia Fine
The shipping news – E. Annie Proulx
Knitting rules! – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Room – Emma Donaghue
Italian shoes – Henning Mankell

2010

A tiny bit marvellous – Dawn French
It just occurred to me – Humphrey Lyttleton
The five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom
Female chauvinist pigs – Ariel Levy
The year of the flood – Margaret Atwood
Lazybones – Mark Billingham
Broken – Karin Slaughter
Started early, took my dog – Kate Atkinson
American wife – Curtis Sittenfeld
The time-traveller’s guide to medieval England – Ian Mortimer
Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
Too close to home – Linwood Barclay
Black swan green – David Mitchell
The equality illusion – Kat Banyard
That awkward age – Roger McGough
Play to kill – PJ Tracy
Living dolls: the return of sexism – Natasha Walter
Breaking dawn – Stephenie Meyer
Martin misunderstood – Karin Slaughter
The kite runner – Khaled Hosseini
Impotant artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion and jewelry – Leanne Shapton
The owl killers – Karen Maitland
Handbags and hopscotch – Lucy Mangan
Cool, calm parent – Hollie Smith
Juliet, naked – Nick Hornby
The girl who kicked the hornets’ nest – Stieg Larsson
Toxic childhood – Sue Palmer
The men who stare at goats – Jon Ronson
The girl who played with fire – Stieg Larsson
Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
Pompeii – Robert Harris

2009

The warrior’s princess – Barbara Erskine
Fractured – Karin Slaughter
The girl with the dragon tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The politics of breastfeeding – Gabrielle Palmer
Bel canto – Ann Patchett
New moon – Stephenie Meyer
Maternity – Francesca Newby
Why love matters – Sue Gerhardt
Baby-led weaning – Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett
Final jeopardy – Linda Fairstein
Worldwide adventures in love – Louise Wener
Not on the label – Felicity Lawrence
Over the edge – Stuart Pawson
The cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
Bad science – Ben Goldacre
Cloud atlas – David Mitchell
Brown owl’s guide to life – Kate Harrison
The buried circle – Jenni Mills
Eldest – Christopher Paolini
Number9 dream – David Mitchell
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
Eragon — Christopher Paolini
Double cross — James Patterson
Darkly dreaming Dexter — Jeff Lindley
When will there be good news? — Kate Atkinson
Gone — Lisa Gardner
The 19th wife — David Ebershoff
Two caravans — Marina Lewycka
Carry me down — MJ Hyland

2008

The grapes of wrath — John Steinbeck
The baby group — Rowan Coleman
No time for goodbye — Linwood Barclay
Love falls — Esther Freud
The accidental mother — Rowan Coleman
The tenderness of wolves — Stef Penney
Cat and mouse — James Patterson
Mary, Mary — James Patterson
The shadow of the wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
History of love — Nicole Krauss
This charming man — Marian Keyes
Skin Privilege — Karin Slaughter
The book thief — Markus Zusak
Blind willow, sleeping woman — Haruki Murakami
Tescopoly — Andrew Simm
Unconditional parenting — Alfie Kohn
The chrysalids — John Wyndham
One good turn — Kate Atkinson
Exit music — Ian Rankin

2007

Daughters of fire — Barbara Erskine
How weaning happens — Diane Bengson
Labyrinth — Kate Mosse
The time-traveller’s wife — Audrey Niffenegger
Faithless — Karin Slaughter
The island — Victoria Hislop
What mothers do (especially when it looks like nothing) — Naomi Stadlen
Espresso tales — Alexander McCall Smith
The naming of the dead— Ian Rankin
Raising girls — Gisela Preuschoff
Keeping faith — Jodi Picoult
Rise and fall of a yummy mummy — Polly Williams
The history of love — Nicole Krauss
Allotted time — Robin Shelton
Little face — Sophie Hannah
Yummy! — Jane Clarke
Don’t sweat the aubergine — Nicholas Clee
Delia’s kitchen garden — Gay Search
Sleepyhead — Mark Billingham
My roots — Monty Don

2006

The killing hour — Lisa Gardner
The great vegetable plot — Sarah Raven
Snow blind — PJ Tracey
Siblings without rivalry — Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Orcs omnibus — Stan Nicholls
Three in a bed — Deborah Jackson
The allotment book — AM Clevely
Going gaga — Mel Giedroyc
The lost art of keeping secrets — Eva Rice
Lost in a good book — Jasper Fforde
The midwife’s tale — Gretchen Moran Laskas
Hideous kinky — Esther Freud
The historian — Elizabeth Kostova
An island apart — Lilian Beckwith
She may not leave — Fay Weldon
3 shoes, 1 sock and no hairbrush — Rebecca Abrams
Raising babies — Steve Biddulph
Thyme out — Katie Fforde
The fishfinger years — Fiona Gibson
The bookseller of Kabul — Asne Seierstad
Zorro — Isabel Allende
A faint cold fear — Karin Slaughter
The pact — Jodi Picoult
The jewel garden — Monty & Sarah Don
44 Scotland Street — Alexander McCall Smith
Slow man — JM Coetzee
They f*** you up — Oliver James
Never let me go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
Thud! — Terry Pratchett

2005
The kitchen diaries — Nigel Slater
Talk to the hand — Lynne Truss
My sister’s keeper — Jodi Picoult
Snow blind – PJ Tracy
Dead run – PJ Tracy
Live bait — PJ Tracy
The murder room — PD James
The secret of happy children — Steve Biddulph
The family way — Tony Parsons
Going postal — Terry Pratchett
The tenko club — Elizabeth Noble
More secrets of happy children — Steve Biddulph
Wrong about Japan — Peter Carey
Arthur and George — Julian Barnes
The da Vinci code — Dan Brown
Deception point — Dan Brown
Angels and demons — Dan Brown
In another light — Andrew Greig
Want to play? — PJ Tracy
Blindsighted — Karin Slaughter
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince — JK Rowling
We need to talk about Kevin — Lionel Shriver
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian — Marina Lewycka
Liars and Saints — Maile Meloy
South of the border, west of the sun — Maruki Murakami
Toast — Nigel Slater
The bad mothers’ handbook — Kate Long
The reading group — Elizabeth Noble
How not to be a perfect mother — Libby Purves
Fleshmarket Close — Ian Rankin
The other side of the story — Marian Keyes
Case histories — Kate Atkinson

2004
(Umpteen baby books)
(some I have forgotten including, I think, the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 2,3 and maybe 4)
Notes on a scandal — Zoe Heller
Reading Lolita in Tehran — Azar Nafisi
Eats, shoots and leaves — Lynne Truss
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time — Mark Haddon
Dreams of my Russian summers — Andrei Makiney
Resurrection Men — Ian Rankin
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
The robber bride — Margaret Atwood
Rabbit-proof fence — Doris Pilkington
Dude, where’s my country — Michael Moore
A taste for death — PD James
Monstrous regiment — Terry Pratchett
In cold blood — Truman Capote
The no. 1 ladies’ detective agency — Alexander McCall Smith

2003
(Umpteen pregnancy & baby books)
31 songs — Nick Hornby
The female eunuch — Germaine Greer
King Solomon’s carpet — Barbara Vine
The other Boleyn girl — Philippa Gregory
Seven years in Tibet — Heinrich Harrer
Hiding from the light — Barbara Erskine
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
A necessary end — Peter Robinson
Fingersmith — Sarah Walters
The memory game — Nicci French
My life on a plate — India Knight
A walk in the woods — Bill Bryson
Aftermath — Peter Robinson
In a dry season — Peter Robinson
A certain justice — PD James
Samurai Williams — Giles Milton
Three stories — Alan Bennett
Death in holy orders — PD James
One hit wonderland — Tony Hawks
A debt to pleasure — John Lanchester
Fox evil — Minette Walters
High society — Ben Elton
Man and wife — Tony Parsons
Clan of the cave bear — Jean M Auel
My family and other animals — Gerald Durrell
Behind the scenes at the museum — Kate Atkinson
So you want to write — Barbara Ueland
Dark paradise — Tami Hoag
Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix — JK Rowling
We have always lived in the castle — Shirley Jackson
The remains of the day — Kazuo Ishiguro
A sight for sore eyes — Ruth Rendell
My uncle Oswald — Roald Dahl
The age of innocence — Edith Wharton
Like water for chocolate — Laura Esquirel
The way we live now — Anthony Trollope
House of cards — Michael Dobbs
The garden party and other stories — Katherine Mansfield
Angels — Marian Keyes
The persian boy — Mary Renault
Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey
In love and war — Maria Corelli
The bluest eye — Toni Morrison
Down under — Bill Bryson
Protect and defend — Richard North Patterson
Unbeaten tracks in Japan — Isabella L Bird
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius — Dave Eggers
I’m a stranger here myself — Bill Bryson
The great gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
The eyes of a child — Richard North Patterson
The lady and the monk — Pico Iyer
Whistling for the elephants — Sandi Toksvig
Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
Little adventures in Tokyo — Rick Kennedy
Blackberry wine — Joanne Harris
No safe place — Richard North Patterson
Hokkaido highway blues — Will Ferguson
Red dog — Louis de Bernieres
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
The first man in Rome — Colleen McCullough

2002
Border crossing — Pat Barker
The little friend — Donna Tartt
A prayer for Owen Meany — John Irving
The golden gate — Vikram Seth
Northern lights — Philip Pullman
Cry wolf — Tami Hoag
True history of the Kelly gang — Peter Carey
The bridges of Madison county — Robert James Waller
Heart of darkness — Joseph Conrad
The captive — Colette
Black & blue — Ian Rankin
Made in America — Bill Bryson
England, England — Julian Barnes
Bleeding hearts — Ian Rankin
Learning to fly — Victoria Beckham
Dead famous — Ben Elton
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world — Haruki Murakami
45 — Bill Drummond
Persuasion — Jane Austen
Dust to dust — Tami Hoag
Whispers in the sand — Barbara Erskine
The falls — Ian Rankin
Girl with a pearl earring — Tracy Chevalier
The shape of snakes — Minette Walters
Catfish and mandala — Andrew Pham
Emotionally weird — Kate Atkinson
Postcards from the bed — Marian Keyes
A history of the world in 10½ chapters — Julian Barnes
The salaryman’s wife — Sujata Massey
The stretch — Stephen Leather
The simple truth — David Baldacci
Life isn’t all ha ha hee hee — Meera Syall
The amber spyglass — Philip Pullman
Three men in a boat — Jerome K Jerome
Alias Grace — Margaret Attwood
After you’d gone — Maggie O’Farrell
Beowulf — Seamus Heaney
Still waters — Tami Hoag
One hundred years of solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Guilty as sin — Tami Hoag
The sea, the sea — Iris Murdoch
The subtle knife — Philip Pullman
The seven daughters of Eve — Bryan Sykes
Last summer — Andrew Greig
Doctor Thorne — Anthony Trollope
Flying under bridges — Sandy Toksvig
Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope
C: because cowards get cancer too — John Diamond
The naturalists — Diane Smith
The prophet — Kahil Gibran
How to be good — Nick Hornby
One for my baby — Tony Parsons
Memoirs of a geisha — Arthur Golden