January - March 2006

Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
Margrove of the Marshes - John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
Maximum City: Bombay - Suketu Mehta
Londonstani - Gautam Malkani
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq
A Year in Marrakesh - Peter Mayne
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
I Married a Communist - Philip Roth
The Death of Grass - John Christopher

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September - December 2005

American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
Dancing in the Dark - Caryl Phllips
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Tarantula - Bob Dylan
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Is It Cowardly To Pray for Rain? - Rob Smyth, Sean Ingle et al
Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabakov
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The Case for Christmas - Lee Strobel

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May - August 2005

Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Don Quixote (part one) - Miguel de Cervantes
Brass - Helen Walsh
Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler
Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
The Red Notebook - Paul Auster
First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Platform - Michel Houellebecq
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Squeeze Play - Paul Benjamin
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina
The Accidental - Ali Smith
Don Quixote (part two) - Miguel de Cervantes

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January - April 2005

Tales from the Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen
The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
So Many Books - Gabriel Zaid
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Saturday - Ian McEwan
M/F - Anthony Burgess
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Politics - Adam Thirlwell
Selected Poems - Rabindranath Tagore
Why Europe Will Run the 20th Century - Mark Leonard
The Daydreamer - Ian McEwan
Step Across This Line - Salman Rushdie
Foe - JM Coetzee
Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
The Smoking Diaries - Simon Gray
The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
The Zigzag Way - Anita Desai
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

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September - December 2004

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Coma - Alex Garland
Last Orders - Graham Swift
Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
The Maze - Panos Karnezis
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
The Master - Colm Toibin
Topics About Which I Know Nothing - Patrick Ness
Leviathan - Paul Auster
The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
Lanzarote - Michel Houellebecq
Clear - Nicola Barker
Chronicles: Volume One - Bob Dylan
The Secret Purposes - David Baddiel
The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
Thursbitch - Alan Garner
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Small Island - Andrea Levy
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

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May - August 2004

Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
Embers - Sandor Marai
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante
Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S Thompson
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Burning Down My Master's House - Jayson Blair
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

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January - April 2004

The Cheap-Eaters - Thomas Bernhard
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
Herzog - Saul Bellow
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
Birdman - Mo Hayder
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Treatment - Mo Hayder
A Pale View of the Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Tokyo - Mo Hayder
The Hack's Tale - David Hughes
Transmission - Hari Kunzru
Invisible - Jonathan Buckley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Siegfried - Harry Mulisch
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
That Which Was - Glenn Patterson
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

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September - December 2003

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
The Boy Looked at Johnny - Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons
The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
Money - Martin Amis
Candide - Voltaire
Dark Glasses - Blake Morrison
Woody Allen - Graham McCann
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Experience - Martin Amis
Waterland - Graham Swift
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Dorian - Will Self

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June - August 2003

Gods, Demons and Others - RK Narayan
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - Julian Barnes
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Swami and Friends - RK Narayan
Unless - Carol Shields
Adventures in Capitalism - Toby Litt
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Beatniks - Toby Litt
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
London Fields - Martin Amis
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody - Michael Gerber
The House of Blue Mangoes - David Davidar
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Light of Day - Graham Swift
Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan
An Area of Darkness - VS Naipaul
Grimus - Salman Rushdie
Elizabeth Costello - JM Coetzee

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January - May 2003

A Passage to India - EM Forster
Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
An Indian Summer - James Cameron
India: A Wounded Civilisation - VS Naipaul
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Guide - RK Narayan
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Beyond Purdah - Mark Tully
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Where Shall We Go This Summer? - Anita Desai
The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck
The Story of My Experiments with Truth - MK Gandhi
The Financial Expert - RK Narayan
Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Diamond Dust and Other Stories - Anita Desai
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr Sampath - RK Narayan
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
Karma Cola - Gita Mehta
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Field of 13 - Dick Francis
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
Fury - Salman Rushdie
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons - Elizabeth Bumiller
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Silver Castle - Clive James
India: A Million Mutinies Now - VS Naipaul

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August - December 2002

The Witches - Roald Dahl
Positively 4th Street - David Hadju
Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
No Full Stops in India - Mark Tully
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

Summer term 2002

Possession - AS Byatt
Moon Palace - Paul Auster
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung - Lester Bangs
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi

Easter holiday 2002

'The Wizard of Oz' (BFI Modern Classics) - Salman Rushdie
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mercier and Camier - Samuel Beckett
Out of Sheer Rage - Geoff Dyer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Wise Children - Angela Carter
The Trilogy - Samuel Beckett

Easter term 2002

Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Washington Square - Henry James
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

Christmas holiday 2001-2002

Shame - Salman Rushdie
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
I Think Therefore I Laugh - John Allen Paulos
The Last Man - Mary Shelley

Christmas term 2001

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
Foucault and Queer Theory - Tamsin Spargo
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
'The Seventh Seal' (BFI Modern Classics) - Melvyn Bragg
Vermilion Sands - JG Ballard
Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelly

Summer holiday 2001

The Smiling School for Calvinists - Bill Duncan
Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow - Paul Williams
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Made in America - Bill Bryson
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Virgin and the Gypsy - DH Lawrence
Frankenstein (1818) - Mary Shelley
The History of Rasselas - Samuel Johnson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M Banks
The Edge - Dick Francis
The Damage Done - Warren Fellows

Summer term 2001

Shamela - Henry Fielding
The Misanthrope - Moiere
Selected Poems - Andrew Marvell
The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Country Wife - William Wycherley
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
Equus - Peter Shaffer
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory - Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Home Truths - David Lodge
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein

Easter holiday 2001

The Last Battle - CS Lewis
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Blur: 3862 Days - Stuart Maconie
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin
The Man of Mode - George Etherege
Pamela - Samuel Richardson

Easter term 2001

At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
Dr Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Stephen Hero - James Joyce
Tamburlaine - Christopher Marlowe
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
For Kicks - Dick Francis
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
Volpone - Ben Johnson
The Revenger's Tragedy - Cyril Tourneur

Christmas holiday 2000-2001

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer
Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland

Christmas term 2000

The Celtic Twilight - WB Yeats
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anon
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth - WB Yeats
The Wife of Bath's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Bonecrack - Dick Francis
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello

Summer holiday 2000

'Easy Rider' (BFI Modern Classics) - Lee Hill
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan - Robert Shelton
The Danger - Dick Francis
Nostradamus At My Hamster - Robert Rankin
The Antipope - Robert Rankin
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Knight's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Timbuktu - Paul Auster

Summer term 2000

The Unnameable - Samuel Beckett
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth

Easter holiday 2000

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett

Easter term 2000

Murphy - Samuel Beckett
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Richard II - William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 - William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 2 - William Shakespeare
Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett
Henry V - William Shakespeare
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
King Lear - William Shakespeare

Christmas holiday 1999-2000

The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Endgame - Samuel Beckett

Christmas term 1999

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Paradise Lost - John Milton
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino

Summer holiday 1999

Utopia - Thomas More
Proof - Dick Francis
The Tesseract - Alex Garland
Things Can Only Get Better - John O'Farrell
Wobegon Boy - Garrison Keillor
The Rainbow - DH Lawrence
Awaydays - Kevin Sampson
Hot Money - Dick Francis
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind
Dr Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Oroonoko - Aphra Benn

Summer term 1999

Bolt - Dick Francis
The Soloist - Mark Salzman
CloudCuckooLand - Simon Armitage
Changing Places - David Lodge
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman - Bruce Robinson

Easter holiday 1999

Break In - Dick Francis
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Easter term 1999

A Girl in Winter - Phillip Larkin
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Collector - John Fowles
Othello - William Shakespeare

Christmas holiday 1998-1999

High Windows - Phillip Larkin
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul
Shining is a Language - Philip Wells
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Christmas term 1998

The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Othello - William Shakespeare

Summer holiday 1998

The Whitsun Weddings - Philip Larkin
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
The Complete Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Bald Prima Donna - Eugene Ionesco
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Beach - Alex Garland
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
V. - Tony Harrison
Zennor in Darkness - Helen Dunmore
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Nixon - Lord Longford

Summer term 1998

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jung for Beginners - Jon Platania
Travesties - Tom Stoppard
Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
Dubliners - James Joyce
All the President's Men - Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Easter holiday 1998

Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
Embers - Samuel Beckett
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Play - Samuel Beckett
Words and Music - Samuel Beckett
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
Cascando - Samuel Beckett
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabakov
Prelude: books 1-3 - William Wordsworth
The Fall - Albert Camus
Old Times - Harold Pinter
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Easter term 1998

Nietzsche in 90 minutes - Paul Strathern
Aristotle in 90 minutes - Paul Strathern
The Memory Tray - Deryn Rees-Jones
Descartes in 90 minutes - Paul Strathern
Selected Poems - Sylvia Plath
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Rome 753 BC - AD 180 - JM Street and Antony Chevinix-Trench
The Book of Ultimate Truths - Robert Rankin
In Camera - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Hero and the Girl Next Door - Sophie Hannah
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Nietzsche - Ronald Hayman
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
The Franklin's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Kenneally
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett

Christmas holiday 1997-1998

The Plague - Albert Camus
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

Christmas term 1997

High Risk - Emma Darcy
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Long and the Short and the Tall - Willis Hall
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh

Summer holiday 1997

A Letter to Daniel - Fergal Keane
Scott's Last Expedition - Captain RF Scott
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
To the Hilt - Dick Francis