30 September 2014

July - September 2014


The Machine - James Smythe
The Sandman Volume 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
Head-On/Repossessed - Julian Cope
I Murdered My Library - Linda Grant
Boxer, Beetle - Ned Beauman
The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
At Last - Edward St Aubyn
From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
History of the Rain - Niall Williams
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt
Orfeo - Richard Powers
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Stephen Grosz
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
No Harm Can Come to a Good Man - James Smythe
Straight White Male - John Niven
The Wife - Meg Wolitzer
Glow - Ned Beauman
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys - Viv Albertine
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick

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03 July 2014

April - June 2014


Robert Plant: A Life - Paul Rees
Ethel & Ernest - Raymond Briggs
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
A Contract with God - Will Eisner
When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume One - Dan Lockwood (Ed.)
Affluenza - Oliver James
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea - Guy Delisle 
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Promethia Book 1 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Promethia Book 2 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin 
Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
Promethia Book 3 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Wolf - Mo Hayder
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy - Marina Hyde
Promethia Book 4 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Promethia Book 5 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III and Mick Gray
Wanted - Mark Millar, JG Jones and Paul Mounts
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards - Kristopher Jansma

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02 April 2014

January - March 2014


The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
Boneland - Alan Garner
Kick-Ass 2 - Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
The Embassy of Cambodia - Zadie Smith
The Echo - James Smythe
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Neonomicon - Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
The Circle - Dave Eggers
Autobiography - Morrissey
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories - Malcolm Bradbury (ed.)
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
& Sons - David Gilbert
One of Us - Melissa Benn
The Testament - James Smythe
Palestine - Joe Sacco
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
Stoner - John Williams
A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous

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31 December 2013

October - December 2013


We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo
The Explorer - James Smythe
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Kick-Ass - Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
Jezebel - Irene Nemirovsky
Emma - Jane Austen
Indiscretion - Charles Dubow
Hatchet Job - Mark Kermode
The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison
The Red House - Mark Haddon
Poets Ranked by Beard Weight - Upton Uxbridge Underwood

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27 August 2013

July - September 2013


Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Architects - Stefan Heym
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Help - Katherine Stockett
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Guns - Stephen King
Living, Thinking, Looking - Siri Hustvedt
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Gods Without Men - Hari Kunzru
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
The Dirt - Mötley Crüe: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss
The Testament of Mary - Colm Toibin
The Shining - Stephen King
Harvest - Jim Crace
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

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01 July 2013

April - June 2013


The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
The Wine of Solitude - Irene Nemirovsky
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In - Magnus Mills
The Outsider - Albert Camus
My Cleaner - Maggie Gee
Hawthorn & Child - Keith Ridgway
Twitterature - Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin
The Teleportation Accident - Ned Beauman
Grimm Tales for Young and Old - Philip Pullman
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
The Lighthouse - Alison Moore
Poppet - Mo Hayder
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Chavs - Owen Jones
Homeland - Cory Doctorow
Mercy - Jussi Adler-Olsen
The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
Capital - John Lanchester

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01 April 2013

January - March 2013


Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
The Tin Men - Michael Frayn
The First Person and Other Stories - Ali Smith
River of Time - Jon Swain
Winter Journal - Paul Auster
Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
In the Freud Archives - Janet Malcolm
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Woolgathering - Patti Smith
A Possible Life - Sebastian Faulks
Collected Poems - Vladimir Nabakov
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson
The Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark
Bad Vibes - Luke Haines
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan

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31 December 2012

October - December 2012


The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Dogs at the Perimeter - Madeleine Thien
The Disappeared - Kim Echlin
1Q84: Books 1 & 2 - Haruki Murakami
It's Only a Movie - Mark Kermode
A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
Bed - David Whitehouse
Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre
Dawn of the Dumb - Charlie Brooker
The Road of Lost Innocence - Somaly Mam
The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
1Q84: Book 3 - Haruki Murakami
Screwtop Thompson and Other Tales - Magnus Mills
NW - Zadie Smith
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis

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01 October 2012

July - September 2012


The Death of Grass - John Christopher
Mr Phillips - John Lanchester
Tom Waits on Tom Waits - Paul Maher Jr (ed.)
The King's Last Song - Geoff Ryman
Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert
Three to See the King - Magnus Mills
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington
First They Killed My Father - Loung Eng
Shapes for Sounds - Timothy Donaldson
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
The Gate - Francois Bizot
The Untouchable - John Banville
The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm
Less than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
Today - David Miller
All Quiet on the Orient Express - Magnus Mills
The Code of the Woosters - PG Wodehouse
Zero Day - David Baldacci
There but for the - Ali Smith

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20 July 2012

April - June 2012


The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
Ox Travels - Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence, Barnaby Rogerson (eds.)
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabakov
Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding - Keith Gessen
Never Mind the Quantocks - Stuart Maconie
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
The Maintenance of Headway - Magnus Mills
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Autofiction - Hitomi Kanehara
A Game of Thrones - George B Martin
Rock Crystal - Adalbert Stifter
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
An Inspector Calls - JB Priestley
Bossypants - Tina Fey
The Other Hand - Chris Cleave

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01 April 2012

January - March 2012


I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan - Alan Partridge
The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Invisible Republic - Greil Marcus
Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics - Jarvis Cocker
My Ear At His Heart - Hanif Kureishi
The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
Reality and Dreams - Muriel Spark
Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex - Mark Kermode
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
The Damned United - David Peace
Empire State - Jason Shiga
Out - Natsuo Kirino
Snowdrops - AD Miller

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31 December 2011

October - December 2011


Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
The Song Before it is Sung - Justin Cartwright
SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Which Lie Did I Tell? - William Goldman
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
Makers - Cory Doctorow
Care of Wooden Floors - Will Wiles
Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith
The Alcoholic - Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
Red Dog - Louis de Bernieres
Player One - Douglas Coupland
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson
The Innocence of Father Brown - GK Chesterton

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30 September 2011

July - September 2011


Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda
Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
Witness the Night - Kishwar Desai
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth - Stephen Armstrong
Sunset Park - Paul Auster

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30 June 2011

April - June 2011


Wilt - Tom Sharpe
In Spite of the Gods - Edward Luce
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
Gone - Mo Hayder
Smut - Alan Bennett
A Pagan Place - Edna O'Brien
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
Everything and Nothing - Araminta Hall
Heliopolis - James Scudamore
In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
Hanging Hill - Mo Hayder
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
Starter for Ten - David Nicholls

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03 April 2011

January - March 2011


This Is How - MJ Hyland
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Racists - Kunal Basu
One Day - David Nicholls
Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Freedom in Exile - Dalai Lama of Tibet
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt
The Company of Women - Khushwant Singh
The Emperor's Ring - Satyajit Ray
Waiting for the Mahatma - RK Narayan
Trouble in Gangtok - Satyajit Ray
A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Ghost Story - Toby Litt
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamed
The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Transition - Iain Banks
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

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31 December 2010

October - December 2010


Redemption Falls - Joseph O'Connor
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Affinity - Sarah Waters
Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
India in Slow Motion - Mark Tully
An Education - Lynn Barber
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson
India - Sanjeev Bhaskar
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai
Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord - Louis de Bernieres
Bolt - Dick Francis
The Corner - David Simon and Ed Burns
Being Indian - Pavan K Varma
Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
Room - Emma Donoghue

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09 October 2010

July - September 2010


Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Last Secret of the Temple - Paul Sussman
First of the Last Chances - Sophie Hannah
For the Win - Cory Doctorow
Slowly Down the Ganges - Eric Newby
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
Jezebel - Irene Nemirovsky
Amulet - Roberto Bolano

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01 July 2010

April - June 2010


The Humbling - Philip Roth
Granta Issue 109: Work - John Freeman (ed.)
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Solar - Ian McEwan
Monster Love - Carol Topolski
Blood Ninja - Nick Lake
Waltz With Bashir - Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Not Untrue and Not Unkind - Ed O'Loughlin
Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
Invisible - Paul Auster
A Curious Earth - Gerard Woodward
So Much For That - Lionel Shriver
Push - Sapphire
The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
All Our Worldy Goods - Irene Nemirovsky
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary - Vivian Cook
Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris - Lucian Randall

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04 April 2010

January - March 2010


Taking Le Tiss: My Autobiography - Matt Le Tissier
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent - James Meek
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
And Another Thing... - Eoin Colfer
The Dogs and the Wolves - Irene Nemirovsky
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Hell of It All - Charlie Brooker
The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story - Paul Auster
In Europe - Geert Mak

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31 December 2009

October - December 2009


Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
August - Gerard Woodward
Travels With Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinski
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Summertime - JM Coetzee
In the Kitchen - Monica Ali

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01 October 2009

July - September 2009


The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Hungry Ghosts - Anne Berry
The Girl from HOPPERS - Jaime Hernandez
Skin - Mo Hayder
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Toppit - Charles Elton
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
Tales of Freedom - Ben Okri
Me Cheeta - James Lever
Mister Roberts - Alexei Sayle
Esther's Inheritance - Sandor Marai
I'll Go to Bed at Noon - Gerard Woodward
The Book of Fame - Lloyd Jones
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - Geoff Dyer
Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits - Zoe Street Howe
The Jaguar Smile - Salman Rushdie

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01 July 2009

April - June 2009


Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr
Kinski Uncut - Klaus Kinski
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
The Secret Ministry of Frost - Nick Lake
My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru
Blankets - Craig Thompson
Generation Kill - Evan Wright
The Courilof Affair - Irene Nemirovsky
The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru
Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
Towards the End of Morning - Michael Frayn
Dead Spy Running - Jon Stock
Maggie the Mechanic - Jamie Hernandez
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Dylan on Dylan: the Essential Interviews - Jonathan Cott (ed.)

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01 April 2009

January - March 2009


The Sorrows of an American - Siri Hustvedt
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
All the Living - CE Morgan
David Boring - Daniel Clowes
Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of the Fall - Dave Simpson
A Girl Made of Dust - Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Broken - Daniel Clay
The Best of Saki - Saki (HH Munro)
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
Chicago - Alaa Al Aswany

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31 December 2008

October - December 2008


Great Apes - Will Self
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
The Northern Clemency - Phillip Hensher
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
Confessions of a Fake Sheik - Mazher Mahmood
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
The Believers - Zoe Heller
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
Joker -Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
A Steroid Hit the Earth: The Catastrophic World of Misprints - Martin Toseland
Devil May Care - Sebastian Faulks
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama

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30 September 2008

July - September 2008


Up Above the World - Paul Bowles
The Road Home - Rose Tremain
The Eye of the Heron - Ursula Le Guin
Beastly Tales - Vikram Seth
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
N.P. - Banana Yoshimoto
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
Cuba: Land of Miracles - Stephen Smith
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez

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30 June 2008

April - June 2008


Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Ritual - Mo Hayder
The Nature of Passion - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Complete Prose - Woody Allen
Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
The Observer Book of Art - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo
The Naked Jape - Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves
The Observer Book of Books - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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31 March 2008

January - March 2008


Pelican Blood - Cris Freddi
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Matsuo Basho
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Lost Japan - Alex Kerr
Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Go-Between - LP Hartley
The Dark Stuff - Nick Kent
In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami
Now You Know - Michael Frayn
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky
Day - AL Kennedy
Japrocksampler - Julian Cope
Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark
Le Bal - Irene Nemirovsky
Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland

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31 December 2007

October - December 2007


Animal's People - Indra Sinha
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Darkmans - Nicole Barker
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Falling Man - Don DeLillo
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl - Siri Hustvedt
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
A Clue to the Exit - Edward St Aubyn
The Double - Jose Saramago
Welcome to Higby - Mark Dunn
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Adverbs - Daniel Handler
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey
The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
Diary of a Reluctant Green - Richard Hallows
The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett
1066 and All That - WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman
The History of Art - EH Gombrich

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30 September 2007

July - September 2007


A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
Screen Burn - Charlie Brooker
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Arlington Park - Rachael Cusk
Night Train - Martin Amis
Deception - Philip Roth
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
Spies - Michael Frayne
Symposium - Muriel Spark
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
The Observer Book of Scandal - Carl Wilkinson (ed.)
Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thomson
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
Vertigo - WG Sebald
Consolation - Michael Redhill
My Fat Mad Teenage Diary - Rae Earl
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
The Gathering - Anne Enright
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Guardian Book of April Fool's Day - Martin Wainwright
The Finishing School - Muriel Spark
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

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30 June 2007

April - June 2007


Anna Karenin - Leo Tolstoy
The Innocent - Ian McEwan
Paul Auster's City of Glass - Paul Karasik and David Mazzuechelli
Utopian Dreams - Tobias Jones
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 - Phil Baines
Bandalism - Julian Ridgway
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Death of a Murderer - Rupert Thomson
Under Orders - Dick Francis
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

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31 March 2007

January - March 2007


Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
District and Circle - Seamus Heaney
Restless - William Boyd
Rough Trade - Rob Young
Attention All Shipping - Charlie Connelly
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
Austerlitz - WG Sebald
Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
R. Crumb's Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Counterlife - Philip Roth
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

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31 December 2006

October - December 2006


Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
Mr Thundermug - Cornelius Medvei
Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee
So He Takes the Dog - Jonathan Buckley
The World of Karl Pilkington - Karl Pilkington
Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Some Hope - Edward St Aubyn
Hotel World - Ali Smith
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
The Post-Birthday World - Lionel Shriver
Lunar Park - Brett Easton Ellis

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30 September 2006

July - September 2006


Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyman - Philip Roth
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Discomfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen
The Bullet Trick - Louise Welsh
The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
Other People - Martin Amis
Get a Life - Nadine Gordimer
Carry Me Down - MJ Hyland
The Perfect Man - Naeem Murr
The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
The Secret River - Kate Grenville

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30 June 2006

April - June 2006


The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Gangs - Tony Thompson
Eden Close - Anita Shreve
Guitar Man - Will Hodgkinson
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Vendor of Sweets - RK Narayan
The Sea - John Banville
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Staying On - Paul Scott
Headlong - Michael Frayn
Ex Chaos - James Wilkes
Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
number9dream - David Mitchell
High Windows - Philip Larkin
Pig Island - Mo Hayder
Jpod - Douglas Coupland
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

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31 March 2006

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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31 December 2005

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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31 August 2005

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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30 April 2005

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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31 December 2004

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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31 August 2004

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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30 April 2004

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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31 December 2003

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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31 August 2003

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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03 June 2003

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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31 December 2002

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

10 July 2002

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

04 May 2002

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

01 April 2002

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

15 January 2002

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

20 December 2001

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

06 October 2001

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

11 July 2001

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

15 May 2001

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

04 April 2001

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

15 January 2001

Christmas holiday 2000-2001


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

15 December 2000

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

05 October 2000

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

10 June 2000

Summer term 2000


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

20 May 2000

Easter holiday 2000


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

10 April 2000

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

05 January 2000

Christmas holiday 1999-2000


The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Endgame - Samuel Beckett

15 December 1999

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

05 October 1999

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

20 May 1999

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

05 May 1999

Easter holiday 1999


Break In - Dick Francis
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

01 April 1999

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

15 January 1999

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

15 December 1998

Christmas term 1998


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

10 September 1998

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

15 June 1998

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

20 May 1998

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

15 April 1998

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

05 January 1998

Christmas holiday 1997-1998


The Plague - Albert Camus
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

15 December 1997

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

01 October 1997

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