A
An Image of Africa by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Skellington by John Allison
It Sucked and then I Cried by Heather B Armstrong
The Bicentennial Man and other stories by Isaac Asimov
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
War is Boring by David Axe and Matt Bors
B
Dead Air by Iain Banks
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Company by Max Barry
Becoming Drusilla by Richard Beard
Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Red Dog by Louis de Bernières
Country of the Blind by Christopher Brookmyre
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Possession by AS Byatt
C
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Hungry Ghost Festival by Jen Campbell
The Romance Readers’ Book Club by Julie L Cannon
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (audiobook)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Dan Yack by Blaise Cendrars
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
The War of the Wives by Tamar Cohen
Break of Day by Colette
Claudine at School by Colette
Claudine in Paris by Colette
Claudine Married by Colette
Claudine and Annie by Colette
Ripening Seed by Colette
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
D
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
The Guild volume 1 by Felicia Day and Jim Rugg
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
Time Out of Joint by Philip K Dick
Night Walks by Charles Dickens
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Room by Emma Donoghue
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Her Shadow by Louise Douglas
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Seamstress by María Dueñas
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
The Alexandria Quartet Book 1: Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet Book 2: Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet Book 3: Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet Book 4: Clea by Lawrence Durrell
E
Trains are Mint by Oliver East
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot
I Remember Nothing and other reflections by Nora Ephron
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
F
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
Through England on a Side-Saddle by Celia Fiennes
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
The Magus by John Fowles
The Greengrocer’s Apostrophe by Alexandra Fox
G
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess and Paul Johnson
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones III
Southwesterly Wind by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
Seducing Ingrid Bergman by Chris Greenhalgh
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
H
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows by Harry Harrison
Ritual by Mo Hayder
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories by Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
The Small Hand by Susan Hill
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Slam by Nick Hornby
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
I
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
J
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July
K
Paul Auster’s City of Glass: a graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
Southland Tales books I–III by Richard Kelly and Brett Weldele
It’s Only a Movie by Mark Kermode
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Comfort and Joy by India Knight
Great House by Nicole Krauss
The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
L
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous
Rupture by Simon Lelic
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
Black Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Old Paint by Megan Lindholm
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
The QI Book of the Dead by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell
M
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and other stories by Yann Martel
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Don’t Look Now and other stories by Daphne du Maurier
The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
I’ll Never be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Little Lost Robot by Paul McAuley
Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell
C by Tom McCarthy
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Mysteries by Robert McGill
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957–1963 by Barry Miles
Kick-ass by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
Echo: the Complete Edition by Terry Moore
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
N
The Learning Curve by Melissa Nathan
David Golder by Irène Némirovsky
20 Years Later by E J Newman
One Day by David Nicholls
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Character of Rain by Amélie Nothomb
O
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Modesty Blaise: the Black Pearl by Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway
Modesty Blaise: the Green-Eyed Monster by Peter O’Donnell and Enric Badia Romero
Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor by Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway
Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim books 1–6 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
Why I Write by George Orwell
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists by Jim Ottaviani
T-Minus: the Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
P
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Non-fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
Dark Matter: a Ghost Story by Michelle Paver
The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music by John Peel
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Chocolate Money by Ashley Prentice Norton
R
Trance of Insignificance by Jennifer Rainville
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner
Murder Born by Robert Reed
Turning-Point by Rainer Maria Rilke
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations a novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
S
Palestine by Joe Sacco
For Esmé – with Love and Squalor and other stories by J D Salinger
Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Escape from the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
NW by Zadie Smith
Wild Girls: the Love Life of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (audiobook)
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
T
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
V
Happy Creatures by Ángela Vallvey
Saga volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Y: the Last Man The complete series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra
And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
Candide: or, Optimism by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
W
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Time Machine by H G Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf
Y
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
Z
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Collections by various authors
The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73 edited by John Saumarez Smith
Future Bristol edited by Colin Harvey
The Library Book edited by Rebecca Gray
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