User:GrahamHardy/non-SF By Year of Publication :

1950

• The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac 2/5
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 2/5

1953

• The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley 3/5
• Junky by William S. Burroughs 3/5
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 2/5

1956

• The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman 4/5
• The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque 2/5
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow 2/5
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson 2/5

1959

• Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee - 3/5
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 3/5
• Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau 2/5
• A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates 2/5
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 2/5
• The Breaking Point (stories) by Daphne du Maurier - 2/5
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe - 2/5
• Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury - 2/5

1951

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier 3/5
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 3/5
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 2/5
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers 2/5
• From Here to Eternity by James Jones 2/5

1954

• Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan 2/5
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding 2/5
• Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene 2/5

1957

• The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever 3/5
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 2/5
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac 2/5
• Voss by Patrick White 2/5
• The Comforters by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark 2/5

1952

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck 3/5
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 2/5
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 2/5
• The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier 2/5
• The Long March by William Styron 2/5

1955

• The Tree of Man by Patrick White 3/5
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson 3/5
• The Ginger Man by J P Donleavy 2/5
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore 2/5

1958

• The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 3/5
• The Bell by Iris Murdoch 3/5
• A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson 3/5
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 2/5
• Robinson by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth 2/5

1960

• To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 3/5
• The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien 3/5
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike 2/5
• When the Green Woods Laugh by H. E. Bates 2/5
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The Bachelors by Muriel Spark 2/5

1963

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 3/5
• The Collector by John Fowles 3/5
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre 3/5
• I am David by Anne Holm 3/5
• The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The Book of Fub by Michael Frayn 2/5

1966

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 3/5
• The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn 3/5
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 2/5
• The Pedestal by George Lanning 2/5
• Casualties of Peace by Edna O'Brien 2/5

1969

• Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene 3/5
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 3/5
• The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier 3/5
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 3/5
• A Change for the Better by Susan Hill 3/5
• Girls at Play by Paul Theroux 3/5
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 2/5
• Papillon by Henri Charriere 2/5
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 2/5
• Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read 2/5
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo 2/5
• Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima 2/5

1961

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 3/5
• Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers 2/5
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 2/5
• Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White 2/5
• A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 2/5

1964

• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey 2/5
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. 2/5
• A Moment in Time by H. E. Bates 2/5
• The Spire by William Golding 1/5

1967

• Green Hand by Lillian Beckwith 3/5
• Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan 3/5
• Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn 3/5
• The Greeks Have a Word For It by Barry Unsworth 3/5
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 2/5
• The Disaster Area (stories) by J.G. Ballard 2/5
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2/5
• Old Crow by Shena Mackay 1/5

1962

• Ginger You're Barmy by David Lodge 3/5
• Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (stories) by Richard Yates 2/5
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 2/5
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 2/5
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 2/5
• The Reivers by William Faulkner 1/5
• Pigeon Feathers by John Updike 1/5

1965

• Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji 3/5
• The Tin Men by Michael Frayn 3/5
• The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge 3/5
• The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Stoner by John Williams 2/5
• Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal 2/5
• The Magus by John Fowles 2/5
• An American Dream by Norman Mailer 1/5
• Music Upstairs by Shena Mackay 1/5

1968

• Gentleman and Ladies by Susan Hill 3/5
• In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 2/5
• The Public Image by Muriel Spark 1/5

1970

• Troubles by J. G. Farrell 3/5
• The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon 2/5
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2/5
• The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Fifth Business by Robertson Davies 2/5

1973

• In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill 3/5
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell 3/5
• The Albatross by Susan Hill 2/5
• The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn 2/5
• The Hothouse by the East River by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis 1/5

1976

• Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan 3/5
• Sadler's Birthday by Rose Tremain 3/5
• Ordinary People by Judith Guest 2/5
• Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal 2/5
• The Story of the Weasel by Carolyn Slaughter 2/5
• Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories by J. G. Ballard 2/5
• Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan 2/5
• A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• The Takeover by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Sleep It Off Lady by Jean Rhys 1/5

1979

• Close to Home by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• Confederates by Thomas Keneally 3/5
• A Dry White Season by Andre Brink 3/5
• Sophie's Choice by William Styron 3/5
• The Long Walk by Stephen King 3/5
• Life Before Man Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Suttree by Cormac McCarthy 2/5
• Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami 2/5

1971

• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart 3/5 (except ch. 38)
• Strange Meeting by Susan Hill 3/5
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski 2/5
• Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux 2/5
• The Other by Tom Tryon 2/5
• Not To Disturb by Muriel Spark 1/5

1974

• The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston 2/5
• The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving 2/5
• Concrete Island by J G Ballard 2/5
• Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig 2/5
• The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark 1/5

1977

• The Shining by Stephen King 3/5
• Dancing Girls (stories) by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• The Women's Room by Marilyn French 2/5

1972

• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin 3/5
• The Bird of Night by Susan Hill 2/5
• Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser 2/5
• Rule Britannia by Daphne Du Maurier 2/5
• The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky 2/5
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood 2/5

1975

• Changing Places by David Lodge 3/5
• Shogun by James Clavell 3/5
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs 3/5
• Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge 3/5
• A Word Child by Iris Murdoch 3/5
• First Love, Last Rites (stories) by Ian McEwan 2/5
• High Rise by J. G. Ballard 2/5
• The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury 2/5
• Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally 2/5

1978

• The World According to Garp by John Irving 3/5
• The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan 2/5
• In Between the Sheets (stories) by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• SS-GB by Len Deighton 2/5

1980

• The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy 4/5
• How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge 3/5
• A Quiet Drink by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• The Sweet-Shop Owner by Graham Swift 3/5
• Duffy by Dan Kavanagh 3/5
• Metroland by Julian Barnes 2/5
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 2/5
• So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell 2/5
• Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee 2/5
• Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge 1/5

1983

• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 4/5
• Modern Baptists by James Wilcox 3/5
• Waterland by Graham Swift 3/5
• Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Murder in the Dark (stories) by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Porky by Deborah Moggach 2/5
• The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Aykroyd 2/5
• Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray 1/5

1986

• Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel 3/5
• To Have and To Hold by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• O-Zone by Paul Theroux 3/5
• Mohawk by Richard Russo 3/5
• The Bridge by Ian Banks 3/5
• Ghosts by Paul Auster 2/5
• The Locked Room by Paul Auster 2/5
• A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine 2/5
• Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes 2/5
• Mefisto by John Banville 1/5

1989

• Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins 3/5
• The Innocent by Ian McEwan 3/5
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 3/5
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 3/5
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 3/5
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville 3/5
• The Trick of It by Michael Frayn 3/5
• Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson 3/5
• My Secret History by Paul Theroux 3/5
• The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks 3/5
• Plague 99 by Jean Ure 3/5
• Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster 3/5
• The Loser by Thomas Bernhard 2/5
• Fludd by Hilary Mantel 2/5
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes 2/5
• The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway 2/5
• Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz 2/5
• Tango by Alan Judd 2/5
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 2/5
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5

1981

• Cujo by Stephen King 4/5
• A Breed of Heroes by Alan Judd 3/5
• On the Yankee Station (stories) by William Boyd 3/5
• Shuttlecock by Graham Swift 3/5
• Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 3/5
• The Christmas Tree by Jennifer Johnston 3/5
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 3/5
• The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux 3/5
• A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd 3/5
• The Double Bass by Patrick Suskind 3/5
• Fiddle City by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Lanark by Alasdair Gray 2/5
• The Comfort of Strangers (stories) by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Liars in Love (stories) by Richard Yates 2/5
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Other People by Martin Amis 2/5
• Happy to be Here (stories) by Garrison Keillor 2/5
• Dying, In Other Words by Maggie Gee 1/5

1984

• Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney 3/5
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 3/5
• Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 2/5
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 2/5
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 2/5
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes 2/5
• The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley 2/5
• The Only Problem by Muriel Spark 2/5

1987

• Skallagrigg by William Horwood 5/5
• The Commitments by Roddy Doyle 3/5
• Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 3/5
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 3/5
• The Child in Time by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Beloved by Toni Morrison 2/5
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 2/5
• Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury 2/5

1982

• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Kenneally 3/5
• So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan 3/5
• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende 3/5
• The Running Man by Stephen King 3/5
• Hot Water Man by Deborah Moggach 2/5
• Learning to Swim by Graham Swift 2/5
• Keepers of the House by Lisa St Aubin de Terán 2/5

1985

• Perfume by Patrick Suskind 4/5
• Cider House Rules by John Irving 3/5
• A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson 3/5
• Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 3/5
• Walking on Glass by Iain Banks 3/5
• Illywhacker by Peter Carey 3/5
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 3/5 (1st half vg, 2nd half fair)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami 2/5
• Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel 2/5
• White Noise by Don DeLillo 2/5
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 2/5
• City of Glass by Paul Auster 2/5
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 2/5
• Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd 2/5
• Mum and Mr. Armitage by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5

1988

• The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 3/5
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 3/5
• The Risk Pool by Richard Russo 3/5
• The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind 3/5
• Libra by Don DeLillo 3/5
• The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen 2/5
• Night Over Day Over Night by Paul Watkins 2/5
• Story of My Life by Jay McInerney 2/5
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2/5
• Kitchen by Banana Yashimoto 2/5
• The Greenhouse by Susan Hillmore 2/5
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 2/5
• A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon 2/5
• The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer 2/5
• Driving in the Dark by Deborah Moggach 2/5
• Out of this World by Graham Swift 2/5

1990

• The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams 3/5
• The Snapper by Roddy Doyle 3/5
• The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi 3/5
• Symposium by Muriel Spark 3/5
• Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd 3/5
• The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières 3/5
• The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder 2/5
• Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker 2/5
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver 2/5
• Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien 2/5

1993

• After the Hole by Guy Burt 4/5
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 3/5
• East of Wimbledon by Nigel Williams 3/5
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 3/5
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 3/5
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• The Search for the Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart 3/5
• Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux 3/5
• In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears 3/5
• The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd 3/5
• Complicity by Iain Banks 3/5
• Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver 3/5
• The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore 3/5
• Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller 3/5
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 2/5
• A Simple Plan by Scott Smith 2/5
• Facts Behind Helsinki Roccamatios (stories) by Yann Martell 2/5
• Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (stories) by John Irving 2/5
• Ghosts by John Banville 2/5
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 2/5
• Theory of War by Joan Brady 2/5
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf 2/5
• The Elephant Vanishes (stories) by Haruki Murakami 2/5
• Now You Know by Michael Frayn 2/5

1996

• The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle 4/5
• Asylum by Patrick McGrath 3/5
• Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser 3/5
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 3/5
• Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe 3/5
• Seesaw by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle 3/5
• The God Child by Paul Sayer 3/5
• The Beach by Alex Garland 3/5
• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge 3/5
• Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster 3/5
• House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine 3/5
• Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore 3/5
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz 2/5
• Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark 2/5
• The End of Alice by A. M. Homes 2/5
• Last Orders by Graham Swift 2/5
• Justine by Alice Thompson 2/5
• Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov 2/5
• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester 1/5
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels 1/5
• Cross Channel (stories) by Julian Barnes 1/5

1999

• Affinity by Sarah Waters - 4/5
• Headlong by Michael Frayn 3/5
• Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk 3/5
• Ghostwritten by David Mitchell 3/5
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead - 3/5
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alex McCall Smith - 3/5
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 3/5
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle - 3/5
• Shopping by Gavin Kramer - 3/5
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 3/5
• Triangulation by Phil Whitaker 3/5
• All Quiet On The Orient Express by Magnus Mills 2/5
• Man and Boy by Tony Parsons 2/5
• The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi 2/5
• Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo - 2/5
• Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore - 2/5
• The Business by Iain Banks - 2/5
• Cracks by Sheila Kohler - 2/5
• Only When the Sun Shines Brightly by Magnus Mills - 2/5
• Dandelion Clock by Guy Burt - 2/5
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - 2/5
• Other Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith - 1/5
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk - 1/5

1991

• Talking it Over by Julian Barnes 3/5
• The Van by Roddy Doyle 3/5
• See Jane Run by Joy Fielding 3/5
• The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge 3/5
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 3/5
• Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe 3/5
• A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon 3/5
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 2/5
• Wilderness Tips (stories) by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Air and Angels by Susan Hill 2/5
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2/5 (too gory)
• A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn 2/5
• Regeneration by Pat Barker 2/5
• The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd 2/5
• Mao II by Don DeLillo 2/5
• Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn 2/5
• The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam 2/5
• The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson 2/5
• The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self 1/5

1994

• Scenes from a Poisoner's Life by Nigel Williams 3/5
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 3/5
• What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe 3/5
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 3/5
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières 3/5
• A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel 2/5
• The Fermata by Nicholson Baker 3/5 (too rude though!)
• The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan 2/5
• The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer 2/5
• Juggling by Barbara Trapido 2/5
• Pig by Andrew Cowan 2/5
• Sophie by Guy Burt 2/5

1997

• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 3/5
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 3/5
• Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller 3/5
• The Untouchable by John Banville 3/5
• The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb 3/5
• One Day as a Tiger by Anne Haverty 3/5
• The Service of Clouds by Susan Hill
• Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee 3/5
• Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker 3/5
• Straight Man by Richard Russo 2/5
• All the Names by Jose Saramago 2/5
• The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer 2/5
• Night Train by Martin Amis 2/5
• The Tale of the Unknown Island by José Saramago 2/5
• Like by Ali Smith 2/5
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 2/5
• Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux 2/5
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2/5
• In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami 2/5 (too gory!)
• The Lion's Mouth by Anne Holt 2/5
• The Echo by Minette Walters 2/5
• The Love of Fat Men (stories) by Helen Dunmore 2/5

1992

• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller 4/5
• They Came from SW19 by Nigel Williams 3/5
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt 3/5
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks 3/5
• The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill 3/5
• Sacred Country by Rose Tremain 3/5
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth 3/5 (1st half vg, 2nd half fair)
• Life-Size by Jenefer Shute 3/5
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 3/5
• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg 3/5
• Ever After by Graham Swift 3/5
• Dunedin by Shena Mackay 2/5
• Whispers in the Dark by Jonathan Aycliffe 2/5
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer 2/5
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2/5
• The Porcupine by Julian Barnes 2/5
• Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud 2/5
• A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks 2/5
• Good Bones (stories) by Margaret Atwood 2/5
• Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo 2/5
• Vox by Nicholson Baker 2/5
• The Pupil by Caro Fraser 2/5

1995

• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay 3/5
• The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle 3/5
• The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston 3/5
• Whit by Iain Banks 3/5
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 3/5
• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald 3/5
• Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker 3/5
• Gridiron by Philip Kerr 3/5
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 3/5
• Poor Souls by Joseph Connolly 3/5
• Blindness by Jose Saramago 2/5
• Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith 2/5
• Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes 2/5
• The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans 2/5
• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon 2/5
• A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore 2/5

1998

• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown 4/5
• The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills 3/5
• Holes by Louis Sachar 3/5
• England, England by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Naked Pueblo (stories) by Mark Poirier 3/5
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 3/5
• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge 3/5
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters 3/5
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis 2/5
• The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay 2/5
• The Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy 2/5
• Armadillo by William Boyd 2/5
• The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel 2/5
• The Tesseract by Alex Garland 2/5
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2/5
• Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 by William Boyd 2/5
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe 2/5
• Wide Open by Nicola Barker 2/5
• The Ice People by Maggie Gee 2/5

2000

• Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice 4/5
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• Love, etc by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 3/5
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 3/5
• e by Matt Beaumont 3/5
• Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick 3/5
• After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell 3/5
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber 3/5
• Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark 3/5
• Witch Child by Celia Rees 3/5
• Anthropology (stories) by Dan Rhodes 2/5
• Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson 2/5
• Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid 2/5
• Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin 2/5
• Goats by Mark Poirier 2/5
• Grits by Niall Griffiths 2/5
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2/5
• Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason 2/5
• Why Come to Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury 2/5
• The Colour of Hope by Susan Madison 2/5
• Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris 2/5
• According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5
• Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson 2/5
• Ice Cream by Helen Dunmore 2/5

2003

• The Curious Incident of the Dog by Mark Haddon 4/5
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 4/5
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 4/5
• The Calligrapher by Edward Docx 4/5
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills 3/5
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 3/5
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller 3/5
• The Two Pound Tram by William Newton 3/5
• Spies by Michael Frayn 3/5
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly 3/5
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 3/5
• Wild Boy by Jill Dawson 3/5
• Starter for Ten by David Nicholls 3/5
• Voices by Arnaldur Indridason 3/5
• Joseph Knight by James Robertson 3/5
• The Light of Day by Graham Swift 3/5
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 3/5
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie - 3/5
• Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster 3/5
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton 3/5
• Once in a Blue Moon (stories) by Magnus Mills 2/5
• Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes 2/5
• The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper (stories) by Susan Hill 2/5
• Heligoland by Shena Mackay 2/5
• Paint Ruby Tuesday by Jane Yardley 2/5
• The Average Human by Ellen Toby-Potter 2/5
• Away from it All by Judy Astley 2/5
• The Whole Story, and Other Stories by Ali Smith 2/5
• The Great Lover by Jill Dawson 2/5
• Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo 1/5

2006

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 4/5
• One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson 4/5
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 4/5
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson 4/5
• The Observations by Jane Harris 4/5
• The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson 3/5
• Relentless by Simon Kernick 3/5
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 3/5
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 3/5
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie 3/5
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 3/5
• Where They Were Missed by Lucy Caldwell 3/5
• Restless by William Boyd 3/5
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters 3/5
• Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle 3/5
• Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone 3/5
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 3/5
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry 3/5
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas 3/5
• Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2/5
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler 2/5
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 2/5
• Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle 2/5
• Electricity by Ray Robinson 2/5
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke 2/5
• Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland 1/5

2009

• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 4/5
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett 4/5
• Thing Around Your Neck (stories) by Chimamanda Adichie 3/5
• The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills 3/5
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 3/5
• My Driver by Maggie Gee 3/5
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks 3/5
• Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd 3/5
• After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld 3/5
• One Day by David Nicholls 3/5
• The Associate by John Grisham 3/5
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 3/5
• The Information Officer by Mark Mills 3/5
• Notwithstanding (stories) by Louis de Bernières 3/5
• The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse 3/5
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 3/5
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn 3/5
• Summertime by J. M. Coetzee 3/5
• The Dare by John Boyne 2/5
• We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka 2/5
• The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker 2/5
• UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo 2/5
• Love and Summer by William Trevor 1/5

2001

• Atonement by Ian McEwan 3/5
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 3/5
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo 3/5
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 3/5
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel 3/5
• Three to See the King by Magnus Mills 3/5
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn 3/5
• The Double by Jose Saramago 3/5
• Hotel World by Ali Smith 3/5
• Deception Point by Dan Brown 3/5
• Legacy by Alan Judd 3/5
• Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason 3/5
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 3/5
• The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones 3/5
• Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman 3/5
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 3/5
• American Gods by Neil Gaimon 2/5
• Eagles and Angels by Juli Zeh 2/5
• Erasure by Percival Everett 2/5
• Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes 2/5
• The Cave by José Saramago 2/5
• Number9dream by David Mitchell 2/5
• Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce 2/5
• The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe 2/5
• I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti 2/5
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani 2/5
• Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Hound Music by Rosalind Belben 1/5

2004

• Boy A by Jonathan Trigell 3/5
• Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen 2/5
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 3/5
• The Whaleboat House by Mark Mills 3/5
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 3/5
• The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes 3/5
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 3/5
• Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn 3/5
• The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Doppler by Erlend Loe 3/5
• The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee 3/5
• Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo 3/5
• Between Two Rivers by Nicholas Rinaldi 2/5
• The Finishing School by Muriel Spark 2/5
• Seeing by Jose Saramago 2/5
• The Final Solution by Michael Chabon 2/5
• The Tarnished Eye by Judith Guest 2/5
• As Far As You Can Go by Lesley Glaister 2/5
• The Flood by David Maine 2/5
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 2/5

2007

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 4/5
• Gold by Dan Rhodes 4/5
• The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way 3/5
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary by Xiaolu Guo 3/5
• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng 3/5
• Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka 3/5
• A Quiet Belief in Angels by R. J. Ellory 3/5
• Engleby by Sebastian Faulks 3/5
• The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill 3/5
• Self Help by Edward Docx 3/5
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris 3/5
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult 3/5
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 3/5
• Dark Hearts of Chicago by William Horwood 3/5
• The Shack by William P. Young 3/5
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver 3/5
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 3/5
• The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter 3/5
• Tomorrow by Graham Swift 3/5
• The Town with no Twin by Barry Pilton 3/5
• Life Class by Pat Barker 3/5
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 3/5
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Cham by Jonathan Trigell 2/5
• Cry of the Justice Bird by Jon Haylett 2/5
• Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann 2/5
• Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith 2/5
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani 2/5
• The Savage Garden by Mark Mills 2/5
• M is for Magic (stories) by Neil Gaiman 2/5
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 2/5
• 24 for 3 by Jennie Walker 2/5
• The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle 2/5
• The Understory by Pamela Erens 2/5
• The Gathering by Anne Enright 2/5

2002

• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson 4/5
• Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk 4/5
• Sea Glass by Anita Shreve 3/5
• Any Human Heart by William Boyd 3/5
• Welcome to Higby by Mark Dunn 3/5
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 3/5
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt 3/5
• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor 3/5
• I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak 3/5
• Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord 3/5
• Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 3/5
• Youth by J. M. Coetzee 3/5
• Hatchett and Lycett by Nigel Williams 3/5
• The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo 2/5
• Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss 2/5
• Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson 2/5
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman 2/5
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer 2/5
• The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 2/5
• The White Family by Maggie Gee 2/5
• Little Infamies by Panos Karnezis 2/5
• The Face by Phil Whitaker 2/5
• Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy 1/5

2005

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 4/5
• The Accidental by Ali Smith 3/5
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 3/5
• The Valley by Barry Pilton 3/5
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 3/5
• Saturday by Ian McEwan 3/5
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston 3/5
• My Cleaner by Maggie Gee 3/5
• Heaven Lake by John Dalton 3/5
• Q & A by Vikas Swarup 3/5
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3/5
• The Understudy by David Nichols 3/5
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2/5
• Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills 2/5
• The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill 2/5
• The Turning by Tim Winton 2/5
• The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami 2/5
• The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto 2/5
• Until I Find You by John Irving 2/5
• Learning to Talk (stories) by Hilary Mantel 2/5

2008

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 4/5
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 4/5
• The Beacon by Susan Hill 3/5
• Pollard by Laura Beatty 3/5
• Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones 3/5
• Indignation by Philip Roth 3/5
• Little Bird by Camilla Way 3/5
• Go With Me by Castle Freeman 3/5
• Monster Love by Carol Topolski 3/5
• The Believers by Zoe Heller 3/5
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 3/5
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 3/5
• When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 3/5
• Kill Your Friends by John Niven 3/5
• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 3/5
• Small World by Matt Beaumont 3/5
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult 3/5
• Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga 3/5
• Trauma (novel by Patrick McGrath 3/5
• The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith 2/5
• The Atmospheric Railway by Shena Mackay 2/5
• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo 2/5
• Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien 2/5
• Glister by John Burnside 1/5

2010

• Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes 4/5
• Solar by Ian McEwan 3/5
• Room by Emma Donoghue 3/5
• The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris 3/5
• The Small Hand by Susan Hill 3/5
• Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• Screwtop Thompson by Magnus Mills 3/5
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 3/5
• Dark Matter by Michelle Paver 3/5
• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• Nemesis by Philip Roth 2/5
• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2/5
• The 1000 Autumns of Jacob Zoet by David Mitchell 2/5
• Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne 2/5
• The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle 2/5

2013

• Inferno by Dan Brown 4/5
• Marry Me by Dan Rhodes 3/5
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld 3/5
• Black Sheep by Susan Hill 3/5
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 3/5
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• Road Ends by Mary Lawson 3/5
• Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates 3/5
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 3/5
• The Unknown Bridesmaid by Margaret Forster 3/5
• The Virgins by Pamela Erens 2/5

2016

• An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney 3/5
• Nutshell by Ian McEwan 3/5
• The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon 3/5
• Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler 3/5
• The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories by David Lodge 3/5
• Invasion by Luke Rhinehart 3/5
• Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift 3/5
• Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson 3/5
• The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain 3/5
• Autumn by Ali Smith 2/5
• The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes 2/5
• The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill 2/5

2019

• Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 4/5
• Chances Are... by Richard Russo 3/5
• The Porpoise by Mark Haddon 3/5
• Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières 3/5
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 3/5
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 3/5
• The Carer by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• Lost Property by Laura Beatty 2/5
• More Than This by Patrick Ness 2/5
• The Cockroach by Ian McEwan 2/5
• Spring by Ali Smith 2/5

2011

• Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson 4/5
• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan 3/5
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 3/5
• Mistaken by Neil Jordan 3/5
• A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest by Magnus Mills 3/5
• We Others by Steven Millhauser 3/5
• The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx 3/5
• Gillespie and I by Jane Harris 3/5
• Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift 3/5
• The Inverted Forest by John Dalton 3/5
• The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 3/5
• There But For The by Ali Smith 2/5
• The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams 2/5
• Pulse by Julian Barnes 2/5
• The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5

2014

• How to Be Both by Ali Smith 3/5
• The Children Act by Ian McEwan 3/5
• Us by David Nicholls 3/5
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 3/5
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 3/5
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton 3/5
• The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North 3/5
• When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes 3/5
• Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• England and Other Stories by Graham Swift 3/5
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 3/5
• The Grownup by Gillian Flynn 3/5
• To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris 2/5
• A Sudden Light by Garth Stein 2/5

2017

• The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd (stories) 3/5
• From the Heart by Susan Hill 3/5
• The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore 3/5
• The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills 2/5
• Let Go My Hand by Edward Docx 2/5
• How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster 2/5
• Sugar Money by Jane Harris 2/5
• Winter by Ali Smith 2/5

2012

• This Is Life by Dan Rhodes 4/5
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 4/5
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan 3/5
• Skios by Michael Frayn 3/5
• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen 3/5
• Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd 3/5
• Dolly: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill 3/5
• The Red House by Mark Haddon 3/5
• One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern 2/5
• The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey 2/5

2015

• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 3/5
• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood 3/5
• Slade House by David Mitchell 3/5
• Second Life by S. J. Watson 3/5
• Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach 3/5
• Dancing on the Outskirts by Shena Mackay 3/5
• The Crossing by Andrew Miller 3/5
• Sweet Caress by William Boyd 3/5
• Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith 2/5
• Purity by Jonathan Franzen 2/5
• The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills 2/5
• Make Something Up (stories) by Chuck Palahniuk 2/5
• The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien 2/5

2018

• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 3/5
• The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas 3/5
• Transcription by Kate Atkinson 3/5
• Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates 3/5
• The Outsider by Stephen King 3/5
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak 2/5
• The Only Story by Julian Barnes 2/5

2020

• Here We Are by Graham Swift 3/5
• If It Bleeds by Stephen King 3/5
• Trio by William Boyd 3/5
• The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld 3/5
• Final Cut by S. J. Watson 3/5
• Love by Roddy Doyle 2/5
• The Silence by Don DeLillo 1/5

2021

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 3/3