Review Index

Books featured are indexed by author surname. The links will take you directly to the review or article associated with it. Key to Abbreviations:

  • RC = Review Copy, O = Own copy, L = Library *= on my shelves from a previous year
  • F = Fiction, NF = Non-fiction, Tr = Translated, YA = Young Adult, Ch = Children’s, Gr = Graphic novel, P = Poetry, SNB = Review for Shiny New Books.
  • The year is the year read, not year of publication.
  • Updated to 30 April 2020.

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Authors  A

AARONOVITCH, Ben
– Rivers of London – O F (9/10) 2011
– Moon Over Soho – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
ABBOTT, Megan
– Dare Me – RC F (7.5/10) 2013
– The Fever – RC F (9/10) 2014
ABRAHAM, Thomas – Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication – RC NF (7/10) 2019
ACIOLI, Socorro – The Head of the Saint – RC YATr 2014 SNB
ACKROYD, Peter
– Hawksmoor – O* F (10/10) 2018 re-read
– The Death of King Arthur – RC F (6.5/10) 2010
– Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem O* F (8.5/10) 2020
ADAMS, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – RC F (9/10) 2017 re-read SNB
ADEBAYO, Ayọ̀bámi– Stay With Me – O F (8/10) 2018
ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun – O F 2011
AICKMAN, Robert
– Dark Entries – RC F 2016 SNB
– Cold Hand in Mine – RC F 2016 SNB
– Five Fascinating Facts – Article for SNB
AKERSTROM, Lola A – Lagom – RC NF (5/10) 2017
ALBERTINE, Viv – To Throw Away Unopened – RC NF (10/10) 2018 SNB
ALLINGHAM, Margery – Look to the Lady – RC F (9/10) 2015
ALMOND, David – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean – RC F (6.5/10) 2011
ALVAREZ, Julia – How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents – O* F (7/10) 2017
AMBLER, Eric
– The Mask of Dimitrios – O F 2009
– Cause for Alarm – O* F (8.5/10) 2016
– The Light of Day – O* F (9.5/10) 2016 SNB
AMES, Jonathan
– Wake Up, Sir – RC F 2015
– You Were Never Really Here – O F (10/10) 2018
AMIS, Kingsley – Lucky Jim – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
AMIS, Martin – Money – O* F (9/10) 2015
ANDERS, Charlie Jane
– All the Birds in the Trees – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
– The City in the Middle of the Night – RC F (7/10) 2019
ANDREWS, Julie
– Home – O NF 2008
– Home Work RC NF (9/10) 2019
ARANGO, Sacha – The Truth and Other Lies – RC F (8/10) 2015
ARCHER, Jodie and JOCKER, Matthew L – The Bestseller Code – O NF (9/10) 2017 SNB
ARDEN, Katherine – The Bear and the Nightingale – O F (9/10) 2017 SNB
ARMSTRONG, Karen – A Short History of Myth – O NF (8/10) 2010
ARNOTT, Jake
– The Long Firm – O* F (10/10) 2015
– The Fatal Tree – RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB
ATKINSON, Kate
– Life After Life – O F (10/10) 2014
– Transcription – O F (10/10) 2019
ATWOOD, Margaret – The Penelopiad – O F (8/10) 2010
AUSTEN, Jane and GRAHAME-SMITH, Seth – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – O F (6.5/10) 2009
AUSTER, Paul

AZZOPARDI, Trezza – The Tip of My Tongue – O* F (8/10) 2019
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Authors  B

BAGLEY, Desmond – Running Blind – RC F (9/10) 2017 re-read SNB
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl

BAKER, Frank – Miss Hargreaves – O F 2009
BAKER, Tim – Fever City – RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB
BAKER, Tom – The Boy Who Kicked Pigs – O F 2009
BAKKER, Gerbrand – The Twin – O* F (9/10) 2015
BALLARD, JG
– The Drowned World – O* F (9/10) 2015
– The Drought – O* F (9.5/10) 2019
– Concrete Island – O* F (9/10) 2018
– Running Wild – O* F (10/10) 2018
BANKOVSKIS, Paul – 18 – RC FTr (7/10) 2018
BANKS, Iain
– The Wasp Factory – O*F (10/10) 2013
– Stonemouth – O*F (9/10) 2013
– The Quarry – O*F 2014 SNB
BANKS, Lynne Reid – Tiger, Tiger – O FCh (8/10) 2009
BANNAN, Sarah – Weightless – O* F (10/10) 2018
BARBA, Andres – Such Small Hands – RC FTr (9/10) 2017
BARBAL, Maria – Stone in a Landslide – RC FTr (9/10) 2010
BARBERY, Muriel
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog – O FTr 2008
– The Life of Elves – O FTr (8.5/10) 2016 SNB
BARBER, Lynn
– An Education – O NF (8/10) 2010
– A Curious Career – RC NF 2014 SNB
BARKER, Nicola
– Burley Cross Postbox Theft – RC F (7.5/10) 2010
BARLOW, Toby
– Sharp Teeth – O F 2008
– Babayaga – O F (9.5/10) 2013
BARNES, Julian – The Only Story – O* F (9/10) 2019
BARNETT, Laura – The Versions of Us – O F (9/10) 2015
BARREAU, Nicolas – The Secret Paris Cinema Club – RC F (7.5/10) 2014
BARRY, Kevin – Beatlebone – O* F (7.5/10) 2017
BARKER, Nicola
– Burley Cross Postbox Theft – RC F (7.5/10) 2010
BARTLETT, Neil
– Skin Lane – O F (9/10) 2010
– The Disappearance Boy – RC F 2014 SNB
BATES, HE
– Fair Stood The Wind For France – O* F (10/10) 2018 re-read
– The Darling Buds of May – O*F (10/10) 2012
BAUME, Sara – Spill Simmer Falter Wither – O F (8/10) 2016
BEALE, Susan – The Good Guy – RC F (9/10) 2016
BEARD, Richard – The Day That Went Missing – O NF (10/10) 2017
BEATON, MC
– Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth 1) – O* F (7.5/10) 2010
– Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth 2) – O*F (8.5/10) 2011
BEAUMONT, Sebastian – The Juggler – RC F (10/10)
BEAUVAIS, Clementine – In Paris With You – RC YA (9/10) 2018
BECK, Ian
– The Secret History of Tom Trueheart Boy Adventurer – RC Ch (9/10) 2014
– Pastworld – O YA (9/10) 2009
BECKETT, Andy – When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies – RC NF 2009
BELLOS, David – The Novel of the Century – RC NF (8/10) 2016 SNB
BENJAMIN, Chloe – The Immortalists – RC F (8.5/10)
BENSON, Peter – Isabel’s Skin – RC F (8/10) 2013
BERG, Mattias – The Carrier – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2019
BERGEN, Andrez – Small Change – RC FTr (8/10) 2015
BERGIN, Virginia – The Rain – RC YA (9/10) 2014
BERNERS-LEE, Mike – How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything – RC NF (8/10) 2010
BERNHARD, Thomas – Woodcutters – O FTr (6.5/10) 2013
BERKMAN, Marcus – Set Phasers to Stun – O NF (8.5/10) 2016
BERTHON, Simon – Woman of State – RC F (7.5/10) 2018
BIBLE, Michael – Sophia – RC F 2015 SNB
BESSON, Philippe – Lie With Me – O (10/10) 2019
BILSTON, Brian – You Took the Last Bus Home – O P (10/10) 2016
BINDING, Tim – The Champion – RC F (9/10) 2011
BINET, Laurent – HHhH – RC F (6.5/10) 2012
BINGHAM, Charlotte – MI5 and Me – O NF (10/10) 2019
BIRCH, Carol – Jamrach’s Menagerie – O F (8.5/10) 2011
BISSELL, Norman – Barnhill – L F (7.5/10) 2019
BLACK, Cara – Murder in Pigalle – RC F (7/10) 2014
BLACK, Sue – All That Remains – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018
BLACKMAN, Andrew – A Virtual Love – RC F (8/10) 2013
BLACKMAN, Malorie – Ckoud Busting – O FCh (10/10) 2009
BLANC, Raymond – A Taste of My Life – O F 2009
BLOCK Lawrence – Burglars Can’t Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr 1) – O*F (7/10) 2013
BLUME, Judy – Forever – O* YA (7/10) 2017
BOAST, Will – Daphne – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB
BOLANO, Roberto
– Amulet – RC FTr 2009
– Third Reich – O* FTr (7/10) 2016
BOLLEN, Christopher
– Orient – RC F (9/10) 2015
– The Destroyers – RC F (7.5/10) 2017
BOLT, Ranjit – A Lion was Learning to Ski – RC P 2015 SNB
BONFIGLIOLI, Kyril
– Don’t Point That Thing At Me – RC F (10/10) 2014 SNB
– After Your With the Pistol – O F (9.5/10) 2014
– Something Nasty in the Woodshed – O* F (7/10) 2015
– The Great Mordecai Moustache Mystery – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
BORJLIND, Cilla and Rolf
– Spring Tide (Ronning and Stilton 1)– RC FTr (10/10) 2015
– Third Voice (Ronning and Stilton 2)- RC F (9/10) 2015
BORODIN, Leonid – The Year of Miracle and Grief – RC FTr (8/10) 2013
BOTTINI, Oliver – The Dance of Death (Black Forest Investigations #3 – RC Tr (6.5/10) 2019
BOULLE, Pierre – Desperate Games – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2014 SNB
BOURDOUXHE, Madeleine
– La Femme de Gilles – O* FTr (9/10) 2018
– Marie – O FTr (9/10) 2016
BOURLAND, Barbara – Fake Like Me – RC (8/10) 2019
BOYCE, Frank Cottrell – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again – RC Ch (6.5/10) 2011
BOYD, William – Waiting for Sunrise – RC F (8.5/10) 2013
BOYLE, Frankie – My S**t Life So Far – NF (3/10) 2010
BOYNE, John – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – O F 2008
BOYTCHEV, Oggy – The Unbeliever – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB
BRAND, Russell – Trickster’s Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin – O Ch (10/10) 2014
BRANDRETH, Gyles – Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries – O*NF 2015
BRAUTIGAN, Richard
– Sombrero Fallout – O F (7.5/10) 2014
– The Revenge of the Lawn – O* F (8.5/10) 2018
BRETT, Harry aka William Sutton – Time to Win – RC F (8/10) 2017
BROOK, Rhidian – The Aftermath – RC F (8/10) 2014 SNB
BROOKMYRE, Chris(topher)
– Quite Ugly One Morning – O F 2006
– Fallen Angel – RC F (8.5/10) 2019
BROOKNER, Anita – The Rules of Engagement – O*F (6.5/10) 2011
BROOKS, Kevin
– The Bunker Diary – O YA 2014
– Born Scared – RC YA (7/10) 2016
BROOMFIELD, Mark – Every Breath You Take – RC NF (6.5/10) 2019
BRUCE, Alastair – Wall of Days – RC F (8/10) 2011
BUCHAN, John – The 39 Steps – O* F (7.5/10) 2012
BUKOWSKI, Charles – Post Office – O* F (7.5/10) 2018
BULGAKOV, Mikhail – The Fatal Eggs – O FTr 2011
BULLOUGH, Tom – Konstantin – RC F (9/10) 2012
BURGESS, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange – O* F 2018 re-read
–Five Fascinating Facts – Article for SNB 2017
BURTON, Jessie – The Miniaturist – O 2015
BUSH, Penelope – Alice in Time – O YA (6.5/10) 2010
BUTCHER, Jim
– Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) – O* F (8/10) 2010
– Fool Moon (Dresden Files 2) – O* F (8.5/10) 2010
BUTLER, Octavia E – Fledgling – O* F (6.5/10) 2010
BYATT, AS – Ragnarok – O F (8.5/10) 2014
BYRNE, Ben – Fire Flowers – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB
BYRNE, David – How Music Works – O NF (10/10) 2016
BYTHELL, Shaun
– The Diary of a Bookseller – O NF (8.5/10) 2018
– Confessions of a Bookseller – RC NF (9.5/10) 2019
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Authors C

CAIN, James M
– Double Indemnity – O* F (10/10) 2010
– The Postman Always Rings Twice – O* (9.5/10) 2018
CALDWELL, Ian – The Fifth Gospel – RC F (6.5/10) 2015
CALLAGHAN, Helen – Dear Amy – RC F (6/10) 2016
CALVINO, Italo – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – O*F (DNF) 2015
CAMILLERI, Andrea – August Heat – RC F (8/10) 2010
CAMUS, Albert – The Plague – O* FTr (6/10) 2016
CANNON, Joanna
– Three Things About Elsie – RC F (10/10) 2018 SNB
– Breaking and Mending – RC NF (7/10) 2019
CANTER, Jon
– A Short Gentleman – O F (8.5/10) 2015
– The Rev. Diaries – RC F (10/10) 2014
CANTOR, Rachel – A Highly Unlikely Scenario – RC F (7/10) 2014
CAPUS, Alex – A Price to Pay  RC FTr 2015 SNB
CAREW, Mark – The Book of Alexander – RC F 2018 SNB
CAREY, Peter – Oscar and Lucinda – O*F (9/10) 2012
CARILLO, Charles – My Ride With Gus – O F (10/10) 2007
CARLOTTO, Massimo – The Goodbye Kiss – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018
CARRIGER, Gail – Soulless – O* F (8/10) 2015
CARROLL, Dr A and VREEMAN, Dr R – Don’t Swallow Your Gum: and Other Medical Myths Debunked – O NF (6.5/10) 2009
CARROLL, Leavis – Alice in Brexitland – RC F (7/10) 2017
CARROLL, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – O*Ch 2011
CARTER, Angela – The Bloody Chamber – O* F (8.5/10) 2010
CARTWRIGHT, Justin – Lion Heart – RC F (6/10) 2013
CASARES, Adolfo Bioy and OCAMPO Silvina – Where There’s Love, There’s Hate – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2015
CAST, PC and Kristin – Marked – O YA 2009
CHABON, Michael – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – O* F (7.5.10) 2019
CHAMBERS, Becky
– The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet – O F (10/10) 2016
– A Closed and Common Orbit – RC F (9.5/10) 2016 SNB
– Record of a Spaceborn Few – RC F (9.5/10) 2018 SNB
– To Be Taught, If Fortunate – RC F (8.5/10) 2019 SNB
CHANDLER, Raymond – The High Window – O F (8.5/10) 2017
CHATFIELD, Tom – This is Gomorrah – RC F (7.5/10) 2019
CHBOSKY, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower – O YA (10/10)
CHEEK, Mavis – Dog Days – PS F (9/10) 2016
CHEKHOV, Anton
– The Seagull – O F 2014 – The Cherry Orchard – O F 2014
CHEVALIER, Tracy
– The Virgin Blue – O* (6.5/10) 2018
– Remarkable Creatures – RC F 2009
CHILD, Lee – Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) – O F (8.5/10) 2012
CHOWN, Marcus
– We Need to Talk About Kelvin – RC NF 2009
– What A Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff – RC NF 2013
CHRISTOPHER, John – The Death of Grass – O F (10/10) 2010
CHURCH, Elizabeth J – The Atomic Weight of Love – RC F (8.5/10) 2016 SNB
CIMENT, Jill – Heroic Measures – RC F (8/10) 2015
CLANCHY, Kate
– Antigona and Me – RC F (8/10) 2009
-Meeting the English O F 2014 SNB
– Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me – O NF 2019
CLARKE, Arthur C – Childhood’s End – RC F (8/10) 2017
CLAUDEL, Philippe – Parfums  RC NFTr 2014 SNB
CLEEVES, Ann – Raven Black (Shetland 1) – O F (9/10) 2012
CLINE, Emma – The Girls RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB
COE, Jonathan
– Expo 58 – RC F (9/10) 2013 SNB
– Number 11 – RC F (9/10) 2014 SNB
– Middle England – RC F 2018 SNB
COLEMAN, Nick – The Train in the Night – RC NF (10/10) 2019
COLLINS, Harry –Are We All Scientific Experts Now? – RC NF (6/10) 2014
COLLINS, Stephen – The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil – O* FGr (10/10) 2014
COLLINS, Sophie – Biographic Audrey – L (5/10) 2019
COLLINS, Warwick – The Sonnets – RC F 2008
COLLINS, Wilkie – The Moonstone – O F (8/10) 2010
COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy – Pastors and Masters – RC F (6.5/10) 2010
COMYNS, Barbara – The Vet’s Daughter – O F (9/10) 2014
CONNELL, DJ – Sherry Cracker Gets Normal – RC F (6.5/10) 2011
CONNELL, Evan S
– Mrs Bridge – RC F (10/10) 2013
– Mr Bridge – O F 2013
CONNELLY, Michael – Lost Light – O F 2008
CONNOLLY, John – He – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB
CONRAN, Terence – My Life in Design – RC NF (9.5/10) 2016
COOK, Robin – Outbreak – O F (7/10) 2017
COOPER, Jilly
– Riders – O*F (8/10) 2012
– Polo – O*F (8/10) 2015
COOVER, Robert – Briar Rose and Spanking the Maid – RC F (7.5/10) 2011
COPELAND. Stewart – Strange Things Happen – RC NF 2009
COPPERWAITE, Paul – Pop Charts – O NF 2010
COREN, Alan – 69 for 1 – O NF 2008
COX, Tom – Help the Witch – L F (9/10) 2019
CRACE, Jim
– All That Follows – RC F (6.5/10) 2010
– Harvest – RC F (10/10) 2013
CRACKNELL, Linda – Call of the Undertow – RC F (9/10) 2014
CRAIG, Amanda – The Lie of the Land – RC F (9/10) 2017 SNB
– Q and A with Amanda Craig – 2017
CRASKE, Darren – The Equivoque Principle – RC F 2009
CRAYTHORNE, SE – How You See Me – RC F (8/10) 2015
CREWS. Harry – A Feast of Snakes – O*F (9/10) 2008
CROWLEY, John – Little Big – O*F (DNF) re-read 2015
CROWLEY, Kieran – Hack – RC F (10/10) 2015
CULLEN, Helen – The Lost Letter of William Woolf – O* F (9/10)
CUMMING, Charles – The Trinity Six – RC F (8.5/10) 2011
CURRIE, Ron – God is Dead – O F 2008
CUSK, Rachel – The Bradshaw Variations – RC F (6.5/10) 2009
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Authors  D


DABOS, Christelle
– A Winter’s Promise – RC YATr (10/10) 2018
– The Missing of Clairdelune (Mirror Visitor 2) – RC FTr (10/10) 2019
DAHLQUIST, GW – The Glass Books Trilogy – O* F (8/10) 2012
D’ANDREA, Luca – Sanctuary – RC FTr (8/10) 2019
DARD, Frédéric
– The Wicked Go to Hell – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2016
– Bird in a Cage – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018
2015
DARTNELL, Lewis – The Knowledge: How to rebuild our world after an apocalypse O NF 2015 SNB
DASGUPTA, Rana – Solo – RC F 2009
DAVIDSDOTTIR, Vilborg – On the Cold Coasts – RC FTr (8/10) 2012
DAVIES, Carys– West – O F (10/10) 2019
DAVIES, Deborah Kay
– Reasons She Goes to the Woods – RC F (8.5/10) 2014
– True Things About Me – RC F (7.5/10) 2010
DAVIS-GOFF, Sarah – Last Ones Left Alive – RC F (6.5/10) 2019
DAWSON, Jill – Lucky Bunny – RC F (8/10) 2011
-The Tell-Tale Heart – RC F 2014
DAWSON, Juno – Meat Market – F, YA (8.5/10) 2020
DEAVER, Jeffrey – Carte Blanche (James Bond) – O F (7.5/10) 2011
De BODARD, Aliette – House of Shattered Wings – O F (8.5/10) 2015
De BOTTON, Alain – The Course of Love – RC F (10/10) 2016
DEFOE, Gideon
– The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists – O*F (9.5/10) 2012
– The Pirates! In an Adventure with Whaling – O*F (8.5/10) 2012
De KERANGAL, Maylis – Mend the Living – RC FTr (9/10) 2016
DELACOURT, Gregoire – The List of My Desires – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2015
DELAFIELD, EM – The Diary of a Provincial Lady – O*F (10/10) 2013
DELANEY, JP
– The Girl Before – O* F (10/10) 2019
– The Perfect Wife – RC F (9/10) 2019
DeLILLO, Don – Zero K – RC F (6.5/10) 2016
DELIUS, Friedrich Christian – Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2010
DELL, Christopher – Mythology – RC NF (7/10) 2015 SNB
DELLA FEMINA, Jerry – From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor – RC NF
DePALMA, Brian with Susan Lehman – Are Snakes Necessary? – RC (7.5/10) 2020
DEPP, Daniel – Lower’s Town – RC F 2009
DESPENTES, Virginie
– Vernon Subutex 1 – RC FTr (10/10) 2017
– Vernon Subutex 2 – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018
De VIGAN, Delphine – No and Me – O* FTr (9.5/10) 2016
DEVON, Joseph – Probability Angels – RC F 2009
DeWITT, Helen – Lightning Rods – RC F (10/10) 2012
DEWITT, Patrick
– Ablutions – O* F (8/10) 2017
– The Sisters Brothers – O F (10/10) 2011
– French Exit – O F (8/10) 2018
DIDIERLAURENT, Jean-Paul – The Reader on the 6.27 – O FTr (9.5/10) 2016
DINSHAW, Minoo – Outlandish Knight – RC NF 2017
DOCTOROW, Cory – Makers – RC F (8/10) 2009
DOCX, Edward – The Devil’s Garden – RC F (8.5/10) 2012
DOGAR, Sharon – Annexed – RC YA (6.5/10) 2011
DOMINGUEZ, Carlos Maria – The Paper House – O*F (7/10) 2012
DONLEAVY, JP – The Woman Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms – O* F (6/10) 2015
DONOGHUE, Emma – Frog Music – RC F (6.5/10) 2014
DONWOOD, Stanley
– Humor – RC F (6/10) 2015
– Bad Island – RC Gr (9/10) 2020
DOUGHTY, Louise – Apple Tree Yard – O* F (9/10) 2017
DOWNING, David – Jack of Spies – RC F (6.5/10) 2014
DOYLE, Arthur Conan – The Lost World – RC F (9/10) 2017
DOYLE, Roddy
– The Commitments – O* F (8.5/10) 2016
– Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – O F (7.5/10) 2018
– A Greyhound of a Girl – RC YA (8.5/10) 2011
– Brilliant – RC Ch (7/5/10) 2014
–Dead Man Talking – RC F 2015
DUGUID, Sarah – Look at Me – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
DRURY, Tom – The End of Vandalism – O* F (10/10) 2015
DUNMORE, Helen – Inside the Wave – L P (9/10) 2019
DUNANT, Sarah
– The Birth of Venus – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
– In the Name of the Family – RC F (9/10) 2017
DUNN, Nell – Poor Cow – O* F (10/10) 2018
DUNN, Mark – Ella Minnow Pea – O*F (8/10) 2010 re-read
DUNNETT, Dorothy – The Game of Kings (Lymond 1) – O*F (9/10) 2013
DUNSANY, Lord – The King of Elfland’s Daughter – O* F (DNF) 2015
DUNTHORNE, Joe
– The Adulterants – O F (9/10) 2019
– O Positive – RC P (9/10) 2019
DYER, Geoff – Broadsword Calling Danny Boy On Where Eagles Dare – O NF (9.5/10) 2018 SNB
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Authors  E

EAVES, Will – Murmur – L F (9/10) 2019
ECLAIR, Jenny – Moving – O F (9/10) 2016
ECO, Umberto – The Name of the Rose – O* F 2019 re-read
EDELSTEIN, Jean Hannah – This Really Isn’t About You – L NF (9.5/10) 2019
EDRIC, Robert – The Devil’s Beat – RC F (7.5/10) 2012
EDUGYAN, Esi – Washington Black – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB
EDWARDS, Patrick – Echo Cycle RC (8/10) 2020
ELLIS, Janet – How It Was – RC (9/10) 2020
ELLMANN, Lucy – Mimi – O* F (9/10) 2019
ELSIR, Amir Tag – Telepathy – O FTr (7/10) 2018
EMMICH, Val – The Reminders – RC F (9/10) 2017
EMRE, Merve – What’s Your Type – RC NF (6.5/10) 2018
ENDERS, Guilia – Gut – O NF (8/10) 2015
ERPENBECK, Jenny – The End of Days – O FTr (6.5/10) 2015
ESPOSITO, Chloe
– Mad – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
– Bad – RC F (6.5/10) 2018
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey – The Virgin Suicides – O* F (8.5/10) 2015
EVARISTO, Bernardine – Mr Loverman – RC F (10/10) 2013
EXTENCE, Gavin
– The Universe Versus Alex Woods – RC F (9/10) 2013
– The Empathy Problem – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB
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Authors F

FAGEN, Donald – Eminent Hipsters – O* NF (8.5/10) 2018
FAIRFAX, John – Summary Justice – RC F (9/10) 2018
FALCONER, Ian – Olivia (in Latin) – O Ch? 2014
FALLADA, Hans – Alone in Berlin – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2011
FANNING, Arnold Thomas – Mind on Fire – L NF (8/10) 2019
FARJEON, Eleanor – Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field – O*Ch (2014)
FARNDALE, Nigel – The Blasphemer – RC F (9/10) 2010
FAULKS, Sebastian – Pistache – O*NF 2013
FENOLLERA, Natalie Sanmartin – The Awakening of Miss Prim – O FTr (8.5/10) 2015
FERGUSON, Rachel– The Brontes Went to Woolworths – O* F (6/10) 2018
FERRANTE, Elena
– My Brilliant Friend – O*FTr (9/10) 2014
– Troubling Love – O FTr (5/10) 2009
FERRARIS, Zoe – City of Veils O F (9/10) 2012
FERRIS, Joshua – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour – RC F (DNF) 2014
FFORDE, Jasper
– The Last Dragonslayer – O YA (9/10) 2010
– Shades of Grey – O (10/10) 2011
FIELDING, Karen – American Sycamore – RC F (10/10) 2014 SNB
FILER, Nathan – The Shock of the Fall – O* NF (7.5/10) 2016
FIORATO, Marina
– The Glassblower of Murano – RC F 2008
– The Madonna of the Almonds – RC F (8/10)
-Beatrice and Benedick – RC F 2014 SNB
– Crimson and Bone – RC F 2017
FISHER, Carrie
– Wishful Drinking – O F 2009
– Shockaholic – O* NF (8/10) 2015
– The Princess Diarist – O NF (7.5/10) 2016
FISHER, Clare – All the Good Things – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
FISHWICK, Michael – The White Hare – RC YA (9/10) 2017
FITZGERALD, F Scott – The Great Gatsby – O*F (10/10) 2013
FITZGERALD, Penelope
– The Bookshop – O* F (10/10) 2017
–At Freddies – O*F (8/10) 2014
FITZHARRIS, Lindsey – The Butchering Art – O NF (8.5/10) 2018
FLANERY, Patrick – Fallen Land – RC F (9/10) 2013
FLETCHER, Carrie Hope – All I Know Now – RC NF (8/10) 2015 SNB
FLETCHER, Susan – Corrag – RC F (7/10) 2010
FLINTOFF, John-Paul – What if the Queen Should Die? – RC F (8.5/10) 2015
FLYNN, Gillian – Gone Girl – O F 2013
FODEN, Giles – Turbulence – RC F 2009
FORBES, Michelle – Edith and Oliver – RC F (8/10) 2017
FORD, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier – O*F (8/10) 2012
FORMAN, Gayle
– If I Stay – O FYA 2009
– I Was Here – RC YA 2015 SNB
FORSTER, Julia – What a Way To Go – O* F (7/10) 2018
FORSTER, Margaret – Georgy Girl – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
FORTES, Susanna – Waiting for Robert Capa – RC FTr (9/10) 2012
FOWLER, Christopher – The Book of Forgotten Authors – O NF (8/10) 2017 SNB
FOWLER, Karen Joy – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – O F (7.5/10) 2014
FOX, Chloe – Vogue Essentials: The Little Black Dress – RC NF 2018
FRANZOSINI, Edgardo – The Animal Gazer – O (8/10) 2019
FREDERICKS, LR – Farundell – RC F (6.5/10) 2011
FREEDLAND, Jonathan – The 3rd Woman – RC F (8/10) 2016
FREEMAN, Laura – The Reading Cure – RC NF (9/10) 2018
FRENCH, Dawn – Oh Dear Silvia – RC F (8/10) 2013
FRENCH, Tana – In the Woods – O* F (10/10) 2018
FREW, Peggy – Hope Farm – RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB
FUCHS, Thomas – Digby’s Hollywood Adventure – RC F (8.5/10)
FUENTES, Eugenio – The Pianist’s Hands – O FTr 2009
FUKUDA, Andrew Xia – Crossing – O YA (9/10) 2017
FULLER, Claire
– Our Endless Numbered Days RC F (10/10) 2015 Author article (BB5) SNB
– Swimming Lessons RC F 2017 SNB
– Bitter Orange RC F 2019 SNB
FUNDER, Anna – Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – O NF (7/10) 2012
FUNKE, Cornelia – The Thief Lord – O Ch 2009
FURNISS, Clare – The Year of the Rat – RC F 2014 SNB
FURST, Alan – A Hero in France – RC, F (8/10) 2016 SNB
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Authors  G

GAIMAN, Neil
– Coraline – O YA 2009
– The Graveyard Book – O YA (9/10) 2011
– The Sleeper and the Spindle – O YA (10/10) 2014
GALE, Patrick
– A Place Called Winter – O* F (9.5/10) 2019
– Take Nothing With You – PS F (10/10) 2018 SNB
GALLAGHER, Winifred – It’s in the Bag: What Purses Reveal and Conceal – O NF (6.5/10) 2011
GALLENZI, Alessandro – Bestseller – RC F (6/10) 2010
GALLICO, Paul – The Small Miracle – O F 2012
GALLOWAY, Steven – The Confabulist – RC F 2014 SNB
GANGEMI, Kenneth – Olt – O* F (9/10) 2019
GARDNER, John – Grendel – O*F (8/10) 2008
GARDNER, Sally
– The Red Necklace – O FCh (10/10)
– The Double Shadow – RC YA (10/10) 2011
– Tinder – O* YA (10/10) 2018
– The Door That Went to Where – RC YA (8/10) 2015 SNB
GARNER, Alan
– The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – O FCh 2013
– The Moon of Gomrath – O FCh 2013
– Boneland – O*F (8/10) 2013
– Where Shall We Run To? – O NF 2018
GARNER, Helen – The Spare Room – RC F 2009
GARNETT, David – A Man in the Zoo and Lady Into Fox – O F 2013
GARNIER, Pascal
–The A26 – O*FTr (9/10)) 2014
– The Islanders – RC FTr 2014 SNB
– Too Close to the Edge – RC FTr (10/10) 2016
– A Long Way Off – RC (10/10) 2020
GATISS, Mark – Dr Who: The Last of the Gadarene – O*F (6/10) 2013
GAULD, Tom
– Mooncop – O FGr (10/10) 2017
– Department of Mind-Blowing Theories O (10/10) 2020
GAVALDA, Anna – Billie – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018
GIBSON, Jasper – A Bright Moon for Fools – RC F 2014 SNB
GILBERT, Zoe – Folk – RC F (9/10) 2019
GIORDANO, Mario
– Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2016 SNB
– Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord – RC FTr (8/10) 2018
GLADWELL, Malcolm – The Tipping Point – O NF (9/10)2009
GLANCY, Robert – Terms and Conditions – RC F (8/10) 2014
GLEESON, SinéadConstellations – RC (10/10) 2020
GOLDACRE, Ben – Bad Science – O NF 2009
GOLDING, William
– Lord of the Flies – O*F (10/10) 2011
– Rites of Passage – O* F (10/10) 2018 re-read
GOLDMAN, William – The Princess Bride – O*F 2017
GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna – Gorsky – O* F (9/10) 2016
– Monsieur Ka – O* F (9.5/10) 2019
GOMPERTZ, Will
– What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art… – RC NF (8.5/10) 2012
– Think Like an Artist – O NF (8/10) 2015 SNB
GOODMAN, David A – The Autobiography of James T Kirk – RC F (8/10) 2015 SNB
GORNALL, Louise – Under Rose-Tainted Skies – RC YA (9/10) 2016
GOSLING, Sam – Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You – O NF (6.5/10) 2012
GOUDGE, Elizabeth – The Little White Horse – O* Ch (6/10) 2015
GRAHAM, Winston
– Ross Poldark – O F (9/10) 2015 SNB
– Five Fascinating Facts – Article for SNB
GREEN, Henry – Party Going – O F (8.5/10) 2012
GREEN, John – Paper Towns – O* YA (8/10) 2015
GREEN, Linda – The Last Thing She Told Me – RC F (7.75/10) 2018
GREEN, Sally
–Half Bad – RC YA (9/10)) 2014
– Half Wild – O YA (8.5/10) 2015 SNB
– Half Lost – RC YA (9/10) 2016
GREENE, Graham
– The End of the Affair – O* F (7.5/10) 2017
– England Made Me – O* F (7/10) 2013
– Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party – O*F (9/10) 2013
GREENGRASS, Jessie – Sight – RC F (7/10) 2018
GREENLAW, Lavinia – The Importance of Music to Girls – O NF (10/10) 2017
– The Casual Perfect – L P (8/10) 2019
GREER, Andrew Sean – Less – O* F (9/10) 2019
GREMILLON, Helene – The Confidant – RC FTr (8/10) 2013
GREY, Zane – Riders of the Purple Sage – RC F (10/10) 2010
GRIFFITHS, Neil – Saving Caravaggio – O F 2008
GRIFFITHS, Niall – The Dreams of Max and Ronnie – O F (7/10) 2010
GRIMBERT, Philippe – Secret – O FTr (9/10) 2014
GRIMWOOD, John – Moskva – O* (9/10) 2017
GRINDROD, John – Outskirts – RC NF (9/10) 2018
GROSSI, Pietro – Fists – RC F 2009
GRUEN, Sara – Water for Elephants – O F 2006
GRUSHIN, Olga – The Concert Ticket (aka The Line) – O* F (9.5/10) 2010
GUEVARA, Canek Sanchez – 33 Revolutions – PS FTr (10/10) 2016
GUNARATNE, Guy – In Our Mad and Furious City – RC F (9.5/10) 2018
GUO, Xiaolu
– Once Upon a Time in the East – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018
GUTCHEON, Beth – Gossip – O*F 2013 SNB
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Authors H

HAGHENBECK – Bitter Drink – RC F (6.5/10) 2013
HAIG, Matt
– The Radleys – RC F (9/10) 2010
– The Humans O F (10/10) 2013
HAIGH, Matthew – Death Magazine RC P (9/10) 2020
HALE, Shannon – Austenland – O F (7/10) 2017
HALL, Araminta – Everything and Nothing – RC F (6.5/10) 2011
HALL, Louisa – Trinity – L F (9/10) 2019
HALL, Sarah – How to Paint a Dead Man – RC F 2009
HAMID, Mohsin – Exit West – RC (7.5/10) 2018
HAMILTON, Laurell K – Guilty Pleasures – O*F (6.5/10) 2013
HAMILTON, Patrick – Hangover Square – O*F (10/10) 2014
HAMMER, Chris – Silver RC (8.5/10) 2020
HAMMETT, Dashiell – The Maltese Falcon – O* F (8/10) 2016
HAMPTON-HALL, Hollis – Comes the Night – RC F (10/10) 2011
HANDLER, Daniel
– Adverbs – O*F (8/10) 2011
– Why We Broke Up – O* YA (8/10) 2915
– All the Dirty Bits – O F (8/10) 2018
HANNAH, Sophie
–The Point of Rescue – O*F (8.5/10) 2010
– Lasting Damage – O*F (7.5/10) 2011
– The Orphan Choir – O F (6.5/10) 2013
– Pictures or it Didn’t Happen – RC F 2015
HARDING, Georgina – The Spy Game – O F (8/10) 2009
HARDING, Mike – Strange Lights Over Bexleyheath – L P (7.5/10)2019
HARDY, Thomas – Tess of the D’Urbervilles – O F 2008
– Jude the Obscure – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
HARFORD, Tim – Messy – O NF (9/10) 2016
HARDING, Mike – Strange Lights Over Bexleyheath – L P (8.5/10) 2019
HARKAWAY, Nick – Tigerman – RC F 2014 SNB
HARKNESS, Deborah – A Discovery of Witches – RC* F (7/10) 2019
HARPER, Jane
– The Dry – O* F (10/10) 2019
– The Lost Man RC F (9/10) 2018
HARPER, Nick – Marshall: The Book of Loud – RC NF (5/10) 2016
HARRIS, Charlaine
– Dead Until Dark – O F (10/10) 2009
– Living Dead in Dallas – O*F (8.5/10) 2010
HARRIS, Joanne
– Gentlemen and Players – O* F (9/10) 2010
-The Gospel of Loki – RC F 2014 SNB
– The Testament of Loki – RC DNF 2018
HARRISON, Michelle – The Thirteen Treasures – O FYA (7/10) 2009
HARSTAD, Johan – Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2011
HART-DAVIS, Adam – Pavlov’s Dog and 49 Other Experiments that Revolutionised Psychology – RC NF (7.5/10) 2018
HARUF, Kent – Our Souls at Night – O* F (10/10) 2018
HASLETT, Adam – Union Atlantic – RC F (7/10) 2010
HATOUM, Milton – Orphans of Eldorado – RC FTr (7/10) 2010
HAWKING, Jane – Travelling to Infinity – RC NF (7.5/10) 2015
HAWKINS, Paula – The Girl on the Train – O F (6/10) 2016
HAWKSLEY, Lucinda> – Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel – O NF 2009
HAYES, Alfred – My Face for the World to See – O* F (9/10) 2018
HAYNES, Natalie
–The Amber Fury – RC F (9/10) 2014
– The Children of Jocasta RC F (10/10) 2017 SNB
HAYSOM, Mark – Love, Love Me Do – RC F (8.5/10) 2014
HAZEN, Robert M – Symphony in C – RC NF (6.5/10) 2019
HEABERLIN, Julia – Black Eyed Susans – RC F 2015
HEANEY, Seamus – Beowulf – O*F (7/10) 2008
HEARN, Lian – Across the Nightingale Floor – O FYA (9/10) 2009
HEILIG, Heidi – The Girl from Everywhere – RC F (9/10) 2016
HELLER, Zoe – Notes on a Scandal – O* F (8.5/10) 2019 re-read
HENDERSON, Emma – The Valentine House – RC F 2017 SNB
HENDERSON, Paul J – The Last of the Bowmans – RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB
HENDRIX, Grady
– Horrostor – O F (9/10) 2014
– My Best Friend’s Exorcism – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
– The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires RC F (9/10) 2020
HERON, Liz – The Hourglass – RC F (8.5/10) 2019
HERRON, Mick
– Slow Horses – O F (10/10)
– Real Tigers – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB
– Spook Street – RC F (10/10) 2017
– This is What Happened – O F (8/10) 2018
HESSE, Herman
– Steppenwolf – O FTr (6/10) 2016
– Siddhartha – O* FTr (7/10) 2018
HESSE, Monica – Stray – RC YA (9/10) 2013
HIATT, Brian – A Portrait of Bowie – RC NF (8/10) 2016
HIGGERSON, James – The Almost Lizard – RC F (8/10) 2013
HIGGS, John – William Blake Now – O NF (10/10) 2019
HIGSON, Charlie
– Silverfin (Young Bond 1) – O Ch (8.5) 2011
– Blood Fever (Young Bond 2) – O Ch (9/10) 2011
– The Enemy (The Enemy 1) – O YA 2011
– The Dead (The Enemy 2) – O YA 2011
– King of the Ants – O*F (7/10) 2013
HILL, Antonio – The Summer of Dead Toys – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2012
HILL, Susan
– The Beacon – O F 2009
– Howard’s End is on the Landing – O NF 2009
– The Small Hand – O F (8.5/10) 2010
HILL, Will – After the Fire – O YA (8/10) 2019
HINES, Barry – A Kestrel for a Knave – F (10/10) 2020
HITCHENS, Christopher – Mortality – O NF (9/10) 2014
HOBAN, Russell
– The Mouse and His Child – O FCh (7/10) 2009
– Riddley Walker – O F (7/10) 2009
– My Tango With Barbara Strozzi – O F 2009
– Linger Awhile – O F (6.5/10) 2012
–Soonchild – O YA (9/10) 2014
HOCKING, Ian – Déjà vu – RC F (6/10) 2015
HOFFMAN, Alice
– The Ice Queen – O F (10/10)
– The Story Sisters – RC F (8/10) 2010
– Turtle Moon – O F (9/10) 2019
– The Museum of Extraordinary Things – RC F 2014 SNB
HOFFMAN, ETA
– The Sandman – RC FTr (9.5/10) 2013
– The Nutcracker and The Strange Child – O FTr 2014
HOGAN, Ruth– The Keeper of Lost Things – RC F (6.5/10) 2016
HOLLAND, Michael I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast – RC 2020
HOLT, Anne – 1222 – O* FTr (6.5/10) 2016
HONEYMAN, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – O* (6.5/10) 2018
HONEYWELL, Antonia – The Ship – O F (8.5/10) 2015
HOOPER, Emma – Etta and Otto and Russell and James – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB
HORN, Dara – The World to Come – O* F (6.5/10) 2014
HORNBY, Gill – The Hive O F (6.5/10) 2014
HORNBY, Nick
– Juliet, Naked – O F (8.5/10) 2011
– The Complete Polysyllabic Spree – O NF (9/10) 2013
– Stuff I’ve Been Reading – RC F (9/10) 2013
– Funny Girl – RC F 2014 SNB
– State of the Union – O F (7/10) 2019
HORNUNG, EW – Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – O*F 2013
HOROWITZ, Anthony – The House of Silk – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
HORWOOD, William – Hyddenworld – RC F (7.5/10) 2010
HOUM, Nicolai – The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland – RC FTr (7/10) 2018
HRBEK, Greg – Not on Fire, But Burning – RC F (8.5/10) 2015 SNB
HUDSON, Kerry – Tony Hogan Bought Me and Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma – O F (9/10) 2019
HUGHES, Michael
– The Countenance Divine – RC F (8/10) 2016
– Country – L F (DNF) 2019
HUGHES, Psiche – Beryl Bainbridge: Artist, Writer, Friend – RC NF (10/10) 2012
HUNT, Samantha – The Invention of Everything Else – O F (9/10) 2009
HUNTER, Cara
– Close to Home – O F (9/10) 2019
– All the Rage F (9/10) 2020
HUNTER, Megan – The End We Start From – O* F (10/10) 2018
HUSTVEDT, Siri – The Blindfold – O* F (8.5/10) 2019
HUTCHINSON, Dave – Europe in Autumn – O F (10/10) 2016
HUXLEY, Aldous – Brave New World – O*F (9/10) 2011
HWANG, Sun-Mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – O FTr (9/10) 2016
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Authors I J K

IDLE, Eric – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – RC NF (8/10) 2018
IGNATIUS, David – The Director – RC F (6.5/10) 2014
INCE, Robin and MAINS, Johnny – Dead Funny – RC F (8.5/10) 2018
INGE, Denise – A Tour of Bones – RC NF (9/10) 2016
INGELMAN-SUNDBERG, Catharina – The Little Old Woman Who Broke All the Rules – RC FTr (8/10) 2014
IRONMONGER, John – The Coincidence Authority – O F (7.5/10) 2013
ISHIGURO, Kazuo
– The Buried Giant – RC F (8/10) 2015
– My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (Nobel lecture) – O NF 2018
– The Buried Giant (F5; A)
IVEY, Eowyn
– The Snow Child – RC F (10/10) 2012
– To the Bright Edge of the World – RC F (10/10) 2016

JACKSON, Mick – The Widow’s Tale – RC F (8/10) 2014
JACKSON, Shirley
– We Have Always Lived in the Castle – O* F (10/10) 2018 re-read
– The Sundial – O F (9.5/10) 2015
JAIN, Locklann – Things That Art – RC 2019
JAKUBOWSKI, Maxim – Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction – RC NF (6.5/10) 2010
JAMES, Clive
– Latest Readings – RC NF (10/10) 2015
– Play All – O NF (9/10) 2016
– Somewhere Becoming Rain – O NF (9/10) 2019
JAMES, PD – Death Comes to Pemberley – RC F (9/10) 2011
JAMESON, Hanna – The Last – RC F (7.5/10) 2019
JANSSON, Tove – Finn Family Moomintroll – RC FCh 2017
JAPRISOT, Sebastien – The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun – RC FTr 2019
JARVIS, DC (MD) – Folk Medicine – O* NF 2017
JAUHAR, Sandeep – Heart: A History – O NF (7/10) 2019
JENNINGS, Luke – Codename Villanelle – O F (8/10) 2019
JENSEN, Liz
– War Crimes for the Home – O F 2008
– My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time – O* F (9/10) 2011
JOHN DB – Star of the North – RC F (10/10) 2018
JOHNCOCK, Benjamin – The Last Pilot – The Last Pilot – PS F (10/10) 2015
JOHNSON, Alan – This Boy – O NF (10/10) 2014
JOHNSON, Catherine – Blade and Bone – O YA (8/10) 2016
JOHNSON, Christine – Claire de Lune – RC YA (6.5/10) 2010
JOHNSON, Denis
– Train Dreams – O F (9/10) 2013
– The Man Among the Seals & Inner Weather – O* (6.5/10) 2020
JOHNSON, Rachel – Winter Games – RC F (7.5/10) 2012
JOHNSTON, Jennifer
– Truth or Fiction – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
– The Illusionist – O F (9/10) 2010
– A Sixpenny Song – F (7.5/10) 2020
JOINSON, Suzanne – A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – RC F (8/10) 2013
JONASSON, Jonas – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – O FTr (8.5/10) 2013
JONES, Cynan – The Dig
JONES, James – From Here to Eternity – RC F (DNF) 2013
JONES, Lloyd – Mister Pip – O* F (7.5/10) 2011
JONES, Russell Celyn – The Ninth Wave – O F 2010
JOPSON, Marty – The Science of Food – RC NF (8/10) 2017
JORDAN, Toni – Addition – RC F 2009
– Fall Girl – RC F (8/10) 2011
JOSEPH, Manu – Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous – RC F (9/10) 2018
JOYCE, Rachel
– The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – RC F (9/10) 2012
– The Music Shop – RC F (9/10) 2017

KALANITHI, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air – O* NF (10/10) 2018
KALFUS, Ken – Equilateral – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
KANDASAMY, Meena – Exquisite Cadavers – RC (8/10) 2020
KASTNER, Erich – The Parent Trap – O FTr (9.5/10) 2015
KATE, Lauren – Fallen – RC YA (5.5/10) 2010
KAUFMAN, Andrew – The Tiny Wife – RC F (9/10) 2011
KAVANAGH, Dan aka Julian Barnes – Duffy – O* F (9/10) 2019
KAWAGUCHI, Toshikazu – Before the Coffee Gets Cold – NG FTr (6.5/10) 2019
KAWAKAMI, Hiromi – The Nakano Thrift Shop – RC FTr (10/10) 2016
KAWAMURA, Genki – If Cats Disappeared From the World – RC FTr (10/10) 2018
KAY, Adam – This is Going to Hurt – O NF (9/10) 2017
– Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas O NF (6/10) 2019
KAY, Francesca – The Translation of the Bones – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
KAYE, Laura – English Animals – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
KEHLMANN, Daniel – You Should Have Left – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2017
KENEALLY, Thomas – The Widow and Her Hero – O*F 2013
KENT, Jasper – Twelve (Danilov Quintet 1) – RC F (7.5/10) 2011
KENT, Kathleen – The Heretic’s Daughter – RC F (7/10) 2009
KEYES, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon – O* F (10/10) 2017 re-read
KIELY, Orla – A Life in Pattern – RC NF 2018
KIERNAN, Olivia – Too Close to Breath
KING, Laurie R – The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (Mary Russell 1) – O F (9/10) 2012
KING, Stephen
– The Shining – O* F (7.75/10) 2018
– The Gunslinger – O F (8.5/10) 2011
–The Drawing of the Three – O F (7.5/10) 2011
– The Waste Lands – O F (9/10) 2011
– Wizard and Glass – O F (9/10) 2011
– Wolves of the Calla – O F (8.5/10) 2012
– Song of Susannah – O F 2013
–The Dark Tower – O F (8.5/10) 2014
KIRINO, Natsuo – The Goddess Chronicle – O FTr (9/10) 2014
KLAUSSMANN, Liza – Tigers in Red Weather – RC F (10/10) 2013
KLEIN, Stefan – We Are All Stardust – O NF (7.5/10) 2016
KNAUSGAARD, Linda Bostrum – The Helios Disaster – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2015
KNOX, Joseph
– Sirens – RC F (10/10) 2016
– The Smiling Man – RC F (10/10) 2018
– The Sleepwalker – RC F (9/10) 2019
KOCH, Herman – The Dinner – O FTr (7.5/10) 2013
KONDO, Marie – The Life-changing Magic of Tidying – O NF (6/10) 2016
KRAMER, Richard – These Things Happen – RC F (9/10) 2014
KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah – The Trauma Cleaner – O NF (9/10) 2019
KUNIAL, Zaffir – Us – L P (8.5/10) 2019
KUNZRU, Hari
– Transmission – O F 2008
– Gods Without Men – RC F (9/10) 2012
– White Tears – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
KURKOV, Andrey – The Gardener from Ochakov – O* FTr (9/10) 2019
KWANG, Sun-Mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – O FTr (9/10) 2016
KWOK, Jean – Girl in Translation – RC F (7.5/10) 2011
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Authors  L

LA FARGE, Paul – Luminous Airplanes – RC F (7.5/10) 2012
LAGERLOF, Selma – The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson – RC Ch (9/10) 2016
LAHIRI, Jhumpa – The Clothing of Books NF (7.5/10) 2020
LAIRD, Nick – Modern Gods – L F (7/10) 2019
LAKE, Nick – The Secret Ministry of Frost – O YA (8/10) 2009
LARSEN, Reif – The Selected Works of TS Spivet – O F (10/10) 2009
LARSON, Erik – The Devil in the White City – O NF (8/10) 2018
LASKI, Marganita – Little Boy Lost – O* F (8/10) 2010
LAURAIN, Antoine
– The President’s Hat – O* FTr (10/10) 2016
– The Red Notebook – O FTr (10/10) 2018
– French Rhapsody RC FTr (10/10) 2016
– The Portrait RC FTr 2017
– Smoking Kills – O FTr (7.5/10) 2018
– Vintage 1954 – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2019
LAUTNER, Robert – The Road to Reckoning (F1; A)
LAWRENSON, Deborah – Songs of Blue and Gold – RC F (9/10)
Le CARRE, John
– The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – O*F (10/10) 2010
– The Night Manager – O* F (10/10) 2016
LEHMANN, Rosamond – Invitation to the Waltz – O*F (8.5/10) 2012
LEIGH, Mike – Abigail’s Party – RC Pl 2017
LELIC, Simon – Rupture – RC F (8/10) 2010
–The Facility – RC F (8/10) 2011
– The Child Who – RC F (8.5/10) 2012
LELORD, Francis – Hector and the Search for Happiness – O FTr (8/10) 2010
LEMAITRE, Pierre
– Irene – O* FTr (10/10) 2015
– Alex – O F (10/10) 2013
– Camille – RC FTr 2015
– The Great Swindle RC FTr (10/10) 2016
– Blood Wedding RC FTr (9.5/10) 2016
– Three Days and a Life – RC FTr (7/10) 2017
LENAHAN, John – Shadowmagic – RC Ch 2009
LEONARD, Elmore – Glitz – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
LESLIE, VH – Bodies of Water – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
LESSER, Frank – Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside – RC F (7.5/10) 2013
LETTS, Elizabeth – Finding Dorothy – RC F (8/10) 2019
LEVER, James – Me Cheeta – O F 2009
LEVY, Deborah
– Swimming Home – O* F (9/10) 2017
– Hot Milk – O F (7.5/10) 2016
– Things I Don’t Want to Know – O NF (9/10) 2018
– An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell – O P (9/10) 2019
– The Man Who Saw Everything – RC F (9/10) 2019
LEWIS Bee – Liminal – RC F 2018
LEWIS, Gwynneth
– The Meat Tree – O F (7/10) 2010
– Advantages of the Older Man – RC F (9/10) 2014
LEYSHON, Nell – The Colour of Milk – RC F (9/10) 2012
LI, Lilian – Number One Chinese Restaurant – RC F (9/10) 2019
LIA, Simone – Fluffy – O FGr (9/10) 2017
LICHTAROWICZ, Paula – The First Book of Calamity Leek – RC F (8.5/10) 2013
LINDQVIST, John Ajvide – Let the Right One In – O F (10/10) 2009
LITTLER, Richard – Discovering Scarfolk – O F (10/10) 2014
LIVELY, Penelope – Family Album – O* F (6.5/10) 2015
LOE, Erlend – Lazy Days – O FTr (7/10) 2014
LOGAN, Michael – Apocalypse Cow – RC F (7/10) 2012
LONDON, Joan – The Good Parents – RC F (8/10) 2010
LOTTO, Beau – Deviate – O NF (7.5/10) 2017
LOUATAH, Sabri – Savages: The Wedding – RC FTr (8/10) 2018
LOVECRAFT, HP – The Colour Out of Space – RC F (8.5/10) 2011
LOWRY, Elizabeth – The Bellini Madonna – O F 2009
LUCARELLI, Carlo – Almost Blue – O FTr (7/10) 2010

LUCKHURST, Roger (Ed) – Science Fiction: A Literary History – RC NF 2017
LUKAS, Michael David – The Oracle of Stamboul – RC F (6.5/10) 2011
LUKAVIC, Amy – Daughters Unto Demons – RC YA (9/10) 2015
LUPTON, Rosamund – Three Hours – RC 2019
LYNCH, PK – Armadillo – RC F (9/10) 2016
LYNDSEY, Anna – Girl in the Dark – O NF (8.5/10) 2016
LYON, Annabel – The Golden Mean – O* F (9/10) 2018
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Authors  M

MAAS, Jane – Mad Women – RC NF (7.5/10) 2013
MACALLISTER, Greer – The Magician’s Lie – RC F (9/10) 2017
MACFARLANE, Seth – A Million Ways to Die in the West – O F (6.5/10) 2014
MACGABHANN, Time – Call Him Mine – RC F (8/10) 2019
MACINNES, Colin – Absolute Beginners – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
MACKENZIE, Ian – Feast Days – F (8.5/10) 2020
MACKESY, Charlie – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – O (10/10) 2019
MACKINTOSH, Clare – I See You – O F (10/10) 2016
MADELEY, Richard – Some Day I’ll Find You – RC F (7.5/10) 2013
MAGNAN, Pierre – Death in the Truffle Wood – O FTr (8.5/10) 2018
MAGRS, Paul
– To the Devil – A Diva! – O*F (6.5/10) 2010
– Never the Bride – O F (10/10) 2012
MAINE, David – The Flood – O*F (9/10) 2018
MAITLAND, Barry – Spider Trap – O F 2009
MAITLIS, Emily – Airhead L NF (9/10) 2019
MAKINE, Andrei – A Life’s Music – O FTr 2009
MANDEL, Emily St John
– The Singer’s Gun – O* F (9/10) 2018
– The Lola Quartet – L F (DNF) 2019
– Station Eleven – RC F (10/10) 2014
MANGAN, Lucy – Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading – O NF 2019
MANGAN, Christine – Tangerine – RC F (7.5/10) 2018
MANGUEL, Alberto – Stevenson Under the Palm Trees – O FTr (6/10)
MANKELL, Henning – When the Snow Fell – RC FYA 2009
MANNIX, Kathryn – With the End In Mind – O NF (9/10) 2018
MARCUS, Ben – The Flame Alphabet – O F (6/10) 2012
MARCUS, Greil
– The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs – RC NF (9/10) 2015
– Real Life Rock – RC NF (8/10) 2015
MARIANI, Scott – The Nemesis Program – RC F (5/10) 2014
MARKHAM, Robert (aka Kingsley Amis) – Colonel Sun – O* F (6.5/10) 2017
MARSH, Henry – Do No Harm – O NF (10/10) 2014
MARSHALL, Michael – The Intruders – O F (7/10) 2014
MARTELL, Owen – Intermission – RC F (6/10) 2013
MARTIN, Steve
– Shopgirl – O* F (10/10) 2016
– Born Standing Up – O* NF (9.5/10) 2013
– An Object of Beauty – RC F (8/10) 2010
MARTINEZ, Augustin – Village of the Lost Girls – RC FTr (DNF) 2019
MASCARENHAS, Kate – The Psychology of Time Travel – RC F (9/10) 2018
MASON, Nick – Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd O NF 2008
MATAR, Hisham – In the Country of Men – OF (8.5/10) 2011
MATAYOSHI, Naoki – Spark
MATHESON, Richard – I am Legend – O*F (9/10) 2011
MAY, Stephen – Wake Up Happy Every Day – O* F (9.5/10) 2017
MAYFIELD, Kate – The Undertaker’s Daughter – RC NF (9/10) 2014
MAYO, Jonathan – The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute – RC NF 2013
MAZETTI, Katarina – Benny and Shrimp – RC F (10/10) 2009
MCBAIN, Ed
– Cut Me In – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
– Cop Hater (87th Precinct 1) – O* F (8.5/10) 2011
– Driving Lessons – O* F (7.5/10) 2018
McBEE, Thomas Page – Amateur – L NF (8/10) 2019
McCANN, Colum – Thirteen Ways of Looking – O F (9/10) 2016
McCARTHY, Cormac – The Road – O F (10/10) 2009
McCAUGHREAN, Geraldine – The Death Defying Pepper Roux – RC YA (9/10)
McCLEEN, Grace – The Land of Decoration – RC F (8/10) 2012
McCOOK, Sophie – Thinkless – RC F (7.5/10) 2014
McCREIGHT, Kimberley – Reconstructing Amelia – RC F (7/10) 2013

McDERMID, Val – Northanger Abbey – RC F 2014
McDONAGH, Martine
– I Have Waited, and You Have Come – RC F (8.5/10) 2012
– After Phoenix – RC F 2013
– Narcissism for Beginners O F (10/10) 2017
McEWAN, Ian
– The Children Act (F3; A)
– Nutshell – O* F (9/10) 2018
– My Purple Scented Novel – O F 2018
McGLASSON, Claire – The Rapture F (9/10) 2020
McINERNY, Lisa
– The Glorious Heresies – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
– The Blood Miracles – RC F (7/10) 2017
McKEOWN, JC – A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities – RC NF (8/10) 2017
McNISH, Cliff – Savannah Grey – O YA (8.5/10) 2010
McNISH, Hollie – Plum – L P (9/10) 2019
McPHERSON, Conor – The Weir – O F 2013
McVEIGH, Jennifer – The Fever Tree – RC F (9/10) 2012
MEDVEI, Cornelius – Caroline: A Mystery – RC F (9/10) 2012
MEEK, Joe – The Heart Broke In – RC F (9/10) 2012
MELAMED, Jennie – Gather the Daughters – RC F (8/10) 2017
MELVILLE, Herman – Moby Dick – O F (7/10) 2011
MENO, Joe – The Great Perhaps – O F (7.5/10) 2010
MERLE, Robert – The Brethren – RC F (DNF) 2014
METALIOUS, Grace – Peyton Place – O*F (10/10) 2010
METZL, Jamie – Hacking Darwin – RC NF (10/10) 2019
MEYER, Stephanie – Twilight – O YA 2009
MIDDLETON, Stanley – Holiday – O* F (6.5/10) 2018
MILLAR, Louise – Accidents Happen – O F (8.5/10) 2014
MILLAR, Martin – The Good Fairies of New York – O F (8/10) 2011
MILLER, AD – Snowdrops – O*F (7.5/10) 2011
MILLER, Andrew – Pure – RC F (9/10) 2011
MILLER, Andy – The Year of Reading Dangerously – O* NG (8/10) 2015
MILLER, William – Gloucester Crescent – O* NF 2019
MILLS, Magnus
– All Quiet on the Orient Express – O F (10/10) 2010
– Explorers of the New Century – O*F (9/10) 2013
– The Maintenance of Headway – O*F (6.5/10) 2011
– A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in – O F (10/10) 2011
– The Field of the Cloth of Gold – O F (8/5.10) 2015
– The Forensic Records Society – O F (6.5/10) 2017
MILNE, AA– The Red House Mystery – O* F (6.75/10) 2018
MINGARELLI, Hubert – A Meal in Winter – O* Tr (10/10) 2019
MINIER, Bernard – Don’t Turn Out the Light – PS FTr (8.5/10) 2016
MIODOWNIK, Mark
– Stuff Matters – O NF (10/10) 2014
– Liquid – RC NF (9/10) 2018
MIRALLES, Francesc – Wabi-Sabi – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018
MITFORD, Nancy
– The Pursuit of Love – O F 2014
– Love in a Cold Climate O F 2008
MOOR, Jessica – Keeper RC F (9/10) 2020
MOORE, Christopher – Fool – RC F (7.5/10) 2010
MORAN, Caitlin – How to Build a Girl – O F (6.5/10) 2014
MORAN, Joe – Armchair Nation – O* NF (9/10) 2014
MORGAN, Ann – Beside Myself – O F (9.5/10) 2016
MORLEY, Paul – The Age of Bowie – O NF (8.5/10) 2016
MORPURGO, Michael – The Mozart Question – O*Ch (9/10) 2010
MORRIS, Desmond – The Lives of the Surrealists – O NF (9/10) 2018
MORRIS Katharine Faw – Young God – O F (10/10) 2015
MORRISON, Blake – Shingle Street – L P (10/10) 2019
MORRISSEY
– Autobiography – O F (7/10) 2013
– List of the Lost – O F (DNF) 2015
MORTIMER, Penelope – The Pumpkin Eater – O*F (7/10) 2013
MORTIMER, Roger and Charlie – Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son – O* F (9/10) 2015
MOSHFEGH, Otessa – My Year of Rest and Relaxation – L F (7/10) 2019
MOSLEY, Michael – The Fast Diet (with Mimi Spencer) – O NF 2013
MOSLEY, Walter – Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned – O F (10/10) 2008
MOSS, Eloise – Night Raiders RC NF (6.5/10) 2020
MOSS, Sarah – Cold Earth – RC F (9/10) 2009
MOUNT, Harry – Amo, Amas, Amat… and All That – O NF (7/10) 2010
MOZLEY, Fiona – Elmet – RC F (10/10) 2018
MULHAUSER, Thomas – Sweetgirl – RC F (9.5/10) 2016
MULLEN, Thomas – The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers – RC F (8/10) 2010
MURAKAMI, Haruki – The Strange Library – O F (9/10) 2014
– Birthday Girl – O F 2019
MURATA, Sayaka – Convenience Store Woman – O FTr (9/10) 2018
MURDOCH, Iris
– The Black Prince – O F (6/10) 2018
– The Italian Girl – O* F (8/10) 2018
MYERS, Benjamin – Under the Rock – RC NF 2019
MYERSON, Julie – Then – L F (7.5/10) 2019

Authors  N

NABB, Magdalen – Death in Springtime – O F (7/10) 2010
NADEL, Jennifer – Pretty Thing – RC F (7.5/10) 2015
NEMIROVSKY, Irene
– The Courilof Affair – O FTr (8/10) 2009
– Le Bal – O* F (9/10) 2019
NESBIT, TaraShea – The Wives of Los Alamos – RC F (8.5/10) 2014
NESBO, Jo – The Snowman – O FTr (7.5/10) 2011
NESS, Patrick
– The Knife of Letting Go – O FYA (10/10) 2009
– The Ask and the Answer – O YA (10/10) 2009
– A Monster Calls – O F (10/10) 2012
– The Crane Wife O F (9/10) 2013
– The Rest of Us Just Live Here – O F (7.5/10) 2015
– Release O YA (9/10) 2017
NEWBY, Eric – A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – O NF (8/10) 2016
NEWLEY, Alexander – Unaccompanied Minor – RC NF 2017
NICHOLLS, David – One Day – O F (9/10) 2014
NICHOLLS, Sally
– Ways to Live Forever – O*Ch (10/10) 2011
– All Fall Down – RC F (8.5/10) 2012
NICHOLS, Beverley – Crazy Pavements – O* F (8/10) 2017
NIFFENEGGER, Audrey – Her Fearful Symmetry – O F (7.5/10) 2010
NOBBS, David – Obstacles to Young Love – RC F (7/10) 2010
NOEL, Alyson – Evermore – RC YA (5.5/10) 2010
NOON, Jeff – Slow Motion Ghosts – RC F (10/10) 2019
NORFOLK, Lawrence – John Saturnall’s Feast – O* F (9/10) 2016 re-read
NORS, Dorthe – Mirror, Shoulder, Signal – O FTr (9/10) 2017
NORTH, Claire – The End of the Day – RC F 2017
NORTON, Graham – A Keeper – RC F (8.5/10) 2018
NORWICH, William – Learning to Drive – O* F (10/10) 2017
NOSAKA, Akiyuki – The Cake Tree in the Ruins – F, SS, Tr (9/10) 2020
NOTHUMB, Amelie
– The Book of Proper Names – O FTr (8/10) 2008
– Fear and Trembling – O* F (6.5/10) 2015
– Strike Your Heart – RC FTr
NUGENT, Liz – Lying in Wait – RC F (9.5/10) 2016
NUNEZ, Sigrid – The Friend – L F (10/10) 2019
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Authors  O

OBAMA, Michelle – Becoming RC NF (8.5/10) 2020
O’BARR, James – The Crow – RC Gr (8.5/10) 2011
O’BRIEN, Darcy – A Way of Life, Like Any Other – O* F (9/10) 2016
O’BRIEN, Edna
– The Country Girls – O* F (8.5/10) 2016
– August is a Wicked Month – O*F (9/10) 2012
O’CONNELL, Mark – To Be A Machine – RC NF (10/10) 2018
O’DONNELL, Peter
– Modesty Blaise – O* F (10/10) 2019
– Modesty Blaise: Ripper Jax – RC Gr (8.5/10) 2016
O’FARRELL, Maggie – I am, I am, I am – O* NF (10/10) 2018
OFFILL, Jenny – Dept of Speculation – O* F (10/10) 2017
OGAWA, Yoko
– Hotel Iris – O FTr (6.5/10) 2014
– The Housekeeper and the Professor – O FTr (10/10) 2010
– The Memory Police O* FTr (9/10) 2020
OLAFSSON, Bragi – The Pets – RC F 2008
OLIVER, Lauren – Panic – RC F 2014
OLMI, Veronique – Beside the Sea – RC FTr (8/10) 2010
O’NAN, Stewart – Last Night at the Lobster – O* F (9.5/10) 2017
O’NEILL, Louise
– Only Ever Yours – O* YA (10/10) 2016
– Asking For It – O* YA (10/10) 2016
– Almost Love – RC F (8.5/10) 2018
O’PORTER, Dawn – The Cows – RC F (8/10) 2017
ORANGE, Tommy – There There – RC F (10/10) 2019
ORWELL, George – 1984 – O F 2008
OSBORNE, John – Look Back in Anger – RC Pl 2015
OSMAN, Mat – The Ruins
OSWALD, Alice – Falling Awake – L P (DNF) 2019
OWEN, Paul Tudor – The Weighing of the Heart – RC (8/10) F 2019
OYEYEMI, Helen – White is for Witching – RC F 2009
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Authors P Q

PACHICO, Julianne – The Lucky Ones – RC F (10/10) 2017
PALACIO, RJ – Wonder – RC Ch (8/10) 2012
PALING, Chris – Newton’s Swing – O*F (9.5/10) 2012
PARETSKY, Sarah – Indemnity Only – O F (7/10) 2010
PARKS, Tim– Where I’m Reading From – RC NF 2015
PARR, Martin – Boring Postcards – O NF (10/10) 2009
PATTERSON, Glenn – Gull – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
PAULL, Laline
– The Bees – O F (8/10) 2015
– The Ice – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
PAVER, Michelle
– Dark Matter – O* F (9/10) 2016
– Thin Air – PS F (10/10) 2016
– Wakenhyrst – RC F (8.5/10) 2019
PAVONE, Chris – The Travelers – RC F (9/10) 2016
PEAKE, Mervyn – Mr Pye – O* F (6.5/10) 2017
PEARSON, Allison
– How Hard Can it Be? – RC F (9/10) 2017
– I Think I Love You – O F (9.5/10) 2010
PEARSON, Laura – Missing Pieces – RC F (7/10) 2018
PEMBERTON, Max – Trust Me, I’m a (Junior) Doctor – O NF 2009
PENMAN, Ian – It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track – O* (10/10) 2020
PENNEY, Stef – Under a Pole Star – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
PERCY, Benjamin – Red Moon – O F (7.5/10) 2013
PERKINS, Sue – Spectacles – O NF (9/10) 2015
PERRY, Grayson – Playing to the Gallery – O NF 2014
PHILLIPS, Marie
– The Table of Less Valued Knights – RC F (7.5/10) 2014
– Oh, I Do Like To Be… – O F 2018
PHILPOTT, Derek and Dave – Dear Mr Pop Star – RC NF (8/10) 2018
PICKETT, Rex – Sideways – O (7.5/10)2019
PINBOROUGH, Sarah – Behind Her Eyes – RC F (7.5/10) 2017
PINOL, Albert Sanchez – Cold Skin – O* FTr (9.5/10) 2019
PITCHER, Annabel – Silence is Goldfish – O YA (6.5/10) 2016
PLAMPIN, Matthew – Illumination – RC F (7.5/10) 2013
PLATH, Sylvia – The Bell Jar – O F (9/10) 2014
PLENZDORF, Ulrich – The New Sorrows of Young Werther – O FTr (8/10) 2017
POE, Edgar Allan – The Raven (Pop-up – engineered by David Pelham and Christopher Wormell) – O P (10/10) 2016
POPE, Dudley – Ramage – O F (8.5/10) 2017
PORTAS, Mary – Shopgirl – O* NF (9/10) 2016
PORTER, Henry
– A Spy’s Life – O F (8.5/10) 2014
– Firefly – RC F (9/10) 2018
PORTER, Max – Grief is the Thing With Feathers – RC F (9/10) 2017
PORTIS, Charles – True Grit – O* F (10/10) 2011
POWELL, Anthony
– A Question of Upbringing – O* F (8/10) 2014
– A Buyer’s Market (Dance 2) – O* F (9/10) 2015
– The Acceptance World (Dance 3) – O* F (7.5/10) 2015
– At Lady Molly’s (Dance 4) – O* F 2015
POWELL, Jim – Trading Futures – RC F (8/10) 2016
POWELL, Julie – Julie and Julia – O NF (6.5/10) 2010
PRATT, Non – Unboxed – O YA (8/10) 2016
PRESTON, John – The Dig – O F (10/10) 2008
PREVIN, Andre – No Minor Chords – O* NF (10/10) 2019 Re-read
PRIEST, Christopher
– The Adjacent (F1; SF&F; A)
PRIESTLEY, Chris – The Dead of Winter – O Ch (8.5/10) 2010
PROFIJT, Jutta – Morgue Drawer Next Door – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2012
PROULX, (E) Annie – The Shipping News – O F (10/10) 2008
PROUST, Marcel – Swann’s Way (adapted by Stephane Heuet) – RC GrTr (6.5/10) 2016
PULLEY, Natasha
– The Watchmaker of Filigree Street RC F (10/10) 2015
– The Bedlam Stacks RC F (10/10) 2017
– The Lost Future of Pepperharrow RC F (10/10) 2020
PULLMAN, Philip
– Clockwork – O Ch (10/10) 2017
– The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – O F (10/10) 2010
– Imaginary Friends – O NF 2017
– The Book of Dust Vol One: La Belle Sauvage – O YA 2017

PUNKE, Michael – The Revenant – O* F (9/10) 2016
PUNTI, Jordi – Lost Luggage – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2013
PYM, Barbara – Quartet in Autumn – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

QUEENAN, Joe – Closing Time – O F 2009
QUENEAU, Raymond – Zazie in the Metro – O FTr (7/10) 2011
QUICK, Matthew – The Silver Linings Playbook – O* F (10/10) 2017

Quizzes
– The Shiny Advent Quiz (Dec-14)
– The Return of the Shiny Advent Quiz (Dec-16)
– Back to School –
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Authors  R

RACHEL, Daniel – Don’t Look Back in Anger – RC NF (7.5/10) 2019
RACHMAN, Tom
– The Rise and Fall of Great Powers – RC F (7.5/10) 2016
– The Italian Teacher – RC F (9/10) 2018
RAISIN, Ross – God’s Own Country – O F (9/10) 2011
RANFURLY, Countess of – To War with Whitaker – O* NF (8.5/10) 2017
RANKIN, Ian – Hide and Seek – O F 2008
RANKIN-GEE, Rosa – The Last Kings of Sark – RC F (6/10) 2013
RANSOME, Arthur – Old Peter’s Russian Tales – O FCh 2009
RASH, Ron – The Cove – RC F (9/10) 2012
RASKIN, Ellen – The Westing Game – O* Ch (7/10) 2015
RATTLE, Alison
– The Madness – F YA 2014
– V for Violet – RC YA (8/10) 2016
RAUSING, Sigrid – Mayhem – O NF (6/10) 2018
RAYMOND, Midge – My Last Continent – RC F (10/10) 2016
REASON, Peter and GILLESPIE, Sarah – On Presence – RC NF 2019
REED, Kirsten – The Ice Age – O F (7.5/10) 2011
REES, Celia – Witch Child – O FYA (10/10) 2009
REEVE, Philip – Here Lies Arthur – O FYA (10/10) 2009
REGER, Rob and GRUNER, Jessica – Emily the Strange: Lost Days – O YA (9/10) 2010
REID, Taylor Jenkins – Daisy Jones and The Six – RC F (10/10) 2019
REMARQUE, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front – O FTr (10/10) 2014
RENTZENBRINK, Cathy – The Last Act of Love – RC F (10/10) 2016
REPILA, Ivan – The Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2015
RHODES, Dan
– Timoleon Vieta Come Home – O*F (7.5/10) 2011
– Gold – O F 2008
RHODES, James – Instrumental – O NF (10/10) 2015 SNB
RICE, Eva – The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp – RC F (8/10) 2012
RICHARDS, Justin – Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire – O*F 2013
RIDGWAY, Keith – Hawthorn and Child – O F (8.5/10) 2013
ROBB, JD – Naked in Death – O* F (5.5/10) 2015
ROBERTS, Adam
– I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas – O F (6/10) 2010
– Yellow Blue Tibia – O* F (10/10) 2010
ROBERTS, Bethan
– My Policeman – RC F (10/10) 2012
– Mother Island RC F 2014 SNB  Author Q&A
– Graceland – RC F (10/10) 2019
ROBINSON, Ray
– Electricity – O F (10/10) 2008
– The Man Without – O F 2008
– Forgetting Zoe – O* F (8/10) 2017
RODRIGUEZ FOWLER, Yara – The Stubborn Archivist – RC (9/10) 2019
ROGERS, Jane
– The Testament of Jessie Lamb – O F (6/10) 2011
– Body Tourists L F (7.5/10) 2020
ROHMER, Sax – Emperor Fu Manchu – RC F (8.5/10) 2015
ROONEY, Jennie – Red Joan – O* F (8.5/10) 2019
ROONEY, Sally – Conversations With Friends – RC F 2017
ROSOFF, Meg
– Picture Me Gone – O YA 2014 SNB
– Jonathan Unleashed – RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB
ROSS, Ian – Beached in Calabria – RC NF (7.5/10) 2019
ROWLING, JK – The Casual Vacancy – O F (6/10) 2012
ROYLE, Nicholas – Ornithology – RC F (9/10) 2017 SNB
ROYLE, Nicholas (Prof) – An English Guide to Birdwatching – RC F (10/10) 2017 SNB
RUFFLES, Lydia – The Taste of Blue Light – RC YA (8/10) 2017
RUNDELL, Katherine – Why You Should Read Children’s Books… – O NF (10/10) 2019
RUSHDIE, Salman – Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – RC F (8.5/10) 2015
RUSSELL, Helen – The Year of Living Danishly – O* NF (9/10) 2016
RYAN, Donal
– All We Shall Know – RC F (10/10) 2016
– From a Low and Quiet Sea – RC F (8.5/10) 2018
RYCROFT, William – All Quiet on the West End Front – O NF 2018

Reading Lists
– Austenish – A reading list of Austen-inspired fiction (July-17) SNB
– Never Mind the World Cup, Let’s Read Around Brazil! (July-14) SNB
– South of the River: A Reading List (June-16) SNB
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Authors S

SABATO, Ernesto – The Tunnel – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2011
SACKVILLE, Amy – The Still Point – O* F (9/10) 2010
SAFIER, David – Apocalypse Next Tuesday – RC FTr (7/10) 2014
SAKI – Complete Short Stories – O F 2014
SALIH, Tayeb – Season of Migration to the North – O F (6/10) 2015
SALTER, James – All That Is – RC F (7/10) 2013
SALWAY, Sarah – Something Beginning With – O F 2009
SANCHEZ GUEVARA, Canek – 33 Revolutions – RC FTr 10/10 2016 SNB
SANDS, Philippe – East West Street – O NF (7.5/10) 2019
SARAMAGO, Jose – Blindness – O FTr 2008
SARRAZIN, Albertine – Astragal – O* FTr (7/10) 2019
SAUNDERS, George – The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip – O Ch (8/10) 2012
SAVAGE, Sam – The Cry of the Sloth – O F (8/10) 2010
SAVAGE, Thomas – The Power of the Dog – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB
SCALES, Helen
– Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells – RC NF (9/10) 2015
– Eye of the Shoal – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018
SCARFE, Gerald – Long Drawn Out Trip – O (9/10) 2019
SCHALANSKY, Judith – The Giraffe’s Neck – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2014
SCHIMMELPFENNIG, Roland – One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018
SCHONBERG, Harold C – The Great Conductors – O F 2013
SCHUMACHER, Julie – Dear Committee Members – RC F (8/10) 2014
SEARLE, Nicholas – A Fatal Game – RC F (8.5/10) 2019
SEDARIS, David – Me Talk Pretty One Day – O F (6.5/10) 2013
SEDGWICK, Marcus
– The Kiss of Death – O FYA (9/10)
– Blood Red Snow White – RC FYA (10/10) 2009
– Revolver – O YA (10/10) 2010
– Midwinterblood – O YA (9/10) 2013
– Dark Satanic Mills (with J.Sedgwick, J.Higgins, M.Olivent) – O F (8/10) 2013
– Mister Memory – RC F (9/10) 2016
– Snow – RC NF (10/10) 2016 SNB
– The Ghosts of Heaven – O YA (9.5/10) 2015 SNB
SEGNIT, Nat – Pub Walks in Underhill Country – RC F (9/10) 2014
SELZNICK, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret – O FCh (9/10)
SEMPEL, Sandra – The Atlas of Disease – RC NF 2018
SEMPLE, Maria – Today Will Be Different – RC F (7.5/10) 2016
SETIAWAN, Erick – Of Bees and Mist – RC F (7/10) 2010
SEYMOUR, Gerald – Harry’s Game – O F (9/10) 2014
SHAPTON, Leanne – Important Artifacts and Personal Property… – O* F (6.5/10) 2010
SHARMA, Akhil – Family Life – O* F (9/10) 2016
SHATNER, William – Up Till Now: The Autobiography (with David Fisher) – O NF (8.5/10) 2012
SHAW, Ali
– The Girl With Glass Feet – O F (10/10) 2009
– The Man Who Rained – O F (9/10) 2012
– The Trees – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB
SHAW, William
– Salt Lane – RC F (8.5/10) 2018
– Deadland – RC F (9/10) 2019
SHEERS, Owen
– White Ravens – OF 2010
– I Saw a Man – RC F (8.5/10) 2015 SNB
SHERIFF, RC – The Hopkins Manuscript – O* F (10/10) 2011
SHIEL, MP – The Purple Cloud – O F (7/10) 2018
SIMENON, Georges
– Pietr the Latvian – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2015
– The Yellow Dog – O* FTr (9/10) 2015
– The Late Mr Gallet – O* FTr (6.5/10)
– The Carter of La Providence – RC FTr (8/10) 2015
– The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien – O FTr 2015
– Night at the Crossroads – O FTr (8.5/10) 2015
– A Crime in Holland – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2016
– The Grand Banks Café – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2017
– A Man’s Head – O* (9/10) 2018
– The Bar on the Seine – O FTr 2008
– Maigret and Monsieur Charles – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2019
– Dirty Snow – O* FTr (10/10) 2011
– Three Bedrooms in Manhattan – O F (8.5/10) 2015
– The Pitards – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2017 SNB
SIMMONDS, Kathryn – Love and Fallout – RC F (8.5/10) 2014
SIMSION, Graeme – The Rosie Project – RC F (9/10) 2013
SINGH, Sunny – Hotel Arcadia – RC F (10/10) 2015 SNB
SIODMAK, Curt – Donovan’s Brain – O* F (10/10) 2010
SJÖWALL, Maj and WAHLÖÖ, Per – Roseanna (Martin Beck 1) – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2011
SLIMANI, Leila
– Lullaby – O FTr (6.5/10) 2018
– Adèle – O Ftr 2019 SNB
SMAILES, Caroline – Like Bees to Honey – O F (10/10) 2011
SMITH, Alexis M – Glaciers – O*F (10/10) 2013
SMITH, Andrew – Grasshopper Jungle – O* F (10/10) 2015
SMITH LJ – Vampire Diaries – O YA 2009
SMITH, Paul Robert – Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog – O F (4.5/10) 2008
SMITH, Tom Rob – Child 44 – O F (6/10) 2009
SMITH, Zadie – N-W – RC F (8/10) 2012
SMYTHE, James
– The Explorer – RC F (10/10) 2013
– The Echo – O F (9.5/10) 2014
SOLOMONS, Natasha – The Novel in the Viola – RC F (9/10) 2011
SOLSTAD, Dag – Professor Andersen’s Night – RC FTr (6/10) 2012
SPAIN, Jo
– Dirty Little Secrets – RC F 2018
– Six Wicked Reasons RC F (7/10) 2020
SPARK, Muriel
– Memento Mori – O* F (8/10) 2018
–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – O*F (9.5/10) 2014
– The Ballad of Peckham Rye – O F (10/10) 2008
– The Girls of Slender Means – (7.5/10) 2012
– The Driver’s Seat – O* F (10/10) 2017
– The Abbess of Crewe – O* F (7/10) 2018
– Symposium – O* F (9/10) 2018 re-read
SPECTOR, Tim – The Diet Myth – O NF (10/10) 2016
SPUFFORD, Francis –Golden Hill RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB
STEPHENSON, Neil – Snow Crash – O F (8.5/10) 2018
STEVENSON, Noelle et al – Lumberjanes I and II – O YAGr (7.5/10) 2016
STEVENSON, Robert Louis
– Treasure Island – RC Ch 2015 re-read SNB
– The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – RC F (8/10) 2010
STEWART, Paul and RIDDELL, Chris – Hugo Pepper – O* Ch (9/10) 2010
STIASTNY, Terry
– Acts of Omission – RC F (7.5/10) 2015
– Conflicts of Interest – RC F (9/10) 2017
STIBBE, Nina
– Love, Nina – RC NF (9/10) 2013
– Man at the Helm – RC F 2014 SNB
– Paradise Lodge – O F (8/10) 2016 SNB
– Reasons to be Cheerful O* (8.5/10) 2020
ST JOHN, Lauren – Dead Man’s Cove – O*Ch 2010
STOCK, Francine – Man-Made Fibre – O F (8.5/10) 2014
STOKER, Dacre (with Ian Holt) – Dracula – the Undead – O F (4/10) 2009
STORR, Catherine – Marianne Dreams – O* Ch (10/10) 2012 re-read
STRAUB, Emma – Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – RC F (7.5/10) 2012
STUART, Julia
– Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo – RC F (8/10) 2010
– The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
SUGGS – That Close – O* NF (9/10) 2017
SUSANN, Jacqueline – Valley of the Dolls – O*F (8/10) 2011
SUTCLIFFE, William – The Wall – O* YA (10/10) 2017
SUTHERLAND, Krystal – Our Chemical Hearts – RC YA (8/10) 2016 SNB
SUTTON, Henry
– Gorleston – O F 2006
– -Get Me Out of Here – O* F (9.5/10) 2015
SWALLOW, James – Nomad – RC F (8/10) 2017
SWIFT, Graham – Mothering Sunday – O* F (9/10) 2018
SZERB, Antal – The Pendragon Legend – O FTr 2014
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Authors T

TASCHEN – 1000 Extraordinary Objects – O F 2013
TARTT, Donna – The Goldfinch – O F (9/10) 2014
TAYLOR, DJ – At the Chime of a City Clock – RC F (7/10) 2010
TAYLOR, Elizabeth
– In a Summer Season – O F (9/10) 2009
– Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – O*F (9.5/10) 2013
TAYLOR, Sam – The Island at the End of the World – RC F 2008
TAYLOR, Sara – The Lauras – RC F 2017
TEARNE, Roma
– Brixton Beach – RC F (10/10) 2010
– The Swimmer – RC F (9/10) 2010
TELLER, Astro – Exegesis – O*F (5.5/10) 2011
TERRIN, Peter – Monte Carlo – O FTr (10/10) 2017
TEULE, Jean – The Suicide Shop – O FTr (8.5/10) 2014
TEY, Josephine – Daughter of Time – O F 2009
THACKER, William – Lingua Franca – RC F (9/10) 2016
THERIAULT, Denis
–The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman – O* FTr (9/10) 2015
– The Postman’s Fiancée – O* (9/10)
THEROUX, Marcel – Far North – RC F 2009
THIEN, Madeleine – Do Not Say We Have Nothing – O FTr (DNF) 2019
THIRLWELL, Adam – Lurid and Cute – RC F (DNF) 2015
THOMAS, Joe
– Paradise City (F 2/17; A) and article by the author RC F 2017 SNB
– Gringaa – RC F (9/10) 2018
THOMAS, Scarlett – Oligarchy – F (7/10) 2020
THOMAS, Trevor Mark – The Bothy – RC F (10/10) 2019
THOMPSON, Derek – Hit Makers – RC NF (8/10) 2017
THOMPSON, Jim – The Killer Inside Me – O*F (10/10) 2012
THORN, Becky – School Dinners – O NF 2008
THORN, Tracey
– Bedsit Disco Queen – RC NF 2014
– Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing – RC NF (8.5/10) 2015
THORNTON, Nicki – The Last Chance Hotel – O FCh (9/10) 2018
THORNTON, Rosy – Hearts and Minds – RC F 2008
THURBER, James – My Life and Hard Times – O F 2012
THUY, Kim – Man – O* FTr (9/10) 2016
THYNNE, Jane
– Black Roses – RC F (9/10) 2013
– The Winter Garden – RC F (9/10) 2014
– Interview at SNB 2015
– A War of Flowers (Clara Vine 3) – RC F (9/10) 2015
– Faith and Beauty (Clara Vine 4) – O* F (9/10) 2016
TIDHAR, Lavie – The Bookman – RC F (6.5/10) 2010
TOLKIEN, JRR
– The Hobbit – O* F (7/10) 2010
– The Fellowship of the Ring – O* F 2010
– The Two Towers – O* F 2010
– The Return of the King – O* F 2010
TOMASZEWSKI, Tom – The Eleventh Letter – RC F (7.5/10) 2016
TOMINE, Adrian – Killing and Dying – O Gr (7.5/10) 2018
TOOLE, John Kennedy – A Confederacy of Dunces – O F 2008
TORDAY, Paul
– Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – O*F (9/10) 2011
– The Death of an Owl (with Piers Torday) – O* F (9/10) 2019
TOWLES, Amor
– Rules of Civility – RC F (9/10) 2011
– A Gentleman in Moscow RC F (10/10) 2017 SNB
TOWNSEND, Sue
– The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – RC F (10/10) 2012
–The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole – RC F (10/10) 2012
– The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole– RC F (7.5/10) 2012
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years – RC F (8/10) 2012
TOYNE, Simon – Solomon Creed – RC F (9/10) 2016
TREMAIN, Rose – The Gustav Sonata – O F (9/10) 2018
TREMAYNE, SK – The Ice Twins – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB
TRILLIN, Calvin
– Tepper Isn’t Going Out – O F (10/10) 2008
– About Alice – O* NF (8.5/10) 2019
TROLLOPE, Joana – Friday Nights – O F (6/10) 2009
TSUSHIMA, Yuko – Territory of Light – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018 SNB
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Authors U V

UNSWORTH, Emma Jane – Animals – O F (8/10) 2015

VAN de LAAR, Arnold – Under the Knife – RC NFTr (6.5/10) 2018
VANDERMEER, Jeff
– Annihilation – O* F 2015
– Authority – O* F (8/10) 2015
– Acceptance – O* F (7.5/10) 2015
– Borne – O* F (10/10) 2018
VAN MEERSBERGEN, Jan – Tomorrow Pamplona – RC FTr (8/10) 2011
VARGAS, Fred – Seeking Whom He May Devour – O* FTr (9/10) 2015
– The Three Evangelists – O*F (8/10) 2013
VARIOUS – The Ladybird Expert Books, Vols 1-3  SNB
VARVELLO, Elena – Can You Hear Me? – RC FTr (10/10) 2017 SNB
VAUGHAN, Sarah – Anatomy of a Scandal – O F (9/10) 2018
VAUGHN, S.K. – Across the Void – RC SF (5/10) 2019
VERDAY, Jessica – The Hollow – RC YA (6/10) 2010
VERHULST, Dimitri
– Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill – RC FTr (9/10) 2010
– The Latecomer – RC FTr (9/10) 2016
VICK, Frances – Chinaski RC F 2015 SNB  Author Q&A
VICKERS, Salley – The Cleaner of Chartres – O*F (10/10) 2013
VICHI, Marco – Death and the Olive Grove – RC F (8/10) 2012
VILLANI, Cedric – Birth of a Theorem – RC F (8/10) 2015
VINTEN, Alice – On the Line – RC NF (9/10) 2019
VISKIC, Emma – Resurrection Bay – RC F (7/10) 2017
VIZZINI, Ned – It’s Kind of Funny Story – O YA 2014
VLAUTIN, Willy – Don’t Skip Out On Me – RC F (9/10) 2018
VOLTAIRE – Candide – O*F 2011
VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF, Annette – The Jew’s Beech – O FTr 2013
VONNEGUT, Kurt – Slaughterhouse 5 – O*F (8.5/10) 2013
VON SCHIRACH, Ferdinand – The Collini Case – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2012
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Authors  W

WADHAMS, Peter – A Farewell to Ice – RC NF (7/10) 2016
WADMAN, Meredith – The Vaccine Race – O NF (7/10) 2018
WAITE, Urban – The Terror of Living – RC F (9/10) 2011
WALDO, Jen
– Old Buildings in North Texas – RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB
– Why Stuff Matters – RC F
WALLACH, Tommy – We All Liked Up – RC YA (7.5/10) 2015
WALLIAMS, David – Mr Stink – F Ch (8/10) 2013
WALSH, Helen – Once Upon a Time in England – RC F 2009
WALLIS, Rupert – All Sorts of Possible – RC YA (8/10) 2015 SNB
WALTER, Natasha – A Quiet Life – RC F (7/10) 2016
WANG, Weike – Chemistry – O* F (8/10) 2018
WARD, Rachel – Numbers – O YA (9/10) 2009
WARE, Guy – The Faculty of Indifference – RC F 2019
WARE, Ruth – The Woman in Cabin 10 – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
WARNER, Marina – Once Upon a Time – O* NF (10/10) 2018
WASSERMANN, Jakob – The First Wife – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2012
WATERS, Sarah
– The Little Stranger – O F (8.5/10) 2011
– The Paying Guests – O* F (9/10) 2015
WATKINS, Claire Vaye – Gold Fame Citrus – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
WATSON, Christie – The Language of Kindness – O NF 2018
WATSON, Winfred – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – O* F (10/10) 2008
WATSON, SJ – Before I Go to Sleep – O F (9/10) 2011
WAUGH, Evelyn – Vile Bodies – O* F (6.5/10) 2018
WEINER, Matthew – Heather, the Totality – O F (9/10) 2017
WEIR, Andy
– The Martian – O F (8/10) 2015
– Artemis – RC F (8/10) 2017
WELBY, Venetia – Mother of Darkness – RC F (7.5/10) 2017 SNB
WELLS, HG – The Time Machine – RC F (7/10) 2017 re-read
WELSH, Louise
– A Lovely Way to Burn – RC F (8.5/10) 2015
– Death is a Welcome Guest – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB
– No Dominion – RC F (9.5/10) 2017 SNB
WENER, Louise – Different for Girls: My True-Life Adventures in Pop – RC NF (9/10) 2010
WESTABY, Stephen – Fragile Lives – RC NF (8.5/10) 2017
WESTON, Gabriel
–Dirty Work – O F 2014
– Direct Red – O NF (9/10) 2010
WESTOVER, Tara – Educated – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018
WESTWOOD, Chris – Ministry of Pandemonium – RC YA (8.5/10) 2011
WEYMOUTH, Adam – Kings of the Yukon – RC NF 2018
WHEATLEY, Dennis – The Forbidden Territory – RC F (7.5/10) 2016
WHIPPLE, Dorothy – Greenbanks – RC F (9/10) 2011
WHITAKER, Chris
– Tall Oaks – RC F (8.5/10) 2016
– All the Wicked Girls – RC F (9/10) 2017
WHITE, TH – Darkness in Pemberley – O F (6.5/10) 2017
WHYMAN, Matt 
– The Savages – RC YA (9/10) 2013
–American Savage – RC F 2014
WILCKEN, Hugo – The Reflection – RC F (8/10) 2015 SNB
WILES, Will
– Care of Wooden Floors – RC F (8.5/10) 2013
-The Way Inn – RC F 2014 SNB
WILLIAMS, Ian – The Lady Doctor – RC GR (9/10) 2019
WILLIAMS, Robert – Into the Trees – RC F 2014 SNB
WILLIAMSON, Heidi– The Print Museum – L P (8.5/10) 2019
WILSON, Edward – The Envoy – O F (8/10) 2011
WILSON, Kevin – The Family Fang – RC F (9/10) 2011
WINMAN, Sarah
– When God Was a Rabbit – RC F 2013
– Tin Man – RC F 2017
WINTERSON, Jeanette
– Oranges are Not the Only Fruit – O* F (10/10) 2018
– Weight – O* F (8.5/10) 2017
– Tanglewreck – O FYA (9/10) 2009
– Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – O F (10/10) 2012
WINTON, Tim – That Eye The Sky – O F 2014
WISEMAN, Dr Richard – The Luck Factor – O* NF (6.5/10) 2011
WOLITZER, Meg – Belzhar – RC YA 2014
WOOD, Maryrose – The Poison Diaries – O F 2010
WOOD, Ramsey – Kalila and Dimna : Fables of Friendship and Betrayal – RC F 2013
WOODRELL, Daniel
–The Death of Sweet Mister – O* F (9.5./10) 2010
–Winter’s Bone – O F (10/10) 2010
WOODWARD, Bob – Wired – O NF –
WOOLF, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway – O* F (7.5/10) 2017
WYNDHAM, John – Chocky – O F (9/10) 2017
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Authors  X Y Z

YANIGIHARA, Hanya – A Little Life – O F (7/10) 2015
YATES, Alexander – The Winter Place – RC YA (8/10) 2015 SNB
YOON, Nicola – Everything, Everything – O* YA (8/10) 2017
YOUNG, Natalie – Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband – RC F (8/10) 2014
YOUNG, Rusty – Marching Powder – O NF 2009
YOUNGSON, Anne – Meet Me At the Museum – RC F (9/10) 2018
YUKNAVITCH, Lidia – The Chronology of Water – NF (10/10) 2020

ZAID, Gabriel – So Many Books – O F 2011
ZAMBRA, Alejandro – Multiple Choice – O FTr (6/10) 2016
ZAMYATIN, Yevgeny – We – O*F 2013
ZAPPA, Frank – The Real Frank Zappa Book – O*F (9/10) 2012
ZIERVOGEL, Meike
– Magda – O F (10/10) 2013
– Clara’s Daughter – RC F 2014
– Kauthar – RC F (8/10) 2015 SNB
ZIMMERMAN, Carla –Lonely Planet – The USA Book: A Journey Through America – RC NF (8/10) 2010
ZINK, Nell – The Wallcreeper – O* F (6.5/10) 2017
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