2013

Kristin Cashore: Graceling
Francis Spufford: The child that books built
Marie Brennan: A natural history of dragons
Jack Womack: Ambient
CJ Cherryh: The Pride of Chanur
Gillian Flynn: Gone girl
Sofia Samatar: A stranger in Olondria
Eleanor Arnason: Ring of swords
Mira Grant: Feed
Patrick Rothfuss: The wise man's fear
Jo Walton: The prize in the game
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic immunity
Vernor Vinge: The Peace War
Julian Barnes: The sense of an ending
Audrey Niffenegger: The time traveler's wife
Geoff Ryman: Was
Anne Lyle: The alchemist of souls
Ben Aaronovitch: Moon over Soho
Sayed Kashua: Let it be morning
Mike Shevdon: Sixty-one nails
Cory Doctorow: Pirate cinema
Robert Charles Wilson: Julian Comstock
John Scalzi: Old man's war
❧Ian McDonald: Sacrifice of fools
Naomi Alderman: The Liars' Gospel
Caitlín R Kiernan: Threshold
Timothy Mo: Pure
❧John Barnes: A million open doors
Hanne Blank: Straight
Tanith Lee: Don't bite the sun / Drinking sapphire wine
David Graeber: Debt: the first 5000 years
China Miéville: The city and the city

2012

❧Rosemary Kirstein: Steerswoman
Ursula Le Guin: The lathe of heaven
Walter Jon Williams: Implied spaces
❧Lauren Beukes: Zoo City
Greg Egan: Zendegi
Ben Aaronovich: Rivers of London
❧Ian McDonald: Kirinya
Susan Sontag: The volcano lover
❧James SA Corey: Leviathan wakes
❧Mary Gentle: The black opera
Rebecca Ore: Becoming alien
Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Rough-Hewn
Delia Sherman: Jacob's gift
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
David Weber: On Basilisk station
Sean Williams: The stone mage and the sea
Muriel Spark: The ballad of Peckham Rye
❧Chris Moriarty: Spin control
❧Walter Jon Williams: Aristoi
Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend
Clarisse Thorn: Confessions of a Pickup Artist chaser
Lev Grossman: The Magicians
Ken MacLeod: Learning the world
Andrea Levy: Small island
Anne Tyler: The amteur marriage
Hannu Rajaniemi: The quantum thief
Ali Smith: There but for the
Deborah Cameron: The myth of Mars and Venus
Jane Gardam: The man in the wooden hat
❧Edmund de Waal: The hare with amber eyes
Ian McDonald: Brasyl
❧Geoff Ryman: The king's last song

2011

Paolo Bacigalupi: The windup girl
Kameron Hurley: God's war
❧Barbara Kingsolver: Lacuna
Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood
Helen S Wright: A matter of oaths
Jennifer Crusie: Manhunting
❧Ali Smith: Girl meets boy
Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel / Court Duel
Karen Armstrong: Muhammad
HG Wells: Ann Veronica
NK Jemisin: The broken kingdoms
LA Witt: Cover me
Penelope Farmer: Charlotte Sometimes
❧Daniel Abraham: The price of spring
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
Patrick Rothfuss: The name of the wind
William Thackray: Vanity Fair
Catherynne M Valente: Palimpsest
James Schmitz: Witches of Karres
Arnold Bennett: Old Wives Tale
Viriginia Nicholson: Singled Out
❧Chris Moriarty: Spin State
Ursula K le Guin: Lavinia
Rebecca Skloot: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
Russell Hoban: My tango with Barbara Strozzi
Barbara Pym: Less than angels
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Monica Ali: In the kitchen
China Miéville: Un Lun Dun
Stephen Fry: The Liar
❧Jo Walton: Among Others
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's ghost
Naomi Alderman: The lessons
❧NK Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

2010

Scott Lynch: Red seas under red skies
Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor
Vikas Swarup: Slumdog millionaire
Iain Banks: The steep approach to Garbadale
Marina Lewycka: A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
Michael Faber: The crimson petal and the white
❧Michael Chabon: The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay
❧Alison Bechdel: Fun home
Anne Fine: Our precious Lulu
❧Daniel Abraham: An autumn war
Philip K Dick: Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Daniel Abraham: A betrayal in winter
AS Byatt: The children's book
Anne Tyler: Digging to America
Mark Haddon: A spot of bother
Linda Grant: The clothes on their backs
Jane Gardam: The people on Privilege Hill
Daniel Abraham: A shadow in summer
Jeanette Winterson: The stone gods
Alaa al Aswany: Friendly fire
Greg Bear: Vitals
Joanna Trollope: Friday nights
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Ali Shaw: The girl with glass feet
Adèle Géras: Made in heaven
Ken MacLeod: The sky road
Geraldine Brooks: People of the book
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
❧Sean Stewart: Firecracker
Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns
Walter Jon Williams: This is not a game
❧Anne Michaels: The winter vault
Steven Brust: Dragon

2009

Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Tony Parsons: My favourite wife
Anthony Price: Tomorrow's ghost
Joan Lingard: After you've gone
Geraldine McCaughrean: Cyrano
Lois McMaster Bujold: Falling free
Jane Gardam: Old filth
Ken MacLeod: The star fraction
Anne Fine: Fly in the ointment
AS Byatt: Little black book of stories
Anthony Price: The '44 Vintage
Susanna Clarke: The ladies of Grace Adieu
Iain M Banks: The algebraist
Bernadine Evaristo: The lies of Locke Lamora
MM Smith: The servants
Alaa Al Aswany: Chicago
Lynne Reid Banks: The dark quartet
Bryan Sykes: Adam's curse
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies
Ellen Kushner: The privilege of the sword
Daniel Keys Moran: The Armageddon Blues
Iain Banks: Whit
Zoë Heller: The believers
Mary Doria Russell: Children of God
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
Suzette Haden Elgin: Native Tongue
Connie Willis: To say nothing of the dog
Lois McMaster Bujold: A civil campaign
Sarah Katherine Lewis: Indecent
Jenny Diski: Only Human
Jodi Picoult: My sister's keeper
Mary Renault: Funeral games
Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Lois McMaster Bujold: Komarr
Diana Wynne Jones: The Lives of Christopher Chant
Annie Proulx: That old Ace in the hole
❧George RR Martin: The Armageddon Rag
Frans G. Bengtsson: Röde Orm
❧Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Lena Einhorn: Ninas resa
❧William Goldman: The color of light
Inge Merkel: Odysseus and Penelope
Friedrich Torberg: Tante Jolesch
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror dance
Katharine Kerr: Polar City blues
Steven Brust: Athyra / Orca
Arthur Conan Doyle: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
❧Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Anthony Price: October men
Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End
Edward Whittemore: Jerusalem Poker
Martha Cooley: The archivist
David Bodanis: E=mc²
Francisco Hinojosa: Hectic Ethics
Steven Brust: The phoenix guards
Colson Whitehead: The intuitionist
Anthony Price: Other paths to glory
Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian building
Naomi Novik: Empire of Ivory

2008

George RR Martin: The dying of the light
Jamie O'Neill: At swim two boys
Naomi Novik: Black powder war
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers in arms
Jacques Monod: Chance and necessity
Orson Scott Card: Songmaster
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cetaganda
Greg Egan: Luminous
Ian McDonald: Desolation Road
Larry Niven: The long arm of Gil Hamilton
Daniel Kevles: In the name of eugenics
❧Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of infinity
Anthony Price: War game
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: The mote in god's eye
Lois McMaster Bujold: Ethan of Athos
Margaret Drabble: The battle for Christabel
Geoff Ryman: Air
Christa Wolf: Cassandra
Lois McMaster Bujold: The hallowed hunt
Salman Rushdie: Shalimar the clown
Julian Barnes: Arthur & George
Jacqueline Carey: Kushiel's dart
Robert Charles Wilson: Spin
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor game
Melvin Burgess: Lady, my life as a bitch
Terry Pratchett: ~~Faust~~ Eric
Naomi Novik: Throne of Jade
Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the dead
William Horwood: The boy with no shoes
Terry Pratchett: A hat full of sky
Hanne Blank: Virgin
Kim Stanley Robinson: The years of rice and salt
❧ Ian McDonald: River of gods
Lois McMaster Bujold: The warrior's apprentice
Diane Duane: Deep wizardry / High wizardry
Naomi Novik: Temeraire
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
Steven Brust: Phoenix
Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of honor / Barrayar
Neal Stephenson: The diamond age
Stevie Smith: Novel on yellow paper
Steven Brust: Taltos
Dan Simmons: Hyperion
❧ Jo Walton: Farthing
Dave Duncan: Past imperative
Melanie Rawn: Spellbinder
Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of souls
Diane Duane: So you want to be a wizard
Anthony Price: Colonel Butler's wolf
Elizabeth Moon: Speed of dark
Matt Ruff: Set this house in order
Orson Scott Card: Ender's game
Neal Stephenson: Snow crash
Lois McMaster Bujold: The curse of Chalion
Susan Palwick: The necessary beggar
AS Byatt: A whistling woman
Anthony Price: The Alamut ambush
Jo Walton: Tooth and claw
❧ Ted Chiang: Stories of your life and others
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is illuminated
CJ Cherryh: Cyteen
Linley Erin Hall: Who's afraid of Marie Curie?

2007

William Horwood: The Stonor Eagles
Chaim Potok: My name is Asher Lev
Rumer Godden: A time to dance, no time to weep
JRR Tolkien: The hobbit
❧ AS Byatt: Babel Tower
Joan Lingard: The women's house
Samuel R Delany: Empire star
Zadie Smith: On beauty
Åsne Seierstad: The bookseller of Kabul
Madeleine L'Engle: A wind in the door
Rose Tremain: The colour
JD Salinger: Franny and Zooey
Colum McCann: Dancer
Michael Marshall Smith: One of us
Monica Ali: Brick Lane
Iris Murdoch: Under the net
❧ Ian McDonald: Terminal Café
Tracy Chevalier: The virgin blue
Anthony Price: The labyrinth makers
Amy Tan: Saving fish from drowning
Jane Gardam: The queen of the tambourine
Zora Neale Hurston: Their eyes were watching God
Rebecca Wells: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood
Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the spy
W Somerset Maugham: The razor's edge
Alice Walker: The way forward is with a broken heart
Steven Brust: Teckla
Matt Ridley: The origins of virtue
❧ Salman Rushdie: The ground beneath her feet
Jack Rosenthal: By Jack Rosenthal
Samuel R Delany: Nova
Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
Gwen Raverat: Period Piece
❧ GB Edwards: The book of Ebenezer Le Page
John le Carré: Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Ursula Le Guin: City of Illusions
❧ Kate Atkinson: Human Croquet
Jan Morris: Last letters from Hav
Herman Hesse: Siddhartha
Sébastien Japrisot: La passion des femmes
Ursula Le Guin: The farthest shore
Pearl S Buck: The good earth
Italo Calvino: If on a winter's night a traveller
William G Dever: What did the Biblical writers know and when did they know it?
Marge Piercy: Woman on the edge of time
Michael Ondaatje: The English patient
Walter M Miller Jr: The view from the stars
Geoff Ryman: The Child Garden

2006

Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
❧ Mary Gentle: Golden Witchbreed
Penelope Fitzgerald: The bookshop
Steven Brust: Jhereg
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
Samuel R Delany: Babel-17
Chaim Potok: In the beginning
Joe Haldeman: The forever war
Steven Pinker: The language instinct
Rose Macaulay: They were defeated
Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö:The laughing policeman
Edward Whittemore: Sinai Tapestry
David Brin: Sundiver
Vikram Seth: An equal music
Amanda Craig: A vicious circle
Lord Dunsany: Beyond the fields we know
Peter Dickinson: King and Joker
Steven Brust: Yendi
Mary Renault: The friendly young ladies
Hope Mirrlees: Lud-in-the-Mist
Kazuo Ishiguro: When we were orphans
Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint
Iris Murdoch: The black prince
HDF Kitto: The Greeks
Iain M Banks: Against a dark background
AS Byatt: Possession
❧ Ken MacLeod: The Stone Canal
Louis de Bernières: Birds without wings
Libby Purves: Mother Country
Jane Gardam: Showing the flag
Haviva Ner-David: Life on the fringes
Steven Brust: Brokedown palace
Cory Doctorow: Down and out in the Magic Kingdom
Choderlos de Laclos: Les liaisons dangereuses
Sean Stewart: The night watch
Alice Sebold: The lovely bones
Umberto Eco: Baudolino
Chaim Potok: I am the clay
❧ George RR Martin: The Armageddon Rag
Barbara Pym: An academic question
Ursula Le Guin: The tombs of Atuan
Anne Tyler: A patchwork planet
Vernor Vinge: A deepness in the sky
Li Cunxin: Mao's last dancer
Emma Bull: War for the oaks
Esther Freud: The sea house
❧ Jack Womack: Random acts of senseless violence
Vikram Seth: Two lives

2005

Amos Oz: A tale of love and darkness
Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
Mrs Gaskell: Wives and Daughters
ER Eddison: The Worm Ouroboros
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Sean Stewart: Nobody's son
Jack Womack: Heathern
Jo Walton: The King's Name
Norman Lebrecht: The song of names
Anthony Burgess: Earthly powers
Olivia Judson: Dr Tatiana's sex advice to all creation
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
Bruce Sterling: Zeitgeist
Neil Gaiman: American Gods
❧ William Goldman: The color of light
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
Iris Murdoch: The sandcastle
Poul Anderson: The broken sword
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Joanna Trollope: A passionate man
David Baddiel: The secret purposes
Cynthia Voigt: The runner
Keri Hulme: The bone people
Nick Hornby: About a boy
Marian Keyes: Angels
Pamela Dean: The Whim of the Dragon
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
❧ Samuel R Delany: Triton
Gore Vidal: Julian
Ursula K Le Guin: Always coming home
David Sedaris: Me talk pretty one day
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Zadie Smith: The Autograph Man
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Dante Alighieri: Hell from the Divine Comedy, trans Dorothy L Sayers
MA Foster: The Gameplayers of Zan
Sara Maitland: Home Truths
Geoff Ryman: The warrior who carried life
❧ Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward
Pamela Dean: The Hidden Land
Carol Shields: Unless
John M Ford: The Dragon Waiting
Bram Stoker: Dracula

2004

David Daiches: Two Worlds / Promised Land
❧ Rudyard Kipling: Kim
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
HG Wells: The War of the Worlds
Marian Keyes: Rachel's Holiday
Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Iain Banks: The crow road
Vernor Vinge: A fire upon the deep
Dorothy Dunnett: King Hereafter
Jacqueline Wilson: The illustrated Mum
Joan Lingard: The guilty party
Anne Fine: Mrs Doubtfire
Daniel Keys Moran: The last dancer
Vikram Seth: A suitable boy
Mark Haddon: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Daniel Keys Moran: Emerald Eyes / The Long Run
❧ William Horwood: Skallagrigg
Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light
E Annie Proulx: The Shipping News
Pamela C Dean: The Secret Country
JRR Tolkien: Unfinished Tales
Anthony Buckeridge: Our Friend Jennings
Barry Hughart: Bridge of Birds
Alexandre Dumas: Le comte de Monte-Cristo
Iain M Banks: Use of Weapons
JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion
RA Lafferty: Nine Hundred Grandmothers

2003

Tad Williams: Otherland - City of Golden Shadow
❧ Iain M Banks: The Player of Games
Jane Gardam: The Flight of the Maidens
Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates
Bruce Sterling: Holy Fire
Alfred Duggan: The Little Emperors
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker
Octavia Butler: Wild Seed
❧ Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men
Sara Maitland: Brittle Joys
Meera Syal: Life isn't all ha ha hee hee
Jared Diamond: Guns, germs and steel
Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
Timothy Mo: Renegade or Halo²
Nicholson Baker: Vox
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Ian McDonald: Desolation Road
Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
John Fowles: The Magus
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Ursula K Le Guin: The Birthday of the World
EM Forster: Howard's End
Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon

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