| Month discussed |
Author |
Title |
Genre |
|
| Jun 2010 |
Marjane
Satrapi |
Persepolis
|
Graphic
autobiography |
|
| May 2010 |
Kate
Summerscale |
The
Suspicions of Mr Whicher |
Historical/detective |
|
| Apr 2010 |
Thomas
Hardy |
Far from
the Madding Crowd |
Novel |
|
| Mar 2010 |
Mohsin
Hamid |
The
Reluctant Fundamentalist |
Novel |
|
| Feb 2010 |
Margaret
Atwood |
The
Handmaid's Tale |
Novel |
|
| Jan 2010 |
Nevil Shute |
On the Beach |
Novel |
|
| Dec 2009 |
Stieg Larsson |
Girl with Dragon
Tattoo |
Crime thriller |
|
| Nov 2009 |
Oscar Wilde |
Dorian Gray |
Novel |
|
| Oct 2009 |
Sarah Waters |
Fingersmith |
Novel |
|
| Sep 2009 |
Paul Theroux |
The Great
Railway Bazaar/
Ghost Train to
the Eastern Star |
Travel |
|
| Aug 2009 |
Henry Miller |
Tropic of Cancer |
Novel |
|
| Jul 2009 |
Orwell
Ben Goldacre |
Inside the Whale
and Other Stories
Bad Science |
Short Stories
Essays |
|
| Jun 2009 |
Ernest Hemmingway |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Novel |
|
| May 2009 |
Aravind Adiga |
White Tiger |
Novel |
Booker Prize
winner 2008 |
| Apr 2009 |
T. S. Eliot
Wendy Cope |
The Wasteland
Any poem |
Poetry |
|
| Mar 2009 |
Updike |
Any novel |
|
|
| Feb 2009 |
Sophocles |
Antigone |
Play |
|
| Jan 2009 |
Malcolm Pryce |
Aberystwyth Mon
Amour |
Crime spoof |
|
| Dec 2008 |
Jane Austen |
Persuasion |
Novel |
|
| Nov 2008 |
Minette Walters |
The Breaker |
Crime |
|
| Oct 2008 |
Salman Rushdie |
Midnight’s
Children |
Fiction |
Booker of Bookers |
| Aug 2008 |
Evelyn Waugh |
Vile Bodies |
Fiction |
|
| Jul 2008 |
Nadine Gordimer |
The
Conservationist |
Fiction |
Booker Prize
winner 1974 |
| Jun 2008 |
James Lovelock |
Revenge of Gaia |
Non-fiction |
|
| May 2008 |
Iain Banks |
Steep Ascent to
Garbadale |
Novel |
|
| Apr 2008 |
Rose Tremain |
The Road Home |
Novel |
Orange Prize
winner 2008 (June!) |
| Mar 2008 |
William Boyd |
Restless |
Novel |
|
| Feb 2008 |
Chekhov |
Short stories |
Russian short
stories |
|
| Jan 2008 |
Leo Tolstoy |
Anna Karenina |
Russian novel |
|
| Dec 2007 |
Grahame Greene |
The Quiet
American |
Novel |
|
| Nov 2007 |
Peter Carey |
Tax Inspector
and My Life as a Fake |
Novels |
|
| Oct 2007 |
Niall Griffiths |
Runt |
Novel |
|
| Sep 2007 |
Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie |
Half of a Yellow
Sun |
Novel |
Orange Prize
winner 2007 |
| Aug 2007 |
Emile Zola |
Nana |
French novel |
|
| Jul 2007 |
David Mitchell |
Black Swan Green |
Novel |
|
| Jun 2007 |
Mitch Albom |
Five People You
Meet in Heaven |
|
|
| May2007 |
Arundhati Roy |
God of Small
Things |
Novel |
Booker Prize
winner 1997 |
| Apr 2007 |
Mervyn Peake |
Titus Groan |
Novel |
|
| Mar 2007 |
Primo Levi |
Periodic Table |
Autobiography |
|
| Feb 2007 |
Michael Frayn |
Spies |
Novel |
Whitbread Novel
of the Year 2002 |
| Jan2007 |
Richard Dawkins |
The God Delusion |
Non-fiction |
|
| |
Al Gore |
Inconvenient
Truth |
Film |
|
| |
Marina Lewycka |
A Short History
of Tractors in Ukrainian |
Novel |
|
| |
Flaubert |
Madame Bovary |
French novel |
|
| |
Rose Tremain |
Music and Silence |
Historical novel |
Whitbread best
novel 1999 |
| |
David Lodge |
The British Museum
is Falling Down |
Novel |
|
| |
Evelyn Waugh |
Decline and Fall |
Novel |
|
| |
Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
Novel |
|
| |
Margaret Atwood |
Oryx and Crake |
Novel |
|
| |
Khaled Hosseini |
The Kite Runner |
Novel |
|
| 1st book |
Liz Jensen |
The Ninth Life
of Louis Drax |
Novel |
|
