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- The Cartographer - Peter Twohig
- Thirteen Months to Christmas - Alison Leonard
- See a Little Light - Bob Mould
- David Boring - Daniel Clowes
- Gods Without Men - Hari Kunzru
- The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin
- The Bat Tattoo - Russell Hoban
- Not the Last Goodbye - David Servan-Schreiber
- Teach Us to Sit Still - Tim Parks
- Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason
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2011 reading
- The Ossians - Doug Johnstone
- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
- The Restoration Game - Ken MacLeod
- Do It For Your Mum - Roy Wilkinson
- The City and the City - China Mieville
- Vertigo - WG Sebald
- Borkmann's Point - Håkan Nesser
- Legend of a Suicide - David Vann
- Racing Through the Dark - David Millar
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Déjà Vu - Ian Hocking
- Outrage - Arnaldur Indriðason
- To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
- Atlas of Remote Islands - Judith Schalansky
- The Pirate's Dilemma - Matt Mason
- Delay - Time Krabbé
- Cargo - Jessica Au
- Yellow Blue Tibia - Adam Roberts
- Mister Wonderful - Daniel Clowes
- And The Land Lay Still - James Robertson
- Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
- Her Name Was Lola - Russell Hoban
- Edgelands - Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley
- The Execution Channel - Ken MacLeod
- Smokeheads - Doug Johnstone
- Fordlandia - Greg Grandin
- Waking Up in Toytown - John Burnside
- Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
- Gutter 04 - Adrian Searle (ed)
- Ill Fares the Land - Tony Judt
- Remainder - Tom McCarthy
- Just My Type - Simon Garfield
- Map of the Invisible World - Tash Aw
- Naming the Bones - Louise Welsh
- True North - Gavin Francis
- Serious Things - Gregory Norminton
- Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling - Bike Snob NYC
- The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe - Andrew O'Hagan
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim - Jonathan Coe
- The World Beneath - Cate Kennedy
- Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos
- Wilson - Daniel Clowes
- Hand Me Down World - Lloyd Jones
- Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indriðason
- In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
- Room - Emma Donoghue
2010 reading
- Geoff Dyer - Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- What the Hell are You Doing? - David Shrigley
- Gutter 03: The magazine of new Scottish Writing
- Zero History - William Gibson
- Fall Girl - Toni Jordan
- Men in Space - Tom McCarthy
- Death of a Ladies Man - Alan Bisett
- Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
- The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
- Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
- The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
- Started Early, Took my Dog - Kate Atkinson
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
- Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
- South of the River - Blake Morrison
- Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig
- The Magnetic North - Sarah Wheeler
- I play the drums in a band called okay - Toby Litt
- The Stars in the Bright Sky - Alan Warner
- Logicomix - Apostolos Doxiadis
- Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thubron
- Turbulence - Giles Foden
- A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
- The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson
- The People's Train - Tom Keneally
- Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Cloud Culture - Charles Leadbeater
- Waterlog - Roger Deakin
- Kingdom Come - J G Ballard
- Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Rodge Glass
- Far North - Marcel Theroux
- Smoke in the Room - Emily Maguire
- A Lie About My Father - John Burnside
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
- The Olivetti Chronicles - John Peel
- Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
- Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson
2009 reading
- Looking for Jake and Other Stories - China Miéville
- The Complaints - Ian Rankin
- Londonstani - Guatam Malkani
- Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne
- Air - Geoff Ryman
- Tomorrow, We Ride - Jean Bobet
- The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
- Tainted Blood - Arnaldur Indridason
- The Incredible Adam Spark - Alan Bissett
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
- Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
- Among Muslims - Kathleen Jamie
- Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
- Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
- The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
- Terra Nullius - Sven Lindqvist
- The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
- The Beautiful Machine - Graeme Fife
- The Fanatic - James Robertson
- Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuściński
- Electricity - Ray Robinson
- The Devil's Footprints - John Burnside
- London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
- Voices - Arnaldur Indridason
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
- The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
- Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
- My Revolutions - Hari Kunzru
- Strangers - Taichi Yamada
- Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumey
- Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
- The Discovery of France - Graham Robb
- The Rider - Tim Krabbé
- Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
- Things I Didn't Know - Robert Hughes
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Blue Fox - Sjón
- When Will There be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
- Ascent - Jed Mercurio
- The Book of Other People - Zadie Smith et al
- Bad Blood - Jeremy Whittle
- The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
- American Journeys - Don Watson
- the Boat - Nam Le
- Old Men in Love - Alasdair Gray
- Heroes, Villians and Velodromes - Richard Moore
- Doors Open - Ian Rankin
- Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
2008 reading
- Midnight in Sicily - Peter Robb
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
- In Another Light - Andrew Greig
- Findings - Kathleen Jamie
- De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
- anticancer - David Servan-Schreiber
- Wildwood - Roger Deakin
- Sputnik Caledonia - Andrew Crumey
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living - Carrie Tiffany
- Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
- Addition - Toni Jordan
- Slicing the Silence - Tom Griffiths
- Rebus's Scotland - Ian Rankin
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- We are Now Beginning our Descent - James Meek
- One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
- Typo - David Silverman
- Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson
- Confidence - Ben Richards
- Miracles of Life - JG Ballard
- The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
- The Wild Places - Robert MacFarlane
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
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- Cyclic Defrost
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- meanjin
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- n + 1
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- overland
- A Public Space
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- The Quietus
- Rouleur
- Scottish Review of Books
- Smoke
- Spike
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