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A Few Rules for Predicting the Future – Octavia E. Butler
Terraglossia – Debra Dank
Closely Watched Trains – Bohumil Hrabal
We Come with This Place – Debra Dank
Exhalation – Ted Chiang
Swallow the Air – Tara June Winch
Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today – Naomi Alderman
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Tremor – Teju Cole
Luminous – Silvia Park
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
Transcription – Ben Lerner
I am Nannertgarrook – Tasma Walton
The Library: A Fragile History – Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Memories of the Future – Siri Hustvedt
The Black Loch – Peter May
Blue Ruin – Hari Kunzru
The Kill Factor – Ben Oliver
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine – Rashid Khalidi
What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
One Story – Pip Finkemeyer
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future – Dan Wang
The AI Mirror – Shannon Vallor
A Catalogue of Love – Erin Hortle
Tasmania – Paolo Giordano
There Is No Antimemetics Division – qntm
Highway to Hell (QE94) – Joëlle Gergis
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
I, Human – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Empire of AI – Karen Hao
The Thinning – Inga Simpson
Blindspotting: how to see what others miss – Kirstin Ferguson
The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
Apple in China – Patrick McGee
Self-Esteem and the End of the World – Luke Healy
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2025 reading

Yilkari: A Desert Suite – Nicholas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson
Cactus Pear For My Beloved – Samah Sabawi
The AI Con – Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna
Winter in Sokcho – Elisa Shua Dusapin
Playground – Richard Powers
The Mother Fault – Kate Mildenhall
Goodbye to Russia – Sarah Rainsford
The Coral Bones – EJ Swift
Cairn – Kathleen Jamie
Things Become Other Things – Craig Mod
The Con Artists – Luke Healy
Wandering Stars – Tommy Orange
Eden – Mark Brandi
The Proof of My Innocence – Jonathan Coe
The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
Twist – Colum McCann
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart – Nicholas Carr
Universality – Natasha Brown
The Tech Coup – Marietje Schaake
Baltic: The Future of Europe – Oliver Moody
Homeland Elegies – Ayad Akhtar
Baumgartner – Paul Auster
Titanium Noir – Nick Harkaway
The Good Neighbours – Nina Allan
Why Machines Learn – Anil Ananthaswamy
The Art of Cycling – James Hibbard
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy – Hamilton Helmer
The Alignment Problem – Brian Christian
Women and Children – Tony Birch
Caledonian Road – Andrew O'Hagan
Murriyang – Stan Grant
Agent Running in the Field – John Le Carre
The Carhullan Army – Sarah Hall
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Reader, Come Home – Maryanne Wolf
The Road to Winter – Mark Smith
Broken Light – Joanne Harris
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans – Melanie Mitchell
Small Things Like These – Clare Keegan
Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
2062: The World AI Made – Toby Walsh
Weasels in the Attic – Hiroko Oyamada
Death at the Sign of the Rook – Kate Atkinson
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture – Kyle Chayka
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI – Ethan Mollick
Tokyo Vice – Jake Adelstein
World Without End – Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia – Billy Griffiths
Diary of a Void – Emi Yagi
Leaf – Daishu Ma
How to Rule the World – Tibor Fischer
Little Siberia – Antti Tuomainen
Thirst – Giles Foden
The Hummingbird Effect – Kate Mildenhall
Angel of the Monuntains – Paul Maunder
The Shallows – Nicholas Carr
The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
A Clear Flowing Yarra – Harry Saddler
Four Seasons in Japan – Nick Bradley
The Season – Helen Garner
AI Snake Oil – Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
The Burrow – Melanie Cheng
Expect Me Tomorrow – Christopher Priest
Chip War – Chris Miller
Goodnight Tokyo – Atsuhiro Yoshida
Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
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2024 reading

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv – Andrey Kurkov
Atlas of AI – Kate Crawford
Creation Lake – Rachel Kushner
Ghost Cities – Siang Lu
Hidden Potential – Adam Grant
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
Gabriel's Moon – William Boyd
Run and Hide – Pankaj Mishra
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World – John Vaillant
Code Dependent – Madhumita Murgia
Briefly Very Beautiful – Roz Dineen
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
Packing My Library – Alberto Manguel
Burn Book – Kara Swisher
Living Nowhere – John Burnside
Horizon – Barry Lopez
Welcome to My Country – Laklak Burarrwanga
What You are Looking For is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama
Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama – Nathan Thrall
Hummingbird Salamander – Jeff VanderMeer
The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
The Bee Sting – Paul Murray
Leviathan – Paul Auster
At the Loch of the Green Corrie – Andrew Greig
A Prayer for the Crown-shy – Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers
The Art of Space Travel – Nina Allan
The Second Cut – Louise Welsh
This Whispering in Our Hearts – Henry Reynolds
The Future – Naomi Alderman
Stolen Focus – Johann Hari
Not the End of the World – Hannah Ritchie
Gurrumul: His Life and Music – Robert Hillman
The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley – Sean Lusk
The Queen is Dead – Stan Grant
The Visitors – Jane Harrison
Cold Enough For Snow – Jessica Au
Eventually Everything Connects – Sarah Firth
The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
The Coming Wave – Mustafa Suleyman
The Hunter – Julia Leigh
The Roads to Sata – Alan Booth
Wild Heart of Tasmania – Greg French
The Black Eden – Richard T Kelly
Faking It – Toby Walsh
A Heart Full of Headstones – Ian Rankin
Gathering Evidence – Martin MacInnes
The Future is History – Masha Gessen
Conquest – Nina Allan
Bridge – Lauren Beukes
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories – Haruki Murakami
Burntcoat – Sarah Hall
Year of the Orphan – Daniel Findlay
Lurking: How a Person Became a User – Joanne McNeil

2023 reading

Surviving Autocracy – Masha Gessen
Ordinary Gods and Monsters – Chris Womersley
The Absolute Book – Elizabeth Knox
Telling Tennant's Story – Dean Ashenden
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
Prophet – Helen MacDonald and Sin Blanché
News of the Dead – James Robertson
Sagittarius – Natalia Ginzburg
Ariadne's Thread: In Memory of W.G. Sebald – Philippa Comber
Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Ducks – Kate Beaton
The Last London – Iain Sinclair
In Ascension – Martin MacInnes
Deep Work – Cal Newport
The Great Godden – Meg Rosoff
Voice of Reason (QE 90) – Megan Davis
Black Tide – Peter Temple
Red Pill – Hari Kunzru
Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology – Cal Newport
Dark Lustre (6 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko
The Zen of Cat – Carla Francis
Darkness on the Edge of Town – Jessie Cole
Start With Why – Simon Sinek
Intimacies – Katie Mitamura
All Among the Barley – Melissa Harrison
A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
The Russo-Ukrainian War – Serhii Plokhy
Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami
The Pachinko Parlour – Elisa Shua Dusapin
The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall
A Life on Our Planet – David Attenborough
A Winter Grave – Peter May
Madukka: The River Serpent – Julie Janson
River of Gods – Ian McDonald
Diary of an Invasion – Andrey Kurkov
Still Life – Louise Penny
Welcome to the New World: Waking Up in Trump's America – Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell
The Darkness Knows – Arnaldur Indridason
The Chaos Machine – Max Fisher
The Patient Doctor – Ben Bravery
The Lonely Ones – Håkan Nesser
Finding the Heart of the Nation – Thomas Mayor
The Wonder of Little Things – Vince Copley
American War – Omar El Akkad
My Penguin Year – Lindsay McCrae
Galatea 2.2 – Richard Powers
Spaceships Over Glasgow – Stuart Braithwaite
The Book of the Most Precious Substance – Sara Gran

2022 reading

Free – Lea Ypi
Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
Moon Sugar – Angela Meyer
The Long Drop – Denise Mina
Atoms and Ashes – Serhii Plokhy
Miss Iceland – Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI – Toby Walsh
Pain and Privilege: Inside Le Tour – Sophie Smith
Thicker Than Water – Cal Flyn
Twenty One Nights in July – Ianto Ware
Islands of Abandonment – Cal Flyn
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Now and Again – Charlotte Rogan
Cedar Valley – Holly Throsby
Reward System – Jem Calder
Apeirogon – Colum McCann
Human Compatible – Stuart Russell
Coders – Clive Thompson
Light Perpetual – Francis Spufford
Tunnels – Rutu Modan
The New Map – Daniel Yergin
Berlin – Rory MacLean
Grey Bees – Andrey Kurkov
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
Kitchenly 434 – Alan Warner
Black Sea – Neal Ascherson
Radio Life – Derek B. Miller
The Cat and the City – Nick Bradley
Hippocrasy: How Doctors are Betraying their Oath – Rachelle Buchbinder and Ian Harris
Dark Lustre (5 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
AI 2041:Ten Visions for Our Future – Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race – Walter Isaacson
Luckenbooth – Jenni Fagan
The Amur River: Between Russia and China – Colin Thubron
The Making of Incarnation – Tom McCarthy
2034: A Novel of the Next World War – Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis
The Theory that Would Not Die – Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
How to Find Your Way in the Dark – Derek B. Miller
System Error – Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Case Study – Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Winter Road – Kate Holden
Bewilderment – Richard Powers
Zed – Joanna Kavenna
The Power of Geography – Tim Marshall
Motherwell: A Girlhood – Deborah Orr
The Wild Silence – Raynor Winn
Renegades – Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
A Shock – Keith Ridgway
The Fearless Organization – Amy Edmondson
Freight Dogs – Giles Foden

2021 Reading

Dark Lustre (4 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
Reamde – Neal Stephenson
Island Dreams – Gavin Francis
The Dark Remains – William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
Helgoland – Carlo Rovelli
Amnesia – Peter Carey
Good to Great – Jim Collins
The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel
What Strange Paradise – Omar El Akkad
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier – Jon Day
Dark Lustre (3 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
Owls of the Eastern Ice – Jonathan C Slaght
The Dark Lake – Sarah Bailey
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster – Bill Gates
Dark Lustre (2 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
Moth Smoke – Mohsin Hamid
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Sapiens: The Birth of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
Dark Lustre (1 of 6) – Roy Wilkinson
The Medusa Frequency – Russell Hoban
Under a White Sky – Elizabeth Kolbert
A River Called Time – Courttia Newland
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Brad Stone
Civilisations – Laurent Binet
An Elegant Defense – Matt Richtel
All Our Shimmering Skies – Trent Dalton
Pravda Ha Ha – Rory MacLean
The New Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan
Mayflies – Andrew O'Hagan
The Bells of Old Tokyo – Anna Sherman
To the Lake – Kapka Kassabova
Privacy is Power – Carissa Véliz
Runaway – Peter May
The Book of Dust – Philip Pullman
Homeland – Fernando Aramburu
Intensive Care – Gavin Francis
Breathtaking – Rachel Clarke
Deep Medicine – Eric Topol
The Atlas of Vanishing Places – Travis Elborough
The Sandpit – Nicholas Shakespeare
Just for One Day – Louise Wener
A Treachery of Spies – Manda Scott
The Guest Cat – Takashi Hiraide
Vesper Flights – Helen Macdonald
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
The Summer Isles – Philip Marsden
Dear Life – Rachel Clarke
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
Cat Sense – John Bradshaw
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
Afterland – Lauren Beukes
A Song for the Dark Times – Ian Rankin
The Stubborn Light of Things – Melissa Harrison
The Last Migration – Charlotte McConaghy

2020 reading

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist – Adrian Tomine
Nagasaki – Eric Faye
To the River – Olivia Laing
Wrong About Japan – Peter Carey
Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff
The Root of Evil – Håkan Nesser
The Lost Man – Jane Harper
The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
Alex Through the Looking Glass – Alex Bellos
The Entrepreneurial State – Mariana Mazzucato
The Young Team – Graeme Armstrong
Surfacing – Kathleen Jamie
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume 1 – Philip Pullman
The Human Part – Kari Hotakainen
Life: An Exploded Diagram – Mal Peet
A Superior Spectre – Angela Meyer
Winter Journal – Paul Auster
Phosphorescence – Julia Baird
An Iron Rose – Peter Temple
The Fragments – Toni Jordan
White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia – Jacek Hugo-Bader
84K – Claire North
Less – Andrew Sean Greer
Playing to the Gallery – Grayson Perry
Almost a Mirror – Kirsten Krauth
The Trespassers – Meg Mundell
February's Son – Alan Parks
Disappearing Earth – Julia Phillips
Blackfish City – Sam J. Miller
The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
Irresistible – Adam Alter
The Unquiet Dead – Ausma Zehanat Khan
Bruny – Heather Rose
Under the Night – Alan Glynn
Border – Kapka Kassabova
Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit
Thirteen Ways of Looking – Colum McCann
Agency – William Gibson
The Wall – John Lanchester
Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Space Between the Stars – Anne Corlett
Westwind – Ian Rankin
The Weather Machine – Andrew Blum
Creative Selection – Ken Kocienda
Big Sky – Kate Atkinson
Goblin – Ever Dundas
The End We Start From – Megan Hunter
The Overstory – Richard Powers

2019 reading

Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight – Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter – Atelier Sento
What the Family Needed – Steven Amsterdam
Middle England – Jonathan Coe
Normal People – Sally Rooney
You Are the Music – Victoria Williamson
Europe at Dawn – Dave Hutchinson
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
Night of Fire – Colin Thubron
Human Croquet – Kate Atkinson
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer – Charles Graeber
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
The Big Nine – Amy Webb
The Sound of the World by Heart – Giacomo Bevilacqua
Scrublands – Chris Hammer
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy – Serhii Plokhy
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love – Marty Cagan
Perfidious Albion – Sam Byers
Rolling Blackouts – Sarah Glidden
In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide – Malcom Mackay
The Quaker – Liam McIlvanney
Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton
The Broken Mirror – Jonathan Coe
Angelica Lost and Found – Russell Hoban
The Darkest Day – Håkan Nesser
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth – William Boyd
All Over Creation – Ruth Ozeki
Paper Girls 4 – Brian Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
Paper Girls 3 – Brian Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Paper Girls 2 – Brian Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction – Sue Townsend
Paper Girls 1 – Brian Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Hawthorn Time – Melissa Harrison
Goodwood – Holly Throsby
The Devil's Playground – Stav Sherez
American by Day – Derek B. Miler
The Glass Cage – Nicholas Carr
Paradime – Alan Glynn
The New World – Chris Reynolds
A Dark Redemption – Stav Sherez
Transcription – Kate Atkinson
Shooting Star – Peter Temple
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz – Russell Hoban
Supernova (Amulet Book 8) – Kazu Kibuishi
In a House of Lies – Ian Rankin
White Tears – Hari Kunzru

2018 Reading

Luna: New Moon – Ian McDonald
The Sudden Appearance of Hope – Claire North
Deadendia: The Watcher's Test – Hamish Steele
Measure What Matters – John Doerr
The Girl in Green – Derek B. Miller
The City Always Wins – Omar Robert Hamilton
Tales From the Inner City – Shaun Tan
Barricade – Jon Wallace
The Shadow Killer – Arnaldur Indridason
Beyond the Map – Alastair Bonnett
Crudo – Olivia Laing
Bloody January – Alan Parks
Jack Glass – Adam Roberts
The Accident on the A35 – Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Farewell to Ice – Peter Wadhams
The Doubt Factory – Paolo Bacigalupi
Killing and Dying – Adrian Tomine
Number 11 – Jonathan Coe
The Cat's Table – Michael Ondaatje
What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us – Tim O'Reilly
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
The Intrusions – Stav Sherez
Ghosts of the Tsunami – Richard Lloyd Parry
The Real-Town Murders – Adam Roberts
Bit Rot – Douglas Coupland
Richard – Ben Myers
Layla – Nina de la Mer
London Bone – Michael Moorcock
Expo 58 – Jonathan Coe
Jerusalem – Guy Delisle
On the Beach – Nevil Shute Norway
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – Adam Rutherford
How Google Works – Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Emotionally Weird – Kate Atkinson
Tokyo Nights – Jim Douglas
Tin Man – Sarah Winman
The Explorer – Katherine Rundell
Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
Armada – Ernest Cline
How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
The Illuminations – Andrew O'Hagan
At the Edge – Danny MacAskill
The Secret Life: Three True Stories – Andrew O'Hagan
Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolás Obregón
The Best We Could Do – Thi Bui
The Dry – Jane Harper
Firelight (Amulet Book 7) – Kazu Kibuishi
Ventoux – Bert Wagendorp
Death Note (volumes 1 and 2) – Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
Before the Frost – Henning Mankell
The Last of Us – Rob Ewing

2017 Reading

The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos
Satin Island – Tom McCarthy
Gnomon – Nick Harkaway
In Real Life – Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
Blankets – Craig Thompson
Ascent – Jed Mercurio and Wesley Robins
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Days of Bagnolt Summer – Joff Winterhart
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
The Living and Dead in Winsford – Håkan Nesser
On the Java Ridge – Jock Serong
No Dominion – Louise Welsh
Driving Short Distances – Joff Winterhart
To Be Continued – James Robertson
Escape from Lucien (Amulet Book 6) – Kazu Kibuishi
Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O'Neil
Porcelain: A Memoir – Moby
Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes
Prince of the Elves (Amulet Book 5) – Kazu Kibuishi
Off the Map – Alastair Bonnett
Bête – Adam Roberts
City of Light, City of Dark – Avi and Brian Floca
The Shadow District – Arnaldur Indridason
The End of the Day – Claire North
The Last Council (Amulet Book 4) – Kazu Kibuishi
Waiting for Sunrise – William Boyd
Entry Island – Peter May
The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
Lost Japan – Alex Kerr
Europe in Winter – Dave Hutchinson
The Strangler's Honeymoon – Håkan Nesser
This Census Taker – China Miéville
The Age of Bowie – Paul Morley
His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet
Black Glass – Meg Mundell
The Cloud Searchers (Amulet Book 3) – Kazu Kibuishi
Level Up – Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent – Gabrielle Walker
The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet Book 2) – Kazu Kibuishi
The Stonekeeper (Amulet Book 1) – Kazu Kibuishi
An Event in Autumn – Henning Mankell
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival – David Pilling
Sunset Park – Paul Auster
Ghosts – Raina Telgemeier
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
Rather be the Devil – Ian Rankin
Turtle Diary – Russell Hoban

2016 reading

Brasyl – Ian MacDonald
The Travelling Companion – Ian Rankin
The Troubled Man – Henning Mankell
By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolaño
The Inspector and the Silence – Håkan Nesser
Scarred – Thomas Enger
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – Sydney Padua
The Racer – David Millar
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Coffin Road – Peter May
Oblivion – Arnaldur Indridason
Black Rock White City – A S Patric
Where the Dead Men Go – Liam McIlvanney
Earthbound – Paul Morley
The Brilliant & Forever – Kevin MacNeil
The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
London Overground – Iain Sinclair
Moriarty – Anthiny Horowitz
The Bricks that Built the Houses – Kate Tempest
Death is a Welcome Guest – Louise Welsh
Reykjavik Nights – Arnaldur Indridason
Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson
In the Light of What We Know – Zia Haider Rahman
The Red Highway – Nicolas Rothwell
Every Day is For the Thief – Teju Cole
Even Dogs in the Wild – Ian Rankin
A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson
Tigerman – Nick Harkaway
Zoo City – Lauren Beukes
Descent – Ken MacLeod
Munster's Case – Håkan Nesser
Rooftoppers – Katherine Rundell
Strange Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami
Graveland – Alan Glynn
How Music Got Free – Stephen Witt
The Man Who Smiled – Henning Mankell
Munich Airport – Greg Baxter
Touch – Clare North

2015 reading

A Clean Break – Christophe Bassons
Slade House – David Mitchell
Moxyland – Lauren Beukes
Capital – John Lanchester
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
Gone Again – Doug Johnstone
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Girl in the Spider's Web – David Lagercrantz
Strange Shores – Arnaldur Indridason
Europe in Autumn – David Hutchinson
Original Rockers – Richard King
Kolmsky Heights – Lionel Davidson
Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
The Dervish House – Ian McDonald
The Last Days of Disco – David F Ross
Cyclopedia – William Fotheringham
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia – Peter Pomerantsev
The Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes
The Year of Living Danishly – Helen Russell
The Weeping Girl – Håkan Nesser
American Smoke – Iain Sinclair
Granta 127: Japan
Shaun Tan – The Arrival
H is for Hawk – Helen MacDonald
Hour of the Wolf – Håkan Nesser
Intrusion – Ken MacLeod
The Gardener from Ochakov – Andrey Kurkov
Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
Salvation of a Saint – Keigo Higashino
C – Tom McCarthy
Hell of a Journey – Mike Cawthorne
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
30 Days in Sydney – Peter Carey
The Dead Beat – Doug Johnstone
The Peripheral – William Gibson
Winterland – Alan Glynn
The Circle – Dave Eggers
Remix – Lawrence Lessig
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
The Subterranean Railway – Christian Wolmar
Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
Pierced – Thomas Enger
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North

2014 reading

The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami
Their Lips Talk of Mischief – Alan Warner
All the Colours of the Town – Liam McIlvanney
Clay – Melissa Harrison
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
Accidental Empires – Robert X Cringely
Hit and Run – Doug Johnstone
Tigerman – Nick Harkaway
The Man From Beijing – Henning Mankell
My Year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki
A Lovely Way to Burn – Louise Welsh
Legends of the Tour – Jan Cleijne
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Woman With a Birthmark – Håkan Nesser
Slaying the Badger – Richard Moore
The Heart Broke In – James Meek
Norwegian by Night – Derek B MIller
New Model Army – Adam Roberts
Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway
Specimen Days – Michael Cunningham
Gold – Chris Cleave
The Mind's Eye – Håkan Nesser
Limitless – Alan Glynn
The Rings of Saturn – W G Sebald
The Bridge – Iain Banks
Stasiland – Anna Funder
Moss Witch and Other Stories – Sara Maitland
My Tango With Barbara Strozzi – Russell Hoban
Burned – Thomas Enger
A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers
Truth – Peter Temple
The Quarry – Iain Banks
Mr Lynch's Holiday – Catherine O'Flynn
Saints of the Shadow Bible – Ian Rankin
On the Map – Simon Garfield

2013 reading

Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer – Russell Hoban
A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
The Chessmen – Peter May
Empire Antarctica – Gavin Francis
Republics of the Mind – James Robertson
Night Haunts – Sukhdev Sandhu
The Blind Giant – Nick Harkaway
Black Skies – Arnaldur Indridason
Red Plenty – Francis Spufford
Soonchild – Russell Hoban
Stonemouth – Iain Banks
The Memory Chalet – Tony Judt
Come Dance With Me – Russell Hoban
Whit – Iain Banks
The Professor of Truth – James Robertson
The Deadman's Pedal – Alan Warner
Where the Devil Can't Go – Anya Lipska
Espedair Street – Iain Banks
Transition – Iain Banks
The Submission – Amy Waldman
The Lewis Man – Peter May
Kleinzeit – Russell Hoban
Standing in Another Man's Grave – Ian Rankin
New Finnish Grammar – Diego Marani
Player One – Douglas Coupland
The Secret Race – Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
HHhH – Laurent Binet
Running With the Kenyans – Adharanand Finn
The Blackhouse – Peter May
Animal People – Charlotte Wood

2012 reading

White Dog – Peter Temple
The Information – James Gleick
Absolute Friends – John le Carré
The Bicycle Book – Bella Bathurst
The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
The Way to Cold Mountain – Alec Finlay
Hypothermia – Arnaldur Indridason
Hawthorn and Child – Keith Ridgway
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
Linger Awhile – Russel Hoban
The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Bad Debts – Peter Temple
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
Backroom Boys – Francis Spufford
Open City – Teju Cole
A Summer of Drowning – John Burnside
Fremder – Russel Hoban
That Summer – Andrew Greig
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Sightlines - Kathleen Jamie
Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Element - Ken Robinson
Blood Land - Alan Glynn
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Stop Stealing Dreams - Seth Godin
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Return - Håkan Nesser
Pack Men - Alan Bissett
The Vagabond's Breakfast - Richard Gwyn
10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 - Larissa Behrendt et al.
The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway
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

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

Authors

Paul Auster
Ballardian
William Gibson
Alasdair Gray
Laura Hird
Kevin MacNeil
Alberto Manguel
Jonathan Raban
Will Self
Neal Stephenson

Periodicals

Australian Book Review
Cyclic Defrost
Five Dials
Granta
The Guardian Weekly
Gutter
Inside Story
London Review of Books
Loops
McSweeneys
meanjin
The Monthly
n + 1
New York Review of Books
overland
A Public Space
Quarterly Essay
The Quietus
Rouleur
Scottish Review of Books
Smoke
Spike
Things
Triple Canopy

Bookshops

Brunswick Street Bookstore
Chestnut Tree Bookshop
City Lights
Daunt Books
London Review of Books
Paperback Bookshop
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