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A

About a Boy - Nick Hornby

Accidental Tourist, The - Anne Tyler

Adventures of Augie March, The - Saul Bellow

Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography - Alex Ferguson

Alice and the Fly - James Rice

All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews

Amber Spyglass, The - Philip Pullman

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Amerika - Franz Kafka

Arguably - Christopher Hitchens

B

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

Beautiful and Damned, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Binding, The - Bridget Collins

Black Sea, The - VP Von Hoehen

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Bookshop Book, The - Jen Campbell

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene 

Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel 

Buried Giant, The - Kazuo Ishiguro

Burmese Days - George Orwell

Burning the Books - Richard Ovenden

C

Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

Casual Vacancy, The - J. K. Rowling

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Chavs - Owen Jones

Color Purple, The - Alice Walker

Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg

Crossing Over - Ann Morgan

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The - Mark Haddon

Cybersexism - Laurie Penny

D

Dare to Remember - Susanna Beard

Devotion - Ros Barber

E

Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis

Emma - Jane Austen

Error World, The - Simon Garfield

Essex Serpent, The - Sarah Perry

Establishment, The - Owen Jones

Evil and the Mask - Fuminori Nakamura

Examined Life, The - Stephen Grosz

Experiment in Love, An - Hilary Mantel 

F

Fall, The - Albert Camus

Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Football Manager Stole My Life - Iain Macintosh

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Fry Chronicles, The - Stephen Fry

G

Generation A - Douglas Coupland

Girls of Slender Means, The - Muriel Spark
Go-Between, The - L. P. Hartley

Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee

God Collar - Marcus Brigstocke

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens 

Godfather, The - Mario Puzo

Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth

Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, The - Philip Pullman

Good Soldier, The - Ford Madox Ford

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Guys' Guy's Guide to Love, The - Robert Manni

H

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling

Help, The - Kathryn Stockett

History of Britain in 21 Women, A - Jenni Murray

Hitch-22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens

Hobbit, The - J. R. R. Tolkien 

Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell

House of Silk, The - Anthony Horowitz 

How to be Good - Nick Hornby

Hum and the Shiver, The - Alex Bledsoe

Human Stain, The - Philip Roth

Hunger - Knut Hamsun

Hunger Games, The - Suzanne Collins

I

I am the Secret Footballer - Anonymous

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

Immoralist, The - André Gide

Information, The - Martin Amis

Inside WikiLeaks - Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics - Jonathan Wilson

Invisible Man, The - H. G. Wells

It's Not Rocket Science - Ben Miller 

It's Only a Movie - Mark Kermode

J

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

K

Katniss the Cattail - Valerie Estelle Frankel

Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell

L

La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman

Leading - Alex Ferguson

Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens

Library, The: A World History - James W. P. Campbell and Will Pryce

Library Book, The - The Reading Agency

Library of Unrequited Love, The - Sophie Divry

Line of Beauty, The - Alan Hollinghurst

Lionel Asbo: State of England - Martin Amis

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Lolito - Ben Brooks

London Fields - Martin Amis

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

M

Man (Dis)connected - Philip Zimbardo & Nikita D. Coulombe

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Martin Amis: The Biography - Richard Bradford

Metroland - Julian Barnes

Milkman - Anna Burns

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

Money - Martin Amis

Mortality - Christopher Hitchens

Monarchy, The - Christopher Hitchens

Mr g - Alan Lightman

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay

N

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Necropolis - Guy Portman

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

New Atheist Novel, The - Arthur Bradley & Andrew Tate

Night Circus, The - Erin Morgenstern 

Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro

Noise of Time, The - Julian Barnes

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

O

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

One Day - David Nicholls

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Only Story, The - Julian Barnes

Orwell's Victory - Christopher Hitchens

Ours are the Streets - Sunjeev Sahota

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Outline - Rachel Cusk

Outsider, The - Albert Camus

P

Paris Wife, The - Paula McLain

Pig Tales - Marie Darrieussecq

Pleasures of Men, The - Kate Williams

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A - James Joyce 

Pregnant Widow, The - Martin Amis 

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The - Muriel Spark 

R

Rachel Papers, The - Martin Amis

Radleys, The - Matt Haig

Reluctant Fundamentalist, The - Mohsin Hamid

Remains of the Day, The - Kazuo Ishiguro

Restoration of Otto Laird, The - Nigel Packer

Revolution - Russell Brand

Road to Wigan Pier, The - George Orwell

Room at the Top - John Braine

Room of One's Own, A - Virginia Woolf

Rosie Project, The - Graeme Simison

Rules of Wealth, The - Richard Templar

S

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe

Second Plane, The - Martin Amis

Sellout, The - Paul Beatty

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Sense of an Ending, The - Julian Barnes

Slap, The - Christos Tsiolkas

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Sleeping Patterns - J. R. Crook

Stranger's Child, The - Alan Hollinghurst 

Subtle Knife, The - Philip Pullman 

Swimming Pool Library, The - Alan Hollinghurst

T

Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson

Thief, The - Fuminori Nakamura 

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Third Man, The - Graham Greene

This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay

Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, The - Wendy Jones

Time Machine, The - H. G. Wells

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Trial, The - Franz Kafka

Twitter Power 2.0 by Joel Comm

U

Unbearable Lightness of Being, The - Milan Kundera

Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The - Rachel Joyce

V

Virtual Love, A - Andrew Blackman

Visit from the Goon Squad, A - Jennifer Egan

W

Wack: Addicted to Internet Porn - Noah B. E. Church

Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The - Natasha Pulley

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - Jen Campbell

Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It - Howard Jacobson

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Wormwood - D. H. Nevins

Z

Zone of Interest, The - Martin Amis