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Position | Title | Author | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The night watch | Sarah Walters | May 2019 | 8.9 |
| 2 | 2= | To kill a mockingbird | Harper Lee | Sep 2007 | 8.86 |
| 3 | 2= | One hundred years of solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Feb 2012 | 8.86 |
| 4 | 4 | Girl, woman, other | Bernardine Evaristo | Nov 2019 | 8.75 |
| 5 | 5 | Half of a yellow sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Dec 2017 | 8.67 |
| 6 | 6 | The nickel boys | Elwood Curtis | Sept 2021 | 8.66 |
| 7 | 7 | The handmaid's tale | Margret Atwood | Jun 2011 | 8.64 |
| 8 | 8= | Flowers for algernon | Daniel Keyes | Jun 2012 | 8.64 |
| 9 | 8= | The Bass Rock | Evie Wyld | Jun 2021 | 8.6 |
| 10 | 10 | Kindred | Octavia E Butler | Mar 2022 | 8.59 |
| 11 | 11= | Stoner | John Edward Williams | Jun 2015 | 8.42 |
| 12 | 11= | The Green Mile | Stephen King | Feb 2021 | 8.42 |
| 13 | 13 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | John Dee | May 2021 | 8.4 |
| 14 | 14 | One flew over the cuckoo's nest | Ken Kesey | Mar 2017 | 8.33 |
| 15 | 15 | East west street | Philippe Sands | Oct 2017 | 8.31 |
| 16 | 16= | The reader | Bernhard Schlink | Mar 2007 | 8.3 |
| 17 | 16= | If this is a man / the truce | Bernhard Schlink | Jan 2009 | 8.3 |
| 18 | 16= | H is for hawk | Helen Macdonald | Oct 2021 | 8.3 |
| 19 | 19 | A visit from the goon squad | Jennifer Egan | Jul 2017 | 8.29 |
| 20 | 20= | 11.22.63 | Stephen King | Jul 2014 | 8.25 |
| 21 | 20= | Giovannis Room | James Baldwin | Jul 2021 | 8.25 |
| 22 | 20= | The power | Naomi Alderman | Feb 2019 | 8.25 |
| 23 | 23= | A prayer for owen meany | John Irving | Nov 2006 | 8.2 |
| 24 | 23= | The bloody chamber | Angela Carter | Jul 2012 | 8.2 |
| 25 | 25 | Small things like these | Claire Keegan | Oct 2024 | 8.19 |
| 26 | 26 | The first fifteen lives of Harry August | Catherine Webb | Oct 2020 | 8.13 |
| 27 | 27 | My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier | Nov 2023 | 8.11 |
| 28 | 28 | The miracle life of edgar mint | Brady Udall | Feb 2010 | 8.07 |
| 29 | 29 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | Nov 2020 | 8.06 |
| 30 | 30 | Piranisi | Susanna Clarke | Apr 2024 | 8.04 |
| 31 | 31= | All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr | Jan 2016 | 8 |
| 32 | 31= | The sisters brothers | Patrick deWitt | Nov 2016 | 8 |
| 33 | 31= | Alone together | Sherry Turkle | Jan 2018 | 8 |
| 34 | 31= | Misery | Stephen King | Feb 2018 | 8 |
| 35 | 31= | The silence of the girls | Pat Barker | Oct 2019 | 8 |
| 36 | 31= | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | Jun 2020 | 8 |
| 37 | 31= | The Book of Night Women | Marlon James | Jan 2024 | 8 |
| 38 | 38 | conversations with friends | Sally Rooney | Mar 2019 | 7.94 |
| 39 | 39= | The help | Kathryn Stockett | Oct 2012 | 7.93 |
| 40 | 39= | The Gallows Pole | Benjamin Myers | Feb 2023 | 7,93 |
| 41 | 39= | Elizabeth is missing | Emma Healey | Sep 2015 | 7.93 |
| 42 | 42= | The little stranger | Sarah Waters | Mar 2011 | 7.91 |
| 43 | 42= | Wonder | R. J. Palacio | Apr 2016 | 7.91 |
| 44 | 44 | An american marriage | Tayari Jones | Jul 2019 | 7.88 |
| 45 | 45 | The book thief | Markus Zusak | Aug 2009 | 7.87 |
| 46 | 46 | The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare | July 2022 | 7.86 |
| 47 | 47 | The go-between | L. P. Hartley | Nov 2009 | 7.85 |
| 48 | 48 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Jun 2008 | 7.84 |
| 49 | 49 | The martian | Andy Weir | Oct 2014 | 7.83 |
| 50 | 50= | Perfume | Patrick Süskind | Jan 2007 | 7.8 |
| 51 | 50= | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Nov 2021 | 7.8 |
| 52 | 52 | Brave new world | Aldous Huxley | Oct 2009 | 7.79 |
| 53 | 53= | Notes on a scandal | Zoe Heller | Aug 2007 | 7.77 |
| 54 | 53= | We need to talk about kevin | Lionel Shriver | Nov 2007 | 7.77 |
| 55 | 55 | Instructions for a heatwave | Maggie O'Farrell | Mar 2014 | 7.75 |
| 56 | 56 | A million little pieces | James Frey | Aug 2008 | 7.73 |
| 57 | 57 | Cloud atlas | David Mitchell | Aug 2006 | 7.72 |
| 58 | 58 | The Song of Achillies | Madeline Miller | Aug 2023 | 7.65 |
| 59 | 59 | The road | Cormac McCarthy | Sep 2012 | 7.63 |
| 60 | 60= | Under the skin | Michel Faber | Jan 2015 | 7.6 |
| 61 | 60= | Tthe seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Sep 2019 | 7.6 |
| 62 | 60= | Mayflies | Andrew O'Hagan | Feb 2022 | 7.6 |
| 63 | 63= | Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | Sep 2018 | 7.57 |
| 64 | 63= | Wakenhyrst | Michelle Paver | Jan 2020 | 7.57 |
| 65 | 63= | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | May 2020 | 7.57 |
| 66 | 66 | Tamar | Mal Peet | Jun 2013 | 7.56 |
| 67 | 67 | Klara & the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | Jan 2022 | 7.55 |
| 68 | 68= | The psychopath test | Jon Ronson | Feb 2015 | 7.53 |
| 69 | 68= | The reluctant fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | Feb 2017 | 7.53 |
| 70 | 70= | In cold blood | Truman Capote | Sep 2008 | 7.5 |
| 71 | 70= | Essays | George Orwell | Jan 2013 | 7.5 |
| 72 | 72 | Five rivers met on a wooded plain | Barney Norris | Jul 2018 | 7.46 |
| 73 | 73 | Pies & prejudice | Stuart Mconie | May 2012 | 7.44 |
| 74 | 74 | The remains of the day | Kazuo Ishiguro | May 2016 | 7.43 |
| 75 | 75= | The leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Sep 2009 | 7.42 |
| 76 | 75= | Poor things | Alasdair Gray | Feb 2024 | 7.42 |
| 77 | 77 | Catcher in the rye | J. D. Salinger | Feb 2007 | 7.4 |
| 78 | 78= | The wrong boy | Willy Russell | Mar 2009 | 7.38 |
| 79 | 78= | Boxer, beetle | Ned Beauman | Jan 2012 | 7.38 |
| 80 | 78= | Life after life | Kate Atkinson | Sep 2013 | 7.38 |
| 81 | 78= | Moon Palace | Paul Auster | Jul 2024 | 7.38 |
| 82 | 82 | Stuart - a life backwards | Alexander Masters | Aug 2010 | 7.36 |
| 83 | 83 | The great gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Mar 2008 | 7.33 |
| 84 | 84= | A kind of intimacy | Jenn Ashworth | Jun 2010 | 7.25 |
| 85 | 84= | The house of sleep | Jonathan Coe | Oct 2010 | 7.25 |
| 86 | 84= | The heart's invisible furies | John Boyne | Aug 2020 | 7.25 |
| 87 | 87 | A man called ove | Fredrik Backman | Dec 2018 | 7.23 |
| 88 | 88 | The barrytown trilogy/the van | Roddy Doyle | Jun 2009 | 7.22 |
| 89 | 89 | The secret history | Donna Tartt | Mar 2010 | 7.18 |
| 90 | 90 | Joan is Okay | Weike Wang | May 2023 | 7.16 |
| 91 | 91 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | Dec 2020 | 7.15 |
| 92 | 92 | The examined life | tephen Grosz | Apr 2014 | 7.14 |
| 93 | 93= | The outsider | Albert Camus | May 2007 | 7.13 |
| 94 | 93= | Wuthering heights | Emily Brontë | Apr 2017 | 7.13 |
| 95 | 95 | All the birds, singing | Evie Wyld | Aug 2014 | 7.1 |
| 96 | 96 | The light between oceans | M.L. Stedman | Jun 2017 | 7.09 |
| 97 | 97 | Hungry, the stars, and everything | Emma Jane Unsworth | Sep 2011 | 7.06 |
| 98 | 98 | Saturday | Sebastian Faulks | May 2018 | 7.05 |
| 99 | 99= | A little history of the world | Ernst Gombrich | Nov 2012 | 7 |
| 100 | 99= | Maggie & me | Damian Barr | May 2014 | 7 |
| 101 | 99= | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | Oct 2023 | 7 |
| 102 | 99= | The miniaturist | Jessie Burton | Jul 2015 | 7 |
| 103 | 99= | Gatekeeper | 0 | Mar 2016 | 7 |
| 104 | 99= | A secret sisterhood | Emily Midorikawa | Aug 2018 | 7 |
| 105 | 99= | The Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak | Feb 2020 | 7 |
| 106 | 99= | In the midst of winter | Isabel Allende | Jan 2021 | 7 |
| 107 | 107= | The little prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Jan 2019 | 6.92 |
| 108 | 107= | To throw away unopened | Viv Albertine | Mar 2020 | 6.92 |
| 109 | 109 | Lullaby | Leïla Slimani | Apr 2018 | 6.88 |
| 110 | 110 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Jun 2022 | 6.87 |
| 111 | 111= | 26a | Diana Evans | May 2006 | 6.86 |
| 112 | 111= | Homegoing | 0 | Jun 2019 | 6.86 |
| 113 | 113 | The Left Hand of Darkness | 0 | Apr 2021 | 6.85 |
| 114 | 114 | Child 44 | 0 | Apr 2012 | 6.82 |
| 115 | 115= | the fortress of solitude | 0 | Aug 2017 | 6.8 |
| 116 | 115= | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 0 | Sept 2022 | 6.8 |
| 117 | 115= | The House at the End of Needless Street | 0 | Oct 2022 | 6.8 |
| 118 | 118= | Buddha da | 0 | Sep 2006 | 6.79 |
| 119 | 118= | The life of pi | 0 | Jan 2008 | 6.78 |
| 120 | 118= | One big damn puzzler | 0 | Nov 2008 | 6.78 |
| 121 | 118= | Hotel world | 0 | Nov 2018 | 6.78 |
| 122 | 122= | The suspicions of mr whicher | 0 | Oct 2010 | 6.75 |
| 123 | 122= | The Man in the High Castle | 0 | Aug 2011 | 6.75 |
| 124 | 122= | The Hand that First Held Mine | 0 | Mar 2023 | 6.75 |
| 125 | 122= | The housekeeper and the professor | 0 | Apr 2015 | 6.75 |
| 126 | 126 | Alone in Berlin | 0 | Jul 2011 | 6.71 |
| 127 | 127 | Swallows and amazons | 0 | Aug 2016 | 6.7 |
| 128 | 128= | The picture of dorian gray | 0 | Apr 2008 | 6.69 |
| 129 | 128= | Sell us the rope | 0 | May 2022 | 6.69 |
| 130 | 130 | Babel | 0 | Jun 2024 | 6.68 |
| 131 | 131 | The wasp factory | 0 | Nov 2010 | 6.67 |
| 132 | 132 | American pastoral | 0 | Apr 2009 | 6.63 |
| 133 | 133 | Tthe many-coloured land | 0 | Jul 2007 | 6.6 |
| 134 | 134= | A perfectly good man | Patric Gayle | Mar 2013 | 6.55 |
| 135 | 134= | Fellside | 0 | Dec 2016 | 6.55 |
| 136 | 136 | House of leaves | 0 | Jul 2016 | 6.5 |
| 137 | 137 | Never let me go | 0 | Feb 2009 | 6.46 |
| 138 | 138 | Pigeon english | 0 | Mar 2012 | 6.45 |
| 139 | 139 | The name of the rose | 0 | May 2008 | 6.44 |
| 140 | 140= | The girl who saved the king of sweden | 0 | Jun 2014 | 6.4 |
| 141 | 140= | My autobiography | 0 | Nov 2017 | 6.4 |
| 142 | 142 | Timolean vieta come home | 0 | Jul 2010 | 6.39 |
| 143 | 143= | Northanger abbey | Jane Austen | Jun 2006 | 6.38 |
| 144 | 143= | Contempt | 0 | May 2010 | 6.38 |
| 145 | 143= | N-W | Monica Ali | Oct 2013 | 6.38 |
| 146 | 146 | Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 147 | 147 | The truth about Celia | 0 | Jul 2020 | 6.25 |
| 148 | 148 | Brideshead revisited | 0 | Oct 2008 | 6.24 |
| 149 | 149 | Leave the world behind | 0 | Apr 2022 | 6.21 |
| 150 | 150 | The hundred foot journey | 0 | Feb 2014 | 6.17 |
| 151 | 152 | Slaughterhouse 5 | 0 | Oct 2007 | 6.14 |
| 152 | 153 | The Sealwoman's Gift | 0 | Jan 2023 | 6.11 |
| 153 | 154 | If on a winter's night a traveller | Italo Calvino | Feb 2011 | 6.1 |
| 154 | 155 | Firmin: adventures of a metropolitan lowlife | Sam Savage | Jan 2011 | 6.07 |
| 155 | 155 | Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage | Alice Munro | Nov 2013 | 6.07 |
| 156 | 157 | stranger in a strange land | Robert A. Heinlein | Jul 2009 | 6.05 |
| 157 | 158 | Generation A | 0Douglas Coupland | Apr 2011 | 6 |
| 158 | 158 | Paradise | Abdulrazak Gurnah | May 2011 | 6 |
| 159 | 158 | The life and times of the thunderbolt kid | Bill Bryson | Jul 2013 | 6 |
| 160 | 158 | Augustus | John Edward Williams | Nov 2015 | 6 |
| 161 | 158 | The dinner | Herman Koch | Apr 2019 | 6 |
| 162 | 158 | Strangers on a train | Patricia Highsmith | Aug 2019 | 6 |
| 163 | 164 | The haunting of hill house | Susan Hill | May 2015 | 5.95 |
| 164 | 165 | Thenew york trilogy | Paul Auster | Mar 2018 | 5.94 |
| 165 | 166= | Panic | Lauren Oliver | Jul 2006 | 5.92 |
| 166 | 166= | Northern lights | Philip Pullman | Apr 2007 | 5.92 |
| 167 | 166= | The guilty one | Lisa Ballantyne | Feb 2013 | 5.92 |
| 168 | 169 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikau Kawaguchi | Jun 2023 | 5.9 |
| 169 | 170 | A head full of ghosts | Paul G. Tremblay | Sept 2020 | 5.86 |
| 170 | 171 | Cup of gold | John Steinbeck | Aug 2024 | 5.85 |
| 171 | 172 | Wandering Souls | Ceceila Pin | May 2024 | 5.79 |
| 172 | 173= | A confederacy of dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Oct 2016 | 5.75 |
| 173 | 173= | Extremely loud & incredibly close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Jan 2017 | 5.75 |
| 174 | 175 | To the lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Oct 2006 | 5.7 |
| 175 | 176 | Into the wild | Jon Krakauer | Apr 2010 | 5.67 |
| 176 | 177 | The secret mother | Shalini Boland | Oct 2015 | 5.64 |
| 177 | 178= | Kalooki nights | Howard Jacobson | Aug 2013 | 5.6 |
| 178 | 178= | Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | Apr 2020 | 5.6 |
| 179 | 180 | Our kid | Billy Hopkins | Feb 2008 | 5.56 |
| 180 | 181= | The bridge | Iain Banks | Apr 2013 | 5.5 |
| 181 | 181= | The map of love | Ahdaf Soueif | Sep 2016 | 5.5 |
| 182 | 183 | The body in the library | Agatha Christie | May 2017 | 5.36 |
| 183 | 184 | The secret agent | Joseph Conrad | Jan 2014 | 5.33 |
| 184 | 185 | The Bookseller of Kabul | Åsne Seierstad | Apr 2023 | 5.27 |
| 185 | 186 | My name is red | Orhan Pamuk | Sep 2010 | 5.25 |
| 186 | 187 | The good soldier | Ford Madox Ford | Jun 2016 | 5.2 |
| 187 | 188 | The other hand | Chris Cleave | Jan 2010 | 5.13 |
| 188 | 189 | The riders | Tim Winton | Jul 2008 | 5.08 |
| 189 | 190= | Peaces | Helen Oyeyemi | Aug 2022 | 5 |
| 190 | 190= | Running with scissors | Augusten Burroughs | Jun 2007 | 5 |
| 191 | 190= | The private joys of Nenna Moloney | Okechukwu Nzelu | Oct 2024 | 5 |
| 192 | 190= | Ablutions | Patrick deWitt | Sep 2017 | 5 |
| 193 | 190= | Straight White Man | John NIven | Jan 2025 | 5 |
| 194 | 195 | The mind's eye | Oliver Sacks | Jun 2018 | 4.89 |
| 195 | 196 | The truth about these strange times | Adam Foulds | May 2013 | 4.86 |
| 196 | 197 | The loney | Andrew Michael Hurley | Jan 2016 | 4.85 |
| 197 | 198= | Manchester, england | Dave Haslam | Sep 2014 | 4.83 |
| 198 | 198= | The crying of lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Aug 2015 | 4.83 |
| 199 | 199 | The way inn | Will Wiles | Mar 2015 | 4.82 |
| 200 | 200 | A vicar, crucified | Simon Parke | Nov 2014 | 4.73 |
| 201 | 201 | You were gone | Tim Weaver | Oct 2018 | 4.58 |
| 202 | 202 | The promise of happiness | Justin Cartwright | Mar 2024 | 4.5 |
| 203 | 203 | One for Sorrow | Helen Fields | Jul 2023 | 4.15 |
| 204 | 204 | The full montezuma | Peter Moore | May 2009 | 3.88 |
| 205 | 205 | The man who was thursday | G. K. Chesterton | Nov 2011 | 3.61 |
| 206 | 206 | Guns, germs and steel | Jared Diamond | Aug 2012 | 3.33 |