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Sue MacGregor's choice:
Memoir by John McGahern
Faber & Faber
Ann Widdecombe's choice:
Imperium by Robert Harris
Arrow Books
Kate Humble's choice:
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
Abacus
24 March 2009
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
Phoenix
Paul Gambaccini's choice:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Penguin Red Classics
Thea Gilmore's choice:
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Author), Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Arcadia
17 March 2009
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Bloomsbury
Simon Warner's choice:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Vintage Classics
Sophie Hannah's choice:
Unlucky for Some: A Novel of Suspense by Jill McGown
Pan Macmillan
10 March 2009
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Restless by William Boyd
Bloomsbury
Angie Errigo's choice:
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics
Jesse Armstrong's choice:
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Faber & Faber
3 March 2009
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
Penguin
Robyn Karney's choice:
Dancer by Colum McCann
Phoenix
Huw Stephens's choice:
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Abacus
24 February 2009
Kate Mosse's choice:
Being Emily by Anne Donovan
Canongate
Jenny Agutter's choice:
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Vintage
Adam Hart-Davis' choice:
The Wind in My Wheels by Josie Dew
Little Brown
17 February 2009
Kate Mosse's choice:
The Blood of Flowers
by Anita Amirrezvani
Headline Review
Jonathan Holloway's choice:
The Getaway
by Jim Thompson
Orion
Nicholas McInerny's choice:
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
Vintage Classics
10 February 2009
Kate Mosse's choice
Scum of the Earth
by Arthur Koestler
Eland
Victoria Derbyshire's choice
Slumdog Millionaire
by Vikas Swarup
Black Swan
Paul Blezard's choice
Letter to a Hostage
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pushkin Press
2 December 2008
Sue MacGregor
The Duel (& other Stories) by Anton Chekhov
Dover Thrift
Rachel de Thame
The House by the Thames by Gillian Tindall
Pimlico
Dame Diana Rigg
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
Eland
25 November 2008
Sue MacGregor
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Vintage Classics
Rebecca Jones
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
OneWorld Classics
Graeme le Saux
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Thorsons
18 November 2008
Sue MacGregor
Truant by Horatio Clare
John Murray
Caroline Charles
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Headline Review
Josie d'Arby
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Frankl Rider
11 November 2008
Sue MacGregor
Billy Budd (& other Stories) by Herman Melville
Wordsworth Classics
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles by Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Murray
Sam Smith
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Vintage
4 November 2008
Sue MacGregor
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Picador
Sukhdev Sandhu
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Abacus
Gavin Esler
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Vintage Classics
28 October 2008
Sue MacGregor
Wild Mary by Patrick Marnham
Vintage
Marcel Berlins
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Vintage
Pauline Black
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
HarperPerennial
21 October 2008
Sue MacGregor
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Vintage
Patricia Routledge
The King of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up the World by Adam Macqueen
Corgi
Alexander Waugh
Letter to my Father by Franz Kafka translated by Howard Colyer
Lulu.com
14 October 2008
Sue MacGregor
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Profile Books
Terry Jones
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
Canongate
Mark Borkowski
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible by Jim Steinmeyer
Arrow
7 October 2008
Sue MacGregor
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Vintage
Ian Rankin
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Penguin Modern Classics
Sadie Jones
Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger
Penguin
29 July 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
translated by Geoffrey Wall
Penguin Classics
Tracy-Ann Oberman's choice:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Vintage
Shaun Ley's choice:
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue
by David McKie
Atlantic Books
22 July 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Penguin
Julian Barnes' choice:
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Harper Perennial
Maureen Freely's choice:
Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle
translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Serpent's Tail
15 July 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
Harper Perennial
Roger Graef's choice:
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
Vintage
Mohsin Hamid's choice:
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Vintage
8 July 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Union Street by Pat Barker
Virago Modern Classics
Andrea Catherwood's choice:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Serpent’s Tail
Tom Standage's choice:
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
Picador /Pan Macmillan
1July 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Penguin
Les Dennis' choice:
My French Whore: A Love Story by Gene Wilder
Old Street
Michael Simkins' choice:
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Constable and Robinson
24 June 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Ghost by Robert Harris
Hutchinson
Barry Cunliffe's choice:
Candide by Voltaire
Oxford World’s Classics
Marcelle D’Argy Smith's choice:
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
by David M Friedman
Robert Hale
17 June 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
Penguin
Valerie Grove's choice:
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
Persephone Books
(see their website for ordering information)
Alistair Beaton's choice:
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Granta
10 June 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Penguin Classics
Dillie Keane's choice:
A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer
Bloomsbury
Professor Richard Fortey's choice:
Waterland by Graham Swift
Picador
3 June 2008
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
Scholastic Point
Trevor Dann's choice:
Letters From Iwo Jima:
The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired Clint Eastwood's Film
by Kumiko Kakehashi
Phoenix
Kate Muir's choice:
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
Granta
Series presented by Kate Mosse
25 March 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
trans. William Weaver
Vintage
Dame Stella Rimington's choice:
The Untouchable by John Banville
Picador
Terence Blacker's choice:
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Faber
18 March 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Penguin
Sheena McDonald's choice:
The Ghost Map:
A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks
by Steven Johnson
Penguin
Sally Lindsay's choice:
Perfume by Peter Süskind
translated by John E. Woods
Penguin
11 March 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Faber
Tim Pigott-Smith's choice:
The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson
(also available under the title The Missing)
HarperCollins
Colin Murray's choice:
The Damned Utd by David Peace
Faber
4 March 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Virago
Mishal Husain's choice:
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Faber
David Hepworth's choice:
Weekend Wodehouse by PG Wodehouse
Pimlico
26 February 2008
Kate Mosse’s choice:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Virago
Bidisha’s choice:
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Vintage Classics
Tom Robinson’s choice:
Black Vinyl, White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell
Ebury Press
19 February 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
Negotiating With the Dead by Margaret Atwood
Virago
Jacqui Dankworth's choice:
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Virago
Chris Smith's choice:
Resistance by Owen Sheers
Faber
12 February 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
by Claire Tomalin
Penguin
Robin Lustig's choice:
Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
Penguin
The Rt Rev Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark:
The Goldilocks Enigma by Paul Davies
Penguin
5 February 2008
Kate Mosse's choice:
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Tindal Street Press
Shami Chakrabarti's choice:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by JK Rowling
Bloomsbury
Carol Klein's choice:
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Vintage
4 December 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
by Juliet Nicolson
John Murray
Marcus Du Sautoy's choice:
A Mathematician’s Apology by GH Hardy
Cambridge University Press
David Dabydeen's choice:
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Penguin Modern Classics
27 November 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Harper Perennial
Preethi Nair's choice:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Penguin
Jay Rayner's choice:
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Little, Brown
20 November 2007
Sue MacGregor’s choice:
Nella Last's War:
The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'
edited by Richard Broad & Suzie Fleming
Profile Books
Professor Eamon Duffy’s choice:
The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
Steve Savage Publishers
Elinor Goodman’s choice:
Gone With the Windsors by Laurie Graham
HarperPerennial
13 November 2007
Sue MacGregor’s choice:
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Pimlico
Justine Picardie’s choice:
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
Virago
Michael Fenton Stevens' choice:
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Penguin
6 November 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Deborah Moggach's choice:
Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
Vintage
Mike Gayle's choice:
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
by Sue Townsend
Penguin
30 October 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Faber
Lionel Shriver's choice:
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Methuen
Jim Crace's choice:
The Goshawk by TH White
NYRB
23 October 2007
Terry Wogan's choice:
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Picador
Jan Ravens' choice:
The Dog Catcher by Alexei Sayle
Sceptre
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury
16 October 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
translated by Klara Glowczewska
Penguin
Saira Khan's choice:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki
Sphere
Boyd Hilton's choice:
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Penguin
9 October 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Everyman by Philip Roth
Vintage
Jeremy Paxman's choice:
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Vintage
Bettany Hughes' choice:
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
Abacus
31 July 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Penguin Classics
AL Kennedy's choice:
Island: Collected Stories by Alistair MacLeod
Vintage
Philip Kerr's choice:
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
translated by Margaret Mauldon
Oxford World’s Classics
24 July 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
translated by Michael Hofmann
Penguin
Dr Tanya Byron's choice:
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
translated by Andrew Rothwell
Oxford World’s Classics
Charlie Higson's choice:
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Penguin
17 July 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Don't Look Now and Other Stories
by Daphne du Maurier
Penguin
Marie O’Riordan's choice:
Dubliners by James Joyce
Penguin
Christopher Douglas' choice:
Between the Woods and the Water
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Murray
10 July 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Penguin
Clive Swift's choice:
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
Picador
Margaret Heffernan's choice:
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
Vintage
3 July 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Penguin
Phil Hammond's choice:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin
Andi Oliver's choice:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Vintage
26 June 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Vintage
Jean Seaton's choice:
Making it Up by Penelope Lively
Penguin
Bill Thompson's choice:
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Voyager
19 June 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Canongate
Shappi Khorsandi's choice:
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Vol 1)
Jonathan Cape
Roberta Taylor's choice:
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Vintage
12 June 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Chains of Heaven by Philip Marsden
HarperCollins
Richard Francis' choice:
Either Side of Winter by Benjamin Markovits
Faber
Marjorie Wallace's choice:
Christine: SOE Agent and Churchill’s Favourite Spy by Madeleine Masson
Virago
5 June 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Picador
Mark Steel's choice:
My Father and Other Working-Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
Yellow Jersey Press
Duncan Fallowell's choice:
The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert
Serpent’s Tail
27 March 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber
Marina Warner's choice:
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
New York Review of Books
Tim Marlow's choice:
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Picador
20 March 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Harper Perennial
Ken Campbell's choice:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: Part 1 The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Constable & Robinson
Arabella Weir's choice:
Seeds of Greatness by Jon Canter
Vintage
13 March 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Penguin Modern Classics
Adam Sisman's choice:
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Penguin Classics
Tim Lott's choice:
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
Hodder Children’s Books
6 March 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
translated by Victoria Holbrook
Faber
Andrew Motion's choice:
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
New York Review of Books
Roger Cook's choice:
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Penguin Classics
27 February 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
translated by Philip Boehm
Virago
Matt Seaton's choice:
The Rider by Tim Krabbé
translated by Sam Garrett
Bloomsbury
Anita Anand's choice:
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
Granta
20 February 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Harper Perennial
Ann Leslie's choice:
Staying On by Paul Scott
Arrow
Ray Connolly's choice:
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Abacus
13 February 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
February House by Sherill Tippins
Pocket Books
Sara Wheeler's choice:
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
Picador
Lynn Barber's choice:
Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson
Faber
6 February 2007
Sue MacGregor's choice:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Penguin
Anne Karpf's choice:
Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor
Souvenir Press
Jonathan Rée's choice:
The Spirit of the Age by William Hazlitt
The Wordsworth Trust
| | | 5 December 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
Eland
Jude Kelly's choice
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
Vintage
Janet Street-Porter's choice
Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now by Patrick McGrath
Bloomsbury
28 November 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Vintage
Sir Arnold Wesker's choice
The People on the Street by Linda Grant
Virago
Hunter Davies' choice
Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo in Britain, 1945 by David Downing
Bloomsbury
21 November 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Penguin Classics
Philippa Gregory's choice
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Pushkin Press
Jonathon Porritt's choice
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Vintage
14 November 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Penguin Classics
Katharine Whitehorn's choice
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Egmont Books
Eoin Colfer's choice
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Puffin Classics
7 November 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Ragtime by E L Doctorow
Penguin Modern Classics
Tessa Hadley's choice
Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
Vintage
John Mullan's choice
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Penguin
31 October 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
Arrow
Joanne Harris' choice
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Penguin Popular Classics
Lisa Jardine's choice
The Deadly Space Between by Patricia Duncker
Picador
24 October 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
Penguin
Simon Thurley's choice
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble by Andrew Roberts
HarperPerennial
Susan Blackmore's choice
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Free Press
17 October 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Vintage
Michael Dobbs' choice
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
HarperCollins
Antony Beevor's choice
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Penguin
10 October 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Vintage
Janet Reibstein's choice
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Virago
Roshan Doug's choice
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
Faber
3 October 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
Penguin
Lesley Abdela's choice
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach
Phoenix
Greg Neale's choice
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
Faber
1 August 2006
Series presented by Martha Kearney
Martha Kearney's choice
The Clicking of Cuthbert and Other Golf Stories by PG Wodehouse
Penguin
Sir Digby Jones' choice
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
Penguin
Rupert Thomson's choice
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
HarperCollins
25 July 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
Oxford World's Classics
Ali Smith's choice
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Polygon
Peter Bazalgette's choice
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Oxford World's Classics
18 July 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Penguin
Colm Tóibín's choice
The Witness by Juan Jose Saer
trans. Margaret Jill Costa
Serpent's Tail
Tony Robinson's choice
Cloudstreet: A Novel by Tim Winton
Picador
11 July 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Pan
Sarfraz Manzoor's choice
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Vintage
Anthony Julius' choice
Trilby by George Du Maurier
Oxford World's Classics
4 July 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Penguin
Juliet Barker's choice
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Collins
Justin Cartwright's choice
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, trans. Anthea Bell
Hamish Hamilton
27 June 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber
Edna Healey's choice
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
Arrow
Sandi Toksvig's choice
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Virago
20 June 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Faber
Julian Baggini's choice
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Phoenix Press
Penny Smith's choice
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Vintage
13 June 2006
Martha Kearney's choice
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Atlantic Books
Jim White's choice:
Any Chance of a Game?: A Season at the Ugly End of Park Football
by Barney Ronay
Ebury Press
James Lasdun's choice:
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Penguin
7 February 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Perennial
Jon Snow's choice:
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Penguin
Christopher Frayling's choice
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M R James
Dover Publications
31 January 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Penguin Classics
Joanna Trollope's choice
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Bloomsbury
Jay Parini's choice
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Scribner
24 January 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Pan
Anna Ford's choice
Far Away and Long Ago by William Henry Hudson
Eland
Paul Morley's choice
Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Dalkey Archive Press
17 January 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Pan
Fiona Bruce's choice
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Bloomsbury
Gervase Phinn's choice
Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan
Phoenix.
10 January 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Oxford World's Classics
Andrew Graham-Dixon's choice
War Music by Christopher Logue
Faber
Tim Bentinck's choice
Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
Penguin
3 January 2006
Sue MacGregor' choice
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Arrow
Kerry Shale's choice:
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Virgin Books
Michael Berkeley's choice:
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Marion Boyars
1 January 2006
Sue MacGregor's choice
St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Penguin Classics
Julia Neuberger's choice:
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
Persephone Books
Paul Farley's choice
Parallel Lines or Journeys on the Railway of Dreams by Ian Marchant
Bloomsbury
| | | 20 December 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice:
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
Vintage
Cherie Booth QC's choice:
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Vintage
Andrew Davies' choice
Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie
Vintage
13 December 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson
Penguin
Sir Roy Strong's choice
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Oxford University Press
Hilary Spurling's choice
The Viper of Milan by Marjorie Bowen
Elliott & Thompson
6 December 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Oxford World’s Classics
P.D. James' choice
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Virago
Julie Myerson's choice
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Penguin
20 September 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
Heinemann
Phill Jupitus' choice
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Penguin
Candace Allen's choice
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
NYRB Classics
13 September 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Penguin Classics
Maria Aitken's choice
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
Penguin Classics
Hugh Dennis' choice
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Vintage
6 September 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham
Virago Modern Classics
Matt Harvey's choice
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Bloomsbury
Simon Evans' choice
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Penguin
30 August 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
Virago
Razia Iqbal's choice
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Flamingo
Judith Flanders' choice
A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford
Eland
23 August 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
Penguin
Ruth Rendell's choice
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Dover Thrift Series
Robert Macfarlane's choice
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Penguin Modern Classics
16 August 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
Fourth Estate
Virginia Ironside's choice
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Penguin Modern Classics
Ian Sansom's choice
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Picador
9 August 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Vintage
Bella Bathurst's choice
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
Eland
David Bell's choice
The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton by Joe Klein
Hodder & Stoughton
2 August 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Bloomsbury
Steve Punt's choice
The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
Penguin
John O’Farrell's choice
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Penguin
26 July 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Faber
Krishnan Guru-Murthy's choice
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Penguin Classics
Amanda Craig's choice
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Chatto & Windus
19 July 2005
Sue MacGregor's choice
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
Profile
Kate Mosse's choice
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Harper Collins
Charles Collingwood's choice
In Love and War - A Letter to My Parents by Maria Corelli
Short Books
10 May 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Vintage
Nick Hornby’s choice
Spies by Michael Frayn
Faber
Simon Fanshawe’s choice
Noblesse Oblige edited by Nancy Mitford
Oxford Language Classics
3 May 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
Faber
Connie St Louis’ choice
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
Serpent's Tail
Miranda Sawyer’s choice
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Perennial
26 April 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Phoenix
Ruth Rogers’ choice
Havoc, in Its Third Year: A Novel by Ronan Bennett
Bloomsbury
Janet Suzman’s choice
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Vintage
19 April 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
John Murray
Dan Pearson’s choice
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
Bloomsbury
Anna Pavord’s choice
Keats - Selected Poems and Letters
Heinemann
12 April 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Granta
Jon Ronson’s choice
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Bloomsbury
Karen Thomson’s choice
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
Abacus
5 April 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Oxford World’s Classics
Carmen Callil’s choice
Only in London by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Bloomsbury
Simon Blackburn’s choice
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Penguin Classics
8 February 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Virago
Mel Giedroyc’s choice
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Oxford World’s Classics
Sue Perkins’ choice
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Puffin
1 February 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Embers by Sandor Marai
Penguin
Andrew Roberts’ choice
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Penguin
Henry Goodman’s choice
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Wordsworth Classics
25 January 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Vintage
Jo Brand’s choice
In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill
Penguin
David Quantick’s choice
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson
Picador
18 January 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
English Correspondence by Janet Davey
Vintage
Peter Egan’s choice
Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
Orion
Baroness Amos’s choice
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz by Michela Wrong
Fourth Estate
11 January 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Penguin
John Fortune’s choice
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Harvill Press
Jonathan Meades’ choice
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
Flamingo
4 January 2005
Sue MacGregor’s choice
They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Draculic
Abacus
Ronan Bennett’s choice
The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds
Norton
Barbara Trapido’s choice
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Vintage
| | | 28 December 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Vintage
Michael Buerk’s choice
The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley
Perennial
Tine van Houts’ choice
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
Vintage
21 December 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Toast by Nigel Slater
Perennial
Andrew Collins’s choice
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Flamingo
Clare Balding’s choice
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
Faber
14 December 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny
Macmillan
Yvonne Brewster’s choice
The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
Picador
Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford
The Voices of Morebath by Eamon Duffy
Yale University Press
7 December 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Persephone Books
Susan Greenfield’s choice
Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
Phoenix
Mike Harding’s choice
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Picador
21 September 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Hutchinson
Simon Callow’s choice
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Vintage
Alexander McCall-Smith’s choice
The Difficulty of Being A Dog by Roger Grenier
Chicago University Press
14 September 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Year of the King by Antony Sher
Nick Hern Books
Fay Weldon’s choice
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
HarperCollins
Ruth Deech’s choice
I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Vintage
7 September 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Gate by Francois Bizot
Vintage
Prue Leith’s choice
Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
Black Swan
Lembit Opik’s choice
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vintage
31 August 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
London Fields by Martin Amis
Vintage
Simon Barnes’ choice
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (Book 5 of A Dance to the Music of Time) by Anthony Powell, Arrow
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s choice
Leading The Cheers by Justin Cartwright
Sceptre
24 August 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Paradise News by David Lodge
Penguin
Lord Carrington’s choice
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Penguin Classics
Clare Francis’ choice
As I Walked Out One Midsummer’s Morning by Laurie Lee
Penguin
17 August 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Period Piece by Gwen Raverat
Faber
Ralph Steadman’s choice
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics
Hugh Thomson’s choice
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Penguin
10 August 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido
Bloomsbury
Lady Antonia Fraser’s choice
Washington Square by Henry James
Penguin Books
Lesley Pearse’s choice
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Black Swan
3 August 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Atlantic Books
Clare Boylan’s choice
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Flamingo
Guy Browning’s choice
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics
27 July 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Abacus
Tracy Chevalier’s choice
The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
Flamingo
Christopher Cook’s choice
Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland
Bloomsbury
20 July 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Vintage Classics
Bob Worcester’s choice
The English by Jeremy Paxman
Penguin
Martin Newell’s choice
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Bloomsbury
11 May 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
A Short Walk from Harrods by Dirk Bogarde
Penguin
Stuart Maconie’s choice
William at War by Richmal Crompton
Macmillan
Rebecca Front’s choice
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
Penguin
4 May 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Penguin
Howard Davies’ choice
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Penguin
Eleanor Updale’s choice
Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami
Flamingo
27 April 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Stet by Diana Athill
Granta
Sir Menzies Campbell’s choice
Who Goes Home? by Roy Hattersley
Abacus
Alain De Botton’s choice
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
Granta
20 April 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Vintage
Monica Ali’s choice
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
Granta
Kevin Crossley-Holland’s choice
The Leper’s Companions by Julia Blackburn
Vintage
13 April 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David
Penguin
Jancis Robinson’s choice
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Methuen
Peter Preston’s choice
Editor: A Memoir by Max Hastings
Pan
6 April 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
Eland
Hannah Gordon’s choice
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Vintage
Louise Welsh’s choice
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Penguin
3 February 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Trick of It by Michael Frayn
Faber
Ken Russell’s choice
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Penguin
Ben Haggarty’s choice
The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody
Faber
27 January 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Vintage
Steven Norris’ choice
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Faber
Theodore Zeldin’s choice
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Oxford World’s Classics
20 January 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Penguin
John Calder’s choice
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
Flamingo
Diana Athill’s choice
Loving by Henry Green
Vintage
13 January 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
Penguin
Steven Isserlis’ choice
The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley
Faber Children’s Classics
Ardashir Vakil’s choice
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Methuen
6 January 2004
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Picador
Paulette Randall’s choice
Mr Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Vintage
Anna Raeburn’s choice
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
Arrow
| | | 30 December 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Vintage
Beryl Bainbridge’s choice
Therese by Francois Mauriac
Penguin
Clare Short’s choice
World on Fire by Amy Chua
Heinemann
23 December 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Red Fox
Sarah Waters’ choice
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Vintage
Stephen Frears’ choice
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Vintage
16 December 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Penguin
Roger Deakin’s choice
The Sword in the Stone by TH White
Collins
Kristine Landon-Smith’s choice
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Vintage
9 December 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Picador
Doris Lessing’s choice
Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd
Abacus
Kenneth Grange’s choice
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Anchor (Pan)
2 December 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Penguin
Brian Sewell’s choice
The Rich Pay Late by Simon Raven
Vintage
Josephine Hart’s choice
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Phoenix
23 September 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Hotel World by Ali Smith
Penguin
Alan Coren’s choice
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Vintage
Anna Shapiro’s choice
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Penguin
16 September 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg
Fourth Estate
Fi Glover’s choice
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Polygon
Steve Jones’s choice
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Puffin
9 September 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Crimes of Conscience by Nadine Gordimer
Heinemann
Helen Lederer’s choice
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Penguin
Jane Smiley’s choice
The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
Bloomsbury
2 September 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Flamingo
Al Alvarez’ choice
Nothing Like The Night by David Lawrence
Michael Joseph
Mary Midgley’s choice
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Faber
26 August 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Song of the Rolling Earth by John Lister-Kaye
Time Warner
Ivan Massow’s choice
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Penguin
Anthony Howard’s choice
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Oxford University Press
19 August 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Abacus
Elaine Showalter’s choice
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
Virago
Romesh Gunesekera’s choice
Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia
Granta
12 August 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Consequences by U.A. Fanthorpe
Peterloo Poets
Kathleen Griffin’s choice
Birds of Passage by Robert Sole
Harvill Press
Anthony Green’s choice
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Phaidon
5 August 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Fourth Estate
Carol Drinkwater’s choice
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin
Peter Stanford’s choice
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Picador
29 July 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Orion
Oliver James’choice
The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
Bloomsbury
Esther Rantzen’s choice
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Vintage
22 July 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
Flamingo
Miles Kington’s choice
An Audience with an Elephant by Byron Rogers
Aurum Press
Claire Rayner’s choice
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Virago
15 July 2003
Sue MacGregor’s choice
Ancient as the Hills by James Lees-Milne
John Murray
Maureen Lipman’s choice
Unless by Carol Shields
Fourth Estate
Christina Odone’s choice
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
Fourth Estate
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