91 Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets– Don Paterson *****
90 The Glass Bees – Ernst Juenger ***
89 Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin ****
88 Sea of Ink – Richard Weihe ***
87 The Murder of Halland – Pia Juul ***1/2
86 The Brothers – Asko Sahlberg ****
85 Laidlaw – William McIllvanney *****
84 Bleak Expectations – Mark Evans ***1/2
83 Havisham – Ronald Frame ****November
82 The Stalin Front – Gert Ledig ****
81 Maria Stuart – Friedrich von Schiller ****
80 A Foreign Country – Charles Cumming ***
79 Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Johann and Wilhelm Grimm ***
78 This is not a Love Song – Karen Duve ****
77 One Hundred Days – Lukas Baerfuss ****
76 London fuer Helden – Matthias Politycki ***
October
75 Death In Venice – Thomas Mann (R) ****
74 The Existential Detective – Alice Thompson (R) ****
73 On The Edge – Marcus Werner ***
72 Summer Lies – Bernhard Schlink *****
71 Wives and Stunners – Henrietta Garnett ****
70 Drifting House – Krys Lee ****
69 The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng ****
68 NW – Zadie Smith ***
September
67 Stunner – Kirsty Stonell-Walker ****
66 Pale as the Dead – Fiona Mountain ***
65 Rossetti – His Life and Works – Evelyn Waugh ***
64 Reading the Pre-Raphaelites – Tim Barringer *****
63 The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh ***1/2
August
62 The Lighthouse – Alison Moore ****
61 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ***1/2
60 The Method – Juli Zeh ****
59 Swimming Home – Deborah Levy ****
58 Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death – James Runcie ****
57 The Magicians of Edinburgh – Ron Butlin *****
56 Zbinden’s Progress – Christoph Simon ****
— This is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz (abandoned)
55 The Invisible Ones – Stef Penney ***1/2
54 The Detour – Gerbrand Bakker ****
53 Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel ****
52 Haiku for the Single Girl – Beth Griffenhagen and Cynthia Vehslage Meyers
July
51 Dark Summer in Bordeaux – Alan Massie *** 1/2
50 Recipes for Sad Women – Hector Abad ****
49 Silver – Andrew Motion ***
48 Open Door – Iosi Havilio ***
47 Granta Best of Spanish Language Novelists
46 Death in Bordeaux – Alan Massie 1/2
45 Sailing by Starlight – Alex Capus
44 Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 1/2
June
43 Raptors – Toon Tellegen [/B]
— The Islands – Carlos Gamerro (Abandoned p163)
42 Headhunters – Jo Nesbo (Unabridged Audio)
41 A Death In Valencia – Jason Webster
40 Bride Flight – Marieke Van Der Pol 1/2
39 The Hidden Force – Louis Couperus
38 The Doctor’s Wife – Brian Moore
37 No Other Life – Brian Moore
36 Or the Bull Kills You – Jason Webster
May
35 Little Indiscretions – Carmen Posadas
34 The Scent of Lemon Leaves – Clara Sanchez
33 Memory of the Abyss – Marcello Fois 1/2
32 Stabat Mater – Tiziano Scarpa
31 Skios – Michael Frayn
30 The Lewis Man – Peter May
29 The Blackhouse – Peter May (Unabridged Audio)
April
28 Painter of Silence – Georgina Harding
27 The Last King of Brighton – Peter Guttridge
26 On the Floor – Aifric Campbell
25 Company of Liars – Karen Maitland (Unabridged Audio)
24 Islands of Wings – Karin Altenburg 1/2
March
23 Seven Years – Peter Stamm
— The Tainted Relic – The Medieval Murderers (Abandoned 38 pages)
22 You and Me – Niccolo Ammaniti
21 Lord of Misrule – Jaimy Gordon
20 Black Cat Bone – John Burnside
19 The Shadow-Boxing Woman – Inka Parei 1/2
18 A Card for Angela Carter – Susannah Clapp
17 Waiting for Sunrise William Boyd
16 The Mattress House – Paulus Hochgatterer 1/2
February
15 Alone In Berlin – Hans Fallada (Unabridged Audio)
14 Love Virtually – Daniel Glattauer 1/2
13 City Pick Venice
12 Tom All Alone’s – Lynn Shepherd
11 The Man In The Picture – Susan Hill
10 Someone At A Distance – Dorothy Whipple
09 Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
January
08 Into the Darkest Corner – Elizabeth Haynes 1/2
07 Zennor in Darkness – Helen Dunore
06 Dr Wortle’s School – Anthony Trollope (Unabridged Audio)
05 Murder at Mansfield Park – Lynn Shepherd 1/2
04 Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
03 Corrag – Suzanne Fletcher (Unabridged Audio)
02 Bereft – Chris Womersley 1/2
01 The News Where You Are – Catherine O’Flynn 1/2
Short Stories
07 Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring – M John Harrison
06 Drifting House – Krys Lee
05 Two Ways of Leaving – Alois Hotschnig
04 The Merchant of Shadows – Angela Carter
03 Black Box – Jennifer Egan
02 The Sandman – E T A Hoffman
01 Don’t Look Now – Daphne Du Maurier