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| 28Aug10 | Surface Detail | Iain M. Banks | ★★★ |
| 7Oct10 | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me | Josef M. Bauer | ★★★ |
| 3Oct10 | The Blessing | Nancy_Mitford | ★★★ |
| 28Sep10 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | ★★★ |
| 28Aug10 | Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile | Françoise Sagan | ★★★★ |
| 20Aug10 | Charlie Chan | Earl Derr Biggers | ★★★★ |
| 8Aug10 | Villa Incognito | Tom Robbins | ★★★ |
| 2Aug10 | Nine Stories | J. D. Salinger | ★★★★ |
| 16May10 | Gentlemen of the Road | Michael Chabon | ★★★ |
| 25Apr10 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | ★★★ |
| 17Apr10 | The Ancestor's Tale | Richard Dawkins | ★★★★ |
| 20Mar10 | Inspector Singh | Shamini Flint | ★★ |
| 28Feb10 | Her Fearful Symmetry | Audrey Niffenegger | ★★★ |
| 23Feb10 | The Age of Wonder | Richard Holmes | ★★★ |
| 30Nov09 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | ★★★★ |
| 5Nov09 | Chéri | Colette | ★★★★ |
| 1Nov09 | The Jennifer Morgue | Charles Stross | ★★★ |
| 30Sep09 | Rabbit, Run | John Updike | ★★★ |
| 1Sep09 | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ★★★★ |
| 22Aug09 | Royal Flash | George MacDonald Fraser | ★★★ |
| 20Aug09 | Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven | Susan Jane Gilman | ★★★ |
| 26Jul09 | The Game of Kings | Dorothy Dunnett | ★★★★ |
| 15Jul09 | Solaris | Stanislaw Lem | ★★★ |
| 1Jul09 | Drood | Dan Simmons | ★ |
| 15Jun09 | Lanark | Alasdair Gray | ★★ |
| 1Jun09 | Zen Omnibus | Michael Dibdin | ★★★★ |
| 1May09 | The Long Ships | Frans Bengtsson | ★★★ |
| 4Apr09 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | ★★★★★ |
| 23Feb09 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | ★★★ |
| 14Feb09 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | ★★★ |
| 13Dec08 | The Beasts of Valhalla | George C. Chesbro | ★★ |
| 12Dec08 | The Black Sheep | Honoré de Balzac | ★★★ |
| 29Nov08 | Temperament | Stuart Isacoff | ★★★ |
| 1Nov08 | Vurt and Pollen | Jeff Noon | ★★★ |
| 1Nov08 | Anathem | Neal Stephenson | ★★★★ |
| 28Oct08 | Imperium | Robert Harris | ★★★★ |
| 18Oct08 | Spook Country | William Gibson | ★★ |
| 2Oct08 | The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow | A. J. Mackinnon | ★★★★ |
| 30Sep08 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | ★★★★ |
| 29Sep08 | Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained | Peter Hamilton | ★★★★ |
| 28Sep08 | Out | Natsuo Kirino | ★★ |
| 27Sep08 | Postsingular | Rudy Rucker | ★★★ |
| 26Sep08 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | ★★★ |
| 25Sep08 | Measuring the World | Daniel Kehlmann | ★★★★ |
| 10Jun08 | A Time of Gifts | Patrick Leigh Fermor | ★★★ |
| 8Jun08 | Rainbow's End | Vernor Vinge | ★★★ |
| 7Jun08 | Channel Crossing | Sebastian Smith | ★★★ |
| 14Apr08 | Naples '44 | Norman Lewis | ★★★★ |
| 12Apr08 | The System of the World | Neal Stephenson | ★★★ |
| 17Mar08 | Matter | Iain M Banks | ★★★ |
| 16Mar08 | Market Forces | Richard K. Morgan | ★★ |
| 15Mar08 | The Indian Clerk | David Leavitt | ★ |
| 23Feb08 | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | ★★★ |
| 2Feb08 | An American Dream | Norman Mailer | ★★★ |
| 18Jan08 | The Confusion | Neal Stephenson | ★★★★ |
| 1Jan08 | Codex | Lev Grossman | ★★★ |
| 25Nov07 | Quicksilver | Neal Stephenson | ★★★★★ |
| 12Oct07 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | ★★ |
| 20Sep07 | The Poincaré Conjecture | Donal O'Shea | ★★ |
| 20Sep07 | For Tibet, with Love | Isabel Losada | ★★★ |
| 10Sep07 | Julie & Julia | Julie Powell | ★★★★ |
| 8Sep07 | Old Man's War | John Scalzi | ★★★ |
| 1Sep2007 | The King's Last Song | Geoff Ryman | ★★★ |
| 11Aug2007 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling | ★★★★ |
| 1Jul2007 | The Line Between | Peter S. Beagle | ★★★ |
| 18May2007 | Catfish and Mandala | Andrew X. Pham | ★★★★ |
| 16May2007 | When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours | Teller | ★★★★ |
| 15May2007 | The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | ★★★ |
| 6May2007 | Flaubert's Parrot | Julian Barnes | ★★★ |
| 29Apr2007 | This Thing of Darkness | Harry Thompson | ★★★★★ |
| 22Apr2007 | Inspector Morimoto and the Two Umbrellas | Timothy Hemion | ★★ |
| 25Feb2007 | Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | ★★★ |
| 5Feb2007 | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett | ★★★ |
| 4Feb2007 | Air | Geoff Ryman | ★★★★ |
| 3Feb2007 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | ★★★★ |
| 17Dec2006 | John Manjiro the Castaway | M. Ibuse | ★★★ |
| 16Dec2006 | Two Under the Indian Sun | Jon & Rumer Godden | ★★★ |
| 27Nov2006 | The Blue-Eyed Salaryman | Niall Murtagh | ★★★ |
| 26Nov2006 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | ★★ |
| 25Nov2006 | Frek and the Elixir | Rudy Rucker | ★★★★ |
| 3Nov2006 | Worlds Enough & Time | Dan Simmons | ★ |
| 31Oct2006 | Foreign Babes in Beijing | Rachel DeWoskin | ★★★★ |
| 29Oct2006 | The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton | Robert Sheckley | ★★★ |
| 29Sep2006 | Empire of the Sun | J. G. Ballard | ★★★★ |
| 3Sep2006 | The Highest Tide | Jim Lynch | ★★★★ |
| 31Aug2006 | Dark is the Sun | Philip José Farmer | ★★★ |
| 15Jul2006 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | ★★★★★ |
| 11Jul2006 | What Happened to the Hippy Man? | Michael Thexton | ★★★★ |
| 10Jul2006 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | ★★★ |
| 25Jun2006 | On Intelligence | Jeff Hawkins | ★★★★ |
| 17Jun2006 | Atomised | Michel Houellebecq | ★★★ |
| 20May2006 | Rain Fall & Hard Rain | Barry Eisler | ★★★ |
| 15May2006 | Mr. China | Tim Clissold | ★★★★ |
| 14May2006 | Stuart, A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | ★★★★★ |
| 13May2006 | Captain Alatriste | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ★★★ |
| 30Apr2006 | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke | ★★★ |
| 27Mar2006 | Sharpe's Escape | Bernard Cornwell | ★★★★ |
| 26Mar2006 | Ant Egg Soup | Natacha Du Pont De Bie | ★★★★ |
| 18Mar2006 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | ★★★★ |
| 17Mar2006 | The Dog Who Wouldn't Be | Farley Mowat | ★★★★ |
| 22Feb2006 | The Map that Changed the World | Simon Winchester | ★★★ |
| 20Feb2006 | The Sound And The Fury | William Faulkner | ★★★★ |
| 19Jan2006 | Mysteries | Massey; Brand; Talbot | ★★★ |
| 12Jan2006 | Edward Scissorhands | Matthew Bourne | ★★★ |
| 22Dec2005 | Prince of Foxes | Samuel Shellabarger | ★★★★ |
| 18Dec2005 | King of Morning Queen of Day | Ian McDonald | ★ |
| 14Oct2005 | As Above, So Below | Rudy Rucker | ★★★ |
| 1Dec2005 | Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About | Mil Millington | ★★★ |
| 14Oct2005 | Sharpe's Tiger | Bernard Cornwell | ★★★★ |
| 8Oct2005 | River of Gods | Ian McDonald | ★★★ |
| 5Oct2005 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | ★★ |
| 7Sep2005 | Rubicon | Tom Holland | ★★★★ |
| 25Jul2005 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J K Rowling | ★★★★ |
| 18Jul2005 | Long Way Round | Ewan McGregor | ★★★ |
| 17Jul2005 | Ilium and Olympos | Dan Simmons | ★★★ |
| 9Jul2005 | Stardust | Neil Gaiman | ★★★ |
| 29Jun2005 | Natural History | Justina Robson | ★★★★ |
| 26Jun2005 | The Master | Colm Tóibín | ★★★ |
| 19Jun2005 | Gate of the Tigers | Henry Meigs | ★★ |
| 17Jun2005 | Tibet | me | ? |
| 11Jun2005 | Mobius Dick | Andrew Crumey | ★★★ |
| 11Jun2005 | Making History | Stephen Fry | ★★★ |
| 21May2005 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | ★★★ |
| 21May2005 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | ★★★★ |
| 21May2005 | Goldman Sachs | Marcus Goldman | ★★★★★ |
| 11Mar2005 | Untangling My Chopsticks | Victoria Abbott Riccardi | ★★★ |
| 3Mar2005 | Highland Fling | Matthew Bourne | ★★★★ |
| 8Feb2005 | Downward to the Earth | Robert Silverberg | ★★★ |
| 2Feb2005 | Two mysteries | Garcia; Benard | ★★★ |
| 16Jan2005 | The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer | Eric Hansen | ★★★ |
| 18Dec2004 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | ★★★ |
| 18Dec2004 | The Algebraist | Iain M Banks | ★★★ |
| 18Dec2004 | Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre | ★★ |
| 28Nov2004 | Sock | Penn Jillette | ★★★ |
| 17Oct2004 | The Gift of Stones | Jim Crace, | ★★★★ |
| 17Oct2004 | The Japanese Chronicles | Nicolas Bouvier | ★★★★★ |
| 17Oct2004 | Opium Venture | Gerald Sparrow | ★★★★ |
| 16Oct2004 | Fragments of a Past | Eiji Yoshikawa | ★★★★ |
| 26Sep2004 | Fantasy | Various | ★★★ |
| 26Sep2004 | The Unfortunate Colonel Despard | Mike Jay | ★★★★ |
| 19Sep2004 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | ★★★ |
| 19Sep2004 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | ★★★ |
| 5Sep2004 | Good Omens | Gaiman and Pratchett | ★★★ |
| 21Jul2004 | Pattern Recognition | William Gibson | ★★★ |
| 1Aug2004 | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | ★★★★ |
| 21Jul2004 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | ★★ |
| 7Mar2004 | The Music of the Primes | Marcus Du Sautoy | ★★★ |
| 10Jan2004 | Trawler | Redmond O'Hanlon | ★★★ |
| 4Jan2004 | The Kindness of Women | J. G. Ballard | ★★★★ |
| 3Jan2004 | Musashi | Eiji Yoshikawa | ★★★★★ |
| 1jan2004 | The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit | Sloan Wilson | ★★★ |
| 23Nov2003 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | ★★★★ |
| 23Nov2003 | The Hippopotamus | Stephen Fry | ★★★ |
| 9Nov2003 | Two quests | Various | ★★★ |
| 6Oct2003 | Three thrillers and a rat | Various | ★★★ |
| 3Aug2003 | The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | ★★★★ |
| 14Jul2003 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | ★★★★ |
| 13Jul2003 | I & Claudius | Claire de Vries | ★★★ |
| 28Jun2003 | Saucer Wisdom | Rudy Rucker | ★★★ |
| 15Jun2003 | The Man Who Ate Everything | Jeffrey Steingarten | ★★★★ |
| 14Jun2003 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | ★★★ |
| 9Mar2003 | Madame Sadayakko | Lesley Downer | ★★★★ |
| 8Mar2003 | After the Quake | Haruki Murakami | ★★★ |
| 26Jan2003 | Four Colors Suffice | Robin Wilson | ★★★★ |
| 5Jan2003 | A Cook's Tour | Anthony Bourdain | ★★★★ |
| 22Dec2002 | Perdido Street Station | China Mieville | ★★★★ |
| 14Oct2002 | The Last Samurai | Helen DeWitt | ★★★★ |
| 22Sep2002 | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | Laurie Lee | ★★★★ |
| 15Sep2002 | The Stars' Tennis Balls | Stephen Fry | ★★★★ |
| 7Sep2002 | Junk! | Various | ★★★ |
| 17Aug2002 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | ★★★★ |
| 12May2002 | The Yeomen of the Guard | Gilbert & Sullivan | ★★★★ |
| 30Mar2002 | The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin | Richard Lourie | ★★★ |
| 30Mar2002 | Super-Cannes | J.G.Ballard | ★★★ |
| 23Mar2002 | The Love Artist | Jane Alison | ★★★★ |
| 23Feb2002 | Tigrero! | Sasha Siemel | ★★★★ |
| 7Feb2002 | Uncle Tungsten | Oliver Sacks | ★★★★★ |
| 2Feb2002 | Yankee Hobo in the Orient | John Patric | ★★★★ |
| 8Dec2001 | Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler | ★★★ |
| 24Nov2001 | Korea, A Walk through the Land of Miracles | Simon Winchester | ★★★ |
| 30Sep2001 | Summer Reading | Various | ★★★ |
| 2Jul2001 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | ★★★★ |
| 27May2001 | No Human Involved | Barbara Seranella | ★★★ |
| 27May2001 | Look to Windward | Iain M Banks | ★★★★ |
| 29Apr2001 | Danger My Ally | F.A.Mitchell-Hedges | ★★★★ |
| 16Apr2001 | Patrick O'Brian, A Life Revealed | Dean King | ★★★★ |
| 16Apr2001 | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | ★★ |
| 24Mar2001 | Catching Cold | Pete Davies | ★★★★ |
| 24Mar2001 | Slugging it out in Japan | Warren Cromartie, Robert Whiting | ★★★★ |
| 17Mar2001 | Driving Over Lemons | Chris Stewart | ★★★★ |
| 4Mar2001 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | ★★★★ |
| 4Mar2001 | Looking for the Lost | Alan Booth | ★★★★ |
| 30Jan2001 | The Skull Mantra | Eliot Pattison | ★★★★ |
| 28Jan2001 | The Ginger Griffin | Ann Bridge | ★★★ |
| 28Jan2001 | England is Delicious | Nozomu Hayashi | ★★★★ |
| 20Jan2001 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | ★★★★ |
| 30Dec2000 | Trilobite! | Richard Fortey | ★★★★ |
| 29Dec2000 | Secret Agent of Japan | Amleto Vespa | ★★★ |
| 29Dec2000 | The Mikado | Gilbert & Sullivan | ★★★★ |
| 3Dec2000 | Three Children's Books | Wynne Jones; Stewart; Nimmo | ★★★ |
| 3Dec2000 | Audrey Hepburn's Neck | Alan Brown | ★★★ |
| 5Nov2000 | The Inscrutable Americans | Anurag Mathur | ★★★ |
| 5Nov2000 | The Flower Master | Sujata Massey | ★★★ |
| 5Nov2000 | Underground | Haruki Muarakami | ★★★★ |
| 28Oct2000 | The Breath of the Gods | Sidney McCall | ★★ |
| 26Oct2000 | The Yellow Admiral | Patrick O'Brian | ★★★★ |
| 16Sep2000 | Stopover Tokyo | John P Marquand | ★★ |
| 16Sep2000 | Southern Seas | Manuel Montalbán | ★★★ |
| 16Sep2000 | Gecko Tails | Carol Livingston | ★ |
| 14Sep2000 | Adventures in Man's First Plastic | Nelson S. Knaggs | ★★★ |
| 25Aug2000 | Spares | Michael Marshall Smith | ★★★ |
| 25Aug2000 | Ring of Fire | Lawrence Blair and Lorne Blair | ★★★★★ |
| 11Aug2000 | Death at the Dolphin | Ngaio Marsh | ★★★ |
| 7Aug2000 | Children of Hachiman | Lynn Guest | ★★★★ |
| 6Aug2000 | The Universe Maker | A.E. Van Vogt | ★ |
| 20Jul2000 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | ★★★★ |
| 14Jul2000 | Lady Wu | Lin Yutang | ★★★ |
| 3Jul2000 | A Moonflower in Heaven | Yoichi Nakagawa | ★ |
| 3Jul2000 | Confessions of an Eccentric | Gerald Sparrow | ★★★ |
| 25Jun2000 | Doctor Manbo at Sea | Morio Kita | ★★★★ |
| 24Jun2000 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | ★★★★ |
| 12Jun2000 | Hokkaido Highway Blues | Will Ferguson | ★★★★ |
| 2Jun2000 | In the Empire of Dreams | Dianne Highbridge | ★★ |
| 26May2000 | Orchid Fever | Eric Hansen | ★★★★ |
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